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AHC: Martin H. Glynn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_H._Glynn becomes the first Catholic POTUS--and the second POTUS (after Martin Van Buren) born in Kinderhook, NY.

POD: Glynn (who became Governor of New York following the impeachment and removal from office of William Sulzer) is elected governor in his own right in 1914. (In OTL he lost by about ten points to Republican Charles Whitman. https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=95401 Maybe in this ATL Whitman is hit by a scandal or dies in an accident and is replaced by a weaker GOP candidate. And it might also help Glynn if Sulzer didn't wage a "spoiler" revenge campaign, though not all Sulzer's votes came from Glynn. [1])

In 1916 Wilson decides that with Irish voters upset over his alleged sympathies with the British and with Mexican anticlericals, he needs an Irish Catholic on the ticket. And don't forget that Glynn's keynote speech at the 1916 Democratic convention was a great hit with the delegates. "When former Governor Martin H. Glynn of New York gave the keynote address at the opening session on June 14, however, he failed to evoke more than dutiful enthusiasm for the President, preparedness, and 100 per cent Americanism. Glynn then moved on to the war and American neutrality, invoking historical parallels to prove that Wilson's diplomacy of note writing had good precedent in the American past. But this would be a dull recital, he averred; and he was about to pass over that portion of his address when the immense crowd were on their feet, shouting, "No! No! Go on!" This was an unexpected development, but Glynn sensed the electrical quality of the situation and at once launched into his historical exposition. As he cited one case after another in which the United States had refused under provocation to go to war, the mighty throng would chant, "What did we do? What did we do?" And Glynn would roar back, "We didn't go to war, we didn't go to war!" On and on he went, while the convention indulged in one frenzied demonstration after another. It was as if the delegates had just discovered that pacifism, jeered at and derided, was the cornerstone upon which American foreign policy had been built." https://archive.org/.../woodrowwilsonand007665mbp_djvu.txt

So the Wilson-Glynn ticket is elected. (No doubt Glynn's Catholicism will hurt the Democrats in some states, but the South is not going to desert the party over a Catholic vice presidential nominee, the West is still suspicious of Hughes' conservative and pro-war supporters, organized labor still likes the Adamson Act, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamson_Act and Glynn might even enable Wilson to carry Massachusetts with its large Irish population--Wilson came surprisingly close in that traditionally Republican state in OTL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts,_1916)

Then in 1919, after a heated argument with the vice-president, Wilson has an even more severe stroke than in OTL...

[1] In addition to forming his own "American" party, Sulzer got the Prohibition endorsement. Presumably if he had not run, the Prohibitionists would have nominated someone else, who would have gotten some of Sulzer's OTL vote.
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