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Political Factoid
2025 Presidential line of succession:
(and implications of potential religious control)
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Office |
Current officer |
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| 1 |
Vice President of the United States |
JD Vance (R) |
RC |
| 2 |
Speaker of the House |
Mike Johnson (R) |
SB |
| 3 |
President pro tempore of the Senate |
Chuck Grassley (R) |
B |
| 4 |
Secretary of State |
Marco Rubio (R) |
RC |
| 5 |
Secretary of the Treasury |
Scott Bessent (R) |
FH |
| 6 |
Secretary of Defense |
Pete Hegseth (R) |
CN-1 |
| 7 |
Attorney General |
Pam Bondi (R) |
CN2 |
| 8 |
Secretary of the Interior |
Doug Bergman (R) |
?? |
| 9 |
Secretary of Agriculture |
Brooke L. Rollins (R) |
?? |
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| B=Baptist |
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- |
| CN=Christian Nationalist |
Other religions considered un‑American and frowned upon |
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| CN1=Christian Nationalist |
- Christian Revolutionist |
- |
| CN2=Christian Nationalist |
- New Apostolic Reformation |
- |
| FH=French Hugeuenot Church of Charleston |
- |
| RC=Roman Catholicism: |
Orders from Rome could take precedence |
(as claimed in 2012 by GOP candidate Rick Santorum and others [cf]) |
| SB=Southern Baptist |
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| cf. |
6390,
5100,
4663,
453,
5009,
4573,
20136,
4819,
4935,
4750,
4583,
2049,
4473,
4505
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