I got carried away sorry, I'll transfer this to my own thread
Alternate Politicians - After 1900
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John Wayne Gacy Jr. (1942 - 2017)
Party: Democratic
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Treasurer of the Cook County Democratic Party: 1969 - 1972
Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party: 1972 - 1977
Mayor of Chicago: 1973 - 1976
Governor of Illinois: 1977 - 1981
Representative of Illinois' 6th Congressional District: 1982 - 1992
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: 1993 - 1994
Secretary of Labor: 1994 - 2001
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Elections:
1973 Chicago Mayoral Election: Won / 73.6%
1975 Chicago Mayoral Election: Won / 80.9%
1976 Illinois Gubernatorial Election: Won / 56.4%
1980 Illinois Gubernatorial Election: Lost / 42.5%
1982 Illinois Congressional Election: Won / 66.3%
1984 Democratic Presidential Primaries: Withdrew / 10.6% (Iowa), 3.9% (New Hampshire)
1986 Illinois Congressional Election: Won / 53.2%
1990 Illinois Congressional Election: Won / 65.6%
(left, John Gacy as Governor of Illinois, 1977)
John Wayne Gacy Jr. (1942 - 2017)
Party: Democratic
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Treasurer of the Cook County Democratic Party: 1969 - 1972
Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party: 1972 - 1977
Mayor of Chicago: 1973 - 1976
Governor of Illinois: 1977 - 1981
Representative of Illinois' 6th Congressional District: 1982 - 1992
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: 1993 - 1994
Secretary of Labor: 1994 - 2001
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Elections:
1973 Chicago Mayoral Election: Won / 73.6%
1975 Chicago Mayoral Election: Won / 80.9%
1976 Illinois Gubernatorial Election: Won / 56.4%
1980 Illinois Gubernatorial Election: Lost / 42.5%
1982 Illinois Congressional Election: Won / 66.3%
1984 Democratic Presidential Primaries: Withdrew / 10.6% (Iowa), 3.9% (New Hampshire)
1986 Illinois Congressional Election: Won / 53.2%
1990 Illinois Congressional Election: Won / 65.6%
Joseph Chamberlain (1836 - 1914)
Party: Liberal (1866 - 1886), Liberal Unionist (1886 - 1900), Conservative-Unionist (1900 - 1914)
Mayor of Birmingham (1873 - 1876)
MP for Birmingham (1876 - 1885)
MP for Birmingham West (1885 - 1912)
President of the Board of Trade (1880 - 1885)
President of the Local Government Board (1886)
Leader of the Liberal Unionist Party (1891 - 1900)
Secretary of State for the Colonies (1895 - 1900)
Leader of the Conservative-Unionist Party (1900 - 1906)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1900 - 1906)
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Elected after the assassination of Cecil Rhodes during the Boer War in 1900, he and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil of the Conservative Party merged into the Conservative-Unionist Party and won the election. His premiership was marked with extensive reforms, the establishment of the Imperial Federation, protectionism, military interventionism and increased nationalism. His second term from 1905 was cut short after a severe stroke in February 1906 left him paralysed and unable to walk or read. He was succeeded by Arthur Balfour, who briefly was Prime Minister before Chamberlain's son, Austen Chamberlain, led a vote of no confidence in late 1907 after Balfour began to reverse some of Chamberlain's more radical policies. Austen Chamberlain served as Prime Minister from 1907 to 1910, losing the 1910 General Election to Henry Campbell-Bannerman in a landslide.
In this timeline, Britain does not enter World War I as the rise of militarism in the UK wards von Schlieffen from planning an invasion of Belgium, instead going through Switzerland and winning, leading to a Cold War. The Imperial Federation still exists, although the Imperial Federation became increasingly autonomous and non-British after the election of Eric Williams as the Prime Minister in 1957.
Name: Jerome "Gene" Silberman
Date of Birth: June 11, 1933
Date of Death: August 29, 2016 (age 83)
Political Party: Democratic
List of Offices Held:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 1st district (January 3, 1977 - January 7, 1987)
Governor of Maine (January 7, 1987 - December 23, 1992)
Vice President of the United States (January 20, 1993 - January 12, 1994)
President of the United States (January 12, 1994 - January 20, 2001)
So here's a much-needed explanation:
Silberman/Wilder's acting in the 1970's, especially as Willy Wonka in the 1971 film, has made him very popular and famous as an American icon, obviously. Although very quiet politically, his rising fame and popularity eventually inspires him to come out of his shell a little, and decides to run for the House of Representatives from his home state. He is actually surprised when he ends up winning, and after being re-elected, he decides to run for Governor of Maine. He succeeds, and Bill Clinton eventually chooses him as his running mate in '92 over Gore, believing that Wilder's past popularity and fame would help him drastically. It does, and they win the '92 election, Willy Wonka becoming the Vice President of the United States.
Sadly, Clinton's presidency came tumbling down roughly a year into his first term when he is assassinated by Ronald Gene Barbour while jogging around Washington D.C. Wilder is quickly found and sworn into office, and Willy Wonka eventually becomes the President of the United States. He hesitantly decides to run for re-election in '96, not wanting to let his fans down, and wins in a landslide due to his popularity, similar to Nixon's 72 re-election or Reagan's 84 re-election. However, Wilder decides afterwards that he's done with politics completely and leaves office in 2001. He eventually dies in 2016 from Alzheimer's.
Silberman/Wilder's acting in the 1970's, especially as Willy Wonka in the 1971 film, has made him very popular and famous as an American icon, obviously. Although very quiet politically, his rising fame and popularity eventually inspires him to come out of his shell a little, and decides to run for the House of Representatives from his home state. He is actually surprised when he ends up winning, and after being re-elected, he decides to run for Governor of Maine. He succeeds, and Bill Clinton eventually chooses him as his running mate in '92 over Gore, believing that Wilder's past popularity and fame would help him drastically. It does, and they win the '92 election, Willy Wonka becoming the Vice President of the United States.
Sadly, Clinton's presidency came tumbling down roughly a year into his first term when he is assassinated by Ronald Gene Barbour while jogging around Washington D.C. Wilder is quickly found and sworn into office, and Willy Wonka eventually becomes the President of the United States. He hesitantly decides to run for re-election in '96, not wanting to let his fans down, and wins in a landslide due to his popularity, similar to Nixon's 72 re-election or Reagan's 84 re-election. However, Wilder decides afterwards that he's done with politics completely and leaves office in 2001. He eventually dies in 2016 from Alzheimer's.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
List of Offices:
(1944-1945): State for American Republic Affairs Assistant Secretary
(1953-1954): Health, Education and Welfare Under Secretary
(1959-1961): Governor of New York
(1961-1963): United States Vice President
(1963-1973): United States President
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)
Name: Harry S. Truman
Born: May 8, 1884
Died: December 26, 1972 (aged 88)
Political Party:
Democratic
Spouse: Bess Wallace (m. 1919)Children: Margaret (b. 1924)
List of Offices:
Judge of Jackson County, Missouri's Eastern District (January 1, 1923 - January 1, 1925)
Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri (January 1, 1927 - January 1, 1935)
United States Senator from Missouri, Class 1 (January 3, 1935 - January 17, 1945; January 20, 1953 - January 3, 1971)
34th and 35th Vice President of the United States (January 20, 1945 - April 12, 1945; January 20, 1949 - January 20, 1953)
33rd President of the United (April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1949)
Senate Majority Whip (January 3, 1957 - January 3, 1961)
Senate Majority Leader (January 3, 1961 - January 3, 1971)
Truman's alternate political career if Eisenhower had accepted his offer to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1948 and select him as his running mate. His reasoning was that he missed the Senate and I could definitely see a scenario in which he, as Vice President, chooses to run for his old Senate seat in 1952.
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You forgot the period where he was potus, but nicely done.
James Joseph Florio
Name: Jim Florio
Born: August 29, 1937
Political Party: Democratic
Spouses: MaryAnne Spaeth (m. 1960-1985), Lucinda Coleman (m. 1988- )
LIST OF OFFICES HELD
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly (January 13, 1970 - January 3, 1975)
U.S. Representative from New Jersey's 1st Congressional District (January 3, 1975 - January 19, 1982)
Governor of New Jersey (January 19, 1982 - December 16, 1988)
41st President of the United States (January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1997)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
Name: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Born: October 11, 1884
Died: November 7, 1962 (aged 78)
Political Party:
Democratic
Spouse: Franklin D. Roosevelt (m. 1905; died 1945)Children: Anna (b. 1906), James II (b. 1907), Franklin (b. 1908; died 1909), Elliott (b. 1910), Franklin Jr. (b. 1914), John II (b. 1916)
List of Offices:
First Lady of New York (January 1, 1929 - December 31, 1932)
First Lady of the United States (March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945)
1st Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1946-1947)
United States Senator from New York, Class 1 (January 3, 1947 - January 1, 1949)
35th Vice President of the United States (January 20, 1949 - November 1, 1950)
34th President of the United States (November 1, 1950 - January 20, 1961)
Inspired by this post by @Kermode.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (1914–1988)
Name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
Born: August 17, 1914
Died: August 17, 1988 (aged 74)
Political Party:
Democratic
Spouses: Ethel du Pont (m. 1937; div. 1949); Suzanne Perrin (m. 1949; div. 1977); Linda McKay Stevenson Weicker (m. 1984; his death 1988)Children: Franklin III (b. 1938), Christopher (b. 1941), Nancy (b. 1952), Laura (b. 1959), John (b. 1977)
List of Offices:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 20th district (May 17, 1949 - January 1, 1955)
48th Governor of New York (January 1, 1955 - December 31, 1960)
35th President of the United States (January 20, 1961 - January 20, 1969)
United States Senator from New York, Class 1 (January 3, 1971 - August 17, 1988)
Inspired by this post by @Kermode.
Mark Roosevelt (1955–present)
Name: Mark Roosevelt
Born: December 10, 1955 (age 66)
Political Party:
Democratic
Spouse: Dorothy (m. 2005)Children: Matthew (adopted)
List of Offices:
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 8th Suffolk district (1981-1987)
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1983-1987)
68th Governor of Massachusetts (January 8, 1987 - December 12, 1992)
40th President of the United States (January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001)
United States Senator from New York, Class 1 (January 3, 2007 - present)
Inspired by @glenn67's post on this old thread from 2011.
Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979)
Name: Nelson Aldrich "Rocky" Rockefeller
Born: July 8, 1908
Died: January 26, 1979 (aged 70)
Political Party:
Republican
Spouse: Mary Todhunter Clark (m. 1930; div. 1962); Margaretta Large Fitler (m. 1963)Children: Rodman (b. 1932), Ann, Steven (b. 1936), Michael and Mary (b. 1938), Nelson Jr. (b. 1964), Mark (b. 1967)
List of Offices:
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (July 30, 1941 - December 20, 1944)
1st Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (December 20, 1944 - August 17, 1945)
49th and 55th United States Secretary of State (July 3, 1945 - July 5, 1947; January 21, 1961 - January 20, 1969)
34th and 38th President of the United States (July 5, 1947 - January 20, 1957; September 22, 1975 - January 26, 1979)
49th Governor of New York (January 1, 1959 - January 21, 1961)
38th Vice President of the United States (January 20, 1969 - September 22, 1975)
Inspired by @RogueBeaver's Preview: A Time to Remember (NA Dystopia). where President Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. nominates Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Rockefeller as Secretary of State Edward Stettinius' replacement in the summer of '45. The grandfather clause in the 22nd Amendment (ratified in 1951) doesn't prohibit him from serving more than two terms. He was chosen as President Richard Nixon's Secretary of State throughout his administration and then as California Governor Ronald Reagan's running mate at the 1968 Republican National Convention as a "dream ticket" in order to appeal to both liberals and conservatives. After Reagan's assassination by Sara Jane Moore in September 1975 Rockefeller succeeded to the presidency again, narrowly winning re-election in 1976 (losing the popular vote to the Democratic nominee Massachusetts Governor Robert F. Kennedy who would later launch a successful campaign for President in 1980). Rockefeller had originally lost the popular vote in the 1948 presidential election, his first contested presidential election, carrying a majority of the electoral vote. He died in office in January 1979 of a heart attack under intimate circumstances as he was engaged in an affair with an aide (the two were actively engaged in sexual intercourse at the time of his death).
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890–1996)
Name: Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy
Born: June 22, 1890
Died: February 28, 1996 (aged 105)
Political Party:
Democratic
Spouse: Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (m. 1914; died 1935)Children: Joseph Jr. (b. 1915), John (b. 1917), Rosemary (b. 1918), Kathleen (b. 1920), Eunice (b. 1921), Patricia (b. 1924), Robert (b. 1925), Jean (b. 1928), Edward (b. 1932)
List of Offices:
United States Senator from Massachusetts, Class 2 (October 6, 1935 - January 12, 1945)
33rd Vice President of the United States (January 20, 1945 - April 12, 1945)
33rd President of the United States (April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1957)
Inspired by @gap80's 2017 Mother's Day post. Gave her a few more years of life for fun (IOTL she lived to the age of 104, though in gap80's wikibox she only lived to 102 presumably because of the stress of the presidency cut her life short).
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888–1989)
Name: Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.
Born: September 6, 1888
Died: November 18, 1989 (aged 101)
Political Party:
Democratic
Spouse: Rose Fitzgerald (m. 1914)Children: Joseph Jr. (b. 1915), John (b. 1917), Rosemary (b. 1918), Kathleen (b. 1920), Eunice (b. 1921), Patricia (b. 1924), Robert (b. 1925), Jean (b. 1928), Edward (b. 1932)
List of Offices:
1st Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (June 30, 1934 - September 23, 1935)
55th Governor of Massachusetts (January 7, 1937 - January 2, 1941)
33rd Vice President of the United States (January 20, 1941 - April 12, 1945)
33rd President of the United States (April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1957)
Inspired by @RogueBeaver's Preview: A Time to Remember (NA Dystopia). Gave him a third term (was hinted at in the timeline that he would've sought one had his eldest son Joe Jr. not died in a plane crash over France in 1951 while serving in Congress) and tacked on an extra 20 years to his lifespan for good measure. Gotta keep up with them centennial POTUSes.
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968)
Name: Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
Born: January 31, 1902
Died: December 12, 1968 (aged 66)
Political Party:
Democratic
Spouse: John Emery (m. 1937; div. 1941)List of Offices:
United States Senator from Alabama (January 11, 1938 - January 20, 1949)
35th Vice President of the United States (January 20, 1949 - November 1, 1950)
34th President of the United States (November 1, 1950 - January 20, 1961)
Inspired by @BlackentheBorg's The Family Business.
Is there any reason(not that I'm against it, I actually think you're one of the most inventive on here), that POTUs' all seem to live up to 100+?
Also, I'd like to suggest someone becoming President at the age of 100