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President Franklin D Roosevelt was close to running for a record 4th term in 1944 before he of course decided not to due to the advice from his doctors. FDR’s popularity of course led Vice President Henry Wallace to get the nomination despite a strong challenge from Missouri Senator Harry...

So the scenario is basically one where James M. Cox wins the 1920 election, as a result of both TR being healthier and surviving, trying again, being denied the GOP nomination, which pushes him to run a third-party campaign, combined with details of Harding's affairs leaking earlier, causing...

In OTL the Democratic party experienced a pretty dominant period in the USA following the election of FDR, holding the presidency for 20 straight years starting in 1933 and holding the house for all but 4 years from 1931 to 1995. While it might seem like this was destined to come to an end, I...

In 1939 President Roosevelt stated would keep the Washington tradition of only serving two terms. with the Nazi occupation of France and the London bombings Roosevelt pledge to run again. This put him at odds with his first Vice President John Nance Garner whom was hoping for an endorsement...

Having guided the nation through the Great Depression and led it to the cusp of victory during World War Two, Franklin D. Roosevelt had--time and again--proven himself as an insurmountable candidate, having won all four times that he ran for office and building a legacy as one of America's most...

I'm using FDR since he's the president that ruled for most time. The idea is that FDR remains popular and "up to date" on political discussions, politicians some times pay lip service to him and try to copy his policies, documentaries get pumped from time to time about him, and maybe the...

OTL, the failures of the Articles of Confederation led to the establishment of the American Commonwealth, an elective monarchy in which each man with a certain amount of money (or later on, many were given the privellage by local governors) elected their pick from amongst peers of the realm...

What if FDR was assassinated February 15, 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara and Huey long survives his assassination attempt on September 8, 1935 Carl Weiss miss Huey long and After that he runs for president in 1936 gets nominated and defeats his republican challenger in a landslide victory what would a...

No, not FDR, I’m talking about Teddy Roosevelt, Jr. (technically Theodore Roosevelt III). Maybe the title was a bit misleading 😜 The idea is that Teddy defeats Al Smith and is elected Governor in the 1924 gubernatorial election that IOTL saw every Republican member of the ticket win...except...

Huey Long was an up-and-coming senator from Louisiana in the Democratic Party if he wasn't assassinated what do you think would have happened do you think he would have had presidential ambitions do you think Roosevelt would have tried to curtail his political career for fear that he might run...

Chapter 1: The Beginning Of The End The year was 1933 for five years now The Great Depression had crippled the United States making 25% of the Population unemployed and homelessness increased as a result. The only hope was the upcoming election of the President who would decide America's fate...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - The Father of American Socialism (Democratic-Socialist Party) Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a name well recited not only across the United Syndicates of America but across the Internationale. His name is recited not only by school children in America but in the Commune...

What the title says.

Let's say FDR is healthier in this timeline, and lives to finish out his term. This means Truman doesn't becomes president, and the duty of handling peace time demobilization and the large amount of labor strikes that dominated Truman's first term fall to the Roosevelt administration. How does...

Both men died of cerebral hemorrhage a few years apart. What would the world look like if Stalin unexpectedly died in his sleep on April 12, 1945, and FDR lives on until March 5, 1953? This also assumes FDR is healthy enough to complete his final term as President.

Hi! Welcome to the thread for my first timeline, 'Needle In A Haystack", in which the vote for the Vice Presidential nominee at the 1944 Democratic National Convention was not held up overnight. By a narrow margin, Henry A. Wallace would win the Vice Presidential nomination despite the...

Although he was the second longest serving President in American history, Calvin Coolidge is generally remembered as one of America's worst chief executives. In office from August 1923 to January 1933, Coolidge did nothing to confront the Great Depression after the 1929 Stock Market Crash. If...

Before 1968, it wasn't uncommon for presidential candidates to be nominated a second time after losing the general election: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Grover Cleveland, and Richard Nixon were all elected President after having previously failed to do so. (FDR had...

Prologue: . A Decade of War and Peace The 40s, the decade of World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the rise of an unexpected contender. But before we learn about all of this we must first learn the beginnings of this all, the United States Presidential Election of 1940. The parties...

In 1940, conservative darling Robert Taft was a strong contender for President - but he was ultimately passed over as the GOP nominee by dark horse Wendell Willkie. What if Taft had been nominated by the GOP in 1940?