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Hello all, I've been quite busy with my examinations lately, but I'm going back on this board in order to make another TL centered on the Presidents of the United States, trying to put some interest from a French man. My previous attempts, one on Dewey defeating Truman and Lenroot as Harding's VP, were cancelled due to lack of interest and time. But now, it's up to you to choose the next subject of my TL! I'm waiting for your votes!

Here are my ideas (a few ones are borrowed from Historico's postings on the Dave Leip Atlas Forum):

1. Divine punishment: Franklin Pierce dies before Inauguration Day, 1848
President-Elect Franklin Pierce was victim of a train wreck shortly before his inauguration, that took the life of his son. What if he was also killed? After the short term of a Vice President King stricken by tubercolosis, the Executive Powers goes to President Pro Tempore and fierce segregationnist David Rice Atchinson...

2. Sic Semper Tyrannis: the success of John Wilkes Booth, 1865
The plot made by John Wilkes Booth meets full success: General Grant is assassinated along President Lincoln at the Ford Theater, so are Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward. The hard task of Reconstruction falls officially on newly-inaugurated Secretary of Treasury Hugh McCulloch...If the state of emergency allows it.

3.Standing at Armageddon: TR in 1908
Theodore Roosevelt, instead of endorsing Secretary of War Taft, decides to break the Washington Tradition and run for his own succession in 1908.

4. Pathway to Glory: Wood '20
General Leonard Wood manages to clinch the Republican nomination in 1920.

5.The last battle of Fighting Bob: Progressives in 1924
Robert La Follette and Burton K. Wheeler both manage to win the White House after their third party run in 1924.

6. One World: Willkie for President in 1940
Wendell Willkie manages to win the Race while the country is close to WWII.

7. For a Little Flower: La Guardia for President '40
The liberal Republican Mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia manages to reach the White House in an upset, portraying himself as the true successor of President Roosevelt, who had decided not to run for a third term.

8. The Dead Rockefellers: A Rockefeller Dynasty
By a fluke of the Gods, the Rockefellers replace the Kennedys as the legendary political dynasty of the XXth Century.

9. Atticus Finch Goes to Washington: Gregory Peck for Governor '70
Academy Award-rewarded actor Gregory Peck agrees to the California Democratic Party offer to be their gubernatorial candidate in 1970, against his colleague Ronald Reagan...

10. Giant Sucking Sound: Ross Perot for President '92
Ross Perot manages to become the first Independant President of the United States since George Washington.
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