AHC: Have as many presidents possible from one state

Ohio Republican William McKinley is not shot, and serves until 1904, when he is succeeded by Ohio Republican Joseph Foraker. Foraker serves two terms, but by 1912 the voters are tired of Republicans in the White House, so they elect Ohio Democrat Judson Harmon. Harmon is narrowly re-elected in 1916, but by 1920 voters are tired of the Democrats, so they vote for Ohio Republican Warren Harding...

To continue my (already unlikely) idea: Harding in this ATL manages to live to serve two full terms, but in his second term, scandals make him so unpopular than in 1928 the Democrats win the White House with Ohioan James M. Cox...
 
Importance varies with time...
In the earlier days of the nation, states were much more important than they are now, in the minds of the people--hence so amny staying with their state, comitting treason on the states' behalf in 1861.

So, if one state seemed to hold a lock on the levers of power, that could cause some serious problems as the presidency became more important.

These days, not so bad...
 
Six Californians in a row:

President Pat Brown (1963-1969) (takes office after President Lyndon Johnson, last non-Californian president for decades, who wanted a Catholic running mate but couldn't get JFK to join him on the ticket, is shot and killed in Dallas in 1963)
President Richard Nixon (1969-1977)
President Alan Cranston (1977-1981)
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
President Mike Curb (1989-1993)
President Jerry Brown (1993-2001)
 
Tennessee: Cordell Hull in 1945 (FDR's VP) Estes Kefauver in 1956, Al Gore Sr in 1963 (JFK's VP), Howard Baker in 1980, Al Gore in 2000, Bill Haslam in 2012

Get Jo Byrns instead of Haslam, and this might work. Basically have Jo Byrns live a few years longer. FDR picks Cordell Hull as his VP in 1940, then FDR dies in '41 and Hull dies not long after (or his perhaps killed). Speaker Byrnes is now president. Then Kefauver, Gore Sr., Baker, and Gore Jr. Maybe work Lamar Alexander in there somehow. Frank Clement might be able to work too but is probably mutually exclusive to one of the others.

That gives you seven, plus Jackson, Polk, and Johnson who are usually attributed to Tennessee, even though none were born in Tennessee.

If you want Haslam, the butterflies have hopefully changed him from OTL since OTL Haslam is considered pretty spineless when dealing with his own party/political by certain political insiders I've spoken with--not really presidential material, you might as well pick any other Tennessee governor.

I'd also say from what I've read, John Jay Hooker, Jr. might be presidential material in terms of Tennessee politicians. He was a Kennedy Democrat who I think if the main Nashville newspaper, The Tennessean, had agreed to back him in 1974, he would've beaten Ray Blanton or any other Democratic candidate (and with that the election). They didn't OTL, since he'd lost the previous two elections, but it's still an idea. I think he'd keep the successful elements of Blanton's tenure and not create in the governor's office what some of Al Gore's associates called a "toxic waste dump". However, I don't know if John Jay Hooker ever had it in him to seek the presidential nomination. But successful economic policy could easily have been laid in the same period since the state had nowhere to go but up.

But let's say, for a wank.

*Andrew Jackson (D-TN, 1829 - 1837)
*James K. Polk (D-TN, 1845 - 1849)
*Andrew Johnson (D-TN, 1865 - 1869)
*Cordell Hull (D-TN, 1941)
*Jo Byrnes (D-TN, 1941 - 1945)
*Estes Kefauver (D-TN, 1952 - 1960)
*Al Gore, Sr. (D-TN, 1968 - 1972)
*Frank Clement (D-TN, 1976 - 1980)
*Howard Baker (R-TN, 1980 - 1988)
*John J. Hooker, Jr. (D-TN, 1992 - 2000)
*Al Gore, Jr. (D-TN, 2000 - 2004)
*Lamar Alexander (R-TN, 2004 - 2012)

That gives you twelve presidents associated with Tennessee.
 
Well, we've only ever had solid-state presidents, so I guess you could say that we've already achieved this challenge.
When you said, "Solid state presidents," all I could think of was things like my record player way back that said, "solid state," and my warped imagination pictured a robot president.
 
When you said, "Solid state presidents," all I could think of was things like my record player way back that said, "solid state," and my warped imagination pictured a robot president.
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Sorry, I had to.
 
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