How could Frances Perkins, first female cabinet secretary and one of the key figures behind the New Deal, have become President?
And no, you can't say 'kill the rest of the Cabinet.'
And no, you can't say 'kill the rest of the Cabinet.'
Truman keeps in her in his cabinet as Secretary of Labor, or at a higher level postion (Secretary of the Treasury?). At the 1948 Democratic Party convention she receives most votes as the party's candidate for President. She wins the general election against Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate.
Variation are that in the 1946 midterm elections, she is elected to the Senate, or as a State Governor. Though I think it would be unlikely that she would run for President in her second year as a Governor. Less unlikely as a Senator.
Anyway to be nominated in 1948, she would needed to have been active in politics in some way since Truman became President, and certainly in early 1948.
A different VP could have been in line for the presidency. But in those conservative times, a female VP could have thrown the close election of 1948 to Dewey.