who was lincoln's vice president when he died?
Andrew Johnson
entailment
 One of Breckinridge 's final acts as vice @-@ president was announcing the vote of the Electoral College to a joint session of Congress on February 13 , 1861 . Rumors abounded that he would tamper with the vote to prevent Lincoln 's election . Knowing that some legislators planned to attend the session armed , Breckinridge asked Winfield Scott to post guards in and around the chambers . One legislator raised a point of order , requesting that the guards be ejected , but Breckinridge refused to sustain it ; the electoral vote proceeded , and Breckinridge announced Lincoln 's election as president . After Lincoln 's arrival in Washington , D.C. , on February 24 , Breckinridge visited him at the Willard Hotel . After making a valedictory address on March 4 , he swore in Hannibal Hamlin as his successor as vice president ; Hamlin then swore in Breckinridge and the other incoming senators . 

contradiction
 = = = Appointment of Gerald Ford as Vice President ( 1973 ) = = = 

entailment
 Of the conspirators , only Booth was completely successful in carrying out his part of the plot : Booth shot Lincoln once in the back of the head , and the President died the next morning . Seward was severely wounded but recovered . Vice @-@ President Johnson was never attacked at all . 

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 The office of Vice President had been vacant sixteen times due to the death or resignation of the Vice President or his succession to the presidency . For example , there was no Vice President for nearly four years after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt . 

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 Two other former Vice Presidents died in the same year as Wilson – John C. Breckinridge and Andrew Johnson . 
