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Executive Order 13251

Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of State

Signed by George Walker Bush on Dec 28, 2001.

Later amended
Signed recordDec 28, 2001

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Publication record67 FR 1599

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Later dispositionLater amended

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Revokes EO 12343, January 27, 1982
Amended by EO 13261, March 19, 2002

National Archives disposition tables cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.