William Rufus DeVane King was the shortest-lived vice president, having died of tuberculosis six weeks in. He's most well-known for his relationship with James Buchanan possibly being a romantic one and having the highest political office of anyone from Alabama.
I'm curious what might have happened had he not been the WHH of vice presidents. First scenario is that, with a POD of the 1840 death, how King could've become president on his own terms. The second is if a healthy King becomes president when Franklin Pierce instead of Bennie dies in the train accident, and what he'd do. How might that impact James Buchanan's decisions given the close relationship they had?