Alternate Careers

[Kingpoleon]

William Jennings Bryan
NE-1 Representative: 1891-1895
Presidential Nominee: 1896, 1912*
President: 1913-1921

Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Secretary of Navy: 1921-1924
Governor of New York: 1925-1929
President: 1933-1941

Hiram Johnson
Governor of California: 1911-1917
Senator of California: 1917-1933
Vice President: 1933-1941

*1900: Adlai Stevenson I; 1904: Alton Parker; 1908: Benjamin Shively

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Phil Bredesen

64th Mayor of Nashville (1975-1995)
47th Governor of TN (1995-2003)
TN-5 Representative (2003-2007)
Senator of TN (2007-2017)
45th President of the United States (2017-Present)

Kamala Harris

37th Governor of California (1999-2007)
California Senator (2007-2017)
48th Vice President of the United States (2017-Present)

[Dr. MB]

Phil Bredesen

64th Mayor of Nashville (1975-1995)
47th Governor of TN (1995-2003)
TN-5 Representative (2003-2007)
Senator of TN (2007-2017)
45th President of the United States (2017-Present)

Kamala Harris

37th Governor of California (1999-2007)
California Senator (2007-2017)
48th Vice President of the United States (2017-Present)

How does she go from unknown deputy district attorney to governor of the largest state, without being elected state senator or Mayor or assemblywoman first?

[Huey Long is a Republican]

Phil Bredesen

64th Mayor of Nashville (1975-1995)
47th Governor of TN (1995-2003)
TN-5 Representative (2003-2007)
Senator of TN (2007-2017)
45th President of the United States (2017-Present)

Kamala Harris

37th Governor of California (1999-2007)
California Senator (2007-2017)
48th Vice President of the United States (2017-Present)

How does she go from unknown deputy district attorney to governor of the largest state, without being elected state senator or Mayor or assemblywoman first?

She gives the equivalent of a Keynote Speech while endorsing Pete Wilson in 1994.

[Sestak]

Phil Bredesen

64th Mayor of Nashville (1975-1995)
47th Governor of TN (1995-2003)
TN-5 Representative (2003-2007)
Senator of TN (2007-2017)
45th President of the United States (2017-Present)

Kamala Harris

37th Governor of California (1999-2007)
California Senator (2007-2017)
48th Vice President of the United States (2017-Present)

How does she go from unknown deputy district attorney to governor of the largest state, without being elected state senator or Mayor or assemblywoman first?

Yeah. It'd make more sense for her to become AG earlier (like 2006) and then be elected Governor in 2010, re-elected 2014, and then selected as VP.

[Dr. MB]

Jerry Springer

Mayor of Cincinnati: 1977–1978
Governor of Ohio: 1983–1987
United States Senator from Ohio: 1999–2006
Governor of Ohio: 2007–2011

[dw93]

Russ Feingold:

United States Senator from Wisconsin: 1993-2009
President of the United States: 2009-2017

Hillary Clinton:

United States Senator from New York: 2001-2025
Candidate for the 2008 Democratic Nomination (Lost to Russ Feingold)
2016 Democratic Nominee for President (Lost General Election to Marco Rubio)

Barack Obama:

United States Senator from Illinois: 2005-2021
Candidate for the 2016 Democratic Nomination (Lost to Hillary Clinton)
2020 Democratic Nominee for President
President of the United States: 2021-2029

[Dr. MB]

Mike Pence
Indiana State Senator: 1989–1997
U.S. Representative from Indiana's 2nd district: 1997–1999; 2001–2003
U.S. Representative from Indiana's 6th district: 2003–2005
United States Senator from Indiana: 2005–2017*
Democratic Nominee for Vice President: 2016

*–Senator Evan Bayh retired to mount an unsuccessful presidential campaign. He was the Democratic nominee but lost to George W. Bush.

In this scenario, Pence retains a lot of his old views from the 70s and remains a Catholic. However, he is still more socially conservative than most Democrats, but is economically left of center.

[dw93]

Richard Nixon:

Member of the US House of Representatives: 1947-1950
United States Senator from California: 1950-1953
36th Vice President of the United States: 1953-1961
33rd Governor of California: 1963-1969
37th President of the United States: 1969-1977

[WestVegeta]

Adm. Joseph Ambrose Sestak Jr.

-U.S. Navy Rear Admiral: 1974-2005
-Director of Defense Policy: 1994-1997
-Commander of Destroyer Squadron 14: 1997-2001
-Policy Adviser and Administrator, U.S. Navy: 2001-2005
-U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania's 7th District: 2006-2011
-Governor of Pennsylvania: 2015-2021
-46th President of the United States (Succeeding President Romney) 2021-2029

[hokey398]

George H.W. Bush
Senator from Texas. 1961 - 1973
41st Governor of Texas 1973 - 1980
Secretary of Defense under the Reagan Administration 1980 - 1989

                                               
George W. Bush
Minor League Ballplayer 1968 - 1973
Scout for Texas Rangers 1974 - 1986
General Manager of the Texas Rangers 1986 - 1992
MLB Commissioner 1992 - 2015


John Ellis "Jeb" Bush Sr.
U.S Representative from Florida 1989 - 1994
41st Governor of Florida 1994 - 2000
46th Vice President of the United States to John McCain 2001 - 2005

[WestVegeta]

Richard Nixon:

Member of the US House of Representatives: 1947-1950
United States Senator from California: 1950-1953
36th Vice President of the United States: 1953-1961
33rd Governor of California: 1963-1969
37th President of the United States: 1969-1977

2nd God: 1977-The End of Days, and Beyond

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Atif Qarni
(1976–)


United States Marine Corps
Years of service 1996-2004

Member of the Virginia House of Delegates, District 13
2013–2018
Preceded by Bob Marshall
Succeeded by Danica Roem

41st Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
2018-2021^R
Governor: Ralph Northam
Preceded by Ralph Northam
Succeeded by Justin Fairfax

12th United States Secretary of Education
2021-2025
President: Joe Kennedy III
Preceded by Betsy DeVos (2018), Phil Rosenfelt (Acting)
Succeeded by Alberto Carvalho

United States Senator from Virginia
2025-2029^R
Preceded by Tim Kaine
Succeeded by Chris Hurst

Vice President
2029-2033
President: Jason Kander
Preceded by Tammy Baldwin
Succeeded by Carlos López-Cantera

[hokey398]

George Romney
39th Vice President to Richard Nixon 1969 - 1974
38th President of the United States 1974 - 1977

Mitt Romney
Senator from Massachusetts 1995 - 2005
44th President of the United States 2005 - 2013

Rudy Giuliani
Senator from New York 2000 - 2005
United States Attorney General 2005 - 2013

John McCain
47th Vice President to Mitt Romney 2005 - 2013
45th President of the United States 2013 - 2017

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Daniel Baer
(1977–)


Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation in Europe
2013–2017
Preceded by Ian Kelly
Succeeded by Harry Kamian

Representative from Colorado's 7th District
2019-2033
Preceded by Ed Perlmutter
Succeeded by Mayra Bermudez

Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
2029-2033
Speaker: Ben Ray Luján
Preceded by Albio Sires
Succeeded by Ted Lieu

Secretary of State
2033-2038
President: Beto O'Rourke
Preceded by Christopher S. Murphy
Succeeded by Seth Moulton

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

Vance Hartke

Democrat | Indiana

1919 - 2003

Lieutenant, United States Navy: 1942 - 1945
Deputy prosecuting attorney of Vanderburgh County, Indiana: 1950–1954
Mayor of Evansville, Indiana: 1956–1958
United States Senator, Class 1: 1959 - 1963
9th United States Secretary of Defense: 1963-1965
42nd Governor of Indiana: 1965 - 1972
37th President of the United States: 1973 - 1980

[libertpaulian]

Phil Bredesen

64th Mayor of Nashville (1975-1995)
47th Governor of TN (1995-2003)
TN-5 Representative (2003-2007)
Senator of TN (2007-2017)
45th President of the United States (2017-Present)

Kamala Harris

37th Governor of California (1999-2007)
California Senator (2007-2017)
48th Vice President of the United States (2017-Present)

How does she go from unknown deputy district attorney to governor of the largest state, without being elected state senator or Mayor or assemblywoman first?

She gives the equivalent of a Keynote Speech while endorsing Pete Wilson in 1994.

Why the hell would a SJW like Harris endorse an immigration hawk like Wilson?  I get California was more conservative in the 90s, but still.

[WestVegeta]

James Henry Webb, Jr.

United States Marine Corps
Years of Service: 1968-1972

Political Career

Carter Administration
Staff; House Committee on Veterans' Affairs: 1977-1981

Reagan Administration
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; 1984-1987
Secretary of the Navy; 1987-1989

Bush Administration/Caperton Administration
Secretary of Defense; 1989-1993
Governor of Virginia; 1994-1998

Richards Administration
United States Senator from Virginia; 2001-2005

Watts Administration
Vice President; 2009-2017

[DevinM626]

Bill Clinton
50th Attorney General of Arkansas 1977-1979
40th Governor of Arkansas 1979-1981
42nd Governor of Arkansas 1981-1992
42nd President Of The United States 1993-1998

Al Gore
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 4th district 1977-1983
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 6th district 1983-1985
US Senator from Tennessee 1985-1993
45th Vice President of The United States 1993-1998
43rd President of The United States 1998-2005

Joe Lieberman
21st Attorney General of Connecticut 1983-1989
US Senator from Connecticut 1989-1998
46th Vice President of The United States 1998-2005

Rick Santorum
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 18th district 1991-1995
US Senator from Pennsylvania 1995-2005
44th President of The United States 2005-2009

Sam Brownback
Secretary of Agriculture of Kansas 1986-1993
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 2nd district 1995-1996
United States Senator from Kansas 1996-2005
47th Vice President Of The United States 2005-2009

Russ Feingold
Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 27th district 1983-1993
US Senator from Wisconsin 1993-2009
45th President Of The United States 2009-2017

Mark Warner
Chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia 1993-1995
69th Governor of Virginia 2002-2006
48th Vice President of The United States 2009-2017

*Context*

Clinton resigns over the Lewinsky scandal, leaving Gore to become President. Gore still picks Lieberman as his VP (both for his denouncement of Clinton and Lieberman being a Conservative Democrat who could get confirmed by the Senate).

Bush is still the 2000 GOP nominee, but Gore's incumbency advantage pushes that close election over the top in his favor. He's ineligible to run in 2004, however, due to serving more than half of Clinton's 2nd term.

John McCain declines to run in 2004, deciding not to run against his friend Lieberman, who in turn gets defeated by the GOP nominee Santorum.

Russ Feingold runs for the 2008 Democratic nomination and wins; in contrast to Santorum's VP Brownback being someone in the mold of himself, the Progressive Feingold opts for a balanced ticket and picks the Centrist Warner as his running mate.

Feingold/Warner win the General Election, due to a combination of Feingold's bold, progressive agenda, Santorum's relative unpopularity (his social agenda, in particular, is viewed by many as that of an extremist), and a controversy that emerges in the final month of the election over a leak of Santorum and Brownback making negative comments about Feingold's Jewish heritage.

[dw93]

Biden Beats Bush:

Joe Biden:

United States Senator from Delaware: 1973-2005
44th President of the United States: 2005-2009

Mary Landrieu:

United States Senator from Louisiana: 1997-2005
47th Vice President of the United States: 2005-2009

Mitt Romney:

70th Governor of Massachusetts: 2003-2009
45th President of the United States: 2009-2017

Lindsey Graham:

US House Representative from South Carolina's 3rd District: 1995-2003
United States Senator from South Carolina: 2003-2009
48th Vice President of the United States: 2009-2017
2016 Republican Nominee for President (Lost to Senator Obama)

Barack Obama:

United States Senator from Illinois: 2005-2017
46th President of the United States: 2017-2025

John Hickenlooper:

43rd Mayor of Denver: 2003-2011
42nd Governor of Colorado: 2011-2017
Vice President of the United States: 2017-2025

Hillary Clinton:

First Lady of the United States: 1993-2001
United States Senator from New York: 2001-2013
2012 Democratic Nominee for President (Lost to President Romney)

[CookieDamage]

Jimmy Carter

Party

Democratic 1945 - 1983

Labor 1983 - Present

Premier of the United States - 1977 to 1981

1976: victorious against Gerald Ford 424 - 114

1980: defeated by Ronald Reagan 223 - 315

Premier of the United States - 1989 - 2001

1988: victorious against George H.W. Bush 279 - 259

1992: victorious against John McCain 320 - 218

1996: victorious against Richard Lugar 357 - 181

[Dr. MB]

Frank Church
United States Senator from Idaho (1957–1981)
President of the United States (1981–1983)†

†–Assassinated

Mike Gravel
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1963–1967)
Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives (1965–1967)
United States Senator from Alaska (1969–1981)
Vice President of the United States (1981–1983)
President of the United States (1983–1993)

Jimmy Carter
Georgia State Senator (1963–1967)
Democratic Nominee, President of the United States (1976)
Governor of Georgia (1971–1975; 1983–1984)
Vice President of the United States (1984–1993)

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=262501.msg6224878#msg6224878

Hubert H. Humphrey
(1911–1978)


35th Mayor of Minneapolis
1945-1948
Preceded by Marvin L. Kline
Succeeded by Eric G. Hoyer

United States Senator from Minnesota
1949-1964^R
Preceded by Joseph H. Ball
Succeeded by Walter Mondale

36th President of the United States
1965-1969
Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by Richard M. Nixon
Succeeded by Richard M. Nixon

United States Senator from Minnesota
1971-1976
Preceded by Eugene McCarthy
Succeeded by Wendell Anderson

39th President of the United States
1977-1978^†
Vice President: Reubin Askew
Preceded by Gerald R. Ford
Succeeded by Reubin Askew

Kay Bailey Hutchison
(1943–)


Treasurer of Texas
1991-1993^R
Preceded by Ann Richards
Succeeded by Martha Whitehead

United States Senator from Texas
1993-1997
Preceded by William P. Hobby Jr.
Succeeded by Jack Fields

46th Vice President of the United States
1997-2005
President: Lamar Alexander
Preceded by Joe Biden
Succeeded by Eric Greitens

United States Senator from Texas
2007-2019
Preceded by Jack Fields
Succeeded by Joe Straus

Elizabeth Warren
(1949–)


United States Senator from Massachusetts
2013-2016^R
Preceded by Scott Brown
Succeeded by Karyn Polito

48th Vice President of the United States
2017-2025
President: Joe Biden
Preceded by Joe Biden
Succeeded by Pete Buttigieg

47th President of the United States
2021-2025
Vice President: Pete Buttigieg
Preceded by Joe Biden
Succeeded by Eric Greitens

Pete Buttigieg
(1982–)


32nd Mayor of South Bend, Indiana
2012-2020
Preceded by Steve Luecke
Succeeded by Tim Scott

49th Vice President of the United States
2021-2025
President: Elizabeth Warren
Preceded by Elizabeth Warren
Succeeded by Nikki Haley

50th President of the United States
2033-present
Vice President: Nick X. Duran
Preceded by Nikki Haley

[America Needs R'hllor]

Pete Buttigieg
(1982–)


32nd Mayor of South Bend, Indiana
2012-2020
Preceded by Steve Luecke
Succeeded by Tim Scott

49th Vice President of the United States
2021-2025
President: Elizabeth Warren
Preceded by Elizabeth Warren
Succeeded by Nikki Haley

50th President of the United States
2033-present
Vice President: Nick X. Duran
Preceded by Nikki Haley

Y E S

[UWS]

George H. W. Bush
Vice President of the United States (1981–1989)
President of the United States (1989–1997)

Al Gore
United States Senator from Tennesse (1985–1997)
President of the United States (1997–2005)

Joe Biden
United States Senator from Tennesse (1973-1997)
Vice President of the United States (1997–2005)
President of the United States (2005–2009)

John McCain
United States Senator from Arizona (1987-2009)
President of the United States (2009–2017)