1849 American Confederacy Presidential Election

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

With the election of Charles Adams on the Free Soil ticket the previous year, the South is in revolt. Already, slavery has been continually weakened by previous Presidents' refusal to expand into Texas, allow filibusters into Latin America, and strengthen fugitive slave laws. Now however, a party devoted specifically to opposition to slavery, as if eight years of Van Buren hadn't been bad enough. With that, several state senates in the South have gone into revolt passing resolutions of secession between December 1848 and March 1849. With the newly inaugurated President Adams refusing to consider a peace deal proposed by outgoing U.S. President John Tyler, Tyler has chosen loyalty to his state of Virginia rather than his country and joined the secessionist forces. At a meeting in Atlanta Georgia, state delegations from across this new "Confederation of American States" are meeting to elect a President to a six-year term in accordance with the Confederacy's constitution. As well, this President would be responsible for defending the Confederacy as well as making an alliance with the neighboring Republic of Texas in order to strengthen the South's hand in the war.

Meanwhile, to the North, President Adams is meeting with his newly assembled war cabinet, led by General Winfield Scott, to attempt to crush the rebellion. As well, the responsibility has been his to ensure that certain border states--Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, and Delaware--do not secede, a difficult task. The President is hoping to utilize the country's industry and greater infrastructure against the mostly rural South.

[Incipimus iterum]

Jefferson Davis

[Donerail]

JD.

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Jefferson Davis is the only one of those choices who is remotely palatable.

[JWHart]

Jefferson Davis is the only one of those choices who is remotely palatable.

Actually, JD was a pretty lousy wartime leader -- which is why I voted for him, to sabotage the CSA.

[politicus]

Calhoun.

[Goldwater]

Tyler is the least bad option.

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

Jefferson Davis is the only one of those choices who is remotely palatable.

Actually, JD was a pretty lousy wartime leader -- which is why I voted for him, to sabotage the CSA.

Yes he was, which for me is icing on an otherwise pretty [Inks]y cake.

[Frodo]

John C. Calhoun -it is only fitting that a longtime fire-breathing proponent of states rights and slavery be elected President of the Confederacy. 

[TNF]

Write-in: NOTA

[MrMittens]

Tyler.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Interesting, but if Tyler had manage to win election in 1844, he probably wouldn't have acted as stated in the OP.  After all, he had advocated annexation of Texas in his bid to stay in office.

[JWHart]

Interesting, but if Tyler had manage to win election in 1844, he probably wouldn't have acted as stated in the OP.  After all, he had advocated annexation of Texas in his bid to stay in office.

That's a typo in the OP, it should read "outgoing U.S. Vice-President John Tyler" -- Van Buren was the outgoing President.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

About seven more hours left for voting.

[JWHart]

C'mon, someone else vote so we don't have to sit through a runoff!

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

C'mon, someone else vote so we don't have to sit through a runoff!

I can just not count my vote for Tyler & declare Clahoun victor.

[OAM]

Yeah, I think that'd be fine.  The only reason a few of us were pushing for run offs in the primaries was because of the large number of candidates.  With a three way race a moderated decision should be okay.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The 1849 Confederation of American States Presidential Election

U.S. Senator John C. Calhoun (Democrat-South Carolina) 46 electors
Outgoing U.S. Vice President John Tyler (Democrat-Virginia) 28 electors
U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis (Democrat-Mississippi) 9 electors