[Roosevelt]

01/04/1941 – The short subject Elmer's Pet Rabbit is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card.
01/06/1941 – The keel of the USS Missouri is laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn.
01/10/1941 – Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
01/13/1941 – All persons born in Puerto Rico since this day are declared U.S. citizens by birth, through U.S. federal law 8 U.S.C. § 1402.
01/20/1941 – Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in U.S. President Robert A. Taft for his second term.
01/27/1941 – U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew passes on to Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic reception about a planned surprise attack upon Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
02/04/1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
02/08/1941– The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act (260–165).
02/09/1941 – Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, asks the United States to show its support by sending arms to the British: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."
02/14/1941 – Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura begins his duties as Japanese ambassador to the United States.
03/01/1941 - W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming the first FM radio station.
 Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U.S. Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet.
03/08/1941 – The U.S. Senate passes the Lend-Lease Act (60–31).
03/11/1941 – President Taft signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
03/16/1941 – A fleet of U.S. warships arrive in Auckland, New Zealand on a goodwill visit. On March 20, they visit Sydney, Australia.
03/17/1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Robert A. Taft.
03/22/1941 – Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
03/27/1941 – Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
03/30/1941 – All German, Italian, and Danish ships anchored in United States waters are taken into "protective custody".
04/09/1941 – The U.S. acquires full military defense rights in Greenland.
04/10/1941 – The U.S. destroyer Niblack, while picking up survivors from a sunken Dutch freighter, drops depth charges on a German U-Boat.
04/15/1941 – The U.S. begins shipping Lend-Lease aid to China.
05/01/1941 – Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane premieres in New York City.
The first Series E "War Bonds" and Defense Savings Stamps go on sale in the United States, to help fund the greatly increased production of military equipment.
05/06/1941 - At California's March Field, entertainer Bob Hope performs his first USO Show.
05/15/1941 – Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins as the New York Yankee center fielder goes one for 4 against Chicago White Sox pitcher Eddie Smith.
05/21/1941 – 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first United States ship sunk by a German U-boat.
05/27/1941 – President Taft proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."
06/14/1941 – All German and Italian assets in the United States are frozen.
06/16/1941 -  All German and Italian consulates in the United States are ordered closed and their staffs to leave the country by July 10.
06/20/1941 - The United States Army Air Forces come into being, taking over the former United States Army Air Corps.
Walt Disney's live-action animated feature, The Reluctant Dragon, is released.
07/07/1941 – American forces take over the defense of Iceland from the British.
07/26/1941 – In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U.S. President Robert A. Taft orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
General Douglas MacArthur is named commander of all U.S. forces in the Philippines; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.
07/30/1941 - The U.S. gunboat Tutuila is attacked by Japanese aircraft while anchored in the Yangtze River at Chungking. Japan apologizes for the incident the following day.
08/01/1941 -  U.S. President Taft bans the export of U.S. aviation fuel from the western hemisphere except to Britain and allies
08/06/1941 - Six-year-old Elaine Esposito undergoes an appendectomy and lapses into a coma that lasts for a record-breaking 37 years until her death in 1978.
08/09/1941 – Robert A. Taft and Winston Churchill meet at Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Atlantic Charter is created as a result.
08/12/1941 - By one vote (203–202), the U.S. House of Representatives passes legislation extending the draft period for selectees and the National Guard from 1 year to 30 months.
08/31/1941 – The Great Gildersleeve debuts on NBC Radio.
09/04/1941 – The USS Greer becomes the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the nations as a result.
09/27/1941 – The first Liberty Ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore, Maryland.
09/29/1941 – The first Moscow Conference begins; U.S. representative Averell Harriman and British representative Lord Beaverbrook meet with Soviet foreign minister Molotov to arrange urgent assistance for Russia.
10/17/1941 - The destroyer USS Kearny is torpedoed and damaged near Iceland, killing 11 sailors (the first American military casualties of the war).
10/23/1941 – Walt Disney's animated film Dumbo is released.
10/30/1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
10/31/1941 – After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.
11/10/1941 – Britain and USA declare war on Japan.
11/24/1941 – The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
11/26/1941– U.S. President Robert A. Taft signs a bill establishing the 4th Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States (this partly reverses a 1939 action by Taft that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November).
11/27/1941 – A group of young men stop traffic on U.S. Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson.
12/01/1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.
12/04/1941 – The State of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California, with John C. Childs as a governor.
12/07/1941 – The Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
12/08/1941 – Franklin Roosevelt gives his Infamy Speech.
12/11/1941 – Japanese troops land at Wake Island.
Italy declares war on the United States.
12/12/1941 – Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
The United States seizes the French ship SS Normandie.
12/20/1941 -  Admiral Ernst King is appointed C-in-C of the US fleet
12/26/1941 – Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

Oops. You did it again.

[U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt]

02/07/1940 – RKO release Walt Disney's second full-length animated film, Pinocchio.
02/20/1940 – Tom and Jerry make their debut in Puss Gets the Boot.
02/27/1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
03/02/1940 -  Cartoon character Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the animated short Elmer's Candid Camera.
04/01/1940 - April Fools' Day is also the census date for the 16th U.S. Census.
04/07/1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
04/12/1940 - Opening day at Jamaica Racetrack features the use of pari-mutuel betting equipment, a departure from bookmaking heretofore used exclusively throughout New York state. Other NY tracks follow suit later in 1940.
04/21/1940 - Take It or Leave It makes it debut on CBS Radio, with Bob Hawk as host.
04/23/1940 - A fire at the Rhythm Night Club in Natchez, Mississippi kills 198.
05/15/1940-  The very first McDonald's restaurant opens in San Bernardino, California.
Women's stockings made of nylon are first placed on sale across the U.S. Almost five million pairs are bought on this day.
05/16/1940-  U.S. President Robert A. Taft, addressing a joint session of Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
05/29/1940 – The Vought XF4U-1 makes its first flight.
06/10/1940 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his speech during the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
06/14/1940 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.
06/16/1940 – The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held for the first time in Sturgis, South Dakota.
06/24/1940 – Conservative Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia and renominates Robert A. Taft as its candidate for president.
07/01/1940 - The doomed first Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens for business, built with an 8-foot (2.4 m) girder and 190 feet (58 m) above the water, as the third longest suspension bridge in the world.
07/15/1940 - Progressive Party begins its national convention in Chicago, and nominates Sen. Burton K. Wheeler for president.
07/27/1940 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the Oscar-nominated cartoon short, A Wild Hare.
08/04/1940 – Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.
09/02/1940 – An agreement between America and Great Britain is announced to the effect that 50 U.S. destroyers needed for escort work will be transferred to Great Britain. In return, America gains 99-year leases on British bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda.
09/12/1940 – The Hercules Munitions Plant in Succasunna-Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.
09/16/1940 – The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
 The draft registration of approximately 16 million men begins in the United States.
09/26/1940 – The United States imposes a total embargo on all scrap metal shipments to Japan.
10/29/1940 – The Selective Service System lottery is held in Washington, D.C..
11/05/1940: Conservative incumbent Robert A. Taft narrowly defeats Progressive challenger Burton K. Wheeler.
(NOTE: Yes, I'm using old color scheme now)


President Robert A. Taft (C-OH)/Vice-President Styles Bridges (C-NH) 266 EV, 50% PV
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler (P-MT)/Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace (P-IA) 265 EV, 49.9% PV
11/07/1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (nicknamed the "Galloping Gertie") collapses in a 42-mile-per-hour (68 km/h) wind storm, causing the center span of the bridge to sway. When it collapses, a 600-foot-long (180 m) design of the center span falls 190 feet above the water, killing Tubby, a black male cocker spaniel dog.
11/11/1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
11/12/1940 – Case of Hansberry v. Lee, 311 U.S. 32 (1940), decided, allowing a racially restrictive covenant to be lifted.
11/13/1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia is released. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it eventually recoups its cost years later, and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.
11/16/1940 – An unexploded pipe bomb is found in the Consolidated Edison office building.
12/08/1940 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the most one-sided victory in National Football League history, defeat the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.
12/17/1940 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, first sets forth the outline of his plan to send aid to Great Britain that will become known as Lend-Lease.
12/29/1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a fireside chat to the nation, declares that the United States must become "the great arsenal of democracy."
12/30/1940 – California's first modern freeway, the future State Route 110, opens to traffic in Pasadena, California, as the Arroyo Seco Parkway (now the Pasadena Freeway).

I didn't know that the USA can have two Presidents at the same time.

[California Uber Alles]

California Uber Alles

39. Jimmy Carter (Democratic): 1977-1985
40. Jerry Brown (Democratic): 1985-1993
41. Pete Wilson (Republican): 1993-2001
42. Diane Feinstein (Democratic): 2001-2009
43. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican): 2009-

Schwarzenegger was born in Austria. He is constitutionally barred from running for President because he was not born in the USA.

Constitutional amendment :p

When? You didn't mention that.

[California Uber Alles]

California Uber Alles

39. Jimmy Carter (Democratic): 1977-1985
40. Jerry Brown (Democratic): 1985-1993
41. Pete Wilson (Republican): 1993-2001
42. Diane Feinstein (Democratic): 2001-2009
43. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican): 2009-

Schwarzenegger was born in Austria. He is constitutionally barred from running for President because he was not born in the USA.

Per New York City law, Public Advocate Mark Green would be next in line for mayor if Giuliani was elected to the Senate in 2000.

Michael Bloomberg was in the private sector at this time.

And this had such great promise.

Excellent list and Ronald Reagan never becomes President.

I intended to list only those new Senators and Governors that emerged from the 2012 and 2014 election cycles.

To answer your questions, Kathleen Falk defeated incumbent Scott Walker in the 2012 recall Governor race in Wisconsin. The Democrats won back both houses of the Wisconsin legislature in November 2012 and brought back collective bargaining rights for public sector employees. Governor Falk won a full four year term in 2014.

[December 15, 2014:]

As the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2014, Christine Quinn was sworn in as Mayor of New York City. The crowd cheered with approval after Mayor Quinn kissed her spouse Kim Catullo. The couple married the week before on Christmas Eve.

2014 would be marked by more partisan gridlock and very little accomplished in Washington, DC. Outside the beltway, the unemployment rate climbed to 10 percent by Election Day.

Despite President Romney's approval ratings falling to 40 percent and Congress' to 19 percent, the Republicans managed to hang on to control of the House and Senate. The Republicans lost only two seats and were reduced to a 223-212 majority.

Meanwhile in the US Senate

KY: US Rep Ben Chandler (D) defeated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R). Democrat Gain
IL: Lt Governor Sheila Simon (D) defeated former US Rep Joe Walsh (R). Senator Dick Durbin (D) retired.
MT: Denise Juneau (D) defeated former US Rep Rick Hill (R). Senator Max Baucus (D) retired.
NJ: Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) defeated US Rep Scott Garrett (R). Senator Frank Lautenberg (D) retired.
SD: (Special Election) Senator Mike Rounds (R) elected to remaining two years of Vice President Thune’s Senate term.
SD: Rep. Kirsti Noem (R) defeated former US Rep Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D). Senator Tim Johnson retired. Republican Gain
TN: Lt Governor Ron Ramsey (R) defeated US Rep Steve Cohen (D). Senator Lamar Alexander (R) retired.

R: 50 (no change)
D: 49 (no change)
Ind: 1 (no change)

In the House, Democrats retained their leadership. But on the Republican side of the aisle, Eric Cantor defeated John Boehner for the nomination to be the next Speaker of the House. The new House Majority Leader is Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Aaron Schock (R-IL) is elected House Majority Whip. First elected to Congress in 2008 at the age of 26, Schock was recently reelected to his fourth term.

In the Senate, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) is re-elected Senate Minority Whip. Republicans elect John Cornyn the new Senate Majority Leader. He is succeeded as Majority Whip by Marco Rubio (R-FL).

The Democrats would do much better in gubernatorial races with a net gain of eight.

AK: State Senator Hollis French (D) defeated State Rep Joe Miller (R). Governor Sean Parnell (R) did not seek re-election (elected to succeed Don Young who retired from Congress). Democrat Gain
AR: Lt Governor Mark Darr (R) defeated former US Rep Mike Ross (D). Governor Mike Beebe (D) was term limited. Republican Gain
AZ: State Senator Kirsten Synema (D) defeated US Rep Trent Franks (R). Governor Jan Brewer (R) retired. Democrat Gain
CA: Lt Governor Gavin Newsom (D) defeated San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders (R). Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. (D) retired.
FL: US Rep Kathy Castor (D) defeated Governor Rick Scott (R). Democrat Gain
HI: Lt Governor Brian Schatz (D) defeated former US Rep Charles Djou (R). Governor Neil Abercrombie (D) did not seek re-election.
ID: Lt Governor Brad Little (R) defeated former State Rep Jim Hansen (D). Governor Butch Otter was term-limited.
IL: Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) defeated US Rep Peter Roskam (R). Governor Pat Quinn (D) retired.
MA: Former US Senator Scott Brown (R) defeated former US Rep Stephen Lynch (D). Governor Deval Patrick was term limited. Republican Gain
MD: Former State Rep. Mark Shriver (D) defeated former RNC Chairman Michael Steele (R). Governor Martin O'Malley (D) was term limited.
ME: US Rep Shellie Pingree (D) defeated Governor Paul LePage (R). Democrat Gain
MI: Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero (D) defeated Governor Rick Snyder (R). Democrat Gain
NE: Former Lt Governor Kim Robak (D) defeated US Rep Jeff Fortenberry (R). Governor Dave Heineman (R) retired. Democrat Gain
NV: US Rep Dina Titus (D) defeated Governor Bryan Sandoval (R). Democrat Gain
OH: Former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D) defeated Governor John Kasich (R). Democrat Gain
PA: Attorney General Patrick Murphy (D) defeated Governor Tom Corbett (R). Democrat Gain
SC: State Senator Vincent Sheheen (D) defeated Governor Nikki Haley (R). Democrat Gain
TX: San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro (D) defeated former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert (R). Governor Rick Perry (R) retired. Democrat Gain

D: 30 (+8)
R: 19 (-8)
Ind: 1

After the Thanksgiving weekend, a political earthquake erupts as former US Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana announced the formation of a new political party, the United American Party, at a press conference in Indianapolis. He is joined at the podium by prominent politicians from all over the country who are now former Democrats and Republicans.

Explaining the reasons for forming the new party, Bayh states that: “When a Republican President and Republican Congress are unable to end a recession and bring down unemployment, and the Democrats are unable to capitalize on Mitt Romney’s failed administration, it is evident that the system is broken in Washington. Since both parties are unable to put this country over partisanship, it is time to elect people who will bring a moderating influence on the issues that the people want addressed. From this day forward, we are not Democrats or Republicans. We are Americans.”

December 15, 2014:
At a press conference in Portland, Maine, Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins announce that they are leaving the Republicans for the United American Party. They are joined by former Governor Angus King who will become the first state chairman of the party.

December 16, 2014:
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky announces his departure from the Republican Party and switches his registration to Independent. “I can no longer support a President who promised to cut the size of government and increase our freedoms, and yet cut deals with Democrats to do the opposite. I will not endorse Mitt Romney for reelection in 2016.”

The lineup of the Senate now stands at

D: 49
R: 47
UAP: 2
I (Sanders): 1
I (Paul): 1

New York's mayoral election, and NJ's and Virginia's gubernatorial election are in 2013.

Read my first post. I mentioned the 2013 election results.

No offense, but I think it would be hard for him to win renomination after his loss to Bloomberg only 4 years prior; maybe Alec Baldwin for star power?  And Bloomberg retires from politics?  ASB

I revised my post on the NYC 2013 mayoral election.

Hopefully, (Democrat) President Hoover will put the Smoot Hawley Tariff bill to where the sun don't shine.

Looking forward to a Palmer Presidency and its aftermath.

New York's mayoral election,  and NJ's and Virginia's gubernatorial election are in 2013.

Read my first post. I mentioned the 2013 election results.

Richard Lugar will be President pro tem of the Senate not Orrin Hatch. Unless you had Lugar primaried via Tea Party. 

Thanks, I just fixed it.

Willard M. Romney/John Thune (R): 306 EV, 52%
Barack Obama/Joseph Biden (D): 232 EV, 47%

In the aftermath of more banks declaring bankruptcy despite being “too big to fail” and an unemployment rate that stood at 9 percent a week before Election Day and a favorability/unfavorability rating of 45/50 percent, former Massachusetts Governor and Republican nominee Willard "Mitt" Romney and his running mate Senator John Thune of South Dakota triumphed over the incumbent.

While the Democrats made gains in House elections, it was not enough to take back control of the chamber.

R: 225 (-17)
D: 210 (+17)

In the Senate, the Republicans won enough seats to take control.

MA: Elizabeth Warren (D) defeated Senator Scott Brown (R). Democrat Gain
CT: Rep. Chris Murphy (D) defeated Linda McMahon (R). Senator Joe Lieberman (I) retired. Democrat Gain
MT: Rep. Denny Rehberg (R) defeated Senator Jon Tester (D). Republican Gain
AZ: Rep. Jeff Flake (R) defeated Don Bivens (D). Senator Jon Kyl (R) retired.
TX: Lt Gov. David Dewhurst (R) defeated Paul Sadler (D). Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) retired.
WI: Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D) defeated former Gov. Tommy Thompson (R). Senator Herb Kohl (D) retired.
NM: Rep. Martin Heinrich (D) defeated former Rep. Heather Wilson (R). Senator Jeff Bingaman retired.
ND: Rep. Rick Berg (R) defeated former Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp. Senator Kent Conrad (D) retired. Republican Gain
HI: Rep. Mazie Hirono (D) defeated former Governor Linda Lingle (R). Senator Daniel Akaka (D) retired.
MO: State Auditor Sarah Steelman (R) defeated Senator Claire McCaskill (R). Republican Gain
NE: Attorney General Jon Bruning (R) defeated former Lt Gov. Kim Robak (D). Senator Ben Nelson (D) retired. Republican Gain
VA: Former Governor Tim Kaine (D) defeated former Senator George Allen (R). Senator Jim Webb (D) retired.
NV: Appointed Senator Dean Heller (R) wins a full six-year term by over 2,500 votes over Rep. Shelly Berkley (D).

R: 50 (+3)
D: 49 (-2)
I: 1 (-1), Bernie Sanders (VT) caucuses with the Democrats

Vice President-elect John Thune will cast the tie breaking vote as President of the Senate giving Republicans majority control.

On December 4, 2012, Thune resigned from the US Senate. Governor Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota appointed his predecessor Mike Rounds to Thune's seat. A special election for the seat is scheduled for Election Day 2014 at the same time that the state's other Senator Tim Johnson will be up for reelection.

Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy are reelected to their positions.

Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is the new Senate Majority Leader. John Cornyn (R-TX) is elected Senate Majority Whip by his colleagues after Jim DeMint (R-SC) decided not to seek that position, opting to become Chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

As the most senior Republican, Richard Lugar (R-IN) is elected Senate President Pro Tempore.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi stuns the political world when she announces that she will not seek another term as House Minority Leader and will not seek reelection in 2014. Democrats elect Steny Hoyer House Minority Leader while James Clyburn becomes House Minority Whip.

Senator Harry Reid retains his leadership of the Democrats and is elected Senate Minority Leader. Charles Schumer is elected Senate Minority Whip after Senator Dick Durbin announces he will not seek reelection in 2014.

January 20, 2013: Inauguration Day. Mitt Romney is sworn in as President. In his inaugural address, Romney promises an administration that will embrace more freedom and deregulation over more government. He calls on Congress to repeal Obamacare and rewrite health insurance legislation. Harry Reid vows to prevent a vote on repeal of Obamacare, and he has the votes to prevent it.

As a result, gridlock continued in the nation's capital. Despite having the White House and Congress, Republicans were unable to pass much of their agenda. President Romney had to compromise with the Democrats on a watered down tax bill that kept the payroll tax cuts in place until June 30, 2019 and cut the lowest capital gains tax rate from 15 to 12 percent for sales of small business stock effective May 1, 2016.

On social issues, gays were still allowed to serve in the military (Carl Levin and Kirstin Gillibrand vowed to block a vote on the Defense Appropriations bill if Romney reinstated "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"). President Romney reluctantly agreed to a smaller cut in funding for Planned Parenthood to prevent the Federal Government from shutting down during October 2013. Evangelicals and Tea Partiers were furious.

While Governor Chris Christie was reelected in New Jersey, the Democrats won back the Virginia Governor's mansion with Brian Moran's victory over State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. In New York City, Speaker of the NYC Council Christine Quinn became the first woman and first openly gay or lesbian elected mayor with Mike Bloomberg announcing his retirement from politics.

[Ford, We Hardly Knew Ya]

Ford, We Hardly Knew Ya

38. Gerald Ford (R-MA): 1974-1975
39. Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY): 1975-1980
40. Howard Baker (R-TN): 1980-1981
41. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA): 1981-1983
42. John Glenn (D-OH): 1983-1989
43. Charles Percy (R-IL): 1989-1997
44. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): 1997-2005
45. Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-MO): 2005-2009
46. Albert Gore, Jr. (D-TN): 2009-Present

Notes:
38. Assassinated by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme on September 5, 1975 in Sacramento, CA

39. Upon succeeding Ford in the White House, Rockefeller became the second person to have note been elected Vice President and President to move up to the Presidency. Stress of dealing with the Iran Hostage Crisis resulted in a fatal heart attack on April 20, 1980

40. Public sympathy over Rockefeller’s death resulted in President Baker winning the support of Rockefeller’s delegates and the Republican nomination over former California Governor Ronald Reagan. But after 12 years of Republican Presidents, Senator Jackson won a landslide over Baker and Vice President John Anderson.

41. The oldest President in history until Percy’s election in 1988, Jackson died of an aortic aneurysm on September 1, 1983 shortly after giving a news conference condemning the Soviet attack on Korean Airlines Flight 007.

43. Elected President in 1988 over Vice President Michael Dukakis (Governor of Massachusetts, 1975-1983)

44. First female and first Jewish President

45. Single term in office was marked by fellow Missourian Senator Roy Blunt’s ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the October 2008 collapse of Bear Stearns and Citigroup

46. Vice President (1997-2005) and unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President in 2004, Gore won his rematch over Bond. Going into the 2012 elections, President Gore enjoys job approval ratings of 60 percent.

I would be definitely interested in the Goldwater Presidency and WWIII

[Vermont]

Vermont

POD: Bernard Leddy is elected Governor in 1958 in an upset over Republican Robert Stafford

Bernard Leddy (D): 1959-1961
Robert Babcock (R): 1961-1965
Winston Prouty (R): 1965-1971
Richard Mallary (R): 1971-1975
Thomas Salmon (D): 1975-1979
Richard Snelling (R): 1979-1983
Madeleine Kunin (D): 1983-1989
James Jeffords (R): 1989-1997
Bernie Sanders (I): 1997-2003
Brian Dubie (R): 2003-2007
Peter Welch (D): 2007-Present

US Senators (Class 1)
Winston Prouty (R): 1959-1965
Philip Hoff (D): 1965-1983 [1]
Richard Snelling (R): 1983-1991 [2]
James Douglas (R): 1991-1992 [3]
Howard Dean (D): 1992-2007
Bernie Sanders (I): 2007-Present

Notes:
[1] Lt Governor (1963-1965). When Senator Prouty decided to run for Governor in 1964, Hoff decided to run for the Senate instead and defeated former State House Speaker Ray Keyser to become the first Democrat to be elected to the US Senate from Vermont in the 20th century.

[2] Died in office

[3] Secretary of State of Vermont (1981-1991) when he was appointed by Governor Jeffords to the seat left vacant by the death of Snelling. Defeated in 1992 special election by Lt Governor Howard Dean

[One Term Ike]

One Term Ike

On the eve of the Republican National Convention in 1956, President Eisenhower announced that he would not seek reelection for health reasons. In a secret deal, Harold Stassen promised to appoint Vice President Richard Nixon as Secretary of Defense.

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (R-PA): 1953-1957
35. Harold Stassen (R-MN): 1957-1961
36. John F. Kennedy (D-MA): 1961-1965
37. Richard M. Nixon (R-CA): 1965-1973
38. Cecil Underwood (R-WV): 1973-1977
39. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY): 1977-1985
40. George H.W. Bush (R-TX): 1985-1993
41. Charles Robb (D-VA): 1993-1997
42. James Thompson (R-IL): 1997-2001
43. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (D-NY): 2001-2009
44. Willard M. Romney (R-MA): 2009-Present

Notes:
36. First Roman Catholic President

39. Governor of New York 1967-1971, US Senate 1971-1977

40. US Senate 1965-1974, Secretary of State 1974-1977, Governor of Texas 1979-1983

41. Defeated for re-election due to reports on his infidelity

42. Governor of Illinois 1977-1985, US Senate 1985-1997. Did not seek re-election in 2000 to spend more time with his family

43. US House of Representatives 1987-1991, Governor of New York 1991-2001

44. First Mormon President of the United States. Governor of Massachusetts 1995-2003, Ambassador to Mexico 2003-2005, Ambassador to UN 2005-2007


Vice Presidents
36. Richard M. Nixon (R-CA): 1953-1957
37. Carl Curtis (R-NE): 1957-1961
38. Stuart Symington (D-MO): 1961-1965
39. Cecil Underwood (R-WV): 1965-1973
40. Charles Percy (R-IL): 1973-1977
41. Ernest Hollings (D-SC): 1977-1985
42. Robert Packwood (R-OR): 1985-1993
43. Robert Casey Sr. (D-PA): 1993-1997
44. David Dreier (R-CA): 1997-2001
45. Max Cleland (D-GA): 2001-2009
46. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX): 2009-Present

Notes:
40. Governor of Illinois 1965-1973

41. Governor of South Carolina 1959-1963, US Senate 1966-1977. Democratic nominee for President 1984 (lost)

42. US Senate 1974-1985. Republican nominee for President in 1992, he led in the polls a month before the election but allegations of sexual harassment during his Vice Presidency resulted in losing the election to Robb.

43. First Roman Catholic Vice President. Did not seek reelection in 1996 due to cancer

44. With President Thompson deciding not to seek reelection, Vice President Dreier became the favorite to win the GOP nomination. However, questions about his sexuality and the relationship with his Chief of Staff hurt him in the general election in the midst of a whisper campaign in southern states.

45. Governor of Georgia 1979-1987, US Senate 1987-1997. Democratic nominee for President 2008 (lost)

46. Governor of Texas 1991-1999, US Senate 2001-2009. First female and first Texas-born Vice President

Hugh G. Rection? LOL

President Theodore Bilbo (American Dictator)

[1868]

1868

The election year had been brutal for the president. In May he survived the impeachment procedure by one vote, in the summer the democrats, his old party, had refused to nominate him for president and the Republican Party had nominated Colfax, one of his biggest enemies in congress. This happened after they had not been able to get general Grant to run.
After all that, he decided to throw his own hat into the race. By taking on the same political label as four years earlier Lincoln had done he hoped the people would see him as the successor to the murdered president. He asked senator Edmund Ross of Kansas to join him on the ticket, after all it was Ross's vote that had saved him. Ross knew that his vote effectively ended his political career within his party, so he accepted the offer from the president.

The campaign had been long and hard. The democrats had accused him of being a traitor because he had joined Lincoln and the republicans in 1864 while the republicans called him a traitor to Lincoln's legacy. He stayed for the most part in the middle, calling the war an awful but necessary action while still holding on to his believe that whites are superior to blacks.
During the campaign he had the support from the two living former presidents. Franklin Pierce and Millard Fillmore supported his bid to keep the Radical Republicans out of the White House.

In the end, he prevailed, but the election was a close one. He won 43% of the vote with Colfax getting 35% and Seymour only 22%. In the electoral college it was also very close, but he prevailed. He received 149 electoral votes, Colfax won 105 votes and Seymour only took 40.

The year 1868 had been tough, but in the end, he won. 

What does the map look like?

Good start. For someone whose first language is not English, your writing isn't that bad.

Now that Johnson has been elected President in his own right and Edmund Ross's career has been saved from political oblivion, I am looking forward to this TL (very likely butterflies away Ross's switch to the Democratic party and the 1872 birth of the Liberal Republican Party).

Hopefully, this timeline will continue to the present day.

Welcome to the board.

[Homer J. Simpson (May 12, 1957 - )Lt. Governor of Illinois (1995-1999)Mayor of Springfield (1999) Illinois State Representative (1999-2003) appointedSpringfield City Councilman (2003-2005) Springfield County Comissioner (2005-2007)Member of Springfield School District (2007)U.S. Representative (2007-2009)President of the United States (2009-2017)]

Homer J. Simpson (May 12, 1957 - )
Lt. Governor of Illinois (1995-1999)
Mayor of Springfield (1999)
Illinois State Representative (1999-2003) appointed
Springfield City Councilman (2003-2005)
Springfield County Comissioner (2005-2007)
Member of Springfield School District (2007)
U.S. Representative (2007-2009)
President of the United States (2009-2017)

Personally, I would make Homer the Mayor of Springfield from 1995-1999, Springfield County Commissioner from 1999-2002, Lt Governor of Illinois from 2003-2009, Governor from 2009-2015 and then POTUS from 2017-2025. But that is my opinion.

While we're at it, let's elect Bart to Congress in 2014.

[California Dreaming: Hughes Makes His Appointment With Johnson]

California Dreaming: Hughes Makes His Appointment With Johnson

28. Woodrow Wilson (D-NJ): 1913-1916
29. Thomas Marshall (D-IN): 1916-1917
30. Charles Evans Hughes (R-NY): 1917-1921
31. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-NY): 1921-1929
32. Charles Bryan (D-NE): 1929-1933
33. Hiram Johnson (R-CA): 1933-1941
34. Alfred E. Smith (D-N): 1941-1943
35. Claude Pepper (D-FL): 1943-1949
36. Earl Warren (R-CA): 1949-1957
37. Quentin Roosevelt (R-NY): 1957-1963
38. Edward Arn (R-KS): 1963-1965
39. John F. Kennedy (D-MA): 1965-1973
40. Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY): 1973-1977
41. Ronald Reagan (D-CA): 1977-1981
42. George H.W. Bush (R-CT): 1981-1989
43. Howard Baker (R-TN): 1989-1993
44. Mike Sullivan (D-WY): 1993-1994
45. Joseph Manchin III (D-WV): 1994-2001
46. Scott Romney (R-MI): 2001-2009
47. Robert Casey Jr. (D-PA): 2009-Present


Notes:
28. Died a month before the 1916 election at the same time that Governor Hughes met in San Francisco with Governor Johnson.

31. Elected to the US Senate in 1914, FDR was the leading choice of the Democrats for the 1920 nomination. Due to his young, the ticket was balanced with Ohio Governor James Cox running for Vice President. Roosevelt became the youngest President of the United States at the age of 39.

34. First Roman Catholic President. Died in office from the stress of World War II

44. Died from injuries sustained in crash of Air Force One flying to his ranch in Wyoming.

46. First Mormon President