AHC: Thaddeus Kosciuszko or Casimir Pulaski as POTUS

Have Kosciuszko or Pulaski be a President of the United States. It can be either elected or inherited (through US line of succession in event of POTUS' death).
 
Both were Catholics.

And both were uninterested in staying in America permanently when their homeland needed saving.

Not a chance.
 
1. Their parents move to USA before they are born.
2. They take English sounding names and begin speak English.
3. They convert to Protestantism.
 
As result they are completly different persons.

True but there is not other way. You would need very early POD that you could get Polish and Catholic POTUS. And this POD might change things so much that whole thing is pointless. Probably these men even butterfly away.
 
Anything is possible in the USA, look at OTl, Donald Trump is POTUS. Also, the USA has had Presidents who came from humble beginnings such as Lincoln and Truman who also were compromise candidates.

For Pulaski, need him to survive the war, OTL he was killed in the battle for the Americans to retake Savannah, GA. His porn stache lives on though.

That leaves Kosciuszko as the lone Polish hope for POTUS. For him, he made friends easily with Americans of importance due to his skill as a combat engineer and devotion to the American cause. Have him stay in the USA after the war to help build the nation. Have his American friends encourage him to stay, that the battle for freedom has just began. I do not know if he was married before arriving to the USA, but meeting an American gal would want to make him stay more. Have him turn to politics, first state and then national. Have him maintain and build friendships in the political realm. One interesting thing that he stood for, was equality for all people regardless of skin color. That would be awesome to have him in American politics with those views. Even if he does not become POTUS, he will undoubtedly touch the lives of more Americans in a positive way.

Similar question, would the Marquis de Lafayette be a candidate for POTUS if he remained in the USA as well,
 
Both were Catholics.

Kościuszko heavily criticized the Catholic Church (to this point that it is not even taught in schools), was a supporter of the Church-state divide, equality of races, wealthy and poor, Native Americans, blacks and Jews.

Couldn't one of them be accepted into American society if fought for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?
 
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