John Nance Garner (1933-1937)
He is not going to support the New Deal (or much of anything for that matter) Goes down in history as the warm piss lame duck. Alienates people from the mainstream parties.
No Veep, as the succession wasn't yet laid down.
Ogden L. Mills (1937-1937)
Former US secretary of the Treasury, heavily opposed any Keynesian spending. Elected on much the same platform as FDR (balance the budget) Dies of health problems and stress in October
VP: Thomas Edmund Dewey (1937-1941)
Thomas E. Dewey, a loud Progressive elected so he would just shut up, serves from 1937-1941. He pushes through no coherent agenda but mainly cobbles together some of Hoover's early programs and expands them all, and begins to prepare the nation for war. First to show some success in the relief efforts. But not enough. Byy the election of 1940, disillusioned with the main parties.... they elect the next President of the United States, a man with more radical plans and rarefied tastes.....
Huey Long (1941-1945)
Made famous by his book My First Days in the White House, Huey Long's Share Our Wealth and Every Man a King propels him to the White House. And through the European War, he keeps us out of it, with the help of anti-war campaigners like Charles Lindbergh and Smedley Butler.
But, in late '44, charges of corruption, misuse, graft and secret Nazi agendas began to ruin the man's presidency and, soon, he was out of office, replaced with a man who placed himself above such things.....
VPs: Henry Ford (1941-1945)
Fiorello LaGuardia (1945-1947)
A tireless pro-war campaigner who had been mostly discredited. But his political career was catapulted forward when his corruption and Nazi influence charges turned out to be true. He was elected on a tide of honest government sentiment, and a great fear of the swastika-ed menace.
He died in 1947 of health problems.
Arthur H. Vandenberg (VP: 1945-1947) (1947-1951)
A man with little vision, appointed to weigh out the bombastic qualities of Fiorello. He would have went down as a temporary president of little note, if not for his groundbreaking international organization, the Directory of Free States, which allowed governments-in-exile from all over Europe (and even from Russia and Asia) to congregate and receive US assistance in directing efforts at home. The Vandenberg Plan and his Directory would lay down the basis of the Cold War's progression for the remainder of its many decades.
Nelson Rockefeller (VP: 1949-1951) (1951-1953)
Continued Vandenberg's plans and made more allowances for conventional arms contracts. Also began first nuclear testing program.