Because most of these vice presidents are virtually forgotten today and yet were very prominent and important figures in their time, I have subtitled the book: Our Forgotten Leaders. In each biographical sketch, the reader will learn about the childhood and youth of the subject, his educational background, his marraige and family life, his career before becoming vice president, his vicepresidency and his life after leaving office.
Philip Secor, the author of a companion book, “Presidential Profiles
” (2008), is the author of other works on a variety of historical subjects. Holding a PhD from Duke University, he has taught at Duke and Dickinson, Davidson and Muhlenberg Colleges and has been Dean at Muhlenberg and President of Cornell College.