This is for my current TL and since we have seen a recent spate of these I thought I would throw it out there and see what people thought.
The concept of the TL is that John Laurens survives the battle that killed him in OTL and goes on to be influential in American politics. For those of you who don't know, Laurens was a scion of a South Carolina slaveholding and slave trading family. He served on Washington's staff and was a good friend of Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafeyette. One of the things he advocated and became famous for was for the use of black troops during the ARW. He was widely regarded as a check on Hamilton's more emotional outbursts.
I wanted a plausibility check on this because Wiki said that Hamilton worked actively to defeat Adams but there was no citation and I know Hamilton worked against Adams later in 1796 and 1800 but in 1789 they barely knew each other. Adams was in England or the Netherlands (can't remember which) during the convention. It is conceivable that people would rally to Jay instead as he was active at the Convention of 1788 and was as accomplished a statesman as existed in America; although he largely been forgotten except for his treaty. In this situation is it possible for John Marshall to be Chief Justice in 1789?
POTUS: George Washington (Virginia)
VPOTUS: John Jay (NY)
Sec. of War: Henry Knox (Mass)
Sec. of the Navy: John Adams (Mass)
Sec. of State: John Laurens (SC)
Sec. of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton (NY)
Min. to France: Governeur Morris (NY?)
Min. to England: Hugh Williamson (NC)
Note: I left Jefferson off for a reason. He was widely seen as a coward and only during the political infighting of the mid-late 1790s did he become politically viable because he was the intellectual well spring of the anti-federal movement. TJ is the strategist, and Madison the tactician. Since I am removing him (TJ) from a position of power and patronage I am hoping to stunt the Anti-Federal movement. One little known fact by the community at large was that Jefferson was actively working to undermine Washington while at State by hiring a man named Philip Freneau as a translator but in fact Jefferson empowered Frenau by using govt. money to subsidize Freneau's anti-administration newspaper.
The concept of the TL is that John Laurens survives the battle that killed him in OTL and goes on to be influential in American politics. For those of you who don't know, Laurens was a scion of a South Carolina slaveholding and slave trading family. He served on Washington's staff and was a good friend of Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafeyette. One of the things he advocated and became famous for was for the use of black troops during the ARW. He was widely regarded as a check on Hamilton's more emotional outbursts.
I wanted a plausibility check on this because Wiki said that Hamilton worked actively to defeat Adams but there was no citation and I know Hamilton worked against Adams later in 1796 and 1800 but in 1789 they barely knew each other. Adams was in England or the Netherlands (can't remember which) during the convention. It is conceivable that people would rally to Jay instead as he was active at the Convention of 1788 and was as accomplished a statesman as existed in America; although he largely been forgotten except for his treaty. In this situation is it possible for John Marshall to be Chief Justice in 1789?
POTUS: George Washington (Virginia)
VPOTUS: John Jay (NY)
Sec. of War: Henry Knox (Mass)
Sec. of the Navy: John Adams (Mass)
Sec. of State: John Laurens (SC)
Sec. of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton (NY)
Min. to France: Governeur Morris (NY?)
Min. to England: Hugh Williamson (NC)
Note: I left Jefferson off for a reason. He was widely seen as a coward and only during the political infighting of the mid-late 1790s did he become politically viable because he was the intellectual well spring of the anti-federal movement. TJ is the strategist, and Madison the tactician. Since I am removing him (TJ) from a position of power and patronage I am hoping to stunt the Anti-Federal movement. One little known fact by the community at large was that Jefferson was actively working to undermine Washington while at State by hiring a man named Philip Freneau as a translator but in fact Jefferson empowered Frenau by using govt. money to subsidize Freneau's anti-administration newspaper.
