Democratic (constitutionalist) President Cleveland signs the Presidential Succession Act of 1886, removing the President pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the line of presidential succession, and replacing them with the Cabinet Secretaries, the order of their department’s creation: State, Treasury, Attorney General, War, Postmaster General, Interior and Agriculture.
[restored 5/14/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article II, Section 1 [Clause 6]
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Presidential Succession Act of 1886, 24 Public Statutes at Large 1 (1886).
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 228.
Presidential Succession Act – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act
Current U.s. National Debt:
