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But he will still be able to stay in the spotlight by creating suspense over whom he endorses as his successor in 2028.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Once heralded as Kane's successor, international ambitions may have to wait for the time being.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

But they proved popular with voters: This year, Chaves’s handpicked successor, Fernández, won a majority of seats in Costa Rica’s legislature, something Chaves never had.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

And when the time comes, will his endorsement still be all-powerful when the party’s voters pick his successor?

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

A professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College, sometimes professor of “Natural and Revealed Religion,” successor to the chair of the famed Professor Stowe, husband to Harriet Beecher.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

As Cuba marks 100 years since Fidel Castro's birth, Cubans are questioning the promises of the socialist revolution he led for nearly half a century, and asking whether his successors are up to the job.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Earlier, he told an Edinburgh Fringe event that leading Scottish Labour was the hardest job in British politics and urged his potential successors to avoid infighting.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

But there’s another reason successors like Graham often adopt their male predecessors’ stances: political expedience.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

Unilever would share control with independent directors who were self-perpetuating: They couldn’t be removed by Unilever, and they appointed their own successors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

But I would argue that there is a difference between inheriting a cultural tradition, as the Norte Chico culture’s successors apparently did, and copying one, as the Olmec’s proponents argue.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann