US Code as of: 01/23/00
The current law preserves the tradition of ranking the Cabinet departments by the year they were founded.
The line of succession is currently:
1. Vice President
2. Speaker of the House
3. President Pro Tempore of the Senate
4. Secretary of State
5. Secretary of the Treasury
6. Secretary of Defense
7. Attorney General
8. Secretary of the Interior
9. Secretary of Agriculture
10. Secretary of Commerce
11. Secretary of Labor
12. Secretary of Health and Human Services
13. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
14. Secretary of Transportation
15. Secretary of Energy
16. Secretary of Education
17. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
18. Secretary of Homeland Security
Article 2, section 1, of the Constitution of the United States of America allows the Vice President to take the duties, but not the office, of President. The twenty-Fifth Amendment to the same allows the Vice President to take office, and allows the President to temporarily give up his powers, and later retake them, and allows the Vice President and Cabinet to collectively temporarily remove the President, and Title 3 of the United States Code, section 19 specifies an order of succession for the cases where the President and Vice President are both unable to serve. Despite common belief, neither the Constitution nor the twenty-fifth Amendment allows the Speaker of the House or the President pro tempore of the Senate to take office.
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The purpose of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 was it made it law for the Presidentâ??s cabinet members to assume presidential duties in the event the President and Vice President cannot perform them as a result of death, impeachment or resignation.
Presidential succession (other than the Vice President) is ordered by laws passed by Congress. Laws that established or re-sequenced the line of succession include: Presidential Succession Act (1792) - Senate president pro tempore and House speaker next in line Presidential Succession Act (1886) - Cabinet replaced legislative successors Presidential Succession Act (1947) - re-added Speaker/president pro tempore in reverse order Postal Reorganization Act (1970) - removed Postmaster General Renewal of the Patriot Act (2006) - added Secretary of Homeland Security -
If you are talking about who succeeds the President in office, then the phrase commonly used would be "succession order," which was established in 1947 when President Harry S. Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act.
20 amendment There have been no Amendments altering Presidential Succession after the Vice President. That is set by Act of Congress. The only Amendments affecting Presidential Succession are the 20th, which provides for the Vice-President-elect to become President should a President-elect die before inauguration, and the 25th, which allows a new Vice-President to be appointed should that office fall vacant.The presidential succession Act of 1947
B. Presidential Succession Act.
The Presidential Succession Act of 1947. This gives clear order to who would become president if the President and Vice President where to die or be incapacitated and unable to perform the duties of president.