Trivia 7-16-18 assasination plot

[Trivia Master]

The plan for Lincoln's assassination also called for the killing of Vice President Andrew Johnson. If Johnson had been killed, who would have become president?

credit: @MaryDee

 

[SWMODave]

The acting president would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut.

Source

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted,Provision in case of death &c. of president and vice-president; That in case of removal, death, resignation or inability both of the President and Vice President of the United States, the President of the Senate pro tempore, and in case there shall be no President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being shall act as President of the United States until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected.

Source

 

[Copperhead-mi]

The president pro tempore of the Senate who was Lafayette S. Foster.

 

[Stony]

The acting president would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut.
source-https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[hughes]

Lafayette S. Foster

 

[DBF]

The acting president would have been the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut. Senator Foster would have been acting president until March 4, 1866, and a special election would be held to fill the vacancy. If Foster wasn't available, Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax would have been next in line. The rules have since changed and today the Speaker of the House supersedes the Senate President Pro Tempore.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[captaindrew]

President pro tempore of the Senate, Senator Lafayette Sabine Foster

 

[WJC]

The plan for Lincoln's assassination also called for the killing of Vice President Andrew Johnson. If Johnson had been killed, who would have become president?

credit: @MaryDee

Lafayette Sabine Foster (1806-1880), President pro tempore of the Senate.

 

[connecticut yankee]

If Andrew Johnson had been assassinated on the night of the Lincoln assassination in April 1865, we would have had President Lafayette Sabine Foster. Foster, a Senator from Connecticut, was president pro tempore of the Senate and next in line to the Presidency after Andrew Johnson.

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[GS]

Speaker of the House of Representatives Schuyler Colfax, a journalist and businessman, a Republican from Indiana

 

[Brenal]

The acting president would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut.
And if Foster wasn't available, Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax would have been next, and last, in line to succeed Lincoln and Johnson.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-forgotten-man-who-almost-became-president-after-lincoln

 

[Schwallanscher]

lafayette sabine foster - full story

 

[Jimklag]

The acting president would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut. The Presidential Succession Act Of 1792 governed the succession. Source

 

[Mustang Cdr]

Schuyler Colfax, the Speaker of the House.

 

[8thFlorida]

Schuyler Colfax because he was the Speaker of the house at the time. https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-lincoln-assassination

Ironically he was invited to Fords Theatre that night and declined. Grant and Robert Todd Lincoln also declined. As a sad note, Clara Harris and Major Henry Rathbone attended instead. Rathbone was stabbed by Booth and eventually he suffered deep psychological effects from that night. He was eventually admitted to an asylum.

Edit - Response revised in subsequent post.

hoosier

 

[Don Dixon]

Lafayette S. Foster (R-CT), President Pro Tem of the Senate.

 

[MaryDee]

Unneeded credit for question.

 

[mofederal]

wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CPUB-110spub18/pdf/GPO-CPUB-110spub18-1-7.pdf

wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_S._Foster

Sen. Lafayette S. Foster President Pro Tempore of the Senate March 7, 1865 to March 2, 1867.

 

[MRB1863]

Lafayette Sabine Foster

 

[8thFlorida]

I'd like to correct my answer. It would actually be the Senator Lafayette S. Foster. My order of succession was incorrect!