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Who started the tradition of the vice president becoming the president when something happens to the president?
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∙ 12y ago
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).
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