george h.w. bush was the last vice president to become president.
george h.w. bush was the last vice president to become president.
who was the last vice president to become president?
george h.w. bush
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on 17 april 1854 general josé maría melo y ortiz deposed president josé maría obando del campo in a "coup d'état". later that year general melo agreed to step down and handed power back to the previous administration; president obando had been formally impeached by congress so the executive power lay in the hands of vice president josé de obaldía y orejuela as acting president as the new granadian constitution of 1832 did not allow for a full succession of power. the constitution also prescribed for separate elections for president and vice president set two years apart, so in 1855 when vice president obaldía's term came to an end congress set out to elect his successor and elected mallarino to succeed obaldía. mallarino took office as the 8th vice president of new granada on 1 april 1855 becoming acting president of new granada. in 1857 mallarino handed executive power to the newly elected president, mariano ospina rodríguez, who took office on 1 april; he then served out the remaining of his term as ospina's vice president until 1 april 1857. president ospina set out to rewrite the constitution, eliminating the office of the vice president among other substantial changes. mallarino was thus the last vice president of new granada as he had no successor. the country would not have another vice president until 1886 when the colombian constitution of 1886 reopened the vice presidency.
manuel maría mallarino