Richard Nixon was in an election.
Richard Milhous Nixon ( January 9 , 1913 -- April 22 , 1994 ) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974 , when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office . Nixon served for eight years as vice president -- at 40 , the second-youngest vice president in history . Vice President of the United States . The vice president is indirectly elected , together with the president , to a four-year term of office by the people of the United States through the Electoral College .