(Whoops, in trying to meet this challenge I accidentally wanked the Federalist Party.) Washington is persuaded to run for a third term. A tumultuous relationship with revolutionary France absorbs much of his time and energy in his third term. The debates over the Alien and Sedition Acts over-tax his failing health, and he passes away shortly after vetoing them in 1798. John Adams assumes the presidency determined to support Washington's dying wishes, despite the grumblings of some Federalists. Democratic Republicans argue that Adams is only Acting President and suggest a special election in 1799, but Adams's strength of will and support of Federalists in Congress overrules them. After resolving tensions with France, Adams is elected to a full term by a nation that sees him as fulfilling Washington's legacy. The charge that the DRs attempted to politicize Washington's death to grab power haunts the party for years. In 1803, Adams's Secretary of State, John Marshall (a great-grandson of William Randolph, founder of the powerful Virginia family), successfully negotiates a treaty with France to purchase the Louisiana territory for $18 million. Adams is handily re-elected to a second full term in 1804 over his Vice-President Thomas Jefferson, who serves a second term as the VP and continues to extend that office's legislative influence as President of the Senate. The Democratic Republicans attempt to win the presidency by running a northerner instead of a Virginian in 1808, but George Clinton loses a close election to the popular John Marshall, who is elected to a second term in 1812 amidst brewing conflict with Great Britain. The United States army and navy, well-equipped and well-trained after more than a decade of Federalist administrations, acquit themselves well in the Great Lakes War (1812-1814), and much of Upper Canada is ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Ghent (many historians laud President Marshall's decision to appoint disgraced former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton as commanding general of US forces during the conflict; Hamilton's strategies are widely credited with US success in the Canadian theater). The Democratic-Republican party nominates anti-war, states-rights Congressman John Randolph of Virginia for President in 1816, but many pro-war Democratic-Republicans, including westerner Henry Clay and Senator James Madison of Virginia, instead back the Federalist ticket of Henry Lee III and Dewitt Clinton. The 1816 election is the most lopsided since Washington's re-election in 1796, and Randolph places a distant third in electoral votes behind Lee and Clinton. Having failed to win the presidency after more than two decades or even retain the vice presidency, the DR party collapses and the so-called "Era of Good Will," a period of political stability and big-tent Federalist dominance begins. The various factions within the Federalist party (northern and southern, looser and stricter construction, etc.) generally agree on a balanced ticket for President and VP and let the two factions "take turns" heading the ticket.
1. George Washington (I), 1789-1799
2. John Adams (F), 1799-1809
3. John Marshall (F), 1809-1817
4. Henry Lee III (F), 1817-1818
5. Dewitt Clinton (F), 1818-1827
6. Henry Lee IV (F), 1827-1833
6. John Quincy Adams (F), 1833-1841
7. William Henry Harrison (F), 1841-1844
8. Philip Hamilton (F), 1844-1853
This would give us a Washington-Lee-Custis dynasty, an Adams dynasty, a Randolph dynasty (via Marshall), and the potential for Clinton, Harrison, and Hamilton-Schuyler-etc. dynasties.