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Hoover Presidency in 1920
1920: Herbert Hoover/Calvin Coolidge [R]
1924: William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr./Franklin D. Roosevelt [D] [1]
1928: William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr./Franklin D. Roosevelt [D] [2]
1932: Charles G. Dawes/Charles Curtis [R] [3]
1933: Charles Curtis [R] [4]
1935: Robert Taft [R] [5]
1936: Herbert Hoover/Wendell Wilkie [R] [6]
1940: Herbert Hoover/Wendell Wilkie [R] [7]
1944: Herbert Hoover/Harold Stassen [R] [8]
1948: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry Truman [D] [9]
1952: Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry Truman [D] [10]
1956: Huey Long/Henry A. Wallace [D] [11]
1960: Huey Long/Henry A. Wallace [D] [12]
1964: Henry A. Wallace/George Wallace [D] [13]
1968: Henry A. Wallace/George Wallace [D] [14]
1972: George Wallace/Robert Kennedy [D] [15]
1976: Nelson Rockefeller/Bob Dole[R] [16]
[1] Hoover's inexperience would leave to several blunders during his presidency which would enable a North-South ticket of McAdoo and Roosevelt to secure the Presidential Elections in 1924 by a razor thin margin.
[2] McAdoo is reelected handily. However 1929 would prove to be a difficult year...
[3] McAdoo is blamed for the market crash and the pro-business Dawes is swept into office in a minor landslide over McAdoo's Vice President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
[4] Charles G. Dawes is assassinated by a communist sympathizer,
leading to Charles Curtis ascending to the precedency, the first Native American president.
[5] In 1935, Robert Taft, Secretarty of State, was promoted by to the Presidency when Charles Curtis died of a heart attack while in office with no vice president. Robert also became the second son to share the same office as his father, William Taft.
[6] Taft declined to stand for re-election. Former President Herbert Hoover had managed to reinvent himself over the past decade, and was able to secure the Republican nomination. With the McAdoo era still in the minds of voters, Hoover became the first President since Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms.
[7] Hoover becomes the first President to win more than two terms. In 1938, the Japanese invade the Philippines, and during there preemptive strike they sink an American aircraft carrier. The United States after the incident declared war on the Japanese Empire, leading to Hoover becoming a war time president.
[8] As the war drags on, Hoover eventually decides to run for an unprecedented fourth term. He wins comfortably. Vice-President Wilkie disapproves of Hoover's decision, and is removed from the ticket.
[9] Hoover's attempt at a 5th term prove disastrous when combined with the post war return of the Depression. The lack of a New Deal and the generally conservative policies of the later Hoover administration resulted in the economic growth brought about by the long war being temporary. The public, feeling betrayed by the long time GOP government, votes heavily against the Republicans. The Democrats have their largest majority in decades. One of the first priorities of the new (healthy, non-war stressed, and not crippled) Roosevelt administration is the foundation of a Social Security system (among other things) for a population that believes it has earned that benefit after a long and brutal war. The prominent radicals in the Democrats, such as popular Senator Huey Long, push for even more left wing programs, such as a form of universal healthcare.
[10] Roosevelt's policies are very popular and he is re-elected in a landslide against republican Earl Warren.
[11] Roosevelt decides not to stand for a third term, citing health reasons. Senator Huey Long is elected, promising to create a universal single-payer healthcare system, and continue FDR's policies. He soon creates the American Health Administarion, better known as Longcare, which provides free healthcare to all Americans.
[12]Long proves to be a very effective president. Many assume that this has something to do with his supposed corruption, but nothing can be pinned on him. His wage caps are widely praised by the increasingly radicalized American populace. His Share Our Wealth Democrats gain an increasingly strong control over the party. Furthermore, his campaign finance reforms cripple the opposition. His seeking of a third term is widely rumored.
[13] After considerable angst, Long decides against a third term, fearing that he would turn into another Hoover. His Vice-President, Henry Wallace gains the nomination, and runs on continuing Long's policies. George Wallace is added for geographical balance, thereby creating the famous Double Wallace ticket.
[14]Henry Wallace's second term is often seen as the triumph of the Longist wing of the Democrats. Radical asset caps were enshrined in the constitution as the GOP had constantly failed to win state level races.
[15] The long Democratic dominance was finally under threat in 1972. George Wallace needed to pull out all his populist tricks to manage a narrow victory over a resurgent Republican Party.
[16] The GOP were finally able to come out of the wilderness, but only after major policy changes. The liberal Republican triumph allowed Rockefeller to win a somewhat large victory. However, US politics had permanently shifted left.