The youngest person to be a vice presidential candidate was John Breckinridge in ... the Democratic Party and in 1860, Breckinridge unsuccessfully ran for president as a Southern Democrat.

A Southern Democrat and the incumbent vice president, John C. Breckinridge swept the southern states in the 1860 four-way ...

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The youngest vice president remains John C. Breckinridge, who took office in 1857 as James Buchanan’s VP at the age of 36. In 1953, Richard Nixon became Dwight D. Eisenhower’s VP at the age of 40.

Eisenhower’s vice president. John C. Breckinridge, who was 36 when he assumed office in 1857 as James Buchanan’s vice president, holds the record for the nation’s youngest vice president.