Out of boredom I took all the stories from
Alternate Presidents and tweaked them to be one timeline.
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN | 1789-1790
Franklin defeats his sole opponent George Washington but dies in office with John Adams taking over. He does create a more democratic society.
Aaron Burr is elected the 3rd President in
1800 against
Thomas Jefferson, establishes an alliance with
Napoleon Bonaparte, and creates a
dictatorship.
- ANDREW JACKSON | 1825-1829
Andrew Jackson is elected President over
John Quincy Adams in
1824 with
John C. Calhoun becoming his vice president, four years earlier than in reality. As a result, Jackson invests government money into
biological and
chemical engineering, which develops earlier than in our history.
- DAVY CROCKETT | 1829-1849
Davy Crockett is elected President over Andrew Jackson in
1828 after the latter's image is tarnished by a land-dealing scandal.
- DAVID RICE ATCHISON | 1849-1857
David Rice Atchison becomes the 13th President in 1849 after
Zachary Taylor is killed in a carriage accident. This results in the
Northeastern states seceding from the country and forming the Confederacy of North America with
Daniel Webster as its president and
John Brown as the Commander of Army. The war ends two years later in 1855 with the northern states being readmitted into the Union shortly afterwards
Millard Fillmore of the
Know Nothing Party is elected the 7th President in
1856 after David Rice Atchison died from a stroke in October. When Fillmore upholds the
fugitive slave laws in 1858, this results in ethnic tensions and riots in
New England and causes it to secede from the Union.
John C. Frémont becomes President of the New England Confederacy with
William Tecumseh Sherman as his commanding general, opposed by the
Army of the United States under
Robert E. Lee.
- STEPHEN A DOUGLASS | 1861-1869
Abraham Lincoln is defeated by
Stephen A. Douglas in
1860, who becomes the 8th President. In the hope of avoiding warfare, President Douglas attempted to reach a compromise with the Southern representatives in the Congress. The Manumission Act of 1862 was intended to preserve the Union by freeing the slaves over a period of ten years, giving everyone time to adjust. While Douglas heralded the law as another great compromise analogous to the
Compromise of 1850, the Southern representatives formed the Confederate States of America and began arming for war. After the outbreak of the American Civil War later on that year, Douglas was fearful of further provoking the South and did not introduce conscription as the Confederacy had done. Consequently, the professional though much smaller Union Army was overwhelmed and nearly destroyed by the
Confederate States Army at the
Second Battle of Manassas in Virginia in 1862. It took the United States over a year to recover from this disaster, creating a period of false peace. Although everyone in the North initially welcomed it, the false peace gave both sides time to build their armies as well as providing an opportunity for the
United Kingdom to decide to support the Confederacy with the full backing of the
British Empire's diplomacy and trade. Douglas continued to negotiate with the Confederacy in an attempt to reach a compromise, failing to understand that every day lost meant another victory for the South. Lincoln accepted a commission as the commanding general of the Illinois Militia in the Union Army. His own commanding officer was Brigadier General
Ulysses S. Grant. General Lincoln believed that he would have been able to prevent the war if he had been elected or, failing that, would have shown the kind of decisive leadership of which Douglas was seemingly incapable, built a real army and crushed the Confederacy before they were able to build a large army of their own. Shortly after leading his troops into battle for the first time in 1863, Lincoln was shot and killed by a Confederate sniper while still on horseback.
- ULYSSES S.GRANT | 1869-1873
- VICTORIA WOODHULL | 1873-1877
A constitutional amendment allows Presidents of the United States to run for only one term, which forces
Ulysses S. Grant out of the race.
Victoria Woodhull of the
Equal Rights Party is elected the 19th President in
1872 and becomes the first woman to hold that office. Her Vice President,
Frederick Douglass, becomes the first
African American to hold that office
- SAMUEL J TILDEN | 1877-1881
Leila Morse agrees to marry
Samuel J. Tilden, giving him the impetus to secure his
1876 electoral college victory over
Rutherford B. Hayes. Tilden is re-elected in
1880 and eventually founds the Liberal Party. Samuel Tilden uses underhanded tactics to win the 1880 presidential election against
James A. Garfield. However, Garfield gets help from
Charles J. Guiteau (his
assassin in real history) and they vainly attempt to convince Tilden that they can fix the corrupted electoral system. When he declines the offer, they assassinate him before he is able to take office.
- WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK | 1881-1889
Tilden's Vice President,
Winfield Scott Hancock is elected the 20th President in
1884 but loses in
1888 with
Grover Cleveland as his vice president.
- BELVA ANN LOCKWOOD| 1889-1893
Belva Ann Lockwood of the
National Equal Rights Party is elected in 1888 over Democratic incumbent
Grover Cleveland and
Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison. Lockwood becomes the first woman to hold the presidency. Her presidency results in expanded democratic rights, including
women's suffrage. She serves as President until she is defeated in the
1892 election by Grover Cleveland.
- GROVER CLEVELAND | 1893-1897
- WILIAM JENNINGS BRYAN | 1897-1901
William Jennings Bryan is elected in
1896 over
William McKinley. He serves one term, during which
Hawaii and the former Spanish colonies become independent nations following the
Spanish–American War. Also during his presidency, he was a vocal supporter of
women's suffrage, which was granted throughout the United States long after he left office in 1913. He declines to run for a second term in
1900, as he believed that presidents should only serve one term. In spite of this, in 1915, Bryan reveals to the American public that he intended to prevent the expected Republican presidential nominee
Theodore Roosevelt's plan to take the US into
World War I following the sinking of the
Lusitania from coming to fruition by running against him and defeating him in the
1916 election.
Former President
Theodore Roosevelt on the
Bull Moose Party wins the
1912 election over Republican incumbent
William Howard Taft and Democratic candidate
Woodrow Wilson as his health is good since
John Flammang Schrank's bullet missed him. As President, he supports women's suffrage and wins
the war against Germany within a year. However, he nevertheless expects to lose the 1916 election.
- WOODROW WILSON | 1917-1921
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT | 1921-1925
James M. Cox is elected in
1920 after
Republican candidate Warren G. Harding dies from a stroke. However, five weeks after the election, he is assassinated by an anti-
League of Nations activist, leaving his elected Vice President,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, to become the 19th President.
Adolf Hitler becomes
Chancellor of Germany earlier than in real life and in 1925 the two of them establish an alliance to maintain the balance of power.
- ROBERT M.LA FOLLETE SR | 1925
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. is elected President in
1924 over Republican incumbent
Calvin Coolidge and Democratic candidate
John W. Davis. However, he dies the next year on June 18, 1925 (the same date as he did in real life) and is succeeded by his vice president
Burton K. Wheeler.
- BURTON K.WHEELER | 1925-1933
- HERBERT HOOVER | 1933-1937
Al Smith runs as a
third party candidate in the
1932 election. Due to the split in the
Democratic Party,
Herbert Hoover is elected against both him and
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Henry Stimson continues to serve as
Secretary of State. On Stimson's advice, Hoover goes to war with the
Japan in 1934.
Huey Long escapes assassination in 1935 and
runs for President in
1936 as in
Independent. He steals away Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President
John Nance Garner. Long defeats both Roosevelt and
Republican candidate Alf Landon.
World War II is averted when Long invites Hitler to Washington in 1938 and then assassinates him via a bomb, however, this does lead to a war between the US and
Germany.
Hermann Göring succeeded Hitler as the second Führer, continuing to serve in that position until at least 1953. Due to the survival of
Nazi Germany, totalitarianism and
antisemitism grew stronger across the world well into the 1950s.
- HENRY STIMSON | 1941-1945
Notably, defeated FDR both in this election and the 1936 one.
- THOMAS E. DEWEY | 1945-1953
Thomas E. Dewey is elected President in
1944 and is pressured to end World War II by dropping the
atomic bomb on
Tokyo.
Dewey wins the
1948 election against
Harry S. Truman by playing to
anti-communist fears.
- ADLAI STEVENSON II | 1953-1958
Adlai Stevenson is elected in
1952 because
Dwight D. Eisenhower chooses
Joseph McCarthy as his running mate instead of
Richard Nixon. Stevenson is re-elected in
1956 but is impeached and forced to resign in 1958. His vice president,
John F. Kennedy, becomes the 35th President.
A feud between John F. Kennedy and
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley leads to
Richard Nixon being elected President in
1960.
- RICHARD NIXON | 1961-1965
Barry Goldwater wins the election in
1964 over Richard Nixon and uses
nuclear weapons on
North Vietnam to win the
Vietnam War. Goldwater is re-elected President in
1968. Meanwhile, Richard Nixon, who retires from politics in the late 1960s, hosts a popular
late-night talk show called
Tricky Dick on
NBC for over 20 years.
- BARRY GOLDWATER | 1965-1969
- RONALD REAGAN | 1969-1973
Lyndon B. Johnson decides to run for President in the 1968 presidential election. This leads to widespread protests in the United States and a bomb being planted at the
Democratic National Convention, which explodes and results in the deaths of Johnson, running mate
Hubert Humphrey, and Senator
Eugene McCarthy and injures Senator George McGovern. While official policy states that
Robert F. Kennedy was also killed in the explosion, he was actually killed by a
Chicago policeman. The chaos at the Convention leads to an
actual revolution.
Ronald Reagan is elected President and turns the United States into an
autocratic state.
wins his own term in the
1976 presidential election over
Jimmy Carter. As a result of this, he threatens war with
Iran over the
Iran hostage crisis.
Walter Mondale is elected President in
1984 against
Ronald Reagan. As a result, the
Sandinista movement expands, causing a civil war in
Mexico followed by a US invasion in 1987, and numerous
Latin American refugees entering the
American Southwest.
- MICHAEL DUKAKIS | 1989-1993
Michael Dukakis is elected President in
1988, but is revealed to be an
alien attempting to infiltrate
Dulce Base. The
Men in Black, along with friendly aliens, therefore rewrite history in order for
George H. W. Bush to win the 1988 election instead, resulting in our timeline(and presumably alter history to what we know of it.
