United States presidential 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[2] as subsequently amended to include newly created cabinet offices.
;Political parties
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Legend	Republican
Legend	Democratic
# 	Office 	Current Officer
 	President of the United States 	Barack Obama
1 	Vice President of the United States 	Joe Biden
2 	Speaker of the House 	John Boehner
3 	President pro tempore of the Senate 	Daniel Inouye
4 	Secretary of State 	Hillary Rodham Clinton
5 	Secretary of the Treasury 	Timothy Geithner
6 	Secretary of Defense 	Robert Gates*
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
*Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, has not registered in any political party but is considered to be a Republican.[3]