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What if Andrew Johnson had been killed the same night as Lincoln (as was intended by the plotters) and Senate President Pro Tempore Lafayette Sabine Foster had thus become President?
A Connecticut Yankee as President for a year (until the election that would be called in November of 1865, as the law required at the time) would be interesting.
The law of the time said that in the case of a double vacancy (President and Vice President) an election for a full 4-year term would be held in the November of the year. We would see an 1865 election between a National Union ticket and a Democratic Ticket.