<Li> Levi P. Morton, vice president under Benjamin Harrison, was elected Governor of New York after leaving office . </Li> <Li> Adlai Stevenson I was narrowly defeated for Governor of Illinois in 1908 . </Li> <Li> Richard Nixon unsuccessfully sought the governorship of California in 1962, nearly two years after leaving office as vice president and just over six years before becoming president . </Li> <Li> Walter Mondale ran unsuccessfully for president in 1984, served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996, and then sought unsuccessfully to return to the Senate in 2002 . </Li>

The vise president has power under the constitution but recent vice presidents have had power