Potential American Popes

(I know this technically will go past 1900, but i feel it belongs here)

Was there ever any chance of an American becoming Pope during any of the papal election periods? If so, how much of a chance did they have, and what changes (if any) could they have made if they became Pope?
 
I will make the obligatory post that an American Pope has already been elected. Argentina is part of the Americas...
 
I will make the obligatory post that an American Pope has already been elected. Argentina is part of the Americas...

Oh come on we all know that when someone says American like that they mean the US. The rest of the American countries' citizens are referred to by that county's name, like Mexican, Canadian or Argentinian. The US can't do the same.

As for an American Pope, what about Archbishop Dolan of New York? He was considered Papabile in last year's conclave and still could end up as Pope after Francis dies/retires.
 
Cardinal O'Malley of Boston was also occasionally mentioned in the news reports as a possibility.

But a major problem with an American pope is that people will assume that they will be too closely aligned with the USA, which is not always popular.

There's also the fact that before John Paul II, the last pope from outside Italy died in 1523. So it would be tough to get an American in before the mid-20th century, and by that point the US is too big a fish for an American pope to be seen as anything other than a political statement that the College of Cardinals will be very reluctant to make.
 
furthermore ... US doesn't really have a strong reputation as having highly religious catholic groupings, but that the most visibly religious people in US is some sort of Protestant (even if in total numbers US is the 4th largest country in terms of catholics, and Catholics are the single largest specific denomination at ~25%), and in compersion with Germany, US doesn't have the religious groupings seperated in distinct areas, on a demographic level, but you can find nearly all denominations nearly everywhere. Hence the American Catholics might well be seen as slightly suscept by the more conservative elements of the Collage

just guessing, from my limited knowledge really, so pinch of salt and all that
 
(I know this technically will go past 1900, but i feel it belongs here)

Was there ever any chance of an American becoming Pope during any of the papal election periods? If so, how much of a chance did they have, and what changes (if any) could they have made if they became Pope?

1799–1800: No chance | 1823: No chance | 1829: No chance |
1830–1831: No chance | 1846: No chance | 1878: No chance |
1903: No chance | 1914: No chance | 1922: No chance |
1939: No chance | 1958: No chance | 1963: No chance |
August 1978: No chance | October 1978: No chance |
2005 conclave: Plausible American papabili- Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York and Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles |
2013 conclave: Plausible American papabili- Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York and Seán Patrick O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston

I have no idea what an Egan, Mahony, Dolan, or O'Malley papacy would look like; any thoughts?

Note: There are others who might have a "shot in the dark" at being elected pope (in one of the 3 or 4 most recent conclaves), I don't see any as even being plausible however.
 
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