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Typical Vice Presidential Candidate Pattern From Congressional Quarterly
Portrait outlines a 55-year-old New York lawyer and Methodist with British ancestry as common traits among past vice presidential nominees. It notes current contenders like Agnew Connally Rockefeller Reagan and Muskie, compares ages, careers, religions, and ethnic roots, and highlights that most nominees have been lawyers and legislators.
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Congressional Quarterly
Washington
Congress
New York
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon
Treasury
John B. Connally Jr
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
California
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
Agnew
Connally
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
John C. Breckinridge
Senate
House
Humphrey, Muskie
Henry M. Jackson
George McGovern
South Dakota
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Wilbur D. Mills
Arkansas
Shirley Chisholm
Rockefeller
Reagan
McCarthy
McGovern
Rep. Chisholm
Yesteryear
Andrew Johnson
Lincoln
National Union
Edward Everett
Constitutional Union Party
Muskie
William E. Miller
Kennedy
Hartke
Charles Curtis
Joseph T. Robinson