alternatehistory.com

Reading Major Major's timeline caused me to find this fellow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilbert_Winant

John Gilbert Winant OM (February 23, 1889--November 3, 1947) was an American politician with the Republican party after a brief career as a teacher in Concord, New Hampshire.[1] Born in New York City, Winant held positions in New Hampshire, national, and international politics. He was the first man to serve more than a single two-year term as Governor of New Hampshire, winning election three times.

Not too remarkable, except these parts:

President Harry S. Truman appointed him U.S. representative to UNESCO in 1946, although he retired to Concord shortly after to write his memoirs.
...

Winant committed suicide in 1947 in his Concord home[12] on the day his book Letter from Grosvenor Square was published,[13] and was buried at St. Paul's School. The 2010 book reports that after Roosevelt's death, with Winant's distance from his Republican Party base, "[h]e hoped that he was going to become secretary-general of the new U.N. .... On top of that [disappointed hope], his affair with Sarah Churchill ended badly. 'He was an exhausted, sick man after the war,'" author Olson continued in the interview on NPR.[10]

What if he didn't kill himself? What if there was an American SG at the U.N.?
Top