AHC: alternate Teddy Roosevelt(s)

Just had a great thought - get Smedley Butler to the Presidency! As Director of Public Safety in Philly he often swore in his radio addresses.

Forget Smedley Butler, I've a better idea: Chesty Puller for President!

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I've recently came up with the idea of placing Fredrick Townsend Ward (really cool guy) in this situation. He was a soldier of fortune who fought with William Walker in Mexico, the Crimean War, and died fighting for the Manchu's in 1862 during the Taiping Rebellion. I plan on having a TL in which he survives the war and eventually moves back to the US where he becomes the governor of some state, perhaps CA, and fights for the rights of Chinese immigrants. Then I'd like to have him win the presidency in 1896 and during the Spanish-American War he is much more respectful to the people of the Philippians since he made friends with many people from there while in China. Though I'm not sure if I should keep his wife alive that long. She died soon after his death in OTL for no specified reason so it could be butterflies away but my problem is that she was a native Chinese women and I'm not sure if the American public would accept a foreign non-white first lady.
 
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