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Comisario

Comisario

1908-1910: H.H. Asquith (Liberal majority)
1910-1915: H.H. Asquith (Liberal minority with IPP confidence and supply)
1910 (January): Arthur Balfour (Conservative), John Redmond (IPP), Arthur Henderson (Labour), William O'Brien (All-for-Ireland)
1910 (December): Arthur Balfour (Conservative), John Redmond (IPP), George Nicoll Barnes (Labour), William O'Brien (All-for-Ireland)
1915-1918: H.H. Asquith (Liberal leading Wartime Coalition)
1918-1918: John Simon (Liberal leading Wartime Coalition)
1918-1919: Andrew Bonar Law (Conservative minority)
1918: John Simon (Liberal), Éamon de Valera (Sinn Féin), Arthur Henderson (Labour)
1919-1920: Austen Chamberlain (Conservative minority)
1920-1925: John Simon (Liberal minority with ‘Free Conservative’ and Labour confidence and supply)
1920: Austen Chamberlain (Conservative), Arthur Henderson (Labour)
1925-1925: John Simon (Liberal minority with 'Free Conservative' confidence and supply)
1925-1932: John Simon (Centre majority)
1925: Douglas Hogg (Conservative), Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), Christopher Addison (Independent Liberal)
1929: Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), Douglas Hogg (Conservative), Christopher Addison (Independent Liberal)
1932-1935: Arthur Greenwood (Labour minority with Independent Liberal confidence and supply)
1932: John Simon (Centre), Oliver Locker-Lampson (Conservative), Christopher Addison (Independent Liberal)
1935-1937: John Simon (Centre majority)
1935: Arthur Greenwood (Labour), Oliver Locker-Lampson (Conservative), Clement Davies (Independent Liberal)
1937-1940: Arthur Salter (Centre majority)
1940: Wilfred Paling (Labour), Clement Davies (Commonwealth), Philip Cunliffe-Lister (Conservative), Oliver Locker-Lampson (United Britons)
1940-1942: Arthur Salter (Centre leading Wartime Coalition)
1942-1944: Gwilym Lloyd George (Centre leading Wartime Coalition)
1944-1949: Gwilym Lloyd George (Centre majority)
1944: Wilfred Paling (Labour), Frederick Bellenger (United Britons), Clement Davies (Commonwealth)
1949-1954: Vincent Tewson (Labour majority)
1949: Gwilym Lloyd George (Centre), John Bannerman (Commonwealth), Frederick Bellenger (United Britons)
1954-1955: Gwilym Lloyd George (Centre majority)
1954: Vincent Tewson (Labour), John Bannerman (Commonwealth), Frederick Bellenger (United Britons)
1955-1959: David Eccles (Centre majority)
1959-1959: Vincent Tewson (Labour minority)
1959 (May): David Eccles (Centre), John Bannerman (Commonwealth), Duncan Sandys (United Britons)
1959-1960: Vincent Tewson (Labour majority)
1959 (November): David Eccles (Centre), John Bannerman (Commonwealth), Duncan Sandys (United Britons)
1960-1968: Aubrey Jones (Labour majority)
1963: Jo Grimond (Centre), Duncan Sandys (United Britons), Gwynfor Evans (Commonwealth)
1968-: Jo Grimond (Centre-Commonwealth coalition)
1968: Aubrey Jones (Labour), Gwynfor Evans (Commonwealth), Airey Neave (United Britons)

(Footnotes are coming, don't worry)
 
shiftygiant

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
MAN, CONTROLLER OF THE UNIVERSE (part three)​

Continued from this

1962-1962: Megan Lloyd George (Reform)
1962-1967: Jo Grimond (Reform) [1]
def. 1963: Iain Macleod (Union), Robert MacIntyre (Scottish National), John Freeman (New Democratic), Gwynfor Evans (Plaid Cymru), Bertrand Russel (Anti-Nuclear League) [2], Colin Jordan (British National Socialist) [3]
1967-1970: Iain Macleod (Union) [4]
def. 1967: Jo Grimond (Reform), Michael Foot (Continuity Labour) [5], Robert MacIntyre-Gwyndor Evans (Devolved Assembly League) [6], Hugh Jenkins (Anti-Nuclear League), Colin Jordan (British National Socialist), John Freeman (New Democratic) [7]
1970-1976: Anthony Nutting (Union) [8]
def. 1972: Roy Jenkins (Reform), Michael Foot (The Left) [9], Robert MacIntyre-Phil Williams (Devolved Assembly League), Colin Jordan (British National Socialist)
1976-1981: Peter Shore (Reform-The Left-Devolved Assembly League Coalition) [10]
def. 1976: Anthony Nutting (Union), Frank Ridley (The Left), Enoch Powell (Law and Order) [11], Margo MacDonald-Phil Williams (Devolved Assembly League)
1981-1985: Norman Fowler (Union) [12]
def. 1981: Peter Shore (Reform), Frank Ridley (The Left), James Sillars (Home Rule) [13]
1985-1987: David Steel (Reform) [14]
def. 1985: Norman Fowler (Reform), Michael Meacher (The Left), James Sillars (Home Rule)
1987-19xx: David Steel (Reform led Wartime Goverment of all parties) [15]


1-Taking the reigns of Leadership from Megan Lloyd George, the Premiership seemed natural for Jo Grimond. Charismatic, energetic, eloquent, young, and seen as a hero for his actions during Black Christmas in delivering fuel to rural Scottish communities plagued by bandits, Grimond easily won the Reform Parties Leadership election, and the Leadership. Continuing Megan Lloyd's thing mandate, Grimond would call an election shortly after his ascension to high office desiring the mandate needed for his reforms, with the Left of the Party splitting due to their perception of Grimond being unwilling to bridge the gap between him and them. The 1963 election would see Grimond squeeze out a workable, although small, majority, with the agreed supply and confidence of the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and the Anti-Nuclear League. During this time, Grimond would push to readdress Bevan's NHS, reestablishing the failed institute alongside the formation of the 'Progressive Society' by his eventual successor, Roy Jenkins, which saw the decriminalization of homosexuality, the near abolition of Capital and Corporal Punishment, as well as the relaxation of Abortion, Divorce, and Media censorship. Grimond would also refuse support of a British nuclear arsenal, and controversially pursued Scottish- and later Welsh- Home Rule, the latter of which would ultimetly end his Premiership when he made it a confidence issue. Taking a firm stance, Grimond split his cabinet and the Party; the Devolution Act, which included provisions for the Provinces of England would narrowly pass, however failed to gain the needed threshold of support in a nation wide Referendum. As a result, Grimond would call an election, which he would ultimetly lose.
2-A grassroots protest party established in 1958 in protest of Rab Butlers Nuclear Arsenal Act, led by Philosopher and Mathematician Bertrand Russel. Whilst never getting more than 7 seats, the Party was a vocal force to be reckoned with, winning dozens of near wins that keep Counter Factual occupied for years to come.
3-Inspired by the German National Socialist Party, which was overthrow by a Military junta in 1939, Colin Jordan was unable to make a breakthrough, his Party having broad appeal in the British Far-Right, however lacking any tangible support, bar Jordan's own constituency of Leyton. The Party would ultimetly collapsed in 1972 when Jordan lurched further to the right.
4-Coming into office on a narrow majority, Iain Macleod period of relative peace and prosperity. Macleod would preside over the end of the British Empire; along with his Foreign Secretary, Anthony Nutting, and Home Secretary, Enoch Powell, Macleod was was of the mind that as the Empire had been in decline Black Christmas, then it should be completely dismantled, as it was nothing more than a shadow of itself. Additionally, Macleod perused a hard-line and fiscally tight economic policy, as well as sweeping tax reform. Despite this, friction between him and his backbench would emerge. Perusing a socially liberal line with Powell, many would often jest, and later disparaged, that Macleod was more cut for Reform than Union. This would play in his advantage, however, as the resistance he met in Union was counteracted by the support in the Liberal wing of Reform, which split the latter and left them a divided opposition. Macleod would ultimetly resign in January of 1970, dying a scant two months after he left office; a longtime smoker, Macleod was aware from as early as 1968 that he was suffering from terminal cancer, though kept it a secret until his passing.
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Cevolian

Cevolian

The Lady Doesn't Turn

The POD here is that Thatcher doesn't get her Media Makeover, doesn't make her immigration speech, and loses the election to Callaghan narrowly. The Kne Nationw in become discontented with the New Right and when Cecil Parkinson fluffs what should have been an easy win four years later, and then loses to Callaghan in the ensuing Hung Parliament, they try and unseat him. As a result of their failure to do so Julian Amery and others go into rebellion forming a Socially Conservative but Economically Corporatist Party.

1974-1977: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1974: (Labour Minority with Liberal Confidence and Supply) def. Edward Heath (Conservative)
1974: (Labour Majority) def. Edward Heath (Conservative)
1977-1984: James Callaghan (Labour)
1979: (Labour Majority) def. Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
1983: (Labour Minority with Liberal Confidence and Supply) def. Cecil Parkinson (Conservative)
1984: (Labour Majority) def. Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
1984-1993: David Owen (Labour)
1988: (Labour Majority) def. Julian Amery (National Reform), Norman Tebbit (Conservative), Eric Lubbock (Liberal)
1993-1995: Jim Prior (National Reform)
1993: (Coalition with The Conservatives and with limited Liberal Confidence and Supply) def. David Owen (Labour)
1995-2005: Frank Dobson (Labour)
1995: (Labour Majority) def. Jim Prior (National Reform), Jeremy Ashdown (Liberal), Michael Howard (Conservative)
1997: (Labour Majority) def. Malcom Rifkind (National Reform), Jeremy Ashdown (Liberal), William Hague (Conservative)
2001: (Labour Majority) def. Malcom Rifkind (National Conservative Alliance), Jeremy Ashdown (Liberal)
2005-2014: John Bercow (National Conservative)
2005: (National Conservative Majority) def. Frank Dobson (Labour), Michael Meadowcroft (Liberal)
2009: (National Conservative Majority) def. Charles Falconer (Labour), David Laws (Liberal)
2014-201-: Charles Kennedy (Labour)
2014: (Labour Majority) def. John Bercow (National Conservative), Vince Cable (Liberal)

 
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Brundlefly

Here's another analogue with German chancellors. Anyone can guess the country?


1945: Paul Löbe (SPD-CDU-KPD coalition)

1945-1953: Joseph Wirth (CDU-SPD coalition)
1945 def. Erich Ollenhauer (SPD), Walter Ulbricht (KPD)
1949 def. Erich Ollenhauer (SPD), Theodor Oberländer (GB/BHE), Walter Ulbricht (KPD)

1953-1961: Gerhard Schröder (CDU-SPD coalition)
1953 def. Erich Ollenhauer (SPD), Theodor Oberländer (GB/BHE), Walter Ulbricht (KPD)
1956 def. Erich Ollenhauer (SPD), Wilhelm Ohnesorge (FDP), Walter Ulbricht (KPD)
1959 def. Carlo Schmid (SPD), Werner Naumann (FDP)

1961-1964: Heinrich Lübke (CDU-SPD coalition)
1962 def. Carlo Schmid (SPD), Werner Naumann (FDP)

1964-1966: Karl Carstens (CDU-SPD coalition)

1966-1970: Karl Carstens (CDU)
1966 def. Willy Brandt (SPD), Werner Naumann (FDP)

1970-1983: Willy Brandt (SPD)
def. Hans-Christoph Seebohm (CDU), Werner Naumann (FDP)
1971: Kai-Uwe von Hassel (CDU), Werner Naumann (FDP)
1975: Rainer Barzel (CDU), Werner Naumann (FDP)
1979: Rainer Barzel (CDU), Alexander von Stahl (FDP)

1983-1986: Klaus von Dohnanyi (SPD-FDP coalition)
def. Helmut Kohl (CDU), Jürgen Möllemann (FDP)

1986-1987: Johannes Rau (SPD-FDP coalition)
def. Helmut Kohl (CDU), Manfred Brunner (FDP), Petra Kelly (Greens)

1987-1997: Johannes Rau (SPD-CDU coalition)
1990 def. Norbert Blüm (CDU), Manfred Brunner (FDP), Rezzo Schlauch (Greens)
1994 def. Matthias Wissmann (CDU), Manfred Brunner (FDP), Marieluise Beck (Greens), Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (Liberal Democrats)

1997-2000: Wolfgang Clement (SPD-CDU coalition)
1995 def. Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU), Manfred Brunner (FDP), Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (Liberal Democrats), Marieluise Beck (Greens)

2000-2005: Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU-FDP coalition)
1999 def. Wolfgang Clement (SPD), Manfred Brunner (FDP), Winfried Kretschmann (Greens)
2002 def. Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD), Achim Rohde (FDP), Winfried Kretschmann (Greens)

2005-2007: Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU-PRO coalition)

2007-2008: Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD-CDU coalition)
2006 def. Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU), Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), Björn Höcke (FDP), Ronald Schill (PRO)

2008-2016: Peer Steinbrück (SPD-CDU coalition)
def. Horst Seehofer (CSU), Björn Höcke (FDP), Manfred Brunner (PRO), Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (Liberal Democrats)
2013: Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU), Björn Höcke (FDP), Mona Neubaur (Greens), Dietmar Hopp (Team Hopp), Dirk Niebel (Liberal Democrats), André Poggenburg (PRO)

2016- : Hubertus Heil (SPD-CDU coalition)
 

Uriel

Another obvious analogy:

Presidents of Germany
Gustav Heinemann 1945-1953
Erich von Manstein 1953-1961
Richard von Weizäcker 1961-1963
Herbert Wehner 1963-1969
Franz Josef Strauß 1969-1974
Walter Scheel 1974-1977
Johannes Rau 1977-1981
Curd Jürgens 1981-1989
Klaus Kinkel 1989-1993
Gerhard Schröder 1993-2001
Horst Seehofer 2001-2009
Cem Özdemir 2009-now
 
Bulldoggus

Bulldoggus

Banned
OK, can anyone guess what this is (besides ASB)?
1993-2001- Bill Clinton/Al Gore
2001-2005- Al Gore/Joe Lieberman
2005-2009- Howard Dean/Wesley Clark
2009-2013- Barrack Obama/Joe Biden
2013- Ron Paul/Paul Ryan
 

Montgomerie Ward

Does anyone recognize this Timeline with similar elements?

43. John McCain (Republican - Arizona) January 20th, 2001 - January 20th, 2009| Vice President: George W. Bush
Defeated Tickets:
  • 2000: Al Gore (Democratic - Tennessee)/ Dick Gephardt (Democratic - Missouri)
  • 2004: Dick Gephardt (Democratic - Missouri)/Nancy Pelosi (Democratic - California)
44. George W. Bush (Republican - Texas) January 20th, 2009 - January 20th, 2017| Vice President: Tom Ridge
Defeated Tickets:
  • 2008: John Kerry (Democratic - Massachusetts)/John Edwards (Democratic -John Edwards)
  • 2012: John Edwards (Democratic - North Carolina), Ron Paul (Libertarian - Texas)/Gary Johnson (Libertarian - New Mexico)
45. Wendy Davis (Democratic - Texas) January 20th, 2017 - January 20th, 2025| Vice President: Bernie Sanders [2]
Defeated Tickets:
  • 2016: Mitt Romney (Republican - Massachusetts)/Chris Christie (Republican - New Jersey), Gary Johnson (Libertarian - New Mexico)/William Weld (Libertarian - Massachusetts)
  • 2020: Ted Cruz (Republican - Texas)/Carly Fiorina (Republican - Virginia)
[1] Senator Paul Simon of Illinois ran for a third term in 1996 and was easily re-elected. Not wanting to take the risk of losing, the Democrats nominated Congressman Dick Durbin, instead of re-nominating incumbent Carol Moseley Braun. Durbin narrowly defeated State Senator Peter Fitzgerald. Simon would not seek re-election in 2002, and Former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was urged to seek it. Clinton would win it easily and win re-election easy in 2008. Clinton announced her candidacy in 2011, and led as frontrunner of the Democratic Party. Polls were even showing her beating unpopular Incumbent President George W. Bush. Clinton would suffer from a severe concussion after winning the nomination, forcing her to withdraw from the race. The new frontrunner and nominee, Former Senator (re-elected in 2004) and Incumbent Governor (elected in 2008) John Edwards of North Carolina was seen as the new Bill Clinton because of his youth and legal acumen. Edwards kept Clinton's Vice Presidential nominee Senator Evan Bayh as his own. In the end, the only thing he shared with Bill Clinton was his adulterous tendencies. Hillary Clinton would not seek a third term to the United States Senate in 2014, and so, State Senator Barack Obama would win it with ease.

[2] In the Texas Gubernatorial Election of 2010, State Senator Wendy Davis would surprise many by narrowly defeating Incumbent Governor Rick Perry. She would serve as the first Democratic and female Governor of Texas since Ann Richards. Because of President Bush's unpopularity, Davis was able to tie her Republican challenger in 2014, State Attorney General Greg Abbott to Bush and win easy re-election.

[3] The Republican Party presidential primaries of 2016 would be a very open field without a McCain or a Bush in the field. The candidate deemed the true 'Crown Prince' of the Republican Party was Former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who would begin as frontrunner and eventually win the nomination.
 
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Brundlefly

Now that the Olympic swimming events are over, here's a POTUS list: Presidents from the OTL winning parties and from the same home state as the most successful US athletes (male and female), losing candidate matching the home state of the second most successful one. (In case of Ukrainian-born Lenny Krayzelburg I took his university town). 2016 based on current polls, 'course.


1984: Al D'Amato / Joy Corning (Republican)
def. Lawton Chiles / Martha Layne Collins (Democrat)

1988: George Deukmejian / Bobbi Fiedler (Republican)
def. Lloyd Bentsen / Martha Layne Collins (Democrat)

1992: Joe Lieberman / Corrine Brown (Democrat)
def. Dennis Hastert / Bobbi Fiedler (Republican), James Thompson / Evelyn Murphy (Reform)

1996: Dennis Kucinich / Patricia Schroeder (Democrat)
def. George Allen / Jane Swift (Republican)

2000: Jane Swift / Dana Rohrabacher (Republican)
def. Dennis Kucinich / Carrie P. Meek (Democrat)

2004: Wayne Gilchrest / Mary Bono (Republican)
def. Antonio Villaraigosa / Barbara Boxer (Democrat)

2008: Martin O'Malley / Nancy Pelosi (Democrat)
def. Kevin McCarthy / Kim Duagagno (Republican)

2012: Martin O'Malley / Dianne Feinstein (Democrat)
def. George Pataki / Candice Miller (Republican)

2016: Ben Cardin / Eleanor Holmes Norton (Democrat)
def. Mark Kirk / Kay Granger (Republican)
 

Gabe5525

A Longer Great Depression (No FDR)
John Nance Garner (1933-1937)
William Borah (1937-1941)
Huey Long (1941-1945)
Thomas Dewey (1945-1953)
 
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Mumby

Mumby

No doubt this is some bullshit, but I wanted to set myself a challenge...

The POD is in 1864 with the accidental death of Grant in an ammunition explosion. Despite that, the Union handily wins the Civil War much as in OTL. As in OTL, Lincoln is assassinated after the Civil War, but the plotters also succeed in killing Seward and Johnson. Henry B. Anthony, as President pro tempore of the Senate, becomes President.

1865-1869: Henry B. Anthony (National Union) [1]
1869-1877: Winfield Scott Hancock (National Union) [2]
1868 def. Benjamin Wade (Radical Republican), George H. Pendleton ('Ohio' Democrat) [3]
1872 def. Charles Sumner (Radical Republican), Horace Greeley (Liberal Union)
1877-1879: Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic) [4]
1876 def. Roscoe Conkling (Republican), Alexander Campbell (Greenback) [5]
1879-1880: George B. McClellan (Democratic) [6]
1880-1881: James B. Weaver (Greenback-Workingmen-Knights of Labor United Front) [7]
1881-1885: James B. Weaver (Farmer-Labor Union) [8]
1880 def. James G. Blaine (Radical), Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic), Thomas F. Bayard (Conservative), Chester A. Arthur (Republican)

[1] Anthony could appeal to Radical Republicans on one hand and the more conciliatory tone toward the South that favoured men of property and distinction on the other. Unfortunately, he managed to repulse both. In the aftermath of the death of Lincoln, there was exultation amongst ex-Confederates and deep depression among victors of the war. Realising the need to reconcile the nation and heal the deep wounds which had driven it apart, Anthony attempted to water down the more radical proposals to 'reconstruct' the South. He selected a Democrat as his Vice President, realising the importance of preserving the at least titular National Union. He managed to block the passage of the 15th Amendment by mackling together a coalition of northern anti-immigrant Republicans and the remaining Democrats. He became increasingly unpopular in his own party during his term, and when the country began to prepare for the presidential election, he was rejected by the Republican National Convention.

[2] The Republicans were well aware of how they had been weakened despite victory in the war, by the Presidency of Anthony. There were many who proposed that the weight of the National Union, having to maintain accord with Democrats who stymied reform at every turn, had been the root cause of this and wanted to break away. Others within the Republicans believed that the only way they would maintain influence on the Presidency and to keep the country united, was to maintain conciliation with the Democrats. When Benjamin Wade emerged as the victor of the Republican National Convention, with substantial Radical backing, the moderates in the party feared the possibility of a Democratic Presidency with no checks from a Republican partner. When the Democrats nominated Winfield Scott Hancock, the minds of the moderates were made up. With a charismatic military man on the ticket, facing an aged radical, the moderates chose to endorse Hancock and the 1868 election was fought with the Radical Republicans on one side and a renewed National Union on the other.

Hancock's term would be dogged by scandals of patronage and corruption, scandals which had little to do with the President's personal integrity and more to do with his leadership method, which more closely resembled the form of military command than that of a normal political leader. While Hancock did his utmost to tackle corruption, he was too willing to see the best in his acolytes, and his poor understanding of proper Cabinet politics led to acrimony within a two party cabinet. Most controversially, he oversaw the annexation of Santo Domingo which was roundly condemned by Radicals as supporting the expansion of Southern 'sharecropping' through an American empire in the Caribbean. Nevertheless, his personal popularity remained high and in 1872 his victory was helped along by a split in the Republicans and Democrats along the lines of civil service reform. Those Radicals who were willing to hold their nose and unite with reform inclined Democrats hoped that they would be able to overturn Hancock but all it ensured was electoral defeat, winning only a couple of states. Following the defeat, the Liberal Union fell apart, their members returning to their respective parties.

[3] Former presidential candidate Pendleton led a Democratic splinter proposing an policy of redeeming war debt with greenbacks rather than gold which put more money in circulation and keep interest rates lower, ultimately rewarding rural labourers. The nomination of Hancock with a Republican Vice President squashed this idea and Pendleton set out on his own with the 'Ohio Idea'. He failed to win a state in 1878 but the number of western farmers who voted for him showed there was an undercurrent of support for this idea.

[4] Hancock did consider a third term, but was persuaded not to. There was some hope among Democrats that they could continue the winning formula of keeping the support of Republican moderates who had a stake in the 'Hancockist' spoils system. To their disappointment, Roscoe Conkling sought the Republican nomination, uniting the Radicals with the moderates, by avoiding the spectre of civil service reform and promising a proper Reconstruction. Hancock's government had rapidly smothered what had been accomplished by Radicals in Lincoln and Anthony's term, the Democrats in government securing the rapid readmittance of secessionist states and squashing of anti-racist legislation. Their Republican partners had cushioned the worst of it, but Conkling promised that his government would reverse this trend and restore the America 'that Lincoln would have wanted'. Just as the Republicans reunited, so the Democrats went to the ballot box under their own banner for the first time since the war. The result proved shocking. Conkling presided over a deeply divided and fractious party, more often arguing with itself than with the Democrats. Hendricks managed an extremely narrow victory over the Republican opposition, becoming the first elected Democratic President since 1856. He went into government with great hopes, with a promise to turn around a stagnant economy. What happened was very different.

[5] Campbell led the Greenback party, which took the Ohio Idea of Pendleton and ran with it, calling for radical reform to purge corruption, a rebalancing of the economy between labour and capital. It performed surprisingly well, with a cocktail of popular ideas from both of the big two parties.

[6] In 1877, the country was gripped by railroad strikes. Spreading out from Pittsburgh, attempts to squash the strike with force proved fruitless as Pittsburgh National Guardsmen refused to attack the workers and instead joined them against the Philadelphians who had been sent against them. All the anger and dissatisfaction that had been growing since the war, against corruption and surrender to the retrenchment of the Democratic Planter establishment, was suddenly expressed in sympathetic strike actions. Poor whites in the South, improverished by cuts to proposed rail lines, rose in sympathy and without blacks to redirect their anger against (many freedmen had taken the opportunity to resettle in Santo Domingo), they instead turned against the wealthy who had used them for their own advantage. Hendricks hurriedly called out the army against the strikers, but this simply made matters worse as an otherwise neutral public moved toward the strikers against the violence of the military. In 1879, following a disastrous midterms in which the Democrats lost seats to Greenbackers, Knights of Labour, and Workingmen candidates as did Republicans. The two main parties came together to initiate impeachment proceedings, and Hendricks stood down to avoid further humiliation. His Vice President, the 1864 nominee, now found himself as leader of a nation once more at war with itself. McClellan proved a cautious wartime leader, allowing the strikers to seize control of industrial centres in the North, granting them the same advantage that the Union had in the First Civil War. While he vacillated over what to do, the National Guardsmen who had joined the strikers were reorganised into the Popular Guard. New state legislatures were established, with new constitutions enshrining the place of the workers. Congress soon regretted removing Hendricks, who may have been able to resolve the crisis. As in the First Civil War, the South was ultimately encircled by a battle down the Mississippi and around the Coast, greatly helped by the additional aid of risings by poor whites and blacks in the South. McClellan offered his surrender in the summer of 1880, as he realised that he had run out of options.

[7] As a veteran of the First Civil War, Weaver offered continuity, especially as the multifarious organisations of the Strike came together to hammer out the shape of the new America. The potent combination of farmers, urban workers and middle class idealists came together to make a agenda, distinct from the corruption and feuding of the Republicans or the race-baiting and intimidation of the Democrats. What was also decided in those months was who was to carry the message which had achieved victory with bullets to similar victory at the ballot in November. Many names were suggested, Samuel Gompers, Terence V. Powderly, Solon Chase. But none carried the national appeal and popularity of Weaver.

[8] As expected, Weaver trounced a schismatic opposition having united the many threads of what was becoming known as the Second Revolution. The new Congress met to make radical changes to the Constitution, including the direct election of senators, the nationalisation of public utilities, land reform, tax reform, civil service reform, the list went on. Nevertheless, with a divided Opposition and a broadly united Government, the President had every reason to be hopeful.
 

Deleted member 87099

Hotel California
Or, as many Californian Presidents possible (post-1968).​


1969-1973: Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (Republican)
- 1968: Hubert Humphrey/Ed Muskie (Democratic) , George Wallace/Curtis Lemay (American Independent)
- 1972: George McGovern/Sargent Shriver (Democratic)
1973-1973: Richard Nixon/None (Republican)
1973-1977: Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford (Republican)
1977-1981: Ronald Reagan/Louis Frey Jr. (Republican)
- 1976: Mo Udall/Lloyd Bentsen (Democratic)
1981-1989: Jerry Brown/Charlie Wilson (Democratic)
- 1980: Ronald Reagan/Louis Frey Jr. (Republican)
- 1984: Bob Dole/Pete McCloskey (Republican)
1989-1997: Pete McCloskey/Thomas Kean (Republican)
- 1988: Charlie Wilson/Bruce Babbitt (Democratic)
- 1992: Al Gore/Bill Clinton (Democratic) , Phil Gramm/Dan Quayle (Conservative) , Larry Agran/Bernie Sanders (Liberal Democratic)
1997-2005: Colin Powell/Rick Perry (Democratic)
- 1996: Ed Zschau/John Kasich (Republican) , Newt Gingrich/Pat Buchanan (Conservative) , George McGovern/Dennis Kucinich (Liberal Democratic)
- 2000: William Weld/Jim Jeffords (Republican) , Bob Smith/Herman Cain (Conservative) , Paul Wellstone/Ralph Nader (Liberal Democratic)
2005-2009: Barry Goldwater Jr./Gary Johnson (Republican)
- 2004: Dick Gephardt/Bill Bradley (Democratic) , Howard Dean/John Conyers (Liberal)
2009-Present: Condoleezza Rice/Martin O'Malley (Democratic)
- 2008: Gary Johnson/Lincoln Chaffee (Republican) , Ralph Nader/Cynthia McKinney (Liberal)
- 2012: Lincoln Chaffee/Jon Huntsman (Republican) , Cynthia McKinney/Jill Stein (Liberal)

 

Deleted member 87099

Don't Mess With Texas
Or, as many Texan Presidents as possible (post-1964).​

1965-1973: Lyndon Johnson/Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
- 1964: Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller (Republican)
- 1968: Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (Republican) , George Wallace/Curtis Lemay (American Independent)
1973-1981: George HW Bush/Bob Dole (Republican)
- 1972: Hubert Humphrey/Birch Bayh (Democratic) , George Wallace/Lester Maddox (American Independent)
- 1976: Frank Church/Milton Shapp (Democratic) , George Wallace/John Rarick (American Independent)
1981-1989: Lloyd Bentsen/Walter Mondale (Democratic)
- 1980: Bob Dole/Jack Kemp (Republican)
- 1984: John Heinz/Frank Borman (Republican)
1989-1997: George W. Bush/Bill Brock (Republican)
- 1988: Walter Mondale/Henry Cisneros (Democratic)
- 1992: Al Gore/Jay Rockefeller (Democratic)
1997-2005: Ann Richards/Bill Bradley (Democratic)
- 1996: Donald Rumsfeld/Mike Huckabee (Republican)
- 2000: Donald Trump/Rick Santorum (Republican)
2005-2013: Rick Perry/Dick Cheney (Republican)
- 2004: Evan Bayh/Joe Biden (Democratic)
- 2008: Joe Biden/Bill Richardson (Democratic)
2013-Present: Julian Castro/Hillary Rodham Gore (Democratic)
- 2012: Mitt Romney/Michelle Bachman (Republican)
 
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@theev,

Great stuff. Oh for a GOP (he says as not a Republican) where Pete McCloskey stood a chance after the mid-Sixties. One quibble: '89 is probably too early for Dubya but in the spirit of the "Hipster Presidents" thread I would recommend the criminally-underused Bill Clements, first (and two-term) Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction, a muckity-muck in the awl bidness, and a significant second-tier player in the Nixon and Ford administrations. Now you should add New York and Florida to really complete the highest-population states. Or if you want a plethora of reasonable Republicans, Pennsylvania (William Scranton, Ray Shafer, Dick Thornburgh, maybe even Hugh Scott though he'd probably rather stay Senate minority leader.) As a displaced Tar Heel I recommend North Carolina for many choices from both parties: Terry Sanford, Jim Hunt, and Harvey Gantt, among others, for the Dems, James Holshouser, Jim Broyhill, Richard Vinroot, et al., for the Republicans, and maybe in a dystopia Jesse gorram Helms for a resurgent AIP...
 
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