instead of a stroke wilson fatally shot.

what happens if instead of suffering a stroke while touring to sell the leauge of nations Wilson is instead shot and killed? I ask this because a professor I had told us that at the very stop where Wilson had the stroke there was many armed men ready to shoot and kill Wilson 1 of the armed men being his grandfather.
 
what happens if instead of suffering a stroke while touring to sell the leauge of nations Wilson is instead shot and killed? I ask this because a professor I had told us that at the very stop where Wilson had the stroke there was many armed men ready to shoot and kill Wilson 1 of the armed men being his grandfather.

Well, Marshall actually gets to become Acting President for one.
 
what happens if instead of suffering a stroke while touring to sell the leauge of nations Wilson is instead shot and killed? I ask this because a professor I had told us that at the very stop where Wilson had the stroke there was many armed men ready to shoot and kill Wilson 1 of the armed men being his grandfather.
Whose grandfather? Because Wilson's grandfathers were both certainly dead, since his parents were born in the 1820s.
 

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So what kind of a President would Marshall have made? And would Wison have been a martyr that would have gottten the Leauge of Nations Traty ratified?
 
Whose grandfather? Because Wilson's grandfathers were both certainly dead, since his parents were born in the 1820s.

That is what I thought at first, but I guess the OP means the OP's grandfather- either that or this site is so correct on hating Wilson, and the proof is his dead grandpa wanted to shoot him!

As to the premise, what were Marshall's thoughts or anyone else in the Cabinet? It might pass, but isolationism is still going to make the LoN weak.
 
It was my profs grandfather that was wanting to shoot wilson


Probably doesn't matter. Failed assassinations were far more frequent than successful ones. Wilson gets a bit of public sympathy from the attempt, but not enough (or permanent enough) to cut much ice with the Senate.

Incidentally, assassination is surplus to requirements. After his second collapse in October, Wilson was at death's door for several days, and Marshall was unofficially informed that the President could die at any moment. Should he do so, Marshall probably accepts all or most of the Lodge Reservations, and theToV is ratified. So there is a US delegate on the Council of the League at Geneva, though whether having him there makes a great deal of difference to later history is far from self-evident.
 
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Probably doesn't matter. Failed assassinations were far more frequent than successful ones. Wilson gets a bit of public sympathy from the attempt, but not enough (or permanent enough) to cut much ice with the Senate.

Incidentally, assassination is surplus to requirements. After his second collapse in October, Wilson was at death's door for several days, and Marshall was unofficially informed that the President could die at any moment. Should he do so, Maershall probably accepts al or most of the Lodge Reservations, and theToV is ratified. So there is a US delegate on the Council of the League at Geneva, though whether having him there makes a great deal of difference to later history is far from self-evident.

Except that assassination could add to his lustre, and help the treaty pass.
 
Except that assassination could add to his lustre, and help the treaty pass.


Agreed, but the change of President would probably facilitate passage even without that lustre.

Incidentally, it probably matters very little whether ratification is with or without the Reservations. After all, the European powers all accepted the ToV without them, yet no one ever tried to make them use their armed forces for anything they didn't want to. No reason to think it would be any different for the US.
 
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