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Questions Arise in Minds If President-Elect Dies
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The gap of nearly three months between the time the people vote for president and the inauguration always raises the question of what would happen if a winner died before taking office.
This never has happened. And while the Constitution goes into some detail of the mechanism of electing a president, it covers only in part the procedure if a winning candidate dies.
IF HE DIED AFTER the election but before the electoral college met—Dec. 14 this year—the electors would be free to cast their ballots as they saw fit. There is nothing that would require them to cast presidential votes for the candidate who ran for vice-president on the winning ticket.
Horace Greeley, unsuccessful candidate against President U. S. Grant in 1872, died Nov. 29 after the election but before the electors met. Greeley's 66 electors, acting as free agents, split their votes among four men, giving Greeley's running mate only 18 votes.
If the winner died after the electoral vote had been cast but before he was inaugurated, the vice-president-elect would be sworn in as president. The vice-presidency presumably would stay vacant until the next election, with the speaker of the House next in line for the presidency.
It appears that the answer depends upon when death occurred.
THE CONSTITUTION DOES provide for the pre-inaugural death of a president-elect in the 20th Amendment: "If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the president, the president-elect shall have died, the vice-president-elect shall become president."
If a candidate for president or vice-president died after he was nominated, but before the election, his party—usually the national committee—would choose a new candidate. This happened in 1912 when Vice-President James S. Sherman, running with President William Howard Taft, died Oct. 30. The Republican party named Nicholas Murray Butler to succeed Sherman as the vice-presidential candidate. The Taft-Butler ticket ran third. In another case, Socialist candidate Frank T. Johns was drowned while running for President in 1928. The party nominated Verne Reynolds to finish the campaign.
State Employes Get 2-Day Thanksgiving Weekend
Governor John Anderson has declared Thanksgiving Day and Friday. Nov. 27, as holidays for all state employees.
The announcement came in a memorandum from Philip N. Rankin, personnel director at KU, to all heads of departments.
KU faculty and most civil service employees will not be required
to work those days. Rankin said, however, that some personnel in buildings and grounds and the police department will be required to work. They will be compensated later with time off. Rankin said.
The students' Thanksgiving vacation begins from 5:30 p.m., Nov. 24, to Nov. 30.
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