Acting President

An Acting President is a person who temporarily fills the role of an organization's or country's president, either when the real president is unavailable (for example ill or on vacation) or when the post is vacant (for example because of death, injury, resignation, or dismissal).

Famous quotes containing the words acting and/or president:

    “I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)