Skip to main content

Sage Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > American politics and society > United States Presidency > united states vice presidency > presidential succession

Preferred term

presidential succession  

Definition

  • The sequence of leaders who assume the office of the presidency should that office become vacant. Fifty-two years elapsed between the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and the first vacancy in the presidency in 1841, when William Henry Harrison died shortly after his inauguration. [Source: Student's Guide to the Presidency; Presidential Succession]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/presidential_succession

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD