I'll start this back up again.
1789-1797: John Jay (No Party) [1]
1797-1801: John Adams (No Party) [2]
1801-1813: Aaron Burr (Democratic Union) [3]
1813-1817: Christopher Gore (Federalist) [4]
1817-1821: John Langdon (Democratic Union)[5]
1821-1827: John Howard (Federalist) [6]
1827-1829: Alexander Hamilton (Federalist) [7]
1829-1841: William Henry Harrison (Federalist) [8]
1841-1849: Henry Clay (Constitution) [9]
1849-1853: Sam Houston (Sensibility) [10]
1853-1858: John C. Fremont (Federalist) [11]
1858-1860: James Buchanan (Democratic Union) [12]
1860-1868: Jonathan Broderick (Liberty) [13]
1868-1874: William J. Stevenson (Liberty) [14]
1874-1876: Lysander Spooner (Liberty) [15]
1876-1880: Robert Stockton (Federalist) [16]
1880-1888: Matthew J. Perry (National Union) [17]
[1]Jay is regarded as the Founding President, having been the first leader to take office, in place of George Washington. Disdained the idea of political parties, but did nothing to stop their formation. In 1797, he would retire, having not sought a third term, and was replaced by John Adams, another independent.
[2] John Adams followed Jay's lead and ran without an official party. His Presidency is most known for the Depression of 1800. He was thrown out of power in the 1800 election and replaced with Aaron Burr.
[3] Aaron Burr is one of the most well-remembered Presidents of the United States, having served three terms. He left office after three terms at the height of a crisis over Canada, which was in revolt against Britain. He was replaced in a tightly contested election by Christopher Gore.
[4] To this day Gore's victory is highly disputed. Despite being a peace Federalist, Gore fought out the Canadian Rebellion to completion resulting in Canada's independence. He allegedly rejected an offer from Canadian officials for the U.S. to annex Canada, this would lead to his defeat at the hands of John Langdon in 1816.
[5]Langdon was a fairly uninspiring fellow who didn't make much of an impact; he is pretty well known for having lived the least amount of time after his time in the White House ended, dying in September, 1821.
[6] Howard won a close election against Langdon in 1820, his first term saw economic growth and diplomatic peace with the native Americans who were given their own state in the Midwest.
This meant he won a land slide in 1824, sadly within three years he died in office being succeeded by his vice president, Alexander Hamilton.
[7]Alexander Hamilton, one of the youngest of the original Founders, was also the last such man to hold high office in the United States. Signed the "Missouri Compromise" Bill in 1827 which effectively banned slavery in that state(albeit with a 20-year clause that allowed the state's few slaveowners to free their slaves, which many did).....albeit at the cost of protecting Southern slavery for a while.
[8] William Henry Harrison was a war hero and western politician with ambiguous views on some of the issues of the day, including slavery. While a slaveholder himself, he realized over the years the institution must be contained. An ardent Patriot, Harrison's (probably illegal) alliance with the new nation of Texas sparked the 1st Mexican War. Though aging, the President personally led an American-Texan Army into Mexico City in 1835, resulting in the conquest of the lands stretching to California (Texas joined as well). He opposed any expansion of slavery into these territories. In 1838, Harrison offered to buy out British claims to Oregon and the Hudson Bay Area. He died of pnemonia in 1842, after three terms, barely a month after leaving office. Boundry issues with Britain and Mexico lingered, as did tensions over slavery.
[9]Clay, the proto-populist ex-governor of Kentucky, had originally been opposed to westward expansion, but changed his mind when California was admitted as a free state in 1847, to counterbalance Texas being a slave state. He was generally well-regarded by many, with the exception of the still small, but growing Fire-Eater faction in the South led by Democratic Union S.C. senator John C. Calhoun. The political moderate Sam Houston of Texas of the new Sensibility Party replaced him in 1848.
[10]Houston was the only person to be president of a different nation (Texas) before becoming president of the United States. He was opposed to some of Clay's more blatant abolitionist policies (Though historian's debate if he had any at all) and as president himself mostly all he did was lightly scale back Clay's policies. His party was weakened quite a bit in the 1850 midterms and the underwhelming Houston was not nominated by the party in 1852.
[11]After a dozen years of voter fatigue, the Federalists tried to make one last major comeback with John C. Fremont, the first governor of the state of California. Fremont, despite being quite moderate and originally from Savannah, Georgia, wasn't appreciated too much in the South, and was mainly a Western candidate-under his administration, the states of Oregon, Minnesota, and Kansas were admitted into the fold, with the votes from California being a vital play in each case. Although 1856 became a three-way race between Fremont, John Bell of the Sensibility Party, and J.C. Breckinridge of the Democratic Union Party, Fremont still won by a clear majority of the electoral vote.....even with only 40% of the popular vote. Tragically, however, both he and the Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, were assassinated by an anti-Masonic conspiracy theorist, of all people, on October 31, 1858, while in St. Louis(to this day, conspiracy theories abound that the Fire Eaters may have been involved!).
[12]The former President Pro-Tem of the Senate from Pennsylvania, though himself leaning anti-slavery, was rather too timid in dealing with the increasing threat of the more radical Southerners seceding. In 1860, Northern and Western voters, tired of Congressional gridlock and Fire-Eater demagoguery, turned to the new Liberty Party for guidance, and their candidate, Jonathan David Broderick from the state of Missouri.
[13]Broderick, who had been born in Maryland originally, moved to Missouri with his family in 1828 for a fresh start. His father died in 1840 while negotiating a treaty with the Comanche in Texas, leaving him the only one able to care for his mother, who passed away in 1849. Broderick spent some time in California and became acquainted with J.C. Fremont, who became a close friend of his. Broderick returned to Missouri in 1852, and was elected Senator, originally from the Federalists, but switched to the Liberty Party in late 1858, as a show of support for abolitionism. Broderick also had come out in support of immigrants, a move which made some of the more conservative Federalists uncomfortable, and positively enraged many of the hard-right Southern Democrats, a few dozen of whom had joined the "Americanist"(OTL Know Nothing) movement.
When the Civil War finally broke out in September, 1862, the states of Virginia and Texas ending up splitting along partisan lines, with substantial Unionist sentiment also building up in Louisiana, Florida, much of Tennessee, western North Carolina, and even northern Alabama.....and with some Confederate sympathizers in southern Ohio, and southern Indiana, and a few others elsewhere(including Ezekiah Vallandigham, an Ohio Democrat who'd become known for his extreme anti-Irish and anti-Italian rhetoric, and increasingly blatant and extremist pro-slavery sentiments), heading south to fight for what they saw as "the future of the Anglo-Saxon race", as one friend of Robert Rhett put it.
Despite the C.S.A.'s early gains, the battles of Rockville(Maryland), and Abilene(Texas), proved to be vital turning points for the Union, and by April, 1866, the Rebs had been reduced to just Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and a few parts of northern Florida. C.S. General Albert S. Johnston surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Atlanta on April 19th, and the last C.S. partisans surrendered a week later, near the town of Belgrade, Texas. Broderick would later survive an assassination attempt at the hands of Jebediah Israel Waltham, a crazed South Carolina planter who'd lost all three of his sons in the war, and when Waltham confessed that Robert Rhett, the disgraced former congressman from that state, had put him up to it, his vice-president suggested that Rhett be tried for high treason, given his earlier involvement in the secession of the South. Eventually, several of the top generals, cabinet leaders, and other prominent persons who had been on the Rebel side, where tried, convicted, and executed, with many other officials enduring long jail sentences, and stripped of the ability to run for office unless they were to sign an oath swearing their loyalty to the U.S.-Broderick's Reconstruction program was also started soon after, and lasted until the early 1880s.
Broderick would forever be remembered afterwards as one of the Great Emancipators(jointly with Abraham Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the United States), and died in 1892 in Missouri, mourned by millions.
Unfortunately, his successor, William J. Stevenson, also of the Liberty Party, wouldn't be so lucky, and was assassinated in the late winter of 1874 by a deranged former Americanist.
[14]Stevenson continued the vital reforms initiated under the Broderick administration, but earned the ire of many a nativist for the relaxation of many immigration laws; as part of a solution, his administration came up with a scheme to sell much of the vacated former plantation land that wasn't already claimed, to immigrants, as a way of further crushing the old Southern aristocracy(on top of another scheme to send them out west with the Freedmen; the state of Nebraska was admitted during his first term, in 1871), and as a pressure valve for the increasingly crowded cities of the North. Tragically assassinated in Louisville, Ky., by Jeremiah Watkins, who had been a businessman in Indiana before the Civil War, on February 18, 1874. His vice-President, Lysander Spooner, took his place.
[15]Spooner, though a former early anarchist, had settled down in the 1860s, and had been elected governor of Vermont briefly before he accepted the Vice-Presidential slot for the Liberty Party in 1872. Spooner was unusually ahead of his time, and came out as an advocate for women's suffrage, at a time when many other Americans weren't quite ready to discuss it, at least in terms of a national scale, anyway. Unfortunately for him, he narrowly lost the 1876 elections to Senator Robert Stockton, a Federalist from the state of Kansas; the only available alternative to the Libertines, as the Democratic Union party had splintered during and after the Civil War, the Sensibility Party had vanished right after the 1858 elections, and the Constitution Party was itself relegated to the Mid Atlantic and Northeast.
[16]Robert "Ranger Rob" Stockton was to be the last of the Presidents from the Federalist Party, before it's 1881 dissolution. Stockton did little in his time, except to endorse the amendment which allowed U.S. citizens in all states to directly elect Senators, which passed in 1879. He declined to run for a second term, and in a surprise victory, Matthew Perry from the state of Kansas representing the new National Union party, was elected, sweeping much of the country on both sides of the Mason-Dixon.
[17]Matthew Perry's election proved to be a fairly grassroots initiative, something rare in those days. Perry, himself squarely middle of the road, brought together both conservatives and liberals under the wing of economic populism and patriotism, earning him two terms, and his party a place in the history books. He only narrowly lost to _____ _____ of the _____ Party over the issue of tariffs, and dealing with an increasingly aggressive Ottoman Empire.
List of Chancellors of the Weimar Republic
1933 - 1940
Adolf Schicklgruber (German Worker's Party) [1]
1940 - 1947:
Konrad Adenauer (Zentrum) [2]
1947 - 1948:
Julius Curtius (Zentrum) [3]
1948 - 1953:
Willy Brandt (SPD) [4]
1953 - 1956:
Joseph Goebbels (Conservative Nationalist Party) [5]
1956 - 1969:
Adalbert Walcher (SPD) [6]
1969 - 1977:
Helmut Wentzler (Zentrum) [7]
1977 - 1985:
Heinrich Vogelmann (RDP) [8]
1985 - 1992:
Richard Zellner (MP) [9]
[1] After a stunning rise to power that included a attempted coup, Adolf Schicklgruber became Chancellor. He began to turn the Republic around and it quickly turned from a failed state into one of the most powerful of Europe. After his second term was up he was replaced by ________.
[2] He was succeeded by Adenauer, of the Zentrum party. Adenauer's regime was remembered for maintaining peace and order during a time where Germany's enemies mounted hostilities toward her. He left office in 1947 after a small medical emergency made him deal with family issues first. He was succeeded by his deputy, Julius Curtius.....
[3].....Who was assassinated in late September, 1948, forcing the Bundestag to call emergency elections-despite growing concerns over the Sino-British conflict, the German public elected a Social Democrat, Willy Brandt, who governed until early 1953.
[4]Brandt, although well liked for his socioeconomic platforms, was viewed by many conservatives as weak on foreign policy. The Second World War broke out not long after Brandt lost the '53 elections, and his immediate successor, Joseph Goebbels of the relatively new Conservative Nationalist Party, declared war on Britain and their Japanese, French, Italian(Mussolini had been overthrown and assassinated in 1945), Spanish(Franco was killed during the Civil War), Croatian(Yugoslavia broke up in 1946 after a failed counter-revolutionary coup was attempted by the royalists and their Bosnian allies, following the rise of Josip Tito), and Greek allies, with only the Middle European block of Austria, Hungary, Bosnia, Serbia, and Albania coming to their aid.
[5]Joseph Goebbels, who'd been a former member of Adolf H. Schiklgruber's and Otto Strasser's German Worker's Party, was a founder of the CNP, when it was inaugurated in the town of Oldenburg in 1941. Goebbels, who had feared Britain's growing aggressiveness for some time, upheld the Sino-German alliance, and declared war on British Bloc in July, 1953, with full hostilities engulfing the both the European and Asian continents in September.....and Sept. was the month that the Soviet Union, under Kliment Voroshilov(Stalin had been assassinated in 1939), entered the war against China.....and Germany, by extension; the U.S., having already fought off the Japanese in the prior decade, entered the war in Feb. 1954 after a Luftwaffe squadron attacked the island of Bermuda, killing 2,000 people, including a popular liberal-leaning U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
The war ended with a limited nuclear exchange in October of 1956- though the Germans managed to bomb Zagreb, Vilnius, Brussels, and Madrid, they missed London and Milan, and they lost Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Leipzig, Erfurt, Frankfurt, and much of the capital city of Berlin to nuclear bombings(the Berlin and Munich bombs were American, and the Soviets destroyed Hamburg and Leipzig). And the Chinese lost Shanghai, Canton, Mukden, and Chingtao(Qingdao), to Soviet and American nukes, with a British nuke taking out P'yongyang in Korea.
Goebbels barely avoided death in Berlin, but he was captured by American troops in Denmark, and stripped of his office. He died in 1972 in exile in Libya, and was replaced by _____ of the Social Democrats.
[6]Adalbert Walcher, originally from Switzerland, emigrated to Germany in 1939 to study in Munich, becoming a citizen in 1941. His only real political experience up until this point, was being the mayor of Erlangen in Bavaria, for a few years, but Walcher became well-known for being a prominent peacenik in the days before and during the war. And with Willy Brandt staying out of politics, Walcher was discovered by the local SPD branch, and immediately became the star of the leftist resurgence in Germany.
[7]The election of Helmut Wentzler, from Dresden, was seen as a refreshing break from the SPD; though a bit of a right-winger overall, he was still rather moderate in every aspect, and enjoyed three terms in office. The early Seventies were a bit tough, however, thanks to the global energy crisis of 1971-73, and concerns over the Soviet Union's increasing assertiveness in Europe and their rearming, as well as creating more formal military ties with the U.K. and U.S.(reconciliation had started nearly immediately under Walcher, and trade had been restored by 1969; Although Walcher had initially opposed becoming part of the Western European Defense Initiative, the counter to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, Germany officially joined in full in 1972, despite having been heavily disarmed after the Second World War, under Wentzler's guidance; Germany was also part of the European Trade Union, of which Walcher's Germany was a founding member) allowed Heinrich Vogelmann from Lower Saxony, of the center-right Right Democratic(
Rechter Demokrater) party, to win the elections that were called for April, 1977.
[8]Vogelmann had been fairly popular at first, as he had campaigned on an extensive re-armament program to defend against the Russians. Unfortunately, however, he was also terribly careless with the country's finances, and the economy went into a recession in 1983. But what finally got Vogelmann kicked out of office was his reckless manner in dealing with the Russians; this was especially unhelpful during the Hungarian Crisis in November '84. When the 1985 elections were held on 20 November of that year, Vogelmann only received 17.7% of the total vote. Meanwhile, the former State Administrator of Hesse, Richard Zellner, won nearly 43% of the vote, representing one of the newer and more politically moderate parties, the Mutualist Party, who began to wind down tensions with Russia, and was credited for being a secondary force working to end the Cold War, which would happen in 1990.
[9]Zellner, although from Hesse, was regarded as somebody who could appeal to any German citizen. And he certainly did have a lot of admirers. Other than helping end the Cold War, however, he is best known for signing, in the spring of 1992, a law which fully legalized same sex marriage, behind only Finland, and the Netherlands. He declined to run in the 22 November elections, and has spent his free time as an author. ____ of the ____ Party succeeded him.
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