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Inventing “The Veep”

  • April 18, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The first U.S. vice president to be known as “the Veep” was Alben W. Barkley, who served under President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953. His young grandson came up with the nickname, and when Barkley told the press the story, the name stuck.

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