Oct. 21, 2025
VPOTUS 006.1 - Daniel D Tompkins Part One
Tenure of Office: March 4, 1817 - March 4, 1825
The only 19th century Vice President to serve two full terms (spoiler alert), in this episode, we cover Daniel D Tompkins's political rise in New York and transformation from the Clinton political machine's "Farmer's Boy" to a wartime governor who acted in his own right to ensure his state's defense admirably enough to be pushed forward to the second highest office in the land. Sources used for this episode can be found at https://www.presidenciespodcast.com.
Special thanks to Alex for joining me for this episode!
Sources used for both parts of the Daniel D Tompkins episode:
- Cook, Jane Hampton. The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812. Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2016.
- Cunningham, Noble E, Jr. The Presidency of James Monroe. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
- “Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825).” Find-A-Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1039/daniel-d-tompkins. [Last Accessed: 28 Aug 2024]
- Irwin, Ray W. Daniel D. Tompkins: Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States. New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1968.
- Mooney, Chase C. William H. Crawford: 1772-1834. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1974.
- Perkins, Bradford. Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823. Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1964.
Featured Image: "Daniel D Tompkins" [c. 1807], courtesy of Wikipedia
