William King: the only vice president who came into office as a bachelor, this single minx clearly favored trendy emo hairdos and couldn’t be tamed during his 45 days in office … before dying of tuberculosis.

Levi Parsons Morton (©Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Is it hot in here or is it just Levi Parsons Morton? Morton was very popular in France, no doubt because of his raw sexual charisma. He even helped bang the first rivet into the Statue of Liberty.

John Tyler: Don’t let the prim expression fool you, Tyler was a serious stud: this randy second in command fathered 15 children, the youngest of which came along when he was 70 years old.

Hannibal Hamlin(© Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hannibal Hamlin’s personal life was quite the soap opera. After first wife Sarah died in 1855, he married her half-sister Emily a year later. Irresistible.

Charles Warren Fairbanks (©Library of Congress)

Charles Warren Fairbanks started a spicy workplace romance, marrying his college newspaper co-editor after graduation. Things probably would have heated up sooner if he had trimmed that mustache.

John Cabell Breckinridge (© Encyclopaedia Britannica/UIG Via Getty Images)

John Cabell Breckinridge: Yowza! Feast your eyes on our nation’s youngest ever vice president. This hottie was barely legal, elected while meeting the minimum age requirement of 35 years old.

Photo of Albert Gallatin (VicePresidents.com)

Albert Gallatin (unsuccessfully ran for VP): Got a thing for bad boys? Gallatin not only ran away from his Geneva school as a teen, he eloped with his landlady’s hot young daughter when he got to the states. Total. Ladykiller.

John C. Calhoun (©National Portrait Gallery)

John C. Calhoun was one kinky dude, marrying his own first cousin once removed, named Floride. Floride started the “Petticoat Affair” by slut-shaming a widow who re-married too soon.

Calvin Coolidge, a vice president under Warren Harding, seduced his wife without even trying, she fell in love when she saw him through a window wearing nothing but a hat and some skimpy long underwear. Can you blame her?

Seventy-one-year-old Ablen Barkley shocked a pre-Viagra America when he married a 38-year-old babe while in office

Nelson Rockefeller is believed to have sexed himself to death while giving an aide some personal attention at the office.

Aaron Burr is known as a fighter, but he was also a lover: some historians believe he had two love-children with a hot wench who served him in Albany-- while he was married to another woman!

The 12 sexiest vice presidents in American history

10/11/2012

Editor's note: In anticipation of tonight's vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan, we've elected to republish this photo gallery of American history's hunkiest veeps, first published back in August. Enjoy!

When choosing a running mate, there’s one criterion the best presidential candidates cannot overlook: sexiness. Any president will tell you, a good vice president should be able to make approval ratings soar and panties drop, especially during an election year. If you’re going to convince people to put you one heartbeat away from the Presidency, it helps to be a heart throb. America’s history is riddled with vice presidents who were frankly foxy sex machines, exuding a certain raw heat that no electorate could deny. Don’t believe us? Check out this gallery of some of the most saucy, sex-mad XXX-rated Veeps that have ever served these United States.

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