Alternate Politicians - Before 1900

This is the thread for politicians before 1900 example is below

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Abraham Lincoln

List of Offices:
(1834 - 1842): Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
(1847 - 1849): Member of the United States House of Representatives
(1861 - 1869): President of the United States of America

I would like it to be know that the thread for after 1900 is linked below.

 
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Robert M. LaFollette
(Yes, someone did this in the previous thread, but I want to go an alternative take)

Member of the United States House of Representatives: 1885-1891
Governor of Wisconsin: 1897-1901 [FN1]
Vice-President of the United States: 1901 [FN2]
President of the United States: 1901 - 1913 [FN3]

And, in the same world

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Theodore Roosevelt

Member of the New York State Assembly: 1882-1884
Governor of New York: 1889 - 1903
United States Senator: 1903 - 1928 [FN4]

[FN1] The actual POD; LaFollette defeats Schofield in the state GOP conention and becomes governor earlier than in OTL
[FN2] McKinley and LaFollette served together in the House and had a good relationship. In a TL where LaFollette has had two successful terms as a Governor, I could see him getting the nomination over Roosevelt. 1) Because the conservatives in the state would have many of the same reasons to 'bury' LaFollete as those in NY did with Roosevelt 2) he helps balance the ticket geographically and can help McKinley in the West, as well as ideologically
[FN3] LaFollette isn't the type to go back and forth - he probably makes the same argument that Roosevelt would make later; that he hadn't served two full terms. But he'd do so earlier and a bit more decisively.
[FN4] The Roosevelt-Platt feud grows in intensity and TR manages to unseat the Boss for his Senate Seat in 1903. He goes on to have a long career in the United States Senate, but is frustrated in his quest for the Presidency (him picking a fight with LaFollette early in his Senatorial career doesn't really help his chances). However, since he avoids his trip up the Amazon, Roosevelt never developes malaria and lives longer, passing away in 1928 at the age of 69. His son, TR Jr. is appointed to fill out his term.
 
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Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

Name: Thomas Paine
Born: February 9, 1737
Died: June 8, 1809 (aged 72)
Political Party:

Independent (before 1789)
Liberty (1789-1809)
Spouses: Mary Lambert (m. 1759; died 1759), Elizabeth Ollive (m. 1771; separated 1774)

List of Offices:
1st President of the United States (April 30, 1789 - June 8, 1809)
 
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Albert M. Todd (1850-1931)

Name: Albert M. Todd
Born: June 3, 1850
Died: October 6, 1931
Political Party:

Republican (1850-1875)
Prohibition (1875-1896)
Democratic (1896-1899)
Independent (1899-1903)
Liberation (1903-1931)

List of Offices:
United States Representative for Michigan's 3rd District (1897-1899)
Chairman of the Liberation Front, Midwestern Sector (1904-1906)
Councilor in the Grand Council of the Republic (alongside Thomas W. Higginson, J. Stitt Wilson, and John R. Kelso) (1906-1911)
Adviser to Supreme Councilors Debs, Sinclair, Wheeler, Long, and Langer (1911-1931)
Archivist of the Republic (1925-1931)
 
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Albert M. Todd (1850-1931)

Name: Albert M. Todd
Born: June 3, 1850
Died: October 6, 1931
Political Party:

Republican (1850-1875)
Prohibition (1875-1896)
Democratic (1896-1899)
Independent (1899-1903)
Liberation (1903-1931)

List of Offices:
United States Representative for Michigan's 3rd District (1897-1899)
Chairman of the Liberation Front, Midwestern Sector (1904-1906)
Councilor in the Grand Council of the Republic (alongside Thomas W. Higginson, J. Stitt Wilson, and John R. Kelso) (1906-1911)
Adviser to Supreme Councilors Debs, Sinclair, Wheeler, Long, and Langer (1911-1931)
Archivist of the Republic (1925-1931)
Love this lay out!
 
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Albert M. Todd (1850-1931)

Name: Albert M. Todd
Born: June 3, 1850
Died: October 6, 1931
Political Party:

Republican (1850-1875)
Prohibition (1875-1896)
Democratic (1896-1899)
Independent (1899-1903)
Liberation (1903-1931)

List of Offices:
United States Representative for Michigan's 3rd District (1897-1899)
Chairman of the Liberation Front, Midwestern Sector (1904-1906)
Councilor in the Grand Council of the Republic (alongside Thomas W. Higginson, J. Stitt Wilson, and John R. Kelso) (1906-1911)
Adviser to Supreme Councilors Debs, Sinclair, Wheeler, Long, and Langer (1911-1931)
Archivist of the Republic (1925-1931)
Is that Times New Roman font?
 
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1961)

Name: Theodore "T.R./Teddy" Roosevelt Jr.
Born: October 27, 1858
Died: April 12, 1961 (aged 102)
Political Party:

Republican (1880-1904)
Progressive "Bull Moose" (1904-1961)
Spouse: Alice Lee (m. 1880; died 1957)
Children: Alice (b. 1884), Theodore III (b. 1887), Kermit (b. 1889), Ethel (b. 1891), Archibald (b. 1894), Quentin (b. 1897)


List of Offices:
Member of the New York State Assembly from the 21st district (January 1, 1882 - December 31, 1884)
Majority Leader of the New York State Assembly (January 1, 1883 - December 31, 1883)
87th Mayor of New York City (January 1, 1887 - December 31, 1888)
30th Governor of New York (January 1, 1889 - December 31, 1896)
25th and 28th President of the United States (March 4, 1897 - March 4, 1925; March 4, 1933 - January 20, 1949)
United States Senator from New York, Class 3 (March 4, 1927 - March 4, 1933)
Senate Majority Leader (March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933)
Chair of the Senate Progressive Conference (March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933)




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Robert M. La Follette (1855–1925)

Name: Robert Marion "Bob/Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr.
Born: June 14, 1855
Died: June 18, 1925 (aged 70)
Political Party:

Republican (before 1904)
Progressive (1904-1925)
Spouse: Belle Case (m. 1881)
Children: Fola (b. 1882), Robert Jr. (b. 1895), Philip (b. 1897), Mary (b. 1899)


List of Offices:
District Attorney of Dane County (1881–1885)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 3rd district (March 4, 1885 - January 3, 1897)
19th Governor of Wisconsin (January 4, 1897 - January 1, 1906)
United States Senator from Wisconsin (January 4, 1906 - March 3, 1925)
Senate Majority Leader (August 17, 1918 - March 3, 1925)
Chair of the Senate Progressive Conference (November 28, 1924 - March 3, 1925)
26th President of the United States (March 4, 1925 - June 18, 1925)




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Floyd B. Olson (1891–1980)

Name: Floyd Bjørnstjerne Olson
Born: November 13, 1891
Died: January 7, 1980 (aged 88)
Political Party:

Progressive
Spouse: Ada Krejci (m. 1915)
Children: Patricia (b. 1921)


List of Offices:
Assistant County Attorney of Hennepin County (May 3, 1919 - January 7, 1920)
County Attorney of Hennepin County (January 7, 1920 - March 3, 1921)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th district (March 4, 1921 - January 6, 1923; January 3, 1935 - November 3, 1936)
21st Governor of Minnesota (January 6, 1923 - January 4, 1925)
28th Vice President of the United States (March 4, 1925 - June 18, 1925)
27th and 29th President of the United States (June 18, 1925 - March 4, 1933; January 20, 1949 - January 20, 1957)
United States Senator from Minnesota, Class 2 (November 4, 1936 - January 3, 1949)
Senate Majority Whip (January 3, 1939 - January 3, 1943; January 3, 1959 - January 3, 1961)
Senate Majority Leader (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1949; January 3, 1961 - January 3, 1977)
Chair of the Senate Progressive Caucus (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1949; January 3, 1961 - January 3, 1977)
United States Senator from Minnesota, Class 1 (January 3, 1959 - January 3, 1977)




Basically this is what if the "Roosevelt Curse" never happened. Roosevelt's father never dies in 1878, his mother and wife both don't die in 1884, he wins the 1886 NYC mayoral race catapulting his political career into the national spotlight a decade earlier and kickstarting a presidential campaign in 1896, and his children Quentin, Theodore III, and Kermit survive the Great Wars and live to have prominent, successful, and profitable political careers in the 20th Century. There's also that quote "Death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there'd have been a fight" which is taken quite literally here.

Edit: Have added Robert M. La Follette Sr. and Floyd B. Olson, two of my favourite progressive politicians to this as they exist in the same universe. La Follette wins re-election to his congressional seat until he's elected Governor of Wisconsin four years earlier than IOTL (I know someone already had La Follette but here McKinley doesn't become POTUS so he stays as governor until his election to the Senate in 1906 and then later becomes the first Senate Majority Leader for the latter half of Roosevelt's 28 year presidency ITTL. I know Olson technically should be in the After 1900 thread but I put him here since the butterflies cause him to join the Progressives rather than the Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties due the former's larger success ITTL, as well as him becoming La Follette's Vice President and then President after La Follette's death until TR takes office again in 1933 to deal with the Great Recession (never develops into a depression due to alternate economic conditions and progressive policies).
 
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Name: Victoria Woodhull
Date of Birth: September 23, 1838
Date of Death: June 9, 1927 (age 88)
Political Party: Equal Rights

List of Offices Held:
President of the United States (March 4, 1877 - March 4, 1885)
 
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Name: Frederick Douglass
Date of Birth: c. February 1817 - February 1818
Date of Death: February 20, 1895
Political Party: Republican

List of Offices Held:
Vice President of the United States (March 4, 1877 - March 4, 1885)
President of the United States (March 4, 1885 - March 4, 1893)
 
The Grand Quadrumvirate

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William H. Seward (1801-1872)

Name: William H. Seward
Born: May 16, 1801
Died: October 10, 1872
Political Party:

Anti-Masonic (Before 1834)
Whig (1834-1855)
Republican (1855-1872)

List of Offices:

New York State Senator (1831-1835)
Governor of New York (1839-1842)
United States Senator for New York (1849-1861)
United States Secretary of State (1861-1869)
President of the United States (1869-1872)

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Oliver P. Morton (1823-1877)

Name: Oliver P. Morton
Born: August 4, 1823
Died: November 1, 1877
Political Party:

Democratic (Before 1854)
People's (1854-1856)
Republican (1856-1877)

List of Offices:

Circuit Court Judge (1852-1853)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (1861)
Governor of Indiana (1861-1867)
United States Senator for Indiana (1867-1869)
Vice President of the United States (1869-1872)
President of the United States (1872-1877)

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Charles Sumner (1811-1874)

Name: Charles Sumner
Born: January 6, 1811
Died: March 11, 1874
Political Party:
Whig (1840-1848)
Free Soil (1848-1854)
Republican (1854-1874)

List of Offices:

United States Senator for Massachusetts (1851-1869)
United States Secretary of State (1869-1873)
United States Vice President (1873-1874)

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Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)

Name: Ulysses S. Grant
Born: April 27, 1822
Died: July 23, 1885
Political Party:

Democratic (Before 1861)
Republican (1861-1885)

List of Offices:

Commanding General of the United States Army (1864-1869)
United States Secretary of War (1869-1877)
President of the United States (1877-1885)
With Lincoln avoiding his OTL assassination, he goes on to continue to hold the presidency until the completion of his second term in 1869. With his much more steady hand at that the helm of Reconstruction, political forces are far less discredited and the clamor for a military man (although still present) is far less pronounced. With Lincoln's announcement that he will not seek a third term, a power vacuum opens up with the Republican Party as Lincoln designates no clear successor. Thus, many of the most powerful and influential forces rush to fill the void at the 1868 Republican National Convention. Secretary of State Seward runs as the heir apparent, senior statesman, and rumored favorite of Lincoln, although many view him as somewhat antiquated and overly conservative. Sensing opportunity and a potential weakness on the part of Seward, Senator (and former governor) Oliver P. Morton enters the contest with a strong reputation due to his capable service leading a crucial state during the American Civil War. Senator Charles Sumner, meanwhile, is persuaded that only a man of his reputation and gravitas can defeat Seward in order to ensure a radical Reconstruction. Finally, the ongoing violence within the former Confederate States, although less prevalent than IOTL, causes backers of General Ulysses S. Grant to be able to convince him to enter the convention to provide the military man and solution they claim the country is clamoring for (and to, privately, ensure that the civil service reform-minded Sumner does not run away with the radical vote).

Ultimately and unsurprisingly, the four titans deadlock the convention and as the number of ballots continue to grow the concern among Republican leadership that an otherwise safe race is being jeopardized by the dissonance grows also. Eventually, an agreement is reached in which the four rivals, despite their strong distaste for each other generally, unite to form one administration. Thus, what becomes known as the "Grand Quadrumvirate" is formed as the four men come to dominate Republican Party politics (and the political scene as a whole) for the upcoming decade and a half, only ceasing when Grant declines to run for a third presidential term, allowing the Democratic Party to return from their over two decades of political wilderness with the subsequent election of Henry B. Payne of Ohio and William G. Stahlnecker of New York to the presidency and vice presidency respectively.
 
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Name: James Abram Garfield
Date of Birth: November 19, 1831
Date of Death: July 2, 1914 (age 82)
Political Party: Republican

List of Offices Held:
Member of the Ohio Senate from the 26th district (January 2, 1860 – August 21, 1861)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 19th district (March 4, 1863 - November 4, 1880)
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee (March 4, 1871 - March 4, 1875)
President of the United States (March 4, 1881 - March 4, 1889)
Governor of Ohio (January 13, 1890 - January 15, 1894)
Senator from Ohio (March 4, 1898 - July 2, 1914) (Died in office)
 
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Name: William McKinley
Date of Birth: January 19, 1843
Date of Death: July 15, 1927 (age 84)
Political Party: Republican

List of Offices Held:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio (March 4, 1877 - May 27, 1884 and March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1891)
Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee (March 4, 1889 - March 4, 1891)
Governor of Ohio (January 11, 1892 - January 13, 1896)
President of the United States (March 4, 1897 - March 4, 1905)
Senator from Ohio (March 4, 1909 - March 3, 1921) (Lost re-election)
 
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Name: William McKinley
Date of Birth: January 19, 1843
Date of Death: July 15, 1927 (age 84)
Political Party: Republican

List of Offices Held:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio (March 4, 1877 - May 27, 1884 and March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1891)
Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee (March 4, 1889 - March 4, 1891)
Governor of Ohio (January 11, 1892 - January 13, 1896)
President of the United States (March 4, 1897 - March 4, 1905)
Senator from Ohio (March 4, 1909 - March 3, 1921)
Wouldn't McKinley leave the Senate on March 4, 1921? Other wise I'm loving the alternate Garfield and McKinley presidencies where they live prosperous lives and semi-successful presidencies with a post-presidency political career.
 
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