Them Crazy Veeps: The List So Far

UPDATE: I properly ranked Joe Biden at #8 after his term ended. This changed the entire numbering system. Due to formatting issues, I kept the numbers as they were in the individual posts, but this list now reflects the new numbering.

UPDATE 2020: Who knew Biden wasn't done? I certainly didn't. He didn't get elected as an incumbent, but #3 seems fair. And fucking up the pandemic gives Pence a boost up the bad list. Not Dick Cheney bad, but bad.

UPDATE JULY 2024: Kamala Harris just did exactly what a Vice President is supposed to do, step in when the president can't do the job. For taking over the re-election campaign in this unprecedented (ha) time, Harris gets a bump to the top 5. 

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2025: Took me a minute to update the list. As impressive it was for a Veep to step up and take over the ticket, losing makes her just another modern VP who can't win in her own right, making her only slightly better than Al Gore......  

The Good Ones 1. George H.W. Bush 2. Martin Van Buren 3. Joe Biden 4. Walter Mondale 5. Adlai Stevenson 6. Alben Barkley 7. George Dallas 8. Kamala Harris 9. Al Gore 10. John Adams 11. Calvin Coolidge 12. Garret Hobart 13. Gerald Ford 14. Lyndon Johnson 15. Nelson Rockefeller 16. Harry Truman 17. James Sherman 18. Hannibal Hamlin 19. William Wheeler 20. John Garner 21. Thomas Marshall 22. Teddy Roosevelt 23. Hubert Humphrey 24. George Clinton 25. Charles Fairbanks

The Bad Ones 1. Andrew Johnson 2. Millard Fillmore 3. Aaron Burr 4. John Breckinridge 5. Spiro Agnew 6. John C. Calhoun 7. Daniel Tompkins 8. Thomas Hendricks 9. William King 10. Dick Cheney 11. Richard Johnson 12. Mike Pence 13. John Tyler 14. Charles Curtis 15. Schuyler Colfax 16. Henry Wilson 17. Richard Nixon 18. J.D. Vance 19. Thomas Jefferson 20. Charles Dawes 21. Chester Arthur 22. Dan Quayle 23. Elbridge Gerry 24. Henry Wallace 25. Levi Morton