George H. W. Bush was the first sitting vice president to be elected President since Martin Van Buren in 1836. Teddy Roosevelt became President when William McKinley died in office a few days after being shot. They are the only successful cases since the 12th amendment was adopted in 1804. (Of course, if it hadn't been for vote fraud in 1960...)
You keep making a monkey out of me!..Thank you for keeping it accurate! I glanced at a list...
I shall try to be better at both reading accurately and recalling those Presidents who died in office..
You have strengthened my argument that being VP does not give you an edge to being elected President
Jefferson is the only Secy of State that was President that I recall..I have not looked that up,though. Do you know how many Secy's of State have been President?