maverick
Banned
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.
President Nicholas Cooper and Vice President Kennedy, 1956
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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.
President Nicholas Cooper and Vice President Kennedy, 1956
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