Which OTL Vice-President Would Have Made The Worst President?

SO, which OTL Vice-President would have made the Worst President? We won't count the VPs who would go on to serve as President, and even though this is Post-1900, I'd like to include talk of the Pre-1900 VPs as well, just to save us from making two threads that ask the same question.

So, who do you think it is?

Personally, I think I would have to go with FDR's first VP John N. Garner.
 
Let's take them all...

Charles Fairbanks (1905-9): Would probably have delayed the Progressive Era slightly, but after TR there was no turning back.

James Sherman (1909-13): Would have died in office just before the 1912 election, further ensuring a Wilson or Clark victory.

Thomas Marshall (1913-21): Should have been POTUS, Wilson was clearly incapacitated and what we'd later call a picture-perfect 25th case.

Calvin Coolidge (1921-3): Became POTUS IOTL.

Charles Dawes (1925-9): Would have tried and renegotiated German reparations, involved the US more in international affairs. Continuation of Coolidge's domestic policies.

Charles Curtis (1929-33): Not much different from Hoover, would have tried a 5-day work week with no wage reduction to combat the GD. Loses to FDR in a landslide, as would any Republican, in 1932.

Jack Garner (1933-41): Would have seriously compromised the possibility of US recovery from the GD, and little chance of US entering WWII unless a liberal Republican wins in 1940. There would not be a Man in the High Castle ASB scenario.

Henry Wallace (1941-5): Why not put Alger Hiss in the Oval Office and get it over with? Heaven help the US if he become POTUS. Harry Dexter White as Secretary of the Treasury, Alger Hiss as Secretary of State: two Soviet spies as the ranking Cabinet officers of the US government! :eek::eek:

Harry Truman (1945): Became POTUS IOTL.

Alben Barkley (1949-53): Similar to Truman, would enact New Deal, but might not push Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine as firmly as Truman.

Richard Nixon (1953-61): Became POTUS IOTL, but would be much more of a doctrinaire Cold Warrior than OTL.

Lyndon Johnson (1961-3): Became POTUS IOTL, but he was the VP in name only.

Hubert Humphrey (1965-9): Would be LBJ's clone, as proven in the 1968 primaries IOTL.

Spiro Agnew (1969-73): See Drew's Fear, Loathing and Gumbo.

Gerald Ford: (1973-4): Became POTUS IOTL.

Nelson Rockefeller (1974-7): Would be an excellent POTUS, but would not run in 1976 re age and health.

Walter Mondale (1977-81): A Humphrey New Dealer, on the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Would not be a DLC moderate like Carter, but with much better Congressional relations, being an insider.

George H.W. Bush (1981-9): Became POTUS IOTL.

Dan Quayle (1989-93): Heaven help the US: the male Palin presiding over the end of the Cold War! :eek:

Al Gore (1993-2001): A Clinton clone, would be a good President.

Dick Cheney (2001-09): No Comment. :D

Joe Biden (2009-present): Gaffe-prone, but a more effective POTUS than Obama.
 

Penelope

Banned
John Nance Garner, tied with Dan Quayle.

I don't believe that Quayle would have been a terrible president when lined up with people like Henry Wallace and John Nance Garner. Quayle would have just been a silly President who would have filled out Bush's term when he was rendered incapacitated (Quayle would have never won an election).
 
Buchanan's Vice President John Breckenridge served as a General in the Confederate Army and as Confederate Secretary of War.
 
UT2020 Re Burr: so a Cheney who succeeded? :p

As usual, RogueBeaver, you are right. But the thought of President "Big Time":eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: was so horrific I just blotted it out of my mind.

Think of it this way: President Henry Wallace? We're owned by the NKVD.

President Cheney? We're owned by Fortune 500 (Not counting George Soros and a few others).
 
I think you are being hard on Burr.... The worst OTL V.P. is obviously Thomas Jefferson. If only for the creation of a Libertarian myth that never existed.
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
I find that people are being a bit unfair to Wallace. While I do think that he would have probably been a bit too accomadating to the Soviet Union and we would have seen an expanded Communist (not necessarily Soviet) sphere, Wallace would have basically had no choice but to militarize American foreign policy; after all, if he didn't want to, Congress would have pushed him that way.

That all being said, yeah, his Cabinet would most likely have resulted in . . . difficulties, if not outright disaster for the West.
 
Joe Biden would at least make an entertaining president. Henry Wallace, despite having favorable views towards foreign policy, was something of a dumbass. Dick Cheney gets my vote for potentially-worst president. Not only would he be a major warmonger, but he would also probably use his force powers to have himself declared Emperor. :eek:
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
Calhoun wouldn't be that bad because he'd be countered by men like Daniel Webster and Henry Clay in Congress. Remember, the president alone doesn't have that much power, and had even less back then.
Not that Calhoun seems like the one to actually use what little power the federal goverment had at that point.
 
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