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Taft Goes to Court (Mk. 2)
1909-1913: Leslie M. Shaw / John W. Dwight (Republican) [1]
1908: William Jennings Bryan / Clark Howell (Democratic)
1913-1917: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. / Charles Nagel (Republican)
1912: J. B. "Champ" Clark / T. Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
1917-1925: William Jennings Bryan / Woodson R. Oglesby (Democratic) [2]
1916: Theodore Roosevelt / Charles Nagel (Republican), Robert La Follette/Robert P. Bass (Progressive Anti-War)
1920: James R. Garfield / Jeter C. Pritchard (Republican)
1925-1929: Warren W. Bailey / Herbert Hoover (Democratic) [3]
1924: Gifford Pinchot / Charles B. Warren (Republican), Henry Ford/Nicholas M. Butler (Reform)
1929-1937: James G. Harbord / Henry L. Stimson (Republican) [4]
1928: Warren W. Bailey / Herbert Hoover (Democratic)
1932: James W. Gerard / Henry F. Ashurst (Democratic)
1937-1942: A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. / Joseph R. Knowland (Republican) [5]
1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Henry B. Steagall (Democratic), Huey P. Long Jr./Smedley D. Butler (Everyman)
1940: David L. Lawrence / Ernest McFarland (Democratic)
1942-1945: Joseph R. Knowland / Vacant (Republican)
1945-1949: W. Prentice Cooper, Jr. / Lewis W. Douglas (Democratic) [6]
1944: Joseph R. Knowland / Channing H. Cox (Republican)
[1] William Howard Taft gets appointed to the Supreme Court like he always wanted - in his place TR chooses a different handpicked successor - Secretary of the Treasury and former Iowa Governor Leslie Shaw. Shaw has even less of a spine than Taft, hard as that is to believe. Come 1912, when TR pulls his "Shit, I only said consecutive terms" stunt - Shaw stands aside
[2] Teddy's (third) term went great aside from that whole 'try and push an unwilling nation towards WW1' thing. And also that whole 'Split your own party doing that' thing. And also the whole 'finally lose to William Jennings Bryan thing'. Hey, at least Bryan kept us out of war.
[3] Do you like Georgism? It turns out that the world economy doesn't. (Or maybe it had to do with that whole 'New Party March on London' thing. Who knows?)
[4] Harbord comes in as a bluff former general promising to fix anything. One could rather reluctantly conclude that, yes, unilaterally declaring war on Japan does help fix the American economy.
[5] Luckily, Governor Andrew actually knows his shit when it comes to economics - growth is stable and he actualy uses some spare time to pass an anti-lynching law or two. Then of course the Soviet Union and the British Republic plunge the world into war.
[6] A tired newspaper publisher isn't the man to make the world safe for Democracy - that falls to activist Governor Prentice Cooper, who in 1947 can finally travel to a bombed out Whitehall. Alongside Chancellor Adolf Bauser, he flashes V for Victory and declares the immortal words - "Mac is dead"
Taft Goes to Court (Mk. 2)
1909-1913: Leslie M. Shaw / John W. Dwight (Republican) [1]
1908: William Jennings Bryan / Clark Howell (Democratic)
1913-1917: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. / Charles Nagel (Republican)
1912: J. B. "Champ" Clark / T. Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
1917-1925: William Jennings Bryan / Woodson R. Oglesby (Democratic) [2]
1916: Theodore Roosevelt / Charles Nagel (Republican), Robert La Follette/Robert P. Bass (Progressive Anti-War)
1920: James R. Garfield / Jeter C. Pritchard (Republican)
1925-1929: Warren W. Bailey / Herbert Hoover (Democratic) [3]
1924: Gifford Pinchot / Charles B. Warren (Republican), Henry Ford/Nicholas M. Butler (Reform)
1929-1937: James G. Harbord / Henry L. Stimson (Republican) [4]
1928: Warren W. Bailey / Herbert Hoover (Democratic)
1932: James W. Gerard / Henry F. Ashurst (Democratic)
1937-1942: A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. / Joseph R. Knowland (Republican) [5]
1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Henry B. Steagall (Democratic), Huey P. Long Jr./Smedley D. Butler (Everyman)
1940: David L. Lawrence / Ernest McFarland (Democratic)
1942-1945: Joseph R. Knowland / Vacant (Republican)
1945-1949: W. Prentice Cooper, Jr. / Lewis W. Douglas (Democratic) [6]
1944: Joseph R. Knowland / Channing H. Cox (Republican)
[1] William Howard Taft gets appointed to the Supreme Court like he always wanted - in his place TR chooses a different handpicked successor - Secretary of the Treasury and former Iowa Governor Leslie Shaw. Shaw has even less of a spine than Taft, hard as that is to believe. Come 1912, when TR pulls his "Shit, I only said consecutive terms" stunt - Shaw stands aside
[2] Teddy's (third) term went great aside from that whole 'try and push an unwilling nation towards WW1' thing. And also that whole 'Split your own party doing that' thing. And also the whole 'finally lose to William Jennings Bryan thing'. Hey, at least Bryan kept us out of war.
[3] Do you like Georgism? It turns out that the world economy doesn't. (Or maybe it had to do with that whole 'New Party March on London' thing. Who knows?)
[4] Harbord comes in as a bluff former general promising to fix anything. One could rather reluctantly conclude that, yes, unilaterally declaring war on Japan does help fix the American economy.
[5] Luckily, Governor Andrew actually knows his shit when it comes to economics - growth is stable and he actualy uses some spare time to pass an anti-lynching law or two. Then of course the Soviet Union and the British Republic plunge the world into war.
[6] A tired newspaper publisher isn't the man to make the world safe for Democracy - that falls to activist Governor Prentice Cooper, who in 1947 can finally travel to a bombed out Whitehall. Alongside Chancellor Adolf Bauser, he flashes V for Victory and declares the immortal words - "Mac is dead"
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