Alternate Presidential "Firsts"

i forget his name, but i seem to remember reading that there was a main in the late 19th century who was in the line of succession and happened to be part Native American, so with appropriate circumstances he could be the first Amerindian President

You're probably thinking of Charles Curtis, senator from Kansas and Herbert Hoover's vice president. His background was approximately 3/8 Native American.
 
Barack Obama was sort of a first - the first President in decades who was not born in the 1930s!

Jerry Brown (1977-1981), Jack Kemp (1981-1989), John Danforth (1989-1993), Mario Cuomo (1993-2001), John McCain (2001-2009) - the "Silent Generation" turned out to be a lot louder than anyone was expecting.
 
Barack Obama was sort of a first - the first President in decades who was not born in the 1930s!

Jerry Brown (1977-1981), Jack Kemp (1981-1989), John Danforth (1989-1993), Mario Cuomo (1993-2001), John McCain (2001-2009) - the "Silent Generation" turned out to be a lot louder than anyone was expecting.
Wait what
 
Any of those could be the first president born in the 1930's (OTL we have had no presidents born in the 1930's). Same for the 1950's and Sherrod Brown, Gary Johnson, Lincoln Chafee, Charlie Baker and Russ Feingold could all have been the first president born in the 1950's.
 
Nixon does just a few thousand votes better in the South in 1960; JFK becomes the first Democrat to win the election while losing the popular vote.

Barry Goldwater, IIRC, claimed that Nixon did in fact win the PV due to Democratic 'funny business' in certain states. That's beside the more famous claims about the rigging of Chicago and Texas.
 
Election of 1968

For the sake of the argument I will be choosing anyone who got a vote

Democrat
  • Hubert Humphrey: OTL nominee, First president born in South Dakota(though he'd represent Minnesota)
  • Lyndon B Johnson: First president to have three terms post-22nd amendment(due to 1st term being inherited/under 24 months long)
  • Stephen M Young: First president over 70 years old(beats current holder by 8-9 years)
  • Robert F Kennedy: First Attorney General to become president, first president to be a sibling of a prior president
  • Eugene McCarthy: First president from Minnesota
Republican
  • Richard Nixon: OTL nominee/winner
  • George W Romney: First president to not be born in the United States, first Mormon president
  • Harold Stassen: Would also be the first president from Minnesota
  • Nelson Rockefeller: First president born in Maine
  • Ronald Reagan: Future OTL president, firsts would apply here
American Independent Party
  • George Wallace: First third party president and president from Alabama
 
William Jennings Bryan would have become the youngest president if he had won in either 1896 or 1900. He would have also likely butterflied out Theodore Roosevelt (who is, in OTL, the youngest).

Henry Ford could realistically have become the first president with neither political nor military experience.

Frank Church, the first president from Idaho had he been nominated and defeated Ford in 1976.
 
Some firsts for nominees
  • DeWitt Clinton(1812) would be the first governor to be president, first president from New York and first president to be a close relative of a vice president all at once. Adlai Stevenson II(1952, 1956)
  • Henry Clay would've been the first president born after Independence Day had he won the 1824 or 1832 election
  • If Hugh L White(1836) had become president via the House of Representatives(a scenario that almost happened) and his death was the same as OTL, he'd be the first to die in office. He'd also be the first president pro tempore to become president
  • Assuming Millard Fillmore(1856) won, he'd also get three more firsts-first accidental president to be elected on their own right, first president from a third party and first president with non-consecutive terms. More likely, John C Fremont(1856) would've been the first Republican president, the first bastard president(in the literal sense) and first Georgia-born president
  • William Jennings Bryan(1896) would have been the first president under the age of forty, Hubert Humphrey(1968) would've been the first president born in South Dakota(though would represent Minnesota), John Kerry(2004) would've been the first president born in Colorado, John McCain(2008) would've been the first president born outside the United States, Mitt Romney(2012) the first Mormon president and Hillary Clinton(2016) would be both the first female president and first spouse of a former president to become president
 
  • Fiorello LaGuardia could have potentially been America's first "ethnic" (meaning non-WASP) President.
  • Had he not died, Joe P. Kennedy, Jr. could have been the first Catholic president instead of his brother.
  • A Governor Henry Cisneros of Texas or Senator/Governor Ben Fernandez of California could give America her first Hispanic president in the '90s.
  • If, by some opposite of a miracle, Strom Thurmond became President, he could have been the first president to have changed parties while in a prior office.
 
Bill Clinton almost picked Harris Wofford as his running mate. If Clinton dies in office or Wofford wins in 2000, you've got the first openly LGBT president.
 
Alexander Hamilton. He would be the first president born outside the United States, the first president who'd be ineligible if he was born after Independence Day(neither of his parents were American, so he'd get in via grandfather clause), the first president born out of wedlock(only Bill Clinton has even been half-seriously rumored with that and John C Fremont is the only nominee known to be a literal bastard), 1st US Secretary of the Treasury to become president. If the Reynolds affair doesn't ruin him he'd be the first president who's confirmed to have cheated on their spouse(Garfield takes that spot due as its known he confessed about it to his wife), play his cards right and he might be the first to become president in his forties(beating James K Polk for that). And if the speculation of him and John Laurens is any indicator, he might be the first president speculated to be LGBT(beating Buchanan to the punch, though there's a lot more evidence for him)

Was there any non-white, non-Christian, LGBT woman before Barack Obama who was in any way considered for a major party? I want to see how many minority tropes we could get in one person with that
 
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