Johnson too

What if Booth's coconspirator had not chickened out and killed Andrew Johnson. According to the 1792 law then in effect,the Senate Pro Tempre would become President until a special election. I see the RNC picking Grant as their candidate and I see the war hero winning. I see him favoring civil rights and working with the Congress. He would also bring his corrupt cronies. So there would be the scandals. I see him being reelected in 1868. I assume he would have honored the two term tradition in 1872. So who runs and who wins?
 
Lafayette Foster becomes President of the United States

Agreed so far.


and reconstruction gets violent.
Why would it be any more violent than OTL?

Foster is not a Radical, though he'd probably concede more than AJ did to the views of Congress. In any case, Foster will only serve until March 1866, at which point the conflict between AJ and Congress was barely getting started. After that it will presumably be Grant, elected in Nov 1865 under the terms of the 1792 Act.

So the Grant Administration starts a bit earlier, but not much else is changed.
 
But once again, who gets elected in 1872? Do they end reconstruction early?

It will be 1873 actually. Electing a POTUS in 1865 means that the next election will be 1869, and so forth unless/until another double vacancy "resets" things again.

That said, it is certainly possible that Reconstruction could end earlier. VA, NC, GA, and TN have all been "redeemed" by 1871, and AL only just missed being. The Dems have also reclaimed all the Border States. So with Grant gone it is quite on the cards that support for Reconstruction - rapidly waning anyway - could evaporate a bit faster than OTL. Not certain, but far more likely than it being prolonged.
 
It will be 1873 actually. Electing a POTUS in 1865 means that the next election will be 1869, and so forth unless/until another double vacancy "resets" things again.

The 1865 election was to fill out the remainder of the 1865-1869 term, so I the next election would come as scheduled in 1868. wWho would the 1872 candidates be? With Grant not running there would not be the split in the Republican Party. I see Horace Greely and Charles Francis Adams running for the Republican nomination.
 
It will be 1873 actually. Electing a POTUS in 1865 means that the next election will be 1869, and so forth unless/until another double vacancy "resets" things again.

The 1865 election was to fill out the remainder of the 1865-1869 term, so I the next election would come as scheduled in 1868. wWho would the 1872 candidates be? With Grant not running there would not be the split in the Republican Party. I see Horace Greely and Charles Francis Adams running for the Republican nomination.
No, he's right. They serve a full four year term. I can't load the actual law on my phone but this site confirms it:

http://amendment25.com/1792.html

I'll double check when I get to the office, but I'm 90% sure the next President would serve 1866-1870/1874.

/Edit Actually, that site includes the language. It's horribly written, but when you sift through it a Presidential election gives a full term regardless of why it was held.
 
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