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I was looking for possible alternate Republican presidents during the Gilded Age, and I came upon an interesting fact. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the hero of Little Round Top, went on to become Governor of Maine after the Civil War. He eventually left the political sphere and lived life as a private citizen until he died in 1914, but what if he had continued his political career instead (perhaps his war wounds are less severe, and take less of a toll on his health)?

Could he have been elected as a Senator or Representative, and then later go on to the Presidency? And what would a Chamberlain presidency look like?
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