The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the next in line of succession.
Because if the President elect is shot or killed before sworn in the vice President will be able to take the place as President.
No. In the event that the president and vice president are both killed, the 3rd in command is the speaker of the house. When a president and vice president leave the white house after their term(s), the president elect has already selected his running mate, who becomes the vice president after the inauguration.
The Vice President could become Acting President in the event of Presidential disability, and there is no codified term. A new Vice President would not be nominated. Should the Vice President succeed to the Presidency, then he would serve out the remainder of that President's term, and a new Vice President would ordinarily be nominated to fill the Vice President's unexpired term.
if the vice president died the president would remain the same....
The president would remain president.
He was Vice President and Roosevelt died in office.
John Boehner
The Speaker of the House in Congress
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the next in line of succession.
Vice President Andrew Johnson nor Lyndon B. Johnson were not killed
So that if one location was attacked and the President was killed, then the Vice-President would still be alive and able to run the country.
If both of them are killed at the same time then speaker of the house becomes president
The Vice president.
The SECRETARY OF STATE would take over the CORPORATE U.S. if that happened.
Vice President
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the next in line of succession.
3rd Vice President Aaron Burr killed 1st Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel.