Chester A. Arthur doesn't become President, so the vice presidency doesn't get the same thought out as IOTL after fears of getting a inexperienced president.
James Garfield goes onto serve his remaining term and seek re-election. After holding office for two goes back to Ohio in 1889 to run either for U.A. Senate or state Governor.
Alright. So who would his VP in 1884? Arthur? Or would he be replaced?
Garfield Minus Garfield never happens?
To be fair, it still didn't for another 70 years afterward, until Harry Truman was selected because all the party bosses knew FDR's number was up.Chester A. Arthur doesn't become President, so the vice presidency doesn't get the same thought out as IOTL after fears of getting a inexperienced president.
Jim Davis named the iconic character, Garfield after his grandfather, James "Garfield" Davis, who was inturn named after President James A. Garfield, so really the cartoon, without too many butterflies, still happens.
Jim Davis named the iconic character, Garfield after his grandfather, James "Garfield" Davis, who was inturn named after President James A. Garfield, so really the cartoon, without too many butterflies, still happens.
It didn't help, of course, that Garfield's entire Cabinet, with the lone exception of Robert Todd Lincoln, resigned over the course of late 1881-early 1882 after Arthur succeeded to the Oval Office.Arthur's problem with his party wasn't experience, it was initially his enemies didn't trust him, he then didn't toady to his friends and sought a balanced administration, putting the office and country first.
We get a proper navy earlier. The whitehouse isn't occupied by a man who sent his ex girlfriend to a insane asylum.
He also was not who was needed to keep Grover Cleveland out of the White House.spengler,
are you aware that Arthur was a proponent of Naval ability and, against opposition, improved it?