At 40, JD Vance is just four years older than the nation’s youngest vice president: John C. Breckinridge, who was 36 when he ...

If there’s any takeaway from our 1890s forebears, it’s that no matter how intense an election feels, life always goes on.

The US presidential elections of recent years have been some of most contested – and divisive – in history. Here, historian ...

On 6 January 1989 Vice President George H. W. Bush presided over a joint session of Congress to count the vote in the ...

JD Vance, a 40-year-old senator who transformed himself from a biting critic of Donald Trump to one of his fiercest defenders, was elected the ...

JD Vance will soon be first in the presidential line of succession. His against-all-odds upbringing was a key component of his speeches on the campaign trail.

But he would not become the youngest vice president. That distinction is held by John C. Breckinridge, who became vice ...

US' 50th vice president will be sworn in just two years after assuming his first public office as a senator from Ohio ...

But he would not become the youngest vice president. That distinction is held by John C. Breckinridge, who became vice president at the age of 36 in 1857. Breckinridge, who was the running mate of ...

He was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family, the son of Vice President of the United States and Confederate General John C. Breckinridge and the great-grandson of U.S. Senator and Attorney ...