Wilson's 1919 stroke kills him

Thomas R. Marshall: 29th President of the United States (3 October 1919 - 4 March 1921/5)

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Interestingly, the First Red Scare occurred from 1919-1920, while Wilson was incapacitated. I wonder if Marshall, who (according to Wikipedia, anyways) was a 'Progressive', would replace Palmer with a new Attorney General.
 
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A few thoughts...

-Marshall will probably try to get the nomination for the Democrats in 1920 but he'll fail. He simply doesn't have the base within the party. In all likelihood William McAdoo probably gets the nod and runs against whoever the GOP picks.

-Marshall will also probably do better than Wilson in getting the Treaty of Versailles signed by the US Senate. In all likelihood in addition to Wilson's martyrdom, Marshall will water the treaty down so that most of the moderate isolationists will vote for it. This puts the US in the League of Nations...kind of.
 
I thick Marshall would be much more willing to compromise and he Coukd get the treaty ratified.

Iirc he said privately that the Lodge Reservations would have to be accepted. If he follows through on that, the ToV is ratified, the Allies probably accept the changes wityh mild griumbling, and there's a US delegate at Geneva, for whatever difference it makes.

Not so sure about after that. Given the levels of postwar discontent, I can't see the Democrats actually winning in 1920, but they might do better, perhaps holding the Reublicans to 52-42 or something similar, and leaving themselves a chance to recapture the HoR in 1922. They can't make such a big thing of returning to normalcy, if the Marshall Administration has already largely done so. But a lot depends on how the Prohibition and Klan issues pan out.
 
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