Editing Daniel D. Tompkins (section)

==Vice presidency (1817–1825)==
Many New York Democratic-Republicans supported Tompkins for president in the 1816 presidential election, but James Monroe received the party's nomination.<ref name=senate/> Tompkins was instead elected vice president as Monroe's running mate. Tompkins [[1820 United States presidential election|was re-elected in 1820]]. He served from March 4, 1817, to March 4, 1825. In April 1820, while serving as vice president, he ran for Governor of New York against incumbent DeWitt Clinton. Tompkins lost, 45,900 votes to 47,447. He was a delegate to the 1821 [[New York State Constitutional Convention]], serving as its president.<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle= Tompkins, Daniel D.|volume=26|noprescript=1 }}</ref>
When Tompkins became vice president, he was in poor health, due to a fall from a horse on November 3, 1814. His finances were also quite poor. During the War of 1812, he had personally financed New York's war effort with borrowed money, but did not adequately document his expenses. Both the New York legislature and the federal government refused him full reimbursement. He also slipped into [[alcoholism]]. With poor physical and financial health, Tompkins spent much of his vice presidency outside of [[Washington, D.C.]], and made for a poor presiding officer of the Senate while it debated the [[Missouri Compromise]] in 1820. In 1823, Tompkins finally won compensation from the federal government, but he continued to drink heavily and was unable to resolve his business affairs.<ref name=senate/>