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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday announced his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, will replace Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate. Husted, 57, will serve until a special election in ...
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the vice president) upon an elected president's death, resignation, removal from office, or incapacity.
Vance will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, just two years after he took the oath of office for his first Senate term. At 40 years old, he will be one of the youngest vice presidents in American history .
The United States Senate career of JD Vance began on January 3, 2023, and ended on January 10, 2025. A member of the Republican Party from the state of Ohio, Vance previously served in the United States Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007. He resigned his seat in the U.S. Senate upon being elected Vice President of the United States.
Vance is the second Catholic vice president, after Joe Biden. [156] Among Vance's first acts as vice president was swearing in Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the first of Trump's cabinet nominees to be approved by Congress, on January 21. [157] On January 24, he cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. [158]
The next vice president of the United States will be a senator from Ohio. Former president Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance edged out Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the ...
A special election to fill the remainder of the term is then held concurrently with that regular state election, which in this case would be the one on November 3, 2026. [2] [3] Governor Mike DeWine chose Jon Husted to replace Vance in the Senate. This will be the first U.S. Senate special election in Ohio since the one to this seat in 1954.
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is now set to take the country’s second-highest office in January. After the Republican leaves his Ohio Senate seat vacant, there is state protocol for how his ...