What is the presidential line of succession? The Presidential Succession Act states that a sitting president may be replaced ...

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 ...

This provision, side by side with the Twentieth and Twenty-fifth Amendments, is a major anchor for presidential succession in the United States ... to establish a line of succession beyond ...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) resumed the role of Senate president pro tempore. The person who is the longest-serving senator in the majority party holds that position. Grassley was sworn in ...

At age 40, a relative newcomer who made his name on the campaign trail for his fierce attacks on Democrats is first in the ...

Hundreds of people were packed into the Capitol Rotunda on Monday for President Donald J. Trump's second inauguration, making him the 47th president of the United ... in the line of succession ...

The 47th US President laments that the 'line of succession' prohibits him from making the first Indian-American and Hindu ...

A combination of harsh weather and delay in individual states choosing electors pushed the inauguration to April 30, 1789. At ...

The original Presidential Succession Clause of the Constitution ... Issues of Inability and Disability in Presidents to the United States (James F. Toole and Robert J. Joint eds., ...