Actually there was no California gubernatorial election in 1960. You're probably thinking of the 1962 race which Nixon only narrowly lost. So he would take office in 1963, not 1961.
Alternate Politicians - After 1900
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Name: George Takei
Date of Birth: April 20, 1937 (age 85)
Political Party: Democratic
List of Offices Held:
Governor of California (January 3, 1983 - January 3, 1989)
Senator from California (January 3, 1989 - December 21, 2000)
President of the United States (January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2009)
Name: Henry Ross Perot
Date of Birth: June 27, 1930
Date of Death: July 9, 2019 (Age 89)
Political Party: Independent (before 1995), Reform (1995-2019)
List of Offices Held:
President of the United States (January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001)
Name: Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III
Date of Birth: February 3, 1969 (age 53)
Political Party: Democratic
List of Offices Held:
44th Attorney General of Delaware (January 2, 2007 - January 3, 2013)
Senator from Delaware (January 3, 2013 - December 25, 2020)
President of the United States (January 20, 2021 - present)
Name: Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
Date of Birth: November 27, 1957 (age 64)
Political Party: Democratic
List of Offices Held:
Senator from New York (January 3, 2011 - present)
She already was an ambassador from the United States (not to the UN, but still) IOTL, so I tried to do something different here.
(Rosa Parks sometime in the 1950's/1960's)
Name: Rosa Louise Parks
Date of Birth: February 4, 1913
Date of Death: October 24, 2005 (age 92)
List of Offices Held:
President of the United States (January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1985)
Notes:
* First female president of the United States, as well as first African American president
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Survived not one, but two assassination attempts on her while in office, both of which were in the same year, just like Gerald Ford - the first attempt was in May 1980, when she was shot and injured by white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin while meeting with civil rights activist Vernon Jordan in Fort Wayne, and the other being in October 1980, when she was AGAIN shot and injured by John Hinckley Jr. while in Washington D.C. Thankfully, she survived both attempts and quickly recovered from her injuries in both situations, while the attempted assassins were quickly caught and arrested afterwards.
Name: Salvador Allende
Date of birth: June 26, 1908
Date of death: ? ?, 20XX
Political Party: Socialist Party of Chile
Offices held:
Member of the Chamber of Deputies (May 15, 1937-September 28, 1939)
Minister of Health and Social Welfare (September 28, 1939-April 2, 1942
Member of the Senate (May 15, 1945-November 3, 1952)
President of Chile (November 3, 1952-November 3, 1976)
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Flora MacDonald (1926-2015)
1973-1993: MP for Kingston and the Islands:
1976-1980: Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.
1979-1981: Prime Minister of the Dominion of America.
1985-1987: Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1993-1994: Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.
1993-1993: Prime Minister of the Dominion of America.
Basically, Flora MacDonald is Joe Clark and Kim Campbell rolled into one.
Name: Betty Marion White
Date of Birth: January 17, 1922 (age 100)
Political Party: Democratic
List of Offices Held:
Governor of California (January 2, 1967 - January 4, 1971)
Senator from California (January 4, 1971 - December 18, 1976)
President of the United States (January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1985)
Senator from California (January 5, 1987 - January 3, 2011)
President pro tempore of the United States Senate (January 3, 1995 - January 3, 2001)
Name: Walter Leland Cronkite Jr
Date of Birth: November 4, 1916 (age 105)
Political Party: Democratic
List of Offices Held:
President of the United States (January 20, 1973 - January 20, 1981)
Name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Date of Birth: January 30, 1882
Date of Death: April 14, 1975 (age 93)
Political Party: Democratic
List of Offices Held:
Member of the New York State Senate from the 26th district (January 1, 1911 - March 17, 1913)
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (March 17, 1913 - August 26, 1920)
Governor of New York (January 1, 1929 - January 1, 1933)
President of the United States (March 4, 1933 - January 20, 1949)
Senator from New York (January 3, 1953 - January 3, 1971)
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Name: Huey Pierce Long Jr.
Date of Birth: August 30, 1893
Date of Death: October 24, 1977 (age 84)
Political Party: Democratic
List of Offices Held:
Governor of Louisiana (May 21, 1928 – January 25, 1932)
Senator from Louisiana (January 25, 1932 – December 18, 1936)
President of the United States (January 20, 1937 - January 20, 1945)
Senator from Louisiana (January 3, 1949 - October 24, 1977)
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1973)
Name: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Born: December 19, 1906
Died: June 17, 1973 (aged 66)
Cause of Death: Car crash
Political Party:
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1929-1973)
Spouse: Viktoria Denisova (m. 1928)Children: Galina (b. 1929), Yuri (b. 1933)
List of Offices:
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldova (November 3, 1950 - April 16, 1952)
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (May 8, 1955 - March 6, 1956)
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (May 7, 1960 - July 15, 1964)
Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (June 21, 1963 - October 14, 1964)
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (October 14, 1964 - June 17, 1973)
Richard Nixon (1913–1973)
Name: Richard Milhous "Dick/Tricky Dick" Nixon
Born: January 9, 1913
Died: June 17, 1973 (aged 60)
Cause of Death: Car crash
Political Party:
Republican
Spouse: Pat Ryan (m. 1940)Children: Tricia (b. 1946), Julie (b. 1948)
List of Offices:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 12th district (January 3, 1947 - November 30, 1950)
United States Senator from California (December 1, 1950 - January 1, 1953)
36th Vice President of the United States (January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961)
37th President of the United States (January 20, 1969 - June 17, 1973)
Inspired by @King of the Uzbeks's wikibox on the Death of Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev.
Robert Pershing Wadlow (1918–1958)
Name: Robert Pershing "the Alton Giant/the Giant of Illinois/the Governing Giant" Wadlow
Born: February 22, 1918
Died: February 5, 1958 (aged 39)
Cause of Death: Complications from gigantism caused by pituitary gland hyperplasia
Political Party:
Republican
Height: 9 ft 11.2 in (3.02 m)List of Offices:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 13th district (December 4, 1945 - January 3, 1949)
32nd Governor of Illinois (January 12, 1953 - January 9, 1957)
37th Vice President of the United States (January 20, 1957 - November 25, 1957)
35th President of the United States (November 25, 1957 - February 5, 1958)
Inspired by @gap80's The Governing Giant.
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What happened in 1957 that made him become president?
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