Who is next in line if President dies?

The United States Presidential in line is the order in which government officials replace the president of the United States if the president leaves office before an elected successor is inaugurated. If the president dies, resigns or is removed from office, the vice president becomes president for the rest of the term.
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What is the order of succession if the president dies?

Order of Presidential Succession

Vice President. Speaker of the House. President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Secretary of State.
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Who is 4th in line for president?

If the President were to resign or die, the Secretary of State is fourth in line of succession after the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the President pro tempore of the Senate.
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Which President had 15 children?

Genealogy of John Tyler and his Descendants

John Tyler was the most prolific of all American President: he had 15 children and two wives. In 1813, Tyler married Letitia Christian, the daughter of a Virginia planter.
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Who is 15th in line for President?

Secretary of Energy

The secretary of energy is fifteenth in line for the presidency.
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Who becomes president if the president and vice president are removed from office?

If the president dies, resigns or is removed from office, the vice president becomes president for the rest of the term. If the vice president is unable to serve, the Speaker of the House acts as president.
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Has a vice president ever been removed from office?

No United States vice president has been impeached.
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Who Cannot be impeached?

Edmond v. United States, 520 U.S. 651, 663 (1997). Assuming this line of cases serves as a guide in deciding who is a civil officer subject to impeachment, it appears that employees, as non-officers, are not subject to impeachment, while principal officers, such as the head of a cabinet-level Executive department, are.
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Can a president switch vice presidents?

Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
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Can they fire a vice president?

1 Overview of Impeachment Clause. Article II, Section 4: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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Can a president serve 3 terms?

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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Who becomes the 16th president?

The biography for President Lincoln and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
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Who is the oldest running president?

The youngest to become president by election was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated at age 43. The oldest person to assume the presidency was Joe Biden, the nation's current president, who was inaugurated 61 days after turning 78.
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Who is underneath the president?

The Cabinet includes the Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments — the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the ...
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Who was the only US President who never married?

Tall, stately, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married. Presiding over a rapidly dividing Nation, Buchanan grasped inadequately the political realities of the time.
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Who becomes the 17th President?

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was an American politician and tailor who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time.
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Who was the 17th President?

With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views.
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How did FDR serve 4 terms?

FDR was able to win a fourth term as president thanks to the U.S. being in the middle of a massive war. FDR passed away in 1945, in the middle of his fourth term, and was succeeded by Vice President Harry Truman. Many people decided that there needed to be term limits placed on presidents.
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What is the max a President can serve?

The amendment caps the service of a president at 10 years. If a person succeeds to the office of president without election and serves less than two years, he may run for two full terms; otherwise, a person succeeding to office of president can serve no more than a single elected term.
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Who takes over if a president is impeached?

In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
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Is it illegal to threaten vice president?

Threatening the government officials of the United States is a felony under federal law. Threatening the president of the United States is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 871, punishable by up to 5 years of imprisonment, that is investigated by the United States Secret Service.
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Which presidents have been impeached?

Three United States presidents have been impeached, although none were convicted: Andrew Johnson was in 1868, Bill Clinton was in 1998, and Donald Trump twice, in 2019 and 2021.
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What president had 2 vice presidents?

Most vice presidents have been in their 50s or 60s and had political experience prior to assuming the office. Two vice presidents—George Clinton and John C. Calhoun—served under more than one president.
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