If you're suddenly curious as to who becomes president in case President Donald Trump resigns, dies, or is impeached, take a look at the 18 people in line for succession.

Under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate’s president pro tempore follow right after the vice president in the line of succession ...

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.

In 1946, President Harry Truman, who had recently taken a dangerous trip to Potsdam with his secretary of state and was aware that with no vice president the line of succession was thin, pushed ...

If the president and vice president were to be incapacitated, the U.S. Constitution states that Congress should name an "officer" to assume the presidency. At a joint hearing conducted by the ...

Presidential Line of Succession Changes By Susan Davis June 28, 2010 3:06 pm ET Resize ...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will be the Democrats’ longest-serving U.S. senator next year, but will not become president pro tem. J. Scott Applewhite AP file This could have been the line ...

Feinstein, 89, also would be third in the line of presidential succession, behind the vice president and the speaker of the House. But she has decided that the pro tem position is not for her.

The assassination of such a young and vital man as John F. Kennedy tragically demonstrates the great vulnerability of the President of the United States. For the fourth time this century, a ...

In the first mode, the vice president "shall act' as president, says the Charter. In the second, the VP "shall become" the president, it says.

The original Presidential Succession Clause of the Constitution (Article II, Section 1, Clause 6) appeared to be relatively simple in providing for succession to the presidency. There were ...