List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

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Clinton gets killed in 1996, just after the election, by Al Qaeda linked terrorists in the Philippines. Gore is sworn in, and in the interest of both uniting the country and bringing needed military experience into the White House, he nominates Colin Powell as Vice President. The two serve out this term together, and in 2000 Gore replaces him with John Kerry (edited from Bob Graham).

1993-1996:
Bill Clinton (D-AR)/Al Gore (D-TN)

Def. 1992 George H.W. Bush (R-TX)/Dan Quayle (R-IN), Ross Perot (Independent-TX)/James Stockdale (Independent-CA)
Def. 1996 Bob Dole (R-KS)/Jack Kemp (R-NY)

1996-1997: Al Gore (D-TN)/ Vacant
1997-2001: Al Gore (D-TN)/Colin Powell (R-VA)
2001-2005: Al Gore (D-TN)/John Kerry (D-MA)

Def. 2000 John McCain (R-AZ)/Tom Ridge (R-PA), Pat Buchanan (Reform-VA)/Alan Keyes (Reform-MD)
2005-2013: Colin Powell (R-VA)/Jeb Bush (R-FL)
Def. 2004 John Kerry (D-MA)/Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Def. 2008 John Edwards (D-NC)/Hillary Clinton (D-NY)

2013-20??: Hillary Clinton (D-NY)/John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Def. 2012 Jeb Bush (R-FL)/Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)
 
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POD: Al Gore enters the 1992 presidential race. He splits the Southern centrist vote with Clinton, allowing Jerry Brown to win the Democratic nomination. However, the Jerry Brown/Jesse Jackson ticket narrowly loses in an upset and George Bush is re-elected.

41. George Bush (1989-1997), R-TX
42. Mario Cuomo (1997-2005), D-NY
43. John McCain (2005-2009), R-AZ
44. Barack Obama (2009-2013), D-IL
45. Mitt Romney (Since 2013), R-UT

In 1996 New York Governor Mario Cuomo handily defeats Vice-President Dan Quayle - making him the first Democratic President in 16 years. Riding off a good economy he is re-elected in 2000, but Vice-President Al Gore narrowly loses to Arizona Senator John McCain in 2004. McCain proves himself to be deft at foreign policy, but he is criticized for his handling of Hurricane Katrina and the 2007 financial crisis. A stock market crash in September 2008 unexpectedly throws the election to Illinois Senator Barack Obama - the nation's first black President.

Obama passes an economic stimulus, new banking regulations, a landmark health care reform law, and a controversial "Grand Bargain" that raises taxes while cutting spending and raising the retirement age. While supporters praise Obama for taking the action necessary to reduce the deficit, progressives were infuriated by the Grand Bargain and supported Bernie Sanders' failed primary challenge. In 2012, Obama is narrowly defeated by Utah Governor* Mitt Romney. While not terribly popular upon leaving office, Obama has since been praised as America's greatest one term President - a man ahead of his time who made hard choices even when they were unpopular and who laid the groundwork for a more diverse coalition of Democratic voters. For the most part, his successor leaves Obama's policies in tact. And the economic growth that helps cause Romney's narrow 2016 re-election should actually be credited to Barack Obama.


*Butterflies result in Romney running in Utah instead of Massachusetts.
 
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Casey Neistat/Cory Booker 2021-2025
2020: Def. Donald Trump/Mike Pence, John Kasich/John Hickenlooper
Ben Shapiro/Nikki Haley 2025-2033
2024: Def. Casey Neistat/Cory Booker, Philip DeFranco/Mark Zuckerberg
2028: Def. Cenk Uygur/Kamala Harris
Laci Green/Beto O'Rourke 2033-2041

2032: Def. Nikki Haley/Logan Paul
2036: Def. Yousef Erakat/Tom Cotton
Felix Kjellberg/Dan Crenshaw 2041-2045*

2040: Def. Krysten Sinema/Lucas Cruikshank
Anita Sarkeesian/Eric Swalwell 2045-2049

2044: Def. Felix Kjellberg/Dan Crenshaw
Felix Kjellberg/Elise Stefanik 2049-2053

2048: Def. Anita Sarkeesian/Eric Swalwell, Philip DeFranco/various
Jake Paul/Barron Trump 2053-2057
2052: Def. Anita Sarkeesian/Richard Ojeda, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Jaime Raskin
Shane Dawson/Tulsi Gabbard 2057-2061
2056: Def. Jake Paul/Barron Trump
Ryan Higa/Chris Pratt 2061-
2060: Def. Shane Dawson/Tulsi Gabbard, Lauren Southern/Saira Blair

*President Green passed a constitutional amendment allowing naturalized Americans to run for office provided they have resided in the country for at least 10 years. Kjellberg became a US resident in 2026 and a naturalized citizen in 2028. Southern did likewise in 2031.

Welp, at least I imagine that Venezuela´s dark age would end with President David Revilla taking office in 2023 in this world, though relations would be tense with Mexico´s president Victor González
 
List of Host Cities of the Winter Olympics

1976: Denver, USA
Opened by: President Edmund Muskie
1980: Sion, Switzerland
Opened by: President Georges-Andre Chevallaz
1984: Sapporo, Japan
Opened by: Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki
1988: Vancouver, Canada
Opened by: Governor General Jeanne Sauve
1992: Sofia, Bulgaria, Soviet Union
Opened by: General Secretary Petar Mladenov
1994: Minneapolis, USA
Opened by: President George Deukmeijan
1998: Jaca, Spain
Opened by: King Juan Carlos I
2002: Innsbruck, Austria
Opened by: Federal President Franz Vranitzky
2006: Helsinki, Finland
Opened by: President Esko Aho
2010: Pyeongchang, Korea
Opened by: Prime Minister Won Hee-ryong
2014: Sverdlosk, Russia, Soviet Union
Opened by: General Secretary Valentina Matviyenko
2018: Aspen, USA
Opened by: President Jon Huntsman, Jr.
 
2021-2029: Governor John Bel Edwards (D-LA)/Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) (Democratic)
2020: def. President Donald Trump (D-NY)/Vice-President Mike Pence (R-IN) (Republican), Entrepreneur Andrew Yang (I-NY)/State Senator Richard Ojeda (I-WV) (Independent)
2024: def. Senator John Cornyn (D-TX)/Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson (R-FL), Entrepreneur Andrew Yang (AD-NY)/Pollster Nate Silver (AD-DC) (American Delta)
2029-2037: Governor Donald Trump, Jr. (R-NY)/Former Director of Central Intelligence Gina Haspel (R-VA)
2028: def. Vice-President Doug Jones (D-AL)/Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-RI)
2032: def. Senator Jason Kander (D-MO)/Senator Brian Shatz (D-HI)
2037-2045: Senator Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)/Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)
2036: def. Senator Steve Daines (R-MT)/Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR)
2040: def. Former Governor Adam Laxalt (R-NV)/Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21)
2045-2000: Reality TV Star Logan Paul (R-OH)/Governor Danielle Bregoli (R-FL)
2044: def. Former Secretary of State Donna Hutto Edwards (D-CA)/Governor Lee Carter (D-VA)

2020
Democratic:
Governor John Bel Edwards (D-LA) def. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Representative Dave Loebsack (D-IA-2), Governor Steve Bullock (D-MT)
Republican: President Donald Trump (D-NY) def. Governor Charlie Baker (R-MA)

2024
Democratic:
President John Bel Edwards (D-LA) def. Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones (D-TX)
Republican: Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) def. Former United States National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (R-RI), Entrepreneur Mark Cuban (R-TX)
American Delta: Entrepreneur Andrew Yang (AD-NY) def. Governor Jared Polis (AD-CO)

2028
Democratic:
Vice-President Doug Jones (D-AL) def. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Republican: Governor Donald Trump, Jr. (R-NY) def. Senator Steve Daines (R-MT), Conservative Activist Candace Owens (R-CT)

2032
Democratic:
Senator Jason Kander (D-MO) def. Senator Brian Shatz (D-HI), Governor Stacy Kemp (D-GA), Admiral (Ret.) William H. McRaven (D-NC)
Republican: President Donald Trump, Jr. (R-NY) (unopposed)

2036

Democratic: Senator Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) def. Senator Donna Hutto Edwards (D-CA)
Republican: Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) def. Former Governor Adam Laxalt (R-NV), Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Governor Raúl Labrador (R-ID)

2040
Democratic: President Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) (unopposed)
Republican: Former Governor Adam Laxalt (R-NV) def. Senator Charlie Kirk (R-IL), Former Governor Raúl Labrador (R-ID), Former Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI-1)

2044

Democratic: Former Secretary of State Donna Hutto Edwards (D-CA) def. Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
Republican: Reality TV Star Logan Paul (R-OH) def. Senator Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Governor Christina Hagan (R-OH), Former Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Activist Ineitha Lynnette Hardaway (R-MD), Former Governor Eric Trump (R-NJ)

John Bel Edwards as the new Clinton but I accidentally made it cursed. Seriously, I hate this. I hate this so much.
 
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Presidents of the United States of America (1943-present)
32. 1933-1943: Franklin D. Roosevelt [1] / John N. Garner (1933-1941) / Henry A. Wallace (1941-1943) (Democratic)
33. 1943-1945: Henry A. Wallace / vacant, 1943-1944 / James F. Byrnes (1944-1945) (Democratic)
34. 1945-1953: Thomas E. Dewey / Earl Warren (Republican)
35. 1953-1961: Earl Warren / Leverett Saltonstall (Republican)
36. 1961-1969: John William McCormack / Estes Kefauver (Democratic)
37. 1969-1977: Estes Kefauver / Robert F. Kennedy [2] (Democratic)
38. 1977-1985: Edward Brooke [3] / George Romney (Republican)
39. 1985-1989: George Romney [4] / Charles Mathias (Republican)
40. 1989-1997: Robert F. Kennedy [5] / Paul Simon (Democratic)
41. 1997-2005: Arlen Specter [6] / Christine Todd Whitman (Republican)
42. 2005-2013: Christine Todd Whitman [7] / W. Mitt Romney (Republican)
43. 2013-2021: Joseph "Joe" R. Biden / Sam Nunn (Democratic)

The 2020 election is looming, between former Vice President W. Mitt Romney and former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. Incumbent Vice President Sam Nunn (D-GA) declined to be a candidate, citing his advanced age as a factor.

[1] Officially, President Roosevelt died of a heart attack in the North Atlantic and was buried at sea. Unofficially, the USS William D. Porter had fired a torpedo at the USS Iowa and hit the ship, which caused President Roosevelt to fall overboard and drown. The crew of the Willie D was sent back to the US in disgrace, arrested as soon as they set foot on American soil, and subject to 20+ years hard labor. Wallace's new government agrees to keep the incident under wraps, for fear of demoralizing the war effort.
[2] Kennedy became the first Catholic Vice President, though many were concerned out of anti-Catholic sentiments he would try to influence the White House into following the Holy See's policy decisions.
[3] Brooke became the first African-American President in US history, while Romney became the first Mormon Vice President.
[4] Romney broke the ceiling to become the first Mormon President.
[5] Robert Kennedy avenged his loss in 1976 with a landslide victory in 1988.
[6] Specter became the first Jewish-American President, with Christine Todd Whitman became the first female Vice President. The 1996 election remains a textbook example of a close election, with Specter winning 272 EVs to Tom Harkin's 268 EVs.
[7] Whitman shattered the glass ceiling by becoming the first female President in her landslide victory in 2004.
 
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Seconded on the party name!

Good work @Nazi Space Spy :) Obviously the likelihood of OTL politicians being butterflied away is high with lists like these it really helps as a way to compare the two TLs. I like it. Im guessing the Commonwealth is all of OTL USA and Canada?

While it is true that I was quite conservative with butterflies overall, I just can't help but think that using fictional characters in a timeline is sort of a cop-out to be frank (unless it's a future history list, of course). I just see them as colored names on a list, where as using OTL figures gives greater insight into the world. But as my timeline Across Two Decades shows, I like to sort of hover on the fringes of OTL.

For example, I sort of followed the basic structure of American and Canadian history. JFK still gets shot, a female leader takes the Progressive Conservatives to disaster in 1993, Bill Clinton still rises to prominence, the two party system is (basically) preserved. I took these various realities and sort of just transplanted them onto an alt-America based on the American Commonwealth/Into the Next Millenium universe. The provincial borders are basically the same as OTL (Ontario is split up, AZ and NM united, as is the Dakotas, West Virginia and VA, etc) boundaries in this universe, resulting in similar regional trends to our timeline.
 
While it is true that I was quite conservative with butterflies overall, I just can't help but think that using fictional characters in a timeline is sort of a cop-out to be frank (unless it's a future history list, of course). I just see them as colored names on a list, where as using OTL figures gives greater insight into the world. But as my timeline Across Two Decades shows, I like to sort of hover on the fringes of OTL.

For example, I sort of followed the basic structure of American and Canadian history. JFK still gets shot, a female leader takes the Progressive Conservatives to disaster in 1993, Bill Clinton still rises to prominence, the two party system is (basically) preserved. I took these various realities and sort of just transplanted them onto an alt-America based on the American Commonwealth/Into the Next Millenium universe. The provincial borders are basically the same as OTL (Ontario is split up, AZ and NM united, as is the Dakotas, West Virginia and VA, etc) boundaries in this universe, resulting in similar regional trends to our timeline.
Well, it does depend on the point of divergence. It is, after all, quite unlikely to have everything play out exactly as OTL.

Also, once you are using universes like Doctor Who or Marvel, eventually you would end up with the fictional characters.

Using my Marvel '61 as an example, one could tell that the X-Men were slowly driven apart by the sociopolitical shitstorm from the '70s and beyond, leading to mutants at odds with each other, and the 2004 Presidential Election involving two mutants verbally attacking each other in a Presidential Debate. The Avengers, once Vietnam War veterans, simply melted away by the late '80s with the death of a discredited Steve Rogers, with Tony Stark only meriting a passing mention in 1992.

Within that timeline, the political atmosphere of the United States was still rather moderate-conservative in the modern day, on all regards but technologically. Two of their presidents were assassinated by the pledged enemy of humanity; while the Soviet Union is consistently on the upper hand after western Latvia got razed by a creation of the United States; and nuclear war being an actual, eminent threat from the late '70s to the early '80s.
 
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Based off this comment from another thread

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom:
1970-1974: Ted Heath (Conservative)
1970: Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1974-1976: Harold Wilson (Labour)

Feb. 1974 (Minority): Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
Oct. 1974: Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1976-1980: Jim Callaghan (Labour)
1978: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
1980-1988: Denis Healey (Labour)
1982: William Whitelaw (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
1986: Michael Heseltine (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
1988-1991: David Owen (Labour)
1991-2002: Michael Heseltine (Conservative)
1991: David Owen (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal)

1995: David Owen (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal)
1999: Gordon Brown (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal)

2002-2008: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2003: George Robertson (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal)
2008-2015: Jack Straw (Labour)
2008: Michael Portillo (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal)
2012: David Davis (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal)
2015-Present: David Miliband (Labour)
2016: Jeremy Hunt (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Liberal)
 
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Republican Primaries 1988

Senator Jack Kemp of New York
Senator Bob Dole of Kansas
Governor Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania
Senator Barry Goldwater Jr. of California
Representative Ron Paul of Texas
Senator Dick Cheney of Wyoming
Senator Charles Evers of Mississippi


Democrat Primaries 1988
Vice President Jimmy Carter of Georgia
Senator Andy Griffith of North Carolina


1988 US Election
Kemp/Cheney beats Carter/Takei

1992 US Election
Kemp/Cheney beats Gore/Tsongas

1996 US Election
Cheney/Romney beats Clinton/Nunn

2000 US Election
Dean/Kerry beats Cheney/Romney and Trump/McCain
 
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List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

1970 - 1974: Ted Heath (Conservative)
1970: Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1974 - 1976: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1974 (Feb): Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1974 (Oct): Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1976 - 1981: Jim Callaghan (Labour)
1978: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
1981 - 1983: Denis Healey (Labour)
1983 - 1985: William Whitelaw (Conservative)
1983: Denis Healey (Labour), David Steel (Liberal), John Tyndall (National Front)
1985 - 1993: Jim Prior (Conservative)
1988: Tony Benn (Labour), David Owen (New Labour), David Steel (Liberal), John Tyndall (National Front), David Icke (Green)
1992: Margaret Beckett (Labour), David Owen (New Labour), David Alton (Liberal), John Carlisle (British National Party), John Tyndall (National Front)

1993 - 2006: Chris Patten (Conservative, Conservative-New Labour-Liberal coalition)
1996: John Prescott (Labour), Sue Slipman (New Labour), John Carlisle (British National Party), David Alton (Liberal)
2001: John Prescott (Labour), Angela Watkinson (British National Party), Menzies Campbell (Liberal), Sue Slipman (New Labour)

2006 - 2011: John Reid (Labour)
2006: Chris Patten (Conservative), Norman Lamb (Liberal), John Bercow (British National Party), Polly Toynbee (New Labour)
2011 - 2016: Brooks Newmark (Conservative)
2011: John Reid (Labour), Philip Davies (British National Party), Greg Clark (Liberal), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2016 -: Diane James (British National Party-Conservative coalition)
2016: Brooks Newmark (Conservative), Harriet Harman (Labour), Liz Truss (Liberal/Onward), Caroline Lucas (Green)
 
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What if Eisenhower Had Died in 1955?
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1955)
35. Richard Nixon (1955-1965)

36. Hubert H. Humphrey (1965-1969)
37. Nelson Rockefeller (1969-1977)
38. Mo Udall (1977-1985)
39. Howard Baker (1985-1993)
40. Bill Bradley (1993-2001)
41. Al Gore (2001-2005)

42. John McCain (2005-2013)
43. Barack Obama (Since 2013)
 
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