AHC: US president is impeached for murder

Your challenge is to have a president impeached for murder. It has to be a personal murder by the presidents own hands. Bonuses point for the number of people he can kill before he is caught. Double bonus if he kills someone in a high governmental position. You can only use otl presidents.
 
Aaron Burr elected in 1800 would likely butterfly his infamous duel with Hamilton, so that's out. But the early America's were rife with some interesting figures who got near the Presidency (usually the VP or President Pro Tempore). I could imagine Jackson in a, blind and possibly drunk, fit of rage killing Calhoun if South Carolina seceded and Calhoun came to gloat one last time before leaving.
 
Something on the lines of a shadow player rigging the Hamilton-Burr duel in Hamilton's favor, and him taking the blame?
Edit: Why did I think Hamilton president? Cranial flatulence, I suppose.
 
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I immediately thought of a Jeremy Thorpe for anyone in the 20th century.

The easiest would probably be that Andrew Jackson kills Clay and Calhoun personally.
 
Aaron Burr elected in 1800 would likely butterfly his infamous duel with Hamilton, so that's out. But the early America's were rife with some interesting figures who got near the Presidency (usually the VP or President Pro Tempore). I could imagine Jackson in a, blind and possibly drunk, fit of rage killing Calhoun if South Carolina seceded and Calhoun came to gloat one last time before leaving.

That sounds like the beginning of a Columbo episode. "You still don't get it, Andy. I just wanted to see your face. Nobody knows I'm here. I wanted to have you all to myself. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll just turn around and make my way slowly to the door..."
 
Teddy Roosevelt decides to start hunting the Most Dangerous Game on Long Island one summer during his term?
 
Jefferson decides to pull a Guy Falks and blows up Congress and Congress and the Supreme Court. :eek:


Long live King Thomas. At least until the Public decides to impeach him and escort him to very own hanging. :cool:
 
Or perhaps not just murder... and not just impeachment... I just posted this in the ASB forum..

October 9th, 1973

Richard Milhous Nixon wiped the blood away from the corners of his mouth using his hankerchief. He hated to waste even a drop, but there was a press conference in just a few minutes.

The meeting with Spiro Agnew had not gone well. The fool hadn't just had his hand in the till, but had been caught at it - and all thanks to a bunch of law students. Tomorrow, Agnew had planned to announce his resignation - and bring ridicule and embarrassment to the administration. And at the worst possible moment too - that damned Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, refused to give up his quest for White House tapes.

Richard Milhous Nixon isn't going to be kicked around any more, the President thought to himself as he looked at his hazy reflection in a mirror. He had felt a renewed strength and confidence since playing the Wallachian card last year, and his historic visit to Sighisoara. Perhaps things were not so bad... the Agnew problem had been resolved, even if the White House furnaces would be working extra hard tonight to remove the residue, and he was sure that the issue with special prosecutor Cox could be
 
Can you even take the President down because of murder? Doesn't he have sovereign immunity for those kinds of things?
 
What if the conspiracy theories were true? Bill Clinton discovers Hillary's alleged affair with Vince Foster, shoots him and dumps his body in a national park, posed to look like suicide...
 
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Your challenge is to have a president impeached for murder. It has to be a personal murder by the presidents own hands. Bonuses point for the number of people he can kill before he is caught. Double bonus if he kills someone in a high governmental position. You can only use otl presidents.


Somehow manages to nuke a nation? Using some poorly justified war fervor that is then revealed to be false?
 
Aaron Burr elected in 1800 would likely butterfly his infamous duel with Hamilton, so that's out.

History showed that Burr was the type of person who can get into a duels. Maybe he could have had a duel under different circumstances, probably with someone else. Or else a President Hamilton could have.
 
William Rufus King survives his bout with tuberculosis, but his relationship with James Buchanan sours shortly after Buchanan has been elected president. In 1857 King starts writing a memoir about his long relationship with the president. He tells Buchanan that he has found a publisher in France.

Buchanan lures King to a secluded spot and beats him to death with a club. He relies on his mild, effeminate reputation to deflect all suspicion. But gradually the truth emerges, and Buchanan is put on trial for murder. He refuses to resign, for he acknowledges no master but the law, and he must assume his own innocence until he is proven guilty. He is impeached and convicted by the senate, and succeeded by John C. Breckinridge, a secessionist.

Buchanan is publicly hanged in 1859. In one of the last major acts before secession, the congress passes stringent new sodomy laws which mandate death for any man caught committing an act "contrary to nature".

When it becomes clear that Breckinridge will lose reelection to William Seward, he actively collaborates in the secession of southern states and the surrender of federal forts and arsenals to Confederate forces. Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri are overrun by secessionists, along with the federal capital. The resulting Civil Wars rage intermittently until 1875, and kill over a million, not counting victims of execution, famine, and disease. Argentina supplants the United States as the foremost power in the Americas.
 
History showed that Burr was the type of person who can get into a duels. Maybe he could have had a duel under different circumstances, probably with someone else. Or else a President Hamilton could have.

Actually, no. Burr was not known as much of a dueler in his day, one reason why his killing Hamilton in one was such a surprise to his contemporaries. Hamilton, on the other hand, was a well-known quarrelsome asshole, who'd already been in several duels, and come close to several more--BUT because of that I put his chances of getting the Presidency in any timeline as quite low. In fact, I consider the chances of his political career not ending in a series of self-induced self-destructive flameouts in any timeline to be only slightly higher. The man was not good at managing people.
 
History showed that Burr was the type of person who can get into a duels. Maybe he could have had a duel under different circumstances, probably with someone else. Or else a President Hamilton could have.

I don't know much about Burr, or about early 1800's dueling, but I would think being President (rather then the dead-end position of Vice-President) would leave him too busy working to go out and duel.
 
Actually, no. Burr was not known as much of a dueler in his day, one reason why his killing Hamilton in one was such a surprise to his contemporaries. Hamilton, on the other hand, was a well-known quarrelsome asshole, who'd already been in several duels, and come close to several more--BUT because of that I put his chances of getting the Presidency in any timeline as quite low. In fact, I consider the chances of his political career not ending in a series of self-induced self-destructive flameouts in any timeline to be only slightly higher. The man was not good at managing people.
Being an asshole didn't stop John Adams or Thomas Jefferson from achieving the highest office in the land.
 
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