Several
United States
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vice presidents
A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on t ...
have borne a
coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its ...
; largely through inheritance, assumption, or grants from foreign
heraldic authorities
A heraldic authority is defined as an office or institution which has been established by a reigning monarch or a government to deal with heraldry in the country concerned. It does not include private societies or enterprises which design and/or ...
. The vice president of the United States, as a position, uses the
Seal of the Vice President of the United States
The seal of the vice president of the United States is used to mark correspondence from the U.S. vice president to other members of government, and is also used as a symbol of the vice presidency. The central design, directly based on the seal of ...
as a coat of arms, but this is a coat of arms of office, not a personal coat of arms.
Arms of vice presidents
References
Further reading
* Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company (Philadelphia, Pa.). ''Alphabetical List of Coat Armour As Borne by Americans of the Colonial Period, and by Late Settlers in the United States and the Dominion of Canada, of Authenticated Armiger Ancestry: The Arms on Display, and Catalogued Herein, Represent Those so Far Completed in a Collection Which, We Anticipate, Will Eventually Total in Excess of Five Thousand Coats of Arms''. Philadelphia: Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co, 1910.
* Crozier, William Armstrong. ''Crozier's General Armory; A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor''. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1966.
* Matthews, John. ''Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book''. New York: Crest Pub. Co, 1962.
* Neff, Elizabeth Clifford. ''Heraldry''. Cleveland, Ohio: Korner & Wood Co, 1910.
* Valcourt-Vermont, E. de. ''America Heraldica: A Compilation of Coats of Arms, Crests and Mottoes of Prominent American Families Settled in This Country Before 1800''. New York, N.Y.: Heraldic Pub. Co, 1965.
* Zieber, Eugene. ''Rules for the Proper Usage of Heraldry in the United States''. Philadelphia: Department of heraldry of the Bailey, Banks & Biddle company, 1890.
* Zieber, Eugene. ''Heraldry in America''. Philadelphia : Department of Heraldry of the Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., 1895. Reprint: Zieber, Eugene. ''Heraldry in America: A Guide with 1000 Illustrations''. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2006.
External links
American Heraldry SocietyThe Institute of Heraldry Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army
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Vice Presidents
A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on t ...
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
Coats of arms