AHC: Get Floyd B. Olson to be POTUS.

For those who do not know who Floyd B. Olson is the summary is that he was the 22nd Governor of Minnesota, and was a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party. He was considered one of the most influential politicians of the era and instituted many relief programs in Minnesota during the Great Depression. But how can you get him to be the President?
 
Get rid of Franklin Delano Roosevelt before he become president. Afterwards getting someone else to challenge him successfully becomes borderline ASB
 
Get rid of Franklin Delano Roosevelt before he become president. Afterwards getting someone else to challenge him successfully becomes borderline ASB

I once suggested that if a conservative Democrat was nominated and elected president in 1932, 1936 might see a race between four parties (1) Democrats, (2) Republicans, (3) a Farmer-Labor party to the left of the Democrats, and (4) a Social Justice Party "Led by Huey Long (in this TL his assassination is butterflied away) and supported by Father Coughlin, Townsend, etc. " https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/pks2qGkWXmk/-67ARjANHLAJ

In such a four-way race it is conceivable (though IMO unlikely) the Farmer-Labor Party candidate could win. But for Olson to be that candidate, we have to do something about the stomach cancer that killed him in August 1936 in OTL... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_B._Olson
 
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