December 28

John C. Calhoun (pictured), Vice President in John Quincy Adams’ administration, on the 28th in 1832, became the first Vice President of the United States to resign. Vice Presidents choosing to resign are not rare, Spiro Agnew springs to mind. Calhoun has the distinction, however, of being one of only two Vice Presidents to serve in the same position in the administrations of two Presidents. He also served in Andrew Jackson’s administration. The other person to share this distinction was George Clinton, Vice President in the administrations of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. It’s amazing that Clinton would leave politics and go on to form the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. It was by a very narrow margin that the Mothership Connection was voted down as the national anthem.