WI: Bismarck as US President

Let's imagine this: Bismarck's parents move to the US and good ol' Otto is born there. He rises through the ranks as a congressman, then a senator and, eventually, President.

Suppose sometime between the 1860s to 1880s he becomes President? What will his policies be? How would he viewed in today's lens?
 
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Very badly, US Congress i s far stronger and Bismarck had bad relations with Parliamentarians. Plus, his conservatism would conflict with civil war era radicalism.
 
President has to be natural born American citizen so only way is that Bismarck's parents move to USA before his birth. This would make him very different person.

So it is impossible speculate what kind of politics him would has. Probably still quiet conservative and nationalist but hard to say anything more.
 
Let's imagine this: Bismarck's parents move to the US and good ol' Otto is born there. He rises through the ranks as a congressman, then a senator and, eventually, President.

Suppose sometime between the 1860s to 1880s he becomes President? What will his policies be? How would he viewed in today's lens?
Maybe instead being President falls Out of grace with the Prussian King in the early 1860es and unsatisfied with other destinationen he moves to the US where enters politics maybe becoming an General Duing the war ( his name and experience). I would think that he would favour the Union. Later he eventually becomes Secretary of War and eventually Vice President. Didn't know how fluent he was in English but he knew several languages.
 
I suppose we should leave aside historical butterflies and turn the question to "What if America had a Bismarck-like President at some point between the 1860s and 1880s?" We kind of did: Bismarck admired Lincoln, who's been compared to Bismarck in some histories for unifying America and centralizing power, and Bismarck and Grant met and got along pretty well. The real question is whether *another* Bismarck-like leader would have had more of an effect on Reconstruction, successfully completing the Republican project of consolidating power in the federal government and breaking the old economic and social situation of the South. If someone with Bismarck's political abilities had replaced, say, Rutherford Hayes, could we have had a weaker South and less divided America heading into the 20th century? ...Maybe, but the forces against him would be severe? Or would Bismarck's social conservatism in an American context turn into more lenience for slaveholders? (At Bismarck and Grant's meeting, they had a brief dispute, with Bismarck insisting the main goal of the Civil War had been to preserve the Union, and Grant pointing out the importance of ending slavery.)
 
Someone actually did a President Bismarck timeline a while ago. Of course, it's dead now, in part because I'm pretty sure the writer got banned, and I can't find it because the search function isn't working for me at the moment, but I'll try to link to it later.
 
Bismarcks political stance was very much influenced by his aristocratic upbringing and reactionary monarchism of his youth during the 1848 revolution. If his parents sell their estate in Pommerania and move to America he becomes a very different man. If he grows up in America he probably becomes a conservative republican on a big plantation in the south. OTL Bismarck behaved like a feudal lord in his younger years when he armed his peasants to stop the revolution so I think he would be a confederate politician and not a republican. And his social laws only came from the threat the SPD posed against the Hohenzollern monarchy and Bismarck's life work. OTL America never had a workers movement that strong (correct me if I'm wrong but there are at least no remnant of this in modern America or is it?) so he would never think of a health system or retirement plans.

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Considering Bismarck is the antithesis to a Forty-Eighter it would be funny if he duels Carl Schurz in this timeline as an analogue to his duel with the younger Freiherr Vincke.
 
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