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Mumby - A Life for a Life, mk 2
A Life for a Life, mk 2
1933-1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt / John Nance Garner (Democratic)
1932 def. Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1933-1941: John Nance Garner / Alben W. Barkley (Democratic)
1936 def. William Borah / Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (Republican), Burton K. Wheeler / Floyd B. Olson (Union-Farmer-Labor)
1941-1949: Paul V. McNutt / Miriam A. Ferguson (Democratic)
1940 def. Robert A. Taft / Charles L. McNary (Republican)
1944 def. Thomas E. Dewey / Harold Stassen (Republican)
1949-1953: Earl Warren / Alf Landon (Republican)
1948 def. Henry A. Wallace / Claude Pepper (Democratic), Harry F. Byrd Sr. / Richard Russell Jr. ('Southern' Democratic)
I've re-evaluated this scenario slightly.
Same POD. Roosevelt dies, while his pick for Attorney General, Thomas J. Walsh, lives. J. Edgar Hoover is dismissed from the FBI, and the FBI never grows into a 'federal police' partly because Garner thinks thats probably dangerous. Nevertheless, the New Deal is partially implemented, and to such a degree it receives roughly the same adulation and condemnation as IOTL. Meanwhile, the success of the hunt and killing of Bonnie and Clyde in 1934, on the direction of Ma Ferguson, leads Paul V. McNutt to take a similar tack in pursuing and destroying the Dillinger Gang. It takes longer, and is much more difficult, but in 1940 Garner steps down and hands over to McNutt/Ferguson who have jointly won plaudits for ordering the pursuit and destruction of America's notorious criminals.
The success of Governors essentially hiring a professional lawman to put together a posse to hunt down criminals, in a somewhat extralegal/extrajudicial fashion, in combination with the success of the New Deal and with someone like McNutt in the White House, a man not above using executive power for political patronage, is going to cause trouble down the line.
1933-1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt / John Nance Garner (Democratic)
1932 def. Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1933-1941: John Nance Garner / Alben W. Barkley (Democratic)
1936 def. William Borah / Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (Republican), Burton K. Wheeler / Floyd B. Olson (Union-Farmer-Labor)
1941-1949: Paul V. McNutt / Miriam A. Ferguson (Democratic)
1940 def. Robert A. Taft / Charles L. McNary (Republican)
1944 def. Thomas E. Dewey / Harold Stassen (Republican)
1949-1953: Earl Warren / Alf Landon (Republican)
1948 def. Henry A. Wallace / Claude Pepper (Democratic), Harry F. Byrd Sr. / Richard Russell Jr. ('Southern' Democratic)
I've re-evaluated this scenario slightly.
Same POD. Roosevelt dies, while his pick for Attorney General, Thomas J. Walsh, lives. J. Edgar Hoover is dismissed from the FBI, and the FBI never grows into a 'federal police' partly because Garner thinks thats probably dangerous. Nevertheless, the New Deal is partially implemented, and to such a degree it receives roughly the same adulation and condemnation as IOTL. Meanwhile, the success of the hunt and killing of Bonnie and Clyde in 1934, on the direction of Ma Ferguson, leads Paul V. McNutt to take a similar tack in pursuing and destroying the Dillinger Gang. It takes longer, and is much more difficult, but in 1940 Garner steps down and hands over to McNutt/Ferguson who have jointly won plaudits for ordering the pursuit and destruction of America's notorious criminals.
The success of Governors essentially hiring a professional lawman to put together a posse to hunt down criminals, in a somewhat extralegal/extrajudicial fashion, in combination with the success of the New Deal and with someone like McNutt in the White House, a man not above using executive power for political patronage, is going to cause trouble down the line.
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