American Presidents, backwards

Obviously the butterflies of these people's births should be immense but how could this happen? What would the world look like?

George Washington (none) 1789-96
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) 1796-1800
John Adams (Federalist) 1800-1804
Charles Pinckney (Federalist) 1804-12
DeWitt Clinton (Federalist) 1812-1816
Rufus King (Federalist) 1816-1820
James Munroe (Federalist) 1820-24
Andrew Jackson (Democrat) 1824-28
John Q Adams (National Republican) 1828-32
Henry Clay (National Republican) 1832-36
William Harrison (Whig) 1836-40
Martin Van Buren (Democrat) 1840-44
Henry Clay (2nd Term) (Whig) 1844-48
Lewis Cass (Democrat) 1848-52
Winfield Scott (Whig) 1852-56
John Fremont (Republican) 1856-60
Stephen Douglas* (Southern Democrat) 1860-61
Herschel Johnson (Southern Democrat) 1861-64
George McClellan (Democrat) 1864-68
Horatio Seymour (Democrat) 1868-72
Horace Greeley* (Democrat) 1872
Benjamin Brown (Democrat) 1872-76
Samuel Tilden (Democrat) 1876-80
Winfield Hancock (Democrat) 1880-84
James Blaine (Republican) 1884-88
Grover Cleveland (Democrat) 1888-92
Benjamin Harrison (Republican) 1892-96
William Bryan (Democrat) 1896-1904
Alton Parker (Democrat) 1904-08
William Bryan (3rd Term) (Democrat) 1908-12
Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) 1912-16
Charles Hughes (Republican) 1916-20
James Cox (Democrat) 1920-24
John Davis (Democrat) 1924-28
Al Smith (Democrat) 1928-32
Herbert Hoover (Republican) 1932-36
Alf Landon (Republican) 1936-40
Wendell Wilkie* (Republican) 1940-44
Charles McNary (Republican) 1944
Thomas Dewey (Republican) 1944-52
Adlai Stephenson (Democrat) 1952-64
Richard Nixon (Republican) 1960-64
Barry Goldwater (Republican) 1964-68
Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) 1968-72
George McGovern (Democrat) 1972-76
Gerald Ford (Republican) 1976-80
Jimmy Carter (Democrat) 1980-84
Walter Mondale (Democrat) 1984-88
Michael Dukakis (Democrat) 1988-92
George Bush (Republican) 1992-96
Bob Dole (Republican) 1996-2000
Al Gore (Democrat) 2000-04
John Kerry (Democrat) 2004-
John McCain** (Republican)

*Died in office
**President-Elect

Hmm... The average loser lasts a lot longer than the winner... the was a guy who'd been beaten by FDR who was alive in the 80s, for goodness' sakes.
 
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One problem seems to be that in the earlier ones you've still got the military hero types there (Jackson, Scott, Fremont) so, although their election is ATL, the circumstances that led to their prominence must have happened in the timeline, thus there seems unlikely to have been any great derailing of American history until the 1850s, regardless of the character changes. After that, it seems you get rid of the ACW for none of the military hero types from it seem to appear as later presidents. Your butterflies go on strike a bit after this, I think

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Grey Wolf
 
I've done a TL like this, and I think you're overlooking a few too many details. The TL is *relatively* plausible, but you have to do a lot of string pulling, not just number trading.
 
there's the interesting phenomenom that NO incumbent wins re-election in your scenario... to make that plausible you should add in a one-term limit to the presidency
 
there's the interesting phenomenom that NO incumbent wins re-election in your scenario... to make that plausible you should add in a one-term limit to the presidency

Not quite true - Dewey wins twice, and Bryan wins three times - but ohther than that, yeah, once is the rule.
 
But they don't win concurrent terms is my point... allowing multiple terms as long as each stint is limited to 4 years is a reasonable compromise in my opinion.
 
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