List of Alternate Presidents

[Captain Chaos]

My list :

Coolidge wins in 1920

1921-1929 : Calvin Coolidge (R-MA) / Thomas Sterling (R-SD)
1929-1933 : Thomas Sterling (R-SD) / Charles Curtis (R-KS) *
1933-1933 : Albert Ritchie (D-MD) / FDR (D-NY) *
1933-1941 : FDR (D-NY) / Harry Truman (D-MA)
1941-1949 : Henry Cabot Lodge Junior  (R-MA) / Leverett Saltonstall (R-MA)
1949-1957 : Harry Truman (D-MO) / Henry Wallace (D-IA)
1957-1965 : Dwight Eisenhower (R-NY) / Harold Stassen (R-MN)
1965-1973 : John F. Kennedy (D-MA) / Jimmy Carter (D-GA)
1973-1977 : Richard Nixon (R-CA) / Roman Hruska (R-NE) *
1977-1981 : Jimmy Carter (D-GA) / Walter Mondale (D-MN)
1981-1989 : Ronald Reagan (R-CA) / George H.W Bush (R-TX)
1989-1993 : Jack Kemp (R-NY) / Dick Cheney (R-TX) *
1993-2001 : Bob Graham (D-FL) / Bill Clinton (D-AR)


That's it for now.

* Sterling was diagnosed with a fatal lung illness in 1930. He doesn't run for a 2nd term. Dies on Jan 20 1933
* Ritchie is shot on May 12th 1933. Dies on spot

* No watergate for Nixon ,Nixon just decided he should retire
* Jack Kemp had been diagnosed with Cancer in 1991. He doesn't run for a 2nd term , he lives until 2009.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr cannot pick a running mate from the same state.

[Captain Chaos]

Chappie James died in 1978.

How could Pat Robertson ever win the GOP nomination?

[Captain Chaos]

Those unlucky Symingtons.

[Captain Chaos]

Here's a random one.

1921-1929 : Calvin Coolidge (R-MA) / Warren Harding (R-ND)
1929-1933 : Warren Harding (P-ND) / Herbert Hoover (P-OH) *
1933-1942 : FDR (D-NY) / Henry Wallace (D-IA) *
1942-1945 : Henry Wallace (D-IA) / Harry Truman (D-MO)
1945-1947 : Alf Landon (R-KS) / Robert Taft (R-OH) *
1947-1953 : Robert Taft (R-OH) / Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
1953-1961 : Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) / Dwight Eisenhower (R-PA)
1961-1969 : JFK (D-MA) / Lyndon Johnson (D-TX)
1969-1970 : George McGovern (D-SD) / RFK (D-NY)*
1970-1977 : RFK (D-NY) / Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY)
1977-1985 : Gerald Ford (R-MI) / Ronald Reagan (R-CA)
1985-1993 : Ronald Reagan (R-CA) / Jack Kemp (R-NY)
1993-1997 : George H.W Bush (R-TX) / Dan Quayle (R-IN)
1997-2005 : Bob Graham (D-FL) / Zell Miller (D-GA)
2005-2009 : Bill Clinton (D-AR) / Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
2009-Current : George W. Bush (R-TX) / Sarah Palin (R-AK)

*1933 : Harding was impeached for trying to rigg election of 1932, which he lost
*1942 : FDR Is shot by Nazi Supporter in Germany
*1947 : Landon killed self after  a assassin killed his family
*1970 : McGovern impeached for bribing GOP Congress to pass his agenda, then he lied about it
 
Also pres. who retired after one term :

Bill Clinton, left with 87% app.ratings
George Bush Senior, left with 72% App.Ratings
Robert Taft, left with 65% App. Ratings

Congratulations. This list just jumped the shark.

[Captain Chaos]

LBJ suffers a fatal heart attack during the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

36. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX): November 22, 1963 to August 2, 1964
37. John McCormack (D-MA): August 2, 1964 to January 20, 1965
38. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN): January 20, 1965 to January 20, 1973
39. Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY): January 20, 1973 to February 2, 1979
40. John Tower (R-TX): February 2, 1979 to January 20, 1981
41. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY): January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989
42. Lawton Chiles (D-FL): January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993
43. Jack Kemp (R-NY): January 20, 1993 to January 20, 1997
44. William J. Clinton (D-AK): January 20, 1997 to September 6, 2003
45. John F. Kerry (D-MA): September 6, 2003 to January 20, 2005
46. John S. McCain (R-AZ): January 20, 2005 to January 20, 2009
47. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-IL): January 20, 2009 to Present

37. With a vacancy in the Vice Presidency, Speaker of the House John McCormack was sworn into office with a major foreign policy crisis on his hands. After ording Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to investigation, it was determined that no navy ships were attacked by the North Vietnamese. President McCormack announced this in his first televised address in the Oval Office and also announced that he would not be a candidate for President in 1964. At the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, NJ, Senator Hubert Humphrey was nominated on the first ballot. He selected Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina, a southerner with a progressive record on education and civil rights. Humphrey would defeat Barry Goldwater in a landslide and add to the Democrats majorities in the House and Senate.

38. After being sworn into office, Humphrey would continue the Great Society programs begun by President Johnson. Humphrey would begin pulling American military advisors from Vietnam and authorize his Secretary of State J. William Fulbright to mediate in the conflict (instead of military action). With no military involvement in Vietnam or race riots in the cities, more money would be invested in the Great Society programs and enforcement of civil rights laws including the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Republicans achieve minor gains in congressional races in 1966. Actor and Republican activist Ronald Reagan fell short in his race for Governor of California as incumbent Edmund G. "Pat" Brown was reelected. In 1968, President Humphrey was easily re-elected over former Vice President Richard Nixon and former Alabama Governor George Wallace, running as an independent. Nixon's criticisms over the increased spending of the Great Society fell on deaf ears. This would be Nixon's final political campaign.

39. Rockefeller won the White House back for the Republicans as he defeated Vice President Sanford, the Democratic nominee who won every southern state except Florida and Texas, home state of Rockefeller's running mate Senator John Tower. Rockefeller's liberalism in civil rights and social issues did not sit well with southern conservatives especially Senator Jesse Helms, who ran an independent campaign for President in 1976. By default, the Democrats nominated Governor Jerry Brown but he won only in Hawaii, Rhode Island and DC. Helms won in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Rockefeller won the rest.

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40. On February 2, 1979, John Tower was visiting John Conally in Texas when he learned that President Rockefeller suffered a heart attack in the Oval Office and died shortly thereafter. As President, Tower had to deal with a recession and rising inflation at home, an Iranian revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. On the advice of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Vice President Robert Dole, Tower allowed the former Shah of Iran into the US for medical treatment. This resulted in the taking of hostages at the US Embassy on Teheran. An aborted rescue attempt by US Marines drove President Tower to the bottle (it was rumored that he had drinking problems for many years). On the campaign trails, Tower appeared visibly inebriated. After passing up races for President in 1972 and 1976, Bobby Kennedy threw his hat in the ring and was on his way to the nomination after winning the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. Former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia won most of the southern primaries but RFK clinched the party's nomination. Kennedy selected Senator Lawton Chiles as his running mate and promised Carter the job of National Security Advisor (became Secretary of Defense after Scoop Jackson died in 1983). The November 1980 election was a rout. Kennedy won 62 percent of the popular vote. Tower won his home state (barely) plus Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma: just 4 states. The Republicans having won control of the Senate in 1976, lost it to the Democrats in 1980. RFK had a mandate.

42. As President, Chiles handling of the war against Iraq in the Persian Gulf earned him an 89 percent popularity rating but that fell when he was unable to handle to recession and budget crises. Bob Dole, 1984 GOP nominee, decided not to run in 1992. Chiles was defeated for reelection by Senator Jack Kemp.

43. Although President Kemp entered 1996 with an economic recovery thanks to his tax and spending cuts, he decided not to run for re-election. To satisfy social conservatives and supporters of Speaker Newt Gingrich, Vice President Pete Wilson picked Tom DeLay as his running mate. The Republican convention in San Diego was noted for its hard right shrill tone and dubbed "Nuremberg in the Pacific." For the Democrats, former Governor Clinton scored an upset victory in the Iowa caucuses over former Vice President Michael Dukakis. Although Dukakis won the New Hampshire primary, the momentum was on Clinton's side as he swept the Super Tuesday primaries which forced Dukakis to suspend his campaign. When Clinton clinched the nomination, he selected Senator John Kerry as his running mate. Clinton enjoyed a comfortable victory that November over Wilson.

44. By 2000, Clinton balanced the budget and would win easy re-election over Florida Governor Jeb Bush. In his second term, Clinton dealt with the aftermath of 9/11/01. The US led an international military coalition that invaded Afghanistan and defeated Al Qaeda and the Taliban. By Christmas, British commandos captured Osama bin Laden in a cave at Tora Bora and turned him over to the US. Bin Laden was convicted and executed on March 13, 2003. Many Republicans demanded that Clinton invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power but he would not do that. The stress over the situation caused Clinton to have a heart attack and he died on September 6.

45. President Kerry continued Clinton's policies toward the Middle East and refused to invade Iraq. John McCain defeated Kerry in the 2004 election. Although Republicans won back control of the Senate, the Democrats picked up a Republican Senate seat in Illinois with the election of Bill Clinton's widow Hillary (she trounced Alan Keyes).

46. Shortly after his inauguration, McCain ordered the invasion of Iraq. While Saddam was removed from power, the troops were bogged down trying to keep the peace. Over 5,000 troops died after McCain declared mission accomplished. Senator Hillary Clinton breezed through the Democratic primaries in 2008 and defeated McCain that November.

[Captain Chaos]

Barack Obama/Joe Biden (2009-2017)
Haley Barbour/Sarah Palin (2017-2021)

Yawn. You have to do much better than that.

[Captain Chaos]

Goldwater Waits Until 1968

36. Lyndon Johnson (D-TX): November 22, 1963-January 20, 1969
37. Richard Nixon (R-CA): January 20, 1969-August 9, 1974
38. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ): August 9, 1974-September 5, 1975
39. Ronald Reagan (R-CA): September 5, 1975-January 20, 1977
40. Jimmy Carter (D-GA): January 20, 1977-January 20, 1981
41. Robert Dole (R-KS): January 20, 1981-January 20, 1989
42. John Tower (R-TX): January 20, 1989-February 17, 1991
43. Jack Kemp (R-NY): February 17, 1991-January 20, 1993
44. Bill Clinton (D-AK): January 20, 1993-January 20, 2001
45. John McCain (R-AZ): January 20, 2001-December 20, 2006
46. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX): December 20, 2006-January 20, 2009
47. Albert Gore Jr. (D-TN): January 20, 2009-Present

36. Senator Goldwater stunned his conservative supporters when he announced that he would not be a candidate for President in 1964. In a private conversation with Arizona Governor Paul Fannin, Goldwater remarked that the election was over for the Republican when President Kennedy was assassinated. The Republicans would nominate Nelson Rockefeller for President and William Scranton for Vice President. Governor George Wallace of Alabama broke from the Democrats to run as the nominee of the American Independent party; he would win only in Mississippi, Georgia and his home state. President Johnson won his own term with 56 percent of the popular vote, Rockefeller had 40 percent and Wallace had 4 percent. In 1968, Goldwater threw his hat in the ring. Since primaries did not determine the parties' presidential nominees, former Vice President Nixon had the support of the GOP establishment (mostly in non-primary states). Goldwater was strongest in the Southern and interior Western states. Nixon clinched the nomination going into the convention and offered the nomination to Goldwater, which he accepted. Wallace decided not to run in 1968 and endorsed Nixon. Nixon swept the South and won a 44 state landslide over Hubert Humphrey.

37. President Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal and was succeeded by Vice President Goldwater.

38. Once President Goldwater learned the extent of Nixon's involvement in Watergate, he announced that he would not pardon Nixon. In private, he told his wife that "anyone who would lie to Congress and his own wife is no good in my book." After the 1974 elections, Congress confirmed Ronald Reagan as Vice President.In foreign policy, President Goldwater replaced Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State with General William Westmoreland. With the might of the US Armed Forces, Goldwater ordered nonstop attacks on North Vietnam and Special Forces assaults on Viet Cong positions at the border between North and South Vietnam. On July 2, 1975, Goldwater ordered hydrogen bomb attacks on Hanoi that killed over a million people on the ground and destroyed every government building, resulting in the end of any effective Communist government there. With US air cover, South Vietnamese tanks entered Hanoi with little resistance on July 3. Vietnam was united and the South won. A united Vietnam would emerge as the dominant power in Indochina as it invaded Cambodia and Laos to prevent Communists from taking over. Back at home, Goldwater was criticized for dropping the hydrogen bomb and his popularity began to drop. While visiting Sacramento on September 5, 1975, Goldwater was shot in the head and died three hours later. The assassin, Lynette Fromme, was convicted and executed on March 4, 1977.

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39. Ronald Reagan was sworn into office. He nominated Senator Robert Dole for Vice President. However, Reagan's inability to address rising inflation and the recession led to former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter's election in 1976.

41. Bob Dole's victories in the 1980 Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary made him the front runner and he never looked back. He selected Senator John Tower as his running mate. While Dole is regarded as a popular President, his balance the budget approach to the economy over tax cuts and increased spending on defense resulted in record high budget deficits.

42. John Tower and his running mate Jack Kemp would enjoy a comfortable victory over the Dukakis/Bentsen ticket in 1988. The stress of handling the Gulf War with Iraq and his alcoholism, a worst kept secret in politics, resulted in his fatal heart attack two weeks before the end of the Gulf War.

43. On February 28, 1991, President Kemp announced the victory over Iraq as it was forced out of Kuwait. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted to continue to march into Baghdad and remove Saddam Hussein. But Kemp sided with General Colin Powell and overruled Rumsfeld. Kemp's popularity ratings peaked at 88 percent but the recession proved to be an Achilles heel.

45. John Warner, former Vice President (1991-1993) and unsuccesful 1996 Republican nominee, declined to run again in 2000. Senator John McCain made the race and won nearly every primary. He selected Texas Governor Kay Bailey Hutchison as his running mate. McCain defeated Vice President Gore in a landslide. President McCain was re-elected in 2004 thanks to succesfully leading the US-led coalition to victory over al Qaeda and the Taliban in the War on Terror in Afghanistan. Despite pleas from conservatives to invade Iraq, McCain refused to do so. Nevertheless, covert CIA gun running operations in the Shiite and Kurdish parts of Iraq led to a rebellion that overthrew Saddam in October 2004 and the triumphant return of Ahmed Chalabi to Baghdad. He was named provisional President of Iraq and elected in his own right in 2005. In his second term, McCain suffered a loss in political capital by invading Iran, which unlike Iraq had admitted having a nuclear program. After two months of warfare, American tanks entered Teheran on October 31, 2005. Newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fled Teheran but was caught by British soldiers in Isfahan. But Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei chose a martyr's death as his basij militia bodyguards fought to the death in a gunfight with American Marines in Qom. Former President Abolhassan Banisadr returned to Teheran in January 2006 after nearly 25 years in exile in France. McCain allowed Banisadr to assume a provisional Presidency of Iran. However with American troops bogged down in Iran and fighting guerillas from the disbanded Revolutionary Guards, McCain's popularity fell and the Democrats regained its Congressional majorities after the Novermber 2006 elections. The stress of dealing with Iran led to a fatal heart attack for McCain.

46. Hutchison became the first female President of the United States and promised to continue McCain's policies. By November 2008, over 5,000 American troops died since the invasion of Iran. Former Vice President Gore decided to return to political life and easily breezed through the primaries. He selected Senator Barack Obama of Illinois as his running mate and promised to bring the troops home from Iran if elected President. Gore defeated Hutchison in a landslide as he swept the Northeast and run every Southern state (except Texas). Two weeks later, former Majlis Speaker Mehdi Karroubi, a moderate, was elected President of Iran after Banisadr decided to retire.

[Captain Chaos]

Harding Takes a Fall

29. Warren G. Harding (R-OH): March 4, 1921-August 2, 1923
30. Albert Fall (R-NM): August 2, 1923-March 4, 1925
31. Cordell Hull (D-TN): March 4, 1925-March 4, 1933
32. Herbert Hoover (R-IA): March 4, 1933-January 20, 1941
33. Kenneth Wherry (R-NE): January 20, 1941-January 20, 1949
34. Albert “Happy” Chandler (D-KY): January 20, 1949-January 20, 1957
35. Irving Ives (R-NY): January 20, 1957-February 24, 1962
36. Earl Warren (R-CA): February 24, 1962-November 22, 1963
37. Charles Halleck (R-MI): November 22, 1963-January 20, 1965
38. Hale Boggs (D-LA): January 20, 1965-July 18, 1969
39. Ronald Reagan (D-CA): July 19, 1969-January 20, 1977
40. Charles Percy (R-IL): January 20, 1977-January 20, 1985
41. Robert F. Kennedy (D-MA): January 20, 1985-June 6, 1990
42. James E. Carter (D-GA): June 6, 1990-January 20, 1993
43. Bill Bradley (R-NJ): January 20, 1993-January 20, 2001
44. Rudolph Giuliani (D-NY): January 20, 2001-January 20, 2009
45. Ray Nagin (R-LA): January 20, 2009-Present

Notes:
30. When President Fall’s name surfaced in the Teapot Dome scandal, the Republicans were doomed. Cordell Hull and the Democrats capitalized and won a landslide victory in 1924.

31. Hull had an uneventful first term. But his second was marked by the stock market crash in October 1929 and his inaction in the face of an impending recession which would have been worse if he did not veto the Smoot-Hawley bill raising tariffs. The Republicans won back majorities in Congress in the 1930 elections.

32. Hoover won a landslide victory over the hapless Democratic nominee, Vice President John Davis, by promising a New Deal for the American people and “a chicken in every pot.” In his first hundred days in office, Hoover pushed for passage of landmark banking reforms, the Securities Exchange Act, interstate highway construction, and rural electrification. After defeating Governor Alfred Smith in a landslide in 1936 (Hoover even won Florida, Texas, Virginia, and North Carolina), Hoover had the political capital to pursue more legislation. The Civil Rights Act of 1937 would end institutional discrimination against racial minorities, lynching and the poll tax. To this day, blacks and Hispanics are the most loyal supporters of the Republicans. With war brewing in Europe in 1938, Hoover was tempted to seek a third term in 1940 but decided to honor the two term tradition. He hoped that Vice President William Borah would succeed him as President but Borah died on January 19, 1940. The Republicans nominated Senator Kenneth Wherry and he offered the Vice Presidency to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City. After LaGuardia refused, Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. of New York accepted. Wherry defeated Senator Earl Long (D-LA) in 1940.

33. As President, Wherry continued Hoover’s isolationist policies but that came to an end when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1942. The USA entered World War II on the side of the Allies. On July 12, 1944, Vice President Roosevelt died of a heart attack. The Republicans nominated Secretary of State Morgan Larson for Vice President. Wherry won reelection against the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. In 1945, World War II ended when President Wherry ordered atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima, Kyoto and Nagasaki which forced the Japanese to surrender. With the country switching to a peacetime economy, the recession began in 1946 and it hurt the Republicans in the midterm elections. In 1948, the Republicans nominated General Douglas MacArthur for President and Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire for Vice President. The country tired of 16 years of Republican Presidents and MacArthur’s speeches about using atomic bombs against the Chinese and Russians turned off voters.

35. Died in office and succeeded by his Vice President Earl Warren.

36. President Warren was assassinated in Los Angeles. He traveled to California to raise money for the Republicans and to mend fences between its conservative and progressive wings. With the Vice Presidency vacant, Speaker of the House Charles Halleck became President and he announced that he would not run for the office in 1964.

38. First Roman Catholic President. Boggs died when Air Force One crashed over the Boston Harbor. He was on his way to visit Senator John F. Kennedy. When Vice President Reagan moved up to the Presidency, he selected Kennedy for Vice President.

39. President Reagan was able to win the Vietnam War with honor and push tax cuts which grew the economy. He won a landslide 49 state victory over Senator George McGovern (R-SD) in 1972. Vice President Kennedy became the frontrunner for the nomination in 1976 but his struggles with Addison’s disease resulted in a stroke in 1975 which resulted in his death that year.

41. Bobby Kennedy was elected to his brother’s Senate seat in 1970 and served there until his election as President in 1984. Bobby was also a diabetic and suffered a fatal heart attack in 1990.

42. President Carter won high praise for handling the Persian Gulf War that freed Kuwait and ended the regime of Saddam Hussein. His popularity ratings peaked at 86 percent by 1991. But insurgencies against American troops in Iraq would lead to his defeat to Bill Bradley who promises to bring the troops home. His running mate was former Attorney General and Senator Bill Clinton (R-IL).

44. Attorney General in the Kennedy and Carter administrations and Governor of New York, Giuliani won the Democratic nomination in 2000 and made history with his choice of a female running mate, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (D-TX). Giuliani’s first term was marked by the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. A coalition of US, Canadian, British, French and ANZAC troops invaded Afghanistan, removed the Taliban from power and put al-Qaeda out of business. Osama bin Laden was killed in a gun battle in Tora Bora. Taliban leader Muhammad Omar and the high ranking al-Qaeda leadership were captured and held at Guantanamo Bay. After defeating Governor Howard Dean (R-VT) in a 48 state landslide in 2004, Giuliani set his sights on Iran and started a war when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced his country tested its nuclear weapons. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and France refused to go to war unless Iran struck first. But the British stuck with the US and started a war with Iran. Victory was declared after the nuclear reactor in Hormuz was struck. The unpopularity of the war and President Giuliani’s lack of action during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 resulted in a Republican rout in the 2006 elections. Ray Nagin, former New Orleans mayor and first Republican Senator from Louisiana since Reconstruction, swept the Super Tuesday primaries in the south and clinched the nomination. With his running mate, Governor Kathleen Sebelius (R-KS), Nagin defeated Vice President Hutchison to become the nation’s first African-American President.

[Captain Chaos]

1961-1967 : John F. Kennedy (D-MA) / Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) *
1967-1973 : Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) / George McGovern (D-SD)
1973-1977 :  Richard Nixon (R-CA) / Spiro Agnew (R-MD)
1977-1985 : Robert Kennedy (D-NY) / Jimmy Carter (D-GA)
1985-1993 : Thad Cochran (R-MS) / Ronald Reagan (R-CA)
1993-1999 : Chic Hecht (R-NV) / Jack Kemp (R-NY) *
1999-2005 : Jack Kemp (R-NY) / Bob Dole (R-KS)
2005-2008 : Bill Clinton (D-KY) / John Kerry (D-RI) *
2008-2009 : John Kerry (D-RI) / Tom Ridge (D-PA)
2009-Current : Hillary Clinton (D-NH) / John Edwards (D-VA)

* JFK shot in Dallas
* Hecht dies of heart attack, continuing the senator's curse
* B. Clinton dies  after being shot on campaign trail. Also continuing the senator's curse

Don't you mean Reagan/Cochran?

[Captain Chaos]

Ok here is my new list for a possible "The Republic of Texas" Survives to the Present Day TL after im done with my Ronnie in '68 TL. I must admit I was reaching toward the end, cuz I belive butterflies would have radically different political figures who wern't even born IOTL be President.

The Eyes of Texas are upon You…

1. Samuel “Sam” Houston (I-Huntsville): October 22nd 1836-December 10th 1838
2. Mirabeau B. Lamar: (I-Laredo): December 10th 1838- December 13th 1841
3. Samuel “Sam” Houston: (I-Huntsville): December 13th 1841-December 9th 1844
4. Barnard E. Bee Sr.(N-Houston): December 9th 1844-December 9th 1847
5. Mirabeau B. Lamar (N-Laredo) December 9th 1847-December 9th 1850
6. Abner S. Lipscomb (N-Brenham): December 9th 1850-December 9th 1853
7. Thomas J. Rusk (H-Nacogdoches): December 9th 1853-December 9th 1856
8. Hardin R. Richards (N-Bowie County): December 9th 1856-December 9th 1859
9. Elisha M. Pease (H-Lampsas): December 9th 1859-December 9th 1862
10. Louis T. Wigfall (N-Galveston: December 9th 1862-December 9th 1865
11. Elisha M. Pease (H-Lampsas): December 9th 1865-December 9th 1868
12. Andrew J. Hamilton (H-Austin): December 9th 1868-December 9th 1871
13. Edmund J. Davis (H-Austin): December 9th 1871-December 9th 1874
14. Hamilton P. Bee (N-San Antonio): December 9th 1874-December 9th 1877
15. Richard Coke (N-Waco): December 9th 1877-December 9th 1880
16. Richard B. Hubbard Jr. (N-Tyler): December 9th 1880-December 9th 1883
17. Richard Coke (N-Waco): December 9th 1883-December 9th 1886
18. Lawrence S. “Sul” Ross (N-Brazos.): December 9th 1886-December 9th 1889
19. John Ireland (N-Seguin): December 9th 1889-December 9th 1891
20. Lawrence S. “Sul” Ross (N-Brazos): December 9th 1891-December 9th 1894
21. James S. “Big Jim” Hogg (P-Houston): December 9th 1894-December 9th 1897
22. Charles A. Culberson (P-Dallas): December 9th 1897-December 9th 1900
23. Joseph D. Sayers (N-Austin): December 9th 1900-December 9th 1903
24. James S. “Big Jim” Hogg (P-Houston): December 9th 1903-March 3 1906*
25. Roger Q. Mills (P-Corsicana): March 3rd-December 9th 1906
26. Thomas M. Campbell (P-Longview): December 9th 1906-December 9th 1909
27. Andrew J. Houston (P-Independence): December 9th 1909-December 9th 1912
28. Oscar B. Colquitt (N-Daingerfield): December 9th 1912-December 9th 1915
29. John Morris Shepard (N-Texarkana): December 9th 1915-December 9th 1918
30. William P. Hobby (N-Houston): December 9th 1918-December 9th 1921
31. James E. “Pa” Ferguson (P-Salado): December 9th 1921-December 9th 1924
32. Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson (P-Salado): December 9th 1924-December 9th 1927**
33. James E. “Pa” Ferguson (P-Salado): December 9th 1927-December 9th 1930
34. John N. Garner (P-Uvalde): December 9th 1930-December 9th 1933
35. Sam Rayburn (N-Bonham): December 9th 1933-December 9th 1936
36. James V. Alfred (N-Corpus Christi): December 9th 1936-December 9th 1939
37. Sam Rayburn (N-Bonham): December 9th 1939-December 9th 1941
38. Thomas T. “Tom” Connally (N-Waco): December 9th 1941-December 9th 1944
39. James V. Alfred (N-Corpus Christi): December 9th 1944-December 9th 1947
40. Thomas T. “Tom” Connally (N-Waco): December 9th 1947-December 9th 1950
41. Wilbert L. “Pappy” O’Daniel (P-Dallas): December 9th 1950-December 9th 1953
42. Coke R. Stevenson (P-San Angelo): December 9th 1953-December 9th 1956
43. Allen Shivers (P-Austin): December 9th 1956-December 9th 1959
44. Marion P. Daniel Sr.(P-Liberty): December 9th 1959-December 9th 1962
45. Lyndon B. Johnson (N-Stonewall): December 9th 1962-December 9th 1965
46. Ralph W. Yarborugh (N-Austin): December 9th 1965-December 9th 1968
47. John Tower (P-Houston): December 9th 1968-December 9th 1971
48. John Connally (P-Houston): December 9th 1971-December 9th 1974
49. Lloyd M. Bentsen (N-Houston): December 9th 1974-December 9th 1977
50. Dolph Briscoe (P-Uvalde): December 9th 1977-December 9th 1980
51. Lloyd M. Bentsen: (N-Houston): December 9th 1980-December 9th 1983
52. George T. Leland: (N-Houston): December 9th 1983-December 9th 1986**
53. Eligio de la Garza (N-Mercedes): December 9th 1986-December 9th 1989**
54. Ann Richards (N-Austin): December 9th 1989-December 9th 1992**
55. Robert D. “Bob” Bullock (P-Austin): December 9th 1992-December 9th 1995
56. Ross Perot (I-Texarkana): December 9th 1995-December 9th 1998
57. James R. “Rick” Perry (P-Austin): December 9th 1998-December 9th 2001
58. Ron E. Paul (P-Lake Jackson): December 9th 2001-December 9th 2004
59. James R. “Rick” Perry (P-Austin): December 9th 2004-December 9th 2007
60. Richard S. “Kinky” Friedman (N-Medina) December 9th 2007-???**

Notes.

24. Died in office due to a Railroad accident.
32. First Female President
52. First African-Texan President
53. First Tejano President
54. Second Female President
60. First Jewish-Texan President.

N: Stands for the Nationalist Party, established in 1843 by Lamar, representing the anti-annexation, pro-slavery and pro-expansion political wing. Essentially the same as OTL Democrats, until the Great Depression and Dust Bowl which enabled them to become the big government and was able to pull away significant minority votes. The Nationalists in 2009 are a left to center party where the strong holds are border towns and the big urban areas.

H: Stood for the Houstonian Party, After Henry Clay’s victory in 1844(POD), The Pro Annexation wing that supported the nation’s 1st President eventually coalesced into the namesake party. Essentially the same as OTL 19th Century, the Houstonians wanted friendly relations with Native Americans, Abolitionists and generally Ameriphile. They also kept Texas neutral during the War of Secession, but were unable to win an election against Coke’s new Nationalist Party.

P: Populist Party, after the dissolution of the Houstonian Party in the 1890’s, many of the Pro-Farm faction of the party were caught up in the growing Populist movement in the US. The Party from the 1890’s to arguably the 1960’s, the party was a fiscally conservative, Pro-Farm, Pro Civil Rights for blacks that capitalized on the Progressive era of the early 1900’s. After the New Age policies of the Nation lists under Rayburn, the Populists shifted to the Center to Right Party it is today

Two Term POTROT’s: Sam Houston, Mireabeau Lamar, Elisha M. Pease, Richard Coke, Sul Ross, Big Jim Hogg, Pa Ferguson, Sam Rayburn, John V. Alfred, Tom Connally, and Rick Perry.

You should come up with a list of US Presidents. It JFK is still elected President ITTL, looks like he will not make a trip to Dallas on November 22, 1963.

[Captain Chaos]

Dewey Wins

34. Thomas Dewey (R-NY): 1949-1953*
35. Estes Kefauver (D-TN): 1953-1961
36. Adlai Stevenson (D-IL): 1961-1963
37. Helen Gahagan Douglas (D-CA): 1963-1969**
38. George McGovern (D-SD): 1969-1973*
39. Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY): 1973-1977**
40. Robert F. Kennedy (D-MA): 1977-1985
41. Howard Baker (R-TN): 1985-1993
42. Yvonne Braithwaite Burke (D-CA): 1993-2001
43. Bill Clinton (D-AK): 2001-2005**
44. William Weld (R-MA): 2005-2009*
45. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-IL): 2009-Present

* defeated for re-election
** did not seek re-election

36. Assassinated in Dallas on 11/22/63
37. First female and first Roman Catholic President. Gahagan Douglas defeated incumbent GOP Senator William Knowland in 1952 and was Stevenson's running mate in 1960.
39. Revelations of adultery and using the CIA to bribe military dictators nearly resulted in the impeachment of President Rockefeller. After surviving an assassination attempt in 1975 and declining in health, Rockefeller did not seek reelection and endorsed his Vice President Charles Percy.
42. First African-American and second female President. Burke served in the US House of Representatives (1973-1979), Attorney General of California (1979-1983), and US Senate (1983-1993).
43. Governor of Arkansas (1979-1993) and Vice President (1993-2001). Criticized by Republicans for not invading Iran, the stress of the Presidency caused  a heart attack forcing him to end his re-election campaign. Clinton released his delegates who then endorsed Vice President Richard Gephardt.
45. First former First Lady elected President

[Captain Chaos]

This list was based on an alternate history timeline from another website in which the Chinese and Russians go to war over the Ussuri River which draws the US to the USSR's side. As a result, the US is not bogged down by the Vietnam War. America goes from protesting the Vietnam War to supporting military action at the USSR-Chinese border.

Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX): 1963-1973
Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN): 1973-1981
George H.W. Bush (R-TX): 1981-1989
Mario Cuomo (D-NY): 1989-1997
John McCain (R-AZ): 1997-2005
Joseph Lieberman (D-CT): 2005-current*

*first Jewish President

[Captain Chaos]

Charlie Crist assassinated?

[Captain Chaos]

27. Morris Hillquit (S-NY): March 4th 1913-March 4th 1921

This is why Hilquit could not be POTUS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Hilquit

32. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI): January 20th 1949-April 18th 1951

You forgot to mention 4/18/51 was his date of death.

37. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (S-NY): January 20th 1973-January 20th 1981***

Did butterflies extend his life?

40. William F. Buckley Jr. (R-GA): January 20th 1993-January 20th 2001

I guess Buckley did not want to pay his taxes to NYS. So he moved down south.

[Captain Chaos]

POD: Morgan's Disease (RDS) outbreak originates in Rome in 1964 and turns into the second black plague (based on alternate timeline from Changing The Times web site)

36. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX): November 22, 1963-January 26, 1967
37. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN): January 26, 1967-July 18, 1967
38. John McCormick (D-MA): July 19, 1967-December 24, 1967
39. Carl Hayden (D-AZ): December 24, 1967-April 7, 1968
Presidency Vacant-US Government collapses: April 7, 1968-January 1, 1974
Committee to Restore the United States Government: January 1, 1974-January 20, 1981
40. John Anderson (I-IL): January 20, 1981-January 20, 1989
41. John V. Lindsay (P-CA): January 20, 1989-January 20, 1993
42. Jack Kemp (P-NY): January 20, 1993-January 20, 2001
43. Herman Badillo (Socialist-PR): January 20, 2001-January 20, 2005
44. Hillary Rodham Kerner (P-IL): January 20, 2005-current

Notes:
36. By the fall of 1964, RDS became a worldwide epidemic with its spread to the USA and Canada. As the major cities became depopulated, President Johnson decided to evacuate the entire Federal Government out of Washington DC, just in time to escape the riots that caused the destruction of the White House, the Capitol building and the Georgetown neighborhood. LBJ was reduced to wandering from town to town as he became the most unpopular and despised President in US history. By the time LBJ arrived at the deserted city of Denver, he resigned the office and disappeared-never to be heard from again.

37. Killed when his helicopter crashed over the Grand Canyon.

38. The virus had already claimed 40 percent of the US population and close to 3 billion deaths worldwide. There would be no Christmas to celebrate as McCormick became the first US President to commit suicide as he swallowed a bottle of strychnine. In his suicide note, McCormick called the United States a “legal fiction.”

39. After only 105 days in office, Hayden died of a heart attack at his ranch in Arizona. The Vice Presidency was vacant, the entire cabinet and members of Congress died or disappeared, and all state governments ceased to exist. The Hawaii state legislature already voted to secede and declare itself a Republic. With Hayden’s death, the United States Government had ceased to exist.

When a scientific expedition from New Zealand landed in Hawaii in January 1971 and discovered that life still existed, they met a survivor who was naturally resistant to the plague who was able to create his own antidotes. After the antidote was tested on a couple of New Zealanders with no adverse side effects, they dubbed the serum Lazarus-2. The serum was quickly shipped to New Zealand and Australia, the only countries in the world with functioning governments. Lazarus-2 became a success and humanity was saved.

When further expeditions revealed signs of life in Alaska, the Canadian west and the American Midwest, the New Zealand government decided to send American and Canadian expatriates to head up settlements in those countries. One such person, a former Congressman from New York named John Lindsay was asked to head a settlement in what was left of San Diego. By 1973, San Diego had a population of 15,000 and was able to grow fruit and vegetables. Lindsay was elected mayor of San Diego.

On January 1, 1974, surviving American politicians who had lived in exile during the plague formed the Committee to Restore the United States Government. The Committee was lead by a Chairman who served a calendar year term. They were George H.W. Bush (1974), Stuart Udall (1975), Nelson Rockefeller (1976), Edmund Muskie (1977), Robert McNamara (1978), Edward Brooke (1979), and Henry “Scoop” Jackson (1980). During this period, state governments would be revived, public officials would be elected and the United States Constitution would be amended.


40. Anderson became the first non-partisan elected President since George Washington. He was a former Congressman from Illinois who resigned in 1966 and sought refuge in Hawaii. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1979. During his Presidency, Anderson signed into law the Homestead Act of 1981, Voting Rights Act of 1982, Environmental Protection Act of 1983 and National Health Insurance Act of 1984. In 1983, the Government moved back into Washington DC and Anderson moved into a rebuilt White House.

41. Lindsay would serve as Governor of California (1979-1983) and US Senator (1983-1989). The Democrats and Republicans were already discredited as political parties and the Progressives were the majority parties in both the House and Senate. During Lindsay’s term, the United Nations was revived and located its headquarters in Honolulu. President Lindsay and Hawaiian Prime Minister Daniel Akaka were present at the ribbon cutting ceremonies on July 4, 1990. Lindsay decided not to seek reelection for health reasons. A month before his death in December 2000, Lindsay revealed to the world that he was Mr. L, the author of the published diaries detailing his settling in New Zealand and his close brushes with death.

43. Badillo served a few months as Bronx Borough President in 1966 before fleeing to Hawaii. In 1972, he moved to Puerto Rico to rebuild its society there. When Puerto Rico became the 51st State in 1984, Badillo was elected its Governor. In 1992, he was elected to the US Senate. In 2000, Badillo was elected the first Hispanic President and first Socialist Head of State in North America.

44. During the plague, Rodham lived in rural Illinois as the Chicago suburbs were deemed unsafe. In 1975, she married a nephew of former Governor Otto Kerner. Rodham Kerner served as Governor of Illinois and US Senator before serving the Kerry administration as Secretary of State. In 2004, she defeated Badillo to become the first female President.

[Captain Chaos]

Death That Will Live In Infamy: FDR Dies Shortly After Attack on Pearl Harbor

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-NY): 1933-1941
33. Henry Wallace (D-IA): 1941-1944
34. Sam Rayburn (D-TX): 1944-1950
35. Ernest McFarland (D-AZ): 1950-1953
36. Thomas Dewey (R-NY): 1953-1961
37. Everett Dirksen (R-IL): 1961-1965
38. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA): 1965-1973
39. Ronald Reagan (D-CA): 1973-1974
40. Thomas Eagleton (D-MO): 1974-1975
41. John Gilligan (D-OH): 1975-1977
42. Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY): 1977-1980
43. Robert Taft, Jr. (R-OH): 1980-1981
44. Maynard Jackson (D-GA): 1981-1989
45. Jack Kemp (R-NY): 1989-1997
46. John McCain (R-AZ): 1997-1999
47. Hillary Rodham-Crane (R-IL): 1999-2001
48. William J. Clinton (D-AK): 2001-2004
49. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT): 2004-2009
50. Charlie Crist (R-FL): 2009-current

Notes:
33. Resigned to avoid impeachment caused by incompetent prosecution of WWII and suspicion of passing secrets to the Russians.
34. Moved up from Speaker of the House. Ended WWII by dropping nukes on Hiroshima and gas bombs on Hitler's vacation home in Berchtesgaden. V-Day declared on October 24, 1944. In 1948, President Rayburn scored a come from behind victory over Republican Dwight Eisenhower. Assassinated November 1, 1950 by Puerto Rican nationalists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola.
36. After losing GOP nomination to Robert Taft in 1944 and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in 1948, Dewey succeeded on his third try in 1952. He picked Senator Everett Dirksen as his running mate to satisfy conservatives.
37. Did not seek re-election in 1964 for health reasons.
39. Reagan stayed a Democrat and never switched parties. He was elected to the Senate in 1958 and served as Vice President under Scoop Jackson. Tragedy struck on August 9, 1974 when Sara Jane Moore assassinated Reagan during a visit to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.
40. Assassinated by Lynette Fromme on September 5, 1975. It would be revealed years later that Eagleton underwent electroshock therapy when he was a Senator.
42. Survived a heart attack while working in the White House on January 26, 1979. But the failure of a US Marine attempt to rescue hostages in Iran led to another heart attack on January 4, 1980 and this time, it was fatal.
44. First African-American President.
46. Died of complications from cancer on July 1, 1999
47. First female President. Rodham married Daniel Crane, brother of Rep Philip Crane. After her husband was defeated for reelection in 1984 after admitting an extramarital affair with a teenage page, she ran for his Congressional seat in 1986 and won. In 1992, she was elected to the Senate over incumbent Democrat Alan Dixon. In 1996, she was selected as McCain's running mate. Once she moved up to the Presidency, her personality rubbed off the wrong way on too many people, which explains why five members of the Cabinet resigned including Secretary of State Richard Lugar and Secretary of Defense Colin Powell.
48. Died of a heart attack on August 14, 2004.
49. First Jewish President.

[Captain Chaos]

We Lost Ike
POD: Dwight Eisenhower dies of a heart attack a month before 1952 election. Republicans nominate his running mate Richard Nixon for President.

34. Adlai Stevenson (D-IL): January 20, 1953-January 20,1957
35. William Knowland (R-CA): January 20,1957-January 20, 1965
36. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ): January 20, 1965-June 5, 1968
37. Clifford Case (R-NJ): June 5, 1968-January 20, 1969
38. Lyndon Johnson (D-TX): January 20, 1969-January 22, 1973
39. John F. Kennedy (D-MA): January 22, 1973-January 20, 1977
40. Robert Finch (R-CA): January 20, 1977-January 20, 1981
41. Helen Stevenson Meyner (D-NJ): January 20, 1981-January 20, 1989
42. Richard C. Clark (D-IA): January 20, 1989-January 20, 1993
43. Jack Kemp (R-NY): January 20, 1993-January 20, 2001
44. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (D-NY): January 20, 2001-January 20, 2009
45. W. Mitt Romney (R-MA): January 20, 2009-Current

36. Assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan while campaigning in California

38. Died of a heart attack only two days into his second term

39. Did not seek reelection for health reasons. Died on November 22, 1978

41. Distant cousin of President Stevenson and first female President

Notes:
The Republicans would become a moderate-conservative party with its strength in the West and Northeast instead of becoming the party of Ronald Reagan (and the extremist religious right) whose support for the unpopular Goldwater administration resulted in an unsuccessful run for Governor of California in 1966. In his second try for the office in 1970, he lost to Lt Governor Robert Finch in the primaries.

Finch would serve as Governor from 1971-1977 and leave office the most popular governor in the country thanks in part to banning offshore oil drilling, the CHIP Act (California Health Insurance Plan) that reformed private health insurance, and signing into law civil rights protections for unmarried partners and gays. He was succeeded as Governor by Pete Wilson (Vice President, 1993-2001).

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POD: Rep. George Bush does not run for Senate in 1970 and is nominated by President Nixon to replace Agnew as VP

37. Richard M. Nixon/Spiro Agnew (R): 1969-1973
37. Richard M. Nixon/George H.W. Bush (R): 1973-1974
38. George H.W. Bush/Robert Dole (R): 1974-1977
39. Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale (D): 1977-1981
40. Ronald Reagan/Richard Lugar (R): 1981-1989
41. Richard Lugar/Henry Hyde (R): 1989-1993
42. Bill Clinton/Albert Gore Jr. (D): 1993-2001
43. Elizabeth Dole/John McCain (R): 2001-2009
44. Hillary Rodham Clinton/Barack Obama (D): 2009-Current

Notes:
43. First female President. Elected US Senator from North Carolina in 1992.
44. Second female President/First African-American Vice President. Clinton won the Democratic nomination when Senator Obama accepted her offer of the Vice Presidency. They easily defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain and Mitt Romney.

[Captain Chaos]

Dewey Defeats Truman

33. Harry S. Truman (Democratic - Missouri) 1945-1949
34. Thomas E. Dewey (Republican - New York) 1949-1957
35. Richard Nixon (Republican - California) 1957-1961
36. James Roosevelt (Democratic - California) 1961-1963*
37. John F. “Jack” Kennedy (Democratic - Massachusetts) 1963-1973
38. George Wallace (Democratic - Alabama) 1973-1975*
39. Richard Nixon (Republican - California) 1975-1981
40. George Bush (Republican - Texas) 1981-1985
41. Albert “Al” Gore, Jr. (Democratic – Tennessee) 1985-1993
42. Lloyd Bentsen (Democratic – Texas) 1993-1997
43. Colin Powell (Republican – Florida) 1997-2005
44. John Kerry (Democratic – Connecticut) 2005-2009
45. Hilda Solis (Republican – California) 2009-Present

1. President James Roosevelt is killed in Dallas, Vice President John F. Kennedy takes over as President.

2. President George Wallace (A Friend of African Americans in this POD) resigns his office due to an organized Watergate Hotel break in to steal campaign secrets, Former President Nixon, known as a bastion of integrity, then serving as Speaker of the House, becomes President.

3. President Hilda Solis is our first woman and first Hispanic President, she has been a grassroots Conservative organizer for years, and was elected to the US Senate in 2000. She gained a national following in a campaign that transcended gender and race, and her campaign had a strong sense of unity.

What happened to Wallace's Vice President?

[Captain Chaos]

LBJ: The Comeback Kid

36. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX): 1963-1971
37. Spiro Agnew (R-MD): 1971-1972
38. John Ashbrook (R-OH): 1972-1973
39. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN): 1973-1977
40. Richard Nixon (R-CA): 1977-1981
41. Edmund G. Brown (D-CA): 1981-1989
42. John Warner (R-VA): 1989-1997
43. Bob Kerrey (D-NE): 1997-2005
44. John McCain (R-AZ): 2005-2008
45. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT): 2008-2009
46. Albert Gore, Jr. (D-TN): 2009-Current

Notes:
36. After the Democratic National Convention was deadlocked after 7 ballots, President Johnson decided to travel to Chicago to address the delegates. In his speech, he declared that he was running for reelection. LBJ won the nomination on the 8th ballot and Vice President Humphrey was again his running mate. Although LBJ trailed Nixon for most of the campaign, he decided in October to use surge tactics on North Vietnam including dropping napalm bombs and Agent Orange on over 90 percent of the country. The Communist government collapsed and the South Vietnamese army marched in to take over and declare victory. On Election Day, Johnson and Nixon were tied 255-255 in the Electoral College. The House of Representatives elected Johnson President but in the Senate, a coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats elected Spiro Agnew Vice President.

37. The pressures of dealing with the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a Republican Congress elected in 1970, protests on college campuses, and communist revolutions in Laos and Cambodia took a tool on LBJ. On August 29, 1971, Johnson suffered a fatal hear attack while on vacation at his Texas ranch. Spiro Agnew was sworn in as the new President. His pick of Congressman John Ashbrook for Vice President pleased conservatives in the Republican Party. The honeymoon was short lived as the entire cabinet resigned with the exception of Treasury Secretary John Connally and HHS Secretary Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Next, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the story that President Agnew received bribes from contractors dating back to his term as Maryland Governor and continuing while he was Vice President. After Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA) won the New Hampshire primary, the calls increased for Agnew’s impeachment. On May 15, 1972, President Agnew campaigned in his home state when Arthur Bremer assassinated him outside a shopping center in Laurel, Maryland.

38. After John Ashbrook became President, Governor Reagan announced the end of his candidacy for President and endorsed Ashbrook. In return, Ashbrook offered the Vice Presidency to Reagan but he declined. Congress ultimately confirmed House Majority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona for Vice President. The Democrats nominated the ticket of Hubert Humphrey for President and Senator Frank Church of Idaho for Vice President. The race would be decided when the states of California and Illinois were called for Humphrey after midnight, and Humphrey was elected President. In 1975, Humphrey declared that he had inoperable cancer and did not seek reelection.

39. Former Vice President Nixon would be the comeback kid. In his third try, Nixon was elected President. His running mate, Senator John Tower of Texas became Vice President. Nixon’s accomplishments in foreign policy included a peace treaty between Egypt, Israel and Jordan, and the passage of the Panama Canal and SALT II treaties. On the domestic front, Nixon successfully pushed Congress to pass a health insurance plan that allowed the insurance companies to operate across state lines and provided for a public option. However, rising unemployment and inflation hurt Nixon. He was also criticized for allowing the deposed Shah of Iran into the U.S. for medical treatment leading to the taking of hostages at the US Embassy in Teheran. The bungling of a rescue attempt of the hostages resulted in the resignation of Secretary of Defense Henry “Scoop” Jackson. But what doomed Nixon’s reelection campaign in 1980 was his health. An attack of phlebitis forced Nixon off the campaign trail for most of the last two months. The drunken appearances of Vice President Tower also hurt. Governor Jerry Brown and his running mate Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina won a 45 state landslide.

40. As President, Jerry Brown would govern as a centrist by supporting public works projects and income tax cuts while vetoing wasteful spending. By the end of his presidency, the unemployment rate fell to 6 percent.

41. President Warner presided over the end of the Cold War and drove out the Iraqi army from Kuwait. Thanks to the economic reforms of the Brown administration, there was no recession until 1995. Vice President Richard Lugar proved to be an ineffective campaigner as the GOP Presidential nominee in 1996.

43. After the Democrats nominated Vice President Albert Gore in 2004, Senator McCain reached across the aisle and selected his colleague Joe Lieberman as his running mate. McCain was elected President after he was declared the winner in Florida and Ohio. In January 2008, President McCain suffered a fatal heart attack.

44. First Jewish President. Already kicked out of the Democratic Party after endorsing McCain in 2004, President Lieberman decided to run as an Independent. The GOP already decided he was not conservative enough. Senator George Allen won the Republican nomination for President but his gaffes hurt his campaign as well as the recession of 2008. Al Gore and his running mate Senator Barack Obama of Illinois won a landslide victory. Poor President Lieberman would only win Maine and a single electoral vote in Nebraska (5 total electoral votes).

[Captain Chaos]

IOTL, Matsunaga died on 4/15/1990.

[Captain Chaos]

A Woman's Place Is In The White House

POD: Senator Margaret Chase Smith announces her Presidential candidacy in January 1964

37. Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME): 1965-1973
38. William Scranton (R-PA): 1973-1975
39. Ronald Reagan (R-CA): 1975-1977
40. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA): 1977-1983
41. Frances Farenthold (D-TX): 1983-1989
42. Robert Dole (R-KS): 1989-1993
43. Paul Tsongas (D-MA): 1993-1997
44. Elizabeth Hanford (D-NC): 1997-2005
45. William Weld (R-MA): 2005-Current

37. First female President. Smith would win the NH primary in a landslide and win most of the midwest, plus defeating Barry Goldwater in a close primary in California. Stories about LBJ's ties to the Bobby Baker scandal plus the sources of LBJ's wealth enabled Smith to a comfortable win (Alabama Gov George Wallace ran as a third party candidate and swept the deep South).

38. Vice President under Smith. Assassinated 9/5/75 by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme.

40. Died of a heart attack on 9/1/83

41. First female Governor of Texas (1973-1977) and first female Vice President of the US (1977-1983)

43. Did not run for reelection in 1996 due to health problems. Died 1/18/97, two days before the end of his term in office.

44. Second woman to be elected to a US House seat in North Carolina when she was elected in 1970. Resigned from Congress to serve as Secretary of Agriculture (1977-1981). After returning home to North Carolina to practice law, she was elected to the US Senate in 1984 when Nick Galifianakis decided to retire. First ran for President in 1992 and won most Southern states. Served as Vice President of the US from 1993-1997. During the War on Terror, President Hanford ordered military action to overthrow the Taliban government in Afghanistan after the 9/11/01 attack on the World Trade Center. US Marines found and captured Osama bin Laden and Mohammed Omar; they were extradited to the US and were convicted on all 2,000+ counts of murder. They were executed in 2003. In the case of Iraq, President Hanford decided not to send US troops there based on the finding that there were no WMDs in that country. However, she decided to use covert means to overthrow Saddam Hussein, including gun running operations and fomenting Shiite and Kurdish rebellions. Saddam and the Baath party were overthrown in January 2004 on the eve of the State of the Union address. Historians have ranked Hanford among the top 10 ranked greatest Presidents.

45. Governor of Massachusetts (1991-1999) and US Attorney General (1999-2003). After the successful prosecutions of bin Laden and Omar, Weld resigned to run for President. Weld's running mate Condoleeza Rice (R-CA, Ambassador to the UN 1989-1992 and US Senator from 1995-2009) is the first African-American Vice President of the US.

[Captain Chaos]

The Rise of Old South (again)

37th: Richard M. Nixon (R-CA), January 20, 1969 - September 7, 1973

President Nixon resigned earlier from office

38th: Spiro T. Agnew (R-MD), September 7, 1973 - October 10, 1973

The second-briefest Presidency after W. H. Harrison so far. Vice President Agnew, already under an investigation, succeesed Nixon and month later himself was forced to go

39th: Carl B. Albert (D-OK), October 10, 1973 - October 15, 1973

And that was the briefest Presidency ever. Speaker Albert, due to lack of Vice President, succeesed Agnew, but before nomination (not to mention confirming) his V.P., he was intented to resign for as soon as he could, he fall down the stairs in the White House while heavily intoxinated and broken his neck. RIP.

40th: James O. Eastland (D-MS), October 15, 1973 - March 12, 1974

First President pro tempore of the Senate to assume the highest office via succession. An unrepeatent segregationist and racist, Eastland quickly tried to reverse everything done on civil rights field in last decade and pissed both Democrats and Republicans alike. In March 1974 he was officially kicked out the party

40th: James O. Eastland (I-MS), March 12, 1974 - October 2, 1974

After making another smilliar steps, President Eastland has been impeached and resigned minutes before the vote in Senate was to begun

41st: Thomas P. O'Neill (D-MA), October 2, 1974 - June 3, 1975

Speaker of the House, who assumed the Presidency as Congress did not confirmed Eastland choices for V.P. However, crisis was so deep that after little over half of a year in office, O'Neill was outsed by the military coup

42nd: Alexander M. Haig (M-PA), June 3, 1975 - January 20, 1981

General Haig, a leader of the military coup became the first authoritarian President in history

43rd: Richard B. Cheney (M-WY), January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989

Although never served in a military, Cheney was Haig right-hand man, awarded by a rank of General. He thus became the second military President.

44th: Donald H. Rumsfeld (M-IL), January 20, 1989 - May 6, 1992

Another politician-turned-general. Overthroved by a blodless coup of civilian forces and some army elements.

Who became President after Rumsfeld?