Another Double Assassination

[tom]

Andrew Johnson is killed in 1865.
What sort of president is Schuyler Colfax?
How does this affect America?

 

[Grey Wolf]

Andrew Johnson is killed in 1865.
What sort of president is Schuyler Colfax?
How does this affect America?

Streuth, what sort of name is Schuyler Colfax ? Would people in the future be naming their kids Schuyler or using Colfax as a middle name ?

Grey Wolf

 

[tom]

I had to look twice at the name myself...

 

[Derek Jackson]

Actually if Andrew Johnson were murdered the successor would, according the the then prevailing succession law be the President Pro Tem of the Senate but there would have been a Presidential election (for a full 4 year term) in November 1865.

The Act concerned was passed in 1792 (Source "The 25th Amendment" by John D Feerick