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-The office of '''Vice President''' was the second most senior-ranking [[Time Lord]] after the [[Lord President]] and before the [[High Chancellor]].
+The office of '''Vice President''', or '''Deputy President''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (novelisation)|The Five Doctors]]'') was the second most senior-ranking [[Time Lord]] after the [[Lord President]] and before the [[High Chancellor]].
-Quite often there was no Vice President. According to [[Matthias|Cardinal Matthias]] the role of Vice President included responsibility for dealing with offworld representatives and security.
+Quite often there was no Vice President. [[Valyes]] and [[Irving Braxiatel|Braxiatel]] assumed the presidency through being Chancellor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Appropriation (audio story)|Appropriation]]'', ''[[Mindbomb (audio story)|Mindbomb]]'')
-Matthias tried to trick both [[Romana II]] and [[Valyes]] into granting him the powers of the vice presidency during the emergency following the [[Gallifreyan Civil War]]. Because there had not been a Vice President for a long time, both Valyes and [[Irving Braxiatel|Braxiatel]] assumed the presidency through being Chancellor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Appropriation (audio story)|Appropriation]], [[Mindbomb (audio story)|Mindbomb]]'')
+According to [[Cardinal]] [[Matthias]], the Vice President usually held the titles of [[Presidential Representative to Non-Gallifreyan Dignitaries]] and [[Security Secretary]], both on and off-world. Matthias tricked [[Lady President]] [[Romana II|Romana]] and the [[High Council]] into granting him the powers of the vice presidency during the emergency following the [[Gallifreyan Civil War]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Appropriation (audio story)|Appropriation]]'')
 The Vice President wore [[red]] and [[gold]] robes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger]]'')
-[[Saran]] was promoted to the position of Lord President from Vice President after the [[High Council]] voted unanimously to depose [[Morbius]] based on the findings of the [[Committee of Enquiry]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger]]'') [[Kelner|Castellan Kelner]] was told to consider himself Acting Vice President by the [[Fourth Doctor]] during the [[Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey]], though he continued to repeatedly address him as Castellan thereafter. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')
+==History==
+[[Saran]] was promoted to the position of Lord President from Vice President after the [[High Council]] voted unanimously to depose [[Morbius]] based on the findings of the [[Committee of Enquiry]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger]]'')
+[[Kelner|Castellan Kelner]] was told to consider himself Acting Vice President by the [[Fourth Doctor]] during the [[Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey]], though he continued to repeatedly address him as Castellan thereafter. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')
+According to one account, when the [[Fifth Doctor]] granted Chancellor [[Flavia]] "full deputy powers until [his] return" he was bestowing upon her the title of Deputy President. The Doctor told [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] of his prediction that this meant she would be the "longest-serving Deputy President in [[Time Lord history]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (novelisation)|The Five Doctors]]'') According to other accounts, Flavia was given the title of [[Acting Lord President|''Acting'' President]] instead. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
 [[Timon (The Ancestor Cell)|Timon]] was [[Romana III]]'s Vice President for a time in the run-up to the [[War in Heaven]] before he was killed by [[Father Kreiner]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')