Ohio is known as the "mother of presidents" but has much fewer vice presidents.
The last vice president from Ohio was Charles Dawes, who was vice president under Calvin Coolidge from 1925-1929. Dawes was born in Marietta, Ohio in 1865.
Vice President Charles Fairbanks, a former Indiana governor was born in the Union County village of Unionville Center in 1852. Fairbanks served under President Theodore Roosevelt for four years from 1905-1909.
Vice President Thomas Hendricks served under President Grover Cleveland. He was also a former Indiana governor, but was born in the Muskingum County village Fultonham before moving to Indiana at a young age.
U.S. Senator J.D. Vance now has the chance to join Fairbanks and Hendricks in history as only the third Ohioan to hold the second-in-command job in the country. President Donald Trump nominated Vance as his running mate on Monday at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Ohio's lack of vice presidents contrasts with its wealth of presidents in U.S. history. Eight Ohioans or Ohio natives have led the country from the Oval Office from William Henry Harrison to Warren G. Harding.
Ohio's lack of VPs isn't for lack of trying.
Besides Vance and Fairbanks, former Ohio Gov. John Bricker was the last Ohioan nominated for vice president in 1944 on a ticket with Thomas Dewey against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
