Dorothy Walters, age 13, of Ardmore, Okla., for her question:

WHO WAS THE OLDEST U.S VICE PRESIDENT?

Oldest Vice President of the United States was Alben W. Barkley. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1927 until 1949. Then, at the age of 71, he became Vice President when Harry S Truman was elected President.

Barkley served as Vice President until he was 75 years old, and then in 1954, at the age of 76, he was again elected senator from Kentucky.

Youngest Vice President of the United States was also born in Kentucky. At the age of only 36 in 1857, John C. Breckinridge became Vice President under James Buchanan, and he served in office until 1861.

In 1851, at the age of 30, he had been elected to the U.S. Congress as a Democratic representative from Kentucky.