Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

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So who becomes the VP?
 
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The Interplanetary Brotherhood of Teamsters, Longshoremen, and Transport Workers cans trace its origins back to the early 20th Century Labor Movement. However it’s modern form can be traced back to the 2086 Agreement that more or less brought most workers involved in the movement of goods and people under the authority of the Union. Although China’s State Unions remain aloof, virtually every other group involved in interplanetary transit has been *convinced* to join the Teamsters.

The Teamsters are a force on every settled planet/planet group. Unlike many unions, who have issues with locals “going native” and breaking off from the Earth bound, the Teamster’s focus on connecting planets has left them cohesive, making them the singularly most powerful Union in the Solar System.

The Teamsters have been accused of connections with organized crime such as the Casa Nostra, the Triads, and the dreaded Marsfia. Union President Jane Hoffa, the direct descendent of early Teamster leaders, has denied such charges. Hoffa was recently acquitted of corruption charges, after a hung jury at Tranquility Base.
Heh Marsfia 😂
 
Hague doesn’t run 1997

As John Major resigned from his position, the Pro-European Ken Clarke ran the most liberal campaign in an attempt to collect votes from one nation Tories. He ran as a modernising candidate, but not just for the country, but also the party. Clarke emphasised his popularity and how he polled the greatest nationwide.

Michael Howard had served as Home Secretary under John Major. He had an undebatably aggressive manner whilst defending his record, calling out Blair in opposition when standing in for Major, claiming that Blair failed to answer a single question in a recent BBC interview. Opportunities like that allowed Howard to become a Conservative darling. Howard painted himself as a unifying candidate seen as naturally a Thatcherite, he had to uncomfortably scale back some of his beliefs. He was however potentially too safe for some eurosceptics.

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The first ballot saw Michael Howard comfortably lead Clarke, whilst Peter Lilley unbooked his train to Downing Street. Whilst not the most unexpected result, it showed Howard was the man for Eurosceptics to back in the next round.

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The second round saw Michael Howard collect most of Peter Lilley’s supporters, with only 3 going to John Redwood and Clarke losing one supporter who felt Howard’s election inevitable.

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This is 100% just a fan wikibox of @Drew Rumsfeldia TL. I really enjoy it and I just wanted to make a Wikibox about what the modern post CV US might look like in my fan view. I hope y'all like it.
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The United States of America has come a long way from the dark days of the Rumsfeldia and the theocratic CV, though it will be even longer before it may even come close to reaching the same amount of prosperity as it once had. But considering the years before and during the Second Civil War, it is certainly a net positive. The United States has had an explosion of economic growth and for the first time since before the Second Civil War had an increase in population and is expected to cross back 200 million people in the 2020 census. This is largely attributed to the social and economic policies of WTP President Bernie Sanders. His Vice President Deb Haaland is expected to be the WTP nominee in 2020 and many expect it to be a sure win with the Libertarians still infighting between the Eastern "Harvard" Libertarians and the Western Libertarians. But, the political rumor mill has it the former Chief Justice of the United States and lead prosecutor at the Washington Trials, Kelsey Grammer plans to run for President as an independent. Hypothetical polling has Haaland fairly ahead of Grammer and Grammar being ahead of "Generic Libertarian" but some experts speculate that while Grammer might not win plurality one the first vote that if the Libertarians are knocked off that Grammer may win from 2nd choice votes from LIbertarians. Only time would tell if Grammer makes the rumors true, or if the infighting among the Libertarians hand the WTP another term in power.
 

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Following up from my last post where Vidal beats RFK, Keating, and Buckley in the '64 senate election. Vidal carves out a rather nice Senate career for himself.

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I can only imagine how wide he'd be grinning having beat both William and James Buckley in Senate races.

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Lester Garfield Maddox Sr
(September 30, 1915 - June 25, 2003) was an American politician who served as Governor of Georgia from 1967-1971 and again from 1975 to 1983. Maddox was first elected Governor in the contentions election of 1966. After winning the 1966 Democratic primary in a hotly contested runoff against former Governor Ellis Arnall, Maddox went on to go up against Republican Representative Bo Callaway in the general election. although Callaway won a plurality of the vote, since no candidate had received a majority of the popular vote (In part do to a surprisingly effective independent campaign by Maddox's primary opponent, Ellis Arnall) the election was instead decided via a contingent election in the Georgia House of Representatives. Maddox was eventually elected Governor by the House, although the vote reveled schisms within the Democratic party, with nearly 30 left leaning Democratic state Representatives breaking party lines and voting for Callaway as they were opposed to Maddox's segregationist views. Nonetheless he took office as the 45th Governor of Georgia on January 11, 1967.​

Under the then-current Georgia constitution, Maddox was unable to run for a second consecutive term in 1970, so he instead run for Lieutenant Governor, winning the race and becoming Lieutenant to newly elected Democratic Governor Jimmy Carter. During his four years as Carter's Lieutenant, the two were constantly at odds with each other, especially over social issues such as civil rights. As Carter's term came to an end, Maddox sought his prior office, defeating lawyer George Busbee in the Democratic primary, and then being elected to a second non-consecutive term in 1974. He returned to the Governorship on January 14, 1975 with Zell Miller, his former Chief of Staff succeeding him as Lieutenant Governor, leading to a much less toxic Governors mansion.

In 1976, just a year into his second term, Maddox ran for President on the American Independent Party ticket, the same ticket Alabama Governor George Wallace had run on in 1968. Interestingly, his third party Presidential campaign pitied him against his predecessor, successor and Governor during his stint as Lieutenant Governor, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic nominee who would go on to win the election.

Two years into his second term, Georgia's constitution was changed to allow Governors to be elected to a second consecutive term, freeing up Maddox to run for a third term in 1978, something he quickly made clear he would do. Maddox was re-elected in 1978, becoming the first Georgia Governor to be-reelected to a consecutive term. He left office on January 11, 1983, being succeeded by fellow Democrat Joe Frank Harris.
 
"I've always felt that a member of Congress should go to Congress having had some real-life experience, having been successful in some pursuit. Al Bell was a success in business before going to Congress and he also rolled up his sleeves and served his party. Today, a lot of businessmen sit on the sidelines and complain and whine. Not Al. He served and he served with honor. For sixteen years he served in Congress, always voting his conscience but always serving the people of his district, never forgetting who sent him to Washington. Today, the political mood in Washington is not too pleasant. I sometimes blame the intrusive, unaccountable national press for this. But I think it is also fair to say that often people go to Congress not to serve but to get ahead. We need more Al Bells. As a friend, I am happy to salute him and to congratulate him on his flawless service in the U.S. Congress. He showed his state and nation a lot of class."
- George H. W. Bush (OTL)

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A little sneak peek wikibox for a TLIAW/TL I have planned, in which the point of divergence is that S. I. Hawakaya does not run for Senate in 1976, leading on to Bell winning the nomination (and eventually winning the general election). Feeling ambitious after his win in '76 (according to his autobiography, Bell had his eyes on higher office when he ran for the Senate, so let's assume his want of higher office continues on), Al runs for President in 1980 and wins.
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Another sneak-peek for one of my planned TLIAW/TLs, however this time it's Bell's presidential cabinet throughout his tenure (though it is subject to change as I do more research over time).
 
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Okay, so I've made a retcon to the TL I was intermittently posting here. Instead of doing another "Home Rule leads to a federal UK" TL I've decided to go with Home Rule leading to legislative independence for Ireland but unified executive structures with GB in foreign, trade and migration affairs (this was Salisbury's preferred option OTL until the mid-1880s). With that in mind, it's worth going over the POD(s) for this again:
  1. Gladstone remains in retirement after 1874. No Midlothian Campaign means a much smaller Liberal majority in 1880 with Hartington as PM and not Gladstone.
  2. The 1885 election leaves the Liberals and Conservatives level-pegging in terms of seats, allowing Parnell to play them off against each other rather than supporting the Liberals.
  3. The Phoenix Park murders are butterflied away so Frederick Cavendish remains the Liberal choice as Chief Secretary for Ireland and Hartington doesn't turn conclusively against Irish nationalism.
  4. The Home Rule bill is prepared by a cross-party commission and ends up effectively recreating Grattan's Parliament (although they don't call it that...), with legislative independence but the London-appointed Chief Secretary and Dublin Castle still having significant influence (although that will change). The cross party nature of the bill means it alienates fewer Liberals and gets the backing of sufficient Conservatives to squeak past the Commons and the Lords.
With that in mind, the following updates are de-canonised:
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The 1887 Irish general election took place between 9 February and 6 March 1887. It was the first election to the Second Order of the Irish Assembly created by the Government of Ireland Act 1886 and the first election to an exclusively-Irish legislative body since 1797. Following the elections, Charles Stewart Parnell was described by Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary of Ireland, as the "Premier Member of the Assembly", a position which rapidly became analogous to that of Prime Minister in most Westminster systems, although the 1886 Act had not technically made provision for such a role.

The Order was elected using multi-member first past the post, with each of the former Westminster constituencies returning two MPs. In addition, Dublin University and the Royal University each returned two MPs. With their superior organisation, Parnell's Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) dominated the election and won nearly 85% of the seats. The remaining seats were won by the newly-created Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union (ILPU), which had effectively inherited the organisation and voters of the Conservatives on the island. The small Irish Liberal Party won around 20,000 votes but failed to gain a seat and would disappear, their voters and members largely absorbed into the IPP.

The election was the beginning of a long period of dominance for the IPP, which would control the Second Order for most of the next 35 years. The ILPU had gone into the election under the leadership of Edward Saunderson, a member of the Orange Order, but his fiery oratory was believed to have limited the party's appeal in the south of the island. As a result, in the aftermath of the election the ILPU was taken over by the more moderate St. John Broderick, who would dominate the party in one form or another until his death.

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It was more about the whole "not wanting to go to war" thing, but the annexation bill had already been signed and sent off to Texas by Tyler during his last days in office. I'm just wondering publicly that if Texas had approved the bill and accepted statehood, would he refuse to sign off or would his hand have been forced at that point? He would have be defying most of Congress, the previous President, the government of Texas, a plurality of the voting population (according to TTL's '44 results), and setting himself up for a dramatic political fight with the South in the early days of his presidency.
His hand would be forced at that point.
 
IN THE COMPANY OF MY PEERS
From List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945 - 2020 and same universe as here.
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The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 May 2017 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons although two of the three major parties fielded leaders from the Lords. The election resulted in a large swing to the Liberals which resulted in the most competitive “three-corned” in recent electoral history. Despite the large boost to their popularity, there were only minor swings from the major parties and Labour was the main beneficiary of the split votes. The result was a hung parliament, only the third since the Great War. Despite Attlee being a former leader of the Labour right, coalition talks with the Conservatives were quickly negotiated leading to accusations of collusion by Labour’s Hilary Benn (son of Tony Benn who had led the last Labour-Liberal coalition).

During the campaign the three leaders participated in the first televised debate. None of the three leaders had previously led a general election campaign although Douglas-Home had become PM after the surprise loss of Oliver Letwin in the 2013 campaign. The ecological People’s Party retained their only seat while the Republican Labour Party increased their support in Northern Ireland at the expense of the Unionists. The SNP meanwhile had another disappointing campaign.
-Wikipedia

Lord Home was an interesting contrast to his father. While Alec Douglas-Home had been one of the first Peers to move to the Commons, setting a precedent for both the Tories and Labour in having a more active, hands-on leader, David Douglas-Home (or DDH as he became known) almost reversed the trend returning to the tradition of having a “figurehead” Prime Minister. It even became a “meme” in the growing euronet where the British head of state was a figurehead and the head of government was a figurehead too, much like back in had been in the old Soviet Union. Many didn’t expect DDH to lead the Tories to the next election, citing his advanced age and lack of oversight over the increasingly influential libertarian faction. In fact he made more public statements about the People’s Party proposal to increase forest acreage than any EuroFed policies. However, once again divisions within Labour would come to their rescue as J.R. Attlee (leader of the Labour right), passed over once again for Labour leadership would accept the leadership of the more centrist Liberals (even though it was claimed that it was probably the Conservatives where he would feel the most at home). This led to one of the most hotly contested elections in recent time and the Conservatives were forced into accepting an alliance with Attlee’s Liberals. While Labour was furious alleging fraud and collusion between the two parties, it looked clear that the next change of PM would most likely come from DDH’s death or resignation, whichever came first.
-Secret Diary of a Parliamentary Secretary, Anonymous

OOC: This is a barely edited revision of the OTL general election. The creative part was in trying to get it to fit the narrative of this very different world.
 
A list of all the Presidents in my timeline, New Birth of Freedom
*Every President and VP from Joseph Hagle onward is fictional.
** Fremont, Hagle, Olney, and Kennesaw were assassinated, Brown died in office, and Patrone was impeached & convicted for corruption.
EDIT: Please excuse some of the dates - it's too complicated to go and fix all of them.
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