"Stephen John Brademas Jr. (March 2, 1927 – July 11, 2016) was an American politician and educator originally from Indiana. He served as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1981 at the conclusion of a twenty-year career as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In addition to his major legislative accomplishments, including much federal legislation pertaining to schools, arts, and the humanities, he served as the 13th president of New York University from 1981 to 1992, and was a member of and subsequently the chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In addition he was a board member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Rockefeller Foundation." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brademas
Can anyone think of a scenario where Brademas could become POTUS? I am sort of intrigued by a Greek-American Methodist who represented the district that included Notre Dame. ("Although my father was Greek Orthodox and my mother belonged to the Disciples of Christ, the Brademas children, in ecumenical spirit, joined the Methodist church." https://books.google.com/books?id=UusDodSxmXMC&pg=PA4 ) He was an intellectual, yes, but you don't keep winning election after election (until the Reagan tide of 1980 was too much for him) as a Democrat in a marginal district in Indiana without being a very practical politician, too. (For example, in 1968, Richard Nixon carried IN-03 with 51 percent of the vote compared to 39 percent for Humphrey and 10 percent for Wallace, according to the Almanac of American Politics; yet Brademas won re-election by 52-48. Usually he won by larger, though rarely overwhelming, margins.)
The most obvious scenario would be his being chosen as Carter's running mate in 1976, though I haven't seen his name on any of the lists of Carter's possible running mates (the only Hoosier on such lists seems to be Birch Bayh).
Not one of the most heralded of the deaths of 2016, but he should not be forgotten...
Can anyone think of a scenario where Brademas could become POTUS? I am sort of intrigued by a Greek-American Methodist who represented the district that included Notre Dame. ("Although my father was Greek Orthodox and my mother belonged to the Disciples of Christ, the Brademas children, in ecumenical spirit, joined the Methodist church." https://books.google.com/books?id=UusDodSxmXMC&pg=PA4 ) He was an intellectual, yes, but you don't keep winning election after election (until the Reagan tide of 1980 was too much for him) as a Democrat in a marginal district in Indiana without being a very practical politician, too. (For example, in 1968, Richard Nixon carried IN-03 with 51 percent of the vote compared to 39 percent for Humphrey and 10 percent for Wallace, according to the Almanac of American Politics; yet Brademas won re-election by 52-48. Usually he won by larger, though rarely overwhelming, margins.)
The most obvious scenario would be his being chosen as Carter's running mate in 1976, though I haven't seen his name on any of the lists of Carter's possible running mates (the only Hoosier on such lists seems to be Birch Bayh).
Not one of the most heralded of the deaths of 2016, but he should not be forgotten...