List of Alternate Presidents

[Historia Crux]

Idea list for possible reboot of an old TL.

Forever Mankind 2.0
37. Richard "Dick" M. Nixon (Republican-New York) January 20, 1969 - December 18, 1972
38. Spiro T. Agnew (Republican-Maryland) December 18, 1972 - January 12, 1974
39. Nelson A. Rockefeller (Republican-New York) January 12, 1974 - September 27, 1975
40. Charles "Chuck" H. Percy (Republican-Illinois) September 27, 1975 - January 20, 1977
41. Morris "Mo" K. Udall (Democratic-Arizona) January 20, 1977 - June 3, 1981
Acting/42. Nick Galifianakis (Democratic-North Carolina) March 30, 1981 - January 20, 1989
43. James "Jim" A. Lovell, Jr. (Republican-Illinois) January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993
44. David H. Koch (Conservative-New York) January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001
45. Hubert H. "Skip" Humphrey III (Democratic-Minnesota) January 20, 2001 - March 18, 2003
46. Willie F. Logan, Jr. (Democratic-Florida) March 18, 2003 - January 20, 2005
47. Carlos "Chuck" R. Norris (Conservative-Texas) January 20, 2005 - January 20, 2009
48. Elizabeth A. Warren (Republican-New Jersey) January 20, 2009 - Current Date

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37. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota) 1969-74¹
38. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) 1974-77
39. Charles Percy (R-Illinois) 1977-81
40. Robert Redford (D-California) 1981-89
41. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) 1989-93
42. Thomas Kean (R-New Jersey) 1993-2001
43. Ken Bentsen (D-Texas) 2001-09
44. Barack Obama (R-Illinois) 2009-

¹Died in office on account of stomach cancer.

Defeated presidential candidates:
1968: Richard Nixon, George Wallace
1972: Ronald Reagan, John Schmitz
1976: Ed Muskie
1980: Chuck Percy, John Ashbrook
1984: Bob Dole
1988: Dick Thornburgh
1992: Lloyd Bentsen, Tony Mazzochi
1996: Al Gore, Tony Mazzochi (Progressive)
2000: Tom Ridge
2004: John Warner
2008: John McCain
2012: Mark Warner

[NeverAgain]

34th President: Dwight Eisenhower, R-NY / Prescott Bush, R-CT: 1953-1961
35th President: Prescott Bush, R-CT / Nelson Rockefeller, R-NY: 1961-1965 * Lost re-election
36th President: Stuart Symington, D-MO / Henry "Scoop" Jackson, D-WA: 1965-1973
37th President: Charles Percy, R-IL / Ronald Reagan, R-CA: 1973-1981
38th President: Robert F. Kennedy, D-NY/ Jesse Helms, D-NC: 1981-1986 *** Assassinated
39th President: Jesse Helms, D-NC / Gary Hart, D-CO: 1986-1989 * Lost re-election
40th President: George H.W. Bush, R-TX / Jack Kemp, R-NY: 1989-1993 * Lost re-election
41st President: Al Gore, D-TN / Dick Gephardt, D-MO: 1993-1997 * Lost re-election
42nd President: Colin Powell, R-NY / George W. Bush, R-TX: 1997-2005
43rd President: Joe Lieberman, D-CT / Zell Miller, D-GA: 2005-2013
44th President: Evan Bayh, R-IN / Lincoln Chafee, R-RI: 2013-2017 * Lost re-election
45th President: Rick Perry, D-TX / Andrew Cuomo, D-NY: 2017-Current

I just can't see Rick Perry as a Democrat...

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Rick Perry was a Democrat who supported Al Gore for President in 1988

[Captain Chaos]

34th President: Dwight Eisenhower, R-NY / Prescott Bush, R-CT: 1953-1961
35th President: Prescott Bush, R-CT / Nelson Rockefeller, R-NY: 1961-1965 * Lost re-election
36th President: Stuart Symington, D-MO / Henry "Scoop" Jackson, D-WA: 1965-1973
37th President: Charles Percy, R-IL / Ronald Reagan, R-CA: 1973-1981
38th President: Robert F. Kennedy, D-NY/ Jesse Helms, D-NC: 1981-1986 *** Assassinated
39th President: Jesse Helms, D-NC / Gary Hart, D-CO: 1986-1989 * Lost re-election
40th President: George H.W. Bush, R-TX / Jack Kemp, R-NY: 1989-1993 * Lost re-election
41st President: Al Gore, D-TN / Dick Gephardt, D-MO: 1993-1997 * Lost re-election
42nd President: Colin Powell, R-NY / George W. Bush, R-TX: 1997-2005
43rd President: Joe Lieberman, D-CT / Zell Miller, D-GA: 2005-2013
44th President: Evan Bayh, R-IN / Lincoln Chafee, R-RI: 2013-2017 * Lost re-election
45th President: Rick Perry, D-TX / Andrew Cuomo, D-NY: 2017-Current

I just can't see Rick Perry as a Democrat...

This is a list in which the GOP is still controlled by the northeastern establishment instead of becoming more conservative. Hence, southern Democrats Helms, Gore and Perry in the White House

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The Permanent Revolution

Trotsky succeeds Lenin as head of the Soviet Union, which results in a very different 20th Century.

List of Premiers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Vladimir Lenin (Communist Party) 1922-24¹
Leon Trotsky (Communist Party) 1924-47²
Grigory Zinoviev (Communist Party) 1947-61³
Iona Yakir (Communist Party) 1961-67
Milovan Đilas (Socialist Workers Party) 1967-71⁴
Alexander Dubček (Socialist Workers Party) 1971-79
Qing Ku (Communist Party) 1979-94⁵
Vlad Jurković (Socialist Workers Party) 1994-2001⁶
Maria Černá (Communist Party) 2001-<sup>7

1</sup>Died in office.
²Trotsky's tenure would see the Soviet Union rebuild most of the industry that had been destroyed during the Russian Civil War and would see the continued growth of the international socialist movement, with the victorious Chinese Revolution in 1925 and the German Revolution of 1933, both of which pushed the West into an openly anti-Soviet posture once again during the 1930s. The Second Great War (1941-47) would see the Soviet Union (which includes here the various Chinese soviet republics) successfully fend off attack from an alliance of Western powers, the UK (led by PM Oswald Mosley), France (led by Charles Maurras), and Fascist Italy (led by Benito Mussolini). The war also had the effect of spreading communist revolution up and down southern and southeastern Europe, as well as in the baltic states. At long last, the German Socialist Republic would be united with the USSR and a new capital established for the union at Prague. Trotsky resigned from the position of Premier following the signing of an armistice with the western powers, citing ill health. He would die in 1953 as chief ideologist and leader of the international socialist movement, reviled in corporate boardrooms but increasingly admired on the shop floor.
³Zinoviev took over as head of government following Trotsky's resignation in 1947. The internal dynamic of the party, which had remained fairly democratic throughout Trotksy's tenure in office, had become increasingly argumentative as the war went on, with some of the left arguing that the war should continue until total victory over fascism, and those on the right arguing for peace and building up the nation to prepare for a final conflict with the West in the near future. The ban on factions, having been lifted in the late 1930s, now sprung into more or less open conflict, with party unity more or less impossible to maintain, which led to a promulgation by Trotsky (late in the war) that lifted the ban on opposition political parties, provided that these parties 'are socialist in nature and outlook'. The Communist Party faced in 1947 the first mass opposition to it since the early 1920s, but nonetheless won a resounding majority in the Congress of Soviets over the opposition, represented primarily by the left-wing Socialist Workers Party.
⁴The first non-CPSU leader of the Soviet Union in it history, Milovan Đilas lead a wave of popular sentiment for further democratization of the USSR, including a phasing out of odious political censorship and establishing more worker control and oversight of the economy. He also famously pursued a policy of detente with the West, professing his belief that the liberation of the Western working classes could 'only come from those people themselves' and that the competition between the capitalist West and socialist East would prove the superiority of socialism.
⁵Fictional person. The 'Iron Lady', Ku became head of the Communist Party in the mid-1970s and represented what came to be known as the 'neo-communist' segment of the party, which was militarily aggressive toward the West and committed to 'winning the international class struggle.' She was also of course the first Chinese-born leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and would as its Premier oversee the final collapse of the capitalist west with the revolutions of 1989. Ku would resign in 1994 to take up the role of General-Secretary of the Presidium of the Comintern, which had, for all intents and purposes, become something of a world government. She would die in 2013 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
⁶Fictional person.
⁷Fictional person.

[Maxwell]

Presidents in the crazy world
43. Barack Obama (D-IL)/Joe Biden (D-DE) - 2009-2017
44. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)/Sherrod Brown (D-OH) - 2017-2021^
45. Raul Labrador (R-ID)/Brian Sandoval (R-NV) - 2021-2025*
46. Miranda Hernandez (D-AZ)/Robert Wilson (D-CA) 2025-2033
47. Robert Wilson (D-CA)/Ken Wuarez (D-TX) 2033-2037*
48. Tina Walsh (R-OR)/Skip Hugo (R-NH) 2037-2045

^ Clinton retires
* Labrador loses re-election
* Wilson loses re-election

- Miranda Hernandez was the Governor of Arizona, one termer. She runs a surprisingly progressive administration in Arizona and is DOA for re-election in the state. She's already running for President anyway though! She faces against party favorite, California Senator Robert Wilson, who has done a good job shaking hands with both progressives and the business class. Wilson, however, runs an inept campaign and Hernandez manages to score a major upset. Hernandez term in office (she rather easily defeats the unpopular Labrador) goes rather smoothly, as she implements popular policies. After winning her second term in a landslide, things go down south a bit after promoting a universal healthcare policy.

- Robert Wilson is something of a technocrat. Before he ran for President, he was two term Senator of California. Wilson has good relations with progressives, but for all intents and purposes does not consider himself one. Despite a harsh primary battle, he and Hernandez have good relations. Wilson does some backing away from Hernandez when running as President himself, and he defeats Republican candidate Tina Walsh in a surprisingly narrow contest. His performance in office is considered strong, much stronger than the firm Hernandez, the disastrous Labrador, or even the mediocrity of Clinton, but faces a tough economic situation handed down from his predecessors and faces an incredibly tough re-election battle he does not make it the other side out of.
- Ken Wuarez is a conservative Democrat from Texas who won a hotly contested battle with Louie Gohmert. Wuarez was the luckiest man in Texas politics whose opponents seemed to walk into landmines. His entry to national politics was not positive however - Wuarez proved scandalous after being inuagerrated as Vice President, and Wilson chose not to run with him again in 2036.

- Tina Walsh was a two term Governor of Oregon. Socially progressive, economically moderate, and a foreign policy realist, she is the dream candidate of many of the moderate wing of the Republican Party. She faces off for the nomination against Kentucky Governor Frank Stevens, an arch-social conservative, and Senator from South Dakota Yu Han, considered a staunch budget hawk, and the split of the two allowed her to edge a victory in the primaries during 2032. She lost against Wilson, but she ran surprisingly strong against him. She faced Yu Han again in 2036, and Han almost won, but her last week of the primaries proved to be successful with strong wins in New Jersey, Ohio, and North Carolina. She beat Wilson by the same margin she lost to him in 2036, and her Presidency presided over strong economic recovery and general peace.

- Skip Hugo was a Senator from New Hampshire. Considered something of an elitest, he was a conservative on most issues, but shared Walsh's pro-gay rights positioning. His pick was somewhat angering to conservatives, but they came around to his pick when it came down to the fact that it would be either Walsh or Wilson (Wilson was despised by the Republican base).

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The Permanent Revolution (con't)

List of Prime Ministers of Italy
Benito Mussolini (National Fascist Party) 1922-49¹
Pietro Badoglio (National Fascist Party) 1949-53
Alcide De Gasperi (Christian Democracy) 1953-54
Amintore Fanfani (Christian Democracy) 1954-58
Pietro Nenni (Socialist Party) 1958-63
Francesco De Martino (Socialist Party) 1963-76
Benigno Zaccagnini (Christian Democracy) 1976-83
Bettino Craxi (Socialist Party) 1983-92
Arnaldo Forlani (Christian Democracy) 1992-94
Lea Fiorentini (Communist Party) 1994-96²
Flavia Sagese (Italian Anarchist Federation) 1996-2001³
Lea Fiorentini (Communist Party) 2001-06
Flavia Sagese (Italian Anarchist Federation) 2006-08
Lea Fiorentini (Communist Party) 2008-13
Benedetta Lombardi (Confederation of Italian Ecologists - Italian Anarchist Federation) 2013-<sup>4

1</sup>Died in office.
²Fictional person. Presided over the peaceful transition from capitalism to communism in Italy.
³Fictional person.
⁴Fictional person.

Monarchs of the Kingdom of Italy
Victor Emmanuel III (House of Savoy) 1900-47
Umberto II (House of Savoy) 1947-83
Victor Emmanuel IV (House of Savoy) 1983-94<sup>1

1</sup>Monarchy abolished.

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Third Place is a Charm

The third place winner at the convention or in the primaries vs. his opposite.

37. Ronald Reagan (R-California) 1969-73
38. George Wallace (D-Alabama) 1973-81
39. John Anderson (R-Illinois) 1981-89
40. Al Gore (D-Tennessee) 1989-97
41. Steve Forbes (R-New York) 1997-2005
42. Howard Dean (D-Vermont) 2005-09
43. Mitt Romney (R-Massachusetts) 2009-17

[ChainsawJedis]

Dwight Eisenhower (R-KS) (1953-1957)
Joesph P. Kennedy Jr. (D-MA) (1957-1965)
John F. Kennedy (D-MA) (1965-1973)
Robert F. Kennedy (D-MA) (1973-1981)
Edward "Ted" Kennedy (D-MA) (1981-1989)

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35. Richard Nixon (R-California) 1961-63¹
36. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts) 1963-69
37. John Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) 1969-74²
38. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota) 1974-77
39. Daniel J. Evans (R-Washington) 1977-81
40. Edward J. King (D-Massachusetts) 1981-89
41. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) 1989-93
42. Tommy Thompson (R-Wisconsin) 1993-2001
43. Ken Bentsen (D-Texas) 2001-09
44. Mitt Romney (R-Massachusetts) 2009-17

¹Assassinated.
²Resigned.

Defeated presidential candidates:

1960: John Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)
1964: George McGovern (D-South Dakota)
1968: Nelson Rockefeller (R-New York)
1972: Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona)
1976: Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota)
1980: Daniel J. Evans (R-Washington)
1984: Robert J. Dole (R-Kansas)
1988: Thomas Kean (R-New Jersey)
1992: Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas)
1996: Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota)
2000: Terry Branstad (R-Iowa)
2004: John McCain (R-Arizona)
2008: Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut)
2012: Jon Corzine (D-New Jersey)

[Emperor Charles V]

No 25th Amendment

*All presidents prior to Nixon are the same as IOTL*

37: Richard Nixon (Republican-California) 1969-1974 resigned
38: Carl Albert (Democratic-Oklahoma) 1974-1975 did not run in 1974 Presidential Election
39: Henry M. Jackson (Democratic-Washington) 1975-1979 lost re-election
40: Bob Dole (Republican-Kansas) 1979-1985 signed bipartisan legislation to limit the president to a single six-year term
41: Donald Rumsfeld (Republican-Illinois) 1985-1991
42: Jerry Brown (Democratic-California) 1991-1997
43: Al Gore (Democratic-Tennessee) 1997-2003
44: John McCain (Republican-Arizona) 2003-2009
45: Barack Obama (Democratic-Illinois) 2009-2015
46: Lisa Murkowski (Republican-Alaska) 2015-present

[ViaActiva]

1933-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
1945-1949: Henry Wallace (Democratic)
1949-1953: Douglas MacArthur (Republican)
1953-1961: Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1961-1969: William Knowland (Republican)
1969-1973: William F. Buckley Jr. (Republican)
1973-1981: Gore Vidal (Democratic)
1981-1985: William F. Buckley Jr. (Republican)
1985-1989: Sandra Day O'Connor (Republican)
1989-1997: Paul Simon (Democratic)
1997-2005: Timothy Russert (Democratic)
2005-2013: William Kristol (Republican)
2013-: William H. Gates (Democratic)

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List of Presidents of the United States during the Second Republic (1787-1812)¹

1. George Washington (Independent-Virginia) 1789-97
2. John Adams (Federalist-Massachusetts) 1797-1801
3. Thomas Jefferson (Republican-Virginia) 1801-09
4. James Madison (R-Virginia) 1809-12

List of Presidents of the United States during the Third Republic (1812-37)²
1. James Madison (R-Virginia) 1812-16
2. James Monroe (R-Virginia) 1816-24
3. John Q. Adams (R-Massachusetts) 1824-28
4. Andrew Jackson (Democratic-Tennessee) 1828-36
5. Martin Van Buren (D-New York) 1836-37

List of Presidents of the United States during the Fourth Republic (1837-62)³
1. Martin Van Buren (D-New York) 1837-41
2. William Henry Harrison (Whig-Ohio) 1841⁴
John Tyler (Whig, then Independent-Virginia) 1841-43 (Acting)
3. James K. Polk (D-Tennessee) 1843-47
4. Zachary Taylor (W-Louisiana) 1847-50⁵
Millard Fillmore (W-New York) 1850-51 (Acting)
5. Franklin Pierce (D-New Hampshire) 1851-55
6. James Buchanan (D-Pennsylvania) 1855-59
7. Abraham Lincoln (Republican-Illinois) 1859-62

List of Presidents of the United States under the Fifth Republic (1862-87)⁶
1. Abraham Lincoln (R-Illinois) 1862-63⁷
Andrew Johnson (D-Tennessee) 1863-64 (Acting)
2. Ulysses S. Grant (R-Illinois) 1864-72
3. Samuel J. Tilden (D-New York) 1872-76
4. James A. Garfield (R-Ohio) 1876⁸
Chester A. Arthur (R-New York) 1876 (Acting)
5. Samuel J. Tilden (D-New York) 1876-80
6. James G. Blaine (R-Maine) 1880-84
7. S. Grover Cleveland (D-New York) 1884-87

List of Presidents of the United States under the Sixth Republic (1887-1912)⁹
1. Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana) 1887-1891¹⁰
Levi P. Morton (R-New York) 1891-92 (Acting)
2. Levi P. Morton (R-New York) 1892-98
3. William McKinley (R-Ohio) 1898-1904
4. Alton Parker (D-New York) 1904-10
5. William Howard Taft (R-Ohio) 1910-12

List of Presidents of the United States under the Seventh Republic (1912-37)¹¹
1. Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York) 1912-18
2. Warren G. Harding (R-Ohio) 1918-24
3. William G. McAdoo (D-California) 1924-30
4. Newton Baker (D-Ohio) 1930-36
5. John L. Lewis (Labor-Pennsylvania) 1936-37

List of First Secretaries of the United States under the Seventh Republic (1912-37)
1. James Mann (R-Illinois) 1912-16
2. Frederick Gillett (R-Massachusetts) 1916-22
3. Finis Garrett (D-Tennessee) 1922-29
4. John Nance Garner (D-Texas) 1929-32
5. Paul J. Kvale (Labor-Minnesota) 1932-34
6. Jo Byrns (D-Tennessee) 1934-36
7. Paul J. Kvale (L-Minnesota) 1936-37

List of Presidents of the United States under the Eighth Republic (1937-62)¹²
1. Smedley Butler (Independent-Pennsylvania) 1937-40¹³
William B. Bankhead (D-Tennessee) 1940 (Acting)¹⁴
Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) 1940 (Acting)
2. Joseph P. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) 1940-46
3. Paul Robeson (L-New Jersey) 1946-52
4. Frank Sinatra (L-New Jersey) 1952-58
5. Marion M. Morrison (R-Iowa) 1958-62

List of First Secretaries of the United States under the Eighth Republic (1937-62)
1. Paul J. Kvale (L-Minnesota) 1937
2. William B. Bankhead (D-Tennessee) 1937-40¹⁴
3. Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) 1940-46
4. Vito Marcantonio (L-New York) 1946-52¹⁵
5. Hubert Humphrey (L-Minnesota) 1952-54
6. Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) 1954-60
7. Malcolm Little (L-Platte) 1960-62

List of Presidents of the United States under the Ninth Republic (1962-87)¹⁶
1. Edward R. Murrow (I-New York) 1962-65¹⁷
Malcolm Little (L-Platte) 1965-66 (Acting)
2. John F. Kennedy (I-Massachusetts) 1966-72¹⁸
3. John R. Cash (I-Tennessee) 1972-78¹⁹
4. Fr. Robert F. Kennedy (I-New York) 1978-84²⁰
5. Ronald Reagan (I-California) 1984-87²¹

List of First Secretaries of the United States under the Ninth Republic (1962-87)
1. Malcolm Little (L-Platte) 1962-68
2. Tony Mazzocchi (L-New York) 1968-72
3. John V. Lindsay (D-New York) 1972-80
4. Angela Davis (L-Alabama) 1980-87

List of First Secretaries of the United States under the Tenth Republic (1987-2012)²²
1. Angela Davis (L-Alabama) 1987-88
2. Avro Halberg (Communist-Minnesota) 1988-94
3. Bert Sinatra (C-New Jersey) 1994-2002²³
4. George Paul (L-Kentucky) 2002-06²⁴
5. Lesane P. Crooks (C-California) 2006-10
6. John F. Cena (L-Florida) 2010-12

List of Premiers of the United Workers' and Farmers' Council Republics of America (2012-)²⁵
1. John F. Cena (L-Florida) 2012-18
2. Taylor Swift (C-Pennsylvania) 2018-

Footnotes to follow.

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¹The 'First Republic' refers to the United States under the Articles of Confederation.
²The Constitution of 1812 would retain most of the features of the Constitution of 1787, although it also made a few crucial modifications to the workings of government. Drawn up by a Republican majority in the constitutional convention, it explicitly barred the Supreme Court from utilizing 'judicial review', mandated the election of the President and Vice President on a single ticket, banned the international slave trade, ended lifetime tenure for members of the Supreme Court, and gave the states the ability to nullify federal law if 2/3rds of the states concurred.
³The Constitution of 1837 would be a major democratic advance in some areas, but an outright retrogression in others. For starters, citizenship would now be constitutionally limited to whites only, a definite retrogression. But on the flipside, universal white male suffrage was ensured at age 21, and all property restrictions on voting and holding office were definitively wiped out. The controversial nullification provision of the 1812 Constitution was removed after some wrangling. The President would now be elected by popular vote, as well. Slavery was explicitly protected in areas where it already existed.
⁴Died in office. As per the Constitution of 1837, Vice President John Tyler became Acting President and a new election was scheduled to fill the vacancy in 1842.
⁵Died in office.
⁶The Constitution of 1862 was the greatest single advance for democracy in the United States up to that point. Suffrage was according to all men over 21, regardless of race, and all persons, regardless of color or race, were declared citizens. Slavery was explicitly prohibited, and the federal government empowered to raise an income tax for the first time.
⁷Assassinated.
⁸Assassinated.
⁹The Constitution of 1887 held the line on most of the democratic advances of 1837 and 1862. The President was limited to a single, six year term as a result of this constitution, and the federal government was explicitly given the power to regulate commerce. Civil service reforms were also enshrined into the U.S. Constitution.
¹⁰Assassinated.
¹¹The Constitution of 1912 saw another democratic advance. The Presidency was weakened and forced into a power-sharing agreement with the House, which henceforth gained control of the cabinet and would be headed by a 'First Secretary', modeled on the British Prime Minister. The Presidential veto was done away with and transferred to the Senate, but modified so as to be a suspensive veto, unless all members of the Senate concurred, in which case a piece of legislation could be vetoed outright. Initiatives, referendums, and recall were implemented at the federal level as well.
¹²The Constitution of 1937 reflected the growing strength of organized labor and the democratic struggle ongoing in the United States. The Presidency was stripped of virtually all its powers, the position of Vice President abolished (in the event of a presidential death, the First Secretary would serve as acting President), and the power to elect the President transferred from the public to both the House and Senate, provided they could agree to elect a person with a 2/3rds vote in each, effectively rendering the spot a ceremonial one for noncontroversial figures who could act as 'promoter-in-chief' of the nation abroad and for foreign dignitaries. The House was also empowered to override Senatorial absolute vetoes, which were weakened. A referendum was required for any use of military force, and in the House, state districts were replaced with statewide at-large elections for all representatives. Lifetime tenure on the Supreme Court was replaced with a single term of 12 years, and all lower level judges were made electable.
¹³Died in office.
¹⁴Died in office.
¹⁵Deposed in an intra-party coup. Marcantonio was viewed by many within the Labor Party as being 'too close to Paris' (the center of the European Federation of Workers' and Farmers' Council Republics, or EFWFCR) and was replaced by center-right Laborite Hubert Humphrey, a change that was also reflected in the election of Frank Sinatra to the Presidency.
¹⁶The Ninth Republic would represent another great democratic advance. The Presidency was made officially nonpartisan, while the Senate was abolished and the House given its powers. The Supreme Court was opened up to election, and the rights of sexual and racial minorities were given greater protections under the law.
¹⁷Died in office.
¹⁸An investigative journalist whose nomination for President nonetheless sparked controversy owing to his being the son of a previous President.
¹⁹In a surprising move, the Democratic-controlled Congress nominated noted conservative Laborite and folksinger John Cash for President in an attempt to win back sections of the working class it had lost over the past decade to the growing Labor Party.
²⁰Controversial in part because he was a Kennedy and in part because he was a sitting Roman Catholic priest.
²¹The nomination of a prominent member of the Communist Party and beloved actor for the Presidency would spark heated debate when former Communist Angela Davis announced Reagan as her pick for President in 1984.
²²The Constitution of 1987 abolished the Presidency, reduced the term of judges from 12 years to six, and introduced proportional representation in the House of Representatives, which was renamed the National Assembly. It likewise created 'citizen oversight councils' with the ability to monitor bureaucracies, hold politicians to account, and veto legislation.
²³Fictional person. Albert 'Bert' Sinatra is the child of former President Frank Sinatra and former First Lady Billie Holiday Sinatra.
²⁴George Paul, noted libertarian socialist, is the son of former Labor Party Congressman Ron Paul, also a noted libertarian socialist. He's named after Henry George.
²⁵With a historic agreement between Labor Party leader John Cena and Communist leader Dwayne "The Boulder" Johnson, the constitutional convention of 2012 voted unanimously to transfer all organs of state power to workers' and farmers' councils, which had gradually absorbed more state power over the years since the rise to prominence of the Labor and Communist parties. While there was some resistance to this from members of the capitalist class, said resistance was more or less dealt with when the Communist and Labor party paramilitaries (dubbed 'the People's Champions' by Johnson) intervened to ensure a swift transfer of power to the councils.

[MadmanMotley]

Presidents of the Confederate States of America:
Sam Houston (Democrat-TX) 1861-1863*
Howell Cobb (D-GA) 1863-1867
Robert E. Lee (Constitutional Confederacy-VA) 1867-1873
John Reagan (D-TX) 1873-1879
John Stuart Williams (CC-KY) 1879-1885
William D. Bloxham (CC-KY) 1885-1891
James G. Field (Populist-VA) 1891-1897
Joseph Blackburn (D-KY) 1897-1903
Milford W. Howard (P-AL) 1903*
Henry Caldwell (CC-AR) 1903-1904*
John Sharp Williams (D-MS) 1904-1909
Oscar Underwood (P-AL) 1909-1929**
Carter Glass (P-VA) 1929-1935
Harry Byrd (D-VA) 1935-1959
Lyndon Johnson (P-TX) 1959-1965
George Wallace (D-AL) 1965-1968*
Strom Thurmond (D-SC) 1968-1977
James Carter (P-GA) 1977-1983
Ronald Paul (CC-TX) 1983-1989***
William Clinton (D-AR) 1989-2001
Albert Gore Jr. (P-TN) 2001-2007
Walter Jones Jr. 2007-2013***
Nikki Haley (D-SC) 2013-2019****
Rand Paul (CC-KY) 2019-2025***

*Died in office
**First president to be elected to more than one term after abolishment of term limits
***Declined to run for reelection
****First Non-White, Non-Male to be president

[MadmanMotley]

Continuing from above, Presidents of the United States of America:
Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) 1861-1865*
Andrew Johnson (D-TN) 1865-1866**
Schuyler Colfax (R-IN) 1866-1873
Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (Radical Republican-MA) 1873-1877
Rutherford B. Hayes (R-OH) 1877-1881
James G. Blaine (R-ME) 1881-1889
Grover Cleveland (American-NY) 1889-1897
William Jennings Bryan (Progressive-NE) 1897-1898**
Claude Matthews (P-IN) 1898-1901
William McKinley (R-OH) 1901-1905
Grover Cleveland (A-NY) 1905-1908*
John Palmer (A-NY) 1908-1909
Theodore Roosevelt (P-NY) 1909-1917
Charles Fairbanks (R-IN) 1917-1925
Al Smith (A-NY) 1925-1933
Calvin Coolidge (R-MA) 1933-1945*
Harold Stassen (R-MN) 1945-1953
Robert Taft (R-OH) 1953*
Earl Warren (R-CA) 1953-1957
Hubert Humphrey (P-MN) 1957-1965
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) 1965-1973
Robert Kennedy (P-NY) 1973-1981
Larry Pressler (R-SD) 1981*
Barry Goldwater Jr. (R-CA) 1981-1989
Joe Biden (P-DE) 1989-1993
Richard Lugar (R-IN) 1993-2001
Paul Wellstone (P-MN) 2001-2009
Bob Ehrlich (R-MD) 2009-2017
Jeanne Shaheen (P-NH) 2017-2025

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Presidents
1993-1997-Ross Perot/Paul Tsongas* (Reform)
1997-2005-Paul Tsongas/David Boren (Reform)
2005-2013-Howard Dean/Wes Clark (Democratic)
2013-2017-Mike Huckabee/Jim Gilmore (Republican)
2017-Elizabeth Warren/Cory Booker (Democratic/People's)


Losing Tickets
1992: Jerry Brown/Tom Harkin (Democratic), George HW Bush/Dan Quayle (Republican)
1996: Richard Lugar/Tommy Thompson (Republican), Joe Biden/Bill Clinton
2000: George W. Bush/Duncan Hunter (Republican), Bill Bradley/Dick Gephardt
2004: Joe Lieberman/Olympia Snowe (Reform), Thad Cochran/Mike Enzi (Republican)
2008: Sam Nunn/Bob Bennett (Reform), Mike Huckabee/Tim Pawlenty (Republican), Ron Paul/Walter Jones (Liberty)
2012: Jon Huntsman/Joe Manchin (Reform), Andrew Cuomo/Brian Schweitzer (Democratic) , Bernie Sanders/Dennis Kucinich (People's)
2016: Scott Walker/Rand Paul (Republican), Lisa Murkowski/Lincoln Chafee

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Presidents of the United States, 1861-1945
16. Abraham Lincoln (R-Illinois) 1861-65
17. George McClellan (D-New Jersey) 1865-73
18. Jeremiah Black (D-Pennsylvania) 1873-81
19. Winfield S. Hancock (D-Pennsylvania) 1881¹
20. William H. English (D-Indiana) 1881-85
21. James G. Blaine (R-Maine) 1885-89
22. Grover Cleveland (D-New York) 1889-93
23. James G. Blaine (R-Maine) 1893-97
24. William J. Bryan (People's-Nebraska) 1897-1901²
25. Adlai E. Stevenson I (P-Illinois) 1901-09
26. John A. Johnson (P-Minnesota) 1909-13
27. Theodore Roosevelt (D-New York) 1913-21
28. A. Mitchell Palmer (P-Pennsylvania) 1921-23³
29. Samuel Ralston (P-Indiana) 1923-29
30. William R. Hearst (P-New York) 1929-33
31. Herbert Hoover (D-Iowa) 1933-45⁴
32. John W. Bricker (D-Ohio) 1945<sup>5

1</sup>Assassinated.
²Assassinated.
³Assassinated.
⁴Executed by firing squad following the fall of Philadelphia
⁵Signed the surrender of the U.S. government, subsequently executed by firing squad

Presidents of the Confederacy, 1861-1937
1. Jefferson Davis (D-Mississippi) 1861-67
2. Alexander Stephens (D-Georgia) 1867-73
3. Robert E. Lee (Whig-Virginia) 1873-79
4. Richard Coke (W-Texas) 1879-85
5. James B. Eustis (W-Louisiana) 1885-91
6. Fitzhugh Lee (W-Virginia) 1891-97
7. Simon B. Buckner (D-Kentucky) 1897-1903
8. Benjamin Tillman (D-South Carolina) 1903-09
9. Thomas Wilson (W-Virginia) 1909-15
10. Carter Glass (D-Virginia) 1915-21
11. William McAdoo (W-Georgia) 1921-27
12. Cordell Hull (D-Tennessee) 1927-33
13. John Nance Garner (D-Texas) 1933-37<sup>1

1</sup>Overthrown and executed in the Revolution of 1937, which resulted in the execution of leading Confederate politicians by the Majoritarian Faction of the Southern Social Democratic Labor Party, later renamed the Communist Party of the Confederacy of Council Socialist States (CCSS).

Chairmen of the Politburo of the Confederacy of Council Socialist States, 1937-2011
Huey Long (Communist Party) 1937-44¹
Triumvirate: Earl Long, Angelo Herndon, Richard Wright (Communist Party) 1944-47
Earl Long (Communist Party) 1947-73²
Triumvirate: Malcolm King, Henry Howell, Angela Davis (Communist Party) 1973
Malcolm King (Communist Party) 1973-85
George Wallace (Communist Party) 1985-2002³
John Cash (Communist Party) 2002-04⁴
Strom Thurmond (Communist Party) 2004-05⁵
Elizabeth Warren (Communist Party) 2005-2011<sup>6

1</sup>Died in office.
²Died in office.
³Died in office.
⁴Died in office.
⁵Died in office.
⁶Reformist who promoted a transition to a market economy. Instability and social unrest ultimately led to the collapse of the CCSS in 2011, during the 'American Autumn.'

Presidents of the Confederacy of American States, 2011-
1. Rick Perry (Independent-TX) 2011-<sup>1

1</sup>Declared the independence of Texas in 2011 and subsequently began talks for the formation of a new successor state to the CCSS, which became the CAS, a sort of authoritarian backwater. The CAS encompasses most of the former CCSS, although the bigger northern states which were conquered during the Great Patriotic War have resisted joining and declared their own republics. The CAS has privatized pretty much the entirety of the CCSS economic base and has enacted retrograde legislation on women's rights (banning abortion), gay rights (banning same-sex marriages, which had been legal since the Huey Long ministry), and repealing anti-discrimination ordinances. This, in addition to the dissolution of the CAS Congress by Perry in 2014, with the use of tanks, has led many to believe that the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election may not actually occur...

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33. 1933-1936-General Smedley Butler / Publisher Seward Collins (Patriot)
34. 1936-1952-General Douglas MacArthur / Father Charles Coughlin (Patriot)
35. 1952-1971-General Curtis LeMay / National Anti-Communist Board member Joe McCarthy (Patriot)
36. 1971-1988-Alabama Governor George Wallace / Chief Policy Coordinator Barry Goldwater (1971-1980) / Georgia Governor Larry MacDonald (1980-1988) (Patriot)
37. 1988-1995-General Alexander Haig / National Patriotism Board member David Duke (Patriot) (1988-1993)
COUP!
38. 1995-2005-Pennsylvania Underground Opposition President Arlen Specter / UO Chief Commander Colin Powell (NP/Centre)
39. 2005-Minnesota Senator and former National Underground Opposition Head of Communication Paul Wellstone (Progressive) / UO Civil Rights leader Barack Obama

33.
The Business Plot falls into place with the support of Smedley Butler, who rouses up support through veteran's organizations to overthrow the government. The ensuing march combined with defections in the military overwhelm FDR and the government. President Butler picks popular Fascist publisher Seward Collins as a vice-chairman. Congress is abolished, replaced by a hand picked system of coordinating "boards" for various purposes. The constitution is rewritten, abolishing many civil liberties. General Butler throws support behind Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during their rises. In 1936, a Pro-Democracy protester kills both Butler and Collins with a bomb. The Boards come together to select Douglas MacArthur, another prominent supporter, as president.
34.
Douglas MacArthur clamps down even farther on "subversives", opening up work camps to which prominent intellectuals, African American leaders, liberals, communists, and Jews were sent. Moreover, any last semblance of free speech was gone. MacArthur tapped into the widely well known Priest Charles Coughlin as a VP, which boosted popular support. Support of the regime revolved around a fascist economy plan and the hyper-nationalism instilled in society. The US never enters World War II, except to provide aid to Germany and Italy as they fought the USSR, France, and England. However, the US becomes incredibly well armed through a militaristic focus and immense research efforts. President MacArthur steps down in 1952 amid concerns about his allegiances and pressure from the board.
35.
General Curtis LeMay takes the reins from MacArthur, selecting the US' top Anti-Communist Joe McCarthy as VP. The administration ends persecution of Jewish Americans due to international criticism, but begins to execute any and all suspected communists. President LeMay attacks North Korea and Communist China in 1953. France [Fascist state], Germany, and Italy all aid the US as the USSR, still reeling from WWII, stays out. This anti-Communist crusade is successful and the US wins the war. Through the 1960's, resistance flares up among students, but is quickly crushed by the military. In the Early 1970's, militarized Socialists openly clash with the military. The Board perceives LeMay as too weak and calls for him to step down, but he refuses and is killed by his own guards.
36.
Alabama Governor George Wallace becomes next in line, picking LeMay's Chief Economic Coordinator Barry Goldwater. He crushes resistance with brutal methods and expands the prison camp programs. Wallace organizes a "Global Nationalist Conference", opting to enter an alliance with other Fascist powers to discuss an invasion and splitting up of South America. However, German leaders refuse and plans fall through. Barry Goldwater resigns due to illness in 1980 and is replaced by Georgia Governor Larry MacDonald. In 1988, George Wallace passes away at age 69 from a mysterious viral disease. Unrest begins to grow in the US as Germany's Nazi regime crumbles in December 1987. Democracy spreads to France too.
37.
General Alexander Haig takes the reins immediately, calling for an end to the protests. His vice president is nationalist David Duke, who leads the effort to crush some of the civil rights protests. Troops begins to raid colleges and social clubs, committing atrocities on a horrific scale. Haig's government is known for bombing suspected "subversive hideouts" which ranged from schools to hospitals. Entire cities were destroyed. In 1991, president Haig realizes the nation's power is shifting as raids on government offices and bases begin to increase in number and magnitude. Eventually, Haig becomes desperate and paranoid, abolishing the Board altogether and killing his VP in 1993.

THE COUP!!
Small armed bands of democracy protesters begin to raid government buildings. They hide out and organize in rural areas, where larger groups have begun to take over towns. A propaganda campaign has been massing for years, building opposition to the regime through secret meetings. Arms were supplied in part through covert contracts with disgruntled military insiders, British officials, the New German Government, and Democratic China. These bands coordinated in 1994 as the Underground Opposition. In 1995, citizens across the nation begin to rebel and take up arms. Even some top military leaders join the UO and lead chapters in battling the government. Well orchestrated guerrilla raids raise funds and gather equipment. In June 1995, powerful waves of UO forces force Regime fighters to collapse around the capital Washington DC. In August 1995, the seige ends and the UO takes over the capital, executing president Haig.

38.
Pennsylvania UO leader Arlen Specter is selected by the UO to be the first president. His administration picks national UO Commander Colin Powell, who does a fantastic job developing a civil rights program for the country to follow. A quite liberal constitution is drafted, prison camps are closed, the system is reformed, and former officials are tried in court. In the next elections in 2000, Arlen Specter is reelected with 60% of the vote. In the next years, as economic policy is modified, a split develops politically, causing the formation of the Centre Party [Centrist] and the Progressive Party [Centre-Left to Left Wing]. In 2004, the aging president Specter [Centre] loses reelection.
39.
Paul Wellstone ascends to the presidency winning 52% of the vote to Specter's 48%. He chooses civil rights leader Barack Obama as his VP. Wellstone's administration has created a more progressive tax policy, social welfare system, and a reformed higher education system based on a plan formed by the previous administration. Moreover, he has worked towards forming an International Democracy Organization to help advocate global human rights.

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27. William Jennings Bryan (Democrat-Nebraska)/John W. Kern (Democrat-Nebraska) March 4th, 1909-March 4th, 1913
28. Theodore Roosevelt (Republican-New York)/Hiram Johnson (Republican-California) March 4th, 1913-March 4th, 1921
29. Hiram Johnson (Republican-California)/J. Calvin Coolidge (Republican-Massachusetts) March 4th, 1921-July 1st, 1922
30. J. Calvin Coolidge (Republican-Massachusetts) July 1st, 1922-March 4th, 1925
31. William G. McAdoo (Democrat-California)/John W. Davis (Democrat-West Virginia) March 4th, 1925-March 4th, 1933
32. Herbert C. Hoover (Republican-California)/Charles L. McNary (Republican-Oregon) March 4th, 1933-January 20th, 1941
33. Fiorello LaGuardia (Republican-New York)/Jeanette Rankin (Republican-Montana) January 20th, 1941-December 7th, 1941
34. Jeanette Rankin (Republican-Montana) December 7th, 1941-January 20th, 1945
35. Harry S. Truman (Democrat-Missouri)/William Prentice Cooper (Democrat-Tennessee) January 20th, 1945-January 20th, 1957
36. Adlai E. Stevenson II (Democrat-Illinois)/Robert S. Kerr (Democrat-Oklahoma) January 20th, 1957
37. Barry M. Goldwater (Republican-Arizona)/Prescott Bush (Republican-Connecticut) January 20th, 1957-June 3rd, 1961
38. Prescott Bush (Republican-Connecticut)/John Arthur Love (Republican-Colorado) June 3rd, 1961-January 20th, 1969
39. Hubert H. Humphrey (Democrat-Minnesota)/Earl Buford Ellington (Democrat-Tennessee) January 20th, 1969-January 20th, 1973
40. Spiro T. Agnew (Republican-Maryland)/Robert Finch (Republican-California) January 20th, 1973-October 4th, 1975
41. Robert Finch (Republican-California)/Nelson A. Rockefeller (Republican-New York) October 4th, 1975-January 20th, 1977
42. James E. Carter (Democrat-Georgia)/Robert F. Kennedy (Democrat-Connecticut) January 20th, 1977-January 20th, 1981
43. Sandra Day O'Connor (Republican-Arizona)/John Warner (Republican-Virginia) January 20th, 1981-January 20th, 1989
44. Ronald E. Paul (Republican-Texas)/Andrew Marrou (Republican-Alaska) January 20th, 1989-January 20th, 1993
45. Douglas Wilder (Democrat-Virginia)/Joseph I. Lieberman (Democrat-Connecticut) January 20th, 1993-January 20th, 2001
46. Hillary Rodham (Republican-Illinois)/Elizabeth Warren (Republican-Oklahoma) January 20th, 2001-October 14th, 2006
47. Elizabeth Warren (Republican-Oklahoma)/Lawrence Pressler (Republican-South Dakota) October 14th, 2006-January 20th, 2009
48. James Webb (Democrat-Virginia)/Collin Peterson (Democrat-Minnesota) January 20th, 2009-January 20th, 2013
49. Elizabeth Warren (Republican-Oklahoma)/Lincoln Chafee (Republican-Rhode Island) January 20th, 2013-Present

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Libertarian Republicans, Populist Democrats?^

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Libertarian Republicans, Populist Democrats?^

I mean, yeah, it's pretty obvious, but for the majority of this, up until possibly the 1980's or 1990's, the parties' "average voters" look relatively the same. Just goes to show the diverse cast of characters that could exist for a while in both parties. And a lot differs between each individual presidency in regards to how they portray themselves and what forces shape their policies. After all, you have Agnew in between the two iconic Presidents Goldwater and O'Connor, yet he's a moderate with populist-tinged rhetoric. Carter, in many ways, bows to the deregulatory spirit of the day despite running a campaign on the backs of religious and working class voters. O'Connor, despite having run on an anti-government platform, nevertheless relents and signs modest restrictions on abortions and beefs up the national security state (much like basically every one of her recent predecessors in the latter respect).  Paul, as well, is pushed into office in a grassroots anti-government surge, but also with the backing of home schoolers and evangelicals who feel that neither O'Connor, nor the Democratic candidate, have or will do/done enough on abortion. Wilder is pro-choice, but social conservatives back him in regards to issues like crime, where he's "tough", and he's also economically moderate, but backed by labor in opposition to Paul. The general "spirit" of the parties is libertarian vs. authoritarian, but there's a lot of difference between each presidency.

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43. John McCain (R-AZ) / George W. Bush (R-TX): 2001-2009
44. George W. Bush (R-TX) / Colin Powell (R-NY): 2009-Present

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16. Abraham Lincoln (R-Illinois) 1861-65¹
17. Andrew Johnson (D-Tennessee) 1865-69
18. Ulysses S. Grant (R-Illinois) 1869-77
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (R-Ohio) 1877-81
20. Winfield S. Hancock (D-Pennsylvania) 1881-86²
21. Thomas F. Bayard (D-Delaware) 1886-89³
22. Robert T. Lincoln (R-Illinois) 1889-91⁴
23. Chauncey Depew (R-New York) 1891-97
24. William J. Bryan (D-Nebraska) 1897-1903⁵
25. John T. Morgan (D-Alabama) 1903-05⁶
26. William H. Taft (R-Ohio) 1905-09
27. Benjamin R. Tillman (D-South Carolina) 1909-17⁷
28. T. Woodrow Wilson (D-New Jersey) 1917-21⁸
29. Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York) 1921-29⁹
30. D.C. Stephenson (D-Indiana) 1929-37
31. William F. "Big Bill" Knox (R-Illinois) 1937-44¹⁰
32. Arthur Vandenberg (R-Michigan) 1944-51¹¹
33. Earl Warren (R-California) 1951-53
34. Richard Russell (D-Georgia) 1953-57
35. Goodwin Knight (R-California) 1957-61
36. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (D-Massachusetts) 1961-69¹²
37. George Wallace (D-Alabama) 1969-77¹³
38. Cassius M. Clay, Jr. (Workers'-Kentucky) 1977-85<sup>14

1</sup>Assassinated.
²Died in office.
³First Secretary of State to ascend to the office owing to the death of the President and Vice President (Thomas Hendricks had died in 1885).
⁴Assassinated.
⁵Resigned. Bryan had stormy relations with the Republican Congress, which threatened to impeach the President following a scandal.
⁶The second Secretary of State to ascend to the Presidency, as Vice President Stevenson had resigned amid the same scandal that did in President Bryan. Wildly unpopular for his pardon of Bryan, Morgan was also the target of animosity for his role as a Confederate general during the Civil War. He would be defeated in a close race for re-election against reformer William Taft in 1904.
⁷The 'Great Old Man' of the Democratic Party, Tillman would succeed where others had failed in reversing some of the Reconstruction policies implemented by the GOP, including undoing much of the work toward bringing black Americans into the industrial economy. He was an unreconstructed racist and sought to destroy the institutions of radical democracy in the South and across the country while President.
⁸Tillman's intellectual foil, Wilson continued the policies of his predecessor while President, although he promised 'compassionate and kind' government as opposed to the raw conservatism of his former boss.
⁹A 'New Republican' that embraced white supremacy and effectively distanced himself from the racial liberalism of his fore bearers, Roosevelt also adopted a more conservative economic and social agenda, expanding the size of the U.S. military to be more responsive to threats from European powers in the Western hemisphere.
¹⁰Died in office.
¹¹Another Secretary of State turned President. Died in office before completing his second term as President, elevating Vice President Earl Warren to the Presidency.
¹²The first Democratic President to officially denounce white supremacy (mostly thanks to shifts in public policy from Knox onward), Kennedy would preside over a reorganization of the Democratic Party as the party of middle class, white America, winning over white protestants in the North that had traditionally voted Republican and cementing a coalition of these voters with upper class whites and wealthier Southern whites that had traditionally voted Democratic.
¹³Kennedy's Vice President, Wallace was initially popular for his ability to win over black voters, a traditionally Republican bloc. However, the public quickly soured on Wallace with tensions rising over the administration's game of cat and mouse with the Cooperative Commonwealth of Britain, leading to the defeat of the Democratic Party in the 1976 Presidential Election by the Workers' Party, the first time a major party had lost out to a third party since 1860.
¹⁴The first black President and first member of the Workers Party elevated to the Oval Office, Clay made a name for himself as a boxer and labor organizer before entering politics, winning election to Congress as a Republican in the 1960s before moving far to the left in the early part of the 1970s. As President, Clay would have to deal with an attempt by white supremacist Democrats (still a vital part of the political field, in spite of Kennedy's attempts to modernize the party) to orchestrate a coup against the WP-controlled government in 1977, leading to the Second American Civil War, which would last from 1977 until 1981, with the capture of rebel-held Charleston by the reorganized US Army (now a coalition of red guards, anarchist militia, and labor union defense guards). During his second term, Clay would work with Congress to pass a constitutional amendment that would void the existing constitution and establish the 'Workers' and Farmers' Commonwealth of America' (WFCA), and would resign from his post upon the ratification of that amendment in 1985.

Premiers of the Workers' and Farmers' Commonwealth of America, 1985-
Cassius M. Clay, Jr. (Workers'-Kentucky) 1985
Angela Davis (W-Alabama) 1985-89
Barbara Garson (Libertarian-New York) 1989-93¹
R.J. "Jack" Santorum (W-Allegheny) 1993-95²
Ronald E. "Ernie" Paul (L-Texas) 1995-99³
Christine O'Donnell (L-Delaware) 1999-2003⁴
Edward Asner (W-Missouri) 2003-07
Ronald E. "Ernie" Paul (L-Texas) 2007-09
Bruce Springsteen (W-New Jersey) 2009-13
Kelly Clarkson (L-Texas) 2013-

¹That would be 'Libertarian' in the proper sense of the word, i.e. social anarchist. The Workers' Party would be challenged in the immediate aftermath of the successful revolutionary period by a host of new parties, some of which chided the WP for being a 'party of philistines', such as the Libertarian Party, which sought to reduce the size of the state to a point where workers' militias could drown it in a bath tub.
²State lines were redrawn after the assumption of power by workers' councils (as directed following the constitutional convention in the 1980s). Allegheny is roughly the western half of what used to be Pennsylvania, and Jack Santorum was hailed as a modernizer within the WP, embracing traditionally 'anarchist' social issues oriented politics, forcing through legal recognition of same-sex and group marriages while Premier and striking out those remaining restrictions on the right of women to an abortion. He also notably took up the anarchists' anti-clerical campaign, engaging in a public propaganda assault on the Roman Catholic church especially while in office.
³With the WP stealing a lot of the anarchists' fire, Premier Paul would focus on smashing the state in earnest and devolving more power to workers' councils and away from the central government. In spite of his record as a dove while in his own home workers' council, Paul would also authorize a full-on assault against Ultraroyalist France during his term in office after an incident between WFCA and French vessels in the Atlantic that left a few hundred WFCA sailors dead.
⁴O'Donnell would finish the war with France, presiding over the leveling of Paris with 'rods from god' (i.e. kinetic energy weapons fired from space).