Does anyone know anything about Lafyette Foster?

He was President Pro Tembre of the Senafe in 1865. If the Andrew Johnson had been assassinated he would have been president. wWhat were his views on reconstruction.
 
All I could find were some obituaries and link to Historium. From what I can tell he was a moderate in the Lincoln mold and he was from New England but anything else is bloody hard to find. He could have just been a seat warmer of sorts
 

Japhy

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He was a moderate, not out of ideology but out of being completely bland and useless. His two year Presidency wouldn't be one of daring leadership, probably Congress and the Cabinet really running things. In the 1866 Special Presidential Election there's basically no chance he'd be the nominee, so yeah.
 
He was a moderate, not out of ideology but out of being completely bland and useless. His two year Presidency wouldn't be one of daring leadership, probably Congress and the Cabinet really running things. In the 1866 Special Presidential Election there's basically no chance he'd be the nominee, so yeah.

wouldn't have been President two years, only 7 months, at the time the law stated that the President Pro-Tem was a kind of care taker President till November of the year the President and VP died at which point a special election would be held.
 
I never heard of the special election. I know it is not mentioned I the constitution.

no nothing past VP is covered in the constitution, but Congress can pass laws on the matter, the law as it stood in 1865 was President Pro-Tem and than the Speaker, than special election in November unless the President and VP died in October than it was next November, or if it was already an election year

its the Presidential Succession Act of 1792 if you care
 

Japhy

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I never heard of the special election. I know it is not mentioned I the constitution.

Its not in the Constitution just the Presidential Succession Act as it was then written. I was mistaken in thinking it would happen at the next midterm election as April 1865 does qualify it for taking place in November of the same year.

The relevant article:

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That whenever the offices of President and Vice President shall both become vacant, the Secretary of State shall forthwith cause a notification thereof to be made to the executive of every state, and shall also cause the same to be published in at least one of the newspapers printed in each state, specifying that electors of the President of the United States shall be appointed or chosen in the several states within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December then next ensuing: Provided, There shall be the space of two months between the date of such notification and the said first Wednesday in December, but if there shall not be the space of two months between the date of such notification and the first Wednesday in December; and if the term for which the President and Vice President last in office were elected shall not expire on the third day of March next ensuing, then the Secretary of State shall specify in the notification that the electors shall be appointed or chosen within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December in the year next ensuing, within which time the electors shall accordingly be appointed or chosen, and the electors shall meet and give their votes on the said first Wednesday in December, and the proceedings and duties of the said electors and others shall be pursuant to the directions prescribed in this act.
 
If there was a presidential election in November 1865, I assume the Republicans would nominate Grant and he would win. I assume he and the Republicans would work well together on Reconstruction. aAnother Republican would win in 1872 but he would have trouble winning reelection in 1876.
 
If there was a presidential election in November 1865, I assume the Republicans would nominate Grant and he would win. I assume he and the Republicans would work well together on Reconstruction. aAnother Republican would win in 1872 but he would have trouble winning reelection in 1876.

maybe Grant, unsure if the moment is ripe, I mean from combat General to President in 7 months? true he was head of the army till the day he was sworn in in 1869 but there's a difference between a peace time general and a war time one and he had time in Washington to pal around with the powerful people he needed for his run, truthfully my bet is Stanton
 

Japhy

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If there was a presidential election in November 1865, I assume the Republicans would nominate Grant and he would win. I assume he and the Republicans would work well together on Reconstruction. aAnother Republican would win in 1872 but he would have trouble winning reelection in 1876.

Grant wouldn't have run in 1865, the entirety of any political aspirations for him were firmly in Galena, he thought about being Mayor there when he left the army, it took years to woo him to run for the top job. Try again.
 
If Stanton wins in 1865 and is reelected in 1868,then Grant could run and win in 1872. aAs the hero, he could win in 1876.
 

Japhy

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If Stanton wins in 1865 and is reelected in 1868,then Grant could run and win in 1872. aAs the hero, he could win in 1876.

Stanton, absolutely unelectable, he was Lincoln's Sin-eater. The whole country and political system hated him. There's no way anyone would nominate him.
 
Stanton, absolutely unelectable, he was Lincoln's Sin-eater. The whole country and political system hated him.

I think post Lincoln's murder some one riding the "beat the living shit out of the rebs!" horse could win, no one quite has that nailed down like Stanton, most days yeah unelectable, mood of national grief and rage, I think he could do it, in any case it'd be a radical if not Stanton some other Radical, but has to be some one who was close to Lincoln, can't have one of the Congress boys who tried to unseat him in 1864, so a radical cabinet member.
 
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