List of Confederate Presidents

1860: Jefferson Davis/Alexander H. Stephens (Democratic)
-1865: Alexander H. Stephens/none (Democratic) [1]
1866: Alexander H. Stephens/John Reagan (Democratic) [2]
1872: Robert E. Lee/Francis R. Lubbock (Democratic)
1878: Francis R. Lubbock/Clement C. Clay (Democratic)
-1882: Francis R. Lubbock/Wade Hampton (Democratic) [3]/[4]
1884: James Farrow/John Baylor (Prosperity) [5]
1890: Robert E. Lee. Jr./Franklin Moses, Jr. (Prosperity) [6]
1896: Frank Crawford Armstrong/John Calhoun III (National) [7]
1902: Zebulon Baird, Jr./Charles Culberson (Industrial) [8]
1908: Charles Culberson/Robert E. Lee III (Industrial)
1914: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
1920: Coleman Blease/Murphy J Foster (National)[9]

[1] Davis is one of many to die in the post-war cholera outbreak, along with several members of Congress and the cabinet. Stephens survives and tries to get the nomination for a full (or as he calls it "real") term as President, not as acting President.
[2] Despite calls for Robert E. Lee to be Vice President, he said that he would be staying out of politics for the time. Considering the many other options, Stephens eventually decided to ask Secretary of the Treasury Reagan to be his running mate.
[3] Clay died in office in 1882, and was replaced by Wade Hampton.
[4] The Lubbock administration saw the beginning of a split within the Democratic Party between supporters of closer relations with Europe (eventually forming the Prosperity Party), supporters of closer relations with the United States (eventually forming the American Party), and isolationists (eventually forming the National Party). The administration itself refused to take sides on it.
[5] In 1886, after having no members elected to Congress and with only limited support in State Congresses, the Democratic Party officially disbands.
[6]The "Two Juniors", as they were called, were popular enough to win the Prosperity Party a second term. Moses, a relatively liberal (for the C.S.A., anyhow) Congressman had definitely become rather involved in pro-European interests, and himself owned thousands of dollars of stock in German companies, including the Daimler Corporation, an early automaker. In 1892, he convinced President Lee to sign a bill making it easier for companies from certain nations to sell their goods in the C.S. market. In 1894, the Confederacy formally entered an Alliance with the Second Reich (Germany) under this administration.
[7] 1900 saw the collapse of the Prosperity Party and of the American Party, with the Confederacy generally becoming good allies to Germany under President Armstrong. This led to the creation of the Industrial Party, which became a hawkish, pro-industry party while the National Party became more dovish, and began to support the plantations more and more. 1900 also saw Texas become the first state in the Confederacy to abolish slavery.
[8]Charles Culberson, the former governor of Texas, was not liked by C.S. conservatives all that much for his elimination of slavery in that state, but he was appreciated by non-slaver industrial interests, as he looked after them quite a bit. His being chosen for the Vice-Presidency won Texas for the Industrialites and, therefore, the 1902 elections. Zebulon Baird, Jr., the President Candidate, won over 70% of the vote in his home state of North Carolina.
Unfortunately, however, the good times wouldn't last, as tensions were rising exponentially in Europe over various problems.....which came to a head on November 24, 1908, with the assassination of the very recently elected pro-Russian Polish Prime Minister, Wladyslaw Jandek, and his wife, a minor German duchess, in Vienna.
The Great War - With the Great War broke out as both the Soviet Union and the Second Reich tried to gain influence in Poland, leading to the two fighting inside the borders of Poland. With Poland being a landlocked country, very few other countries could get involved, however the CSA did honor it's call and sought out to assist the Second Reich. However, the CSA had previously come into conflict with the Second French Empire. France then went to war with Germany, who dragged in France's enemy and Germany's ally of Great Britain and the dominoes just kept falling. By Spring of 1909, the war was being fought by two sides on two continents. The Atlantic Powers consisted of Great Britain, Germany, the Confederate States of America (with a de facto alliance with Japan, who sought to claim territory in Asia) were facing off against the Imperial Powers of the French Empire, the Soviet Union, Italy, and the United States of America
[9] Foster died in 1921. The vice presidency was vacant for the rest of Blease's term.
 
1860: Jefferson Davis/Alexander H. Stephens (Democratic)
-1865: Alexander H. Stephens/none (Democratic) [1]
1866: Alexander H. Stephens/John Reagan (Democratic) [2]
1872: Robert E. Lee/Francis R. Lubbock (Democratic)
1878: Francis R. Lubbock/Clement C. Clay (Democratic)
-1882: Francis R. Lubbock/Wade Hampton (Democratic) [3]/[4]
1884: James Farrow/John Baylor (Prosperity) [5]
1890: Robert E. Lee. Jr./Franklin Moses, Jr. (Prosperity) [6]
1896: Frank Crawford Armstrong/John Calhoun III (National) [7]
1902: Zebulon Baird, Jr./Charles Culberson (Industrial) [8]
1908: Charles Culberson/Robert E. Lee III (Industrial)
1914: Woodrow Wilson (New Democratic)
1920: Coleman Blease/Murphy J Foster (National)[9]
1926: Albert P. Wilkinson/James M. "Pa" Ferguson (New Democratic)[10]
-1929: James M. "Pa" Ferguson/Benjamin Tillman, III(New Democratic)

[1] Davis is one of many to die in the post-war cholera outbreak, along with several members of Congress and the cabinet. Stephens survives and tries to get the nomination for a full (or as he calls it "real") term as President, not as acting President.
[2] Despite calls for Robert E. Lee to be Vice President, he said that he would be staying out of politics for the time. Considering the many other options, Stephens eventually decided to ask Secretary of the Treasury Reagan to be his running mate.
[3] Clay died in office in 1882, and was replaced by Wade Hampton.
[4] The Lubbock administration saw the beginning of a split within the Democratic Party between supporters of closer relations with Europe (eventually forming the Prosperity Party), supporters of closer relations with the United States (eventually forming the American Party), and isolationists (eventually forming the National Party). The administration itself refused to take sides on it.
[5] In 1886, after having no members elected to Congress and with only limited support in State Congresses, the Democratic Party officially disbands.
[6]The "Two Juniors", as they were called, were popular enough to win the Prosperity Party a second term. Moses, a relatively liberal (for the C.S.A., anyhow) Congressman had definitely become rather involved in pro-European interests, and himself owned thousands of dollars of stock in German companies, including the Daimler Corporation, an early automaker. In 1892, he convinced President Lee to sign a bill making it easier for companies from certain nations to sell their goods in the C.S. market. In 1894, the Confederacy formally entered an Alliance with the Second Reich (Germany) under this administration.
[7] 1900 saw the collapse of the Prosperity Party and of the American Party, with the Confederacy generally becoming good allies to Germany under President Armstrong. This led to the creation of the Industrial Party, which became a hawkish, pro-industry party while the National Party became more dovish, and began to support the plantations more and more. 1900 also saw Texas become the first state in the Confederacy to abolish slavery.
[8]Charles Culberson, the former governor of Texas, was not liked by C.S. conservatives all that much for his elimination of slavery in that state, but he was appreciated by non-slaver industrial interests, as he looked after them quite a bit. His being chosen for the Vice-Presidency won Texas for the Industrialites and, therefore, the 1902 elections. Zebulon Baird, Jr., the President Candidate, won over 70% of the vote in his home state of North Carolina.
Unfortunately, however, the good times wouldn't last, as tensions were rising exponentially in Europe over various problems.....which came to a head on November 24, 1908, with the assassination of the very recently elected pro-Russian Polish Prime Minister, Wladyslaw Jandek, and his wife, a minor German duchess, in Vienna.
The Great War - With the Great War broke out as both the Soviet Union and the Second Reich tried to gain influence in Poland, leading to the two fighting inside the borders of Poland. With Poland being a landlocked country, very few other countries could get involved, however the CSA did honor it's call and sought out to assist the Second Reich. However, the CSA had previously come into conflict with the Second French Empire. France then went to war with Germany, who dragged in France's enemy and Germany's ally of Great Britain and the dominoes just kept falling. By Spring of 1909, the war was being fought by two sides on two continents. The Atlantic Powers consisted of Great Britain, Germany, the Confederate States of America (with a de facto alliance with Japan, who sought to claim territory in Asia) were facing off against the Imperial Powers of the French Empire, the Soviet Union, Italy, and the United States of America
[9] Coleman Blease managed to eke out a victory over Woodrow Wilson and the revived Democrats, by campaigning on a platform favorable to agricultural & religious interests. Foster, his running mate, died in 1921. The vice presidency was vacant for the rest of Blease's term.
[10]Albert P. Wilkinson was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1872, and was the owner of a small newspaper in Jackson for a time. His rise to stardom began in 1914, the year that WWI ended, when he was elected to the Congress from that state's 7th District. He was chosen by the New Democrats by a large margin and won. Wilkinson, however, wouldn't live to finish his term: he suffered a major stroke in October 1928, and died following another in April 1929, leaving former Texas governor "Pa" Ferguson in the President's chair. Wilkinson's main action was to sign a 1927 bill introduced by South Carolina Senator John Calhoun IV which effectively encouraged state governments to keep slaves out of certain types of labor; this was partly to alleviate the severe unemployment rate(about 17%, versus 8% for the U.S.), as well as a favor to those interests which eschewed slave labor, including certain establishments in the struggling automotive industry(which was, by the way, plagued by numerous dozens of failed ventures, many of which had tried to use slave labor; most of these companies had serious trouble with poor productivity, and even the occasional sabotage, depending on how bad conditions were, etc., whereas companies that used minimal indenture, or exclusively free labor, tended not to have quite as many issues.). While this aggravated many a traditional conservative Southern politician, those industry barons who benefitted from the legislation saw it as a boon for business. And, during the next 10 years, the C.S. auto industry in particular saw a significant overall improvement in build quality, and sales began to go up, despite the economic troubles that were to come.

Ferguson's own term primarily revolved around the Crash of 1930, which badly affected many of the world's economies.....including that of the Confederacy. His poor handling of same would cost his party the 1932 elections, and after this, he retired to Texas, where he died in 1946.

OOC: I thought changing the revived Democrats' name to the "New Democrats" made more sense. I hope that's ok. :)
 
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I imagine Slavery might end under the next president, especially with the Crash. I'll go ahead and claim 1938.
 
1860: Jefferson Davis/Alexander H. Stephens (Democratic)
-1865: Alexander H. Stephens/none (Democratic) [1]
1866: Alexander H. Stephens/John Reagan (Democratic) [2]
1872: Robert E. Lee/Francis R. Lubbock (Democratic)
1878: Francis R. Lubbock/Clement C. Clay (Democratic)
-1882: Francis R. Lubbock/Wade Hampton (Democratic) [3]/[4]
1884: James Farrow/John Baylor (Prosperity) [5]
1890: Robert E. Lee. Jr./Franklin Moses, Jr. (Prosperity) [6]
1896: Frank Crawford Armstrong/John Calhoun III (National) [7]
1902: Zebulon Baird, Jr./Charles Culberson (Industrial) [8]
1908: Charles Culberson/Robert E. Lee III (Industrial)
1914: Woodrow Wilson (New Democratic)
1920: Coleman Blease/Murphy J Foster (National)[9]
1926: Albert P. Wilkinson/James M. "Pa" Ferguson (New Democratic)[10]
-1929: James M. "Pa" Ferguson/Benjamin Tillman, III(New Democratic)
1932: Harry F. Byrd/Benjamin Laney (National)[11]

[1] Davis is one of many to die in the post-war cholera outbreak, along with several members of Congress and the cabinet. Stephens survives and tries to get the nomination for a full (or as he calls it "real") term as President, not as acting President.
[2] Despite calls for Robert E. Lee to be Vice President, he said that he would be staying out of politics for the time. Considering the many other options, Stephens eventually decided to ask Secretary of the Treasury Reagan to be his running mate.
[3] Clay died in office in 1882, and was replaced by Wade Hampton.
[4] The Lubbock administration saw the beginning of a split within the Democratic Party between supporters of closer relations with Europe (eventually forming the Prosperity Party), supporters of closer relations with the United States (eventually forming the American Party), and isolationists (eventually forming the National Party). The administration itself refused to take sides on it.
[5] In 1886, after having no members elected to Congress and with only limited support in State Congresses, the Democratic Party officially disbands.
[6]The "Two Juniors", as they were called, were popular enough to win the Prosperity Party a second term. Moses, a relatively liberal (for the C.S.A., anyhow) Congressman had definitely become rather involved in pro-European interests, and himself owned thousands of dollars of stock in German companies, including the Daimler Corporation, an early automaker. In 1892, he convinced President Lee to sign a bill making it easier for companies from certain nations to sell their goods in the C.S. market. In 1894, the Confederacy formally entered an Alliance with the Second Reich (Germany) under this administration.
[7] 1900 saw the collapse of the Prosperity Party and of the American Party, with the Confederacy generally becoming good allies to Germany under President Armstrong. This led to the creation of the Industrial Party, which became a hawkish, pro-industry party while the National Party became more dovish, and began to support the plantations more and more. 1900 also saw Texas become the first state in the Confederacy to abolish slavery.
[8]Charles Culberson, the former governor of Texas, was not liked by C.S. conservatives all that much for his elimination of slavery in that state, but he was appreciated by non-slaver industrial interests, as he looked after them quite a bit. His being chosen for the Vice-Presidency won Texas for the Industrialites and, therefore, the 1902 elections. Zebulon Baird, Jr., the President Candidate, won over 70% of the vote in his home state of North Carolina.
Unfortunately, however, the good times wouldn't last, as tensions were rising exponentially in Europe over various problems.....which came to a head on November 24, 1908, with the assassination of the very recently elected pro-Russian Polish Prime Minister, Wladyslaw Jandek, and his wife, a minor German duchess, in Vienna.
The Great War - With the Great War broke out as both the Soviet Union and the Second Reich tried to gain influence in Poland, leading to the two fighting inside the borders of Poland. With Poland being a landlocked country, very few other countries could get involved, however the CSA did honor it's call and sought out to assist the Second Reich. However, the CSA had previously come into conflict with the Second French Empire. France then went to war with Germany, who dragged in France's enemy and Germany's ally of Great Britain and the dominoes just kept falling. By Spring of 1909, the war was being fought by two sides on two continents. The Atlantic Powers consisted of Great Britain, Germany, the Confederate States of America (with a de facto alliance with Japan, who sought to claim territory in Asia) were facing off against the Imperial Powers of the French Empire, the Soviet Union, Italy, and the United States of America
[9] Coleman Blease managed to eke out a victory over Woodrow Wilson and the revived Democrats, by campaigning on a platform favorable to agricultural & religious interests. Foster, his running mate, died in 1921. The vice presidency was vacant for the rest of Blease's term.
[10]Albert P. Wilkinson was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1872, and was the owner of a small newspaper in Jackson for a time. His rise to stardom began in 1914, the year that WWI ended, when he was elected to the Congress from that state's 7th District. He was chosen by the New Democrats by a large margin and won. Wilkinson, however, wouldn't live to finish his term: he suffered a major stroke in October 1928, and died following another in April 1929, leaving former Texas governor "Pa" Ferguson in the President's chair. Wilkinson's main action was to sign a 1927 bill introduced by South Carolina Senator John Calhoun IV which effectively encouraged state governments to keep slaves out of certain types of labor; this was partly to alleviate the severe unemployment rate(about 17%, versus 8% for the U.S.), as well as a favor to those interests which eschewed slave labor, including certain establishments in the struggling automotive industry(which was, by the way, plagued by numerous dozens of failed ventures, many of which had tried to use slave labor; most of these companies had serious trouble with poor productivity, and even the occasional sabotage, depending on how bad conditions were, etc., whereas companies that used minimal indenture, or exclusively free labor, tended not to have quite as many issues.). While this aggravated many a traditional conservative Southern politician, those industry barons who benefitted from the legislation saw it as a boon for business. And, during the next 10 years, the C.S. auto industry in particular saw a significant overall improvement in build quality, and sales began to go up, despite the economic troubles that were to come.

Ferguson's own term primarily revolved around the Crash of 1930, which badly affected many of the world's economies.....including that of the Confederacy. His poor handling of same would cost his party the 1932 elections, and after this, he retired to Texas, where he died in 1946.
[11] The election of 1932 was the last election the Nationals ever won. The Crash of 1930 may have been badly handled by Ferguson, but Byrd was worse at it, with petitions to impeach him being sent to Richmond in droves (he served out his term, because incompetence is not a crime). It was marked by heavy agricultural support over industry, high tariffs which only made things worse, and strong social conservatism, including strong opposition to an amendment banning slavery, which was not enacted until 1939. Byrd's administration also saw the beginnings of the New Prosperity Party, led by Huey Long, which didn't actually have all that much in common with the original Prosperity Party: it was socially egalitarian and economically liberal.
 
1861: Jefferson Davis/Alexander H. Stephens (Democratic)
-1865: Alexander H. Stephens/none (Democratic) [1]
1867: Alexander H. Stephens/John Reagan (Democratic) [2]
1873: Robert E. Lee/Francis R. Lubbock (Democratic)
1879: Francis R. Lubbock/Clement C. Clay (Democratic)
-1882: Francis R. Lubbock/Wade Hampton (Democratic) [3]/[4]
1885: James Farrow/John Baylor (Prosperity) [5]
1891: Robert E. Lee. Jr./Franklin Moses, Jr. (Prosperity) [6]
1897: Frank Crawford Armstrong/John Calhoun III (National) [7]
1903: Zebulon Baird, Jr./Charles Culberson (Industrial) [8]
1909: Charles Culberson/Robert E. Lee III (Industrial)
1915: Woodrow Wilson (New Democratic)
1921: Coleman Blease/Murphy J Foster (National)[9]
1927: Albert P. Wilkinson/James M. "Pa" Ferguson (New Democratic)[10]
-1929: James M. "Pa" Ferguson/Benjamin Tillman, III(New Democratic)
1933: Harry F. Byrd/Benjamin Laney (National)[11]

[1] Davis is one of many to die in the post-war cholera outbreak, along with several members of Congress and the cabinet. Stephens survives and tries to get the nomination for a full (or as he calls it "real") term as President, not as acting President.
[2] Despite calls for Robert E. Lee to be Vice President, he said that he would be staying out of politics for the time. Considering the many other options, Stephens eventually decided to ask Secretary of the Treasury Reagan to be his running mate.
[3] Clay died in office in 1882, and was replaced by Wade Hampton.
[4] The Lubbock administration saw the beginning of a split within the Democratic Party between supporters of closer relations with Europe (eventually forming the Prosperity Party), supporters of closer relations with the United States (eventually forming the American Party), and isolationists (eventually forming the National Party). The administration itself refused to take sides on it.
[5] In 1886, after having no members elected to Congress and with only limited support in State Congresses, the Democratic Party officially disbands.
[6]The "Two Juniors", as they were called, were popular enough to win the Prosperity Party a second term. Moses, a relatively liberal (for the C.S.A., anyhow) Congressman had definitely become rather involved in pro-European interests, and himself owned thousands of dollars of stock in German companies, including the Daimler Corporation, an early automaker. In 1892, he convinced President Lee to sign a bill making it easier for companies from certain nations to sell their goods in the C.S. market. In 1894, the Confederacy formally entered an Alliance with the Second Reich (Germany) under this administration.
[7] 1900 saw the collapse of the Prosperity Party and of the American Party, with the Confederacy generally becoming good allies to Germany under President Armstrong. This led to the creation of the Industrial Party, which became a hawkish, pro-industry party while the National Party became more dovish, and began to support the plantations more and more. 1900 also saw Texas become the first state in the Confederacy to abolish slavery.
[8]Charles Culberson, the former governor of Texas, was not liked by C.S. conservatives all that much for his elimination of slavery in that state, but he was appreciated by non-slaver industrial interests, as he looked after them quite a bit. His being chosen for the Vice-Presidency won Texas for the Industrialites and, therefore, the 1903 elections. Zebulon Baird, Jr., the President Candidate, won over 70% of the vote in his home state of North Carolina.
Unfortunately, however, the good times wouldn't last, as tensions were rising exponentially in Europe over various problems.....which came to a head on November 24, 1908, with the assassination of the very recently elected pro-Russian Polish Prime Minister, Wladyslaw Jandek, and his wife, a minor German duchess, in Vienna.
The Great War - With the Great War broke out as both the Soviet Union and the Second Reich tried to gain influence in Poland, leading to the two fighting inside the borders of Poland. With Poland being a landlocked country, very few other countries could get involved, however the CSA did honor it's call and sought out to assist the Second Reich. However, the CSA had previously come into conflict with the Second French Empire. France then went to war with Germany, who dragged in France's enemy and Germany's ally of Great Britain and the dominoes just kept falling. By Spring of 1909, the war was being fought by two sides on two continents. The Atlantic Powers consisted of Great Britain, Germany, the Confederate States of America (with a de facto alliance with Japan, who sought to claim territory in Asia) were facing off against the Imperial Powers of the French Empire, the Soviet Union, Italy, and the United States of America
[9] Coleman Blease managed to eke out a victory over Woodrow Wilson and the revived Democrats, by campaigning on a platform favorable to agricultural & religious interests. Foster, his running mate, died in 1921. The vice presidency was vacant for the rest of Blease's term.
[10]Albert P. Wilkinson was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1872, and was the owner of a small newspaper in Jackson for a time. His rise to stardom began in 1914, the year that WWI ended, when he was elected to the Congress from that state's 7th District. He was chosen by the New Democrats by a large margin and won. Wilkinson, however, wouldn't live to finish his term: he suffered a major stroke in October 1928, and died following another in April 1929, leaving former Texas governor "Pa" Ferguson in the President's chair. Wilkinson's main action was to sign a 1927 bill introduced by South Carolina Senator John Calhoun IV which effectively encouraged state governments to keep slaves out of certain types of labor; this was partly to alleviate the severe unemployment rate(about 17%, versus 8% for the U.S.), as well as a favor to those interests which eschewed slave labor, including certain establishments in the struggling automotive industry(which was, by the way, plagued by numerous dozens of failed ventures, many of which had tried to use slave labor; most of these companies had serious trouble with poor productivity, and even the occasional sabotage, depending on how bad conditions were, etc., whereas companies that used minimal indenture, or exclusively free labor, tended not to have quite as many issues.). While this aggravated many a traditional conservative Southern politician, those industry barons who benefitted from the legislation saw it as a boon for business. And, during the next 10 years, the C.S. auto industry in particular saw a significant overall improvement in build quality, and sales began to go up, despite the economic troubles that were to come.

Ferguson's own term primarily revolved around the Crash of 1930, which badly affected many of the world's economies.....including that of the Confederacy. His poor handling of same would cost his party the 1933 elections, and after this, he retired to Texas, where he died in 1946.
[11] The election of 1933 was the last election the Nationals ever won. The Crash of 1930 may have been badly handled by Ferguson, but Byrd was worse at it, with petitions to impeach him being sent to Richmond in droves (he served out his term, because incompetence is not a crime). It was marked by heavy agricultural support over industry, high tariffs which only made things worse, and strong social conservatism, including strong opposition to an amendment banning slavery, which was not enacted until 1939. Byrd's administration also saw the beginnings of the New Prosperity Party, led by Huey Long, which didn't actually have all that much in common with the original Prosperity Party: it was socially egalitarian and economically liberal.

just thought id change around some of the dates, as the actual first confederate election was in 1861

..and also to try and bump this up a little
 
1861: Jefferson Davis/Alexander H. Stephens (Democratic)
-1865: Alexander H. Stephens/none (Democratic) [1]
1867: Alexander H. Stephens/John Reagan (Democratic) [2]
1873: Robert E. Lee/Francis R. Lubbock (Democratic)
1879: Francis R. Lubbock/Clement C. Clay (Democratic)
-1882: Francis R. Lubbock/Wade Hampton (Democratic) [3]/[4]
1885: James Farrow/John Baylor (Prosperity) [5]
1891: Robert E. Lee. Jr./Franklin Moses, Jr. (Prosperity) [6]
1897: Frank Crawford Armstrong/John Calhoun III (National) [7]
1903: Zebulon Baird, Jr./Charles Culberson (Industrial) [8]
1909: Charles Culberson/Robert E. Lee III (Industrial)
1915: Woodrow Wilson (New Democratic)
1921: Coleman Blease/Murphy J Foster (National)[9]
1927: Albert P. Wilkinson/James M. "Pa" Ferguson (New Democratic)[10]
-1929: James M. "Pa" Ferguson/Benjamin Tillman, III(New Democratic)
1933: Harry F. Byrd/Benjamin Laney (National)[11]

1939: Cordell Hull/William Dodd (New Prosperity Party) [12]

[1] Davis is one of many to die in the post-war cholera outbreak, along with several members of Congress and the cabinet. Stephens survives and tries to get the nomination for a full (or as he calls it "real") term as President, not as acting President.
[2] Despite calls for Robert E. Lee to be Vice President, he said that he would be staying out of politics for the time. Considering the many other options, Stephens eventually decided to ask Secretary of the Treasury Reagan to be his running mate.
[3] Clay died in office in 1882, and was replaced by Wade Hampton.
[4] The Lubbock administration saw the beginning of a split within the Democratic Party between supporters of closer relations with Europe (eventually forming the Prosperity Party), supporters of closer relations with the United States (eventually forming the American Party), and isolationists (eventually forming the National Party). The administration itself refused to take sides on it.
[5] In 1886, after having no members elected to Congress and with only limited support in State Congresses, the Democratic Party officially disbands.
[6]The "Two Juniors", as they were called, were popular enough to win the Prosperity Party a second term. Moses, a relatively liberal (for the C.S.A., anyhow) Congressman had definitely become rather involved in pro-European interests, and himself owned thousands of dollars of stock in German companies, including the Daimler Corporation, an early automaker. In 1892, he convinced President Lee to sign a bill making it easier for companies from certain nations to sell their goods in the C.S. market. In 1894, the Confederacy formally entered an Alliance with the Second Reich (Germany) under this administration.
[7] 1900 saw the collapse of the Prosperity Party and of the American Party, with the Confederacy generally becoming good allies to Germany under President Armstrong. This led to the creation of the Industrial Party, which became a hawkish, pro-industry party while the National Party became more dovish, and began to support the plantations more and more. 1900 also saw Texas become the first state in the Confederacy to abolish slavery.
[8]Charles Culberson, the former governor of Texas, was not liked by C.S. conservatives all that much for his elimination of slavery in that state, but he was appreciated by non-slaver industrial interests, as he looked after them quite a bit. His being chosen for the Vice-Presidency won Texas for the Industrialites and, therefore, the 1903 elections. Zebulon Baird, Jr., the President Candidate, won over 70% of the vote in his home state of North Carolina.
Unfortunately, however, the good times wouldn't last, as tensions were rising exponentially in Europe over various problems.....which came to a head on November 24, 1908, with the assassination of the very recently elected pro-Russian Polish Prime Minister, Wladyslaw Jandek, and his wife, a minor German duchess, in Vienna.
The Great War - With the Great War broke out as both the Soviet Union and the Second Reich tried to gain influence in Poland, leading to the two fighting inside the borders of Poland. With Poland being a landlocked country, very few other countries could get involved, however the CSA did honor it's call and sought out to assist the Second Reich. However, the CSA had previously come into conflict with the Second French Empire. France then went to war with Germany, who dragged in France's enemy and Germany's ally of Great Britain and the dominoes just kept falling. By Spring of 1909, the war was being fought by two sides on two continents. The Atlantic Powers consisted of Great Britain, Germany, the Confederate States of America (with a de facto alliance with Japan, who sought to claim territory in Asia) were facing off against the Imperial Powers of the French Empire, the Soviet Union, Italy, and the United States of America
[9] Coleman Blease managed to eke out a victory over Woodrow Wilson and the revived Democrats, by campaigning on a platform favorable to agricultural & religious interests. Foster, his running mate, died in 1921. The vice presidency was vacant for the rest of Blease's term.
[10]Albert P. Wilkinson was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1872, and was the owner of a small newspaper in Jackson for a time. His rise to stardom began in 1914, the year that WWI ended, when he was elected to the Congress from that state's 7th District. He was chosen by the New Democrats by a large margin and won. Wilkinson, however, wouldn't live to finish his term: he suffered a major stroke in October 1928, and died following another in April 1929, leaving former Texas governor "Pa" Ferguson in the President's chair. Wilkinson's main action was to sign a 1927 bill introduced by South Carolina Senator John Calhoun IV which effectively encouraged state governments to keep slaves out of certain types of labor; this was partly to alleviate the severe unemployment rate(about 17%, versus 8% for the U.S.), as well as a favor to those interests which eschewed slave labor, including certain establishments in the struggling automotive industry(which was, by the way, plagued by numerous dozens of failed ventures, many of which had tried to use slave labor; most of these companies had serious trouble with poor productivity, and even the occasional sabotage, depending on how bad conditions were, etc., whereas companies that used minimal indenture, or exclusively free labor, tended not to have quite as many issues.). While this aggravated many a traditional conservative Southern politician, those industry barons who benefitted from the legislation saw it as a boon for business. And, during the next 10 years, the C.S. auto industry in particular saw a significant overall improvement in build quality, and sales began to go up, despite the economic troubles that were to come.

Ferguson's own term primarily revolved around the Crash of 1930, which badly affected many of the world's economies.....including that of the Confederacy. His poor handling of same would cost his party the 1933 elections, and after this, he retired to Texas, where he died in 1946.
[11] The election of 1933 was the last election the Nationals ever won. The Crash of 1930 may have been badly handled by Ferguson, but Byrd was worse at it, with petitions to impeach him being sent to Richmond in droves (he served out his term, because incompetence is not a crime). It was marked by heavy agricultural support over industry, high tariffs which only made things worse, and strong social conservatism, including strong opposition to an amendment banning slavery, which was not enacted until 1939. Byrd's administration also saw the beginnings of the New Prosperity Party, led by Huey Long, which didn't actually have all that much in common with the original Prosperity Party: it was socially egalitarian and economically liberal.

[11] The election of 1939, came a year after Nazi Germany, led by Furher Luitpold Himmler, had begin its campaign againt Poland. The New Prosperity Party, had lost Huey Long in an assassination in 1937, so the party was led by socialist and former Senator of Tennesse, Cordell Hull and his running mate liberal, William Dodd, who had been Ambassador to Germany.
 
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