AHC: One President For Every State

So it dawned on me that we could realistically have 50 presidents by this point in American history. So, my challenge is for the US to have 50 presidents, each one from a different state. Now, of course we would a POD before 1800, which might butterfly a good portion of people, state borders, and even national borders, so for the sake of the thread ignore those butterflies and stick to OTL people/states. Because it would be way too easy to just start making up people at 1840 and have arbitrary state borders.
 
So it dawned on me that we could realistically have 50 presidents by this point in American history. So, my challenge is for the US to have 50 presidents, each one from a different state. Now, of course we would a POD before 1800, which might butterfly a good portion of people, state borders, and even national borders, so for the sake of the thread ignore those butterflies and stick to OTL people/states. Because it would be way too easy to just start making up people at 1840 and have arbitrary state borders.

We had a thread on this in 2005 in soc.history.what-if. Here was one person's try:

George Washington 1789-1793 (VA)
Charles Carroll 1793-1797 (MD)
John Adams 1797-1801 (MA)
George Clinton 1801-1812 (NY)
John Gaillard 1812-1817 (SC)
William Crawford 1817-1825 (GA)
Henry Clay 1825-1829 (KY)
Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 (TN)
Thomas Benton 1837-1841 (MO)
Willie Mangum 1841-1845 (NC)
Levi Woodbury 1845-1849 (NH)
Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 (LA)
Thomas Ewing 1850-1853 (OH)
Lewis Cass 1853-1857 (MI)
James Buchanan 1857-1861 (PA)
Joseph Lane 1861-1865 (OR)
Abraham Lincoln 1865-1869 (IL)
Hannibal Hamlin 1869-1873 (ME)
Ambrose Burnside 1873-1881 (RI)
George McClellan 1881 (NJ)
Thomas Bayard 1881-1885 (DE)
George Edmunds 1885-1893 (VT)
Thomas Bayard 1893-1897 (DE)
William Allison 1897-1901 (IA)
Robert LaFollette 1901-1909 (WI)
Albert Beveridge 1909-1913 (IN)
John Burke 1913-1918 (ND)
John Davis 1918-1921 (WV)
Hiram Johnson 1921-1929 (CA)
Charles Curtis 1929-1933 (KS)
Thomas Walsh 1933 (MT)
John Garner 1933-1941 (TX)
Hugo Black 1941-1949 (AL)
Claude Pepper 1949-1953 (FL)
Harold Stassen (MN) 1953-1958
Prescott Bush (CT) 1958-1961
Henry Jackson (WA) 1961-1969
Winthrop Rockefeller (AR) 1969-1973
James Eastland (MS) 1973-1974
Hiram Fong (HI) 1974-1977
Frank Church (ID) 1977-1980
Mike Gravel (AK) 1980-1981
Paul Laxalt (NV) 1981
Sandra Day O'Connor (AZ) 1981-1989
Dick Cheney (WY) 1989-1991
Ken Kramer (CO) 1991-1993
Tom Daschle (SD) 1993-2001
Chuck Hagel (NE) 2001
Frank Keating (OK) 2001-2005
William Richardson (NM) 2005-

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/wPVb-7Txl24/SPXcdPZqLq8J

There are a few problems with this, of course--for example, is the US really ready to elect a Catholic president (Charles Carroll) in 1792? Yet Alexander Hamilton stated his willingness to support him in the event Washington did not run for re-election. https://books.google.com/books?id=eJlYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA59
 
Here's a collaborative list constructed with the restriction that the states be hit in order of OTL accession to the Union, though the associated timeline includes a lot of allohistorical states (which haven't provided Presidents).
 
We had a thread on this in 2005 in soc.history.what-if. Here was one person's try:

George Washington 1789-1793 (VA)
Charles Carroll 1793-1797 (MD)
John Adams 1797-1801 (MA)
George Clinton 1801-1812 (NY)
John Gaillard 1812-1817 (SC)
William Crawford 1817-1825 (GA)
Henry Clay 1825-1829 (KY)
Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 (TN)
Thomas Benton 1837-1841 (MO)
Willie Mangum 1841-1845 (NC)
Levi Woodbury 1845-1849 (NH)
Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 (LA)
Thomas Ewing 1850-1853 (OH)
Lewis Cass 1853-1857 (MI)
James Buchanan 1857-1861 (PA)
Joseph Lane 1861-1865 (OR)
Abraham Lincoln 1865-1869 (IL)
Hannibal Hamlin 1869-1873 (ME)
Ambrose Burnside 1873-1881 (RI)
George McClellan 1881 (NJ)
Thomas Bayard 1881-1885 (DE)
George Edmunds 1885-1893 (VT)
Thomas Bayard 1893-1897 (DE)
William Allison 1897-1901 (IA)
Robert LaFollette 1901-1909 (WI)
Albert Beveridge 1909-1913 (IN)
John Burke 1913-1918 (ND)
John Davis 1918-1921 (WV)
Hiram Johnson 1921-1929 (CA)
Charles Curtis 1929-1933 (KS)
Thomas Walsh 1933 (MT)
John Garner 1933-1941 (TX)
Hugo Black 1941-1949 (AL)
Claude Pepper 1949-1953 (FL)
Harold Stassen (MN) 1953-1958
Prescott Bush (CT) 1958-1961
Henry Jackson (WA) 1961-1969
Winthrop Rockefeller (AR) 1969-1973
James Eastland (MS) 1973-1974
Hiram Fong (HI) 1974-1977
Frank Church (ID) 1977-1980
Mike Gravel (AK) 1980-1981
Paul Laxalt (NV) 1981
Sandra Day O'Connor (AZ) 1981-1989
Dick Cheney (WY) 1989-1991
Ken Kramer (CO) 1991-1993
Tom Daschle (SD) 1993-2001
Chuck Hagel (NE) 2001
Frank Keating (OK) 2001-2005
William Richardson (NM) 2005-

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/wPVb-7Txl24/SPXcdPZqLq8J

There are a few problems with this, of course--for example, is the US really ready to elect a Catholic president (Charles Carroll) in 1792? Yet Alexander Hamilton stated his willingness to support him in the event Washington did not run for re-election. https://books.google.com/books?id=eJlYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA59

I know that Washington only wanted to do one term, but it seems odd that replace him with Charles Carroll after just one term.

Washington was the unifying figure, it would have been better to keep him for two terms regardless.
 
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