herbert hoover

(This is my first attempt at one of these AHC posts, so I apologize if there is a standard format here that I am not aware of!) I've been reading more in-depth recently about the Hoover Presidency for a TL I'm writing at the moment and I'm more and more astonished at how much of a mess it was...

Could Cordell Hull get 43-45% of the P.V vote, and keep the election reasonably close. Who would be a good running mate?

What if the Republican Party had become the bastion of liberal, center-left values, while the Democrats took on a conservative, populist center-right to right-wing ideology?

Monday, February 16th, 1920. New York Governor's Mansion. Governor Roosevelt was sitting in his office in the mansion in the middle of his second two-year term as Governor of New York. He thought about his options. "I could run for a third term." The Governor said to himself. "I could hand it...

POD: FDR, fearing an electoral loss and believing he needs to focus on recovering from polio, refuses the 1928 draft attempts for New York governor. According to Jean Edward Smith's biography, Roosevelt repeatedly turned away calls for him to run for governor -- it was only when he was drafted...

Of course, Herbert Hoover could never have been elected President again, considering his very poor handling of the Great Depression during his Presidency. But suppose Calvin Coolidge had decided to run for a third term in 1928, with butterflies resulting in Ottinger defeating FDR in the race...

1920: Progressivism Triumphant, the Fifth Party System and Beyond, A Wikibox TL by ohheckitisian "The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people"...

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...

What If the then recently elected US President H. Hoover would have been killed in Argentine? This could have happened because, according to the Argentine police, on December 11, 1928, (before the arrival of Hoover to the Argentine) in the framework of his month-long goodwill tour through...

In 1928, Democratic New York Governor went down to a crushing defeat at the hands of Republican Herbert Hoover in that year's presidential election. Hoover's landslide victory was attributed to the nation's economic prosperity, as well as bigotry towards Smith's Catholicism and his unpopular...

In 1928 New York Governor Al Smith made a disastrous run for President. The booming economy and prejudice against his Catholic faith allowed Herbert Hoover to win a landslide victory. And by vacating the Governorship Smith created a powerful rival in Franklin Roosevelt who would beat him for the...

Despite his widespread popularity, President Calvin Coolidge considered not running for a second full term in 1928. His son's death and the stress of the presidency had taken a toll on him, and secretly he wanted out. But driven by his resentment of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, and under...

Severino Di Giovanni, Argentine anarchist leader and Galleanist The late 1800s and early 1900s saw a number of assassinations and terrorist attacks perpetrated by anarchists performing what they called "propaganda of the deed." This highly controversial application of Bakuninist political...

The Presidental Election of 1932 happened. In OTL Franklin D. Roosevelt won that election and lead America through the Great Depression and World War II. 'What if' he didn't win? In another world, Franklin Roosevelt was less careful with his secrets. By some means, his paralytic illness was...

What if FDR was elected in 1929 and Hoover in 1933, how would this change history?