Minimum age required for Presidency is 40 instead of 35

What would the ramifications of this change be?

Hint: FDR would be ineligible for Vice President in 1920 as he would have been 38 or 39.
 
FDR still leaves office in 1920 and he probably goes on that doomed family vacation in Canada. So I don't think anything changes there.

That is, unless butterflies randomly determine that he doesn't get polio. In which case, he is nominated as a compromise candidate for President in 1924 and he loses in a landslide. Without him as a candidate in 1932, the convention likely deadlockes and the Democrats go with an inoffensive compromise candidate.
 
What would the ramifications of this change be?

Hint: FDR would be ineligible for Vice President in 1920 as he would have been 38 or 39.
No one has been elected/became head of state younger then early 40es. So the altering ramifications wouldn't affect ATL that much ?
 
No one has been elected/became head of state younger then early 40es. So the altering ramifications wouldn't affect ATL that much ?

I agree here. Also, when the Constitution was written life expectancy was much lower than today and a leader taking power in his 30s was fairly common during the 18th century. Many US founding fathers were in their 30s during the revolution after all. So increasing the age minimum to 40 wouldn't make sense to many people at the time.
 
Wasn’t John Breckinridge 36 when he became Vice President? If he doesn’t have that experience, he might not end up running in 1860, and that’d have some effects on the election itself.
 
You can be Vice President - it would simply mean that if the president died and you were too young you would be skipped over, but remain vice president.
 
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