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Low value links

Hi, and thanks for your contributions. I noticed you added links to years to several articles. Per WP:OVERLINK these are seldom worth adding. Best wishes, --John (talk) 20:13, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that! I've seen tons of other links to years and dates so I figured it would not be a problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Robot 2000 (talk • contribs) 20:18, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

No problem, and let me know if I can be any help to you. --John (talk) 20:21, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Most living VPs

Saw your question on Talk:Living_Presidents_of_the_United_States and I'm curious about how many living US VP's there's ever been at one time too! Researching it now... if I had to guess though I'd say 6. Two periods I've found so far that there have been 6 current and/or former VP's living at the same time: Between the inauguration of Millard Fillmore (3/4/1849) and the death of John Calhoun (3/31/1850); also since 1/20/2009 when Joe Biden was inaugurated! There's 6 right now: Mondale, George H.W. Bush, Quayle, Gore, Cheney and Biden. Doubt there's ever been more, but checking on that.

It's also worth noting that unlike the presidency, since there isn't any automatic succession to the vice-presidency, there have actually been several times where the vice-presidency has been vacant. In fact before the 25th amendment was passed, if a VP died, resigned, or succeeded to the presidency, the office would just stay vacant until the next administration took office. 24.8.252.164 (talk) 10:54, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Correction- The most living (current and former) VP's that have ever been alive at the same time is SEVEN! Between 1/20/1993 (when Al Gore became VP) and 4/22/1994 (when Richard Nixon died) 7 current and former VP's were still alive: Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford, Walter Mondale, George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, and Al Gore. That's the only period there's ever been 7 alive at once, and there's never been more than 7 at any time. There's your answer! I may make that page... but want to feel to see if there's consensus that it would be notable enough to justify its existance, as I don't want to go through a lot of work making a page that's just going to get deleted. 24.8.252.164 (talk) 21:07, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Also, there's never been a time where there's been 0, but were a few times there was only 1: Between 4/21/1789 (John Adams becomes VP) and 3/4/1797 (Thomas Jefferson becomes VP; John Adams was the only one living, as he's at that point the only VP there's ever been); between 6/4/1887 (William Wheeler died) and 3/4/1889 (Levi Morton becomes VP; note that during this period, Hannibal Hamlin, the only living VP, was not the one serving!); between 7/4/1891 (Hannibal Hamlin died) and 3/4/1893 (Adlai Stevenson becomes VP; Levi Morton, the then VP, was the only one alive); and lastly between 5/16/1920 (Levi Morton died) and 3/4/1921 (Calvin Coolidge becomes VP; during this time Thomas Marshall, the then VP, was the only one alive). 24.8.252.164 (talk) 21:14, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

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