That's right, the job described as "not worth a bucket of warm spit" is our mission. In fact, we had to find at least 20 of them; photograph them with your official rally flag- just to be considered a finisher. Not easy work. First, you have to find a list of veeps. Here's the list we worked from (the abbreviation behind each one links to the photo we took in that state):
1 John Adams (F)2 1789–1797 PA | 2 Thomas Jefferson (DR) 1797–1801 IN MD WV | 3 Aaron Burr (DR) 1801–1805 |
4 George Clinton (DR)3 1805–1812 IN | 5 Elbridge Gerry (DR)3 1813–1814 NY | 6 Daniel D. Tompkins (DR) 1817–1825 |
7 John C. Calhoun 1825–1832 | 8 Martin Van Buren (D) 1833–1837 | 9 Richard M. Johnson (D) 1837–1841 |
10 John Tyler (W)5 1841 | 11 George M. Dallas (D) 1845–1849 | 12 Millard Fillmore (W)5 1849–1850 |
13 William R. King (D)3 1853 PA | 14 John C. Breckinridge (D) 1857–1861 | 15 Hannibal Hamlin (R) 1861–1865 |
16 Andrew Johnson (U)5 1865 | 17 Schuyler Colfax (R) 1869–1873 IN WV | 18 Henry Wilson (R)3 1873–1875 |
19 William A. Wheeler (R) 1877–1881 | 20 Chester A. Arthur (R)5 1881 WV | 21 Thomas A. Hendricks (D)3 1885 WV |
22 Levi P. Morton (R) 1889–1893 | 23 Adlai E. Stevenson (D) 1893–1897 MD | 24 Garrett A. Hobart (R)3 1897–1899 |
25 Theodore Roosevelt (R)5 1901 | 26 Charles W. Fairbanks (R) 1905–1909 IN | 27 James S. Sherman (R)3 1909–1912 WV |
28 Thomas R. Marshall (D) 1913–1921MI1 MI2 VA | 29 Calvin Coolidge (R)5 1921–1923 | 30 Charles G. Dawes (R) 1925–1929 WV |
31 Charles Curtis (R) 1929–1933 | 32 John N. Garner (D) 1933–1941 | 33 Henry A. Wallace (D) 1941–1945 IN |
34 Harry S. Truman (D)5 1945 | 35 Alben W. Barkley (D) 1949–1953 | 36 Richard M. Nixon (R) 1953-1961 |
37 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)5 1961–1963 | 38 Hubert H. Humphrey (D) 1965–1969 | 39 Spiro T. Agnew (R)6 1969–1973 |
40 Gerald R. Ford (R)7 1973–1974 WV | 41 Nelson A. Rockefeller (R)8 1974–1977 | 42 Walter F. Mondale (D) 1977–1981 |
43 George Bush (R) 1981–1989 VA | 44 J. Danforth Quayle (R) 1989–1993 | 45 Albert A. Gore, Jr. (D) 1993–2001 WV |
46 Richard B. Cheney (R) 2001– |
Dayam, that's a lot of dead white men. Now the fun part- plotting them all. Street Atlas to the rescue which produced this file. tasty. We were also allowed to get other items- we tried to stay on the Veep theme and got Pres/Veep related items.
Colfax Fire Station
Marker- Bush Delcaration
Marker- Glen Ferris
Marker- MD memorial at Gettysburg
Marker- Monroe's Birth Place
Marker- Washington's Mom's Birth Place
National Historic Site- The Eisenhower
Farm
National Historic Site- Washington's
Birth Place
National Park- Gettysburg
Other- Arthur General Store
President- Washington WV
School- Adams
State Park- Buchanan's Birth Place
We're not real sure how this will stack up against fellow COG riders, but we gave it a shot- visited 9 states with successful locations and another half dozen states & provinces that didnt pan out.