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No. Introducing the subject of succession in the last stage of his effort, Senator Hoar remarked that one of the important alterations in the existing law, that of 1792, was the substitution of—

members of the Cabinet in the order of their official seniority—the order in which the various Departments were created, except that the head of the Department of Justice, which is the last Department created by law, is continued in his old place as Attorney-General, ranking the heads of the Departments created since the original establishment of the Cabinet

Thus the attorney-general, considered as a cabinet-associate of the President from