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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.
Had Johnson also been killed, Senate President pro tempore Lafayette S. Foster would have become acting president. [14] In 1868, after President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives, the Senate came one vote short of removing Johnson from office in his impeachment trial.
The vice president immediately assumes the presidency in the event of the death, resignation, or removal of the president from office. Likewise, were a president-elect to die during the transition period, or decline to serve, the vice president-elect would become president on Inauguration Day. A vice president can also become the acting ...
Vice President-elect JD Vance resigned his U.S. Senate seat as he and President-elect Donald Trump prepare to take office. Vance, who has served in the Senate since early 2023, resigned around two ...
CLEVELAND — Vice President-elect JD Vance resigned his Senate seat at midnight Thursday, clearing the way for his swearing-in alongside President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20. Vance, R-Ohio ...
Republican Vice President-elect JD Vance said on Thursday he will resign from his U.S. Senate seat from Ohio at midnight ahead of his inauguration later this month. U.S. President-elect Donald ...
President Bill Clinton (right) and President-elect George W. Bush (left) meet in the Oval Office of the White House as part of the presidential transition. The 2000–01 transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush was shortened by several weeks due to the Florida recount crisis that ended after the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Bush v.
Donald Trump takes a selfie with then-Rep. Matt Gaetz in the House chamber after Trump’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on January 30, 2018.