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The Vice President of the United States of America becomes the President upon the death, resignation, or removal by impeachment of the former President. Should the Vice President be unable to assume the Presidency, next in line is the [Speaker of the House of Representatives]?, followed the [President Pro Tempore]? of the United States Senate. |
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The Vice President of the United States of America becomes the President upon the death, resignation, or removal by impeachment of the former President. Should the Vice President be unable to assume the Presidency, next in line is the [Speaker of the House of Representatives]?, followed by the [President Pro Tempore]? of the United States Senate. (If none of these individuals is able to become president, succession proceeds through the Cabinet.) |
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# [John C. Calhoun]? (1825-1832) |
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# [John C. Calhoun]? (1825-1832). Calhoun resigned the vice presidency to take a seat in the Senate, having been chosen to fill a vacancy. |
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# ... ... :Richard M. Nixon (1953-1961) :[Lyndon B. Johnson]? (1961-1963) :[Hubert H. Humphrey]? (1965-1969) :[Spiro Agnew]? (1969-1973) :Gerald R. Ford (1973-1974) :Nelson A. Rockefeller (1974-1977) :[Walter Mondale]? (1977-1981) :George Bush (1981-1989) :J. Danforth Quayle (1989-1993) :Albert Gore) (1993-2001) :Richard Cheney (2001-present) |
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# [George M. Dallas]? (1845-1849) # Millard Fillmore (1849-1850). Fillmore succeeded to the presidency after Zachary Taylor died in office. # [William R. King]? (1853). Died in office. # [John C. Breckenridge]? (1857-1861) # Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865) # Andrew Johnson (1865). Johnson became president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. # [Schulyer Colfax]? (1869-1873) # [Henry Wilson]? (1873-1875). Died in office. # [William A. Wheeler]? (1877-1881. # Chester Arthur (1881). Arthur succeeded to the presidency after Garfield was assassinated. # [Thomas A. Hendrick]? (1885). Died in office. # [Levi P. Morton]? (1889-1893). # [Adlai E. Stevenson]? (1893-1897) # [Garret A. Hobart]? (1897-1899). Died in office. # Theodore Roosevelt (1901). Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency after William McKinley was assassinated. # [Charles W. Fairbanks]? (1905-1909) # [James S. Sherman]? (1909-1912). Died in office. # Thomas R. Marshall (1913-1921) # Calvin Coolidge (1921-1923). Coolidge succeeded to the presidency at the death of [Warren Harding]?. # [Charles G. Dawes]? (1925-1929) # [Charles Curtis]? (1929-1933) # [John N. Garner]? (1933-1941) # [Henry A. Wallace]? (1941-1945 # Harry Truman (1945). Truman succeeded to the presidency at the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. # [Alben W. Barkley]? (1949-1953 # Richard M. Nixon (1953-1961) # Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1963) Johnson succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. # [Hubert Humphrey]? (1965-1969) # [Spiro Agnew]? (1969-1973) Agnew resigned while under investigation for accepting bribes in his previous position as governor of Maryland. # Gerald R. Ford (1973-1974) Appointed to replace Agnew, Ford succeeded to the presidency at the resignation of Richard Nixon. # Nelson A. Rockefeller (1974-1977) # [Walter Mondale]? (1977-1981) # George Bush (1981-1989) # J. Danforth Quayle (1989-1993) # Albert Gore (1993-2001) # Richard Cheney (2001-present) |
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