Non-Presidential Titles

This is a question I've considered a good deal on my own, but, I'd like a broader opinion. Let us say there is a timeline in which there is no United States, or earlier fragmented, and thus no POTUS title, what would the most likely republican title be? Would President evolve into preference anyway? What are some of the common ones users here would choose for republics in such an instance? I would even extend this into what would common legislative titles if Congress didn't exist beyond the Continental Congress.
 
Just some 'wild' ideas. I simply posted everything that didn't sound monarchical.

First Minister
(Prime) Chancellor
Chief Executive Officer
(First) Chairman
 
Well, a president was the presiding officer of a committee or council.
So I would assume something like Chairman could be used.

Chief/First Director is another if the governing council is known as a Directory or Directive.

(First) Consul could be another, or Praetor, if Roman conventions are followed.
 
whats the context?

I think the kinds of titles you get are going to be based upon the context of the revolutions that spawn them. Like in America which was heavily influenced by Rome and the "Classics" (as were most Enlightenment era revolutions, France for instance) Consul Pro-Consul and the like is very plausible. While some of the revolutions and coups of the 30s and 40s were about back to older traditions so titles with cultural significance are certainly plausible too.
 
Well, a president was the presiding officer of a committee or council.
So I would assume something like Chairman could be used.

Chief/First Director is another if the governing council is known as a Directory or Directive.

(First) Consul could be another, or Praetor, if Roman conventions are followed.

I agree with Consul/Praetor especially. I think Roman titles would really come into vogue. Dictator might be a possibility too, as in the 18th century it didn't yet have the negative connotations of OTL.

The Northern republics especially might go for Protector (even Lord Protector, maybe?) in emulation of the Puritan ancestor Cromwell.
 
Chancellor, Premier, Prime Minister, Governor, Chief of State.

If we want to be less nomral; Paramount Leader, Guide of the Revolution, Imperator Americanum.
 

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How about instead of a single “President” you have the Continental Congress more distrustful of a single individual with too much power and opt for that alternative Roman concept of the Triumvirate.

You would then have the three Triumvir with the powers presently vested in the President.
:)
 
I also like the ideas of bringing back/using Roman Republican style titles like Praetor/Consul, I mean the U.S is a Republic after all :D
 
How about:

1. Governor General
as the heads of the states were called governors

2. Strategos
as the commanders of the military in ancient Athens

3. Ethnarch
meaning "ruler of the people", and being the title of mayors of subdued cities in ancient Rome (rather not, at second thought)

4. High Commissoner of the United States
designating a executive officer of the states rather than of the union (state´s rights)

:)
 
I think Governor General is quite plausible, and I really like 'High Commissioner', although I think it would only really come about if the states elected Commissioners to the *Senate, rather than Senators:

If the members of the Senate were Commissioners - say a Senior and a Junior Commissioner for each state - and the revolutionaries had decided that the Head of State would be elected from amongst the Commissioners, while remaining one of them and still representing his state (compare with the UK Prime Minister), then High/Chief Commissioner would be an obvious title.
 
Running with what Dathi was saying, I could see that

"The Speaker Recognizes the Tribune from California" :D :cool:
 
Terms like Consul, Tribune, or Praetor might work, since the Enlightenment thinkers often looked to the ancient Roman Republic as a model.
 
I think Governor General is quite plausible, and I really like 'High Commissioner', although I think it would only really come about if the states elected Commissioners to the *Senate, rather than Senators:

If the members of the Senate were Commissioners - say a Senior and a Junior Commissioner for each state - and the revolutionaries had decided that the Head of State would be elected from amongst the Commissioners, while remaining one of them and still representing his state (compare with the UK Prime Minister), then High/Chief Commissioner would be an obvious title.

Moderator & Vice Moderator might work as well.
 
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