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Or runs for another office while serving as VP in a first term, which implies resignation as VP if the candidate wins. This does not include the case where the President does not seek re-election.

There were two such cases in the 1800s.

VP Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-1825) ran for governor of NY in early 1820. (He lost, and later that year was re-elected VP in what was the last unopposed Presidential election).

VP Levi P. Morton (1889-1893) declined to run for a second term in 1892. He was elected governor of NY in 1894.

Who in the 20th century might have done similarly?
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