who was theodore roosevelt's vice president?
Charles W. Fairbanks
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 McKinley 's original vice president , Garret Hobart , had died in 1899 , and McKinley left the choice of a running mate to the 1900 Republican National Convention . In advance of the convention , New York 's Republican political boss , Senator Thomas C. Platt , saw an opportunity to politically sideline his state 's governor , former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt , by pushing for his nomination as vice president . Roosevelt accepted the nomination and was elected on McKinley 's ticket . 

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 Richard Mentor Johnson ( October 17 , 1780 [ a ] – November 19 , 1850 ) was the ninth Vice President of the United States , serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren ( 1837 – 41 ) . He is the only vice president ever elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment . Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate ; he began and ended his political career in the Kentucky House of Representatives . 

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 Roosevelt would go on to be elected Vice President later that year , and subsequently used the aphorism publicly in an address to the Minnesota State Fair , entitled " National Duties " , on September 2 , 1901 . : 

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 The vice president had in recent administrations been considered a relatively low @-@ level political functionary , whose activities were generally limited to the constitutional function of presiding over the Senate . Hobart , however , became a close adviser to McKinley and his Cabinet members , although he was not called upon to attend Cabinet meetings . Reporter Arthur Wallace Dunn wrote of Hobart in 1922 , " for the first time in my recollection , and the last for that matter , the Vice President was recognized as somebody , as a part of the Administration , and as a part of the body over which he presided " . 

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 By 1920 , Roosevelt , on Howe 's advice , had made peace with Tammany boss Charles Murphy , and again sought New York state office . In July , however , he was drafted by the Democratic National Convention as the vice presidential nominee on a ticket with Ohio governor James M. Cox . Roosevelt selected Howe as his campaign manager . The Cox — Roosevelt ticket lost overwhelmingly to Republicans Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge , but both Roosevelt and Howe saw themselves as having successfully built Roosevelt a national reputation ; not long after the election , Howe boasted to several friends that Roosevelt would soon occupy the White House , taking Howe with him . 
