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Don't You Know You Shouldn't Pick Wallace in an Alternate History, FDR?
1944-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt*/Henry Wallace (Democratic)
1944 def. Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker (Republican)
1945-1948: Henry Wallace/Cordell Hull (Democratic)
1948 def. Robert A. Taft/Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
1948-1965: Henry Wallace*/Herbert Hoover (Democratic - New-Dealist Dictatorship) [1]
1965-1966: Herbert Hoover (1965), Allan Hoover (1966)/Anna Rosenberg/Norman Thomas/Edward A. Teichert ("Council/Gang of Four" - Democratic - New-Dealist Dictatorship) [2]
1966: Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer (Transitional)
1967-1972: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr./Margaret Chase Smith (Republican)
1967 def. Wallace White/Price Daniel (Democratic), Adlai Stevenson/Ronald Reagan (Progressive)
1972-1976: Hubert Humphrey/John Stevenson (Progressive) [3]
1972 def. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr./Margaret Chase Smith (Republican)
* = Died while in office.
[1] Wallace's division of Japan with the Soviets proved to be the last straw for MacArthur, who attempted a coup d'etat against Wallace on grounds of being a Communist sympathizer in 1952. Though MacArthur's coup was repulsed, he would weather several more over the years. Wallace cancelled elections for that year in the face of the "continuing emergency" and presidential elections were not held again until after his death in 1965. He came to be called President for Life and made several other eccentric decisions during his rule, such as adding the faces of himself and FDR to Mt. Rushmore, and proclaiming the New Deal coalition to be a new political ideology called New-Dealism. Though congressional elections were still held, electoral meddling kept the Democrats in the majority and internal elections in the Democratic Party were not held during Wallace's later years.
[2] Upon Wallace's death, his vice president and most trusted cabinet members, the "Gang of Four,"attempted to seize control of the government. They unilaterally declared a new constitution replacing the President with an unelected Council whose members selected their own successors. Without Wallace, their control was already slipping, but the situation worsened when Herbert Hoover retired and selected his own son as his successor. This blatant display of nepotism proved to be the last straw and the Supreme Court rejected the new Constitution and exiled the Gang of Four from the country. The Supreme American Commander in Europe became interim leader while emergency elections were held. As the only viable opposition, the Republicans would have been hard-pressed not to win. This election also saw the surprisingly strong showing of the Democrat-alternative Progressive Party.
[3] Nevertheless, the Republicans rolled back the only popular policy of Wallace's, his economic policy. The Progressive Party, quickly eclipsing the fraying Democrats as the premier fiscally liberal party, would go on to win the next elections.
1944-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt*/Henry Wallace (Democratic)
1944 def. Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker (Republican)
1945-1948: Henry Wallace/Cordell Hull (Democratic)
1948 def. Robert A. Taft/Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
1948-1965: Henry Wallace*/Herbert Hoover (Democratic - New-Dealist Dictatorship) [1]
1965-1966: Herbert Hoover (1965), Allan Hoover (1966)/Anna Rosenberg/Norman Thomas/Edward A. Teichert ("Council/Gang of Four" - Democratic - New-Dealist Dictatorship) [2]
1966: Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer (Transitional)
1967-1972: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr./Margaret Chase Smith (Republican)
1967 def. Wallace White/Price Daniel (Democratic), Adlai Stevenson/Ronald Reagan (Progressive)
1972-1976: Hubert Humphrey/John Stevenson (Progressive) [3]
1972 def. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr./Margaret Chase Smith (Republican)
* = Died while in office.
[1] Wallace's division of Japan with the Soviets proved to be the last straw for MacArthur, who attempted a coup d'etat against Wallace on grounds of being a Communist sympathizer in 1952. Though MacArthur's coup was repulsed, he would weather several more over the years. Wallace cancelled elections for that year in the face of the "continuing emergency" and presidential elections were not held again until after his death in 1965. He came to be called President for Life and made several other eccentric decisions during his rule, such as adding the faces of himself and FDR to Mt. Rushmore, and proclaiming the New Deal coalition to be a new political ideology called New-Dealism. Though congressional elections were still held, electoral meddling kept the Democrats in the majority and internal elections in the Democratic Party were not held during Wallace's later years.
[2] Upon Wallace's death, his vice president and most trusted cabinet members, the "Gang of Four,"attempted to seize control of the government. They unilaterally declared a new constitution replacing the President with an unelected Council whose members selected their own successors. Without Wallace, their control was already slipping, but the situation worsened when Herbert Hoover retired and selected his own son as his successor. This blatant display of nepotism proved to be the last straw and the Supreme Court rejected the new Constitution and exiled the Gang of Four from the country. The Supreme American Commander in Europe became interim leader while emergency elections were held. As the only viable opposition, the Republicans would have been hard-pressed not to win. This election also saw the surprisingly strong showing of the Democrat-alternative Progressive Party.
[3] Nevertheless, the Republicans rolled back the only popular policy of Wallace's, his economic policy. The Progressive Party, quickly eclipsing the fraying Democrats as the premier fiscally liberal party, would go on to win the next elections.
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