FDR Does Not Run

So, what if President Franklin Roosevelt did not decide to run for a third term in 1940? Who would have succeeded him? I wonder if it would be Garner, or could it even be JPK? I didn't put a WI before the topic, because I've been thinking about turning this into a TL.
 
Until 22/11/63, it was considered impossible for a Southerner to become President. The Dixiecrats were given patronage and a veto over civil rights, but little else. JPK is out of the question, if simply because FDR won't let it happen. Up until 1960 a Catholic couldn't be elected either. FDR would have to be assured a successor who would continue his policies. Since none of his preferred candidates wished to run, and they would be attacked for being a Roosevelt puppet, he ran anyway. OTL in '40 LBJ and Rayburn offered to turn the Texas delegation, which was pledged to Garner, to FDR. He refused because he wanted Garner to have some votes and an excuse for installing his own choice as VP.
 
I've began working on a TL for this called: THE KENNEDY DYNASTY 1940 - 2010. As you see, Joseph P. Kennedy wins the presidency in 1940. It shows five Kennedy presidents in the mentioned time period. Part One: JPK should be out in a few weeks. Meanwhile, I have just one question, as this is my first TL: Where should I post the parts? In Alternate History Wiki, or the Alternate History Writers forum, where? Thanks!!!
 
I would bet on someone like Harry Hopkins or Henry Wallace. It would have to be a New Dealer, at least, because by 1940, the New Dealers controlled the party apparatus, thanks to Jim Farley's patronage while at the Postmaster General spot.
 
DudeAlmighty, I'd recommend the Post-1900 forum. That way you can get peer-reviewed. Once complete, you have to send it to a mod to be posted in the Writers Forum. My RFK Renewed TL is in the forum. With one or two exceptions, post 1976 will be the famed Dynasty War: Kennedy vs. Bush instead of Clinton vs. Bush of OTL.

Look forward to your TL. ;)
 
I apologise firstly for those who think it is in bad taste, but I couldn't help thinking - you mean he did run, I thought it was a major effort to stand up, when I saw the thread title - 'FDR does not run' .
 
Don´t worry Merlin, I think it is clear that you meant no offense. Getting back to the originial subject. I of course, think that Paul V MCNutt stood a good chance. He a real person, was at the time running the Federal Agency that housed Social Security and all of the education and health programs, He was actually campaigning, but campaigning as a loyal New Dealer. He vowed to step aside for Roosevelt if that is what the party wanted. He did do that after France surrendered.
 
I'm sorry, by 'FDR Does Not Run', I meant that FDR does not run for a third term as president in 1940. This would leave the Democratic nomination wide open, as well as even more candidates in the GOP.

No offense taken, merlin. Thanks for pointing that out.

About the Kennedy Dynasty project: Using OpenOffice, I've finished the U.S. Mid-term Elections of 1942, in the middle of President Kennedy's term. I'm going to post the TL in parts. Here's how it's going: First, I finish JPK's presidency and I post that. Then, every few days, I'll be posting one year until I get to the next Kennedy (JFK, of course:)). Then, I'll finish JFK's presidency, then I'll post the whole presidency of JFK. Then, I do a year.....I've made my point.

Toryanna68, thanks for the suggestion, but how do I send it to a moderator? Do I do that via email? How? Thanks in advance.
 
PM Glen or Max Sinister, the two moderators of both forums. I'm interested to see whether post-JFK you give prominence to the JFK or RFK branch of the family. There was a TL where the two feuded and had a falling-out. Mainly because Bobby won the Presidency instead of Jack.
 
Well, I have good news! I should actually have the presidency of Joseph P. Kennedy up by tomorrow! I'm just working on a presidential election right now, I won't say whether it's 1944 or 1948, the last one under President Joseph Kennedy Sr. Also, once the TL is up, I'll have a separate discussion page. I'll post the link on this thread, as well as the TL page.
 
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Prior to deciding to embark on an unprecedented third term as President of the United States in early 1940, Roosevelt was rumoured to grant Attorney General James Farley his support, as well as Secretary of State Cordell Hull. However, once events in the European continent transpired their respective attempts to whisk the nomination away from the President were doomed, as Roosevelt had successfully mobilised the Chicago machine just days prior to the opening of the 1940 Democratic National Convention, coincidently in Chicago.

Now if Roosevelt did not seek a third term in 1940 I would assume that James Farley, Cordell Hull or Harry Hopkins would have secured the nomination, primarily due to the workings of the party machinery. With the machinery under the President's control it would mean that no anti-New Dealer, such as Vice President John Nance Garner would be able to win the nomination. Considering the hatred that had built up between the President and the Vice President, especially throughout 1937, Roosevelt would have done anything to prevent his very own Vice President from securing the nomination.
 
First off, I'm sorry I haven't posted as soon as I said it would be. I got a bit mixed up about it. But on the other hand, it does seem quite unlikely that JPK, of all people, would be elected, let alone nominated by the Democratic Party after President Roosevelt's New Deal Program and presidency from 1933 to 1945. So, I'm canceling this TL. I'll have a different thing coming up, though. Sorry about this.
 
Oh, I forgot to mention as well: I was planning on having Thomas Dewey get nominated by the GOP in response to Joseph Kennedy's nomination, and he would lose in 1940. However, JPK would respond to Pearl Harbor by arguing with Churchill a lot and finally invading France in 1942, and that would get repelled, and the Japanese would take Midway in June 1942. The Republicans would take control of both the Senate and the House in November 1942. JPK does manage to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, however, as early in his term, he spent tons of money - more money than FDR spent - on the Manhattan Project, with the first tests being in June 1944. In the 1944 election, the Democrats would narrowly re-nominate President Kennedy, and the GOP would re-nominate Thomas Dewey, who would go on to defeat JPK's re-election in 1944. But just one day after the election, after Dewey is announced as the president-elect, atomic bombs are dropped on Berlin, Hiroshima, and other cities in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and enough to win the war. By the way: Thomas Dewey's running mate is Douglas MacArthur.
 
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