Elbridge Gerry

VICE PRESIDENT TO JAMES MADISON / #4

• Replaced the previous guy, who died in office

• Then also died in office

• Madison was the only POTUS to have two vice presidents die in office; he himself nearly died)

• “Gerry” has a soft “G” (like “geez,” not like “gimme a break”)

• Gerrymandering was named for him

• The Signer (aka Benjamin Harrison V, President William Henry Harrison’s dad) joked that if he and Gerry were hung for treason, the skinny Gerry would “dance in the air an hour” before dying