The Quiz: Who was the last person to go directly from Vice President to President?
Richard Nixon
Bill Clinton
Lyndon B. Johnson
George H. W. Bush
There have been fifteen vice presidents who went on to become the president. They have all assumed the office as a result of either death, assassination, resignation, or election in their own right. The last person to go directly from Vice President to President was George H.W. Bush, who served as Ronald Reagan’s Vice President from 1981 until 1989. He then won the 1989 presidential election, defeating Michael Dukakis. During his presidency, George H.W. Bush saw the end of the Soviet Union following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dismantling of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The correct answer to this quiz is George H. W. Bush.