AH Challenge: Robert E. Lee elected US President in 1860

Your mission if you choose to accept it is to have Robert E. Lee elected President of the United States in 1860.

He must still be a legal resident of Virginia and may run for President as the nominee of any political party.

Good luck.
 
Your mission if you choose to accept it is to have Robert E. Lee elected President of the United States in 1860.

He must still be a legal resident of Virginia and may run for President as the nominee of any political party.

Good luck.

He has a change of heart and defects to the Union at the begining of the Civil War, and has flawless victories, or mostly victories in the name of the Union.
 

67th Tigers

Banned
Your mission if you choose to accept it is to have Robert E. Lee elected President of the United States in 1860.

He must still be a legal resident of Virginia and may run for President as the nominee of any political party.

Good luck.

An obscure Lt Col of Cavalry President?
 

MrP

Banned
Some alteration to the Mexican War leads to Lee becoming a national hero, and/but leaving the army and trundling off into politics. Come 1860 . . .
 
I am talking about the Robert E. Lee who led the Confederate army in the OTL Civil War.

Another one? He must be different than Robert E. Lee who led the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. He never technically led the Confederate Army, tho was General in Chief for the last four months of the war.
 

Xen

Banned
How about Virginia abolishes slavery in the 1840's, which leads to an earlier secession of the Southern States in the mid 1850's in fear that without Virginia, their cause is doomed.

Robert E. Lee begins the war as a Colonel in the Union Army, but by the last year of the war 1859 he is a famous General and responsible for some of the Union's greatest victories that reunified the nation. In 1860 he asked by the Democratic Party to run as their candidate, which he does and wins. Thus in 1861 Robert E. Lee is sworn in as the 16th (?) President of the United States.
 
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