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This is such a good thread that it deserves to be bumped, that's what I think.
Here's something really scary for ya guys:
Top Kek(konen) indeed.
Edit: damn, put the date of his ascendancy to the VP office one year too yearly...
Here's something really scary for ya guys:
Top Kek(konen) indeed.
Edit: damn, put the date of his ascendancy to the VP office one year too yearly...
I'm so sorry for shameless plagiarism, but why not?
Sorry for the double post, but I came up with something rather simple. Carwyn Jones as an American.
As our resident Welsh person, what do you think @Turquoise Blue about this?
As our resident Welsh person, what do you think @Turquoise Blue about this?
The 78th Governor of Mississippi, and the first to win 4 consecutive terms, Terrence Marne O'Neil is a tragic figure. Born in Gulfport, Mississippi in 1912, he lived most of his life in the state and was educated in the Mississippi State University. He served as an Army Captain in the Second World War, earning him his lifetime nickname "Captain O'Neil", and after the war won a special election to the Mississippi House of Representatives after the incumbent, William Patrick, died.
In office he distinguished himself by fighting for the industrialization and modernization of the largely rural Mississippi economy. Like many Southern Democrats he opposed integration, but as the 1950's ended he became one of the few Magnolia State Democrats to argue that segregation was dying and Mississippi had to adapt. After the nationally embarrassing term of Governor "Johnny Gallo", a plethora of Democrats came out to try and succeed him. O'Neil won the 1962 Democratic gubernatorial Primary in a record 15 man field, prevailing with 34% of the vote to Gallo's 25%. As the Democratic Primary was tantamount to election, he sailed to the general election with the lowest percentage of the vote in 40 years, only 87% (with 12% going to write-ins for Gallo).
As Governor he faced head on the die-hard reactionary sections of Mississippi Society. The Supreme Court, the Legislature, his own Attorney General, the infamous Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and various local governments all collaborated to "preserve Mississippi's long cherished history of amiable race-relations", in the words of one sheriff. O'Neil rallied a coalition of young liberal's (ironic given his own politics being older and more centrist), businessmen, and others who saw the writing on the wall. Despite winning three more terms, each with precarious margins, progress was slow if at all present.
Eventually, the state legislature, in a widely panned (and highly illegal) move, organized the anti-O'Neil members in the House and Senate, impeached the Governor, and removed him from office the same day. No charges were made, aside from the vague and meaningless "crimes against the moral character of the state of Mississippi", and Speaker of the State Senate James B. Clark, a "vivid, unyielding, and hateful reactionary" in the words of President McMath, assumed power. His attempts to preserve segregation saw some of the worst civil rights related violence of the 1960's, and would see him, alongside several dozen members of the Mississippi state Government, prosecuted for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, hate crimes, and terrorism in the 1980's.
Despite his failures to see any progress on civil rights and desegregation, which would eventually have to require federal intervention, Governor O'Neil is remembered for expanding the economy of Mississippi, bringing the state's first rural electrification effort, and opening up the Democratic Party to younger and more forward looking voices.
Sorry for being late @Gonzo but I tried to make a real story out of this one.
In office he distinguished himself by fighting for the industrialization and modernization of the largely rural Mississippi economy. Like many Southern Democrats he opposed integration, but as the 1950's ended he became one of the few Magnolia State Democrats to argue that segregation was dying and Mississippi had to adapt. After the nationally embarrassing term of Governor "Johnny Gallo", a plethora of Democrats came out to try and succeed him. O'Neil won the 1962 Democratic gubernatorial Primary in a record 15 man field, prevailing with 34% of the vote to Gallo's 25%. As the Democratic Primary was tantamount to election, he sailed to the general election with the lowest percentage of the vote in 40 years, only 87% (with 12% going to write-ins for Gallo).
As Governor he faced head on the die-hard reactionary sections of Mississippi Society. The Supreme Court, the Legislature, his own Attorney General, the infamous Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and various local governments all collaborated to "preserve Mississippi's long cherished history of amiable race-relations", in the words of one sheriff. O'Neil rallied a coalition of young liberal's (ironic given his own politics being older and more centrist), businessmen, and others who saw the writing on the wall. Despite winning three more terms, each with precarious margins, progress was slow if at all present.
Eventually, the state legislature, in a widely panned (and highly illegal) move, organized the anti-O'Neil members in the House and Senate, impeached the Governor, and removed him from office the same day. No charges were made, aside from the vague and meaningless "crimes against the moral character of the state of Mississippi", and Speaker of the State Senate James B. Clark, a "vivid, unyielding, and hateful reactionary" in the words of President McMath, assumed power. His attempts to preserve segregation saw some of the worst civil rights related violence of the 1960's, and would see him, alongside several dozen members of the Mississippi state Government, prosecuted for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, hate crimes, and terrorism in the 1980's.
Despite his failures to see any progress on civil rights and desegregation, which would eventually have to require federal intervention, Governor O'Neil is remembered for expanding the economy of Mississippi, bringing the state's first rural electrification effort, and opening up the Democratic Party to younger and more forward looking voices.
Sorry for being late @Gonzo but I tried to make a real story out of this one.
Sounds like an interesting project, should be quick, maybe like 5 to 10 updates?
And, to round out the "devolved UK leaders as Governors" trio:
Despite having having been born, and later educated, in Seattle, Alex Salmon has lived most of his life in Alaska. In 1970 he enrolled in the fledgling Alaskan Independence Party after, in his own words, "being disgusted with the corruption with the Democrat [sic] Party, and how they plundered the state's natural resources with the help of the Washington establishment." He made national news when, in 1986, he won an open seat to the Alaskan House of Representatives, despite the fact the district was overwhelmingly Democratic. His personal popularity, and skillful politicking, provided the first real challenge to the dominant Democratic Party since statehood.
During his four terms in the state House, he helped elect fellow AIP members to the Legislature, to the point where they surged past the moribund Republican Party in terms of seats in 1990 and became the main opposition to the Democrats in both houses afterwards. The Democrats began feeling the pressure, and resorted to many underhanded tactics to defeat the upstart party, ranging from disrupting AIP rallies, to one operative even allegedly slashing Salmons tires.
In 1994, two years after the Democrats gerrymandered the state legislature to try and oust the few fledgling AIP members, Salmon decided to take a big risk and, instead of seek re-election to a seat with new and possibly hostile voters, take his message statewide in the special election for the United States Senate. The previous Senator, Nick Begich, died in a plane accident returning home late 1993, and sitting Governor Tony Knowles resigned office as to have his successor appoint him to the upper house. Salmon blasted Knowles for this and started the election with high numbers. He won with 46% percent of the vote, the lowest ever achieved by a winning Alaskan statewide candidate since 1974, and more then quintupling the AIP's 1992 numbers for statewide election.
Due to his strong leftist and secessionist rhetoric, Salmon has been a long unpopular figure in the mainland United States, with many people calling him to be tried for treason before he had even sought election to the Senate. Infamously, the Attorney General of the United States in 1999, Charles W. Dowdy, called him a "fat, ugly, traitorous son-of-a-bitch", and went on to imply that a lynching would fail because "Alaskan trees aren't strong enough to carry all that weight".
Despite lacking many allies in Congress, with only the odd Texan to keep him company, Salmon fought loud and hard in the minority, attacking President Kirkpatrick's weapon sales to rebels in Communist Iran, her and her controversial attempts to reintroduce the poll tax. Despite a change in administration in 1996, President Brown had little sympathy with his fellow westerner, calling him a "troublemaker" and his claims that Alaskan was illegally admitted into the United States "so stupid they don't even deserve scorn."
Having won the regular 1998 and 2004 Senate elections, both times with majorities against incompetent nominees, Salmon did little noteworthy in Congress, with none of his bills ever passing (or even leaving committee). Meanwhile, his party grew further and further, to the point of even winning the Attorney Generalship in 1998 and 2002, and several mayorships over the years. Salmon announced in late 2005 he was running for Governor, clearing the field for the AIP nomination and allowing him much time to campaign. His opponent, Governor Egan, attacked him over his hypocrisy, saying he did almost exactly what Tony Knowles did. Salmon shot back that he at least ran for the office and made it clear well ahead of time that he would.
After a largely acrimonious gubernatorial election, with only 800 votes separate the two, Salmon won and became the 10th Governor of Alaska. His allies in the legislature won control over the state House, but narrowly failed to achieve a majority in the state Senate, with the Republicans and a former Democrat-turned-Independent holding a balance of power. Salmon's tenure as Governor was as difficult and exhausting as his one as Senator, battling the legislature (which wouldn't fall into AIP hands until 1998), battling the federal government, and the abortive Independence Referendum that was long a plank on the party.
After two terms as Governor, he made the choice to return to the Senate, coyly stating "nothing gives me as much pleasure as harassing the Washington establishment".
By far one of the most intriguing political figures of 20th century British politics, Carl Hayden is most noted for serving as a seventeenth Speaker of the House of Commons since the 1801 Act of Union, though his Westminster career was far more diverse and spanned nearly six decades. First elected at the 1910 general election for the seat of South Tyrone, held by Sir Thomas Russell, a liberal unionist who left the Liberal Party in 1904 due to his radical beliefs of land ownership and uniting tenant farmers to vote against landlords. Hayden was a similarly liberal unionist and won the seat with a majority of around 100 votes, this increased to around 300 votes in the December 1910 general election. After the Russellites folded later that year, Hayden once again found himself within the Liberal Party fold. When war was declared in 1914, and while still serving as the MP for the Tyrone seat, Hayden enlisted and fought with the 36th (Ulster) Division, famously fighting in the Battle of the Somme. By the end of the war he had risen to the rank of Major and was repaid with being elected the only Liberal MP in the whole of Ireland, easily avoiding being knocked out in the Sinn Fein tsunami (aided by minimal Nationalist Party opposition and no Ulster Unionist opposition.)
Hayden had an ambiguous stance on partition, having generally favoured small scale Home Rule on the island of Ireland within a federal United Kingdom, like the former Conservative and Home Rule leader during the 1870's, Isaac Butt. In 1922 the South Tyrone constituency was dissolved, and was merged into a large Fermanagh and South Tyrone seat; Hayden won the seat along with Nationalist Party of NI leader, Joe Devlin (the seat elected two MPs.) In 1924 Hayden became one of the founding members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party, a more unionist (read anti-nationalist) party than it's predecessor; at Westminster he was generally seen as a Labour MP during this period. In 1929, with the victory of Labour under Ramsay MacDonald, Hayden was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. He would remain in this post until 1930, when he was appointed to succeed Oswald Mosley as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (due to the latter's formation of the 'New Party' after a cabinet disagreement over economic policy.) In this post he was generally seen to agree with Chancellor Philip Snowden and the Prime Minister. He would soon be appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, due to the formation of the National Government under MacDonald; Hayden would sit as a National Labour Member of Parliament while retaining his NILP membership.
He would remain in position throughout the rest of MacDonald's Ministry and into Baldwin's final Ministry, he opted to return to the backbenches when Chamberlain became Prime Minister in 1937.
After war as declared and the Norway Debate in 1940 - leading to Churchill becoming Prime Minister, Hayden once again became Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, a position he would hold for the duration of the wartime government. Hayden would lead public works and farming programmes during the war, and was one of the officials involved in the implementation of rationing due to wartime shortages and the issue of shipping. During this period he had a brief split with the NILP after the election of nationalist Jack Beattie to the leadership. Following Harry Midgley out of the party, Hayden assisted in the formation of the more overtly unionist and centrist Commonwealth Labour Party. Unlike Midgley, he would return to the Labour fold after the party wound up in 1947 (Midgley would join the UUP instead, becoming a Stormont Minister.)
After the war he returned to the Labour Party fold, but was met with distrust by some on the left of the party. This did not seem to prevent Attlee shuffling Hayden into the position of Home Secretary in 1947. Hayden was responsible for the efforts to maintain the death penalty for the 'serious offences' in this period, arguing along with Attlee and Bevin, in favour of it's retention when there was efforts to abolish the penalty. Hayden would be out of office like the rest of the cabinet with the Conservative victory in 1951. The year before he had seen his seat abolished; he opted to take the marginal Mid Ulster seat, which he won narrowly against an Independent Republican opposition.
Hayden during this period was involved with the New Statesman magazine, becoming it's editor in 1954, remaining in place until 1957 when he was sacked due to "laziness" (he was notorious for his low attendance rate in parliament.) By this period he became a the Father of the House, the longest serving Member of Parliament and was seen as a Labour party grandee.
He was seen to be a thorn in the side of the party leadership, due to his outspoken beliefs and advocacy of the province of Ulster within parliament. It was then resolved that he be elected to the 'harmless' position of Speaker of the House of Commons, after the death of the former Conservative Harry Hylton-Foster in 1965. Hayden was easily elected and would serve in that position little over four years until his resignation due to old age and ill health in 1969. His seat was won in a by-election by the socialist Civil Rights campaigner Bernadette Devlin, who would ironically replace the Father of the House as the Baby of the House. Hayden lived out the remainder of his days in his native Tyrone, where he had been a political fixture for nearly seventy years. He would die in early 1972 at the age of 94, leaving behind a rich, colourful, if not controversial career behind him.
For @Nofix.
Hayden had an ambiguous stance on partition, having generally favoured small scale Home Rule on the island of Ireland within a federal United Kingdom, like the former Conservative and Home Rule leader during the 1870's, Isaac Butt. In 1922 the South Tyrone constituency was dissolved, and was merged into a large Fermanagh and South Tyrone seat; Hayden won the seat along with Nationalist Party of NI leader, Joe Devlin (the seat elected two MPs.) In 1924 Hayden became one of the founding members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party, a more unionist (read anti-nationalist) party than it's predecessor; at Westminster he was generally seen as a Labour MP during this period. In 1929, with the victory of Labour under Ramsay MacDonald, Hayden was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. He would remain in this post until 1930, when he was appointed to succeed Oswald Mosley as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (due to the latter's formation of the 'New Party' after a cabinet disagreement over economic policy.) In this post he was generally seen to agree with Chancellor Philip Snowden and the Prime Minister. He would soon be appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, due to the formation of the National Government under MacDonald; Hayden would sit as a National Labour Member of Parliament while retaining his NILP membership.
He would remain in position throughout the rest of MacDonald's Ministry and into Baldwin's final Ministry, he opted to return to the backbenches when Chamberlain became Prime Minister in 1937.
After war as declared and the Norway Debate in 1940 - leading to Churchill becoming Prime Minister, Hayden once again became Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, a position he would hold for the duration of the wartime government. Hayden would lead public works and farming programmes during the war, and was one of the officials involved in the implementation of rationing due to wartime shortages and the issue of shipping. During this period he had a brief split with the NILP after the election of nationalist Jack Beattie to the leadership. Following Harry Midgley out of the party, Hayden assisted in the formation of the more overtly unionist and centrist Commonwealth Labour Party. Unlike Midgley, he would return to the Labour fold after the party wound up in 1947 (Midgley would join the UUP instead, becoming a Stormont Minister.)
After the war he returned to the Labour Party fold, but was met with distrust by some on the left of the party. This did not seem to prevent Attlee shuffling Hayden into the position of Home Secretary in 1947. Hayden was responsible for the efforts to maintain the death penalty for the 'serious offences' in this period, arguing along with Attlee and Bevin, in favour of it's retention when there was efforts to abolish the penalty. Hayden would be out of office like the rest of the cabinet with the Conservative victory in 1951. The year before he had seen his seat abolished; he opted to take the marginal Mid Ulster seat, which he won narrowly against an Independent Republican opposition.
Hayden during this period was involved with the New Statesman magazine, becoming it's editor in 1954, remaining in place until 1957 when he was sacked due to "laziness" (he was notorious for his low attendance rate in parliament.) By this period he became a the Father of the House, the longest serving Member of Parliament and was seen as a Labour party grandee.
He was seen to be a thorn in the side of the party leadership, due to his outspoken beliefs and advocacy of the province of Ulster within parliament. It was then resolved that he be elected to the 'harmless' position of Speaker of the House of Commons, after the death of the former Conservative Harry Hylton-Foster in 1965. Hayden was easily elected and would serve in that position little over four years until his resignation due to old age and ill health in 1969. His seat was won in a by-election by the socialist Civil Rights campaigner Bernadette Devlin, who would ironically replace the Father of the House as the Baby of the House. Hayden lived out the remainder of his days in his native Tyrone, where he had been a political fixture for nearly seventy years. He would die in early 1972 at the age of 94, leaving behind a rich, colourful, if not controversial career behind him.
Do not think the war that we are waging is the Christian Kingdom's war alone. Rather, it is the Christians’ war altogether. It is the war of every Christian in every place, and the Christian State is merely the spearhead in this war. It is but the war of the people of faith against the people of disbelief.
Soon, by God's permission, a day will come when the Christian will walk everywhere as master, having honor, being revered, with his head held high, and his dignity preserved. Anyone who dares to offend him will be disciplined, and any hand that reaches out to harm him will be cut off. So let the world know that we are living today in a new era. Whoever was heedless must now be alert. Whoever was sleeping must now awaken.
Soon, by God's permission, a day will come when the Christian will walk everywhere as master, having honor, being revered, with his head held high, and his dignity preserved. Anyone who dares to offend him will be disciplined, and any hand that reaches out to harm him will be cut off. So let the world know that we are living today in a new era. Whoever was heedless must now be alert. Whoever was sleeping must now awaken.
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Born in humble surroundings in Ireland's second city, Cork, and after a brilliant academic career, Seán Mac Giolla Phóil made his home in the hinterlands of the county and was elected to the Dáil in the aftermath of the Emergency. Made a Parliamentary Secretary, after only 10 months in office, Phóil resigned from office when James Ryan did not balance the budget. Reluctantly taken back into office by Lemass, Phóil resigned in 1966 when the Fianna Fáil caucus elected Lynch over Phóil's preferred candidate, George Colley. Taken back into government in 1968, Phóil was sacked along with Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney over his role in the Arms Crisis of that year. Tried and found not guilty, Phóil remained in the Dáil and, guided by his fervent Republican beliefs, seceded from Fianna Fáil and was re-elected by his Cork constituency. A rabid Republican, he became further outspoken on the situation in the north through Bloody Sunday and as the Troubles escalated. He was assassinated by the UVF following many major speeches urging Irish annexation of the six northern counties in defiance of the UN, the UK, and plain common sense given the state of Irish forces vis-a-vis Britain. A permanently angry young man, Phóil's murder removed a thorn in the side of both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil ministries as the situation north of the Border worsened.
R.I.P. TOO CLEVER FOR HIS OWN GOOD.
R.I.P. TOO CLEVER FOR HIS OWN GOOD.
Challenge accepted.
Kimura Junichi (木村順一) is the current leader of the Japanese Communist Party. The son of noted Communist politician Kimura Ichirou (木村一郎), he was born and raised in Tokyo during the years his father served as Chairman of the Communist Party and as a member of the House of Representatives. A scholar in the field of education, he was elected to serve with his father in the National Diet in 2009, one of the few parent-child duos ever in the Diet. Smart and intuitive, he rose quickly in the party infrastructure and was elected after the 2012 elections to serve as the leader of the JCP caucus in the House of Representatives. In 2014, after the retirement of Kazuo Shii, he was elected un-opposed as Chairman of the JCP, where he currently serves.
While at the University of Edinburgh during her twenties, Princess Margareta of Romania, was involved in a five-year romantic relationship with Gordon Brown. she was interviewed by an editor of The Daily Telegraph: "It was a very solid and romantic story, I never stopped loving him but one day it didn't seem right any more, it was politics, politics, politics, and I needed nurturing,"
What if the royal family was re-instated and Margaret was married to James "Gordon" Brown
What if the royal family was re-instated and Margaret was married to James "Gordon" Brown
Evandro Mendes was a Brazilian politician and Mayor of São Paulo enter 1993 to 1997. He was born in Ribeirão Preto in 1924 and his family move to São Paulo in 1931. His habilities as good talker earned him his first job as automobile dealer in 1943. With this money, he turned as lawyer in 1948. After serving in many offices during almost two decades of advocacy, he entered on politics in 1967 by ARENA (National Renewal Alliance). His notorious anti-corruption and anti-communist speeches gave to him the post of Secretary of Justice of São Paulo (state) enter 1974 to 1979. In 1982, he was elected to Congress, and was reelected in 1986. With many inner fights against Paulo Maluf, Mendes jumped to PMDB and was elected Mayor in 1992. His term was deeply unpopular, and the Caso Mendes-Farias almost gave him an impeachment. In 1996 he declined to run for reelection and retired from politics in 1998 when he wasn't elected for a fourth term to Congress. He died in September 2002, at 78, by lung cancer.
For my first inverse, here's British Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
The death and execution of the up and coming young Congressman, political activist, writer, poet, and historian Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands (1954–81) would prove to be one of the turning points in the Haig Dictatorship that would ultimately lead to its violent downfall during the Second American Civil War (1983–88).
Born in the Staten Island borough of New York City in 1954 as the son of working class Irish immigrants, Sands frequently traveled abroad to his Irish homeland and became enamored with the Irish culture at an early age. In an interview with William F. Buckley Jr. in 1980, Sands humorously stated that he was "enamored with the music and lore of Ireland as a child and became deeply concerned and affected with the political and social history of Ireland during my depressing and frankly humorous teenage years." At the age of 18 in 1972, he briefly attended Fordham University before dropping out in 1973 in favor of travelling abroad once more and attending Trinity College, Dublin, graduating from the university in 1975 with a degree in Political Science.
During his tint at university, Sands became interested in politics after being encouraged by his friends to join the Irish Labour Party and to attend one of its rallies in Dublin. He was impressed by Labour's political promises and kept these left-wing ideals in mind when he emigrated back to the U.S. in 1976, jokingly running for a seat in the New York State Assembly until he unexpectedly won the election in a four-way contest. His election to the State Assembly was the first action that gained him notoriety within the Haig Dictatorship, with his house later being raided for "anti-government and anti-freedom propaganda" in 1978 after he endorsed an anti-government activist in the New York mayoral election of that year.
It was also during this troubled time in his life that Sands began dabbling with poetry and literature, compiling a series of poems throughout the summer 1978/79 and releasing them in one grand book simply known as Dawn, which was released in the winter of 1980. The poetry book became infamous for its deeply socialist and left-wing bent, and was quickly banned by the American government after reaching best-seller status just weeks after its release. Sands continued to become more and more radical throughout this endeavor, which eventually led to him openly speaking against the government and frequently participating and speaking at anti-government rallies across New York City. His popularity as a youthful and charismatic freedom fighter greatly aided him in his congressional campaign in 1980, which ended in an utter landslide for the Sands campaign.
This proved to be much for the American government to handle and on April 27, 1981, during a political rally in Brooklyn that Sands headed which pushed for constitutional reform and the liberalization of the dictatorship, American troops opened fire on over 5,000 protesters in what would later be known as "the Bloodbath". After 2 hours of constant gunfire and the deaths of over 500 men, women, and children, Sands was arrested and scrapped from his Congressional seat by the U.S. government. He would be interned and court-martialed at Rikers Island, where he would later be executed by firing squad on May 5, 1981 despite receiving dozens of petitions by the general public to release Sands and his entourage.
His sudden imprisonment and death would spark a series of protests and riots throughout the country, eventually leading all the way up to the attempted 1983 coup d'etat and the start of the Second American Civil War. As a result, Sands is popularly known as the "Second John Brown" by supporters and enemies alike.
His last collection of poems would later be released in 1985 as propaganda by the Republican Government during the course of the Civil War.
Born in the Staten Island borough of New York City in 1954 as the son of working class Irish immigrants, Sands frequently traveled abroad to his Irish homeland and became enamored with the Irish culture at an early age. In an interview with William F. Buckley Jr. in 1980, Sands humorously stated that he was "enamored with the music and lore of Ireland as a child and became deeply concerned and affected with the political and social history of Ireland during my depressing and frankly humorous teenage years." At the age of 18 in 1972, he briefly attended Fordham University before dropping out in 1973 in favor of travelling abroad once more and attending Trinity College, Dublin, graduating from the university in 1975 with a degree in Political Science.
During his tint at university, Sands became interested in politics after being encouraged by his friends to join the Irish Labour Party and to attend one of its rallies in Dublin. He was impressed by Labour's political promises and kept these left-wing ideals in mind when he emigrated back to the U.S. in 1976, jokingly running for a seat in the New York State Assembly until he unexpectedly won the election in a four-way contest. His election to the State Assembly was the first action that gained him notoriety within the Haig Dictatorship, with his house later being raided for "anti-government and anti-freedom propaganda" in 1978 after he endorsed an anti-government activist in the New York mayoral election of that year.
It was also during this troubled time in his life that Sands began dabbling with poetry and literature, compiling a series of poems throughout the summer 1978/79 and releasing them in one grand book simply known as Dawn, which was released in the winter of 1980. The poetry book became infamous for its deeply socialist and left-wing bent, and was quickly banned by the American government after reaching best-seller status just weeks after its release. Sands continued to become more and more radical throughout this endeavor, which eventually led to him openly speaking against the government and frequently participating and speaking at anti-government rallies across New York City. His popularity as a youthful and charismatic freedom fighter greatly aided him in his congressional campaign in 1980, which ended in an utter landslide for the Sands campaign.
This proved to be much for the American government to handle and on April 27, 1981, during a political rally in Brooklyn that Sands headed which pushed for constitutional reform and the liberalization of the dictatorship, American troops opened fire on over 5,000 protesters in what would later be known as "the Bloodbath". After 2 hours of constant gunfire and the deaths of over 500 men, women, and children, Sands was arrested and scrapped from his Congressional seat by the U.S. government. He would be interned and court-martialed at Rikers Island, where he would later be executed by firing squad on May 5, 1981 despite receiving dozens of petitions by the general public to release Sands and his entourage.
His sudden imprisonment and death would spark a series of protests and riots throughout the country, eventually leading all the way up to the attempted 1983 coup d'etat and the start of the Second American Civil War. As a result, Sands is popularly known as the "Second John Brown" by supporters and enemies alike.
His last collection of poems would later be released in 1985 as propaganda by the Republican Government during the course of the Civil War.
