Presidential succession following a chief executive’s demise, resignation or removal from office is not just a conceptual process. Since the start of the republic, ...

1947 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, changing the line of succession to vice president, then speaker of the House, then Senate president pro tempore.

The Presidential Succession "It has of late, Mr. President, become fashionable to attach very little importance to the office of Vice President; to consider it a matter but of small consequence ...

In a letter to President Biden, 30 Republican senators blasted the administration's decision to add acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su to the presidential line of succession.

Under the current presidential succession structure, if Donald Trump were impeached and removed from office, Mike Pence would replace him. But if the election had been stolen, ...

The United States has a determined hierarchy for the presidential line of succession. If the elected president dies, resigns, is temporarily incapacitated, or is removed from office, the office of ...

Feinstein, 89, also would be third in the line of presidential succession, behind the vice president and the speaker of the House. But she has decided that the pro tem position is not for her.

Debate about presidential succession is as old as the nation itself, and there’s no letup. “The terms of succession also create the very instability they’re meant to prohibit,” said ...

The importance of settling remaining issues pertaining to presidential succession can hardly be overstated. Of 45 prior presidents, nine failed to complete their term: ...

In a bid to strengthen governmental resilience, Sen. Panfilo Lacson introduced a new bill to ensure that the Philippines ...

Under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, if the U.S. president and vice president both die, become incapacitated or otherwise leave office, the House speaker is next in the line of ...