Vice Presidential history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/2021
  

  He Became the Nation’s Ninth Vice President. She was His Enslaved Wife

  Historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers examines the erasure of Julia Chinn, the enslaved wife of Kentuckian Richard Mentor Johnson. 

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• 1/31/2021
  

  How Biden used the VP Springboard to Vault into the Oval Office

  by Joel K. Goldstein

  Joe Biden's leap from VP to POTUS is a rarity. Vice presidents are often contenders, but seldom successful. Circumstance helped Biden break the mold, but so did learning on the job as second-in-command to become a more credible candidate for the top job. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/8/2020
  

  'I Won't be the Last': Kamala Harris Accepts Place in History

  In a moment of reflection, Harris invoked her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who left her home in India for California in 1958, at the age of 19. “Maybe she didn’t quite imagine this moment,” Harris said. “But she believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible.”  

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/6/2020
  

  VP Debates are Often Forgettable – But Dan Quayle Never Recovered from His 1988 Debate Mistake

  by Chris Lamb

  "Dan Quayle was a one-term vice president whose greatest contribution to politics came in a VP debate. In the dog-eat-dog world of politics, no politician since has wanted to end up on the Quayle end of the fire hydrant."