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One of the most popular and frequently recurring collaborative timeline formats in AH.com has been the the Famous People In Alternate Realities threads, starting with the strange universe which became known as "Puget Sound-One" and spawning more than two dozen universes. The idea is simple; post short biographies of OTL famous people in an ATL where their life was different, be it greatly or subtly. There are various approaches that can be taken; humorous and/or satirical comments on OTL people (Such as PS-1's porn mogul Bill Clinton), people pursuing alternate careers that they considered in OTL (Such as John Kerry going into the priesthood or Malcolm X persevering and becoming a lawyer), or simply politicians and actors whose careers are changed due to how world history played out differently.

There are two other main rules;

1. No PODs before January 1st, 1900.
2. All entries are in a single, present day timeline.

For the first entry;

Thomas Gore (1870-1947) - Mississippi born Senator from Oklahoma 1907-1921 and Vice President of the United States 1921-1929 (Under William Gibbs McAdoo). Blind from childhood and an atheist and staunch isolationist and progressive Democrat, he was an important political figure in the Interbellum Era, between the end of the first World War (Venezuela Crisis War) in 1909 and beginning of the second (The First Comintern War) in 1927. He was the Democratic nominee for President in 1928 but his doctrinaire isolationism even after Communist German U-Boats sunk the ocean liner Florida in the North Atlantic cost him the election.

Gore's daughter Nina was the wife of athlete and "Father of the United States Air Force" Eugene Luther Vidal and mother of Eugene Gore Vidal, longtime New York Congressman and Democratic President of the United States 1985-1989. It is unclear whether or not he was related to the Gore family of Tennessee (The late Senator Albert Gore Sr and General, Secretary of Defense, and Medal of Honor winner for actions in the North African Theatre of the fourth World War Al Gore Jr). Gore was an atheist, although he did not speak publicly about it in his lifetime, and was the only blind man and only Oklahoman to reach either of the nation's two highest executive offices.
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