THE MONARCHS (& Prime Ministers) OF THE TWO AMERICAS
Monarchs of the United States of America, 1789-present
Things really went to pot for the budding young nation of America after Shay’s Rebellion sparked a wave of similar deadly incidents, and the people became more willing to give “the Prussian Scheme” an actual try if it meant stability would return to the states. To placate “republic” supporters, the “kingerists” ensured that the monarch would have very limited powers except during times of “great national duress,” and could be “forced into abdication” by a 3/4ths-yea vote taken by the US Congress.
4/29/1789-8/3/1802 (13 years, 4 months): 1) Henry I (1/8/1726 – 8/3/1802)
Born Frederick Henry Louis on January 1, 1726, Henry I hailed from Prussia’s House of Hohenzollern, a deep-rooted and far-reaching German dynasty. Taking to heart the limitations of the office that he had somewhat reluctantly accepted, Henry I oversaw the development of the new nation, promoting the improvement of trade and of transportation routes between the states. On the ten-year anniversary of his ascension, Henry I, whose primary residence was at the Presidential Palace in Maryland, famously declared, “I may have been born a Prussian, but in my heart I am a Marylander second and an American first.” The statement lead to the motto “State Second, Nation First” being used fairly commonly in American politics for the next twenty years.
12/3/1802-5/2/1813 (10 years, 5 months): 2) Augustus I (5/23/1730 – 5/2/1813)
Born Prince Augustus Ferdinand on May 23, 1730, “Augustus I” was Henry I’s brother; another, more likely successor to the single and childless Henry I had been the Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia until his death in the 1793 Siege of Mainz. Despite his fairly advanced age upon ascending to the throne, Augustus maintained an active daily schedule and frequently met with important individuals in order to keep his “finger on the pulse of American wants and needs” as he once put it. During his reign, Augustus oversaw America continue to develop internally, and oversaw it demonstrate the full power of its military might when British forces ransacked and scuttled an American passenger ship, leading to the War of 1811. Augustus lived long enough to see the war end in a tactical American victory before dying after a long period of poor health.
5/2/1813-6/5/1834 (21 years, 1 months): 3) Augustus II (9/19/1779 – 7/19/1843)
Born Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich August, the second Augustus was the son of the first Augustus. Having joined the army in his youth and earning the rank colonel by the time he became King, Augustus II supported the 1826 Fredonian Revolution that led to the union obtaining a new state (Texas) in 1830, but opposed the expansion of slavery into any new states. Augustus II was not above replying to issues militarily instead of diplomatically. This only made it easier for the War of Southern Secession to begin after the King announced his full support for an attempt by the Congress to abolish slavery altogether in 1832. Southern leaders (Congress faction leader John C. Calhoun, specifically) threatened secession over the alleged “oppression of [their] way of life,” prompting Augustus II to send federal troops into South Carolina. Augustus II thought they were bluffing; they weren’t. Fighting was intense along the “border states,” especially in Tennessee and Virginia, and it was not long before the tide turned and stayed in favor of the seceding masses, who benefited from superior military leaders. Upon the US losing its southern half at said war’s conclusion in 1834, the despondent King voluntarily abdicated before Congress could force him off the throne by what certainly would have been a nearly unanimous vote. As Augustus II left behind no children, the next person in line for the position was his nephew, the son of his deceased older sister, Princess Louise (1770-1831), and her deceased husband, Prince Antoni Radziwill (1775-1833) – a young man called Boguslaw.
6/5/1834-1/2/1873 (38 years, 7 months): 4) Boguslaw (1/3/1809-1/2/1873)
Prince Boguslaw Fryderyk Radziwill, the first King from the House of Radziwill (the nation’s second (and current) House overall) and the US’s third militant King in a row, ascended to the throne at the age of 26. The young Boguslaw sought to boost the nation’s post-war spirits with parades and festivities for every major holiday and anniversary, leading to him developing the erroneous reputation of being a partier. In reality, Boguslaw was a sensible and lucid leader who was quite aloof, even for a King. Under his rule, former slaves were “re-introduced” into American society as employees and neighbors; the US expanded westward, gaining territory along the Pacific coast of the cascades region by the end of the 1840s; and the US developed isolationist policies due the south having been aided by foreign nations such as Great Britain and France. Politically, Boguslaw was libertarian, which was beneficial to the libertarian movement of the 1850s and 1860s. Upon his death from natural causes, Boguslaw’s son succeeded him to the throne.
1/2/1873-2/28/1926 (53 years, 1 month): 5) Ferdynand (10/19/1834-2/28/1926)
Prince Ferdynand Radziwill was of a diplomatic and political mind, and used the power of the throne to their fullest extent to influence national legislation. As the nation’s longest-reigning American monarch, clocking in just over 53 years on the throne, Ferdynand saw many changes happen across the world. The discovery of air travel, the invention of the telephone, the cure for polio, and the War For Indochina were just some of the events to unfold during Ferdynand’s reign. Domestically, he supported improvements in sanitation and the quality of life in both urban and rural communities, going so far as to support workers during a labor strike in 1889, leading to the expansion of worker rights and the abolition of child labor entirely by 1910. Ferdynand is still remembered as one of the nation’s greatest King. The same cannot be said about his son.
2/28/1926-11/15/1929 (3 years, 9 months): 6) Rudy (2/8/1870-10/6/1955)
His full name was Michal Wladyslaw Karol Jan Alojzy Wilhelm Edmund Robert Michal Radziwill. But everyone called him “Rudy,” due to his red hair, so when he became King, he made that name be his official “king” name. Rudy had lived a life of luxury and excess while his father was King, and the lavish parties and vacations only increased in size and infamy upon his ascension to the throne. King Rudy’s time on the throne was also plagued by his numerous extramarital affairs, and past incidents that would now be considered spousal abuse; specifically, he once punched his first wife in the face and then threw her out of a speeding car, and once broke her leg in a separate incident. By 1928, he had been dubbed “Rudy the Degenerate,” and he was losing the support of the Congress. But the final straw was his appeasement policies to the increasingly militant leader of America’s northern neighbor. Americans overall disagreeing with Rudy’s summation that the People’s Republic of Canada had no interest in invading the US only strengthened anti-Rudy sentiments. Suspicions were vindicated upon Canada’s dictator Roy Leitch launching an aerial assault on Seattle and Astoria on October 1, 1929, prompting congress to vote in favor on a declaration of war. To the shock of even his remaining supporters, Rudy was still hesitant to lead the nation to war (and it was later discovered that this was because Rudy personally believed the US would not win a war against Canada). After Rudy’s very short but heavily destructive reign, Congress voted almost unanimously in favor of forcing Rudy to abdicate on November 15, 1929. The former King spent the rest of his life hopping around Europe and the Americas until his death at the age of 85.
11/15/1929-10/4/1967 (37 years, 11 months): 7) Henry II (9/3/1880-10/4/1967)
Prince Janusz Franciszek Radziwill was a stark opposite of his older brother Rudy. Taking the name of the nation’s inaugural King, Henry II reversed most of his predecessor’s policies while overseeing the US-Canadian War of 1929-1932, but privately opposed the execution of Leitch being a public hanging instead of a private firing squad (and he may have been right to oppose it, as the imagery of “the Swingin’ Roy” kept relations between the two nations from improving for decades). Being of a conservative mind, Henry II frequently engaged in politics, even openly debating the merits of legislation to the legal extent to which he was allowed. He supported traditional values, but worked to lighten punishments for numerous crimes and to lift several censorship policies. After the conquest of Ottawa in 1932, the King promoted the updating and expanding of America’s military to ensure the nation could never again be vulnerable to attack. Henry II also turned to sustaining America’s prosperous post-war economy by supporting the congress in eliminating key tariffs. In 1965, however, the economic high finally ended in the form of a lengthy recession, and Henry II died in the midst of things only starting to improve.
10/4/1967-7/27/1976 (8 years, 9 months): 8) Stanislaw I (7/21/1914-7/27/1976)
Known affectionately as “Stash” in his pre-king years, Stanislaw I (full name Stanislaw Albrecht Radziwill) was Henry II’s son, and was a lifelong advocate of education and the preservation of historical locations nationwide. His Queen consort during his reign, Lee Bouvier, was controversial in that she was Stanislaw’s third wife and was the sister-in-law of Congressional leader Jack Kennedy. An active monarch like his father, he supported nationwide tax cuts to promote consumer spending, leading to the economy returning to pre-1964 levels by 1975. The King planned on a national tour in 1976 to celebrate the US’ bicentennial, but cancelled plans for it after his cancer worsened. Just three weeks after Independence Day, King Stanislaw passed away at the age of 62.
7/27/1976-present (2019) (43+ years): 9) Stanislaw II (b. 8/8/1947)
Born Jan Stanislaw Albrycht Radziwill to the future King and his first wife, the Countess Rose de Mauleon, King Stanislaw II is famous (or infamous, pending whom one asks) for being consistency aloof, private and apolitical, embracing the “figurehead” aspect of the job even when his leadership in the face of a national crisis (such as the 1987 Boguslaw Dam Disaster and then the 2003 Ebola Outbreak) was needed. The Queen Mother-in-law Lee was often considered more popular than Stanislaw II, which made her passing earlier this year such a tragedy. And it does not look like Stanislaw II will stop being known as “the Shadow King” any time soon.
Prime Ministers of the United States of America, 1789-present
The USA’s Prime Minister selection system differs from those of the UK and CSA by having fixed elections being held every two years. The nation’s first PM retired after ten years in office, establishing a precedence.
1789-1799:
1) Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803, Federalist-VA) – retired
1799-1809:
2) Edward Hutchinson Robbins (1758-1837, Democratic-Republican-MA) – retired
1809-1810:
3) Cyrus Griffin (1748-1810, F-VA) – died from poor health
1810-1819:
4) Richard Varick (1753-1831, F-NY) – retired
1819-1824:
5) David Ramsay, M.D. (1749-1824, DR-SC) – died from natural causes
1824-1829:
6) Felix Grundy (1777-1840, DR-TN) – lost re-election
1829-1832:
7) George Rockingham Gilmer (1790-1859, F-GA) – impeached for treason after previous comments supporting Georgia seceding from the USA
1832-1834:
8) Joseph Ritner (1780-1869, F/Anti-Masonic/Whig alliance-PA) – resigned after the US lost the USA-CSA war
1834-1935:
9) Obadiah German (1766-1842, F-NY) – retired
1835-1845:
10) Gorham Parks (1794-1877, Democratic Alliance-ME) – the politically-in-limbo “independent states” of Missouri and Kansas voted to join the USA via 1835 referendums, which the CSA accused of being rigged, worsening tensions, though said tensions cooled by 1840; retired, per tradition
1845-1855:
11) Gen. Henry Dodge (1782-1867, DA-WI) – retired
1855:
12) David Tiernan Disney (1803-1855, DA-OH) – assassinated
1855-1865:
13) Gen. Augustus Ferdinand Kittredge (1805-1881, DA-NH) – retired
1865-1873:
14) Noble Strong Elderkin (1810-1875, DA-NY) – often considered one of the USA’s best Prime Ministers; retired due to poor health
1873-1875:
15) Francis Celeste Le Blond (1821-1902, DA-OH) – lost re-election
1875-1882:
16) Truman Giles Younglove (1815-1882, Liberal Republican Alliance-NY) – died from poor health
1882-1883:
17) George Augustus Marden (1839-1906, LRA-MA) – lost election
1883:
18) George Leroy Converse (1827-1883, D-OH) – assassinated
1883-1887:
19) Theophilus Carey Callicot (1826-1920, DA-NY) – lost re-election
1887-1889:
20) George Zalmon Erwin (1840-1894, LRA-NY) – lost re-election
1889-1904:
21) Archelaus D. Marsh (1844-1904, DA-OH) – broke from tradition and ran for more than just ten terms; died suddenly from “an attack of heart trouble,” leading to the superstition that anyone who served for more than over ten years / five terms would die in office
1904-1905:
22) Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915, DA-IL) – first female PM, though she mostly served as an interim “placeholder” leader
1905-1914:
23) David Lawrence Sleeper (1856-1914, LRA-OH) – died suddenly from apoplexy
1914-1915:
24) Robert P. Bush, M.D. (1842-1923, LRA-NY) – lost election
1915-1917:
25) Oswald West (1873-1960, DA-OR) – foreign-born PM; lost re-election
1917-1919:
26) Arlington G. Reynolds (1849-1934, LRA-OH) – lost re-election
1919-1927:
25) Oswald West (1873-1960, DA-OR) – lost re-election due to Canadian birth at a time of rising hostility between the US and Canada in the wake of Tim Buck rising to power in Canada in 1922.
1927-1933:
27) Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871-1951, LRA-IL) – first Black PM; lost re-nomination due to (temporary) drop in popularity
1933-1941:
28) Robert Fay Rockwell (1886-1950, LRA-CO) – lost re-election
1941-1951:
25) Oswald West (1873-1960, DA-OR) – longest-serving PM; retired
1951-1957:
29) Lawrence M. Hall (1908-1973, DA-MN) – lost re-election
1957-1959:
30) Oswald David Heck (1902-1959, LRA-NY) – died from a heart attack
1959-1961:
31) Harold Edward Stassen (1907-2001, LRA-MN) – earliest PM to be an open supporter of the Jovial Rights Movement, a movement focused on ending discrimination against non-heterosexual individuals called “jovial,” a blanket term for homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transexual, and other non-heterosexual individuals; lost election
1961-1963:
32) J. Fitzgerald Kennedy Sr. (1917-1979, DA-MA) – lost re-election
1963-1967:
31) Harold Edward Stassen (1907-2001, LRA-MN) – lost re-election
1967-1974:
32) J. Fitzgerald Kennedy Sr. (1917-1979, DA-MA) – resigned due to poor health
1974-1975:
33) Stephen John Brademas Jr. (1927-2016, DA-IN) – lost election
1975-1985:
31) Harold Edward Stassen (1907-2001, LRA-MN) – retired
1985-1995:
34) Elizabeth Holtzman (b. 1941, DA-NY) – retired
1995-2001:
35) William Floyd Weld (b. 1945, LRA-MA) – lost re-election
2001-2003:
36) Gary Alvin Franks (b. 1953, Moderate/Conservative Alliance-CT) – Black PM; lost re-election
2003-2011:
37) Larry Householder (b. 1960, LRA-OH) – lost re-election
2011-2018:
38) Alex Kozinski (b. 1950, DA-MT) – foreign-born PM; impeached over sex scandal
2018-2019:
39) Joshua Boschee (b. 1982, DA-DA) – youngest PM at age 36, first openly jovial PM, and first PM from the state of Dakota; lost election by a narrow margin
2019-present:
37) Larry Householder (b. 1960, LRA-OH) – incumbent
Monarchs of the Confederated States of America, 1832-present
When the southern US states, led by South Carolina, seceded from the rest of the U.S. union in 1832, the politicians in question realized they would need a centralized government to better organize the war effort. The idea to replace an anti-slavery King with a pro-slavery King gathered momentum, and fortunately, the collection of states had within its population a member of unquestionable regality.
8/12/1832-4/10/1878 (45 years, 8 months): 1) Lucien I (5/16/1803-4/10/1878)
Lucien Charles Joseph Napoleon immigrated to the United States in 1815 with his mother and siblings. His father, Joachim Murat (1767-1815), was the King of Naples from 1808 until his execution in 1815 following the fall of the Emperor Napoleon, who was Joachim’s brother-in-law. While Lucien’s older brother became apolitical, Lucien maintained interest in geopolitics and came to sympathize with the politicians of his adoptive home state of Louisiana. Lucien came to oppose the American King on multiple issues, and accepted the South Carolina Governor’s proposal to serve as a unifying figurehead for the CSA. Lucien’s mother, Caroline Bonaparte (1782-1839), who was the Emperor Napoleon’s younger sister, opposed the war and Lucien’s possible “promotion” to king, due to the circumstances that led to her becoming a widow and not wanting to outlive her son in the event that the war was lost. She was thus relieved when the USA threw in the towel in the face of heavy losses and lost territory in 1834. Wanderlust encouraged the expansionist views of the new King Lucien of the CSA. The newly-acquired territory of California’s 1855 Gold Rush, which led to the famous “55er” gold-diggers, increased support for the territorial growth of the new nation. Lucien also worked on developing trade and diplomatic relations with countries overseas; for instance, due to Lucien’s marriage into a Scottish family, the South found an ally in Scotland, which at the time was still a part of Great Britain. Construction on the Presidential Palace in Savannah, Georgia was finished in 1859. King Lucien’s dedication to improving the quality of life and health of his fellow Confederates increased after the death of the heir apparent, his oldest son Joachim Joseph Napoleon Murat (1834-1862), in a disease outbreak that rattled Baton Rouge that summer. The death of his second oldest son, Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat (1847-1875), though, sent the now-aging King into a deep depression, bettered only by the comfort given to him by his last surviving son, who succeeded him to the throne three years later.
4/10/1878-9/22/1912 (34 years, 5 months): 2) Lucien II (12/22/1851-9/22/1912)
Outgoing, adventurous and bold, Louis Napoleon Murat had two older sisters who were passed over for the throne due to the Confederacy’s monarchical succession rules in place at the time. Like his father, Lucien II was a very popular monarch, especially as the CSA experienced a long period of prosperity and expansion during this time. Apart from the 1895 Bank Scare, the economy remained strong as parts of the Caribbean and Central America were absorbed into the Kingdom, either by diplomatic pressure or military might. Lucien’s marriage to a Ukrainian noblewoman improved the CSA’s relations with the Russian Empire, which explains that country’s backing of the Confederate Canal dug across the CSA territory of Panama from 1892 to 1907. Domestically, the rise in nonwhite citizens began to worry the nation’s upper classes; many other whites feared economic disaster as the quality of life among slaves was increasingly being scrutinized by foreign markets who joined the US in boycotting their products. To avoid an expected recession in 1908, the Confederate governors voted in favor of abolishing slavery, effective 1909; the economy improved as nations oversees immediately dropped their market embargoes. King Lucien II died unexpectedly in 1912 at the age of 60; rumors of foul play persisted for years, worsening CSA-USA relations still frigid from the war experienced 80 years prior.
9/22/1912-1/15/1935 (22 years, 4 months): 3) Michel (2/7/1887-6/8/1941)
The throne’s 25-year-old heir, Lucien II’s son, Prince Michel Anna Karel Joachim Napoleon Prins Murat, broke from tradition when he became the first Confederate Monarch to formally meet with a leading USA political figure, doing so at the nations’ shared border in 1914. The subsequent thawing of relations between the two lands proved to be mutually beneficial, trade-wise, and is seen as one of the few positive aspects of his reign (alongside him managing to change the nation’s monarchical succession rules). As it turned out, the King had a huge drinking problem and an even greater gambling problem, and creating years of scandals highlighting his irresponsible personality. By 1932, after 100 years of independence, the nation seemed to be in crisis no thanks to “Southern Rudy.” Additionally, Black Confederates and Latinex Confederates were demanding fairer treatment as their numbers grew. Amid much internal pressure, Michel was forced into abdicating due to gross unpopularity among both the people and the CSA’s governors. Michel was succeeded by his 21-year-old daughter, and he died from the effects of a lifetime of poor lifestyle choices at the age of 54.
1/15/1935-4/15/1985 (50 years, 3 months): 4) Laura (11/13/1913-5/10/1986)
Laura was an inspiration to the women of all three North American countries – Canada, the USA, and the CSA. Born Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Auberjonois (nee Murat), her reign featured technological innovation, labor reform, international diplomacy and humanitarianism, and most notably, a change in the nation’s treatment of woman and non-whites that culminated in the end of the nation’s Apartheid system in late 1941. After decades of strengthening relations between the Two Americas, the collaborative US-CS moon landing of 1979 was a celebrated success. Six years later, after 50 years on the throne, the tired-looking 72-year-old ruler announced she would abdicate in favor of her son. She passed away from cancer soon after vacating the throne, much to the shock and sadness of an unsuspecting public.
4/15/1985-present (2019) (34+ years): 5) Rene (born 6/1/1940)
King Rene, the first monarch from the House of Auberjonois, is the son of Fernand Auberjonois (1910-2004, the son of Rene Auberjonois (1872-57)), and is a distant relative of Emperor Napoleon (Rene’s mother was the great-great-granddaughter of the Emperor’s youngest sister). Prior to becoming King, Rene Murat Auberjonois demonstrated a flair for the arts via painting, playing music, and playing bit parts in numerous films and televista productions. As King, he promotes the nation’s growing entertainment industry and is a vocal advocate of harmony among the Confederacy’s many cultures (though the exception to this seems to be the crab-loving Confederate state of Jamaica, whom Rene dislikes for reasons he claims he cannot fathom). Regardless, the camaraderie between Rene and his counterparts in Europe and other parts of the world has really improved the CSA’s reputation abroad; ergo, the King currently remains a popular figure both at home and abroad.
Prime Ministers of the Confederated States of America, 1832-present
Wanting to set themselves apart from their Unionist and Canadian “brothers,” Confederates chose a parliamentary system in which a new PM was selected by the Assembly of Governors every five years, with sudden vacancies to the office being filled by the deputy speaker until a new PM was elected to serve for the time left in the term. Due to the nation’s monarchy stemming from Louisiana, the state saw few active PM candidates over fears of an “imbalance of representation” coming about from both King and PM being of Louisiana origin. The de facto leader of the Confederate War of Independence, John Calhoun, was elected in the 1832 special election, and again in the 1835 election that established the five-year term length.
1832-1840:
1) John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850, National-SC) – retired
1840-1845:
2) Gen. William Henry Ashley (1778-1858, Expansion-VA) – retired
1845-1850:
3) Edmund Ruffin (1794-1884, E-VA) – lost re-election
1850:
4) John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850, N-SC) – died from tuberculosis
1850 (interim): Joshua Pilcher (1790-1863, N-VA) – lost election
1850-1855:
5) Gen. John Giles Adams (1792-1862, Development-TN) – retired
1855-1857:
6) Gen. Wade Hampton II (1791-1857, E-SC) – assassinated
1857 (interim): Joshua Pilcher (1790-1863, N-VA) – lost election
1857-1860:
7) Gen. James Walker Fannin Jr. (1804-1879, D-TX) – lost re-election
1860-1870:
8) Edmund Ruffin (1794-1884, E-VA) – lost re-election
1870-1875:
9) Gen. William Barret “Buck” Travis (1809-1876, Confederate-SC) – retired
1875-1885:
10) Gen. Zebulon York (1819-1900, States First-MS) – retired
1885-1895:
11) Gen. Wade Hampton III (1818-1902, C-SC) – retired
1895-1900:
12) Augustus Octavius Bacon (1839-1914, C-GA) – lost re-election
1900-1905:
13) Ariosto Appling Wiley (1848-1908, SF-AL) – lost re-election
1905-1910:
14) Charles Brantley Aycock (1859-1912, C-NC) – lost re-election in an upset; was the brainchild of the CSA’s “apartheid” system, developed in some states during his tenure as PM and implemented nationally in 1916, worsening relations between the CSA and several countries.
1910-1915:
15) Gen. Wade Hampton IV (1840-1917, SF-SC) – retired due to poor health
1915-1919:
16) Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1919, SF-VA) – died from stroke
1919 (interim): Thomas Montgomery Bell (1861-1941, C-GA) – lost election
1919-1920:
17) Claude Kitchin (1869-1923, SF-NC) – lost re-election for criticizing Apartheid on the grounds of federal overreach
1920-1929:
18) Oscar Underwood (1862-1929, C-AL) – died from the effects of two disabling strokes suffered in the winter of 1928/29
1929 (interim): Thomas Montgomery Bell (1861-1941, C-GA) – lost election
1929-1930:
19) William Lee Cazort Sr. (1887-1969, C-AR) – lost re-nomination
1930-1935:
20) Lamar Jeffers (1888-1983, C-AL) – lost re-nomination
1935-1940:
21) William David Upshaw (1866-1952, C-GA) – retired due to age; his strong anti-nonwhite and anti-alcohol policies were contributing factors in growing unpopularity of both Apartheid (since 1916) and Prohibition (1931), leading to both being repealed during his successor’s tenure.
1940-1945:
22) Homer Cling Parker (1885-1946, C-GA) – retired due to poor health
1945-1950:
23) Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. (1897-1981, C-VA) – lost re-election by a narrow margin
1950-1960:
24) Woodrow Wilson Jones (1914-2002, Excelsior-NC) – lost re-election in a landslide
1960-1970:
25) Solomon Blatt Sr. (1895-1986, C-SC) – retired
1970-1975:
26) Richard Harding “Dick” Poff (1923-2011, Equality-VA) – elected in an upset; Poff was a former member of the Confederate Party disliked by radical members of the ad hoc Equality coalition; lost re-election in a landslide
1975-1985:
27) Solomon “Sol” Blatt Jr. (1921-2016, C-SC) – retired
1985-1990:
28) William Forrest Winter (b. 1923, Equality-MS) – improved standards of living among the lower classes; lost re-election in a very narrow and (allegedly) rigged election
1990-1995:
29) Roger Hedgecock (b. 1946, C-CA) – lost re-nomination in an upset
1995-2000:
30) Marion Price Daniel III (b. 1941, C-TX) – retired due to multiple scandals
2000-2005:
31) John M. Perkins (b. 1930, Equality-MS) – first Black PM; retired
2005-2010:
32) James Randy Forbes (b. 1952, C-VA) – lost re-election
2010-2015:
33) Loretta Lorna Sanchez (b. 1960, Equality-FL) – first Latinex PM and first female PM; lost re-election in a landslide
2015-present:
34) James Howie “Jay” Lucas (b. 1957, C-SC) – incumbent
(All these people are real, by the way, albeit USA PM #13 was named George Washington Kittredge IOTL)
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