presidential election 1932

  1. TheDoofusUser

    WI - Byrd is FDR's Running Mate then VP-elect, then Zangara kills FDR, What is President Byrd like?

    I recently looked up interesting conservative candidates for the 1932 Democratic Nomination and one name who comes up quite a bit is the 50th Governor of Virginia (1926-1930) and the Democratic Nominee for Virginia Senate that year Harry Flood Byrd Sr. On the first ballot, Byrd had 25 Delegates...
  2. TheDoofusUser

    WI : William Randolph Hearst is elected Governor of New York in 1906, President in 1932

    What if in 1906 William Randolph Hearst was elected Governor of New York in 1906 and then elected President in 1932 after serving 26 years in the office, let's say he makes a bid for the Governorship in 1912 and in 1924 and fails both times thanks to the intervention of William Jennings Bryan...
  3. TheDoofusUser

    WI/AHC : Henry Ford in 1932

    The challenge here, if you want to accept it, have Henry Ford become the 1932 Democratic Nominee and go on to beat Hoover to become President. Who would be his VP? Who would be in his cabinet? What would his domestic and foreign policy be like? Who'd he appoint to SCOTUS? In my eyes, there is...
  4. Robert A. Taft elected as President in November 1940

    Suppose that in 1928, Roosevelt loses the NY gubernational election and Hoover is blown up by Argentinian anarchists, so the GOP replaces President Coolidge with a Curtis-Watson ticket, indirectly resulting in the Wall Street Crash/Great Depression occurring a full year earlier in 1928. Curtis...
  5. Challenge: Have a Quasi-Fascist POTUS elected in 1932

    It always puzzled me how Fascism couldn't gain traction in America during the Great Depression, since it was one of the most affected countries by it and especially in the Democratic Party, plagued by isolationists and racists. Your challenge is to have the Democratic President elected in 1932...
  6. Help Needed : Reichspresidential Election 1932

    I would like to have/find some advice about a legal situation for that possible happening : Reichspresidential election in Germany 1932. Upt to and going of the first ballot as OTL. BUT ... Sometime between 31.March and 5.April Hindenburg dies of natural causes (he was old enough to do soo)...
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