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List of vice presidents of the United States by home state

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List of vice presidents of the United States by home state
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This is a list of vice presidents of the United States by place of primary affiliation. Some vice presidents have been born in one state, but are commonly associated with another. New York was the birth state of eight vice presidents, the most of any state: George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Schuyler Colfax, William A. Wheeler, Theodore Roosevelt, and James S. Sherman. New York was also the home state of an additional four vice presidents—Aaron Burr, Chester A. Arthur, Levi P. Morton, and Nelson Rockefeller.

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Places represented by vice presidents (affiliation place)
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Birth places of vice presidents

While political pundits have traditionally argued that the vice-presidential candidates have little effect on election outcomes in their home state, in 2016, political scientists Boris Heersink and Brenton D. Peterson argued that vice-presidential candidates did in fact offer a home-state advantage.[1] In an article published in American Politics Research, they presented analysis of elections spanning 1884 to 1992, which "suggest that vice-presidential candidates increase their tickets’ performance in their home states by 2.67 percentage points on average—considerably higher than previous studies have found."[1]

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States of primary affiliation

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Note: The flags presented for the states are the present day flags, which were not necessarily adopted in the times of the earliest vice presidents.

Vice presidents by state of primary affiliation

A list of U.S. vice presidents grouped by primary state of residence and birth, with priority given to residence. Only 23 out of the 50 states are represented. Vice presidents with an asterisk (*) did not primarily reside in their respective birth states (they were not born in the state listed below).

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Birth dates and birthplaces of U.S. vice presidents

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The first Vice President to be born was John Adams in Braintree, Massachusetts.[8]

= Colony, pre–1776, rather than state

= Territory or federal district, rather than state

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Map of vice presidential birthplaces

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Notes

  1. Now part of Kentucky
  2. Now part of Maine

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