Office Current officer   1 Vice President of the United States Mike Pence (R) EC 2 Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R) RC 3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R) LDS 4 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R) C 5 Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R) J 6 Secretary of Defense James Mattis (R) ?? 7 Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R) UM 8 Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (R L 9 Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (R) B
RC=Roman Catholicism:	Orders from Rome could take precedence	(as claimed in 2012 by GOP candidate Rick Santorum and others [cf])
J=Judaism	Orders from Israel could take precedence	(as indicated by then GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor [cf])
LDS=Latter-Day Saints (Morman)	-	-
EC=Evangelical Christian	-	-
C=Christian	-	-
B=Baptist	-	-
L=Lutheran	-	-
UM=United Methodist)	-	-
??=No identifiable religion	-	-