Aaron Young

Aaron Jay Young (born November 20, 1963) is an American politician who served as the 51st Vice President of the United States from 2014 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Young served as the U.S. Representative from District 1 from 2013 to 2015 and from 2009 to 2011, serving briefly as acting speaker during the leave of absence of Jeb Hernandez. From 2012 to 2013, he served as the Hodges administration as the 49th United States Secretary of the Interior.

After returning to the House of Representatives following a failed presidential campaign in the 2012 Democratic primaries, Young was nominated to serve as vice president upon Mike Gravel's ascension to the presidency on January 20, 2015. Upon leaving office, Young mostly returned to private life but decided to return to electoral politics when he announced his candidacy for president in the 2016 primaries, which would be unsuccessful. In 2020, he announced his intention to run for the House seat he had held for nearly five years.