History of Acting Presidents
The only occasions when the office of acting president came into existence were instances of invocations of the 25th Amendment, specifically of its section 3.
Neither section 4 of the 25th Amendment, nor the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 and its predecessor acts have ever come into operation.
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