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There's been two presidents who've been the son of another president-John Quincy Adams and George W Bush. We know of their families. We also know of other presidential families who threw their hat in the ring when it came to the presidency, such as Robert Taft. But what about those that didn't? Your challenge is to make a situation which might lead a child of a president to try and become president themselves, maybe even succeeding. The POD is at earliest the day after they leave office, and they have to be politicians IOTL.

Possible choices are John Van Buren, David Gardinier Tyler, Frederick and Jesse Root Grant, James Rudolph Garfield and Herbert Hoover Jr. For it to be an actual challenge you can't choose the Roosevelts, Kennedys and Tafts, they've been overplayed and are big enough for their own threads. Robert Todd Lincoln can be considered, but you don't have him become president because he was VP when the current president died
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