BREAKING NEWS: Plane carrying Polish president crashes in Russia | Mail Online

Plane carrying Polish president crashes in Russia | Mail Online
A nation in mourning: As news of the tragic plane crash spread, Poles gathered at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw to pay their respects

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This sad news made most of us pause for more than a moment and collectively ponder, "What if that happened here?"

Scary thought isn't it! Scary for the country, look at the line of succession!

This is a list of the current presidential line of succession,^[1] as specified by the United States Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. § 19) and subsequent amendments to include newly created cabinet officers.

#	Office	Current Officer
1	Vice President	Joe Biden
2	Speaker of the House	Nancy Pelosi
3	President pro tempore of the Senate	Robert Byrd
4	Secretary of State	Hillary Clinton
5	Secretary of the Treasury	Timothy Geithner
6	Secretary of Defense	Robert Gates[2]
7	Attorney General	Eric Holder
8	Secretary of the Interior	Ken Salazar
9	Secretary of Agriculture	Tom Vilsack
10	Secretary of Commerce	Gary Locke
11	Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis
12	Secretary of Health and Human Services	Kathleen Sebelius
13	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan
14	Secretary of Transportation	Ray LaHood
15	Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu
16	Secretary of Education	Arne Duncan
17	Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Eric Shinseki
18	Secretary of Homeland Security	Janet Napolitano