How many US Vice Presidents have been bachelors?

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Just one: William Rufus de Vane King. King, the 13th vice president, died [on April 18, 1853] of tuberculosis six weeks after being inaugurated. He was the nation’s only bachelor vice president. Buchanan wrote in 1844, after King left for France, "I am now 'solitary and alone,' having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection." Such expression, however, was not unusual amongst men at the time. Though the circumstances surrounding Buchanan and King have led authors such as Paul Boller to speculate that Buchanan was "America's first homosexual president," there is little evidence that he and King had a sexual relationship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._King http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/12/17/gov-crist-would-not-be-first-bachelor-vice-president/ Jul 05 08, 5:24 AM