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The Hokage typically selects their successor.

Despite this, all of the village's Hokage have traced back to Hashirama in some way: the Second was his brother the Third was his student the Fourth was a student of one of the Third's students the Fifth is his granddaughter and another student of the Third the Sixth was a student of the Fourth the Seventh is a student of the Sixth and the son of the Fourth.

Madara feared that Hashirama's selection was the first step in making the Hokage office an extension of the Senju clan's authority, a fear Hashirama denied. He intended the title to be given to his co-founder, Madara Uchiha, but the village's population instead selected Hashirama as the First Hokage. The Hokage position was created shortly after the creation of Konoha by Hashirama Senju, one of the village's founders.