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presidential succession  

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  • 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]

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