WI JFK ran for VP in 1956?

In 1956 Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson decided not to nominate a running mate as his VP leaving the matter to the Democrat Convention. The convention chose Tenesse Senator Estes Kefauver over Massachusetts Senator (and later president) John F. Kennedy.
WI JFK was selected as candidate VP in 1956? Would JFK's presence in the election helped Stevenson win the 1956 Presidential election? How is that affecting US History? Any thoughts?
 
I think if JFK had been chosen by Stevenson, still Stevenson will lose because Eisenhower is popular at that time and JFK is no so famous at that time until 1960 and Eisenhower is in height of his presidential popularity at that time thats why Eisenhower won a landslide victory against Stevenson. Eisenhower win even if JFK is the running mate of Stevenson.
 
A defeat in 1956 with JFK as VP candidate would have destroyed his Presidential ambitions? Would JFK ran for President in 1960?
 
A defeat in 1956 with JFK as VP candidate would have destroyed his Presidential ambitions? Would JFK ran for President in 1960?

No, but it would have made him just another face in the crowd. The 1960 field would have included Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnson, Stevenson (yet again), and a few others; chances are there would have been some Stevenson/Kennedy friction (the Stevenson supporters seeing Kennedy's challenge as disloyalty, and the Kennedy supporters casting Stevenson in the role of a tired hack who doesn't know when to quit). I suspect neither Kennedy nor Stevenson would have wound up the nominee: it might have opened things up for Lyndon Johnson, with perhaps Humphrey as his running mate.

Had that happened, I suspect the election would have been as close as it was in OTL, but this time, with Nixon as the winner. I have some difficulty seeing the Chicago machine voting all the tombstones in Cook County for a Texan, as opposed to a young Irish Catholic. (Just saying...but things of that sort were rather important to machine politicians as late as 1960.)
 
I suspect neither Kennedy nor Stevenson would have wound up the nominee: it might have opened things up for Lyndon Johnson, with perhaps Humphrey as his running mate.

Southern politicians couldn't win the Democratic nomination at that point in time. That's a key reason Johnson didn't bother to compete in primaries, for instance, and he pretty much knew he was going to lose but really really wanted to be President (which is also why he accepted the VP slot knowing he would hate being VP—it was the only remaining way he thought he had a shot at the Presidency).


Odds are JFK still wins, unless Humphrey beats him a couple times, and heck maybe Stevenson gets nominated once again :). Won't be Johnson though.
 
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