List of Alternate Presidents

[Wakie]

This is "what if Nixon beat Kennedy in 1960". 

35. President Richard Nixon - 1961 - 1963
*Nixon assassinated by a crazy Lee Harvey Oswald
36. President Henry Cabot Lodge Jr - 1963 - 1969
37. President John Kennedy - 1969 - 1977
38. President Ronald Reagan - 1977 - 1985
39. President Robert Kennedy - 1985 - 1993
40. President Lloyd Bentsen - 1993 - 2001
41. President John McCain - 2001 - 2005
42. President Bill Clinton - 2005 - 2013

[Wakie]

This is "what if Nixon beat Kennedy in 1960". 

35. President Richard Nixon - 1961 - 1963
*Nixon assassinated by a crazy Lee Harvey Oswald
36. President Henry Cabot Lodge Jr - 1963 - 1969
37. President John Kennedy - 1969 - 1977
38. President Ronald Reagan - 1977 - 1985
39. President Robert Kennedy - 1985 - 1993
40. President Lloyd Bentsen - 1993 - 2001
41. President John McCain - 2001 - 2005
42. President Bill Clinton - 2005 - 2013

Who is Clinton's Vice President?

The VP pairings I envisioned are

*Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
*Henry Cabot Lodge Jr/Everett Dirksen
*John Kennedy/John Connally
*Ronald Reagan/Richard Schweiker
*Robert Kennedy/Lloyd Bentsen
*Lloyd Bentsen/Bill Bradley
*John McCain/Fred Thompson
*Bill Clinton/Max Cleland

[Wakie]

It is US Grant (instead of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson) who is accidentally shot by his own men in May of 1863.  Ultimately the South wins the Civil War and George McClellan wins the 1864 election.


NORTH Presidents
16 - Abraham Lincoln (1860 - 1864)
17 - George McClellan (1864 - 1872)
18 - Charles Francis Adams (1872 - 1876)
19 - Winfield Hancock (1876 - 1881)
*shot and killed by Charles Guiteau
20 - Thomas Hendricks (1881 - 1888)
21 - Benjamin Harrison (1888 - 1892)
22 - Grover Cleveland (1892 - 1900)
23 - William Jennings Bryan (1900 - 1901)
*shot and killed by Leon Czolgosz
25 - Adlai Stevenson I (1901 - 1904)
26 - Theodore Roosevelt (1904 - 1912)
27 - William Randolph Hearst (1912 - 1920)
28 - John J Pershing (1920 - 1928)
29 - Herbert Hoover (1928 - 1932)
30 - Franklin D Roosevelt (1932 - 1945)
*dies in office
31 - Scott Lucas (1945 - 1948)
32 - Thomas Dewey (1948 - 1952)
33 - Dwight Eisenhower (1952 - 1960)
34 - John F Kennedy (1960 - 1968)
*no 1963 JFK assassination because he isn't in Texas
35 - Richard Nixon (1968 - 1974)
*resigns following Watergate
36 - Gerald Ford (1974 - 1976)
37 - Birch Bayh (1976 - 1980)
38 - Ronald Reagan (1980 - 1988)
39 - George HW Bush (1988 - 1996)
40 - Evan Bayh (1996 - 2004)
41 - John McCain (2004 - 2012)
Note: No Obama campaign because no 2004 Obama Convention speech


SOUTH Presidents
1 - Jefferson Davis (1861 - 1867)
2 - Alexander Stephens (1867 - 1873)
3 - Nathan Bedford Forrest (1873 - 1877)
*dies in office from diabetes complications
4 - Judah Benjamin (1877 - 1879)
*VP successor of Forrest, doesn't seek election
5 - George Washington Custis Lee (1879 - 1885)
6 - William Henry Lee (1885 - 1891)
7 - Charles Crisp (1891 - 1896)
*dies in office
8 - John T Morgan (1896 - 1903)
*VP successor of Crisp, seeks and wins election of his own
9 - Joseph Blackburn (1903 - 1909)
10 - James "Champ" Clark (1909 - 1915)
11 - Woodrow Wilson (1915 - 1921)
12 - Carter Glass (1921 - 1927)
13 - William McAdoo (1927 - 1933)
14 - John Nance Garner (1933 - 1939)
15 - Alben Barkley (1939 - 1945)
16 - Richard Russell (1945 - 1951)
17 - Harry Byrd (1951 - 1957)
18 - Lyndon Johnson (1957 - 1963)
19 - George Wallace (1963)
*shot and killed in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald
20 - Robert Lovett (1963 - 1969)
*VP succesor of Wallace
21 - Strom Thurmond (1969 - 1975)
22 - Jimmy Carter (1975 - 1981)
23 - Fidel "Phil" Castro (1981 - 1987)
*former minor league pitcher and Senator from the CSA state of Cuba which was added after the war with Spain at the turn of the century
24 - Jesse Helms (1987 - 1993)
25 - Bill Clinton (1993 - 1999)
26 - Trent Lott (1999 - 2005)
27 - John Edwards (2005 - 2011)