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Vice President of the United States is The President of the Senate

Salary and benefits

The Vice President's salary is the same as that of the Chief Justice of the United States and the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives which, for 2009, is set at $221,000. The salary was set by the 1989 Government Salary Reform Act which also provides for an automatic cost of living adjustment for federal employees.

The Vice President does not automatically receive a pension based on that office, but instead receives the same pension as other members of Congress based on his position as president of the Senate. The Vice President must serve a minimum of five years to qualify for a pension

The annual salary of each senator, as of 2008, is $169,300; the President pro tempore and party leaders receive $188,100. In June 2003, at least 40 of the then-senators were millionaires. In addition to their salaries, senators' retirement and health benefits are identical to other federal employees, and are fully vested after five years of service.

Five former Vice Presidents are still living:

• Walter Mondale
• George H. W. Bush
• Dan Quayle
• Al Gore
• Dick Cheney

Former Vice Presidents are entitled to lifetime pensions, but unlike former Presidents they are not entitled to Secret Service personal protection. However, former Vice Presidents unofficially receive Secret Service protection for up to six months after leaving office.

As of June 2008, a bill entitled the "Former Vice President Protection Act of 2008" had passed in the House of Representatives. Still needing Senate consideration, the bill would provide six-month Secret Service protection by law to a former Vice President and family.

Former Democratic Vice Presidents are ex officio superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention.

Longevity

• John Nance Garner died fifteen days before his 99th birthday.
• Levi P. Morton died on his 96th birthday.
• Gerald Ford died at the age of 93.
• John Adams died at the age of 90.

Age while in office

• John C. Breckinridge, the youngest ever to serve, was 36 when he became Vice President in 1857.
• Alben W. Barkley, the oldest ever to serve, was 75 when he left the vice presidency in 1953.

Seven died in office

• George Clinton in 1812
• Elbridge Gerry in 1814
• William R. King in 1853
• Henry Wilson in 1875
• Thomas Hendricks in 1885
• Garret Hobart in 1899
• James Sherman in 1912

Two resigned

• John C. Calhoun resigned on December 28, 1832, to take a seat in the Senate, having been chosen to fill a vacancy.
• Spiro Agnew resigned on October 10, 1973, upon pleading no contest to charges of accepting bribes while Governor of Maryland.

Two were the apparent target of an assassination attempt (both unsuccessful)

• Andrew Johnson was a target of the same conspiracy which murdered President Abraham Lincoln and attempted to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward
• Thomas R. Marshall was a target of a letter bomb in 1915

One have been a target of an assassination attempt

• Dick Cheney was in the vicinity of a bomb allegedly meant for him. See 2007 Bagram Air Base bombing.

Nine succeeded to the Presidency

1. John Tyler
2. Millard Fillmore
3. Andrew Johnson
4. Chester A. Arthur
5. Theodore Roosevelt
6. Calvin Coolidge
7. Harry S. Truman
8. Lyndon B. Johnson
9. Gerald Ford

Four sitting Vice Presidents were elected President

1. John Adams (1789–1797) was elected President in 1796.
2. Thomas Jefferson (1797–1801) was elected President in 1800.
3. Martin Van Buren (1833–1837) was elected President in 1836.
4. George H. W. Bush (1981–1989) was elected President in 1988.

Four sitting Vice Presidents won their party's nomination for President but lost the general election.

1. John C. Breckinridge ran in 1860.
2. Richard Nixon ran in 1960.
3. Hubert Humphrey ran in 1968.
4. Al Gore ran in 2000.

Fourteen Vice Presidents never ran for President.

1. Elbridge Gerry
2. Richard Mentor Johnson
3. George M. Dallas
4. William R. King
5. Hannibal Hamlin
6. Schuyler Colfax
7. Henry Wilson
8. William A. Wheeler
9. Adlai E. Stevenson I
10. Garret Hobart
11. James S. Sherman
12. Charles G. Dawes
13. Spiro Agnew
14. Dick Cheney

One former Vice President was elected President

• Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972. He had been Vice President to Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961.

Only one President (Franklin D. Roosevelt) had more than two different Vice Presidents

1. John Nance Garner
2. Henry A. Wallace
3. Harry S. Truman

Two have been Acting President

1. George H. W. Bush acted as President for Ronald Reagan on July 13, 1985.
2. Dick Cheney has acted twice as President for George W. Bush, on June 29, 2002 and July 21, 2007^[25].

They officially acted as President due to presidential incapacity under the 25th Amendment.

Three Vice Presidents went onto became Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

1. Theodore Roosevelt 1906 (when he was the President)
2. Charles Gates Dawes 1925
3. Al Gore 2007 (after he left the office)

Eight served two full terms

1. John Adams
2. Daniel Tompkins
3. Thomas R. Marshall
4. John Garner
5. Richard Nixon
6. George H. W. Bush
7. Al Gore
8. Dick Cheney

Previous positions

As of 2009^[update] every Vice President except Chester A. Arthur, Henry A. Wallace, Charles Dawes and Garret Hobart has served as a congressman, senator, or governor.

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