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Who shall officiate when a president is tried for impeachment?

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August 30, 2010

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Hi northcuttx,
The United States presidential line of succession defines who may become or act as President of the United States upon the incapacity, death, resignation, or removal from office (by impeachment and subsequent conviction) of a sitting president or a president-elect. [Source:Wikipedia]

The first Presidential Succession Act, passed in 1792, provided that after the President and Vice President, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate would serve as President. If there was no President Pro Tempore of the Senate at the time, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives would serve. The line of succession would then proceed through the cabinet officers in the order their departments were created. That would have been State, Treasury, War, Attorney General, and so on.

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