Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1899 — Death of the Vice President. [ARTICLE]

Death of the Vice President.

Vice President (jarrett A. Hobart, died Tuesday morning, after a long sickness. He was a good, true and able man, in every sense of the words, and in every relation and position in life. He is the sixth of our vice presidents to die in office. His death brings to public attention again the question of a successor to the President in case of his death or other disability. The law names in the line of succession the various cabinet officers, in this order: Secretary of state, secretary of treasury, secretary of war, attorney general, postmaster general, secretary of the navy, secretary of the interior.