List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

[Uhura's Mazda]

Leaders of the House of Women
1929-1931: Sylvia Pankhurst (Labour-British Section of the Third International coalition with support from the Liberals and Equal Citizenship)
1929 def: Christabel Pankhurst (Women's Party), Eleanor Rathbone (Equal Citizenship), Princess Sophia Duleep Singh (Women's Tax Resistance League)
1931-1933: Eleanor Rathbone (National Government: Equal Citizenship)
1931 def: Christabel Pankhurst (National Government: Women's Party), Sylvia Pankhurst (British Section of the Third International), Adela Pankhurst (Ladies' Fascist League)
1933-1940: Christabel Pankhurst (National Government: Women's Party)
1935 def: Sylvia Pankhurst (British Section of the Third International), Vera Woodhouse, Lady Terrington (Equal Citizenship), Adela Pankhurst and Diana Mitford (Ladies' Fascist League)
1940-1945: Christabel Pankhurst (War Government: Women's Party)
1945-1950: Ellen Wilkinson (Labour-British Section of the Third International coalition)
1945 def: Christabel Pankhurst (Women's Party), Megan Lloyd-George (Equal Citizenship)

Well, then.

Part of the implementation of the 1928 Act which equalised the suffrage rights of men and women in the United Kingdom was the splitting of the House of Commons into the House of Men and the House of Women. This was done in order to guarantee that half of all MPs would be women, and was hailed by many (and criticised by many more) as being well ahead of its time. However, because this is the Tories we're talking about, the Prime Minister was explicitly to be a member of the House of Men and bills could only be introduced in the Men. A law could only be passed if a majority of all voting MPs supported it, which fortunately removed the awkwardness of American-style gridlock. There were around 300 constituencies, each electing a male MP by First Past the Post, and a female MP by the same system - voters were split by gender.

There were three main parties, initially. First were the Women's Party, an outgrowth of the Suffragette movement which was largely affiliated with the Conservatives due to Christabel Pankhurst's antipathy towards Socialism. As it turned out, this party won a majority of seats in every election held for the House of Women, while Labour usually won a larger amount of seats in the Men than they would otherwise have won. These Labour seats in the Men allowed situations like 1929 and 1945, where a coalition between Labour and the Sectionists was possible.

The British Section of the Third International was the successor organisation of the East London Federation of Suffragettes, which Sylvia Pankhurst had disaffiliated from her mother's organisation just before the First World War, due to Sylvia's attitude that equality for women could only be achieved through simultaneous action to equalise society in a more general way. They were the most successful Communist Party ever to exist in Britain, although they were rather moderate in outlook and more interested in social issues than in economics. The BSTI was able to work with the Labour Party very easily, although never in a National or War Government.

Finally, the National Union for Equal Citizenship was the successor Party of the original Suffragists, and was largely in alliance with one faction or another of the Liberal Party. However, they never won more than 97 seats and Eleanor Rathbone was only made Leader of the House of Women because the Tories in the National Government were intimidated by Christabel Pankhurst. They split from the National Government in 1933 over the Kollontai Crisis. Other minor parties included the proto-Randian Women's Tax Resistance League, and the depressingly numerous Ladies' Fascist League, led by the third Pankhurst sister.

It is difficult to measure the influence of the female MPs during this period, for even though they often constituted the majority of a Government, they were never in a majority in Cabinet. Due to inexperience and historic lack of education, measures to legalise abortion, reform divorce law, and remove stigma for single mothers all failed, and the House of Women was increasingly seen as a wasteful secondary chamber.

Finally, after 1945, there was a Government which united the attitudes of radical feminists (that women should be judged on their own merits) and working-class chauvinists (that women should be judged on their own merits) and the House of Commons was reconstituted for the 1950 general election. Never again has half of the legislature been female, but the idea of going back to such a system does not tend to appeal to many women today.

 

[Comisario]

This week on Analogues That Make You Go 'Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa':

I svenska inbördeskriget​

Sveriges statsminister
1936-1936: Ernst Wigforss (Republikanska Vänster leading Folkfront)
1936-1936: Per Albin Hansson (Republikanska Vänster leading Folkfront)
1936-1936: Rickard Sandler (Republikanska Unionen leading Folkfront)
1936-1936: Fredrik Ström (Republikanska Vänster leading Folkfront)
1936-1937: Karl Kilbom (SAP leading Folkfront)
1937-1939: Rickard Lindström (SAP leading Folkfront)

Sveriges riksledare
1939-1972: Sven Hedengren (Svenska nationella fascistpartiet)

 

[Mumby]

This week on Analogues That Make You Go 'Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa':

I svenska inbördeskriget​

Sveriges statsminister
1936-1936: Ernst Wigforss (Republikanska Vänster leading Folkfront)
1936-1936: Per Albin Hansson (Republikanska Vänster leading Folkfront)
1936-1936: Rickard Sandler (Republikanska Unionen leading Folkfront)
1936-1936: Fredrik Ström (Republikanska Vänster leading Folkfront)
1936-1937: Karl Kilbom (SAP leading Folkfront)
1937-1939: Rickard Lindström (SAP leading Folkfront)

Sveriges riksledare
1939-1972: Sven Hedengren (Svenska nationella fascistpartiet)

Homage To Lapland or summat

 

[Utgard96]

This week on Analogues That Make You Go 'Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa':

I svenska inbördeskriget​

Sveriges statsminister
1936-1936: Ernst Wigforss (Republikanska Vänster leading Folkfront)
1936-1936: Per Albin Hansson (Republikanska Vänster leading Folkfront)
1936-1936: Rickard Sandler (Republikanska Unionen leading Folkfront)
1936-1936: Fredrik Ström (Republikanska Vänster leading Folkfront)
1936-1937: Karl Kilbom (SAP leading Folkfront)
1937-1939: Rickard Lindström (SAP leading Folkfront)

Sveriges riksledare
1939-1972: Sven Hedengren (Svenska nationella fascistpartiet)

It certainly is a different enough world for Kilbom to be a Social Democrat, though I suppose he's as good a Largo Caballero analogue as anyone.

 

[Comisario]

It certainly is a different enough world for Kilbom to be a Social Democrat, though I suppose he's as good a Largo Caballero analogue as anyone.

I tried to think of someone better, but Kilbom stuck in my head so clearly that I couldn't fathom anyone else.

 

[Mumby]

Breaking Wind In The Palaces Of The Mighty

The Last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

1921-1925: Winston Churchill (Liberal)
1921 (National Government with Conservatives, Peoples' League, and National Democratic and Labour Party) def. John Maclean (Labour), Austen Chamberlain (Conservative --- National Coupon), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Horatio Bottomley (Peoples' League), David Lloyd George (Independent Liberal), James Andrew Seddon (National Democratic and Labour --- National Coupon)
1925-1925: Winston Churchill (Liberal leading Military Government with Conservatives, and Peoples' League)

Leader of the Free British Government

1925-1926: Sir Hugh Trenchard (Independent)

Chairmen of the Imperial Committee of British Liberation

1926-1928: Sir Hugh Trenchard and Arthur Meighen (Independent / Conservative --- Canada)
1928-1930: Sir Hugh Trenchard and W.L. Mackenzie King (Independent / Liberal --- Canada)
1930-1931: W.L. Mackenzie King and Harry Holland (Liberal --- Canada / Labour --- New Zealand)

Chairmen of the Imperial Premiers Committee

1931-1932: W.L. Mackenzie King (Liberal --- Canada)
1932-1933: Frederick C. Alderdice (United Newfoundland --- Newfoundland)
1933-1934: Michael Joseph Savage (Labour --- New Zealand)
1934-1935: Jan Smuts (United --- South Africa)

Presidents of the British Imperial Federation

1935-1939: Jan Smuts / Joseph Lyons (United Empire)
1935 def. Barry Hertzog / J.H. Blackmore (Nationalist List), Michael Joseph Savage / J.S. Woodsworth (Labour Federation)
1939-1940: Jan Smuts / Michael Joseph Savage (United Empire / Labour Federation --- War Government)
1939 def. Barry Hertzog / Oswald Mosley (Neutrality List)
1940-1940: Jan Smuts / vacant (United Empire)
1940-1947: Jan Smuts / Major James Coldwell (United Empire / Labour Federation --- War Government)
1943 def. Oswald Mosley / J.S. Woodsworth (Opposition List)
1947-1951: Major James Coldwell / Ben Chifley (Labour Federation)
1947 def. Jan Smuts / Archie Cameron (United Empire), D.F. Malan / Adela Pankhurst (Nationalist List)

I'll do F O O T N O T E S when I'm back from poker.

 

[Beata Beatrix]

The Great Compromiser​

Presidents of the United States of America (First Washington Government: 1789 - 1870)

1841 - 1841: William H. Harrison† / John Tyler (Whig)
1840: Martin Van Buren / none (Democratic)
1841 - 1841: John Tyler‡ / vacant (Whig)
1841 - 1845: John Tyler / vacant (Independent)
1845 - 1849: Henry Clay / Theodore Frelinghuysen (Whig)
1844: James K. Polk / George M. Dallas (Democratic)
1849 - 1855: William L. Marcy† / John K. Kane (Democratic)
1848: Daniel Webster / John Gayle (Whig); Joshua R. Giddings / James G. Birney (Liberty)
1852: Samuel Finley Vinton / Waddy Thompson, Jr. (Whig); Joshua R. Giddings / Marcus Morton (Liberty)
1855 - 1856: John K. Kane† / vacant (Democratic)
1856 - 1858: James Murray Mason / vacant (Democratic)
1856 (cancelled): John K. Kane / Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democratic); Henry Clay, Jr. / Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (Whig); David Wilmot / Caleb Cushing (Liberty)
1858 - 1860: Henry Clay, Jr. / Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart‡ (Whig)
1857: James Murray Mason / Henry C. Murphy (Democratic); David Wilmot / Caleb Cushing (Liberty)
1860 - 1862: Henry Clay, Jr. / vacant (Whig)
1862 - 1870: Andrew Jackson Donelson / George Washington Woodward (Democratic)
1861: Samuel Fessenden / John Van Buren (Liberty); John J. Crittenden / none (Whig)
1865: William Czar Bradley / Abraham Lincoln (Liberty); various Whigs
1870 - 1870: William Porcher Miles / James S. Rollins (Democratic)
1869: John Van Buren / William D. Kelley (Liberty); William Porcher Miles / James S. Rollins (Democratic)

Presidents of the United States of America (Second Washington Government: 1870 - present)

1870 - present: William Porcher Miles / James S. Rollins (Democratic)

Presidents of the United States of America (Philadelphia Government: 1870 - present)

1870 - present: John Van Buren / William D. Kelley (Liberty)

† = died in office
‡ = expelled from party / resigned

Henry Clay had tried to reach the Presidency twice before - in 1824, and then in 1832, but, as the proverb said, "third time lucky," and so it was that in 1844, Henry Clay narrowly managed to defeat the 'dark horse' Democrat James K. Polk. Clay's presidency would be a fateful one. In his inaugural address, he reiterated his promise that he would not pursue an annexationist path, but, rather, would follow a policy of "free and republican association with our sister-republics."

Immediately, the plans to annex the Republic of Texas and expand into the Oregon Country were scrapped - Clay had Secretary of State Daniel Webster's Jeffersonian Memorandum sent directly to President Anson Jones of Texas and to the Oregonian Executive Council, which, emulating President Thomas Jefferson, declared President Clay's unequivocal support for the continued independence and strength of Oregon and Texas. While this action would send Texas and Oregon into political turmoil (leading to the impeachment of the pro-annexationist Texian President Anson Jones and the victory of the solidly pro-independence Osbourne Russell over the pro-annexation George Abernethy in the first Oregonian presidential election) President Clay was content.

Turning away from foreign affairs, Clay looked to do what he had wished to for a long time - reestablish the Bank of the United States. Clay's proposals to this effect had been vetoed by President Tyler - indeed, that had led to his expulsion from the Whig Party. While the Whig majority in the Senate had been lost, it was still narrow enough that with Vice President Frelinghuysen's tie-breaking vote, the Bank was given a new charter.

But other than this, it seemed as though Henry Clay did not know what to do with his presidency. These actions having been completed, Clay, it seemed, did very little else. Come 1848, and the Democrats, still incensed over Clay's opposition to annexation, nominated the pro-expansionist William L. Marcy, a former Senator and Governor of New York. While Marcy was a Northerner, he was sufficiently pro-slavery for the South to be appeased, and his running mate, the rather notorious Pennsylvanian Judge John K. Kane, an arch-Jacksonian, was the same way. The Whigs, meanwhile, chose Secretary of State Daniel Webster, who was paired with a Southern running mate, John Gayle, the former Governor of Alabama. However, the pro-slavery leanings of the two tickets caused many anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats to bolt to the Liberty Party, which nominated Joshua R. Giddings, a Whig congressman and, for Giddings' running mate, the de facto founder of the party, James G. Birney, was chosen.

"Marcy, Kane, Marcy, Kane - they'll make America great again," went the refrain, and, sure enough, Marcy's pro-annexation platform was enough to win him the election over Webster, while Giddings garnered nearly 6 percent of the vote, serving as a spoiler, which greatly overjoyed the Libertarians, as members of the Liberty Party came to be called. Marcy spent the first two years of his administration attempting to "right the wrongs" of the Clay administration, which essentially translated to annexing Texas and Oregon.

While President Moseley Baker of Texas politely but emphatically declined annexation, with his nation agreeing, the people of Oregon were much more receptive to annexation. American money essentially bought the defeat of President Asa L. Lovejoy and the victory of the pro-annexation William Gilpin in 1851, who campaigned on a platform of annexing Oregon to the United States. Within weeks of his victory, Secretary of State Robert J. Walker was in Corvallis, where he and Gilpin signed the Treaty of Corvallis, which ended the Republic of Oregon, and remade it into the Territories of Twality, Yamhill, Clackamas and Champoeg, which had formerly been the four Districts of Oregon, with Gilpin appointed Governor-General of the four Territories.

Turning his attention to the south of Oregon, Marcy sought to buy California, to give the United States more Pacific dominion. He sent Secretary Walker to Mexico City, where he offered to pay Mexico up to $30 million to buy California. However, when Walker arrived, he found an envoy from Texas prepared to do the same. In the waiting room (it is said), the two men negotiated on which country would take which part of California - ultimately, the only tenable proposal was for California to be divided along the 37th parallel, with the United States taking the northern half (which was connected directly to the Champoeg Territory), and Texas the southern. After negotiation, cajoling, and even threats of military force, the Mexicans finally acquiesced to the Treaty of Mexico City. Marcy joyfully renamed the portion of California the United States had bought 'Jefferson,' and proclaimed the capital to be Yerba Buena, while the Texians kept the Mexican names. Indeed, many said that William L. Marcy was the second Jefferson; in terms of sheer land acquisition, the only president to surpass Marcy is Jefferson.

His land acquisitions proving popular, Marcy won reelection in a landslide over Whig Congressman Samuel Finley Vinton and his running mate, Waddy Thompson, the former Minister to Mexico, although Joshua Giddings doubled his percentage of votes to nearly 12 percent, and won a faithless elector in Vermont, with Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton having been chosen to attract anti-slavery Democrats. During his second term, President Marcy also passed a number of pro-slavery laws, most of which had to do with slavery in the 'Five Territories' (Twality, Yamhill, Clackamas, Champoeg, and Jefferson), as they came to be known. Against the objections of the Libertarians, and of many Whigs, Marcy allowed slavery in all five, with the rather logically named Five Territories Act, despite the fact that none were exactly conducive to slavery. This also effectively ended the Missouri Compromise, leading former President Clay to mourn that "the republic's end is nigh."

Soon after signing the Five Territories Act, President Marcy fell sick, and died, on July 4th, 1855, leading many Southerners to theorize that he had been poisoned by the Libertarians. While there is no truth in this claim - after all, Marcy was nearly 70, and was in ill health - it severely inflamed relations between North and South. Vice President Kane assumed the presidency, as John Tyler had done, and sought to govern much as Marcy had done. As 1855 turned into 1856, President Kane sought the nomination of his party, which he received, choosing Alabama Senator Benjamin Fitzpatrick as his running mate. The Whigs, soon afterwards, nominated the (comparatively) young Senator from Kentucky, and the son of former President Clay, Henry Clay, Jr, who pledged that he, like his father, would be a "great compromiser," and would "restore amity between the North and South." However, to placate fears that he was not, as the Whig Senator of Louisiana, Judah Benjamin, called him, "a Libertarian in Whig's clothing," he chose Virginia Governor Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart. The Libertarians held their party's convention last, and chose David Wilmot, a congressman from Pennsylvania who had forcefully led the opposition to Marcy and Kane.

In the early October of 1856, President Kane died. James Murray Mason, of Virginia, the president pro tempore of the Senate, became Acting President, as the Presidential Succession Act of 1792 dictated. With the President's death occurring in election year, Acting President Mason dictated that the election was to be held in the December of 1857, in vague accordance with Section 10 of the Presidential Succession Act. When noted Libertarian Samuel Fessenden sued the United States over this decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Mason's actions were constitutional, because Kane's term was not technically his, and so the term was not technically about to expire, as Article 10 dictated. Many Libertarians found this logic to be absurd, and soon, polling places sprung up in the North, where angry Libertarians cast their ballots for Wilmot, who also decried this decision. These men soon came to be known as the 'Fifty-Sixers,' and they would hold presidential elections in what they deemed to be the "mandated" years - 1856, 1860, 1864, and 1868.

With Mason remaining in the presidency for one more year, the country became more and more divided. Henry Clay, Jr.'s calls for amity proved more and more tempting to the nation, while the Fifty-Sixers became more and more militant in their support of Wilmot. Acting President Mason, for his part, was nominated by the Democrats, and chose New York Congressman Henry C. Murphy as his running mate, as an attempt to appeal to Northerners. Ultimately, Clay won the presidency, becoming the youngest-ever president.

When historians look back on Henry Clay, Jr., they see a man who sacrificed his party and himself to attempt to save his country from civil war. Clay was narrowly able to repeal the Five Territories Act, and effectively restore the Missouri Compromise, but soon became a pariah within his own party. His Vice President, who had supported the Five Territories Act, resigned in 1860, and while Clay sought to pass an a Constitutional amendment to outlaw any federal action regarding slavery, but it failed, ignominiously. By 1862, Clay faced impeachment from his own party, but was spared that final humiliation when he declined to run for reelection and swore to never be involved in politics again. Clay did not even attend his successor's inauguration - he returned home to Ashland, his family's estate and drank.

The Whigs knew that they could not win in 1861. Although they had repudiated President Clay, much of the Southern portion of their party had effectively bolted to the Democrats; indeed, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, the former Vice President, was a candidate at the 1861 Democratic Convention. They were forced to nominate Clay's Secretary of State, John J. Crittenden, for President. Crittenden was an old man, the last, dying breath of his party, and, in what was perhaps an act of mercy on his part, he ran without a running mate, as Martin Van Buren had done in 1840, to spare his colleagues the humiliation.

The Democrats chose Andrew Jackson Donelson, Andrew Jackson's nephew, and a Senator from Tennessee, who chose Pennsylvania Governor George Washington Woodward as his running mate. The Libertarians, meanwhile, chose Samuel Fessenden, the leader of the Fifty-Sixers and now Governor of Maine, and paired him with John Van Buren, Secretary of State for New York, and the son of President Martin Van Buren, who had become a member of the Liberty Party later in life. People were nostalgic for the days of Jackson and Marcy, and with the Whigs relegated to miserable obscurity, only barely winning Kentucky, Donelson won the presidency.

Donelson had an impossible job - unite a country practically falling apart by the seams. Desperately, he tried to create a sense of national unity by fighting a war with Spain - when several American sailors were detained in Cuba, Donelson swore to defend them, and declared war on Spain. The war was grueling - tens of thousands of Americans died in Cuba. By 1864, the territory was won, with a hero of the war, General Robert E. Lee, appointed Military Governor, although many found themselves asking why the United States had fought this war. With the Whig party slowly dying, Donelson's main opposition came in the form of the Libertarians, who were adamantly opposed to the Cuban War. By 1865, the Whigs were too divided to nominate a single ticket, and so various state tickets were nominated, while Vermont Senator William Czar Bradley and Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln, both solid opponents of the war, were nominated by the Libertarians. Donelson narrowly won reelection, but it was a very close thing.

As 1869 came around, it was clear that the United States was very close to unravelling. The Whig Party having finally dissolved, the Libertarians and the Democrats were the only major two parties. The Libertarian nominee, New York Governor John Van Buren, was one of the most strident abolitionists the party had ever nominated. His Democratic opponent, Congressman William Porcher Miles, meanwhile, was practically his opposite. Miles' running mate, Missouri Governor James S. Rollins, was a former Whig who, upon his party's dissolution, joined the Democrats. Van Buren won the popular vote by a considerable margin, but neither he nor Miles won a majority in the electoral college, and so the election was decided by Congress, which, with a slight Democratic majority, chose Miles and Rollins.

Van Buren, amid a large throng of Fifty-Sixers, declared the result to be illegitimate, and that he would be assuming the presidency. The North backed him, and he began governing in Philadelphia, the old capitol of the United States. Miles, meanwhile, elected by "the slavers' Congress," as Van Buren called it, governed in Washington, neither government recognizing the other.

The United States has truly become a house divided.

 

[Utgard96]

pls no swiping my TL ideas before I write them

 

[Beata Beatrix]

pls no swiping my TL ideas before I write them

oops

 

[Utgard96]

oops

I think it's different enough, in all seriousness. It's also very good.

 

[Accurateworldwar]

List of British Prime Ministers

John Major (1990-1997)
Notes: Presided prior to the Second Wizarding War.
Tony Blair (1997-2007)
Notes: Presided over the Second Wizarding War, and worked to minimize damage caused by Voldemort and his supporters during the war. Led the New Revival, which sought to more closely link the Muggle government with the government of Wizarding Britain.
Gordon Brown (2007-2010)
Notes: Continued the New Revival policy of Prime Minister Blair.
David Cameron (2010-2016)
Notes: Was largely absent in dealing with the government of Wizarding Britain, which was undergoing reforms at the time.
Theresa May (2016-2024)
Notes: Worked to enact the departure of Muggle Britain from the European Union, and neglected to include Wizarding Britain in Brexit negotiations.
Hermione Granger (2024-2032)
Notes: Resigned from her position as Minister of Magic to run for a seat in the Muggle Parliament in 2011. She became the Leader of the Labour Party in 2020, in a leadership election against Jeremy Corbyn after the general election. Granger went on to defeat Prime minister May in the 2024 general election, and served as the second wizard Prime Minister (after Winston Churchill).

 

[Gog-Clocthoth]

Boxing and Unboxing 2016: Round I

1981-89: Ronald W. Reagan(CA)/Vincent A. Cianci, Jr.(RI)[1] (Republican)
1980: Gov. Ronald W. Reagan(R-CA)/Sen. Vincent A. Cianci, Jr.(R-RI) def. Pres. James A. Carter(GA)/VP Walter Mondale(MN) (Democratic); Rep. John B. Anderson(IL)/Fmr. Amb. Patrick J. Lucey(WI) (Independent)
1984: Pres. Ronald W. Reagan(R-CA)/VP Vincent A. Cianci, Jr.(R-RI) def. Fmr. VP Walter Mondale(MN)/Rep. Georgia M.D. Powers[2](KY) (Democratic)
1989-94: Vincent A. Cianci, Jr.*(RI)[3]/Mike Oxley(OH) (Republican)
1988: VP Vincent A. Cianci, Jr.(R-RI)/Rep. Mike Oxley(R-OH) def. Sen. Dale Bumpers(D-AR)/Fmr. USec of Navy Robert H.B. Baldwin(D-NJ)
1992: Pres. Vincent A. Cianci, Jr.(R-RI)/VP Mike Oxley(R-OH) def. Gov. Philip J. Rock(D-IL)/Fmr. Sen. Raymond Laborde(D-LA)
1994-97: Mike Oxley(OH)/Vacant 94; Gilbert "Gil" Carmichael(MS) 94-97(Republican)[4]
1997-Present: Patricia Piper(MN)/Leonidas "Lee" Young, II(VA) (Democratic)[5]
1996: Sen. Patricia "Pat" Piper(D-MN)/Gov. Leonidas "Lee" Young(D-VA) def. Atty. C.B. Forgotston(R-LA)/Fmr. Gov. Donald Strauch(R-AZ)[6], Engineer Donald Roberts(CO)/Save the Bay Founder Sylvia McLaughlin(CA) ("Lean" Green)[7]

1: After a long struggle, John Chafee steps aside in '76, allowing Vincent "Buddy" Cianci to take the Republican nomination for US Senate unopposed. Building on his momentum from his appearance at the RNC and his election to the Senate, Cianci is something of a rising star in the Republican party, and is chosen to be Gov. Reagan's running mate in 1980.

2: Rep. Powers, an African-American woman from Kentucky, cut her political teeth as an activist during the Civil Rights era before running for the KY State Senate in 1967, later being elected to the US House. While she was the first woman and first person-of-color to appear on a major-party ticket, she would ultimately be a part of one of the least successful presidential tickets since McGovern's landslide loss to Nixon.

3: From the Mayor of Providence to President of the United States; Cianci had enjoyed a meteoric rise, though he would ultimately prove to be his own worst enemy. Provincialism and a lack of substance hurt the tough-talking Cianci, though the coup de grâce was the public revelation of several scandals, including a long record of bribery, corrupt practices, and his assault of an intern in 1989 following what he alleges were "inappropriate comments about and contact with" about First Lady Sheila Cianci. With a divorce and impeachment trial imminent, Cianci resigned from the Presidency on July 4th, 1994, in a final performance before the American people. Cianci departed from Washington alone the very same day, an iconic photo showing the disgraced President, sans-toupee, solemnly boarding Air Force One for the last time.

4: Needless to say, Cianci's downfall (and the theatrical handling of it on Independence Day) blunted any efforts of the Republicans to make gains in the midterm elections. Oxley, though very much a lame duck, is known today for reaching out to the reformed Soviet Union and being an advocate for safety and security on the growing internet, particularly with regard to preventing the dissemination of classified documents and materials. Also of note was his appointment of "Gil" Carmichael, Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, as Vice President. Though Carmichael was respected for his work in building the GOP in what was once a "Solid South" Democratic state, some criticized his qualifications and lack of recent attempts at or holding of elected office. Neither of the men had much desire to seek a term as President, and largely avoided the '96 election other than generic support for the Republican Party and ensuring a smooth transition to the next administration.

5: In what was certain to be a Democratic victory, Sen. Pat Piper, a Catholic Nun, became the first female nominee for President, and took the bold step of choosing Lee Young, a reverend and the first African-American Governor of Virginia, as her running mate. Her administration has attempted great strides toward universal healthcare, increased spending on public education, and even some environmental issues, a possible sign that the "lean greens" may not be making as much noise during her upcoming reelection campaign.

6: Having gone through their second cycle of being outsiders, to making gains, to becoming the corrupt establishment and eventual disintegration; the Republicans remained divided between a handful of normally hopeless ideologues, has-beens and idealistic reformers who normally wouldn't be of note. A contested convention ultimately went to Charlton Forgotston, an ultra-conservative attorney and pundit backed by the so-called "moral majority". Despite his anti-corruption rhetoric, a Republican candidate was hardly the face of change after almost 28 uninterrupted years of Republican rule. Forgotston's erratic personal behavior and odd pet issues, such as promising to not only burn but "blow up" bridges with a reformed USSR, led him to one of the largest electoral and popular vote losses in Presidential history.

7: In a year when a Democratic victory was assured, many voters were willing to support various third-party candidates. The main beneficiary of this could have been the Green party, until the convention split over the inclusion of planks involving social justice, vaccination skepticism, and support for socialist ideology. The fleeing faction took the name "Lean Greens", indicating their focus exclusively on environmentalism and particularly sustainable growth in the coming century, and distancing the ticket from certain controversial party members.

 

[lord caedus]

Boxing and Unboxing 2016: Round I

I can't imagine why Oxley wouldn't appoint a new vice president after assuming office, lame duck or not.

 

[Mumby]

Breaking Wind In The Palaces Of The Mighty

The Last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

1921-1925: Winston Churchill (Liberal)
1921 (National Government with Conservatives, Peoples' League, and National Democratic and Labour Party) def. John Maclean (Labour), Austen Chamberlain (Conservative --- National Coupon), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Horatio Bottomley (Peoples' League), David Lloyd George (Independent Liberal), James Andrew Seddon (National Democratic and Labour --- National Coupon)
1925-1925: Winston Churchill (Liberal leading Military Government with Conservatives, Peoples' League, and National Democratic and Labour Party)

Leader of the Free British Government

1925-1926: Sir Hugh Trenchard (Independent)

Chairmen of the Imperial Committee of British Liberation

1926-1928: Sir Hugh Trenchard and Arthur Meighen (Independent / Conservative --- Canada)
1928-1930: Sir Hugh Trenchard and W.L. Mackenzie King (Independent / Liberal --- Canada)
1930-1931: W.L. Mackenzie King and Harry Holland (Liberal --- Canada / Labour --- New Zealand)

Chairmen of the Imperial Premiers Committee

1931-1932: W.L. Mackenzie King (Liberal --- Canada)
1932-1933: Frederick C. Alderdice (United Newfoundland --- Newfoundland)
1933-1934: Michael Joseph Savage (Labour --- New Zealand)
1934-1935: Jan Smuts (United --- South Africa)

Presidents of the British Imperial Federation

1935-1939: Jan Smuts / Joseph Lyons (United Empire)
1935 def. Barry Hertzog / J.H. Blackmore (Nationalist List), Michael Joseph Savage / J.S. Woodsworth (Labour Federation)
1939-1940: Jan Smuts / Michael Joseph Savage (United Empire / Labour Federation --- War Government)
1939 def. Barry Hertzog / Oswald Mosley (Neutrality List)
1940-1940: Jan Smuts / vacant (United Empire)
1940-1947: Jan Smuts / Major James Coldwell (United Empire / Labour Federation --- War Government)
1943 def. Oswald Mosley / J.S. Woodsworth (Opposition List)
1947-1951: Major James Coldwell / Ben Chifley (Labour Federation)
1947 def. Jan Smuts / Arthur Fadden (United Empire), D.F. Malan / Adela Pankhurst (Nationalist List)

I'll do F O O T N O T E S when I'm back from poker.

Okay, so in this world, the Entente loses WW1 in 1917. A depressed and bereaved Asquith resigns in disgrace, and the non-partisan figure of Herbert Kitchener leads the National Government to victory in the 1917 general election, managing to hold together the coalition and negotiate a fairly honourable peace from the victorious Central Powers. The victory of Sinn Fein across Ireland in 1917 leads to the Irish War of Independence which Kitchener refuses to back down from. There is talk of breaking up the coalition but it never flies in 1921 Kitchener hands over to Churchill. The Conservatives are the dominant partner in the coalition but Churchill is an acceptable figure to keep the National Government together.

The economy is proving sluggish and conditions across the country are worsening and tensions tightening. Dissatisfaction with the National Government is growing and in 1921, Labour emerges as the largest party, while Bottomley's nationalist Peoples' League wins over a dozen seats. The National Government as it stands lacks a majority so Churchill invites Bottomley to join the government. Things rapidly worsen over the next four years as unemployment rises, productivity declines and Britain struggles to recover from their loss as Germany tightens her grip on the Europaverein's trade. A General Strike is called in 1923, which is bloodily suppressed but political violence has suddenly become the norm in many parts of the country. In 1925, Labour wins an outright majority but Churchill refuses to resign and is backed up by elements of the military. This situation is untenable, and before the year is out, a revolution has taken place. Churchill resigns, exhausted and Sir Hugh Trenchard leads a British government-in-exile in Canada alongside the King.

While Britain under Labour reorganises into the world's first explicitly socialist republic, the rest of the Empire has to take stock of the situation. After an attempt to retake the Isles is successfully repulsed, and Ireland becomes independent under Sinn Fein, Trenchard forms the ICBL, granting the British government-in-exile greater legitimacy whilst acknowledging the fact that they are now merely tenants. In 1930, Trenchard steps aside and King invites New Zealand's Harry Holland to join him. The Premiers of the Empire have successfully seen the country through the crisis of the British Revolution, successfully suppressing a Second Mutiny, rebuilding a much shrunken military and reorganising colonial government by massively restructuring the workings of the British exile government. However, any prospect of a return to Britain looks extremely unlikely and the ICBL is dissolved, it's functions being ceded to the Imperial Premiers Committee, while the British exile government falls into disrepair, superceded by the new structures.

Th Committee keeps the empire together, with the Chairman's role as a figurehead being largely diplomatic. The Empire retains a common foreign policy and colonial government is directed by the Committee. Chairmanship rotates between the Dominions. In 1934, the Chairmanship falls to South Africa, their then Premier being Jan Smuts. Smuts brings the notion of a codified constitution to the agenda and after a great deal of debate his plan passes. The British Empire becomes the British Imperial Federation, with the Committee dissolved and replaced by an Imperial Cabinet, headed by a President, elected by an electoral college on the American model. Smuts wins in a landslide at the first Presidential election, against a Nationalist List of those opposed to the Federation, and the Labour Federation that tries to unite the disparate trade union movements of the Empire.

In 1939, Smuts leads the Imperial Federation into war with the Empire of Japan, which soon expands into a war with the Europaverein. The war eventually drags in the United States, Russia and the hitherto anathema in Britain. Smuts invites the Nationalists and Labour to form a wartime Emergency Cabinet, and this splits both parties. Most of Labour agrees to the Wartime Coalition while the Nationalists rebrand and call for allowing the Dominions to choose their position on the war. The war proves brutal and long but ultimately ends in victory for the Allies, resulting in cowing of Japanese ambitions and the collapse of the Europaverein. While Smuts tries for a fourth victory in 1947, he is defeated by his Wartime Vice President and Labour win a convincing victory. Smuts gracefully concedes and there is no attempted coup to prevent Coldwell from kissing hands with the King-Emperor.

The issue that has dominated Coldwell's term has been Indian independence and the prospect for British reintegration. The Imperial Federation was conceived as an explicitly monarchist arrangement. But India was promised independence during the war, and while negotiations to grant this have proceeded fairly amicably, a sticking point is the idea of Indian independence as a republic. India is the Crowning Jewel of the Federation and there are fears that independence as a republic could bring ruin to the federation. Equally, it gaining independence as a Dominion would lead to India dominating presidential elections. There is an idea that India could become a republic whilst remaining within the Federation, or that they could become an observer to the organisation. Relatedly there is talk of readmitting the mother country to the Imperial Federation. Britain shows no sign of abandoning socialism, but Britain's close cooperation with the Smut's war government has rebuilt many burned bridges and if India can be admitted as a republic there are hopes on both sides the process coukd be repeated for the Peoples' Commonwealth. These issues threaten the unity of both Labour and the United Empire parties, while the Nationalists maintain a clear line on both issues.

 

[TheScottishMongol]

The Great Compromiser​

I love the 56ers and the way they eventually contributed to TTLs Civil War.

I wonder how that would turn out, with the Union based out of Philadelphia.

 

[Utgard96]

I love the 56ers and the way they eventually contributed to TTLs Civil War.

I wonder how that would turn out, with the Union based out of Philadelphia.

Well, half of it - the implication is that the Democrats and Libertarians have each formed their own separate governments.

 

[Beata Beatrix]

Well, half of it - the implication is that the Democrats and Libertarians have each formed their own separate governments.

That is exactly what happened, yes. The Philadelphia Government considers itself to be the only legal government, while the Washington Government does the same.

 

[asanh]

A Parliament for the Ages Leaders of the House of Elders:

Ted Heath - Conservative (1979-1985)
Prior to the constitutional changes of 1977 that effectively abolished the House of Commons, Edward "Ted" Heath was best known as Britain's rather ineffective Prime Minister at the start of the decade. Despite all this, his return to a higher portfolio was clamoured for by many Conservative Members, who saw the aging Heath as the party's ideal standard bearer for the leadership of the newly created House of Elders, which was to be elected by Britain's population over the age of 65. Being a septuagenarian himself, the former Prime Minister was qualified to stand for election in the House. During Heath's leadership, he formed one third of the Council of Ages, the UK's collective head of government, over which the Conservatives exercised a 2/3 majority. By the time of his retirement from the office in 1985, Edward Heath had cemented himself as a Tory who was willing to stand up to the oft-draconian "dry" proposals of the House of the Middle's leadership.

William Whitelaw - Conservative (1985-1997)
Much can be said about longtime Leader William Whitelaw. He was admired by the elderly citizens of the United Kingdom in a way that few politicians have been. Moderate in tone and yet willing to stand up for the Conservative party line, even as internal struggles within the party's Young group reached a fever pitch, Whitelaw masterminded the reform of state end-of-life care and preserved the "excesses" of the National Health Service that so many Dries hoped to cut. While he repeatedly expressed his desire to resign in his later years, the pressure from the Elders Parliamentary Group for him to stay on was too much. Mere days after leaving office in 1997, he passed away in his sleep.

Ted Graham - Labour (1997-2005)
As a Co-operative MEldP, Graham was felt to be a leader that could connect with the hard-working, traditionally Conservative rural old as part of Middle Leader Tony Blair's "New Labour" vision. His election to the Leadership paid off, with seats that hadn't gone Labour in decades returning significant majorities for the newly rebranded Party. With the Council under unanimous Labour control, Graham presided over many reforms, few of which provided the leftward shift that many Young MPs hoped for. The formation of the Young Socialist Party provided an omen of Labour's decreased success in 2005, with the Conservatives regaining their "natural" control of the Elders.

Pauline Neville-Jones - Conservative (2005 - 2013)
Although the Conservatives failed to overturn Labour's majorities in the House of Youth or the House of the Middle, they did succeed in recapturing their "base" constituency of elderly voters. Pauline Neville-Jones was a rather uncontroversial choice, as she had slowly risen up the ranks of the Middle Party to a respectable entrance into the Elders at age 65. In the first part of her term as Leader, Neville-Jones was seen as a "do-nothing" due to the gridlock that encompassed the Government. However, with the onset of the financial crisis, she drew praise, condemning Labour for the economic downturn. With the wide-ranging Conservative victory of 2010, (propped up by the Liberal Democrats in the Youth) the party saw it fit to introduce wide-ranging austerity programmes, with the end goal being the end of the economic malaise. Unfortunately, the economic problems persisted, with elderly protesters against the austerity regime demanding Neville-Jones' resignation. Wary of her party's electoral prospects, she resigned in 2013.

Kenneth Clarke - Conservative (2013- )
An old "big beast" of the Tories, Clarke was purposefully chosen by the Elders Parliamentary Group as damage control for the negative media coverage generated by austerity. A strong voice for the Conservatives, he was able to effectively campaign against Labour and their Elderly Leader Margaret Beckett, aiding the Tories in maintaining their large majority in the Elders and a smaller one in the Middle. With the rise of UKIP's British Seniors wing, the pro-European Clarke has been viewed as a detriment to the party by Eurosceptics. Well, the planned EU referendum in September will sort that all out, even though seniors' opinions on it worry the Conservative Leader...

 

[Oppo]

>nupedia.com
>hubert humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – May 15, 1972) was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 until his assassination by Arthur Bremer in Dearborn, Michigan. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election, losing to the Republican nominee Richard M. Nixon.

Arthur Herman Bremer (born August 21, 1950) is an American convicted for killing U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey on May 15, 1972 in Dearborn, Michigan, killing the former Vice President. Bremer was found guilty and sentenced to 63 years (53 years after an appeal) in an Ohio prison for the shooting of Humphrey and two bystanders.

A George McGovern campaign poster found in the home of Arthur Bremer

>sixteenhundred.com

State of the Race

Nationwide (R)

President Michael J. Rogers (R-MI): 53.4% [1]
Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC): 31.7% [2]
Congressman Charlie Dent (R-PA): 12.5% [3]
Activist Maurice Symonette (R-FL): 0.4% [4]

[1] The President remains popular, but is facing a balancing act against the "Patriot Conservatives" that gave him his victory over Coors in 2016, and the moderates who believe that Rogers is too far-right.

[2] It seems that Governor Mark Sanford, who is now on his fourth term (occupying the Governor's Mansion since 2003 with only a four year gap) is the main opponent to the President that he shares many positions with. Sanford seems to be hitting Rogers from the left and the right, the talk that libertarian "Sandbots" eat up.

[3] It is odd that the partisan Rogers doesn't have a stronger opponent to his left, but few want to run, waiting until 2024. Still, Dent is a respected figure amoung Republican insiders, but his name will give a "Who?" to the average voter.

[4] A member of the Nation of Yahweh cult, "Michael the Black Man" was remembered for his speeches at Todd Akin's 2016 rallies calling Democrats Nazis.
[/SPOILER]

Nationwide (D)

Senator Robert Casey Jr. (D-PA): 15.4% [1]
Businessman Charles Kushner (D-NY): 15.3% [2]
Former Secretary of State William J. Clinton (D-AR): 13.2% [3]
Former Governor Charlotte Pritt (D-WV): 12.1% [4]
Governor Jimmy Hood (D-MS): 9.3% [5]
Former Energy Secretary Natalie Portman (D-CT): 7.7% [6]
Senator Ally Grimes (D-KY): 7.4% [7]
Congressman Al Roker (D-NY): 5.6% [8]
Senator Ned Lamont (D-CT): 5.4% [9]
Congressman Jim Matheson (D-UT): 2.6% [10]
Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO): 2.4% [11]
Governor Anthony Brown (D-MD): 2.1% [12]
Former Governor Ed Case (D-HI): 1.6% [13]

[SPOILER="Candidate Write-Ups"][/SPOILER]
[1] Robert Casey Jr. is currently the leading "Anybody But Kushner" candidate. Managing to please both Humphrey's New Dealers and Wallace's populists, Casey hopes to be the next Joseph Biden.

[2] Of course, there is the man himself, the bombastic businessman and 2016 nominee Charles Kushner. Kushner beat Vice President Emanuel on a message of kicking out the establishment. While he did lose for the first time since Ted Wilson, if you support him, you don't care. In a race that seems to lean blue, will Kushner give another term to Rogers?

[3] Clinton is the oldest candidate in the race (35 years older than Secretary Portman), he brings experience and charisma. Elected to the House in the anti-Connally wave of 1974, Clinton managed to rise up to Whip before being kicked out of the leadership after an affair with talk-show host Gennifer Flowers. A master of a comeback, Clinton managed to win a narrow primary and general election for U.S. Senate in 1996, despite the Republican wave downballot. In 2008, Clinton made a bid for the White House, but finished third behind Senator Owens and VP Hightower. Owens appointed Clinton Secretary of State, a position he held until his resignation to serve as the running mate of his old friend Charles Kushner. In 2020, he is giving a run one last shot, with his 2016 loss behind him.

[4] Charlotte Pritt is a name that kickstarted the New Left, but few non-political geeks remembered until her sudden reappearance on the political scene. Elected Governor of West Virginia in 1996, Pritt ended the populist control of the state. Her victory made her a rising star, leading to her second place finish behind Governor George C. Wallace. Wallace gave Pritt a concession by picking Jim Hightower as his running mate, but Pritt was unhappy, running against him in 2004. While campaigning in New Hampshire, a sking accident effectively ended her campaign. Pritt's campaign seems to be the most popular of the New Left candidates. With the top three bickering with each other, Pritt thinks that she can outmaneuver them in the early primaries.

[5] Jim Hood's supporters portray the Senator as a crime fighting lawyer, and/or George Wallace 3.0. The witty Governor has the backing of two influential Democratic Party names in Trent Lott and Wayne Cyrts. Hood is running a more conservative different message than Casey, saying he is the candidate for "Middle America".

[6] Dr. Natalie Portman's rise has been on of the most interesting tales of American politics. The Harvard educated physicist was picked by President Owens as Secretary of Energy in her second term, with a future political career on the horizon. A run for higher office came quicker than expected after Charles Kushner won the Democratic nomination. With the right-wing Mike Rogers as the Republican pick, many wanted a retired Democrat to run as a third party candidate, but none ran. Unexpectedly, Portman resigned, and ran as an Independent (endorsed by the organization Better for America). Portman won 6% of the popular vote and Washington D.C. (Kushner calling African-Americans "thugs" didn't help his campaign). Portman received quite a following during the election, which left a door for another run for office open. Portman decided to try again for the top spot, running as a New Dealer. While she has been called an egghead, if you despise Kushner, you probably have a Portman 2020 sticker on your car bumper.

[7] If you put Natalie Portman and Jim Hood in a blender, Ally Grimes would be your result. Grimes has served as Govenor since 2016, defeating a Republican incumbent. Grimes supporters believe her folksy campaigning style and charisma will win over both the Humphrey and Wallace camps. Grimes could be a dark horse in the race dominated by older men representing the center and left.

[8] The long time New York Congressman, Al Roker is giving a shot at a White House run. Mentioned as a potential running mate for Wallace and Owens, Roker has establishment support and the big money. Roker's name recognition levels are low compared to his rivals, but the Democratic Party seems to want a fresh face. A recent gaffe where he called Governor Brown "man candy" has also hurt his campaign in the short-term.

[9] Ned Lamont had been called "the new face of the New Left" after his landslide victory over John Rowland in 2006. Since then, he has kept his name in the political minds of voters with his progressive policies. Lamont was hoping to win most of the New Left's support, but Governor Pritt's surprise entery took the bulk of his potential supporters.

[10] Jim Matheson is the scion of Utah's "first family", and keeps getting elected in this red state. Matheson's campaign came as a surprise to many pundits, believing he would run for Governor or the Senate. Matheson seems likely to stay in past the early Utah primary, which he is expected to win in a landslide. Most see this campaign as raising his profile for future a House leadership spot.

[11] Polis, the libertarian Democratic Congressman from Colorado, is the first serious gay candidate for president. That may be why he is struggling in the polls against the Pritt, Portman, and Lamont campaigns.

[12] Anthony Brown seems like a good candidate on paper; a young African-American veteran who has been a two-term Governor. However, his performance as Governor is mediocre, and his campaign hasn't had the right staff, sufficient fundraising, or a distinct message. Roker's comment might be the highpoint of Brown's campaign.

[13] Ed Case can't seem to find a niche in his campaign, too liberal for the populists, too conservative for the New Dealers and New Leftists. With only one term as Governor of Hawaii, Case hasn't been in the spotlight for ages, hard in the modern political world.
[/SPOILER]

Spoiler: List of Presidents of the United States (1969-Present)

1969-1973: Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (Republican)
1968: Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie (Democrat), George Wallace/Curtis LeMay (American Independent)
1973-1974: Richard Nixon/John Connally (Republican)
1972: George Wallace/Robert McNamara (Democrat), Wally Hickel/Mark Hatfield (Liberal)
1974: John Connally/Vacant (Republican)
1974-1977: John Connally/James L. Buckley (Republican)
1977-1981: George Wallace/Barbara Jordan (Democrat)
1976: Spiro Agnew/Elliot Richardson (Republican), Eugene McCarthy/Peter McCloskey (Liberal)
1981-1989: Alexander Haig/Edwin Reinecke (Republican)
1980: Barbara Jordan/Adlai Stevenson III (Democrat)
1984: Chuck Robb/Zell Miller (Democrat)
1989-1996: Skip Humphrey/Joseph R. Biden (Democrat)
1988: Edwin Reinecke/John Danforth (Republican)
1992: John Engler/Tommy Thompson (Republican)
1996: Skip Humphrey/Vacant (Democrat)
1996-1997: Skip Humphrey/Ted Wilson (Democrat)
1997-2001: Susan Engleiter/Colin McMillian (Republican)
1996: Ted Wilson (replacing Joseph R. Biden)/Jay Nixon (Democrat), Bobby Ray Inman/Merril Cook (One America)
2001-2009: George C. Wallace/Jim Hightower (Democrat)
2000: Susan Englieter/Marc Racicot (Republican)
2004: James S. Gilmore/Brian Haig (Republican)
2009-2017: Valerie Biden Owens/Rahm Emanuel (Democrat)
2008: James S. Gilmore/John Ensign (Republican), Daniel Hamburg/Debby Hanrahan (Green)
2012: Scott Brown/Dirk Kempthorne (Republican)
2017-Present: Mike J. Rogers/Mitch Daniels (Republican)
2016: Charles Kushner/William J. Clinton (Democrat), Natalie Portman/Nathaniel Silver (Better For America)

 

[Ferguson97]

No Watergate
1969-1973: Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew
1968: Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie
1972: George McGovern/Sargent Shriver
1973: Richard Nixon/Vacant
1973-1977: Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford
1977-1981: John Connally/Howard Baker
1976: Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale
1981-1989: Ted Kennedy/John Glenn
1980: John Connally/Howard Baker
1984: Bob Dole/Robert D. Ray
1989-1997: Howard Baker/Tom Kean
1988: Mario Cuomo/Geraldine Ferraro
1992: Al Gore/George J. Mitchell
1997-2005: Ann Richards/Jay Rockefeller
1996: Tom Kean/Elizabeth Dole
2000: Trent Lott/Donald Rumsfeld
2005-2013: Bob Smith/Mike Huckabee
2004: Gary Davis/Jim Hunt
2008: John Edwards/Evan Bayh
2013-present: Dennis Kucinich/Anthony Weiner
2012: Mike Huckabee/Mike Crapo
2016: Chris Christie/Rick Scott