Glenn Vance

President Margaret Spellings?

Ha! Just kid­ding! Mar­garet Spellings is the cur­rent Sec­re­tary of Edu­ca­tion and isn’t pres­i­dent. Come on, silly, what were you thinking?

So…how does the Sec­re­tary of Edu­ca­tion skip all of that run­ning for Pres­i­dent and the elec­tion and just become Pres­i­dent of the United States? Why, have every­one in front of you in the line of pres­i­den­tial suc­ces­sion die! Want to know the cur­rent line of suc­ces­sion?¹ Well, here it is -

1. Vice Pres­i­dent of the United States and Pres­i­dent of the Senate
2. Speaker of the House of Representatives
3. Pres­i­dent of the Sen­ate pro tem­pore²
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 Secu­rity³

1. I got this list from info­please. [↩]
2. The Pres­i­dent of the Sen­ate pro tem­pore is the second-highest-ranking offi­cial of the United States Sen­ate and the highest-ranking sen­a­tor. The cur­rent Pres­i­dent of the Sen­ate pro tem­pore is Sen­a­tor Robert Byrd (D-West Vir­ginia). [↩]
3. On March 9, 2006, Pres­i­dent George W. Bush signed HR 3199 which renewed the Patriot Act and amended the Pres­i­den­tial Suc­ces­sion Act to include the Sec­re­tary of Home­land Secu­rity in the line of suc­ces­sion after the Sec­re­tary of Vet­er­ans Affairs. [↩]

16. July 2007 by Glenn Vance
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