AH Challenge: Foreign Presidents

maverick

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All right, Nikita Khrushchev aka Nicholas Cooper

Sergei Nikanorovich Khrushchev and family moved to America in early 1894, arriving at New York on February and settling in Chicago with a young son in arms, the old Ukranian family name was changed to Cooper after ten minutes were wasted trying to get the clerk at Ellis island to spell Khrushchev.

The young Nicholas joined the Democratic Party and eventually became part of the team of fellow slavic immigrant and politician, Anton Cermak. Cooper became one of Cermak's closest allies and supporters, playing an instrumental part in the organization of ukranian, polish, jewish and czech immigrants, taking control of the party from the Irish in Cook county and other districts.

Following Cermak's assassination in 1933, Cooper became the most prominent party figure within the political machine created by his old boss Cermak, and was thus able to steal the mayoral nomination from Edward Kelly and Patrick Nash.

A reformist mayor and a fiercely loyal new deal democrat, Cooper's nearly 20 years as Mayor of Chicago were a combination of progressivism and autoritarianism, and despite some allegations of power abuse and corruption, he was able to maintain a mostly positive view that enabled him to keep the Chicago machine under his control throughout the 1950s.

He was allegedly on Roosevelt's short list in 1945, but he eventually replaced Wallace with Farley and Cooper remained in Chicago until 1950.

Taking a Senate seat in 1950, Coopers nevertheless maintained Chicago politics under the control of his personal machine, assuring the Illinois delegates supported his own presidential ambitions in 1952, in which he defeated the incumbent Thomas Dewey thanks to the impopular Vietnam war.

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President Nicholas Cooper and Vice President Kennedy, 1956
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President Charles Joseph Taylor (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was born Karol Jozef Wojtyla in New York only three months after his parents had arrive in the United States. He grow up in the lower eastside New York until he was 8 when his parents moved to Philadelphia so his older brother Edward could attend Temple University School of Medicine. Charles would later also go to Temple and play on the 1938 Owls Basketball team that won the first National Invition Tournament. In era dominated by Jewish players Charles a Roman Catholic stood out but refused to let religion become involved on the court. Legend has it that he refused to play in the NIT tournament final so a fellow Jewish player he considered the better player could.

In 1942 Charles served in the Marines the photo below show hinm with a fellow Marine helping construct a airfield in Guam.
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Following the War he return to Temple to complete a Law Degree it would be his work with the Steelworkers Union in Pitsburgh that led him into Politics. In the 1958 election he was elected to represent the 3rd Congress district of Pennsylvania. He served in this position rising to become the Democratic minority leader during the Nixon/Ford administration. In 1973 he defeated the Governor of Georgia (later Vice-President) James Carter at the Democratic Convention to run for President. After winning he went on to serve two terms as the 41st President and is general credited with helping to bring to an end the Cold War.
 

MrHola

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What about Alexander Dubcek? After all, he was actually born in America. I can see him becoming member of the Democratic party and running in 1968.
 
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