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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.
Section 2 provides a mechanism for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. Before the Twenty-fifth Amendment, a vice-presidential vacancy continued until a new vice president took office at the start of the next presidential term; the vice presidency had become vacant several times due to death, resignation, or succession to the presidency, and these vacancies had often lasted several years.
Served after being vice president 1845–1850 Served after being vice president. Died in office Tennessee: Andrew Johnson: 1857–1862 1875 Served after being vice president. Died in office Al Gore: 1985–1993 Resigned to become vice president Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson: 1949–1961 Senate minority leader 1953–1955 Senate majority leader 1955 ...
The length of a full four-year term of office for a vice president of the United States usually amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates, which counts the number of calendar days except the first day (day zero). If the first day ...
The Presidential Succession Act of 1792 (Full text ), sections 9 and 10 of a larger act regarding the election of the president and vice president, provided that the president pro tempore of the Senate would be first in line for the presidency should the offices of the president and the vice president both be vacant.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is deep in campaign mode. The three-term mayor, whose name is being floated as a possible Democratic candidate for Michigan governor, knows the value of his and his ...
DETROIT — The voice of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick now fills Michigan’s airwaves, praising the man who freed him from prison: former President Donald Trump.. The one-minute spot, paid ...
Detroit's first Black mayor took office 50 years ago in January. One off-the-cuff line in his inaugural speech has been debated ever since. Flashback: What Coleman Young really meant when he said ...