Vice President Dick Cheney is sworn in as President.
The order of Succession
The United States presidential line of succession
The term that describes something occurring later or after in an order of succession is "subsequent." It refers to events, actions, or items that follow another in time or sequence.
Order of succession.
presidential succession is the order in which the office of president is to be filled
The order of succession for the presidency according to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 is as follows: Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President pro tempore of the Senate, and then the Cabinet members in the order of their department's establishment.
The Speaker Of The House
The order of succession to the Presidency is stated in the US constitution; you might say, therefore, that it was started by the Founding Fathers (and probably James Madison in particular, since he was particularly involved in the writing the constitution).
When Aesop refers to something happening "in succession," he means that events or actions are occurring one after another, in a continuous sequence. This phrase implies a chain of occurrences happening in a specific order without interruption.
The world
Presidential succession is the order in which one person follows another chronologically in the Office of the President.
Anne, Princess Royal is currently tenth in the line of succession to the British throne.