Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1919 — Presidential Succession. [ARTICLE]

Presidential Succession.

Members of the cabinet are In line to the succession, if they can comply with the Constitutional requirements, which provide that: “No person ex- ! cept a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president.” What is called the presidential act, passed tn 1886, provides for the succession to the presidency by cabinet officers in the following order: Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, secretary of the Interior, secretary of agriculture, secretary of commerce, secretary of labor. A person not bom in this country may be a member of the president’s cabinet, but he is not eligible to the presidency, being barred by the Constitutional provision quoted above.