Other than Cheney, has any VP been relevant to the actual Administration?

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

It seems like it's either a "presidency internship" or just a figurehead to balance an electoral ticket.

[darklordoftech]

I think HW was very relevant to Reagan.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Garret Hobart, William McKinley's first VP.

He was the first VP to have an office. That didn't happen again until Walter Mondale!

[OSR stands with Israel]

Richard Nixon

[Blue3]

Biden was a top advisor.

[Mr. Smith]

Nixon, Mondale

[Very Legal & Very Cool]

Pretty much every post-war VP has been very relevant. Mondale being the least relevant, but party to the least relevant President at the same time

[pops]

Pence, H.W., Wallace, Sherman

I was going to hit the whole premise of this topic until I looked back to see many non-influential VPs

[Very Legal & Very Cool]

Pence, H.W., Wallace, Sherman

I was going to hit the whole premise of this topic until I looked back to see many non-influential VPs

I don't even know who Sherman is but how did you not consider Agnew, Nixon, and Biden above Wallace? And that's discounting VPs who ascended to president such as LBJ and Ford.

[President Johnson]

Couple I think of:

- Alben Barkley helped President Truman in congress.
- Richard Nixon made the vice presidency more influencal.
- Lyndon Johnson oversaw the space program, but his legislative skills weren't used by JFK
- Walter Mondale became a key advisor
- Same with Poppy under Reagan, Al Gore and of course Joe Biden.

[dw93]

Nixon, Mondale, Bush, Gore, and Biden were all relevant/influential in the administrations that they served in. Pence seems more like a Dan Quayle type, in a sense that he's just a loyal stooge.

[Storr]

Nixon, Mondale, Bush, Gore, and Biden were all relevant/influential in the administrations that they served in. Pence seems more like a Dan Quayle type, in a sense that he's just a loyal stooge.

He doesn't seem like a complete idiot like Quayle, at least. But, you never know when you will forget how to spell potato.

[Frodo]

John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Alan Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson.

Though to be fair all of those listed only became relevant when the President died in office either due to natural causes or because of assassination. 

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Martin van Buren and Garret Hobart are examples of influential Veeps in the era the office was considered mostly a minor, honorary post.

Thomas Marshall made some important, lasting contributions as Senate President, but as a part of the administration he was isolated from Wilson. George M. Dallas worked hard to support Polk's agenda in Senate, but they had a falling out at some point, burying Dallas' aspirations to succeed Polk.

[Del Tachi]

Pretty much every post-war VP has been very relevant. Mondale being the least relevant, but party to the least relevant President at the same time

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Nixon, Mondale, Bush, Gore, and Biden were all relevant/influential in the administrations that they served in. Pence seems more like a Dan Quayle type, in a sense that he's just a loyal stooge.

He doesn't seem like a complete idiot like Quayle, at least. But, you never know when you will forget how to spell potato.

http://time.com/15556/barack-obama-aretha-franklin-respect/

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Van Buren is the obvious answer. Calhoun was "relevant," I suppose, in the sense that his scheming was a major problem for Jackson during his first term. Nixon probably belongs on the list, too.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

LBJ and GHW Bush was key to helping the South get behind Kennedy & Reagan, Hollywood elites. Other than those three, the others like Teddy, Coolidge and Truman ascended to presidency

[Orser67]

Pretty much every VP starting with John Nance Garner has been relevant, but the VP really became an important institution during Walter Mondale's time in office. Since then, the VP has pretty much always served as an important adviser, public spokesman, and/or legislative liaison for the president. Though Dan Quayle stands out as being a fairly unimportant VP.

[ingemann]

Biden seem to have been the work horse of Obama Administration, but on the other side he seem to have had few visions or goals of his own, that he wanted to implement.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Yes, many of them were, especially since Mondale.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Pretty much every post-war VP has been very relevant. Mondale being the least relevant, but party to the least relevant President at the same time

The bolded is blatantly false.