List of Designated Survivors
The list of designated survivors enumerates persons (so-called designated survivors ). These are potential successors to the President of the United States selected on an ad-hoc basis and who will be in a safe place when the remaining potential successors and also the members of Congress come together in one place. In the event of an attack on such an event, the purpose is to ensure that at least one constitutional successor survives or can be re-elected.
List of designated survivors (selection)
- 1981 State of the Union : Terrel Bell ( Minister of Education )
- 1982 State of the Union: unknown
- 1983 State of the Union: unknown
- 1984 State of the Union: Samuel Pierce ( Minister of Construction)
- 1985 State of the Union: Malcolm Baldrige ( Minister of Commerce )
- 1986 State of the Union: John Rusling Block ( Minister of Agriculture )
- 1987 State of the Union: Richard Edmund Lyng (Minister of Agriculture)
- 1988 State of the Union: Donald P. Hodel ( Minister of the Interior )
- 1989 State of the Union: Lauro Cavazos (Minister of Education)
- 1990 State of the Union: Ed Derwinski ( War Veterans Minister )
- 1990 Address to both Houses of Congress (on the occasion of the Gulf War): unknown
- 1991 State of the Union: Manuel Lujan (Interior Minister)
- 1992 State of the Union: Edward Rell Madigan (Minister of Agriculture)
- 1993 State of the Union: Bruce Babbitt (Home Secretary)
- 1994 State of the Union: Mike Espy (Minister of Agriculture)
- 1995 State of the Union: Federico Peña ( Minister of Transport )
- 1996 State of the Union: Donna Shalala ( Minister of Health )
- 1997 State of the Union: Dan Glickman (Minister of Agriculture)
- 1998 State of the Union: William Daley (Secretary of Commerce)
- 1999 State of the Union: Andrew Cuomo (Minister of Construction)
- 2000 State of the Union: Bill Richardson ( Secretary of Energy )
- 2001 State of the Union: Anthony Principi (Minister of War Veterans)
- 2001 Address to both Houses of Congress (after the September 11th terrorist attacks ): Dick Cheney ( Vice President )
Tommy Thompson (Minister of Health) - 2002 State of the Union: Gale Norton (Secretary of the Interior)
- 2003 State of the Union: John Ashcroft ( Attorney General )
- 2004 State of the Union: Donald Evans (Minister of Commerce)
- 2005 Inauguration of President: Gale Norton (Home Secretary)
- 2005 State of the Union: Donald Evans (Secretary of Commerce)
Senator Ted Stevens ( President pro tempore of the Senate )
Senator Kent Conrad , Rep. John Doolittle , Rep. George Miller - 2006 State of the Union: Jim Nicholson (War Veterans Secretary)
Senator Ted Stevens (President pro tempore of the Senate)
Senator Byron Dorgan , Rep . Eric Cantor , Rep. George Miller - 2007 State of the Union: Alberto Gonzales (Minister of Justice)
Senator Robert Byrd (President pro tempore of the Senate) - 2008 State of the Union: Dirk Kempthorne (Interior Minister)
- 2009 Inauguration of President: Robert Gates ( Secretary of Defense )
- 2009 Address to both Houses of Congress: Eric Holder (Attorney General)
- 2009 Address to both Houses of Congress (on the occasion of the health reform): Steven Chu (Minister of Energy)
- 2010 State of the Union: Shaun Donovan (Minister of Construction)
- 2011 State of the Union: Ken Salazar (Interior Minister)
- 2012 State of the Union: Tom Vilsack (Minister of Agriculture)
- 2013 Inauguration of President: Eric K. Shinseki ( Minister of War Veterans)
- 2013 State of the Union: Steven Chu (Energy Minister)
- 2014 State of the Union: Ernest Moniz (Energy Minister)
- 2015 State of the Union: Anthony Foxx (Minister of Transport)
- 2016 State of the Union: Jeh Johnson ( Secretary of State for Homeland Security ), Orrin Hatch (President pro tempore of the Senate)
- 2017 Inauguration of President: Orrin Hatch (President pro tempore of the Senate), Jeh Johnson (Secretary of State for Homeland Security)
- 2017 Address to Both Houses of Congress: David Shulkin (War Veterans Minister )
- 2018 State of the Union: Sonny Perdue (Minister of Agriculture)
- 2019 State of the Union: Rick Perry (Minister of Energy)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c 1989, 1993 and 2001 these were speeches by the newly elected President and formally no State-of-the-Union speeches
- ↑ a b c At the State-of-the-Union addresses of 2005, 2006 and 2007, the "President pro tempore of the Senate" would have been the highest-ranking survivor.
- ↑ Obama's 'designated survivor': Anthony Foxx. USA TODAY, January 20, 2015, accessed June 15, 2017 .
- ^ State of the Union: Jeh Johnson Named Designated Survivor. abc NEWS, January 12, 2016, accessed June 15, 2017 .
- ↑ If #SOTU disaster strikes, Jeh Johnson ... or a Republican would become president. Los Angeles Times, January 12, 2016, accessed June 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch skips inauguration because he's the 'designated survivor'. KSTU-FOX January 13, 2017, accessed June 15, 2017 .
- ^ Jeh Johnson is designated survivor for inauguration. THE HILL, January 20, 2017, accessed June 15, 2017 .
- ^ VA Secretary David Shulkin chosen as designated survivor. abc NEWS, February 28, 2017, accessed June 15, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/trump-rede--sonny-perdue-war-der-echte--designated-survivor--7844916.html
- ↑ Betsy Klein and Noah Gray CNN: Energy Secretary Rick Perry is the designated survivor. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .