List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

[SandroPertini98]

Prime Ministers of United Kingdom [After the Bomb exploded]:

Monarchs:
Queen Elizabeth II 1952-1962
[Under Regency of National Salvation Committee 1962-1966]
Charles III 1962-1978
Richard IV 1978-...

Harold Macmillan (Conservative) 1957-1962
Def 1959 Hugh Gaitskell (Lab), Jo Grimond (Lib)
Vacant 1962-1963
General Walter Colyear Walker [as Chairman of the National Salvation Committee] 1963-1984
1972 Unopposed
1977 Unopposed
1982 Unopposed
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley (Unionist Alliance) 1984-1997
1987 Unopposed
1992 Tony Benn (Socialist Labour Party), Chris Patten (Democrats)
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (Socialist Labour Party) 1997-1999
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (SLP) 1999-2012
Def 1997, 2002, 2007 Ian Paisley (UA), Chris Patten (Dem)
John Simon Bercow (Union Rural Party) 2012-2017
Def 2012 Jeremy Corbyn (SLP), Christian Linder (Dem)
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond (SLP) 2017-2018
Emily Anne Thornberry (SLP) 2018-2022
Def John Bercow (URP), Christian Linder (Dem)
Nigel Martin Evans (URP) 2022-...
Def Emily Thornberry (SLP), Christian Linder (Dem)

 

[Citizen Keynes]

Here is the list from the Lists of Alternate Presidents Game thread. It went a bit off the rails and things got behead-y at the end...
1929-1933: Henry C. "Harry" Wallace / Herbert C. Hoover (Republican) [1]
def. 1928 Alfred E. "Al" Smith / Jesse H. Jones (Democratic)
1933-1938: J. Hamilton Lewis / John N. Garner (Democratic) [2]
def. 1932 Herbert C. Hoover / Simeon D. Fess (Republican)
def. 1936 Charles L. McNary / Lester Dickinson (Republican), William Randolph Hearst / Hamilton Fish III (Liberty)
1938-1941: John N. Garner / vacant (Democratic) [3]
1941-1948: Henry A. Wallace / Alfred M. "Alf" Landon (Republican) [4] [5]
def. 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh / William H. Harvey (Liberty), John N. Garner / Earl K. Long (Democratic)
def. 1944 Charles A. Lindbergh / Charles W. Sawyer (Liberty), Harry F. Byrd / Dennis H. Murphree (Democratic)
1948-1949: Alfred M. "Alf" Landon / vacant (Republican)
1949-1953: Dwight D. Eisenhower / Vincent Hallinan (Republican) [6]
def. 1948 Joseph R. McCarthy / Gerald L. K. Smith (Liberty)
1953-1957: Dwight D. Eisenhower / William Knowland (National Union) [7]
def. 1952 Robert Rice Reynolds / William Langer (Liberty), Vincent Hallinan / John Abt (Progressive Labor)
1957-1961: Joseph "Joe" P. Kennedy Jr. / William E. Jenner (Liberty) [8]
def. 1956 Irving Goff / Estes Kefauver (Progressive Labor), Ernest W. Gibson Jr. / Patrick J. Hurley (Republican)
1961-1965: Hubert H. Humphrey / Glen H. Taylor (Progressive Labor) [9]
def. 1960 Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy Jr. / William E. Jenner (Liberty), Richard M. Nixon / Earl Warren (Republican)
1965-1968: Hubert H. Humphrey / Harold E. Stassen (Progressive Republican) [10]
def. 1964 Barry M. Goldwater / William F. Buckley Jr. (Liberty), Larry McDonald / Fred C. Koch (Patriot)
def. 1968 George C. Wallace / William K. "Bill" Shearer (Patriot), Robert A. Taft Jr. / William E. Miller (Liberty)
1968-1971: Prescott S. Bush / vacant (Progressive Republican)
1971-1975: Curtis E. LeMay / vacant (Military Government) [11]
1975-1977: William Westmoreland / vacant (Transitional Government)
1977-1981: John B. Anderson / James Carter (Truth and Freedom) [12]
def. 1976 Walter Mondale / Richard Schweiker (Progressive Republican), Tom Hayden / Todd Gitlin (Democratic Society), James L. Buckley / Ralph MacBride (Constitutional Restoration)
1981-1983: Roy M. Cohn / Russel A. Kirk (Constitutional Restoration) [13]
def. 1980 John B. Anderson / James Carter (Truth and Freedom), Bernard Sanders / David E. McReynolds (Democratic Society), Patrick J. Lucey / John B. Connally (Progressive Republican)
1983-1984: Russell A. Kirk / vacant (Constitutional Restoration)
1984-1985: Russell A. Kirk / vacant (Conservative)
1985-1989: Bernard Sanders / Skip Humphrey (United Front) [14]
def. 1984 Russell A. Kirk / Clarence Thomas (Conservative), John B. Anderson / various (Truth and Freedom)
1989-1997: Jerry Brown / Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Progressive) [15] [16]
def. 1988 Pete DuPont / Robert Bork (Conservative Alliance), Bernard Sanders / Skip Humphrey (Democratic Society)
def. 1992 William Bennett / Edwin Meese (Conservative)
1997-1998: Ben Nighthorse Campbell / Joe Biden (Progressive) [17]
def. 1996 Pat Buchanan / Alan Keyes (Conservative)
1998-2001: Ben Nighthorse Campbell / vacant (Progressive)
2001-2003: Ben Nighthorse Campbell / Richard B. "Rick" Cheney (Progressive-Conservative) [18]
def. 2000 George W. Bush / Ralph Nader (Truth and Freedom)
2003-2004: Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Progressive-Conservative)
2004-2005: Michael Bloomberg (Independent)
2005-2008: Michael Bloomberg / Bob Menendez (Progressive-Conservative) [19]
def. 2004 Alex Jones / Fred Phelps (Alternative Movement)
2008-2013: Bernard Sanders / John McCain (Liberty Coalition) [20]
def. 2008 Bob Menendez / Chuck Baldwin (Progressive-Conservative)
def. 2012 Alex Jones / David Duke (Alternative Movement)
2013-2015: John McCain / vacant (Liberty Coalition)
2015-2016: John McCain / William J. "Billy" Blythe (Liberation Democratic/Christian Peoples') [21]
2016-2018: Emmanuel Macron (United Nations Transitional Administration) [22]
2018-2020: Claudia J. Kennedy / Arnold Schwarzenegger (Military Government)
def. 2017 Joseph Kennedy III / various (New Frontier), Scott Wallace / Elizabeth Warren (Liberal-Republican), Alex Jones / various (Alternative Movement)
2020-20xx: Alex Jones / various (Liberty Coalition) [23]

Spoiler: 1

Henry C. Wallace was chosen as the candidate for the Republican party. He would campaign in more rural areas and the western coast, while Al Smith goes around the North-East (which are some of the only states he gets, except for Texas, which he gains due to his running mate). Wallace inherited a bad situation and soon the stock market crashed. He would establish farm subsidies and promoted programs for American farmers struggling against over-production and the collapse of farm prices after Black Tuesday. Hoover (his VP) would convince him to focus a little less on farmers and more on urban areas. Despite his VP's wishes, Wallace would abandon the Gold Standard. Not all at once but over time it would be phased out. He also got a housing program, and these new homes would be called Wallaceburghs. Even after all this, Wallace's policies did not bring America completely out of the Great Depression (though it is better then IOTL). On non-Great Depression related policies, Wallace would be a vocal supporter of Civil Rights and even thought of inviting an African-American to the White House for dinner just as Teddy Roosevelt had done many years before, but was convinced otherwise by Hoover as "It would ruin your career." Due to his beliefs popularity in the south (he already was hated there as he was a Republican) grew even more and people were lynched in anger. Wallace proposed an anti-lynching bill that almost passed.​

Spoiler: 2

While Wallace was a generally popular President outside of his most fervent opponents, re-election ended up a pipe dream for him. Near the end of his term, he had been diagnosed with cancer of the gallbladder, at too late a time for anything to truly be done about it. While Wallace wished to run again, his family and acquaintances talked him down, and he would die a year after the election. His Vice-President, Hoover, was chosen as the obvious successor to the well-liked President. While his less interventionists views concerned many who were benefiting from Wallace’s programs, he was nevertheless popular, and Republicans were not willing to deny what seemed to be a winning strategy. On the Democratic side, idiosyncratic Senator J. Hamilton Lewis came out a compromise between the various factions. Former nominee Al Smith had ran again, and though largely discredited by his failure four years prior, still commanded a substantial base. He made the largest plurality, with the vast majority of delegates scattered between miscellaneous candidates. Though only serving two years in the Senate after having been out for a decade, Lewis was trusted by the Democratic establishment for his role as Senate Majority Whip, and most opposed to his Wilsonian-esque progressivism saw the writing on the wall and entered negotiations. John Nance Garner became the Vice-Presidential nominee as a concession to the Southern Democrats, though many commentators thought the nomination of yet another progressive Northerner and Conservative Texan was symbolic of Democrats’ inability to learn. The campaign itself was close, with Hoover simultaneously attaching himself to the President and distancing himself. He campaigned on the success of Wallace’s programs while also proposing said programs be drawn back. Hoover had been somewhat drawn towards Wallace’s economically active point of view during his Vice-Presidency, some say in earnest, others as a political measure, but it didn’t change that he overall wanted the Depression to be solved by businesses and localities. Democrats, meanwhile, ran a campaign surprisingly supportive of President Wallace, though making sure to praise solely his economic program, and not his civil rights record. The general strategy was to play up Hoover’s laissez-faire attitudes and keep the conversation focused on economics, which by virtue of the Great Depression, it very much was. It had even been rumored the President would endorse Lewis, though he eventually came out with a weak pro-Hoover statement. Despite a faltering campaign, by virtue of incumbency and from being Vice-President of a popular President, Hoover kept the lead. Come the beginning of November, Hoover was afflicted with the flu, and was forced to cease campaigning. While his surrogates continued on his behalf, rumours began spreading about Hoover’s health, with some saying he was close to death, and the less tactful nicknaming Wallace’s Presidency the “illministration”. In an attempt to counter these accusations, Hoover tried to fight his sickness for three days of campaigning in the Mid-West, which were mostly swing states. The attempt backfired. Hoover was sickly, frail, and out-of-it, and the outing was cut short only one day in. While this one event’s importance is debated, what is known is that come election night, Lewis barely eked his way to the White House, with a majority of only 70,000 votes in the popular vote. The Lewis administration proved to be more Conservative than expected in some ways and more Progressive in others. Wallace’s programs of aid for farmers were continued and expanded, but, in a break from what his former boss Wilson did, he slowed the process of removing the Gold Standard. Lewis’ oddities also ended up catching up to him, and relations with the Republican-controlled Congress were frosty to say the least. Many of them had been preparing for a second Wallace administration, and the switch to expecting a Hoover administration was shock enough. Suddenly, they were forced to deal with a Democrat who barely won. Even many congressional Democrats disliked the new President, though his approval among the masses was steady, if underwater. The economy continued an upward trend, granted most of it being due to there being nowhere to go but up. Some of the few programs Lewis managed to get passed through the uncooperative Congress were pensions for the poor and elderly and a new series of public works. In the 1934 midterms, the House saw minor Republican gains and the Senate had minor Democratic gains, making passage of legislation for Lewis only barely easier. The Lewis Administration tried its best to ignore issues outside of economics, but pursued an interventionist foreign policy. Under his tenure, the United States joined the League of Nations, after the defeat of key isolationists in the Senate in the midterms. Come the end of Lewis’ term, he was generally viewed as a middling President, noncontroversial to the general public but a harsh fighter in the halls of power, a fight he’d need to win time and time again to get anything done.

Spoiler: 3

As the election of 1936 drew near, many said that it was the Republicans' election to lose. They faced a president with mediocre poll numbers, meager legislative achievements, and an eccentric personality. Many believed that a candidate more moderate, more Wallace-esque than Hoover, would have an easy shot at the presidency. William Borah and Alf Landon both fit this mold, and threw their hats into the ring. So, however, did billionaire news magnate William Randolph Hearst. A former Democrat who had broken with the administration, he was considered an unlikely contender. But in the few primary elections that were held, he had surprising success. After eight years of slow economic improvement and consistently liberal economic policy by both parties, many Republicans, it seemed, were fed up. However, at the convention, the party leaders were quick to dispatch of his candidacy, gathering the two other major candidates behind a compromise, Charles McNary, another progressive Republican. While the party bosses were satisfied, many in the party faithful were not. Hearst, with his vast economic and communication resources, decided to run on his own ticket. He picked a staunch critic of Wallace and Lewis's economic policies, Hamilton Fish, to be his running mate, and attacked both of his opponents in scathing editorials that reached 20 million readers a day. However, these readers were often working-class Democrats, not the wealthy Republicans who had propelled his campaign from the start. Meanwhile, McNary promoted his economic support for farmers, but had trouble differentiating himself from Lewis. Lewis, for his part, at first was on the attack, giving a vitriolic speech at the convention attacking the greedy and duplicitous Hearst, while pointing out McNary's lack of policy differences and comparing his campaign to Lewis running against himself. However, as the campaign went on, and he stopped being the underdog, he gradually withdrew, convinced by his advisors to allow his opponents to destroy themselves, and to allow his governance to speak for itself. When Election Day came, Lewis won by a respectable margin, and a large improvement from 4 years earlier, while Hearst carried no states. As Lewis entered his second term, the economy continued to improve. However, foreign affairs were a growing concern. With Italy intervening in the Spanish Civil War on behalf of the Nationalists, and the Soviet Union on behalf of the Republicans, the conflict now had the potential to erupt into another world war. Lewis, while hoping to avoid war, was an interventionist and an internationalist, and he urged the League of Nations to act, but it lacked the power. Frustrated with the impotence of the organization he had supported, Lewis contacted the governments of France, Britain, and Weimar Germany, urging action without success. Troubled by the rise of fascism and falangism, Lewis felt the need to act. He urged Congress, without success, to lend financial support to the Republicans. As the atrocities dragged on, the president felt he had to employ desperate measures. On September 15th, 1938, he deployed American troops to Spain to pacify the region by putting down Franco's uprising. The move drew the outrage of Congress, and Lewis saw his popularity decline, as most Americans still were inclined towards isolationism. In November, Republicans took both houses of Congress. By this time, Lewis, 75 years old, was worn out by the stress of a difficult presidency, and he died on November 30th, and Vice President John Nance Garner was left holding the reigns of an undeclared and unpopular war that he hadn't started.

Spoiler: 4

Due to the massacre of American men in Spain, it was obvious that Garner would become unpopular. Lewis' successor tried to pull out the American troops but unfortunately, the port for which they had come through had been taken by the Fascists. It was a slaughter. The Americans continued to defend themselves, but the generals knew they could not last long, and generals begged Garner to just contact the Soviets to help. They had neared, but Garner being the Conservative he is responded with "I rather have supported Franco then work with the Reds!" After this came, Americans thought that Garner was willing to let young men die just in the name of capitalism. At least he did not send any more soldiers. Right? 1940 was coming up and the primaries were... interesting. The democratic primaries had many runners. The big ones include: Earl Long, Al Smith, Paul McNutt, and Cordell Hull. Garner came very close to losing the primaries but somehow pulled his campaign together. He chose the popular Long in a rather desperate move to gather support. Then in the Republican primaries, Alf Landon was expected as the one who would win the Presidency and get the Republican back in the white house. But then, the son of Henry C. Wallace showed up. Who's a better successor to Wallace then his son? He won the primaries in a landslide and chose Alf as his running mate. Of course, then there is the Liberty party. During the Spanish Intervention as the crisis was called, the Liberty party grew very isolationist. So they chose the most isolationist man they could, Lindbergh. Lindbergh and Wallace would both attack Garner for being fine with letting boys die. The incumbent president responded by saying that it was his successor's fault and that he is doing everything he can to get the military out of there. He was also attacked on the fact that the Great Depression was still raging. As the Presidential election came around, it was expected Wallace would win, but no one could have guessed how bad Garner did. The Democrats got only Louisiana and Texas, while Liberty got the rest of the south (except for Louisiana and Texas) and Michigan. While the Republicans took every other state. It was a landslide. Garner retired as an embarrassment. Some say this election caused the decline of Democrats. As Wallace goes into office, millions rejoiced as they expected that the man could get America out of Spain and also bring America out of the Great Depression (while there was barely effected anyone anymore, Garner's removal of many policies worsened it). So as here is what he did. The first thing done by Wallace was he reinstated all policies produced by his father, and get rid of the Gold Standard. After this, he contacted the Soviet Union and arranged for their militaries to work together. This worried Americans as they thought that this would prolong the war and also work with the communists. Luckily because of Wallace's choice, the war was one and the Republicans defeated the Falangists. The Spanish later became one of America's closest allies. Wallace brought America out of the Great Depression in the second year he was in office. Then the midterms came around. The democrats almost completely lost all their seats except a small few. The Republicans continued growing and the Liberty party also gained a couple of seats. After this, they knew that the country is now going to be a three-party system. Wallace continued gaining popularity. His first term was seen as a success though some worried that we were cozying up a little too much with the Soviet Union.

Spoiler: 5

The election of 1944 saw the same trends as last election continuing: Democrats continued their downward slide while the Liberty Party expanded. Many Democrats began to abandon the party, seeing its fall from grace, either to the Republicans or to the Liberty Party. Charles Lindbergh was again chosen as the nominee of the Liberty Party, as he had long been a party favorite, and he had effectively declared for the nomination shortly after losing in 1940. He chose a former Democrat as his running mate to help captialise on the Democrat's demise. At the same time, two Dixiecrats used the ailing party as a protest, hoping to tie the electoral college and extract concessions from the potential victors. With no serious contender wanting to run on the party, they were not challenged. Meanwhile, the Republicans quietly renominated Henry Wallace and Alf Landon. The campaign was rather uneventful, and the outcome, though not inevitable, was expected. The choice of a former Conservative Democrat as the Liberty running mate split the Democratic vote, with the latter party overperforming compared to 1940, due to concentrating their support in one area. Byrd received constant calls for him to pull out, lest he throw the race to the progressive Wallace, but he refused, and though his votes dwindled, it was still enough to hurt Liberty. Wallace attempted to focus the campaign on his achievements in ending the depression and the Spanish Civil War, but Lindbergh had one ace up his sleeve: anti-communism. Wallace was perceived as being far too close to the USSR, and especially considering he just aided to prop up a Socialist government in Spain (a Lewis administration policy, as he was quick to point out), the American fear of communism greatly hurt Wallace. Nevertheless, it was not enough to beat him, and come election day, Wallace won a comfortable margin, with the Democrats winning Mississippi and Alabama alone. In Congress, Liberty made gains at the expense of Democrats, and Republicans were largely stable. Wallace's second term began on a poor note. Among his first initiatives was a state visit to the USSR, which anti-communists at home pointed to as proof of him being a Soviet ally/a crypto-communist/whatever they were claiming that day. The visit itself went rather poorly, as he only managed to offend Soviet leader Nikolai Voznesensky. At home, President Wallace fought to keep the nationalised steel industries, which had been taken over during the War in Spain but had been planned to be privatised afterwards. This was a miscalculation, and most people were not supportive of such a move. Conservative Republicans in Congress, strengthened by an influx of former Democrats, fought to oppose the President's agenda, and the industries would end up returning to their former owners. Wallace did, however, manage to implement near-universal healthcare, which would be the end of his political capital. His term ended with a major event in Asia. The Empire of Japan had been for a decade itching to expand outwards, either to China, the USSR, or to the European colonies of the south. However, failures at home stalled this. Now, they were ready and able. The decision was made to invade southward, with plans being drawn up to take Singapore. These plans were caught by British intelligence ahead of time, who decided to approach negotiations with the Japanese. Britain had been in a rough state, never fully recovering from the depression, and with an army in no shape to engage anywhere. Japan, on the other hand, was aggressive, and negotiations seemed ready to fall through. The Japanese and British have set a deadline of February 1st to negotiate, after the next President takes office.

Spoiler: 6

1948 was a very controversial Presidential Election as in the middle of the Republican primaries it was discovered that Wallace had given the Soviet Union plans for the construction of the nuclear bomb. Wallace went was going to be impeached. Then, a rampant anti-Communist murdered Wallace in cold blood. Landon was put into office, though he decided not to even run as he was 1: Afraid he would be accused of being a Red and killed just as his predecessor had 2: He was getting too old for this. The primaries were interesting. The hero of the Spanish Civil War, Dwight D. Eisenhower easily won the Republican primaries, while the Liberty nomination had a new contender: Joseph McCarthy. A former soldier who fought in the Spanish Civil War was a fiery anti-Communist even saying "Wallace deserved it!". Despite going against political juggernauts (Charles Lindbergh, Lyndon Johnson, and Strom Thurmond) he won. McCarthy chose Gerald L. K. Smith as his running mate which also split the Dixiecrats even more. Soon the actual election came. "I fought under Eisenhower. How unfortunate I will be the one to crush the communist bastard." -Joseph McCarthy 1948. Eisenhower separated himself from Wallace but not from his policies (of course though he still separated himself from the whole committing treason thing) while McCarthy would repeatedly say that Eisenhower was a communist. The fact that Eisenhower's running mate was a protege of Henry A. Wallace did make him seem a little too left for America's liking. It was a close election but in the end, the Republicans won. Now in the rest of the world: The British negotiations with Japan failed and the Japanese declared war on Britain. France and all of the dominions also declared war on Japan. America tried to keep the peace but Eisenhower failed. Back to America. Eisenhower is sworn in. He continues many of Wallace's policies, though he does cut down relations with the Soviet Union. Back in Asia, the war does not really move for a very long time, though more gains are made by Japan as they take colonial provinces from Britain. They take over the Raj. The British beg the world to help. but none really care. But then, the unthinkable happened: Japan lands in Australia (and tries to get Canada). Which causes the United States to once again go to war... Eisenhower's wartime coalition has grown very powerful, and no one even remembers that Wallace had any connections to the Republicans as they were all focused on this new World War.

Spoiler: 7

As the war went on, and America continued to beat back the Japanese out of Australia and the Pacific, Eisenhower's main focus was foreign policy. His success in rallying the nation around him as a military and political leader elevated his popularity to new heights. Other political figures were not so lucky. Vice President Hallinan had been kept on, especially as his ability to maintain cordial relations with the Soviet Union, without directly tainting Eisenhower, led the USSR to join the fight against Japan. But by 1952, his frequent comments that America could "learn a great deal from the communist form of government," and an investigation into possible tax evasion, meant that keeping him on as a running mate was untenable. While Hallinan was not happy about this, and decided to run a splinter far-left ticket, it provided an opportunity for a president in the middle of winning a war to expand his political base. Eisenhower asked the noted conservative and aggressive anti-communist William Knowland, a senator from the Liberty Party, to be his running mate, and he agreed. This National Union ticket would end the Liberty Party's chances to win that year. Many were supportive of the war for patriotic reasons, and almost none were sympathetic to the authoritarian Japanese Empire. Those who didn't endorse Eisenhower gathered to nominate a ticket that summer, and found very few willing candidates. Robert Taft, Douglas MacArthur, and Richard Russell all declined to run. This left them with a convention full of politicians who felt that the war with Japan was a war on the side of the Soviets. They nominated two well known isolationists, Reynolds being known as a fascist apologist. This ticket did very disastrously, with many of the aforementioned leaders urging supporters to either vote for Eisenhower or not vote at all, and only carried 4 Solid South states by slim margins. They did better than Hallinan though, who won less than 4% of the vote. As Eisenhower began his second term, the progress of the war began to slow. Having kicked the Japanese out of Australia and defended the Pacific, the war turned to India, where Britain had retaken half of the country, but was bogged down by anti-colonialist and fascist resistance groups. Japan's promise of independence for the British Raj had drawn the support of the populace, and the war had grown difficult and requiring increased support. This came as the election's results cooled relations between the US and the Soviet Union, with the friendly Hallinan replaced by the staunch foe Knowland, and rumors spread of the Soviets withdrawing and signing a non-aggression pact with Japan. As the war grew more difficult, the White House was increasingly nervous of their waning political support.

Spoiler: 8

Amidst the chaos overseas and at home, the political machinations of Joseph P. Kennedy were looking to finally pay off. Having spent many years funding the Liberty Party and helping develop the Hearst vanity campaign vehicle into a mainstay of the American political system, the Massachusite mogul was seeking to put one of his sons into the White House; with public opinion rapidly turning against the Eisenhower administration, it appeared as though Joseph was going to get his chance. Banking on his father's immense financial and logistical support, the Boy Wonder of the Spanish War, Representative Joe Kennedy Jr. from Massachusetts immediately emerged as the frontrunner of the Liberty primaries, leaving even powerful contenders such as Gerald Nye and Lyndon Johnson in the dust. To ensure support from the Midwest, Junior's campaign team recruited the militantly isolationist ex-Governor and Senator William E. Jenner from Indiana, who joined the Liberty ticket as their Vice Presidential nominee. To many pundits and pollsters, it seemed as if 1956 was the Unionists' to lose. The Soviet Union signed a separate peace with the Japanese Empire, causing the Anglo-Franco-American war effort to plunge further. Highly publicized scenes of Allied military ineptitude, American boys' deaths and the apparently genuine native celebrations of the Japanese anticolonialist cause shifted American public opinion towards reluctant support for a "honorable peace". Although it was rumoured that Eisenhower was planning to run for a third term, by January less than a third of the country still supported Ike, and on March 31 the old general declared that he would not run for a third term. The "largely apathetic" Republican primaries of 1956 saw the victory of Governor Ernie Gibson of Vermont, a proud internationalist who made the need to respect the ties between America and Europe a staple of his campaign. The Progressive Labor Party, which surged in influence since Hallinan's run in 1952, nominated legendary Abraham Lincoln Battalion veteran Irving Goff, who narrowly won over Italian-American Congressman Vito Marcantonio of New York. Although the 1956 presidential election was unusually competitive, with Eisenhower, as he put it himself, "doing almost anything possible to avoid turning [his] chair and country over to Kennedy" and Goff campaigning until the bitter end; however, with his larger, far more well-funded campaign (as well as a fair share of partisan violence and vote rigging in certain states) Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. prevailed, becoming the thirty-eighth President of the United States. Although Joe personally loathed the Japanese (and, really, all Asians in general), one of his most notable (and controversial) actions during the first two years of his administration was the brokering of a peace agreement with the Japanese Empire. Under the terms of the agreement, the United States of America kept the Philippines, the Dutch and the British kept New Guinea and the newly-independent states of former French Indochina were to hold democratic, internationally supervised elections. However, the hasty resolution to the war and President Kennedy Jr.'s approach to foreign policy weakened the trust of America's traditional allies, such as Spain, China, Britain, France and Germany, while earning the ire of the Soviet Union. Further complicating affairs was the Red Scare, which opposition figures accused of being almost entirely directed at the Progressive Labour Party, sympathizers and (most infamously) civil rights activists, the growing influence of the elder Kennedy's business empire within administration, the growing cooperation between Kennedy's America and Balbo's Italy, as well as the development of the first artificial satellite by German rocket engineers, prompting the beginning of the Space Age.

Spoiler: 9

A Red Scare, the rise of the Civil rights movement, and economic downturn, chaos would be an understatement. Emboldened by persecution and the economic turmoil, Labor activist Hubert Humphrey and the AFL-CIO organized a general strike on January 1st, 1960. The strike spread from its beginnings in Minneapolis, from factories to steel mills to farms in the American Southwest, after 3 weeks of striking the Kennedy administration folded, President Kennedy passing executive orders ending his "campaign against Red terror". The strict restrictions this campaign put on labor unions had been rescinded, but that was only half the fight, with the restrictions from the Japanese war still active on labor unions, the civil rights movement and it's cause, Humphrey was emboldened, and Progressive Labor found it's champion. Humphrey was nominated on the first ballot in a landslide, Glen H. Taylor was selected to be Humphrey's running mate. The Liberty Party began to doubt Kennedy, his relations with congress soured and he quickly became a 'do nothing' president. Republicans still unpopular from Ike and the National Union ticket, nominated anti-communist populist Richard Nixon, with the moderate Earl Warren as his running mate. The general election did nothing to help Kennedy, with southern Liberty politicians in talks to form a breakaway from Liberty and Kennedy, and it did not get better come time for presidential debates. On September 17, 1960 was the first televised presidential debate, the debate was decisively declared for Humphrey, with Kennedy being run laps around and Nixon being completely ignored outside of Humphrey's insults. (Because of similarities in policy between Kennedy and Nixon, Humphrey not so lovingly referred to his opponents as "Kennedy and his dolt friend"). The election went to Humphrey, who won with a plurality. The Humphrey administration championed a domestic agenda dubbed "The Fairness Doctrine" with a focus on civil rights legislation, an old age pension, veteran and active service member benefits, expanding the health system established under Wallace, building new hospitals, social housing, and increased funding for universities and the arts. However Humphrey received a decent bit of push back, with an uptick in lynchings and a burning cross found on the White House lawn the morning after inauguration. Humphrey quickly went to Congress and mobilized his small majority to pass an anti-lynching bill. Within his first 2 years in office his major political achievements were the "Old Age Pension Act" a universal social security program, the "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1962" which eliminated the restrictions on labor unions that had lingered around from the war with Japan, and increased the Federal minimum wage, and the "Douglass Act" an anti lynching legislation passed in the first 100 days of the Humphrey administration. Humphrey's next goal was a full focus on civil rights, which he believed could only be achieved with constitutional amendments guaranteeing equal rights for all Americans, and a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. And with small majorities in congress Humphrey had to delay these goals till after the '62 primaries.

Spoiler: 10

As the midterm elections approached, Humphrey's hopes for civil rights action were stopped in their tracks by a major scandal. With the Progressive Labor Party in power for the first time, the connections of influential figures in the party to the Communist Party were always going to be suspect, but in 1962, several key diplomats, appointed by Humphrey, were revealed by the CIA to be Soviet spies, and were promptly arrested. The uproar led to major defeats for the party in the midterms, but Humphrey, a staunch anti-communist, was just as upset. He pushed Congress to make Communist Party membership a felony, to establish detention camps for subversives, and he charged the Attorney General to launch a full scale investigation of communist infiltration. This helped stem the losses, and going into 1964, Humphrey had cleanses himself of any communist taint. In 1964, as the Liberty Party gathered for their convention, the clear frontrunner was Barry Goldwater, the biggest opponent of the Fairness Doctrine. Goldwater, however, was a committed constitutionalist and libertarian, and he opposed the anti-communist crackdown, even as strongly as he hated the ideology. This was the last straw for many Southerners in the party, already unhappy under Kennedy, and they broke away and nominated a man known as one of the most conservative congressmen, Larry McDonald. McDonald and Koch ran on the Patriot Party line, and peddled Bircher conspiracy theories, alleging that Humphrey's support for universal healthcare and civil rights showed that in reality, he had knowingly appointed Soviet spies, because he himself was one. This accusation may have been repugnant to many Americans, but in certain corners of the country where segregation was still the law of the land, it felt very true. When the Republicans met for their convention, their was little to discuss. They had twice come in third place, and had not gained much from the midterm wave. Many felt that the other parties had a better chance, and that the GOP was, for the moment, not a useful political vessel. This apathy left most major candidates unwilling to run, and allowed the dark horse Harold Stassen to carry the nomination shockingly easily for a perennial candidate. Stassen chose Prescott Bush as his running mate, but it didn't last long. Humphrey respected Stassen's liberal Republican ideals, and Stassen was known for his strong anti-communism, and when the president contacted Stassen and asked him to be his running mate, he agreed. The Republicans had lost their nominee, and did not replace him. Humphrey held no animosity for Taylor, and had asked him off the ticket in exchange for an appointment as Treasury Secretary, given his experience on the Banking and Currency Committee. The election was surprisingly easy for Humphrey, given the controversy of only two years earlier, with the Patriot Party taking the South and part of the West and the Liberty Party the rest of the Mountain States. Now Humphrey would have another shot at equal rights for all, if he could hold his new alliance together.

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Spoiler: 11

Humphrey easily was renominated in his convention along with Stassen. In the Liberty convention, they nominated the northern populist Taft. William E. Miller (a friend of Goldwater) was chosen as his running mate. While in the Patriot Party primaries, the powerhouse that was Wallace in the south, wins the nomination in a landslide, and Bill Shearer is chosen as their vice-presidential candidate. Then the actual election came. The Patriot party proved they were a strong enemy of the Progressive Republicans as they grabbed every southern state and Montana (in a close ballot). While the Liberty Party took much of the midwest. Despite this, Humphrey won by taking most of the swing states and all of the North-Eastern lands. It was a close election but in the end, the Progressive Republicans still won. Sadly, the happiness of the members of the Progressive-Republicans did not last as it was discovered that a bomb had killed both the President and the Vice-President. Thus began the American Troubles.
The Speaker of the House (Prescott Bush) was quickly sworn into office. He would have a lot on his hands. First, he set up a committee to investigate the assassination of the POTUS and the VP. So the investigation began. And they found that it was orchestrated by a group of people. Luckily one of the members of this terrorist group was clumsy and documents were discovered by the Police in Los Angeles City. The assassination was ordered by the Japanese. Instantly Bush declared war on the Japanese. He did not want to start another World War, but this was an indefensible act. But the Japanese had grown in strength and the Hiroshima Pact had grown. So America's allies attacked the Japanese.
Back in America, Japanese politicians were being arrested and internment camps were set up. Bush sneakily passed the Civil Rights Act while many of those who would have been against it, we're distracted with the whole World War thing. But no one could have expected what came next: the Military coup. The white house was stormed by the army, Bush was hung, and Curtis LeMay took power. As soon as he became the leader of the US, he ordered the nuclear bombing of Tokyo. It happened, but this just made the Soviets fight harder. No one knows what will come next.

Spoiler: 12

When the bomb was not enough to stop the Japanese and "avenge the attack on our national sovereignty" in LeMay's mind, he began the invasion. But Japan had strong allies, and a fiercely resistant public. As American soldiers began coming home in body bags, not only were the heavily suppressed American people in outrage, but the military leadership was questioning whether LeMay's authoritarian leadership style and insistence on the tactical use of nuclear weapons was the right strategy. LeMay's tendency for outrageous off the cuff remarks left few with any confidence in the regime, and the military leadership came to an agreement that things had gone much too far. In 1975 LeMay was arrested in the Oval Office, and Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland took over, hoping to return the government to a more reasonable democratic government.
As preparation for the election of 1976 were made, it was clear that things had changed over the last 5 years. American social changes, repressed under the LeMay regime, exploded in an period of cultural liberation. At the sane time, the corruption engendered by years of authoritarian rule had many Americans calling for reform. The parties of the pre-dictatorship America were in varying stages of decay. The Patriots had quietly absorbed themselves into the regime, while the other parties were banned and remained in opposition. The Progressive Republicans were the strongest, and nominated the protégé of the fallen president, Walter Mondale. Meanwhile, the Liberty Party, already in decline, nominated the brother of William Buckley, executed for his distribution of anti-regime media, but was still accused of courting ex-Patriots and regime supporters, having renamed itself the Constitutional Restoration Party after merging with other right-wing groups. The most radical party was the political wing of the Students for a Democratic Society, which had been an underground resistance to the regime. The Democratic Society Party nominated radical activist Tom Hayden, and called for radical restructuring of the social and economic systems.
Many Americans did not feel drawn to such changes, having undergone plenty of radical disruption in the last few years. This was the impetus for the Truth and Freedom Party, which gathered together two reformists, John Anderson and James Carter, on a platform of reconciliation with Christian undertones. This message of unity and honest government was strongly appealing, particularly against two establishment parties and a revolutionary one. Anderson and Carter promised to heal the nation's wounds, and as they travelled across the country, huge crowds were drawn to their message. And as the campaign grew in strength, the opposing parties began to resign themselves to Anderson's victory. And so Election Night ended in a satisfying win for Truth and Freedom.

Spoiler: 13

The Truth and Freedom Party was very popular in the upcoming presidential election as they had begun had started a war on poverty and it was going quite well but besides that, nothing was really being done besides that. So the people wanted to change. Again. Anyways, the conventions were held for each party. For the Progressive Republicans, they chose the very liberal Lucey, and the Texan John B. Connally was chosen as his running mate. The Conservative Constitutional Restoration chose the very anti-communist Roy Cohn and Russel Kirk as his vice-presidential candidate. Then, of course, there was the socialist Democratic Society party. Bernard Sanders was chosen by them with Professor McReynolds chosen as his running mate.
So the actual Presidential election came around. In a very close election in all ways, Roy Cohn would become the first Jewish President. The Progressive Republicans would fail horribly. Anyways Cohn continued the war on poverty but also ordered the arrest of many of the members of the Democratic Society party as many were accused of being communists. This outraged many but the government did not care in any shape or form. They lowered taxes which made a couple of people happy. Not much else happened.

Spoiler: 14

Cohn's untimely death of an illness later diagnosed as Primate Immunodeficiency Disorder caused a crisis in government. While Cohn had concealed his illness to the public, even to his Cabinet he had insisted he was being treated only for liver cancer. At the same time, the government ignored the plight of PID sufferers across the nation, doing nothing to constrain the rhetoric that it was a 'gay disease'. Kirk's sudden elevation to the Presidency was supposed to be smooth - instead it would be disrupted by a whistleblower amongst the late President's medical staff. Suddenly all of America knew what Cohn had so carefully kept secret.
Given the circumstances, Kirk performed well. Despite his strong conservative convictions, he realised it was impossible for the government not to address PID, and oversaw subsidies to reduce the price of PID related drugs, and expanded public outreach. He also sought to move his party away from identification with the LeMay regime and formed alliances with Truth and Freedom to ultimately found the Conservative Party. However, his rolling back of Cohn-era restrictions in an attempt to make a clear break with those controversies saw the release of many falsely accused Communists and as stories percolated of the conditions of Cohn's political prisons, many feared that the Conservatives were simply a new mask for LeMayan reaction. The remnants of the Progressive Republicans aligned with the Democratic Society to present a United Front.
1984 ended up being the most two party race for nearly thirty years - Anderson kept up a Truth and Freedom remnant of those who believed Kirk was too far to the right, but he only won two states.

Spoiler: 15

Unfortunately for Sanders, part of the job of leading a United Front, is working with all members within a coalition, and it quickly became obvious, that Sander's and his team at the White House, was not able to do that with much authority. Combined with the end of the post-military government economic boom, the midterms were a disaster for the Democratic Society, and things only went worse when much of the Progressive Republican's announced a new alliance with much of the Truth & Freedom party, which led to the end of the United Front. This chaos would look like it should've led to an opening for the Conservative's, but a vicious primary between Cohn-ites led by Representative Donald Trump, Russell-ites led by Paul Laxalt, and anti-communists led by Larry MacDonald, led to a contested convention, where the bland Senator from Delaware, Pete DuPont was teamed up with Roy Cohn's AG, Robert Bork. On the other hand, the new Progressive party quickly solidified behind the ticket of long-time California Senator Jerry Brown, and Colorado Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Sanders & Humphrey were re-nominated by the Democratic Society, but nearly a month before election day, the party had largely decided to focus on saving Congressional seats. On Election Day, Brown & Campbell were declared the winners by 9 PM, and ended up with over 400 EV's.

Spoiler: 16

Brown would enter the White House with a huge popular mandate, and would set about reinvigorating the economy. His investment in new technologies and his efforts to decrease the deficit would help restore economic confidence, and get people buying and companies selling again. This further helped his popularity, but many on the far-left were outraged at the continued imprisonment of communists, and became increasingly hostile to existing political institutions. They even called on the Soviet Union to help liberate the political prisoners, and decried the USSR as having "capitulated to the capitalists" when they declined. This erupted into violence in 1991, when members of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, attempting to bomb the stock exchange, accidentally blew up themselves and an entire public square full of innocent people. In response, Brown carried out a crackdown on the left, arresting radicals of all stripes and declaring martial law in various "communist-infested" areas of the country. When the Democratic Society gathered to nominate their candidate for 1992, and Marxist Angela Davis beat out the more moderate, democratic socialist Larry Agran for the nomination, Brown promptly arrested her and her running mate Fred Newman on charges of treason. The right could do little to object, except push for even tighter crackdowns, which is what their nominee, William Bennett did, calling for communists to be beheaded. Brown was elected by a massive landslide again, in what was, depending on your point of view, either the end of history, or the end of liberty.

Spoiler: 17

A new century approached, and appeared to be an American one. The USSR had entered a reformist phase, abolishing many of the strictures of the planned economy and one party state (though not entirely), and the Cold War seemed to peter out on its own as Jerry Brown left the White House, the first President to complete two terms in office since Woodrow Wilson. The political spectrum seemed solidified after nearly a century of turmoil - anything to the right of the Progressives had become ossified reactionaries, anything to their left was safely ensconced in Guantanamo. The booming tech economy ushered in visions of a utopian future. This was perhaps a little optimistic, as over the course of the Brown years, the gulf between richest and poorest began to widen - not too dramatically and the rising waterline of the economy raised many ships, but as turnout at elections decreased, and the range of options at those elections also grew smaller, the seeds of dissatisfaction were sown.

Spoiler: 18

"Democracy dies in darkness." Well America was truly dark that year. During Campbell's term, there was a bomb planted in the White House. The President blamed the Reds (in reality the bomb was orchestrated by the Conservatives to try to get rid of the popular Campbell) and many innocent people were beheaded (including his Vice-President, Joe Biden). The economy collapsed and an all out class war started. But since the military had more funding, the poor were put down. Even some towns were completely wiped out in repercussion. In the prisons Communists (most accused, despite being not having a drop of red in their brains) revolted and prisons were burned. A bill was passed in 1999 where all accused Communists caught would be publicly beheaded. Many Americans were killed. More and more Ben became paranoid and issued the order to install security systems all throughout America. When the 2000 Presidential Election came around, the Progressives and the Conservatives decided to create an alliance. The Truth and Freedom branch of the Progressives were increasingly worried about there party leader, so they left the party and re-establish themselves again. This time they had gone a little liberal, and one's for Christian kindness. So they got the Christian minister and artist George W. Bush as the presidential nominee, and Ralph Nadar as his running mate. The Progressive-Conservatives renominated the President and his new running mate became Rick Cheney. The actual election came around, and the Truth and Freedom party won in every single state. But since the Progressive-Conservatives had tight control over everything, they completely rigged the election and Bush lost. When the Truth and Freedomites called foul, the party was banned and Bush was beheaded. America had become a one-party state. The last of the liberals were either imprisoned or beheaded, and Campbell went insane. The economy worsened and many poor starved. The rich of course became richer while Union members were killed. Workers had no rights and the employer could do what ever they wanted as long as the employee did their job. Secretly, the Progressive-Conservative higher-ups were killing congressman one by one. Eventually a new completely PC one was established. In 2003 the office of Vice-Presidential office was abolished. Then when Campbell saw that he could take complete control and ordered the beheading of all of the new congress. He was paranoid that they were trying the control him (which they were). Then breaking news came out that Moscow citizens were dying of a new plague. And Campbell knew his plan had worked. In a lab in the middle of no-where a new Black Plague had been developed, so the age of bio-warfare had begun.

Spoiler: 19

With the plague raging in Russia, regardless of all the human rights groups condemning the US government, most supporters of the regime felt that this was a victory. Campbell dispatched troops to eliminate the courts and amended the Constitution to allow him to appoint replacement congress members along with judges, then filled both branches of government with sycophants and power-hungry followers. But as the White House struggled to maintain even a semblance of order, the elites grew concerned, and the oligarchs who had gained power through a combination of government policy and political favors “persuaded” the cabinet to remove the deranged Campbell under the 25th Amendment, and relinquish power to a “temporary caretaker,” one of their own, Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg ran the White House much more efficiently, coordinating media adherence to the government talking points with authoritarian effectiveness, and winning over the public with meaningless reforms like reestablishing the vice presidency. He even held an election, with opposition that garnered less than a percent of the vote, the discovery of documents showing that Jones had been convinced to run a horribly unpopular campaign in order to discredit anti-regime forces, and was likely a paid supporter of the regime, showing how undemocratic it really was.

Spoiler: 20

The final straw came when President Bloomberg announced that the elections of 2008 would be suspended. A large group of politicians met, and secretly formed the Liberty Coalition, led by Bernie Sanders, who had gained a status as an "elder statesman" since his 1988 defeat and John McCain. McCain worked to convince most of the military to join in the "Second Glorious Revolution", and in the end Bloomberg was ousted rather peacefully. Sanders would become Acting President, a role quickly confirmed by the hastily-held Election of 2008, as the old rallying cry of a "return to normalcy" being adopted by the Liberty Coalition, who won a very convincing victory over the Progressive-Conservative party. During the 2008-2012 term, Sanders and McCain effectively served as co-presidents, governing over a Congress that would quickly become majority Liberty Coalition. The main goal of the second Sanders administration was to restore American democratic institutions, and to keep stability as long as possible. The oligarchs of America were quickly done away with, with much f the old system making a return. Another main challenge was working to restore trust of America on the foreign stage. Although many nations, most notably Russia, would not forgive America for the bio-plague, the nation did make amends with many nations, and by the end of Sanders' administration America would be brought back into the world community.

Spoiler: 21

Bernard Sanders was very popular, so it was expected he would win the primaries easily. John McCain was renominated as his running mate. In the presidential election, as the Progressive-Conservative party disbanded (it was accused of fascism and treason) many of the members moved to a new Alternative Movement once again led by Alex Jones. Unlike the other time, Jones actually had a charismatic campaign, but most Americans hated any people even associated with the PC Government of Bloomberg. So Sanders won in a landslide. But tragedy struck when once again, a president was assassinated. Ironically Sanders was killed by a member of the Liberty Coalition. The man was a hardcore communist, and many Communists blamed Jews for the fascist and anti-communist regime before Sanders (Cohn and Bloomberg were Jewish). So the insane man (wrongly) thought he put two and two together and killed Sanders accusing him of "Jewish Anti-Communism). John McCain was sworn in as president in less then in an hour. His term would be hard as just a month after this happened, an evolved plague (the one in Moscow) broke out among many homeless. It soon spread all throughout North America and many people started to die. the Liberty Coalition was starting to say McCain was too Conservative. Not many bills could be passed by the do-nothing congress. Soon the Liberty Coalition dissolved. McCain established the Liberation Democratic Party. Other parties came out of the Liberty Coalition such as: Communist Party, Christian Peoples' Party (they supported McCain), and the Liberal Alliance. McCain chose Billy Blythe as his Vice-President and his term continued. He soon became rather unpopular despite actually helping the nation greatly. So in 2016, the White House was stormed by the Communists. Luckily McCain and Blythe escaped and the leaders of the coup were beheaded.

Spoiler: 22

With a new phase of anti-Communist purges and public executions, America's neighbours had finally had enough. And a country whose military had become politicised and split as in no position to stop them. French military officer Macron leads a provisional government, with the backing of the other members of the UN Security Council. The bloodletting which had become the norm in American politics could finally end.

Spoiler: 23

With all the stuff in America, the plague, the anarchy, the beheadings. The UN kind of gave up as many of the UN members were getting killed by citizens. So they decided to hold an election to finally get America out of their hair. Two of the UN Generals actually decided to stay and run. Kennedy & Schwarzenegger (both German) decided to run to install a stratocracy. The New Frontier Party came around and nominated another Kennedy, the Liberal Republicans nominated the grandson of Henry A. Wallace. And again Alex Jones returned. Through a little threatening of the American voters, Kennedy (the German one) won. Alex Jones makes another Liberty Coalition ranging from Communists to Progressive-Conservatives. Surprisingly the rebellion won, and Jones was established as supreme commander of the United States. But of course, Jones purged all of his supporters. It seems the American Troubles will never end.

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[Anarcho-Occultist]

Party Flippers
Larry MacDonald/Robert Casey 1989-1991
Larry MacDonald/Robert Casey 1991-1993
Ben Nighthorse Campbell/Jerry Brown 1993-1995
Ben Nighthorse Campbell/Jerry Brown 1995-1997
Ben Nighthorse Campbell/Jim Jeffords 1997-1999
Jim Jeffords/Arlen Specter 1999-2001
Jim Jeffords/Arlen Specter 2001-2005
Michael Bloomberg/Sam Brownback 2005-2011
Michael Bloomberg/Sam Brownback 2011-2013
Charlie Crist/Lincoln Chafee 2013
Charlie Crist/Lincoln Chafee 2013-2021
Jeff Van Drew/Joe Manchin 2021
Jeff Van Drew/Joe Manchin 2021-

 

[Robinocracy]

The Edwardians: the Stuttering March to Modernity:​

Victoria (Hanover, 1837-99) married Albert, Duke of Osborne (1819-86)
Edward VII (Windsor, 1841-1909) married Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925)
Edward VIII (Windsor, 1864-1933) married Hélène of Orléans (1871-1949)
Henry IX (Windsor, 1896-0000) married Dorothy Cavendish (1900-000)

William Gladstone (Liberal minority with IPP confidence and supply, 1892-3)
1892 def. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative & Liberal Unionist), Justin McCarthy (Irish National Federation), John Redmond (Irish National League);
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative, leading majority coalition with Liberal Unionists, 1893-1900)
1893 def. William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal), Justin McCarthy (Irish National Federation), John Redmond (Irish National League);
1899 def. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (Liberal), John Dillon (Irish National Federation), John Redmond (Irish National League), William O'Brien (United Irish League), Henry Broadhurst (Liberal-Labour);
Joseph Chamberlain (Liberal Unionist, leading majority coalition with Conservatives, 1900-2)
Joseph Chamberlain (Liberal Unionist minority with Imperial Conservative confidence and supply, 1902-3)
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (Liberal majority, 1903-6)
1903 def. Arthur Balfour (Conservative), Joseph Chamberlain (Liberal Unionist), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), William O'Brien (United Irish League), Lord George Hamilton (Free Trade), George Lansbury (Social Democratic), Henry Broadhurst (Liberal-Labour);
Herbert Asquith (Liberal majority, 1906-9)
Herbert Asquith (Liberal minority with IPP, Imperial Benefit, and Liberal-Labour confidence and supply, 1909-12)
1909 def. Arthur Balfour (Conservative), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), William O'Brien (United Irish League), Winston Churchill (Imperial Benefit), Henry Broadhurst (Liberal-Labour), George Lansbury (Social Democratic);
Walter Long (Conservative majority, 1912-19)
1912 def. Herbert Asquith (Liberal), William O'Brien (United Irish League), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), Winston Churchill (Imperial Benefit), W.C. Steadman (Liberal-Labour), Ramsay MacDonald (Social Democratic), Arthur Griffith (Sinn Fein);
1915 def. Richard Haldane (Liberal), William O'Brien (United Irish League), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), Arthur Griffith (Sinn Fein), Ramsay MacDonald (Social Democratic), George Nichols (Liberal-Labour);
George Curzon, 3rd Marquess Curzon (Conservative majority, 1919-22)
Richard Haldane* (Liberal minority with Irish Democratic, Social Democratic, and Liberal-Labour confidence and supply, 1922-8)
1922 def. George Curzon, 3rd Marquess Curzon (Conservative), T.P. O'Connor (Irish Democratic), Arthur Griffith (Sinn Fein), Ramsay MacDonald (Social Democratic), Arthur Henderson (Liberal-Labour), Lorenzo Quelch (Socialist);
1924 def. George Curzon, 3rd Marquess Curzon (Conservative), T.P. O'Connor (Irish Democratic), Arthur Griffith (Sinn Fein), Arthur Henderson (Liberal-Labour), Ramsay MacDonald (Social Democratic), Lorenzo Quelch (Socialist);
Ramsay Muir (Liberal minority with Irish Democratic, Social Democratic, and Liberal-Labour confidence and supply, 1928-9)
Ramsay Muir (Liberal, leading coalition with Goodwill and Liberal-Labour, with Irish Democratic confidence and supply, 1929-)
1929 def. Michael Hicks Beach (Conservative), T.P. O'Connor (Irish Democratic), W.T. Cosgrave (Sinn Fein), John Scott Lidget (Goodwill), Lorenzo Quelch (Socialist), William Brace (Liberal-Labour);

 

[TheNixonator]

Nixon as Lincoln:

1961-1965: Richard M. Nixon / Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
def. 1960 George C. Wallace / Orval E. Faubus (Southern Democratic), Charles L. Sullivan / Merrit B. Curtis (Constitution), and John F. "Jack" Kennedy / Hubert H. Humphrey (Northern Democratic)
1965: Richard M. Nixon† / Lyndon B. Johnson (National Union)
def. 1964 William C. Westmoreland / Samuel W. "Sam" Yorty (Democratic)
1965-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson / vacant (National Union)
1969-1973: John S. "Jack" McCain Jr. / Nelson A. Rockefeller (Republican)
def. 1968 Joseph Y. Resnick / Richard J. Hughes (Democratic)
1973-1977: John S. "Jack" McCain Jr. / Spiro T. Agnew (Republican)
def. 1972 George S. McGovern / Eugene J. McCarthy (Liberal Republican)
1977-1981: Roger L. MacBride / Ronald W. Reagan (Republican)
def. 1976 Milton J. Shapp / Walter F. "Fritz" Mondale (Democratic)
1981: John B. Conolly† / Gerald R. Ford (Republican)
def. 1980 Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown / Edmund S. Muskie (Democratic)
1981-1985: Gerald R. Ford / vacant (Republican)
1985-1989: John H. Glenn / Lloyd M. Bentsen (Democratic)
def. 1984 John B. Anderson / Harold E. Stassen (Republican)
1989-1993: George H. W. Bush / James D. "Dan" Quayle (Republican)
def. 1988 John H. Glenn / Lloyd M. Bentsen (Democratic)
1993-1997: John H. Glenn / John F. "Jack" Kennedy Jr. (Democratic)
def. 1992 George H. W. Bush / James D. "Dan" Quayle (Republican) and James G. "Bo" Gritz / James B. Stockdale (Populist)
1997-1999: H. Ross Perot / Robert J. "Bob" Dole‡ (Republican)
def. 1996 William J. "Billy" Blythe / James D. "Jimmy" Griffin (Democratic)
1991-2001: H. Ross Perot / vacant (Republican)
2001: H. Ross Perot† / John E. "Jeb" Bush (Republican)
def. 2000 William J. "Billy" Blythe / John F. "Jack" Kennedy Jr. (Democratic)
2001-2005: John E. "Jeb" Bush / vacant (Republican)
2005-2009: John E. "Jeb" Bush / John R. Kasich (Republican)
def. 2004 Joseph I. "Joe" Lieberman / Johnny R. "John" Edwards (Democratic)
2009-2013: Robert A. "Bob" Taft III / Paul D. Ryan (Republican)
def. 2008 William J. "Billy" Blythe / B. Evan Bayh (Democratic)
2013-20xx: Joseph R. "Joe" Biden / Thomas J. "Tom" Vilsack (Democratic)
def. 2012 John E. "Jeb" Bush / Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson (Progressive), Robert A. “Bob” Taft III / Paul D. Ryan (Republican), and Eugene Puryear / Bernard Sanders (Socialist)

† Assassinated
‡ Died of natural causes

 

[wwbgdiaslt]

Something that popped into my head, but struggling with it ...


Agatha Christie PM


Christie is nominated as the Conservative Candidate in the 1955 Toquay by-election, following the death of Charles Williams. Fairly religious, broadly liberal - Christie adhered to Burkean Conservatism in her role, eventually being made Minister of State for the Arts in the Eden Ministry from 1957, shortly ahead of his resignation and her 1958 novel Murder at Chequers remained her last authored novel, broadly inspired by Eden and the Suez Crisis with Hercule Poirot investigating the murder of a sitting Prime Minister (rather than a hopeful, as in other novels). Despite her inexperience, when Churchill was brought back into office, he elevated her to Cabinet level as they shared similar traditionalist beliefs ...

 

[Nintendogamemaster]

Nixon as Lincoln:

1961-1965: Richard M. Nixon / Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
def. 1960 George C. Wallace / Orval E. Faubus (Southern Democratic), Charles L. Sullivan / Merrit B. Curtis (Constitution), and John F. "Jack" Kennedy / Hubert H. Humphrey (Northern Democratic)
1965: Richard M. Nixon† / Lyndon B. Johnson (National Union)
def. 1964 William C. Westmoreland / Samuel W. "Sam" Yorty (Democratic)
1965-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson / vacant (National Union)
1969-1973: John S. "Jack" McCain Jr. / Nelson A. Rockefeller (Republican)
def. 1968 Joseph Y. Resnick / Richard J. Hughes (Democratic)
1973-1977: John S. "Jack" McCain Jr. / Spiro T. Agnew (Republican)
def. 1972 George S. McGovern / Eugene J. McCarthy (Liberal Republican)
1977-1981: Roger L. MacBride / Ronald W. Reagan (Republican)
def. 1976 Milton J. Shapp / Walter F. "Fritz" Mondale (Democratic)
1981: John B. Conolly† / Gerald R. Ford (Republican)
def. 1980 Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown / Edmund S. Muskie (Democratic)
1981-1985: Gerald R. Ford / vacant (Republican)
1985-1989: John H. Glenn / Lloyd M. Bentsen (Democratic)
def. 1984 John B. Anderson / Harold E. Stassen (Republican)
1989-1993: George H. W. Bush / James D. "Dan" Quayle (Republican)
def. 1988 John H. Glenn / Lloyd M. Bentsen (Democratic)
1993-1997: John H. Glenn / John F. "Jack" Kennedy Jr. (Democratic)
def. 1992 George H. W. Bush / James D. "Dan" Quayle (Republican) and James G. "Bo" Gritz / James B. Stockdale (Populist)
1997-1999: H. Ross Perot / Robert J. "Bob" Dole‡ (Republican)
def. 1996 William J. "Billy" Blythe / James D. "Jimmy" Griffin (Democratic)
1991-2001: H. Ross Perot / vacant (Republican)
2001: H. Ross Perot† / John E. "Jeb" Bush (Republican)
def. 2000 William J. "Billy" Blythe / John F. "Jack" Kennedy Jr. (Democratic)
2001-2005: John E. "Jeb" Bush / vacant (Republican)
2005-2009: John E. "Jeb" Bush / John R. Kasich (Republican)
def. 2004 Joseph I. "Joe" Lieberman / Johnny R. "John" Edwards (Democratic)
2009-2013: Donald J. Trump / Paul D. Ryan (Republican)
def. 2008 William J. "Billy" Blythe / B. Evan Bayh (Democratic)
2013-20xx: Joseph R. "Joe" Biden / Thomas J. "Tom" Vilsack (Democratic)
def. 2012 John E. "Jeb" Bush / Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson (Progressive), Donald J. Trump / Paul D. Ryan (Republican), and Eugene Puryear / Bernard Sanders (Socialist)

† Assassinated
‡ Died of natural causes

I feel Trump would fit better as a Harding than as a Taft

Also, Clinton for 2108

 

[Hydrons (Retired Account)]

I feel Trump would fit better as a Harding than as a Taft

Just have Bob Taft in Trump's place I guess

 

[TheNixonator]

Just have Bob Taft in Trump's place I guess

Good point.

 

[Nintendogamemaster]

Nixon as Lincoln:

2009-2013: Robert A. "Bob" Taft III / Paul D. Ryan (Republican)
def. 2008 William J. "Billy" Blythe / B. Evan Bayh (Democratic)
2013-2021: Joseph R. "Joe" Biden / Thomas J. "Tom" Vilsack (Democratic)
def. 2012 John E. "Jeb" Bush / Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson (Progressive), Robert A. "Bob" Taft III / Paul D. Ryan (Republican), and Eugene Puryear / Bernard Sanders (Socialist)
def. 2016 Chris J. Christie / John R. Kasich (Republican)
2021-20XX: Donald Trump / Mick Mulvaney (Republican)
def. 2020: Martin O. Malley / Barack Obama (Democratic)

Was struggling on a FDR expy tbh, I remembered then those rumors about Obama being Bush´s distant cousin

 

[EbolaMan131]

Was struggling on a FDR expy tbh, I remembered then those rumors about Obama being Bush´s distant cousin

Excuse me?

 

[Baconheimer]

Excuse me?

Here's an article. It's really not as wild as it sounds. The Bushs as well as Obama's mother's family were among the WASP elite in New England, so were related through a relative that lived in the late 17th century.

 

[Hydrons (Retired Account)]

Parliamentary America

George Washington declines the nomination of himself as Convention President at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, instead pushing for the nomination of his close friend and associate, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is narrowly nominated, and his introduction of his overarching "Hamilton Plan", the introduction of a parliamentary system, takes off well with many supporters of the Virginia Plan, as well as some who supported the New Jersey Plan. Hamilton's Plan is voted in, and in 1788, The US becomes a parliamentary republic. The first general election takes place in 1789, and Hamilton, after defeating John Adams and James Madison in the Federalist Party nomination, becomes Prime Minister

Prime Ministers of the United States (1789-Present)

1. Alexander Hamilton (Federalist) July 4, 1789 - May 7, 1799
1789: John Adams (Federalist), James Madison (Federalist), George Clinton (Independent)
1794: Thomas Jefferson (Whig), George Clinton (Unity)
2. John Adams (Unity) May 7, 1799 - June 1, 1803 [Lost renomination]
1799: Alexander Hamilton (Federalist), Thomas Jefferson (Whig)
3. Aaron Burr (Unity) June 1, 1803 - May 8, 1804
1803 (Snap): Alexander Hamilton (Federalist), Thomas Jefferson (Whig)
4. Alexander Hamilton (Federalist) May 8 - July 12, 1804 [Assassinated]
1804: Thomas Jefferson (Whig), George Clinton (Unity)
5. James Madison (Whig) July 31, 1804 - May 8, 1810
1805 (Snap): Rufus King (Federalist), George Clinton (Unity)
6. George Clinton (Unity-Federalist Coalition) May 8, 1810 - April 20, 1812 [Died in office]
1810: James Madison (Whig)
7. DeWitt Clinton (Unity-Federalist Coalition) May 5, 1812 - May 4, 1813
8. James Madison (Whig) May 4, 1813 - April 29, 1817 [Resigned]
1813 (Snap): DeWitt Clinton (Unity-Federalist)
9. James Monroe (Whig) April 29, 1817 - May 6, 1823
1818: DeWitt Clinton (Federalist)
10. Henry Clay (Conservative) May 6, 1823 - May 6, 1828
1823: Andrew Jackson (Liberal), William Crawford (Whig), John Quincy Adams (Federalist)
11. Andrew Jackson (Liberal) May 6, 1828 - November 20, 1832
1828: Henry Clay (Conservative)
12. Henry Clay (Conservative) November 20, 1832 - June 28, 1836
1832 (Snap): Andrew Jackson (Liberal), John C. Calhoun (Nullifier)
13. Martin Van Buren (Liberal) June 28, 1836 - June 30, 1840
1836: William Henry Harrison (Conservative)
14. William Henry Harrison (Conservative) June 30, 1840 - April 4, 1842 [Died in office]
1840: Martin Van Buren (Liberal)
15. Henry Clay (Conservative) May 3, 1842 - November 25, 1845
1842 (Snap): James K. Polk (Liberal), Martin Van Buren (Freedom), Daniel Webster (Northern Conservative)
16. James K. Polk (Liberal) November 25, 1845 - December 19, 1848 [Stepped down]
1845 (Snap): Henry Clay (Conservative), Martin Van Buren (Freedom)
17. Daniel Webster (Conservative-Freedom Coalition) December 19, 1848 - October 24, 1853 [Died in office]
1848 (Snap): Lewis Cass (Liberal), Martin Van Buren (Freedom)
18. James Buchanan (Liberal) November 1, 1853 - August 12, 1856 [No confidence]
1853: Daniel Webster (Conservative) [deceased], Martin Van Buren (Freedom)
19. Millard Fillmore (Conservative) August 12, 1856 - November 6, 1860 [Lost renomination]
1856 (No confidence): Stephen Douglas (Liberal), John C. Fremont (Freedom)
20. Abraham Lincoln (Conservative-Freedom Coalition) November 6, 1860 - April 15, 1865 [Assassinated]
1860 (Snap): John C. Breckinridge (Democrats), Millard Fillmore (Constitution), Stephen Douglas (Liberal)
1864: Horatio Seymour (Liberal), James A. Bayard (Democrats)
21. Schuyler Colfax (Conservative) April 25, 1865 - July 4, 1876
1869: Francis P. Blair Jr. (Liberal), Thomas F. Bayard (Democrats)
1873 (Snap): Francis P. Blair Jr. (Liberal), Thomas F. Bayard (Democrats)
22. Samuel Tilden (Liberal-Democratic Coalition) July 4, 1876 - November 9, 1880
1876: Schuyler Colfax (Conservative), Thomas F. Bayard (Democrats)
23. James A. Garfield (Conservative) November 9, 1880 - November 4, 1884 [Lost renomination]
1880: Samuel Tilden (Liberal), Thomas F. Bayard (Democrats)
24. James G. Blaine (Conservative) November 4, 1884 - November 29, 1892
1884: Thomas A. Hendricks (Liberal), Thomas F. Bayard (Democrats)
1889: Thomas F. Bayard (Democrats), Allen G. Thurman (Liberal)
25. Benjamin Harrison (Conservative) November 29, 1892 - November 3, 1896
1892: David B. Hill (Liberal), Thomas F. Bayard (Democrats), James B. Weaver (People's)
26. William Jennings Bryan (Liberal-People's Coalition) November 3, 1896 - March 29, 1898
1896: Benjamin Harrison (Conservative), Thomas F. Bayard (Democrats)
27. William McKinley (Conservative) March 29, 1898 - Septepmber 14, 1901 [Assassinated]
1898 (Snap): William Jennings Bryan (Liberal), Thomas E. Watson (People's), Thomas F. Bayard (Democrats)
1900: William Jennings Bryan (Liberal), Thomas E. Watson (People's)
28. Mark Hanna (Conservative) September 24, 1901 - February 7, 1904 [Died in office]
1903: John Sharp Williams (Liberal), Thomas E. Watson (People's)
29. Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive-Conservative) February 16, 1904 - November 12, 1912
1908: John Sharp Williams (Liberal), Thomas E. Watson (People's)
30. John Sharp Williams (Liberal) November 12, 1912 - November 30, 1920
1912: Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), Joseph Gurney Cannon (Conservative), Thomas E. Watson (People's)
1916: Charles Evans Hughes (Progressive-Conservative), Thomas E. Watson (People's)
31. Warren G. Harding (Progressive-Conservative) November 30, 1920 - August 2, 1923 [Died in office]
1920: John Sharp Williams (Liberal), Thomas E. Watson (People's)
32. William Borah (Progressive-Conservative) August 7, 1923 - November 8, 1932
1925: John Sharp Williams (Liberal), James M. Cox (Labor)
33. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Labor) November 8, 1932 - April 12, 1945 [Died in office]
1932: William Borah (Progressive-Conservative), Albert Smith (Liberal)
1937: William Borah (Progressive-Conservative), Albert Smith (Liberal)
1940: Alfred Landon (Progressive-Conservative), Wendell Willkie (Liberal), Charles Lindbergh (America First)
1944: Thomas E. Dewey (Progressive-Conservative), Robert M. LaFollette Jr. (Liberal)
34. Henry A. Wallace (Labor) April 17, 1945 - May 18, 1948 [Lost renomination]
35. Thomas E. Dewey (Progressive-Conservative) May 18, 1948 - December 4, 1951 [Resigned]
1948: Harold S. Truman (Labor), Robert M. LaFollette Jr. (Liberal) [lost reelection]
36. Earl Warren (Progressive-Conservative) December 4, 1951 - February 1, 1955
37. Lyndon B. Johnson (Labor) February 1, 1955 - November 15, 1960
1955: Earl Warren (Progressive-Conservative), Philip LaFollette (Liberal)
38. Richard M. Nixon (Progressive-Conservative) November 15, 1960 - October 20, 1964
1960: Lyndon B. Johnson (Labor), Philip LaFollette (Liberal)
39. Hubert H. Humphrey (Labor) October 20, 1964 - November 5, 1968
1964: Richard M. Nixon (Progressive-Conservative), Philip LaFollette (Liberal)
40. Richard M. Nixon (Progressive-Conservative) November 5, 1968 - September 4, 1973
1968: Hubert Humphrey (Labor), John B. Anderson (Liberal)
41. Hubert H. Humphrey (Labor) September 4, 1973 - July 5, 1977 [Resigned]
1973: Richard M. Nixon (Progressive-Conservative), John B. Anderson (Liberal)
42. George S. McGovern (Labor) July 5, 1977 - December 4, 1979
43. Gerald Ford (Progressive-Conservative) December 4, 1979 - August 21, 1984
1979: George S. McGovern (Labor), John B. Anderson (Liberal)
44. George H.W. Bush (Progressive-Conservative) August 21, 1984 - November 8, 1988
1984: Walter F. Mondale (Labor), Lowell P. Weicker (Liberal)
45. Walter F. Mondale (Labor) November 8, 1988 - August 4, 1992
1988: George H.W. Bush (Progressive-Conservative), Lowell P. Weicker (Liberal)
46. John S. McCain (Progressive-Conservative) August 4, 1992 - April 4, 1998
1992: Walter F. Mondale (Labor), William Blythe (Liberal), Henry Perot (Reform)
47. Michael Madigan (Labor) April 3, 1998 - November 7, 2006
1998: John S. McCain (Progressive-Conservative), Henry Perot (Reform), William Blythe (Liberal)
2002: Donald Trump (Reform), Joseph Lieberman (Liberal), Tom Harkin (Independent-Labor), Gerald Ford (Progressive-Conservative)
48. Willard M. Romney (Conservative) November 7, 2006 - June 4, 2010
2006: Michael Madigan (Labor), Howard Dean (Liberal)
49. Barack Obama (Labor) June 4, 2010 - June 30, 2017
2010: Willard M. Romney (Conservative), Joseph R. Biden (Liberal)
50. Richard Santorum (Conservative) June 30, 2017 - Present
2017: Barack Obama (Labor), Bernard Sanders (Progress!), Gavin Newsom (CNP), Hillary Blythe (Liberal)

 

[redjirachi]

Alternate Darkhorses: A Stalwart To End All Stalwarts

18(second term): Ulysses S Grant(March 4 1873-March 4 1877)/Henry Wilson*(March 4 1873-November 22 1875)
-Election of 1876: Roscoe Conkling/William A Wheeler(Republican) vs Samuel J Tilden/Thomas A Hendricks(Democrat)[1]
19(first term): Roscoe Conkling/William A Wheeler(March 4 1877-August 2 1879)
20(first term): William A Wheeler(August 2 1879-March 4 1881)[2]
-Election of 1880: John Sherman/James Garfield(Republican) vs Samuel J Tilden/William H English(Democrat)
21(first term): Samuel J Tilden/William H English(March 4 1881-March 4 1885)[3]
-Election of 1884: Samuel J Tilden/Samuel J Randall(Democrat) vs George F Edmunds/Joseph B Foraker(Republican)
21(second term): Samuel J Tilden*/Samuel J Randall(March 4 1885-August 4 1886)
22(first term): Samuel J Randall(August 4 1886-March 4 1889)
-Election of 1888: Samuel J Randall/Isaac B Grey(Democrat) vs James G Blaine/Robert Todd Lincoln(Republican)[4]
23(first term): James G Blaine*/Robert Todd Lincoln(March 4 1889-January 27 1893)
-Election of 1892: James G Blaine/Robert Todd Lincoln(Republican) vs David B Hill/Adlai Stevenson(Democrat)
24(first term): Robert Todd Lincoln(January 27 1893-March 4 1897)
-Election of 1896: Henry Clay Evans/Garret Hobart(Republican) vs Robert E Pattison/William Jennings Bryan(Democrat)[5]
25(first term): Robert E Pattison/William Russel(March 4 1897-January 20 1901)
-Election of 1900: Robert E Pattison/Alton B Parker(Democrat)
25(second term): Robert E Pattison**(January 20 1901-February 14 1901)
26(first term): Alton B Parker(February 14 1901-January 20 1905)
-Election of 1904: Alton B Parker/William Randolph Hearst(Democrat) vs Robert Todd Lincoln/Robert M.La Follette(Republican)[6]
27(third term): Robert Todd Lincoln/Robert M.La Follette(January 20 1905-January 20 1909)[7]
-Election of 1908: Robert M.La Follette/Philander C Knox(Republican) vs William Randolph Hearst/John W Kern(Democrat)
28(first term): Robert M.La Follette/Philander C Knox(January 20 1909-January 20 1913)
-Election of 1912: Robert M.La Follette/William Borah(Republican) vs William Jennings Bryan/Martin J Wade(Democrat)
28(second term): Robert M.La Follette/William Borah(January 20 1913-January 20 1917)

[1]You thought OTL 1876 was a dirty, crooked election? You've seen nothing with Conkling becoming the darkhorse choice. Conkling became a man known for scandal, despite ironically having a cleaner administration compared to Grant's. Ultimately he was pressured to retire, the final straw being his affair with Katie Sprague made public. This broke the Stalwarts' faction.
[2]Though through no fault of his own, Wheeler had the stigma of Conkling's disgrace. Ultimately the efforts of Garfield and a dying entrepreneur by the name of Theodore Roosevelt sought John Sherman as president. However he had to deal with a vengeful Tilden, who ultimately won his second attempt. The young Theodore Roosevelt Jr states this is one of the events that got him interested in the field of politics, playing a key part in his eventual occupation as the Secretary of Defense under the younger President Lincoln
[3]Tilden was a breath of fresh air. He managed to be re-elected, but sadly passed away. Tilden was an important reformer, an honest president. Charles Guiteau doesn't shoot anyone, he just does whatever and lives a sad life.
[4]Blaine felt this his last chance at his presidency, and took it. Narrowly, he won. The shadow of Tilden was cast on him, and he became a notable figure in American expansionism. Perhaps the choice of Robert Todd Lincoln as VP was to ensure victory. Ultimately, the younger Lincoln got a job he didn't want. However he felt in this era of industrialism and waning of the Gilded Age, sought social reformation and would see the rise of Progressivism. He was against re-election initially and his ascension would provide an early impetus for what we know as the 20th amendment
[5]Trying days. Pattison would see increased tension between Japan, as an early war between them and Russia broke out. And ties were increasing. Pattison's murder by a radical anti-intervention post officer and Parker's desperate desire to keep America's sanity eventually led to war breaking out in 1904.
[6]Twas inspiration. The impassioned Lincoln felt it was time for him to return now to face the First War of the Pacific, of which he saw an honorable end. The conflict would bring Russia and America to a closer relationship, beginning an alliance that his successor managed. The younger Lincoln would live until the 1920s, celebrated as if not as great as his father, then certainly close. He proved modest and focused on writing and education in his twilight years. Abraham saw the end of the old order of slavery. Robert saw the beginning of America as a true and respected international power
[7]It was a time of quiet. Let Europe deal with its own squables. Follette kept the peace and sanity. Citing both Washington and Cincinnitus, Follette sought no third term. The aging Bryan proved a surprisingly tough opponent, but victory was Fighting Bob's.

Abridged list(Red=Republican, Dark red=National Union, Blue=Democrat, *=died, **=murdered, !=impeached/resigned)

• 16: Abraham Lincoln**(1861-1865)/Hannibal Hamlin(1861-1865), Andrew Johnson(1865)
• 17: Andrew Johnson!(1865-1869)
• 18: Ulysses S Grant(1869-1877)/Schuyler Colfax(1869-1873), Henry Wilson*(1873-1875)
• 19: Roscoe Conkling!/William A Wheeler(1877-1879)
• 20: William A Wheeler(1879-1881)
• 21: Samuel J Tilden*(1881-1886)/William H English(1881-1885), Samuel J Randall(1885-1886)
• 22: Samuel J Randall(1886-1889)
• 23: James G Blaine*/Robert T Lincoln(1889-1893)
• 24/27: Robert T Lincoln(1893-1897, 1905-1909)/Robert M.La Follette(1905-1909)
• 25: Robert E Pattison*/Alton B Parker(1897-1901)
• 26: Alton B Parker(1901-1905)
• 28: Robert M.La Follette(1909-1917)/Philander C Knox(1909-1913), William Borah(1913-1917)

 

[CanadianTory]

Prime Ministers of Canada
20th. Jean Chrétien (Liberal) 1993-2003
2000 (Maj. 21): Stockwell Day (Canadian Alliance), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic), Joe Clark (Prog. Conservative)
21st. Paul Martin (Liberal) 2003-2007
2004 (Short. 10): Stephen Harper (Conservative), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Jack Layton (New Democratic)
2006 (Maj. 3): Brian Pallister (Conservative), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Jack Layton (New Democratic)
22nd. Bob Rae (Liberal) 2007-2008
23rd. Peter MacKay (Conservative) 2008-2014
2008 (Short. 24): Bob Rae (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Jack Layton (New Democratic)
2010 (Maj. 9): Bob Rae (Liberal), Jack Layton (New Democratic), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Elizabeth May (Green)
24th. Denis Coderre (Liberal) 2014-2016
2014 (Short. 15): Peter MacKay (Conservative), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Brian Topp (New Democratic), Elizabeth May (Green)
25th. Brian Pallister (Conservative) 2016-present
2016 (Maj. 36): Dominic Cardy (New Democratic), Denis Coderre (Liberal), Mario Beaulieu (Bloc Québécois), Elizabeth May (Green)
2020 (Maj. 11): Jim Watson (Liberal), Dominic Cardy (New Democratic), Pierre Nantel (Green), Mario Beaulieu (Bloc Québécois)

 

[Chapman]

An American Dystopia, Redone
This time with some hope at the end...

1949-1951: Thomas L. Dewey (R-NY)/Earl Warren (R-CA) †
Def. 1948 Harry S. Truman (D-MO)/Alben W. Barkley (D-KY), Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat-SC)/Fielding Wright (Dixiecrat-MS)
1951-1953: J. Edgar Hoover (Independent-DC)/ Vacant
1953-1960: J. Edgar Hoover (Citizens United-DC)/John F. Kennedy (Citizens United-MA) †
Def. 1952 Effectively unopposed
Def. 1956 Adlai Stevenson (D-IL)/Ralph Yarborough (D-TX)
1960-1961: J. Edgar Hoover (Citizens United-DC)/ Vacant
1961-1965: J. Edgar Hoover (Citizens United-DC)/Ronald Reagan (Citizens United-CA)
Def. 1960 Effectively unopposed
1965-1981: Ronald Reagan (Citizens United-CA)/George Wallace (Citizens United-AL)
Def. 1964 Effectively unopposed
Def. 1968 Effectively unopposed
Def. 1972 Effectively unopposed
Def. 1976 Effectively unopposed
1981-1981: George Wallace (Citizens United-AL)/Donald Rumsfeld (Citizens United-IL) †
Def. 1980 Lee Iacocca (Independent-MI)/Richard Lamm (Independent-CO)
1981-1982: Donald Rumsfeld (Citizens United-IL)/ Vacant
1982-1986: Donald Rumsfeld (Citizens United-IL)/George H.W. Bush (Citizens United-TX) †
Def. 1984 Lee Iacocca (Reform-MI)/Ralph Nader (Reform-CT)
1986-1989: George H.W. Bush (Citizens United-TX)/ Vacant
1989-1989: Ralph Nader (Reform-CT)/Mike Gravel (Reform-AK) *
Def. 1988 George H.W. Bush (Citizens United-TX)/Pete du Pont (Citizens United-DE)
1989-1991: Oliver North (Citizens United-VA)/ Vacant
1991-1993: Oliver North (Citizens United-VA)/Roger Stone (Citizens United-NY)
1993-1996: Roger Stone (Citizens United-NY)/Ted Bundy (Citizens United-UT) †
Def. 1992 Effectively unopposed
1996-1997: Ted Bundy (Citizens United-UT)/ Vacant
1997-2000: Ted Bundy (Citizens United-UT)/David Duke (Citizens United-LA) †
Def. 1996 Effectively unopposed
2000 Election Suspended
2000-2001: David Duke (Citizens United-LA)/James Traficant (Citizens United-OH) †
2001-2002: James Traficant (Citizens United-OH)/ Vacant **
2002-2005: Wesley Clark (Independent-AR)/ Vacant
2005-2013: John McCain (New Democratic-AZ)/Joe Lieberman (New Democratic-CT)
Def. 2004 Bernie Sanders (Liberal-VT)/Dennis Kucinich (Liberal-OH), Pat Buchanan (Constitution-VA)/Tom Tancredo (Constitution-CO)
Def. 2008 Dennis Kucinich (Liberal-OH)/James P. Hoffa (Liberal-MI), Ron Paul (Constitution-TX)/Andrew Napolitano (Constitution-NJ)
2013-2019: Charles Barkley (New Democratic-AL)/Jim Webb (New Democratic-VA)
Def. 2012 Alan Grayson (Liberal-FL)/Barbara Lee (Liberal-CA), Donald Trump (Constitution-NY)/Virgil Goode (Constitution-VA)
2019-20??: Al Franken (Liberal-MN)/Zephyr Teachout (Liberal-NY)
Def. 2018 Jim Webb (New Democratic-VA)/Brian Sandoval (New Democratic-NV), Ann Coulter (Constitution-FL)/Mike Flynn (Constitution-NY)

 

[Hydrons (Retired Account)]

Dewey Defeats Truman

34. Thomas E. Dewey/Earl Warren (Republican) January 20, 1949 - November 12, 1951 [Died in office]
1948: Harry S. Truman/Alben W. Barkley (Democratic), Strom Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright (State's Rights)
35. Earl Warren/Vacant (Republican) November 12, 1951 - January 20, 1953
36. Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman (Democratic) January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1957
1952: Earl Warren/Charles Halleck (Republican)
37. Richard M. Nixon/Everett Dirksen (Republican) January 20, 1957 - January 20, 1961
1956: Adlai Stevenson II/Estes Kefauver (Democratic), Orval Faubus/Jim Folsom (Dixiecrat)
38. Estes Kefauver/John F. Kennedy (Democratic) January 20, 1961 - August 10, 1963 [Died in office]
1960: Richard M. Nixon/Everett Dirksen (Republican), James H. Davis/Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat)
39. John F. Kennedy/Vacant (Democratic) August 10, 1963 - October 22, 1964 [Assassinated]
[Acting] John W. McCormack (Democratic) October 22, 1964 - January 20, 1965
40. Hubert H. Humphrey/Ralph Yarborough (Democratic) January 20, 1965 - January 20, 1969
1964: Richard M. Nixon/John Volpe (Republican), Ross Barnett/John M. Patterson (Dixiecrat)
41. Barry M. Goldwater/Clifford P. Case (Republican) January 20, 1969 - January 20, 1973
1968: Hubert Humphrey/Ralph Yarborough (Democratic)
42. Nelson Rockefeller/Gerald Ford (Republican) January 20, 1973 - January 20, 1977
1972: Edmund Muskie/Donald S. Russell (National Democratic), Barry Goldwater/Jim Buckley (Conservative), George McGovern/Shirley Chisholm (Democratic)
43. Jimmy Carter/Birch Bayh (Democratic) January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1985
1976: Gerald Ford/George H.W. Bush (Republican), Ronald Reagan/Jesse Helms (Conservative)
1980: George H.W. Bush/Edward J. Gurney [replacing Robert Bauman] (Republican)
44. Birch Bayh/Joe Biden (Democratic) January 20, 1985 - January 20, 1989
1984: Robert Dole/Jack Kemp (Republican)
45. Howard Baker/Dan Quayle (Republican) January 20, 1989 - April 14, 1991 [Assassinated]
1988: Birch Bayh/Joe Biden (Democratic), Ross Perot/Jerry Brown (Reform)
46. Dan Quayle/Vacant (Republican) April 14, 1991 - February 20, 1992
46. Dan Quayle/Orrin Hatch (Republican) February 20, 1992 - January 20, 1993
47. Ross Perot/Paul Tsongas (Reform) January 20, 1993 - February 1, 1996 [Vice President resigned]
1992: Joe Biden/John Glenn (Democratic), Dan Quayle/Orrin Hatch (Republican)
47. Ross Perot/Vacant (Reform) February 18, 1996 - January 20, 1997
48. Orrin Hatch/John S. McCain III (Republican) January 20, 1997 - January 20, 2001
1996: Ross Perot/David Boren (Reform), Michael Dukakis/Ann Richards (Democratic)
49. Paul Wellstone/Bob Graham (Democratic) January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2005
2000: Orrin Hatch/John S. McCain III (Republican), Donald Trump/Jesse Ventura (Reform)
50. John S. McCain III/Bill Frist (Republican) January 20, 2005 - April 4, 2011 [President resigned due to poor health]
2004: Paul Wellstone/Bob Graham (Democratic), Jesse Ventura/Angus King (Reform)
2008: Hillary Rodham/Chris Dodd (Democratic), Donald Trump/Oscar Goodman (Reform)
51. Bill Frist/Vacant (Republican) April 4, 2011 - January 20, 2013
52. Janet Napolitano/Gavin Newsom (Democratic) January 20, 2013 - Present
2012: Newt Gingrich/Robert Portman (Republican), Donald Trump/Allen West (Reform)
2016: Marco Rubio/John Kasich (Republican), Donald Trump/Ben Carson (Reform)

 

[redjirachi]

How come Dewey died early?

 

[Wendell]

Why would Goldwater be denied renomination?

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

Why would Goldwater be denied renomination?

I assumed Rockefeller primaried him and managed to win since in those days there were still a decent number of moderate to liberal Republicans.