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6 unusual facts about Vice President's Room


Vice President's Room

In 1919 Vice President Thomas Marshall signed the constitutional amendment bill that would grant nationwide suffrage to women once ratified by the states.

Six years later, following President James Garfield’s assassination, Vice President Chester Arthur took the presidential oath of office here with two former presidents, Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes, among those attending the ceremony.

In 1885, the Senate voted to place a marble bust of Henry Wilson in the Vice President’s Room, to honor one of the Senate’s most popular presiding officers.

In 1875 Henry Wilson, Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president, died in the room after suffering a stroke.

John Breckinridge of Kentucky was the first to occupy the new Vice President’s Room (S–214), after he gavelled the Senate into session in its

On April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman was on the House side of the Capitol when he received a telephone call informing him to come immediately to the White House.


1936 Democratic National Convention

The convention resulted in the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President John N. Garner for reelection.

1948 Democratic National Convention

The 1948 Democratic National Convention was held at Convention Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 12 to July 14, and resulted in the nominations of President Harry S Truman for a full term and Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky for Vice President in the 1948 presidential election.

1998 Sudan Air Force crash

The 1998 Sudan Air Force crash was the crash of a Sudan Air Force transport plane at Nasir that killed several of the country's most senior government leaders, including the Vice President Zubair Mohamed Salih.

1st Airlift Squadron

Provides global Special Air Mission (SAM) airlift, logistics, aerial port and communications for the President, Vice President, Combat Commanders, senior leaders and the global mobility system as tasked by the White House, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Air Mobility Command.

A.R. Pardington

Arthur Rayner Pardington (July 30, 1862 – July 28, 1915) was the chief engineer and 2nd Vice President of The Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc., which oversaw the building and development of the parkway.

Alice Creek

It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him for the wife of Édouard Lockroy, Vice President of the French Chamber of Deputies who assisted Charcot in obtaining government support for the expedition.

Angidi Chettiar

Angidi Verriah Chettiar (அங்கிடி செட்டியார்) (29 April 1928 – 15 September 2010) was a Mauritian politician who served as the Vice President of Mauritius from August 2007 until his death in September 2010.

Brit Hume

He was assigned to report on Walter Mondale's presidential campaign during 1984 and Vice President George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign.

California Democratic primary, 2000

Vice President Al Gore carried the primary in a landslide over former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey.

Charles W. F. Dick

While in Congress, he became one of the largest stockholders in the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and served as a Vice President and member of the Board of Directors.

Clintonville, Columbus, Ohio

The community of Clintonville developed as the center of Clinton Township (named for the U.S. Vice President George Clinton), part of the land grants given to Continental Army soldiers in lieu of pensions in what used to be Wyandotte Indian territory.

David Morehouse

Morehouse worked for a political campaign again in 2000, for former Vice President Al Gore.

Dipolog Airport

The 600-meter macadam airstrip was opened in October 1941, a few months prior to the outbreak of WWII, by then-Vice President Sergio Osmeña and Chief of Staff Basilio Valdez.

Ebitu Ukiwe

Okoh Ebitu Ukiwe (born 26 October 1940) is a retired Commodore in the Nigerian Navy who served as the de facto Vice President of Nigeria during the Ibrahim Babangida military government from 1985 to 1986.

Edward Atienza

Edward Atienza made his professional stage debut in the role of the Butler in a 1949 production of Up in Mabel's Room.

Estate of Rockefeller v. Commissioner

The Court essentially compared Rockefeller’s past job as Governor of New York with his position as Vice President and found that the two positions did not constitute the same trade or business.

Giovanni's Room

She is from Minneapolis and moved to Paris to study painting, until she threw in the towel and met David by serendipity.

Gordon Woodbury

In 1920, Franklin D. Roosevelt resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in order to run for Vice President in the 1920 presidential election.

History of the United States National Security Council 1977–81

Instead, Carter used frequent, informal meetings as a decision-making device, typically his Friday breakfasts, usually attended by the Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, the NSC Adviser, and the chief domestic adviser.

Hydraulic press

The room featured in Fermat's Room has a design similar to that of a hydraulic press.

I do not choose to run

Vice President Dawes believed he “ardently” wanted nomination.

Jacob's Room

The work is seen as an important modernist text; its experimental form is viewed as a progression of the innovative writing style Woolf presented in her earlier collection of short fiction titled Monday or Tuesday (1919).

Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

In June 2002, after Vice President Dick Cheney called Goss and Graham to chastise them for a media leak from the inquiry, they asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate the leak.

Joseph C. Yates

As Governor, Yates sat for a portrait by John Vanderlyn, famed for his rendition of such eminent historical figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, James Monroe, George Clinton, Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor.

Leonore Annenberg

This position placed her in charge of advising the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State on matters dealing with diplomatic protocol, and formally welcoming foreign dignitaries upon their arrival to the United States.

Linda Fisher

Linda J. Fisher is a Vice President Safety, Health and Environment and Chief Sustainability Officer of DuPont.

Murad Muwafi

# Appointed as a Director of the Egyptian Intelligence by former President Hosni Mubarak on January 31, 2011 after the previous Director Omar Suleiman was appointed as a Vice President.

Network Computing Devices

Judith Estrin and William Carrico joined the company about 6 months after its founding as its new CEO and executive vice president, and led the company through its IPO in 1992.

Óscar Denis

Oscar Denis Sánchez (born 2 October 1946, in Concepción) is a Paraguayan politician and the current Vice President.

Out of the Blue Enterprises

The company serves as the producers (with DHX Media's Decode Entertainment unit) of the CGI-animated children's television show Super Why! that airs on most PBS stations and on Kids' CBC in Canada and Blue's Room which formerly aired on Nick Jr..

Palácio do Planalto

Besides the President, a few high advisers also have offices in the Planalto, including the Vice President and the Chief of Staff; the other ministries are laid along the Ministries Esplanade.

Pam Iorio

On January 28, 2010, when Iorio welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Governor of Florida Charlie Crist, and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, all of whom came to the University of Tampa for a national "Town Hall Meeting" to announce federal funding for Florida High Speed Rail and other projects.

Paul Quinichette

He was known as the Vice President or Vice Prez for his uncanny emulation of the breathy style of Lester Young, known as Prez.

Peter J. Fos

Prior to accepting the presidency of UNO, Fos was provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at Tyler.

R. H. Stearns

F.W. Stearns was a close friend of Calvin Coolidge, joining him as an honored guest at the Republican National Convention in California when Coolidge was Vice President.

R. K. Kamboj

Thereafter, he moved to Canada to join Allelix Biopharmaceuticals Inc (a part of NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Toronto), as its Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer.

Robert M. McDowell

Immediately before his confirmation to the FCC, he was senior vice president and assistant general counsel of COMPTEL (Competitive Telecommunications Association), an industry trade group of competitive (non-RBOC) telephone companies.

Sidoarjo mud flow

Soon afterwards then-vice president Jusuf Kalla announced that PT Lapindo Brantas and the owner, the Bakrie Group, would have to compensate thousands of victims affected by the mud flows.

Tamara Millay

She was a candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for Vice President in 2004, but lost to Richard Campagna in balloting at the Party's National Convention.

Tapio Alvesalo

Before joining the Millennium Prize Foundation he held the position of Vice President, Corporate Technology at Fortum Corporation until his retirement from that position in 2004.

The Ed Schultz Show

These include "Slant Head" for conservative commentator Sean Hannity, "the Druggie" or "the Drugster" for Rush Limbaugh, "Shooter" for Vice President Dick Cheney, "Rotten Rudy" for former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, "The Mittster" for Mitt Romney, and "the pizza man" for Herman Cain.

The New New Deal

Vice President Joe Biden stood directly behind him.

Timipre Sylva

As a candidate of the People's Democratic Party Sylva won the Bayelsan gubernatorial election on May 29, 2007 and succeeded Goodluck Jonathan who went on to the position of Vice President.

William Corcoran Eustis

In 1900 he married Edith Livingston Morton (1874–1964), a daughter of Levi P. Morton, vice president under Benjamin Harrison.

Yves Sahinguvu

A trained ophthalmologist, Sahinguvu was first appointed to the position of First Vice President on November 9, 2007 by act of parliament.


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