John Adams
1735–1826
(Lived 90 years)
VP Service:
April 21, 1789
–
March 4, 1797
1st Vice President.
This series has 47 traditional caches that are in kind of a circle with a mystery cache at the end. The series is meant to be a bit of a history lesson about one of the weirdest political offices in the US Government, the office of Vice President, as well as fun caching in the beautiful desert. To solve the mystery clues are written inside the cap of many of the caches throughout the series. In case you miss a clue the clues are repeated three times throughout the series. Location of the mystery:
N 40 22.ABC W 112 22.DEF
There have been 48 Vice Presidents of the United States since the office came into existence in 1789. Originally, the Vice President was the person who received the second most votes for President in the Electoral College. However, in the election of 1800 a tie in the electoral college between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr led to the selection of the President by the House of Representatives. To prevent such an event from happening again, the Twelfth Amendment was added to the Constitution, creating the current system where electors cast a separate ballot for the vice presidency.[1]
The Vice President is the first person in the presidential line of succession and assumes that presidency if the President dies, resigns, or is impeached and removed from office.[2] Nine Vice Presidents have ascended to the presidency in this way: eight (John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson) through the president's death and one (Gerald Ford) through the president's resignation. In addition, the Vice President serves as the President of the Senate and may choose to cast a tie-breaking vote on decisions made by the Senate. Vice Presidents have exercised this latter power to varying extents over the years.[1]