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President of the United States of America (1933 - 2076)
1933 - 1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt / John Nance Garner (Democratic) [1]
def. 1932: Pres. Herbert Hoover / Vice Pres. Charles Curtis (Rep.)
def. 1936: Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas / Mr. Frank Knox (Rep.)
1939 - 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Charles L. McNary (Coalition For American Freedom) [2]
Elected unopposed in 1940
1944 - 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Vacant (Democratic) [3]
1945 - 1953: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
def. 1944: Gen. of Armies Douglas MacArthur / Gov. Earl Warren of California (Republican)
def. 1948: Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio / Minority Leader Joseph William Martin, Jr. (Republican), Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina / Frmr. Gov Ellis Arnall of Georgia (Southern Democratic), Justice William O. Douglas / Frmr. Vice Pres. Henry Wallace (Anti-Roosevelt Democrats)
1953 - 1961: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Liberal) [4]
def. 1952: Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee / Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky (Democratic), Frmr. Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota / Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York (Republican)
def. 1956: Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois / Rep. Richard Nixon for California (Democratic-Republican), Gov. George Bell Timmerman, Jr. of South Carolina / Gov. Thomas Bahnson Stanley of Virginia (Southern Democratic)
1961 - 1965: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. / Royce Joyner (Liberal) [5]
def. 1960: Sen. Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson / Gov. Stanley Parish of Idaho (Democratic-Republican)
1965 - 1967: Margaret Chase Smith / Luis H. Álvarez (Democratic-Republican) [6]
def. 1964: Vice Pres. Royce Joyner / Gov. Lester B. Pearson of Ontario (Liberal)
1967 - 1973: Luis H. Álvarez / Robert D. Fulton (Unionist) [7]
def. 1968: Sen. George Wilson for Newfoundland / Gov. Fernando Belaúnde Terry of Lima Federal District (Liberal); Gov. Fidel Castro of Cuba / Rep. Che Guevara for Santa Fe (Socialist Workers); Gov. Juan Domingo Perón of Buenos Aires / Sen. Artur da Costa e Silva of Rio Grande do Sul (Militant America Faction)
1973 - 1979: Ronald W. Reagan / Richard M. Nixon (Liberal-Unionist Coupon) [8]
def. 1972: Gov. Pierre Trudeau of Quebec / General Hubert H. Humphrey (Progressive Liberals); Sen. Jacqueline Bouvier of New York / Gov. John Turner of Newfoundland (Chasite Unionists); Governor-General el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz of Fredonia / Mr. John Henrik Clarke (Pan-African Organization); Mr. John David Krieger / Mr. Salvador Allende (Socialist Workers)
def. 1976: Sen. Jacqueline Bouvier / Governor Pierre Trudeau (Progressive-Unionist Coupon)
1979 - 1985: Jacqueline Bouvier / Clark Hudson (Unionist) [9]
def. Apr. 1979: Pres. Ronald W. Reagan / Gov. Charles Hamilton of Ohio (Liberal); Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson / Sen. Frank Reddington of Florida (Progressive Liberal); Salvador Allende / Wilbur T. Johnson (Socialist Workers)
def. 1980: Gov. Charles Hamilton of Ohio / Pres. Tyler Smith of ABC (Liberal); Rep. Brian Mulroney of Quebec (Conservative Unionist); Chrm. Albert Gore of the AEF / Adm. Wesley Pierce, USN (Environmental Advocation); Mr. Thomas Carrick / Ms. Patricia Friedman (Social Credit)
1985 - 1993: Brian Mulroney / Amanda Mitsuyama (Conservative Unionist-Liberal Coupon) [10]
[1] President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in the height of America's worst economic depression in 1933. His first term was spent investing significant effort in revitalizing the economy, and moving America away from the isolationism that was causing damage to her international standing in the face of the growing spectres of fascism. His second term was spent in much the same way, before the alien invasions began. the Invasion Fleet landed on Earth and invaded through portals and drop-ships, ranging everywhere from Roswell, New Mexico, to Berlin, to Beijing, the Seoul, so on and so forth. Social order in the United States collapsed, and President Roosevelt mobilized for a national emergency. In 1939, after Vice President John N. Garner was killed while in Texas, FDR piloted the 'Coalition for American Freedom', inviting Senate Republican leader Charles L. McNary to take office as Vice President, effective immediately. Overstepping Congress, FDR passed an Executive Order enabling him to do so. As a result, the 1940 election went on but was largely 'rubber-stamp' as FDR was re-elected unopposed.
[2] FDR's 3rd term as President was spent fighting the invasion, as the aliens advanced deep into American territory. In 1940, numerous caches of alien weaponry were captured, and the United States began to co-opt their technology for themselves. Franklin Roosevelt benefitted from some of the civilian technology gained from the alien crashes, namely, the nano-molecular constructors. FDR's health hit new heights, and he began to walk again, which rallied public morale. The President began to push for rapid armament, and signed the Concordat in July 1940, aligning the United States with that of Hitler's Third Reich, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. The first American 'hovership' rolled off the line in 1942, named the H-42 'Cactus Jack'.
[3] After the death of Vice President McNary in 1944, FDR returned to a single party, the Democratic Party, and nominated Harry S. Truman to the office of Vice President instead-- the Missouri politician was naive in many ways, but was a contributive effort to FDR's White House. During this term, the United States unlocked the secrets of the atomic bomb, and used it numerous times against alien invaders in the Mexican plateaus and in Africa. In 1947, America's first orbital spaceship, the USS John Nance Garner, was rolled off the line, showing how quickly technological innovation was moving against the alien threat. In 1948, President Roosevelt declared a 'global crusade against the alien menace', and was joined with Adolf Hitler, whom angrily stated that 'the time was now to wipe the sub-species off the face of the Earth'. The 1948 election saw a divided Democratic field, with the Southerners and anti-Roosevelt candidates fighting for their own votes. FDR succeeded in winning, but used this to pivot into a new political party to unite the liberals of the Republicans and Democrats.
[4] FDR's 5th and 6th terms were spent focusing entirely on the war against the alien species. During the 1950s, America and her allies set the alien invaders back by several exponential ways; leading up to the establishment of the Galactic Senate, and the launch of several 'faster than light' ships, including the USS Valour, KMS Horst Wessel, HMS Balfour, and the Niigata. During this period, the United States and her allies pushed the aliens back on all fronts, taking hundreds of planets across the galaxy, with Mars serving as the 'toughest nut to crack'. As well, during this period, several million peoples of varying ethnicity were deported from nations across the globe to far-off planetary conquests--Mexicans, Indigenous peoples, Sorbs, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Slovaks, Ukrainians, et al.--the United States definitely participated in this, giving several white supremacists passage to a new planet of their own (Confederate States) or creating black republics in the stars. FDR did not run again in 1960, deciding that with the war going so well, he could afford to retire.
[5] Henry Cabot Lodge was a one-term President by choice, rather than by popular acclaim. He did not desire to run for President on his own volition except in 1960, where he went up against Lyndon B. Johnson and Stanley Parish, both conservative Dem-Reps whom were opposed to keeping the Concordat together. They were defeated, but the Democratic-Republicans would be back in 1964, they were certain. During this period, the Race was exterminated after the homeworld was razed to ash by the SS-Galaktischen Sturmtruppen (SS-GS) which killed millions of Race citizens in a reprisal for the slaughter of entire cities of German citizens by their invading armies. The remaining fleets of the Race, and colonies, were soon wiped out by the Luftwaffe's dozen plus 'Stardestroyer' ships.
During this period, the United States Constitution was ratified to block Presidents from serving more than two consecutive terms.
[6] Margaret Chase Smith was a well-liked woman. She was sharp as a tack, and took no nonsense. During her administration, the United States admitted millions upon millions of square miles of territory to the United States, after it became painfully obvious that none of the nations of the American hemisphere would be able to survive in the new, space-faring age. By the time of her assassination by Brazilian nationalists in 1967, the United States had expanded her Terran territory from the arctic poles of Canada, to the tip of Patagonia--and with it, the political scene was becoming incredibly chaotic. Luis H. Alvarez, a Mexican political leader, succeeded her after she was shot and killed by a Brazilian nationalist in 1967.
[7] Under President Alvarez, the Democratic-Republican Party changed it's name to 'Unionist' to invoke a more unified and less 'oxymoronic' name, as well as to extend inclusiveness to the many many conservatives south of the equator. 1968 was a chaotic election, with Alvarez challenged not only by the Wilson/Terry ticket for the Liberals, but also socialist revolutionaries Che Guevara and Fidel Castro; and militant anti-democratic figures such as Governor Peron and Senator Silva. Alvarez managed to emerge victorious, after presiding over the 'victory' of the war against the xenos. The war boom began to end, as Alvarez took his second term of office--it became obvious that he wouldn't win another.
During his presidency, the SCOTUS handed down the controversial Johnson v. Kwa'lun ruling which stated that the 13th Amendment did not apply to non-citizen extraterrestrial non-humanoids. This was controversial as it meant the legalization of alien slavery, which caused riots by African-Americans and others for weeks after the ruling. No amendment was ever proposed to 'amend' the 13th Amendment to fix this error.
[8] The Presidency of Ronald Reagan was an interesting one. After coming to power in the 1972 election, the United States moved to enact a more 'globalist' trend of elections, doing away with the electoral college by 1977; his presidency was focused on reform and modernization. As such, he attracted a number of splintering parties from both him and his Vice President's agenda. In 1976, he faced not only progressive opposition to Nixon, but also Chasite ideological schism from within the Unionists. His Presidency came to an end in 1979 after the Casseopeia Affair, the death of Vice President Nixon, and the subsequent 'vote of no confidence'.
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WIP thus far:
President of the United States of America (1933 - 2076)
1933 - 1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt / John Nance Garner (Democratic) [1]
def. 1932: Pres. Herbert Hoover / Vice Pres. Charles Curtis (Rep.)
def. 1936: Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas / Mr. Frank Knox (Rep.)
1939 - 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Charles L. McNary (Coalition For American Freedom) [2]
Elected unopposed in 1940
1944 - 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Vacant (Democratic) [3]
1945 - 1953: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
def. 1944: Gen. of Armies Douglas MacArthur / Gov. Earl Warren of California (Republican)
def. 1948: Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio / Minority Leader Joseph William Martin, Jr. (Republican), Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina / Frmr. Gov Ellis Arnall of Georgia (Southern Democratic), Justice William O. Douglas / Frmr. Vice Pres. Henry Wallace (Anti-Roosevelt Democrats)
1953 - 1961: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Liberal) [4]
def. 1952: Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee / Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky (Democratic), Frmr. Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota / Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York (Republican)
def. 1956: Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois / Rep. Richard Nixon for California (Democratic-Republican), Gov. George Bell Timmerman, Jr. of South Carolina / Gov. Thomas Bahnson Stanley of Virginia (Southern Democratic)
1961 - 1965: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. / Royce Joyner (Liberal) [5]
def. 1960: Sen. Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson / Gov. Stanley Parish of Idaho (Democratic-Republican)
1965 - 1967: Margaret Chase Smith / Luis H. Álvarez (Democratic-Republican) [6]
def. 1964: Vice Pres. Royce Joyner / Gov. Lester B. Pearson of Ontario (Liberal)
1967 - 1973: Luis H. Álvarez / Robert D. Fulton (Unionist) [7]
def. 1968: Sen. George Wilson for Newfoundland / Gov. Fernando Belaúnde Terry of Lima Federal District (Liberal); Gov. Fidel Castro of Cuba / Rep. Che Guevara for Santa Fe (Socialist Workers); Gov. Juan Domingo Perón of Buenos Aires / Sen. Artur da Costa e Silva of Rio Grande do Sul (Militant America Faction)
1973 - 1979: Ronald W. Reagan / Richard M. Nixon (Liberal-Unionist Coupon) [8]
def. 1972: Gov. Pierre Trudeau of Quebec / General Hubert H. Humphrey (Progressive Liberals); Sen. Jacqueline Bouvier of New York / Gov. John Turner of Newfoundland (Chasite Unionists); Governor-General el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz of Fredonia / Mr. John Henrik Clarke (Pan-African Organization); Mr. John David Krieger / Mr. Salvador Allende (Socialist Workers)
def. 1976: Sen. Jacqueline Bouvier / Governor Pierre Trudeau (Progressive-Unionist Coupon)
1979 - 1985: Jacqueline Bouvier / Clark Hudson (Unionist) [9]
def. Apr. 1979: Pres. Ronald W. Reagan / Gov. Charles Hamilton of Ohio (Liberal); Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson / Sen. Frank Reddington of Florida (Progressive Liberal); Salvador Allende / Wilbur T. Johnson (Socialist Workers)
def. 1980: Gov. Charles Hamilton of Ohio / Pres. Tyler Smith of ABC (Liberal); Rep. Brian Mulroney of Quebec (Conservative Unionist); Chrm. Albert Gore of the AEF / Adm. Wesley Pierce, USN (Environmental Advocation); Mr. Thomas Carrick / Ms. Patricia Friedman (Social Credit)
1985 - 1993: Brian Mulroney / Amanda Mitsuyama (Conservative Unionist-Liberal Coupon) [10]
[1] President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in the height of America's worst economic depression in 1933. His first term was spent investing significant effort in revitalizing the economy, and moving America away from the isolationism that was causing damage to her international standing in the face of the growing spectres of fascism. His second term was spent in much the same way, before the alien invasions began. the Invasion Fleet landed on Earth and invaded through portals and drop-ships, ranging everywhere from Roswell, New Mexico, to Berlin, to Beijing, the Seoul, so on and so forth. Social order in the United States collapsed, and President Roosevelt mobilized for a national emergency. In 1939, after Vice President John N. Garner was killed while in Texas, FDR piloted the 'Coalition for American Freedom', inviting Senate Republican leader Charles L. McNary to take office as Vice President, effective immediately. Overstepping Congress, FDR passed an Executive Order enabling him to do so. As a result, the 1940 election went on but was largely 'rubber-stamp' as FDR was re-elected unopposed.
[2] FDR's 3rd term as President was spent fighting the invasion, as the aliens advanced deep into American territory. In 1940, numerous caches of alien weaponry were captured, and the United States began to co-opt their technology for themselves. Franklin Roosevelt benefitted from some of the civilian technology gained from the alien crashes, namely, the nano-molecular constructors. FDR's health hit new heights, and he began to walk again, which rallied public morale. The President began to push for rapid armament, and signed the Concordat in July 1940, aligning the United States with that of Hitler's Third Reich, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. The first American 'hovership' rolled off the line in 1942, named the H-42 'Cactus Jack'.
[3] After the death of Vice President McNary in 1944, FDR returned to a single party, the Democratic Party, and nominated Harry S. Truman to the office of Vice President instead-- the Missouri politician was naive in many ways, but was a contributive effort to FDR's White House. During this term, the United States unlocked the secrets of the atomic bomb, and used it numerous times against alien invaders in the Mexican plateaus and in Africa. In 1947, America's first orbital spaceship, the USS John Nance Garner, was rolled off the line, showing how quickly technological innovation was moving against the alien threat. In 1948, President Roosevelt declared a 'global crusade against the alien menace', and was joined with Adolf Hitler, whom angrily stated that 'the time was now to wipe the sub-species off the face of the Earth'. The 1948 election saw a divided Democratic field, with the Southerners and anti-Roosevelt candidates fighting for their own votes. FDR succeeded in winning, but used this to pivot into a new political party to unite the liberals of the Republicans and Democrats.
[4] FDR's 5th and 6th terms were spent focusing entirely on the war against the alien species. During the 1950s, America and her allies set the alien invaders back by several exponential ways; leading up to the establishment of the Galactic Senate, and the launch of several 'faster than light' ships, including the USS Valour, KMS Horst Wessel, HMS Balfour, and the Niigata. During this period, the United States and her allies pushed the aliens back on all fronts, taking hundreds of planets across the galaxy, with Mars serving as the 'toughest nut to crack'. As well, during this period, several million peoples of varying ethnicity were deported from nations across the globe to far-off planetary conquests--Mexicans, Indigenous peoples, Sorbs, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Slovaks, Ukrainians, et al.--the United States definitely participated in this, giving several white supremacists passage to a new planet of their own (Confederate States) or creating black republics in the stars. FDR did not run again in 1960, deciding that with the war going so well, he could afford to retire.
[5] Henry Cabot Lodge was a one-term President by choice, rather than by popular acclaim. He did not desire to run for President on his own volition except in 1960, where he went up against Lyndon B. Johnson and Stanley Parish, both conservative Dem-Reps whom were opposed to keeping the Concordat together. They were defeated, but the Democratic-Republicans would be back in 1964, they were certain. During this period, the Race was exterminated after the homeworld was razed to ash by the SS-Galaktischen Sturmtruppen (SS-GS) which killed millions of Race citizens in a reprisal for the slaughter of entire cities of German citizens by their invading armies. The remaining fleets of the Race, and colonies, were soon wiped out by the Luftwaffe's dozen plus 'Stardestroyer' ships.
During this period, the United States Constitution was ratified to block Presidents from serving more than two consecutive terms.
[6] Margaret Chase Smith was a well-liked woman. She was sharp as a tack, and took no nonsense. During her administration, the United States admitted millions upon millions of square miles of territory to the United States, after it became painfully obvious that none of the nations of the American hemisphere would be able to survive in the new, space-faring age. By the time of her assassination by Brazilian nationalists in 1967, the United States had expanded her Terran territory from the arctic poles of Canada, to the tip of Patagonia--and with it, the political scene was becoming incredibly chaotic. Luis H. Alvarez, a Mexican political leader, succeeded her after she was shot and killed by a Brazilian nationalist in 1967.
[7] Under President Alvarez, the Democratic-Republican Party changed it's name to 'Unionist' to invoke a more unified and less 'oxymoronic' name, as well as to extend inclusiveness to the many many conservatives south of the equator. 1968 was a chaotic election, with Alvarez challenged not only by the Wilson/Terry ticket for the Liberals, but also socialist revolutionaries Che Guevara and Fidel Castro; and militant anti-democratic figures such as Governor Peron and Senator Silva. Alvarez managed to emerge victorious, after presiding over the 'victory' of the war against the xenos. The war boom began to end, as Alvarez took his second term of office--it became obvious that he wouldn't win another.
During his presidency, the SCOTUS handed down the controversial Johnson v. Kwa'lun ruling which stated that the 13th Amendment did not apply to non-citizen extraterrestrial non-humanoids. This was controversial as it meant the legalization of alien slavery, which caused riots by African-Americans and others for weeks after the ruling. No amendment was ever proposed to 'amend' the 13th Amendment to fix this error.
[8] The Presidency of Ronald Reagan was an interesting one. After coming to power in the 1972 election, the United States moved to enact a more 'globalist' trend of elections, doing away with the electoral college by 1977; his presidency was focused on reform and modernization. As such, he attracted a number of splintering parties from both him and his Vice President's agenda. In 1976, he faced not only progressive opposition to Nixon, but also Chasite ideological schism from within the Unionists. His Presidency came to an end in 1979 after the Casseopeia Affair, the death of Vice President Nixon, and the subsequent 'vote of no confidence'.
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