Most vice presidents of the United States have undergone higher education at an American university, college or law school.
List No.ImageNameHome stateTook officeLeft office PartySchool President(s)Ref 1 Massachusetts Federalist Harvard College George Washington 2 Virginia Democratic-Republican College of William & Mary John Adams 3 New York Democratic-Republican Princeton Jefferson 4 New York Democratic-Republican Studied law with William Smith Jefferson/Madison zVacant Madison 5 Massachusetts Democratic-Republican Harvard College Madison zVacant Madison 6 New York Democratic-Republican Columbia Monroe 7 South Carolina Democratic-Republican/Democratic Yale College J. Q. Adams/Jackson zVacant Jackson 8 New York Democratic Kinderhook Academy and Washington Seminary; studied law with Peter Silvester, Francis Sylvester and William P. Van Ness Jackson 9 Kentucky Democratic Transylvania University Van Buren 10 Virginia Whig College of William & Mary W. Harrison zVacant Tyler 11 Pennsylvania Democratic Princeton University Polk 12 New York Whig New Hope Academy, studied law with Judge Walter Wood, Cayuga County, New York Taylor zVacant Fillmore 13 Alabama Democratic University of North Carolina Pierce zVacant Pierce 14 Kentucky Democratic Centre College, Princeton University, Transylvania University Buchanan 15 Maine Republican Hebron Academy; studied law at the firm of Samuel Fessenden Lincoln 16 Tennessee Democratic None (Self-taught and received instruction from his wife, Eliza McCardle Johnson) Lincoln zVacant A. Johnson 17 Indiana Republican Common schools of New York City and New Carlisle, Indiana Grant 18 Massachusetts Republican Academies in Strafford, Wolfeboro, and Concord, New Hampshire Grant zVacant Grant 19 New York Republican University of Vermont Hayes 20 New York Republican Union College, State and National Law School Garfield zVacant Arthur 21 Indiana Democratic Hanover College Cleveland zVacant Cleveland 22 New York Republican Shoreham Academy, Shoreham, Vermont B. Harrison 23 Illinois Democratic Illinois Wesleyan University, Centre College Cleveland 24 New Jersey Republican Rutgers College McKinley zVacant McKinley 25 New York Republican Harvard College, Columbia Law School (did not graduate) McKinley zVacant T. Roosevelt 26 Indiana Republican Ohio Wesleyan University T. Roosevelt 27 New York Republican Hamilton College Taft zVacant Taft 28 Indiana Democratic Wabash College Wilson 29 Massachusetts Republican Amherst College Harding zVacant Coolidge 30 Illinois Republican Marietta College, University of Cincinnati College of Law Coolidge 31 Kansas Republican Topeka High School, studied law with Aderial H. Case Hoover 32 Texas Democratic Vanderbilt University F. Roosevelt 33 Iowa Democratic Iowa State University F. Roosevelt 34 Missouri Democratic Spalding's Commercial College (did not graduate)Kansas City Law School (did not graduate) F. Roosevelt zVacant Truman 35 Kentucky Democratic Marvin College, Emory University, University of Virginia School of Law Truman 36 California Republican Whittier College, Duke University School of Law Eisenhower 37 Texas Democratic Southwest Texas State Teachers College, Georgetown University Law Center (did not graduate) Kennedy zVacant L. Johnson 38 Minnesota Democratic University of Minnesota, Louisiana State University, Capitol College of Pharmacy L. Johnson 39 Maryland Republican Johns Hopkins University, University of Baltimore School of Law Nixon zVacant Nixon 40 Michigan Republican University of Michigan, Yale Law School Nixon zVacant Ford 41 New York Republican Dartmouth College Ford 42 Minnesota Democratic Macalester College, University of Minnesota Law School Carter 43 Texas Republican Yale University Reagan 44 Indiana Republican DePauw University, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis (J.D.) G. H. W. Bush 45 Tennessee Democratic Harvard University, Vanderbilt University Clinton 46 Wyoming Republican University of Wyoming G. W. Bush 47 Delaware Democratic University of Delaware, Syracuse University College of Law (J.D.) Obama 48 Indiana Republican Hanover College, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis (J.D.) Trump 49 California Democratic Howard University, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) Biden 50 Ohio Incumbent Republican Ohio State University (BA), Yale Law School (JD) Trump
See also List of presidents of the United States by education
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