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1933-1933: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
1932 def. Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1933-1934: Smedley Butler / vacant (Non-Partisan)
1934-1942: Hugh S. Johnson / Charles Lindbergh (National Union)
1936 def. Earl Long / William Borah ('Little Man'), John Nance Garner / Ellison D. Smith (Democratic), Lester J. Dickinson / James W. Wadsworth Jr. (Republican)
1940 def. unopposed
1942-1943: Charles Lindbergh / vacant (National Union)
1943-1947: Charles Lindbergh / Theodore G. Bilbo (National Union)
1944 def. unopposed
1947-1948: Charles Lindbergh / vacant (National Union)
1948-1949: Charles Lindbergh / Hiram Wesley Evans (National Union)
1949-1953: Hiram Wesley Evans / Samuel Roper (National Union)
1948 def. John L. Lewis / Norman Thomas ('Little Man'), Charles Lindbergh / Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ('Real' National Union)
Al Smith's victory at the presidential election in 1932 was virtually guaranteed especially after he won round Huey Long's caucus of populist Southerners. While it was perhaps a little close than expected, he nevertheless attained victory by a broad margin. But America's first Catholic President never made it to his inauguration. Felled by an assassin's bullet mere weeks before he took the highest office in the land, that responsibility now fell to the Louisiana maverick Huey Long.
Long's own, far more radical, plans for reshaping the Depression struck country soon drew the ire of both the traditional establishment and reactionary elements who combined their efforts to overthrow the President and replace him with the popular and non-partisan figure of Smedley Butler. Butler's own radical leftist leanings soon made him intolerable and was removed in turn, replaced by General Johnson's 'National Union' which steered the country onto a distinctly fascist path. When Johnson died in 1932, Lindbergh took his place and coopted Southern White Supremacists to secure the South.
This soon came to kick him in the arse as the Ku Klux Klan which had weakened at the end of the 1920s went from strength to strength, infiltrating and consuming the Administration's internal security forces. When the former Democrat Bilbo died in 1947, he was forced to make the Imperial Wizard his Vice President, and after two uncontested presidential election, Evans' decision to stand for the National Union nomination opened a whole can of worms. The Long organisation's 'Little Man' campaign was resurrected and won strongly industrial states, while Lindbergh 'Real' National Union won traditional Republican heartlands in New England. But the National Union won enough of the rest to have a majority in the Electoral College. And so the Klan's America was born.
1933-1933: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
1932 def. Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1933-1934: Smedley Butler / vacant (Non-Partisan)
1934-1942: Hugh S. Johnson / Charles Lindbergh (National Union)
1936 def. Earl Long / William Borah ('Little Man'), John Nance Garner / Ellison D. Smith (Democratic), Lester J. Dickinson / James W. Wadsworth Jr. (Republican)
1940 def. unopposed
1942-1943: Charles Lindbergh / vacant (National Union)
1943-1947: Charles Lindbergh / Theodore G. Bilbo (National Union)
1944 def. unopposed
1947-1948: Charles Lindbergh / vacant (National Union)
1948-1949: Charles Lindbergh / Hiram Wesley Evans (National Union)
1949-1953: Hiram Wesley Evans / Samuel Roper (National Union)
1948 def. John L. Lewis / Norman Thomas ('Little Man'), Charles Lindbergh / Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ('Real' National Union)
Al Smith's victory at the presidential election in 1932 was virtually guaranteed especially after he won round Huey Long's caucus of populist Southerners. While it was perhaps a little close than expected, he nevertheless attained victory by a broad margin. But America's first Catholic President never made it to his inauguration. Felled by an assassin's bullet mere weeks before he took the highest office in the land, that responsibility now fell to the Louisiana maverick Huey Long.
Long's own, far more radical, plans for reshaping the Depression struck country soon drew the ire of both the traditional establishment and reactionary elements who combined their efforts to overthrow the President and replace him with the popular and non-partisan figure of Smedley Butler. Butler's own radical leftist leanings soon made him intolerable and was removed in turn, replaced by General Johnson's 'National Union' which steered the country onto a distinctly fascist path. When Johnson died in 1932, Lindbergh took his place and coopted Southern White Supremacists to secure the South.
This soon came to kick him in the arse as the Ku Klux Klan which had weakened at the end of the 1920s went from strength to strength, infiltrating and consuming the Administration's internal security forces. When the former Democrat Bilbo died in 1947, he was forced to make the Imperial Wizard his Vice President, and after two uncontested presidential election, Evans' decision to stand for the National Union nomination opened a whole can of worms. The Long organisation's 'Little Man' campaign was resurrected and won strongly industrial states, while Lindbergh 'Real' National Union won traditional Republican heartlands in New England. But the National Union won enough of the rest to have a majority in the Electoral College. And so the Klan's America was born.
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