I know Max's family was pushing him to take the vacant Greek throne but Napoleon III talked him into Mexico...
What if General Robert E. Lee's forces were surrounded and captured at the Battle of Gettysburg as hoped for by the Union?
I doubt very much he would take the Mexican throne under those circumstances. Max's fate is sealed before he takes the throne in TTL if he does.
George Meade becomes a viable candidate for president in 1868.
Or even 1864. Two term Presidents were the exception, not the rule, in that era.
Nah, after winning the ACW Lincoln is a shoo in for 1864. The only way he isn't president is if he doesn't run.
Is that ASB?
The lst photo of him taken before his death makes him look pretty exhausted He was only 55 but looks older than I do now at 69. Maybe he would call it a day. After all, what could a second term be for him except four years of anticlimax?