American Emperors: A Tale of Alternate Presidents.

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Starting a TL, hope you like it. Criticisms welcome.

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Italicized is my comments. Not part of the TL, per se.

The Ninth President,
Robert Delawney
Part One (Before Presidency)

Robert Delawney was a remarkable man, in a remarkable time. Born in 1791, in idyllic Georgia, to Adam Delawney, an cotton farmer (and slaver) and Mary Sweet, an Northerner who moved to the South in the 1780s. For this reason, he argued later in life, that he wasnt a Northerner, or a Southerner. He identified as "American" and nothing else. He took an interest in politics at the age of 17, and due to his not being an elder son (His older brother, Francis was born in 1787) they allowed him to start his career.

Robert Delawney entered politics properly in 1834, after a while supporting President Jackson's election campaign. Martin Van Buren, another Democrat, was in office at that time. He and Delawney got along well, with Van Buren saying "That Delawney, he is quite interesting." Delawney started by running for Senator of Georgia, but lost against John Pendleton King, an Jacksonian. However, when King resigned in 1835, another election was called, and Delawney won, finishing King's term.

Now, he wanted to be President, but how could he do it? The Governor of Georgia, William Schley, finished his term in 1837, and Delawney saw his opportunity. He ran for the Governorship, and got it. He served the full term, before resigning to run for the Presidency, as the Democratic Party's candidate, against the War of 1812 veteran, William Henry Harrison. Martin Van Buren denied to run.

Thus the timeline properly splits from OTL. Instead of Van Buren, we get Delawney, an completely new character, as the Democratic candidate. William Henry Harrison will live until 1851. The "Curse of Tippecanoe" will be called something different.

[TMS2224]

Interesting. Subscribed.

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Originally Posted by TMS2224

Interesting. Subscribed.

I will mostly focus on North America for this TL, for its based around the ATL Presidents. But I will start to look at other nations, especially Europe, after the Civil War ends.

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Does demcoracy die? I am intrigued by the "Emperors" in the title.

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Originally Posted by TMS2224

Does demcoracy die? I am intrigued by the "Emperors" in the title.

No, no. Its based off the phrase "American Empire". I took that to its logical conclusion, that the Presidents are "Emperors."

But, there will be a few close calls to fascism.

[Darth_Kiryan]

um...isn't he a bit young to be President? This guy was born in 1815, and is running against Harrison, in the 1840 election, which only puts him at 25....

From what i know of American politics (or what i think i know) Isn't the law he has to be 35 to be President, senator or congressman???

Yeah, here Article 2, Section 5 of US Constitution

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Originally Posted by Adûnakhôr

um...isn't he a bit young to be President? This guy was born in 1815, and is running against Harrison, in the 1840 election, which only puts him at 25....

From what i know of American politics (or what i think i know) Isn't the law he has to be 35 to be President, senator or congressman???

Thanks for telling me, I had doubts on that. Moved back to 1791.

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Any more posts? Update on Delawney's First Term tomorrow.

By the way, the Curse of Tippecanoe is now called the "Devil's Due", following an rumour, following the death of David Crockett, the President forty years after Delawney. The rumour said that Delawney summoned the Devil, and made a deal, in which the Devil helps the USA to greatness, but every President elected in a zero-year dies in his/her term.