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I came up with this in a moment of extreme boredom today. I might flesh this out later, or not, depending on how it goes.

I don't make any claims for the plausibility of this. It started out as me wondering what would happen if Dewey won in '48 and then my fingers flew over the keyboard, and then I had...

35. Thomas E. Dewey (R-NY); January 20, 1949 - January 20, 1957 (termed out)
36. John F. Kennedy (D-MA); January 20, 1957 - January 20, 1961 (lost)
37. Richard M. Nixon (R-CA); January 20, 1961 - January 20, 1969 (termed out)
38. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN); January 20, 1969 - January 20, 1973 (lost)
39. Ronald Reagan (R-CA); January 20, 1973 - January 20, 1977 (lost)
40. Frank Church (D-ID); January 20, 1977 - January 31, 1984 (resigned for health reasons)
41. Gary Hart (D-CO); January 31, 1984 - January 20, 1989 (lost)
42. Bob Dole (R-KS); January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993 (lost)
43. Jerry Brown (D-CA); January 20, 1993 - January 20, 1997 (lost)
44. Jack Kemp (R-NY); January 20, 1997 - January 20, 2005 (termed out)
45. Mitt Romney (R-MA); January 20, 2005 - January 20, 2009 (lost)
46. Tim Kaine (D-VA); January 20, 2009 - January 20, 2017 (termed out)
47. John Kasich (R-OH); January 20, 2017 - present