List alternate PMs or Presidents
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Oh, it was just a quick little list based around the idea of America as India.
Prime Ministers of Canada (1947-):
1947-1951: John Bracken (Canadian League)*
1951-1953: George A. Drew (Canadian League)
1953-1955: Donald Fleming (Canadian League)
1955-1956: Davie Fulton (Canadian League)
1956-1957: Robert Gordon Robertson (Arctic Independent Union)
1957-1957: Alvin Hamilton (Canadian League)
1957-1958: Major James Coldwell (Republican)
1958-1971: Vacant
1971-1971: Robert Stanfield (Canadian League)
1971-1973: Vacant
1973-1977: Pierre Trudeau (People's)
1977-1985: Vacant
1985-1988: Joe Clark (Canadian League/Independent)
1988-1990: Margaret Trudeau (People's)
1990-1990: Ed Broabent (National People's)
1990-1993: Jean Charest (Canadian Democratic League)
1993-1993: Paul Martin (People's)
1993-1993: Jean Charest (Canadian Democratic League)
1993-1993: Patrick Boyer (Independent)
1993-1996: Margaret Trudeau (People's)
1996-1997: Jim Edwards (Independent)
1997-1999: Jean Charest (Canadian Democratic League)
1999-2002: Vacant
2002-2004: Peter MacKay (Canadian National League)
2004-2004: Stuart Murray (Canadian National League)
2004-2007: Stephen Harper (Canadian National League)
2007-2008: Vacant
2008-2012: Bob Rae (People's)
2012-2013: Thomas Mulcair (People's)
2013-2013: Jean Chrétien (Independent)
2013-present: Jean Charest (Canadian National League)
* Assassinated
1947-1951: John Bracken (Canadian League)*
1951-1953: George A. Drew (Canadian League)
1953-1955: Donald Fleming (Canadian League)
1955-1956: Davie Fulton (Canadian League)
1956-1957: Robert Gordon Robertson (Arctic Independent Union)
1957-1957: Alvin Hamilton (Canadian League)
1957-1958: Major James Coldwell (Republican)
1958-1971: Vacant
1971-1971: Robert Stanfield (Canadian League)
1971-1973: Vacant
1973-1977: Pierre Trudeau (People's)
1977-1985: Vacant
1985-1988: Joe Clark (Canadian League/Independent)
1988-1990: Margaret Trudeau (People's)
1990-1990: Ed Broabent (National People's)
1990-1993: Jean Charest (Canadian Democratic League)
1993-1993: Paul Martin (People's)
1993-1993: Jean Charest (Canadian Democratic League)
1993-1993: Patrick Boyer (Independent)
1993-1996: Margaret Trudeau (People's)
1996-1997: Jim Edwards (Independent)
1997-1999: Jean Charest (Canadian Democratic League)
1999-2002: Vacant
2002-2004: Peter MacKay (Canadian National League)
2004-2004: Stuart Murray (Canadian National League)
2004-2007: Stephen Harper (Canadian National League)
2007-2008: Vacant
2008-2012: Bob Rae (People's)
2012-2013: Thomas Mulcair (People's)
2013-2013: Jean Chrétien (Independent)
2013-present: Jean Charest (Canadian National League)
* Assassinated
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You should really put notes into this one or at least post a companion list of Canada's presidents(?), because without context, it looks like Canada periodically goes into complete anarchy (the times when there is no prime minister).
Huey Long survives and splits the Democratic vote in '36.
1936: Alf Landon/Frank Knox (R) 46,8%
Defeated Franklin D. Roosvelt/John N. Garner (D) 28,6% and Huey Long/Al Smith 21,7% (D)
1940: Huey Long*/John N. Garner 51,8%
Defeated Alf Landon/Frank Knox (R) 37.3% and Norman Thomas/Maynard C. Kreuger (S) 9,1%
1943: John N. Garner/Vacant
1944: George McArthur/Arthur H. Vanderberg (R) 46,9%
Defeated John N. Garner/John H. Bankhead (D) 23.6 %, Norman Thomas/Darlington Hoopes (S) 20,1% and Henry A. Wallace/Harry S. Truman (D) 7,5%
1948: Norman Thomas/Frank Zeidler (S) 47,2%
Defeated George McArthur/Arthur H. Vanderberg (R) 36% and Alben W Barkley/Storm Thurmond (D) 15,9%
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower*/Jospeh McCarthy (R) 51,1%
Defeated Harry S. Truman/Nelson Rockefeller 36,4% (D), Norman Thomas/Frank Zeidler (S) 9,2% and Storm Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright (SRD) 3,1%
1954: Joseph McCarthy/Vacant
1956: Joseph McCarthy/Richard Nixon (R) 49,9%
Defeated Adlai Stevenson/Hubert Humphrey (D) 45,8% and Norman Thomas/Frank Zeidler (S) 2,5%
1960: Richard Nixon/Theodore McKeldin (R) 53,5%
Defeated Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey(D) 44,9%
1964: Robert F. Kennedy/Nelson Rockefeller (D) 50,1
Defeated Richard Nixon/Theodore McKeldin (R) 48,3%
1968: Robert F. Kennedy/Nelson Rockefeller (D) 59,8%
Defeated Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller (R) 34,5%
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Ted Kennedy (D) 47,1%
Defeated Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (R) 47%
1976: Richard Nixon/Ronald Reagan (R) 54,7%
Defeated Robert F. Kennedy/Martin Luther King Jr. (D) 44,1%
1980: Richard Nixon/George HW. Bush (R) 48,9%
Defeated Jimmie Carter/Walter Mondale (D) 46,2%
1984: George HW. Bush/John Jacobs Rhodes Jr. (R) 49,3%
Defeated Gary Hart/Betty Ford (D) 41,4% and Bernie Sanders/Tom Kahn (SD) 7,9%
1988: Joseph Biden/Ted Kennedy (D) 51,7%
Defeated George HW. Bush/John Jacobs Rhodes Jr. (R) and Bernie Sanders/Tom Kahn (SD) 5,7%
1992: Newt Gingrich/Dick Cheney (R) 50%
Defeated Joseph Biden/Ted Kennedy (D) 42,9% and Bernie Sanders/Ralph Nader (SD) 5,1%
1996: Al Gore/Bill Clinton (D) 46,3%
Defeated Newt Gingrich/Dick Cheney (R) 44,6% and Nancy Pelosi/Walt Brown (SD) 8%
2000: John McCain/Dick Cheney (R) 51,4%
Defeated Al Gore/Bill Clinton (D) 38,9% and Nancy Pelosi/Jill Stein (SD) 10,4%
2004: John McCain/Dick Cheney (R) 49,7%
Defeated John Kerry/John Edwards (R) 26,7%, Bernie Sanders/Jill Stein (SD) 19,6% and Ron Paul/Michael Badnarik (L) 3,5%
2008: Bernie Sanders/Barack Obama (SD) 41,3%
Defeated Jeb Bush/Mitt Romney (R) 25,9%, Hillary Rodham Clinton/Harry Reid (D) 23,8% and Ron Paul/Nancy Lord (L) 6,1%
2012: Hillary Rodham Clinton/Julian Castro (D) 39,1%
Defeated George W. Bush/Paul Ryan (R) 21,6%, Bernie Sanders/Barack Obama (SD) 20,5% and Ron Paul/Rand Paul (L) 16,9%
* = Assassinated
1936: Alf Landon/Frank Knox (R) 46,8%
Defeated Franklin D. Roosvelt/John N. Garner (D) 28,6% and Huey Long/Al Smith 21,7% (D)
1940: Huey Long*/John N. Garner 51,8%
Defeated Alf Landon/Frank Knox (R) 37.3% and Norman Thomas/Maynard C. Kreuger (S) 9,1%
1943: John N. Garner/Vacant
1944: George McArthur/Arthur H. Vanderberg (R) 46,9%
Defeated John N. Garner/John H. Bankhead (D) 23.6 %, Norman Thomas/Darlington Hoopes (S) 20,1% and Henry A. Wallace/Harry S. Truman (D) 7,5%
1948: Norman Thomas/Frank Zeidler (S) 47,2%
Defeated George McArthur/Arthur H. Vanderberg (R) 36% and Alben W Barkley/Storm Thurmond (D) 15,9%
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower*/Jospeh McCarthy (R) 51,1%
Defeated Harry S. Truman/Nelson Rockefeller 36,4% (D), Norman Thomas/Frank Zeidler (S) 9,2% and Storm Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright (SRD) 3,1%
1954: Joseph McCarthy/Vacant
1956: Joseph McCarthy/Richard Nixon (R) 49,9%
Defeated Adlai Stevenson/Hubert Humphrey (D) 45,8% and Norman Thomas/Frank Zeidler (S) 2,5%
1960: Richard Nixon/Theodore McKeldin (R) 53,5%
Defeated Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey(D) 44,9%
1964: Robert F. Kennedy/Nelson Rockefeller (D) 50,1
Defeated Richard Nixon/Theodore McKeldin (R) 48,3%
1968: Robert F. Kennedy/Nelson Rockefeller (D) 59,8%
Defeated Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller (R) 34,5%
1972: Robert F. Kennedy/Ted Kennedy (D) 47,1%
Defeated Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (R) 47%
1976: Richard Nixon/Ronald Reagan (R) 54,7%
Defeated Robert F. Kennedy/Martin Luther King Jr. (D) 44,1%
1980: Richard Nixon/George HW. Bush (R) 48,9%
Defeated Jimmie Carter/Walter Mondale (D) 46,2%
1984: George HW. Bush/John Jacobs Rhodes Jr. (R) 49,3%
Defeated Gary Hart/Betty Ford (D) 41,4% and Bernie Sanders/Tom Kahn (SD) 7,9%
1988: Joseph Biden/Ted Kennedy (D) 51,7%
Defeated George HW. Bush/John Jacobs Rhodes Jr. (R) and Bernie Sanders/Tom Kahn (SD) 5,7%
1992: Newt Gingrich/Dick Cheney (R) 50%
Defeated Joseph Biden/Ted Kennedy (D) 42,9% and Bernie Sanders/Ralph Nader (SD) 5,1%
1996: Al Gore/Bill Clinton (D) 46,3%
Defeated Newt Gingrich/Dick Cheney (R) 44,6% and Nancy Pelosi/Walt Brown (SD) 8%
2000: John McCain/Dick Cheney (R) 51,4%
Defeated Al Gore/Bill Clinton (D) 38,9% and Nancy Pelosi/Jill Stein (SD) 10,4%
2004: John McCain/Dick Cheney (R) 49,7%
Defeated John Kerry/John Edwards (R) 26,7%, Bernie Sanders/Jill Stein (SD) 19,6% and Ron Paul/Michael Badnarik (L) 3,5%
2008: Bernie Sanders/Barack Obama (SD) 41,3%
Defeated Jeb Bush/Mitt Romney (R) 25,9%, Hillary Rodham Clinton/Harry Reid (D) 23,8% and Ron Paul/Nancy Lord (L) 6,1%
2012: Hillary Rodham Clinton/Julian Castro (D) 39,1%
Defeated George W. Bush/Paul Ryan (R) 21,6%, Bernie Sanders/Barack Obama (SD) 20,5% and Ron Paul/Rand Paul (L) 16,9%
* = Assassinated
Huey Long criticized Roosevelt from the left, while Smith criticized him from the right. Maybe Smith's personal dislike of Roosevelt could get him to back Long, but he would not want to be on Long's ticket, and definitely he would not accept second place. Choose one of Long's OTL potential candidates that he considered, such William Borah or Burton Wheeler (Floyd Olson was also considered, but he would probably fail to split the vote considering he would be dead months before election day).
Japhy
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I'd enjoy seeing some context too, though I'm not sure there's much point in banging that drum anymore. Did Canada have Presidents in the midst of all of this chaos or is all of this happening under the Governor-Generalship (Not sure how the Arctic Independence or Republican Parties would have dealt with that mind you)
Its an interesting concept at least. My first bit of advice would be to point out that Long wouldn't have run in 1936 as a "supplementary" Democrat, it would have been a party with another name, The Union Party of course being the IOTL name of the splitters party that he had laid a coalition for. Incidentally Al Smith had done a very McCain-like veering to the right by 1936, what with the "American Liberty League" and all that. While he had been the preeminent progressive of the 1920's, personal issues with Roosevelt had pushed him into a position where if he did support a split (And even with FDR his party loyalty was very strong) it would most likely have been from the right.
Beyond that, I have to admit I'm interested in Norman Thomas, the rise of the Socialists and Social Democrats and would be interested to see more about the assassination and various programs. Its a very pleasant project to be reading over, it would be interesting to see it in more detail.
Now with defeated tickets! (Except for Washington)
MORE ASB NONSENSE FROM KATARNLABS
1: George Washington (Non-Partisan) (4/30/1789-3/4/1797)
2: Alexander Hamilton/Thomas Pinckney (Federalist) (3/4/1797-3/4/1805)
1796: James Madison/George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
1800: Thomas Jefferson/George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
3: Aaron Burr/James Madison (Democratic-Republican) (3/4/1805-3/4/1813)
1804: George Clinton/Nathaniel Macon (Democratic-Republican), Charles C. Pinckney/John Marshall (Federalist)
1808: Charles C. Pinckney/Rufus King (Federalist)
4: Thomas Jefferson/Henry Dearborn (Democratic-Republican) (3/4/1813-3/4/1825)
1812: DeWitt Clinton/Jared Ingersoll (Federalist), John Adams/John Jay (Federalist)
1816: Rufus King/John Eager Howard (Federalist)
1820: John Quincy Adams/None (Democratic-Republican), Henry Clay/None (Democratic-Republican)
5: John Quincy Adams/Nathaniel Macon (Adams Democrat) (3/4/1825-3/4/1829)
1824: Andrew Jackson/John C. Calhoun (Jacksonian Democrat)
6: John C. Calhoun/John Floyd (Jacksonian Democrat) (3/4/1829-3/4/1837)
1828: John Quincy Adams/Richard Rush (Adams Democrat)
1832: Henry Clay/John Sergeant (National Republican), William Wirt/Amos Ellmaker (Anti-Masonic)
7: Hugh L. White*/John Tyler (Whig) (3/4/1837-4/10/1840)
1836: John Floyd/Louis McClane (Democrat)
8: John Tyler/None (Whig) (4/10/1840-3/4/1841)
9: Levi Woodbury/James Knox Polk (Democrat) (3/4/1841-3/4/1849)
1840: William Henry Harrison/Francis Granger (Whig)
1844: John Bell/Theodore Frelinghuysen (Whig)
10: Millard Fillmore/George C. Washington (American) (3/4/1849-3/4/1853)
1848: Lewis Cass/James Buchanan (Democrat), Daniel Webster/Abbott Lawrence (Whig)
11: Franklin Pierce/William R. King (Democrat) (3/4/1853-3/4/1857)
1852: John Bell/William A. Graham (American), William H. Seward/Martin Van Buren (Republican), Winfield Scott/Charles F. Adams (Whig)
12: Stephen Arnold Douglas/John C. Breckinrige (Democrat) (3/4/1857-3/4/1861)
1856: Nathaniel P. Banks/Andrew J. Donelson (American), John C. Fremont/Charles Sumner (Republican)
13: Abraham Lincoln**/William H. Seward (American Republican) (3/4/1861-4/15/1865)
1860: Jefferson Davis/Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Southern Democrat), Stephen Arnold Douglas/Herschel V. Johnson (Democrat)
1864: George B. McClellan/Andrew Johnson (Democrat)
14: William H. Seward/None/Benjamin F. Wade (American Republican) (4/15/1865-3/4/1873)
1868: Andrew Johnson/Horatio Seymour (Democrat)
15: Joshua L. Chamberlain/Salmon P. Chase/William A. Wheeler (American Republican) (3/4/1873-3/4/1881)
1872: Charles F. Adams/Benjamin G. Brown (Liberal Republican), Thomas A. Hendricks/Jeremiah S. Black (Democrat)
1876: Rutherford B. Hayes/Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (National Liberal), Thomas F. Bayard/Thomas A. Hendricks (Democrat)
16: Ulysess S. Grant/James G. Blaine (American Republican) (3/4/1881-3/4/1885)
1880: Winfield Scott Hancock/Thomas A. Hendricks (Democrat)
17: James G. Blaine/Robert Todd Lincoln (American Republican) (3/4/1885-3/4/1889)
1884: James B. Weaver/Benjamin F. Butler (Populist), Joseph E. McDonald/Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat)
18: John Sherman/Thomas F. Bayard/William McKinley (Populist) (3/4/1889-3/4/1897)
1888: James G. Blaine/Robert Todd Lincoln (American Republican)
1892: James G. Blaine/Whitelaw Reid (American Republican)
19: Thomas Brackett Reed/Garret A. Hobart (American Republican) (3/4/1897-3/4/1901)
1896: William Jennings Bryan/Arthur Sewall (Silver Populist), John Griffin Carlisle/Edward S. Bragg (Gold Populist)
20: Theodore Roosevelt/Henry Clay Evans (American Republican) (3/4/1901-3/4/1909)
1900: William Jennings Bryan/Adlai E. Stevenson (Populist)
1904: William Randolph Hearst/Charles W. Fairbanks (Populist)
21: Robert Todd Lincoln/Philander C. Knox (American Republican) (3/4/1909-3/4/1917)
1908: William Jennings Bryan/John W. Kern (Populist)
1912: Champ Clark/None (Populist)
22: Theodore Roosevelt*/Thomas Riley Marshall (American Republican) (3/4/1917-1/6/1919)
1916: Charles Evans Hughes/Oscar Underwood (Populist)
23: Thomas Riley Marshall/None/Hiram Johnson (American Republican) (1/6/1919-3/4/1925)
1920: Warren G. Harding/Frank Orren Lowden (Populist)
24: Thomas J. Walsh*/William Randolph Hearst/Cordell Hull (Populist) (3/4/1925-3/2/1933)
1924: Al Smith/Charles G. Dawes (American Republican), Robert M. LaFollette/Burton K. Wheeler (Progressive)
1928: Charles Curtis/James Eli Watson (American Republican), Hiram Johnson/Alben W. Barkley (Progressive)
25: Cordell Hull/None (Populist) (3/2/1933-3/4/1933)
26: Charles Curtis*/John Nance Garner (American Republican) (3/4/1933-2/8/1936)
1932: Floyd B. Olson/Huey Long (Progressive Labor), Herbert Hoover/Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Populist)
27: John Nance Garner/None (American Republican) (2/8/1936-1/20/1937)
28: Cordell Hull/Burton K. Wheeler (Populist) (1/20/1937-1/20/1945)
1936: John Nance Garner/Al Smith (American Republican)
1940: Wendell Wilkie/Arthur H. Vandenburg (American Republican)
29: Burton K. Wheeler/Henry Wallace/William O. Douglas (Populist) (1/20/1945-1/20/1953)
1944: Robert Taft/John W. Bricker (American Republican)
1948: Earl Warren/Thomas E. Dewey (American Republican)
30: Robert Taft*/Harold Stassen (American Republican) (1/20/1953-7/31/1953)
1952: Lyndon Baines Johnson/Adlai Stevenson (Populist), Hubert Humphrey/W. Averell Harriman (Non-Partisan)
31: Harold Stassen/None (American Republican) (7/31/1953-1/20/1957)
32: Strom Thurmond/Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (Populist) (1/20/1957-1/20/1961)
1956: Harold Stassen/John F. Kennedy (American Republican)
33: Harold Stassen**/Nelson Rockefeller (American Republican) (1/20/1961-11/22/1963)
1960: Richard Nixon/Joe Foss (Populist), George C. Wallace/Barry Goldwater (Conservative)
34: Nelson Rockefeller/None/John F. Kennedy (American Republican) (11/22/1963-1/20/1973)
1964: Lyndon Baines Johnson/Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Populist)
1968: Ronald Reagan/James Stewart (Populist)
35: John F. Kennedy/Edmund Muskie (American Republican) (1/20/1973-1/20/1977)
1972: Raymond P. Shafer/Mark Hatfield (Populist), George S. McGovern/Hiram Fong (Non-Partisan)
36: Ronald Reagan/Bob Dole (Populist) (1/20/1977-1/20/1985)
1976: John F. Kennedy/Edmund Muskie (American Republican)
1980: John Glenn/Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (American Republican)
37: Mario Cuomo/Gary Hart (American Republican) (1/20/1985-1/20/1993)
1984: Bob Dole/George H. W. Bush (Populist)
1988: Jack French Kemp/Donald Rumsfeld (Populist)
38: Jerry Brown/Lloyd Bentsen (American Republican) (1/20/1993-1/20/1997)
1992: Joe Lieberman/George H. W. Bush (Populist), H. Ross Perot/James Stockdale (Non-Partisan)
39: John S. McCain/Elizabeth Dole (Populist) (1/20/1997-1/20/2005)
1996: Jerry Brown/Lloyd Bentsen (American Republican)
2000: Bill Bradley/Bob Kerrey (American Republican)
40: Howard Dean/Wesley Clark (American Republican) (1/20/2005-1/20/2009)
2004: Elizabeth Dole/Joe Lieberman (Populist)
41: Mitt Romney/Bernie Sanders (Populist) (1/20/2009-)
2008: Howard Dean/Wesley Clark (American Republican)
2012: Joe Biden/John Kerry (American Republican), Ron Paul/Gary Johnson (Libertarian)
THE ALIEN SPACE BAT INVASION HAS BEGUN!
COMMENCE WITH OPERATION RUTABAGA
MORE ASB NONSENSE FROM KATARNLABS
1: George Washington (Non-Partisan) (4/30/1789-3/4/1797)
2: Alexander Hamilton/Thomas Pinckney (Federalist) (3/4/1797-3/4/1805)
1796: James Madison/George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
1800: Thomas Jefferson/George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
3: Aaron Burr/James Madison (Democratic-Republican) (3/4/1805-3/4/1813)
1804: George Clinton/Nathaniel Macon (Democratic-Republican), Charles C. Pinckney/John Marshall (Federalist)
1808: Charles C. Pinckney/Rufus King (Federalist)
4: Thomas Jefferson/Henry Dearborn (Democratic-Republican) (3/4/1813-3/4/1825)
1812: DeWitt Clinton/Jared Ingersoll (Federalist), John Adams/John Jay (Federalist)
1816: Rufus King/John Eager Howard (Federalist)
1820: John Quincy Adams/None (Democratic-Republican), Henry Clay/None (Democratic-Republican)
5: John Quincy Adams/Nathaniel Macon (Adams Democrat) (3/4/1825-3/4/1829)
1824: Andrew Jackson/John C. Calhoun (Jacksonian Democrat)
6: John C. Calhoun/John Floyd (Jacksonian Democrat) (3/4/1829-3/4/1837)
1828: John Quincy Adams/Richard Rush (Adams Democrat)
1832: Henry Clay/John Sergeant (National Republican), William Wirt/Amos Ellmaker (Anti-Masonic)
7: Hugh L. White*/John Tyler (Whig) (3/4/1837-4/10/1840)
1836: John Floyd/Louis McClane (Democrat)
8: John Tyler/None (Whig) (4/10/1840-3/4/1841)
9: Levi Woodbury/James Knox Polk (Democrat) (3/4/1841-3/4/1849)
1840: William Henry Harrison/Francis Granger (Whig)
1844: John Bell/Theodore Frelinghuysen (Whig)
10: Millard Fillmore/George C. Washington (American) (3/4/1849-3/4/1853)
1848: Lewis Cass/James Buchanan (Democrat), Daniel Webster/Abbott Lawrence (Whig)
11: Franklin Pierce/William R. King (Democrat) (3/4/1853-3/4/1857)
1852: John Bell/William A. Graham (American), William H. Seward/Martin Van Buren (Republican), Winfield Scott/Charles F. Adams (Whig)
12: Stephen Arnold Douglas/John C. Breckinrige (Democrat) (3/4/1857-3/4/1861)
1856: Nathaniel P. Banks/Andrew J. Donelson (American), John C. Fremont/Charles Sumner (Republican)
13: Abraham Lincoln**/William H. Seward (American Republican) (3/4/1861-4/15/1865)
1860: Jefferson Davis/Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Southern Democrat), Stephen Arnold Douglas/Herschel V. Johnson (Democrat)
1864: George B. McClellan/Andrew Johnson (Democrat)
14: William H. Seward/None/Benjamin F. Wade (American Republican) (4/15/1865-3/4/1873)
1868: Andrew Johnson/Horatio Seymour (Democrat)
15: Joshua L. Chamberlain/Salmon P. Chase/William A. Wheeler (American Republican) (3/4/1873-3/4/1881)
1872: Charles F. Adams/Benjamin G. Brown (Liberal Republican), Thomas A. Hendricks/Jeremiah S. Black (Democrat)
1876: Rutherford B. Hayes/Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (National Liberal), Thomas F. Bayard/Thomas A. Hendricks (Democrat)
16: Ulysess S. Grant/James G. Blaine (American Republican) (3/4/1881-3/4/1885)
1880: Winfield Scott Hancock/Thomas A. Hendricks (Democrat)
17: James G. Blaine/Robert Todd Lincoln (American Republican) (3/4/1885-3/4/1889)
1884: James B. Weaver/Benjamin F. Butler (Populist), Joseph E. McDonald/Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat)
18: John Sherman/Thomas F. Bayard/William McKinley (Populist) (3/4/1889-3/4/1897)
1888: James G. Blaine/Robert Todd Lincoln (American Republican)
1892: James G. Blaine/Whitelaw Reid (American Republican)
19: Thomas Brackett Reed/Garret A. Hobart (American Republican) (3/4/1897-3/4/1901)
1896: William Jennings Bryan/Arthur Sewall (Silver Populist), John Griffin Carlisle/Edward S. Bragg (Gold Populist)
20: Theodore Roosevelt/Henry Clay Evans (American Republican) (3/4/1901-3/4/1909)
1900: William Jennings Bryan/Adlai E. Stevenson (Populist)
1904: William Randolph Hearst/Charles W. Fairbanks (Populist)
21: Robert Todd Lincoln/Philander C. Knox (American Republican) (3/4/1909-3/4/1917)
1908: William Jennings Bryan/John W. Kern (Populist)
1912: Champ Clark/None (Populist)
22: Theodore Roosevelt*/Thomas Riley Marshall (American Republican) (3/4/1917-1/6/1919)
1916: Charles Evans Hughes/Oscar Underwood (Populist)
23: Thomas Riley Marshall/None/Hiram Johnson (American Republican) (1/6/1919-3/4/1925)
1920: Warren G. Harding/Frank Orren Lowden (Populist)
24: Thomas J. Walsh*/William Randolph Hearst/Cordell Hull (Populist) (3/4/1925-3/2/1933)
1924: Al Smith/Charles G. Dawes (American Republican), Robert M. LaFollette/Burton K. Wheeler (Progressive)
1928: Charles Curtis/James Eli Watson (American Republican), Hiram Johnson/Alben W. Barkley (Progressive)
25: Cordell Hull/None (Populist) (3/2/1933-3/4/1933)
26: Charles Curtis*/John Nance Garner (American Republican) (3/4/1933-2/8/1936)
1932: Floyd B. Olson/Huey Long (Progressive Labor), Herbert Hoover/Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Populist)
27: John Nance Garner/None (American Republican) (2/8/1936-1/20/1937)
28: Cordell Hull/Burton K. Wheeler (Populist) (1/20/1937-1/20/1945)
1936: John Nance Garner/Al Smith (American Republican)
1940: Wendell Wilkie/Arthur H. Vandenburg (American Republican)
29: Burton K. Wheeler/Henry Wallace/William O. Douglas (Populist) (1/20/1945-1/20/1953)
1944: Robert Taft/John W. Bricker (American Republican)
1948: Earl Warren/Thomas E. Dewey (American Republican)
30: Robert Taft*/Harold Stassen (American Republican) (1/20/1953-7/31/1953)
1952: Lyndon Baines Johnson/Adlai Stevenson (Populist), Hubert Humphrey/W. Averell Harriman (Non-Partisan)
31: Harold Stassen/None (American Republican) (7/31/1953-1/20/1957)
32: Strom Thurmond/Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (Populist) (1/20/1957-1/20/1961)
1956: Harold Stassen/John F. Kennedy (American Republican)
33: Harold Stassen**/Nelson Rockefeller (American Republican) (1/20/1961-11/22/1963)
1960: Richard Nixon/Joe Foss (Populist), George C. Wallace/Barry Goldwater (Conservative)
34: Nelson Rockefeller/None/John F. Kennedy (American Republican) (11/22/1963-1/20/1973)
1964: Lyndon Baines Johnson/Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Populist)
1968: Ronald Reagan/James Stewart (Populist)
35: John F. Kennedy/Edmund Muskie (American Republican) (1/20/1973-1/20/1977)
1972: Raymond P. Shafer/Mark Hatfield (Populist), George S. McGovern/Hiram Fong (Non-Partisan)
36: Ronald Reagan/Bob Dole (Populist) (1/20/1977-1/20/1985)
1976: John F. Kennedy/Edmund Muskie (American Republican)
1980: John Glenn/Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (American Republican)
37: Mario Cuomo/Gary Hart (American Republican) (1/20/1985-1/20/1993)
1984: Bob Dole/George H. W. Bush (Populist)
1988: Jack French Kemp/Donald Rumsfeld (Populist)
38: Jerry Brown/Lloyd Bentsen (American Republican) (1/20/1993-1/20/1997)
1992: Joe Lieberman/George H. W. Bush (Populist), H. Ross Perot/James Stockdale (Non-Partisan)
39: John S. McCain/Elizabeth Dole (Populist) (1/20/1997-1/20/2005)
1996: Jerry Brown/Lloyd Bentsen (American Republican)
2000: Bill Bradley/Bob Kerrey (American Republican)
40: Howard Dean/Wesley Clark (American Republican) (1/20/2005-1/20/2009)
2004: Elizabeth Dole/Joe Lieberman (Populist)
41: Mitt Romney/Bernie Sanders (Populist) (1/20/2009-)
2008: Howard Dean/Wesley Clark (American Republican)
2012: Joe Biden/John Kerry (American Republican), Ron Paul/Gary Johnson (Libertarian)
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Germany and Indian Union reversed
Prime Ministers of India:
1949-1963 Syama Mookerjee (Jana Sangh)
1963-1966 B. R. Shenoy (Jana Sangh)
1966-1969 Debaprasad Ghosh (Jana Sangh)
1969-1974 P.N. Haksar (Congress)
1974-1982 Morarji Desai (Congress)
1982-1998 Atal Vajpayee (BJP)
1998-2005 Manmohan Singh (Congress)
2005- Anandiben Mafatbhai Patel (BJP)
Chancellors of Germany:
1947-1964 Carlo Schmid (SPD)
1964-1966 Herbert Wehner (SPD)
1966-1977 Uta Ranke-Heinemann (SPD)
1977-1979 Helmut Schmidt (FDP)
1979-1980 Robert Havemann (Grüne)
1980-1984 Uta Ranke-Heinemann (SPD)
1984-1989 Oskar Lafontaine (SPD)
1989-1990 Burkhard Hirsch (FDP)
1990-1991 Jens Reich (Neues Forum)
1991-1996 Rudolf Scharping (SPD)
1996-1997 Oswald Metzger (Grüne)
1997-1998 Rezzo Schlauch (Grüne)
1998-2004 Roland Koch (CDU)
2004-2014 Gerhard Schröder (SPD)
2014- Heiner Geißler (CDU)
Prime Ministers of India:
1949-1963 Syama Mookerjee (Jana Sangh)
1963-1966 B. R. Shenoy (Jana Sangh)
1966-1969 Debaprasad Ghosh (Jana Sangh)
1969-1974 P.N. Haksar (Congress)
1974-1982 Morarji Desai (Congress)
1982-1998 Atal Vajpayee (BJP)
1998-2005 Manmohan Singh (Congress)
2005- Anandiben Mafatbhai Patel (BJP)
Chancellors of Germany:
1947-1964 Carlo Schmid (SPD)
1964-1966 Herbert Wehner (SPD)
1966-1977 Uta Ranke-Heinemann (SPD)
1977-1979 Helmut Schmidt (FDP)
1979-1980 Robert Havemann (Grüne)
1980-1984 Uta Ranke-Heinemann (SPD)
1984-1989 Oskar Lafontaine (SPD)
1989-1990 Burkhard Hirsch (FDP)
1990-1991 Jens Reich (Neues Forum)
1991-1996 Rudolf Scharping (SPD)
1996-1997 Oswald Metzger (Grüne)
1997-1998 Rezzo Schlauch (Grüne)
1998-2004 Roland Koch (CDU)
2004-2014 Gerhard Schröder (SPD)
2014- Heiner Geißler (CDU)
The British Communist Party turns arty
General Secretaries of the Communist Party of Great Britain:
1920: Sylvia Pankhurst
1929: Stephen Spender
1939: Doris Lessing
1941: Eric Hobsbawm
1956: Kingsley Amis
1975: Robert Wyatt
1989: Tilda Swinton
General Secretaries of the Communist Party of Great Britain:
1920: Sylvia Pankhurst
1929: Stephen Spender
1939: Doris Lessing
1941: Eric Hobsbawm
1956: Kingsley Amis
1975: Robert Wyatt
1989: Tilda Swinton
Olive Branch Accepted
Governor Generals of America
1777-1803- John Dickinson
1803-1818 – Edward Fanning
1818- 1820 – John Wentworth
1820-1825- Andrew Allen
1825-1839 – Isaac Coffin
1839-1848 – John Quincy Adams
1848-1853 - Robert Sullivan
1853-1856 – Edmund Walker
First Governor General of the American Commonwealth and a native of Maryland he sided with the rebels during the troubles but led the reconciliation with London and achieved peace on the continent, Widely popular in America for "Winning" the war with minimum bloodshed and liked in Britain for his patriotic attitude towards the crown and sharp negotiating skills he was the most likely candidate for the role of Governor General. He would also allow the creation of a federal capital of Britannia to be built, this city was only completed in 1803 as Dickinsons’ health faded.
From New York Edward Fanning was seen as a safe option that made fame during his actions as a militiaman during the troubles, as loyalism spread through the country his own popularity blossomed, the stability built by Dickinson began to corrode under his rule.
From New Hampshire Wentworth was an old school loyalist and who did little to attempt to fix the tensions that were building, seen by many as a lame duck he is generally disliked in the modern American Dominions
From Pennsylvania Allen supported local causes and stopped to downward flow the country was taking, but he resisted any change he deemed too radical, it was under his rule that the first signs of divisions between Federalists, Localists, Loyalists and Slave owners began to emerge.
Born in Massachusetts Coffin spent his life as a Royal navy officer, after rising to the rank as vice admiral he joined the American political circles in 1808 and rose steadily, seen to be a firm hand he kept the country stable and built up its first real standing armed force, this caused tension between the new localist faction and fedeeralist factions that had arisen.
From Massachusetts Adams was the first real localist but slowly became more of a federalist as time went on, bought into act as a peacemaker. During his term, Adams worked on transforming America into a world power through "internal improvements," as a part of the "American System". It consisted of a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building, and a national bank to encourage productive enterprise and form a national currency. In his first annual message to Congress, Adams presented an ambitious program for modernization that included roads, canals, a national university, an astronomical observatory, and other initiatives. Radical localists were enraged by this action and many “Colonial rightists” who believed that the commonwealths’ federal power should be limited opposed such action. The result was that while Adams managed to modernise and promote the country it became heavily divided along political lines.
Originally born in Ireland Sullivan represented Upper Canada to which he had moved to as a young child and his aims of building up a stronger union lead the nation to the brink of civil war, the slavery issue also began to spiral out of control during his term after he made several laws against slave owners
Raised in Kent, Walker was sent by London due to his work in government in New Brunswick as the country now in semi open war was bought under Direct Rule in a vain attempt to stop the violence. Walker would build several educational facilities as an attempt to return to normalcy until events simply overtook him and the Great North American Uprising began. It is notable that Walker was present at the negotiations of Scranton in 1858 when the Northern Congress would make peace with the British and American Loyalist Armies and marched south to support them in their invasion of Virginia against the Southern Confederacy. After the war ended in 1859 he would retire to the City of Britannia which remained under British control despite the Dominion statuses the other colonies gained.
Governor Generals of America
1777-1803- John Dickinson
1803-1818 – Edward Fanning
1818- 1820 – John Wentworth
1820-1825- Andrew Allen
1825-1839 – Isaac Coffin
1839-1848 – John Quincy Adams
1848-1853 - Robert Sullivan
1853-1856 – Edmund Walker
First Governor General of the American Commonwealth and a native of Maryland he sided with the rebels during the troubles but led the reconciliation with London and achieved peace on the continent, Widely popular in America for "Winning" the war with minimum bloodshed and liked in Britain for his patriotic attitude towards the crown and sharp negotiating skills he was the most likely candidate for the role of Governor General. He would also allow the creation of a federal capital of Britannia to be built, this city was only completed in 1803 as Dickinsons’ health faded.
From New York Edward Fanning was seen as a safe option that made fame during his actions as a militiaman during the troubles, as loyalism spread through the country his own popularity blossomed, the stability built by Dickinson began to corrode under his rule.
From New Hampshire Wentworth was an old school loyalist and who did little to attempt to fix the tensions that were building, seen by many as a lame duck he is generally disliked in the modern American Dominions
From Pennsylvania Allen supported local causes and stopped to downward flow the country was taking, but he resisted any change he deemed too radical, it was under his rule that the first signs of divisions between Federalists, Localists, Loyalists and Slave owners began to emerge.
Born in Massachusetts Coffin spent his life as a Royal navy officer, after rising to the rank as vice admiral he joined the American political circles in 1808 and rose steadily, seen to be a firm hand he kept the country stable and built up its first real standing armed force, this caused tension between the new localist faction and fedeeralist factions that had arisen.
From Massachusetts Adams was the first real localist but slowly became more of a federalist as time went on, bought into act as a peacemaker. During his term, Adams worked on transforming America into a world power through "internal improvements," as a part of the "American System". It consisted of a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building, and a national bank to encourage productive enterprise and form a national currency. In his first annual message to Congress, Adams presented an ambitious program for modernization that included roads, canals, a national university, an astronomical observatory, and other initiatives. Radical localists were enraged by this action and many “Colonial rightists” who believed that the commonwealths’ federal power should be limited opposed such action. The result was that while Adams managed to modernise and promote the country it became heavily divided along political lines.
Originally born in Ireland Sullivan represented Upper Canada to which he had moved to as a young child and his aims of building up a stronger union lead the nation to the brink of civil war, the slavery issue also began to spiral out of control during his term after he made several laws against slave owners
Raised in Kent, Walker was sent by London due to his work in government in New Brunswick as the country now in semi open war was bought under Direct Rule in a vain attempt to stop the violence. Walker would build several educational facilities as an attempt to return to normalcy until events simply overtook him and the Great North American Uprising began. It is notable that Walker was present at the negotiations of Scranton in 1858 when the Northern Congress would make peace with the British and American Loyalist Armies and marched south to support them in their invasion of Virginia against the Southern Confederacy. After the war ended in 1859 he would retire to the City of Britannia which remained under British control despite the Dominion statuses the other colonies gained.
Decided to continue this.
Presidents of the United States in The Magic Rights Movement: A History
(Magic here refers to somewhat limited Harry Potter-esque magic for untrained people. Trained people get really powerful ones.)
24: William McKinley (Republican) 1897-1901
William McKinley's term witnessed the Spanish-American War, which ended up a victory for the USA, and the rise of magic in some people across the world. He won a landslide over "pro-magic" William Jennings Bryan who argues for an end to the increasing persecution of magickers by narrow-minded people. McKinley tolerated the anti-magic rhetoric his supporters took, which angered his vice-president Theodore Roosevelt. He was assassinated by non-magic assassin Leon Czolgosz in 1901.
25: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) 1901-1905
Cousin to one of the most prominent magickers, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was distrusted by a lot of Republicans and Democrats who hated magickers, viewing them as plotting to take over the world with their satanic arts and TR as a co-conspirator. Theodore Roosevelt's main agenda was trust-busting and civil rights for all Americans. He acheived the first, but was assassinated in 1905 shortly after winning a narrow victory over Alton B. Parker. His successor, a "Humanist Republican" Charles W. Fairbanks, took over.
26: Charles W. Fairbanks (Republican) 1905-1913
Under Fairbanks, a "magic test" was implemented into several states, banning all magickers from voting, by using a really contrived interpretation of the Constitution which argued that magickers violated the rights of everybody to be equal. It is at this time that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first steps into civil rights occurred, as he wrote a book and published it anonymously, describing a magicker's feelings about their talent.
27: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) 1913-1921
Fairbanks' veep, Charles Evans Hughes, narrowly lost to Woodrow Wilson, an academic who was heavily biased against visible minorities and magickers. Wilson increased segregation of African-Americans in government and in his presidency, magickers was expelled from several major cities. He also successfully tied Eugene Debs' small Socialist Party with magickers, dooming them electorally. World War I saw magic warfare turn Europe in an insane wasteland full of deformed creatures and surreal flora. This turned people's attitudes severely against magickers in the USA.
28: Warren G. Harding (Republican) 1921-1923
Harding argued for a "return to normalcy", normalcy meaning an America without magickers. He won a landslide over Democrat William Jennings Bryan, running his third and final campaign, still maintaining tolerance and fairness. The Socialist Party collapsed and its members joined the Democrats, viewing them as the best party to spread their policies. Harding died while in Seattle, a city known for a significant magicker minority.
29: Calvin Coolidge (Republican) 1923-1929
Coolidge blamed the magickers for Harding's death, and they went into hiding to avoid the increased persecution that Coolidge encouraged. When Coolidge's son died, he became sullen and silent, with a burning hatred of magickers. The Bureau of Magical Affairs was set up, and its main purpose was to find and eliminate rogue magickers. He won a landslide over Democrat Eugene Debs, running on an extensive platform including civil rights and income equality. In 1928, he refused to run again.
30: John Nance Garner (Democratic) 1929-1937
The election of 1928 was an interesting one, with Republican turned Democrat Herbert Hoover refusing to recognize the well-known anti-magicker Garner and running on a "Justice" ticket arguing for civil rights. He only won his home state of Iowa and that was by a narrow margin. Charles Curtis argued for native rights and painted magickers as corrupted Americans who desired the fall of the United States and the rise of a "magicracy". In the end, Garner won a majority because Hoover split Curtis' votes more than he did Garner. The Great Depression was successfully spun by the Administration as the first part of a plot by magickers to take over the United States. By using the magic card and tying Republican A. Mitchell Palmer, Justician Herbert Hoover and Progressive Democrat Upton Sinclair to the supposed "plot", Garner eked out an electoral majority. In his second term, camps built to "re-educate" and "purify" magickers was set up in the Plains. Magickers sent there never came back.
31: Henry Skillman Breckinridge (Democratic) 1937-1941
By scraping the last of the barrel of magophobia, the USA put the Democrats back in for another term under Garner's VP Henry Breckinridge. The Republicans, Progressive Democrats and Justicians proved a fragmented opposition and Breckinridge managed to win a slim majority. But it was clear the economy was in deep trouble. Garner's limited "boosters" proved a failure after the economy crashed yet again. People's opinion turned against the Democrats and in 1940, after Justice and Progressive Democratic endorsed Republican Harold Stassen, Breckinridge knew he'll lose.
32: Harold Stassen (Republican) 1941-1957
After defeating Breckinridge in a devastating landslide, Stassen set to improve the economy and end the inhumane quarantine and genocide of magickers. This he managed to do successfully, but the fact remained that people was still strongly biased against magickers and voted Stassen in only because of the dying economy. In 1944, he ran against Democrat Strom Thurmond who argued for the dismantling of "socialist" programs that Stassen set up, and the restarting of the camps. He failed to win even a single state as the people was absolutely fed up with the Democrats. Stassen won a 48-state landslide. By the end of his second term, war was once again brewing in Europe, which was still magic-infested and surreal. He also passed the Civil Rights Act of 1948, an ineffective Bill forbidding persecution of minorities, including African-Americans and magickers. He ran a third term, and won handily against Progressive Democrat Norman Thomas and Democratic Strom Thurmond. The Second World War saw a lot of American soldiers go mad from the dehabilitating effects of the European environment. Yet the American people voted Stassen in for a fourth term, knowing he'll win it, and because the Progressive Democrats was still uneasy as the main party of opposition. By 1957, the Second World War was over, mad American soldiers returned from the front and needing a lot of therapy.
33: Richard Nixon (Republican) 1957-1961
Nixon ran on a platform of continuing Stassen's "Stable Deal" and he defeated Progressive Democrat Adlai Stevenson and Democrat Harry F. Byrd handily. The mad American soldiers got therapy as Congress passed the "Magic Effects Act", essentially making therapy free for all Americans affected by magic. However, by 1960, people was tiring of the Republicans and was worried by the rising power of the National Republic of China, a fascist nation. The charismatic Progressive Democrat Lyndon Johnson promised to combat fascism and Nixon was portrayed as a weak President on this issue. Johnson won a narrow majority.
34: Lyndon B. Johnson (Progressive Democratic) 1961-1963
Johnson was the first Progressive Democrat to win the Presidency, and he was elected on a strong foreign policy program, combatting China's rising influence. When China invaded Korea, Johnson ordered American soldiers to go there and fight off China. China brought out the dragons, and this was the first time dragons was seriously used in warfare. They made planes a boiling hell and killed many walking soldiers instantly. A radical change of plans was needed, and in 1962, it was found when magickers was enlisted into the Army. Turns out 5 magickers can bring down a dragon. By the end of 1963, Korea was reduced to a magic-infested landscape. Johnson wouldn't live to see it, as he was assassinated by an insane veteran by the name of George Wallace...
35: John F. Kennedy (Progressive Democratic) 1963-1969
Johnson's assassination in Albany came as a shock to everybody. His vice-president, John F. Kennedy, a person from a well-known magic family, albeit not magic himself (what some people derogatorily call Squibs), rose to the Presidency. The Korean War continued, with magickers proving their mettle against everything China could send, and the development and use of the "Purple Bomb" by magicologists in 1965 put that war to an end as China agreed to a withdrawal from Korea. Kennedy won a term of his own in 1964 mostly to the capital that Johnson's death handed him and the fact that his Republican opponent, Donald Rumsfeld, was too far-right for most people. In 1966, he began drawing up a Civil Rights Act that would be effective and end all persecution of magickers. This easily passed Congress in 1967 as people now viewed magickers as positive, due to their contributions during the Korean War. In signing it, he said He declined re-election due to health concerns and Nelson Rockefeller won the election narrowly over his veep Scoop Jackson and Democrat Orval Faubus.
36: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican) 1969-1977
Rocky's presidency can be summed up as one of social chaos, as crime increased, the activities of surrealists (those who believe Europe and Korea's state are natural) and the releasing of magic-infested drugs that were considerably stronger than normal. In 1971, Rocky authorised the banning of magic-infested drugs by the FDA via a bill, the Public Safety Bill. This led Barry Goldwater to criticise him of crushing liberty, and he ran on the newly-created Libertarian Party ticket in 1972. Rocky won re-election against him, Progressive Democrat George McGovern and Democrat Happy Chandler. His second term saw the PDP rename themselves Progressives as well as the increase in magic-infested drugs on the black market, sold from the mountains of Canada. Rocky told the PM of Canada, Robert Stanfield, to crush down on the drug trade. Stanfield told Rockefeller that he would, in his own time, which annoyed Rockefeller. The 1976 election saw Frank Church win a victory over Republican VP Gerald Ford, Democrat Jimmy Carter and Libertarian Barry Goldwater.
37: Frank Church (Progressive) 1977-1982
The presidency of Frank Church is seen as a controversial one. A Progressive from Idaho, he managed to win his home state along with others to net a majority. Now in the White House, he planned to re-legalise some of the weakest magic-infested drugs, such as enchantin and lovicin (often called the "love potion"). However, the House and Senate was against that, so he dropped it. His main aim was to establish an universal health care system for America, and with the help of a Progressive-controlled House and Senate, he managed to pass it through. The midterms was harsh for the Progressives though, as they lost 60 seats in the House and 7 in the Senate. Church spent the remainder of his first term blocking Republican-Libertarian attempts at undoing his health-care system with the help of the economically populist Democrats. His re-election was seen as an uphill battle, with even his VP Ted Kennedy advising him to plan for his retirement, but Church managed to squeeze out a majority over the common candidate of the Republicans and Libertarians Ronald Reagan and the Democrat Dale Bumpers. The House and Senate narrowly passed into Progressive hands due to the Democrats supporting them. Church's second term was brief, but it saw the start of the Canadian Intervention as the "prairie pioneers" selling magiciogens south of the border turned against the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau, who wanted to stamp out the black market. Canada fell into a civil war, and American forces intervened to help their ally. Church was assassinated by one of those prairie pioneers, enraging Americans all around the country.
38: Ted Kennedy (Progressive) 1982-1986
Ted Kennedy presided over the Canadian Intervention before being impeached in one of the biggest trials of the century that cemented him as one of America's rememberable presidents. He started his presidency when Church died, and continued Church's intervention in Canada, while increasing security around him. There was a failed assassination attempt in 1983. The Canadian Intervention didn't go as well as planned, with the prairie pioneers successfully taking Calgary over the bodies of good American soldiers. The Progressive-controlled Congress (with an increased majority due to shock at Church's death) authorised more funding for the Canadian Intervention (with even Republicans and Democrats supporting it). This unfortunately led to an increase in magophobia, with people accusing magickers of making magiciogens and of conspirating to undermine America. Pat Robertson was one of the early people involved in the magophobic revival. In 1984, the Canadian Intervention was looking to be Kennedy's fall from power, but a successful breakthrough in Manitoba and the capture of the pioneers' number #2 boosted Ted's polling and ensured he was elected to his own term over Republican George H. W. Bush and Libertarian David Nolan, with the Democrats endorsing Kennedy. Kennedy authorised an investigation into Pat Robertson and various other magophobes. This, later called "Operation Security" was to prove controversial and lead to the impeachment of Ted Kennedy, which started in late 1985 over a law-suit by Robertson that Kennedy was violating his right to privacy. The trial went to the Supreme Court and led to Kennedy's removal from power.
39: Jerry Brown (Progressive) 1986-1989
Brown's presidency was seen as a lackluster one, with Congress passing into Republican hands due to outrage about Operation Security. The Canadian Intervention was winding down as the assassination of "C.J." Clark, the number one of the prairie pioneers by an elite team of American soldiers and the re-establishment of order on the Canadian prairies by the Trudeau (later Martin) government, meant that American forces was not needed in high number. A military presence would still remain for 3 years. The attempted impeachment of Jerry Brown in 1988, by an over-confident Republican Party based on flimsy connections to Operation Security dominated the election even though Brown was not running. The Republican candidate, Paul Laxalt of Nevada, condemned the impeachment trial and the impeachment failed. It did mean that, even though the Republicans won the Presidency, they lost the House.
40: Paul Laxalt (Republican) 1989-2001
41: Al Gore (Progressive) 2001-2009
Ugh. I can't continue this any longer. I'll come back to it eventually.
Presidents of the United States in The Magic Rights Movement: A History
(Magic here refers to somewhat limited Harry Potter-esque magic for untrained people. Trained people get really powerful ones.)
24: William McKinley (Republican) 1897-1901
William McKinley's term witnessed the Spanish-American War, which ended up a victory for the USA, and the rise of magic in some people across the world. He won a landslide over "pro-magic" William Jennings Bryan who argues for an end to the increasing persecution of magickers by narrow-minded people. McKinley tolerated the anti-magic rhetoric his supporters took, which angered his vice-president Theodore Roosevelt. He was assassinated by non-magic assassin Leon Czolgosz in 1901.
25: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) 1901-1905
Cousin to one of the most prominent magickers, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was distrusted by a lot of Republicans and Democrats who hated magickers, viewing them as plotting to take over the world with their satanic arts and TR as a co-conspirator. Theodore Roosevelt's main agenda was trust-busting and civil rights for all Americans. He acheived the first, but was assassinated in 1905 shortly after winning a narrow victory over Alton B. Parker. His successor, a "Humanist Republican" Charles W. Fairbanks, took over.
26: Charles W. Fairbanks (Republican) 1905-1913
Under Fairbanks, a "magic test" was implemented into several states, banning all magickers from voting, by using a really contrived interpretation of the Constitution which argued that magickers violated the rights of everybody to be equal. It is at this time that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first steps into civil rights occurred, as he wrote a book and published it anonymously, describing a magicker's feelings about their talent.
27: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic) 1913-1921
Fairbanks' veep, Charles Evans Hughes, narrowly lost to Woodrow Wilson, an academic who was heavily biased against visible minorities and magickers. Wilson increased segregation of African-Americans in government and in his presidency, magickers was expelled from several major cities. He also successfully tied Eugene Debs' small Socialist Party with magickers, dooming them electorally. World War I saw magic warfare turn Europe in an insane wasteland full of deformed creatures and surreal flora. This turned people's attitudes severely against magickers in the USA.
28: Warren G. Harding (Republican) 1921-1923
Harding argued for a "return to normalcy", normalcy meaning an America without magickers. He won a landslide over Democrat William Jennings Bryan, running his third and final campaign, still maintaining tolerance and fairness. The Socialist Party collapsed and its members joined the Democrats, viewing them as the best party to spread their policies. Harding died while in Seattle, a city known for a significant magicker minority.
29: Calvin Coolidge (Republican) 1923-1929
Coolidge blamed the magickers for Harding's death, and they went into hiding to avoid the increased persecution that Coolidge encouraged. When Coolidge's son died, he became sullen and silent, with a burning hatred of magickers. The Bureau of Magical Affairs was set up, and its main purpose was to find and eliminate rogue magickers. He won a landslide over Democrat Eugene Debs, running on an extensive platform including civil rights and income equality. In 1928, he refused to run again.
30: John Nance Garner (Democratic) 1929-1937
The election of 1928 was an interesting one, with Republican turned Democrat Herbert Hoover refusing to recognize the well-known anti-magicker Garner and running on a "Justice" ticket arguing for civil rights. He only won his home state of Iowa and that was by a narrow margin. Charles Curtis argued for native rights and painted magickers as corrupted Americans who desired the fall of the United States and the rise of a "magicracy". In the end, Garner won a majority because Hoover split Curtis' votes more than he did Garner. The Great Depression was successfully spun by the Administration as the first part of a plot by magickers to take over the United States. By using the magic card and tying Republican A. Mitchell Palmer, Justician Herbert Hoover and Progressive Democrat Upton Sinclair to the supposed "plot", Garner eked out an electoral majority. In his second term, camps built to "re-educate" and "purify" magickers was set up in the Plains. Magickers sent there never came back.
31: Henry Skillman Breckinridge (Democratic) 1937-1941
By scraping the last of the barrel of magophobia, the USA put the Democrats back in for another term under Garner's VP Henry Breckinridge. The Republicans, Progressive Democrats and Justicians proved a fragmented opposition and Breckinridge managed to win a slim majority. But it was clear the economy was in deep trouble. Garner's limited "boosters" proved a failure after the economy crashed yet again. People's opinion turned against the Democrats and in 1940, after Justice and Progressive Democratic endorsed Republican Harold Stassen, Breckinridge knew he'll lose.
32: Harold Stassen (Republican) 1941-1957
After defeating Breckinridge in a devastating landslide, Stassen set to improve the economy and end the inhumane quarantine and genocide of magickers. This he managed to do successfully, but the fact remained that people was still strongly biased against magickers and voted Stassen in only because of the dying economy. In 1944, he ran against Democrat Strom Thurmond who argued for the dismantling of "socialist" programs that Stassen set up, and the restarting of the camps. He failed to win even a single state as the people was absolutely fed up with the Democrats. Stassen won a 48-state landslide. By the end of his second term, war was once again brewing in Europe, which was still magic-infested and surreal. He also passed the Civil Rights Act of 1948, an ineffective Bill forbidding persecution of minorities, including African-Americans and magickers. He ran a third term, and won handily against Progressive Democrat Norman Thomas and Democratic Strom Thurmond. The Second World War saw a lot of American soldiers go mad from the dehabilitating effects of the European environment. Yet the American people voted Stassen in for a fourth term, knowing he'll win it, and because the Progressive Democrats was still uneasy as the main party of opposition. By 1957, the Second World War was over, mad American soldiers returned from the front and needing a lot of therapy.
33: Richard Nixon (Republican) 1957-1961
Nixon ran on a platform of continuing Stassen's "Stable Deal" and he defeated Progressive Democrat Adlai Stevenson and Democrat Harry F. Byrd handily. The mad American soldiers got therapy as Congress passed the "Magic Effects Act", essentially making therapy free for all Americans affected by magic. However, by 1960, people was tiring of the Republicans and was worried by the rising power of the National Republic of China, a fascist nation. The charismatic Progressive Democrat Lyndon Johnson promised to combat fascism and Nixon was portrayed as a weak President on this issue. Johnson won a narrow majority.
34: Lyndon B. Johnson (Progressive Democratic) 1961-1963
Johnson was the first Progressive Democrat to win the Presidency, and he was elected on a strong foreign policy program, combatting China's rising influence. When China invaded Korea, Johnson ordered American soldiers to go there and fight off China. China brought out the dragons, and this was the first time dragons was seriously used in warfare. They made planes a boiling hell and killed many walking soldiers instantly. A radical change of plans was needed, and in 1962, it was found when magickers was enlisted into the Army. Turns out 5 magickers can bring down a dragon. By the end of 1963, Korea was reduced to a magic-infested landscape. Johnson wouldn't live to see it, as he was assassinated by an insane veteran by the name of George Wallace...
35: John F. Kennedy (Progressive Democratic) 1963-1969
Johnson's assassination in Albany came as a shock to everybody. His vice-president, John F. Kennedy, a person from a well-known magic family, albeit not magic himself (what some people derogatorily call Squibs), rose to the Presidency. The Korean War continued, with magickers proving their mettle against everything China could send, and the development and use of the "Purple Bomb" by magicologists in 1965 put that war to an end as China agreed to a withdrawal from Korea. Kennedy won a term of his own in 1964 mostly to the capital that Johnson's death handed him and the fact that his Republican opponent, Donald Rumsfeld, was too far-right for most people. In 1966, he began drawing up a Civil Rights Act that would be effective and end all persecution of magickers. This easily passed Congress in 1967 as people now viewed magickers as positive, due to their contributions during the Korean War. In signing it, he said He declined re-election due to health concerns and Nelson Rockefeller won the election narrowly over his veep Scoop Jackson and Democrat Orval Faubus.
36: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican) 1969-1977
Rocky's presidency can be summed up as one of social chaos, as crime increased, the activities of surrealists (those who believe Europe and Korea's state are natural) and the releasing of magic-infested drugs that were considerably stronger than normal. In 1971, Rocky authorised the banning of magic-infested drugs by the FDA via a bill, the Public Safety Bill. This led Barry Goldwater to criticise him of crushing liberty, and he ran on the newly-created Libertarian Party ticket in 1972. Rocky won re-election against him, Progressive Democrat George McGovern and Democrat Happy Chandler. His second term saw the PDP rename themselves Progressives as well as the increase in magic-infested drugs on the black market, sold from the mountains of Canada. Rocky told the PM of Canada, Robert Stanfield, to crush down on the drug trade. Stanfield told Rockefeller that he would, in his own time, which annoyed Rockefeller. The 1976 election saw Frank Church win a victory over Republican VP Gerald Ford, Democrat Jimmy Carter and Libertarian Barry Goldwater.
37: Frank Church (Progressive) 1977-1982
The presidency of Frank Church is seen as a controversial one. A Progressive from Idaho, he managed to win his home state along with others to net a majority. Now in the White House, he planned to re-legalise some of the weakest magic-infested drugs, such as enchantin and lovicin (often called the "love potion"). However, the House and Senate was against that, so he dropped it. His main aim was to establish an universal health care system for America, and with the help of a Progressive-controlled House and Senate, he managed to pass it through. The midterms was harsh for the Progressives though, as they lost 60 seats in the House and 7 in the Senate. Church spent the remainder of his first term blocking Republican-Libertarian attempts at undoing his health-care system with the help of the economically populist Democrats. His re-election was seen as an uphill battle, with even his VP Ted Kennedy advising him to plan for his retirement, but Church managed to squeeze out a majority over the common candidate of the Republicans and Libertarians Ronald Reagan and the Democrat Dale Bumpers. The House and Senate narrowly passed into Progressive hands due to the Democrats supporting them. Church's second term was brief, but it saw the start of the Canadian Intervention as the "prairie pioneers" selling magiciogens south of the border turned against the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau, who wanted to stamp out the black market. Canada fell into a civil war, and American forces intervened to help their ally. Church was assassinated by one of those prairie pioneers, enraging Americans all around the country.
38: Ted Kennedy (Progressive) 1982-1986
Ted Kennedy presided over the Canadian Intervention before being impeached in one of the biggest trials of the century that cemented him as one of America's rememberable presidents. He started his presidency when Church died, and continued Church's intervention in Canada, while increasing security around him. There was a failed assassination attempt in 1983. The Canadian Intervention didn't go as well as planned, with the prairie pioneers successfully taking Calgary over the bodies of good American soldiers. The Progressive-controlled Congress (with an increased majority due to shock at Church's death) authorised more funding for the Canadian Intervention (with even Republicans and Democrats supporting it). This unfortunately led to an increase in magophobia, with people accusing magickers of making magiciogens and of conspirating to undermine America. Pat Robertson was one of the early people involved in the magophobic revival. In 1984, the Canadian Intervention was looking to be Kennedy's fall from power, but a successful breakthrough in Manitoba and the capture of the pioneers' number #2 boosted Ted's polling and ensured he was elected to his own term over Republican George H. W. Bush and Libertarian David Nolan, with the Democrats endorsing Kennedy. Kennedy authorised an investigation into Pat Robertson and various other magophobes. This, later called "Operation Security" was to prove controversial and lead to the impeachment of Ted Kennedy, which started in late 1985 over a law-suit by Robertson that Kennedy was violating his right to privacy. The trial went to the Supreme Court and led to Kennedy's removal from power.
39: Jerry Brown (Progressive) 1986-1989
Brown's presidency was seen as a lackluster one, with Congress passing into Republican hands due to outrage about Operation Security. The Canadian Intervention was winding down as the assassination of "C.J." Clark, the number one of the prairie pioneers by an elite team of American soldiers and the re-establishment of order on the Canadian prairies by the Trudeau (later Martin) government, meant that American forces was not needed in high number. A military presence would still remain for 3 years. The attempted impeachment of Jerry Brown in 1988, by an over-confident Republican Party based on flimsy connections to Operation Security dominated the election even though Brown was not running. The Republican candidate, Paul Laxalt of Nevada, condemned the impeachment trial and the impeachment failed. It did mean that, even though the Republicans won the Presidency, they lost the House.
40: Paul Laxalt (Republican) 1989-2001
41: Al Gore (Progressive) 2001-2009
Ugh. I can't continue this any longer. I'll come back to it eventually.
Having recently finished reading A Very British Coup I felt to compelled to do a list for the alternate world it's set in. I've done it so that all the political figures in it left unnamed in the book are OTL figures. I also have tried to see the consequences of the event of the book 10-20 years down the line, again with mainly OTL figures. Fictional characters in the book are marked with an asterisk. The coalition preceding Perkins is actually mentioned in the book.
1979-1986: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)[1]
1984: Michael Foot (Labour), David Steel & Roy Jenkins (SDP-Liberal Alliance)
1986-1986: Norman Tebbit (Conservative)[2]
1986-1989: Norman Tebbit (Conservative-Social Democrat National Unity Gov'mnt)[3]
1986: Neil Kinnock (Labour), David Steel & David Owen (SDP-Liberal Alliance)
1989-1990: Harry Perkins*(Labour)[4]
1989: Norman Tebbit (Conservative), David Owen (Social Democrat), David Steel (Liberal)
1990-1996: Lawrence Wainwright* (Labour/Labour Minority)[5]
1994: Douglas Hurd (Conservative), David Owen (Social Democrat), David Penhaligon (Liberal)
1996-2001: Michael Howard (Conservative)[6]
1996: Lawrence Wainwright* (Labour), David Penhaligon (Liberal), Rosie Barnes (Centre)[7], Jock Steeples * (Democratic Labour)[8]
2001-2003: Mo Mowlam (Labour Minority with Liberal support)[9]
2001: Michael Howard (Conservative), David Penhaligon (Liberal), Rosie Barnes (Centre), Jock Steeples* (Democratic Labour)
2003-2004: Robin Cook (Labour)[10]
2004-2009: Liam Fox (Conservative/Conservative Minority)[11]
2004: Robin Cook (Labour), Ming Campbell (Liberal), Susan Kramer (Centre), Bob Crow (Democratic Labour)
2009-2012: Jon Cruddas (Labour-Liberal Coalition)[12]
2009: Liam Fox (Conservative), Ming Campbell (Liberal), Susan Kramer (Centre)
2012--0000: Jon Cruddas (Labour-Centre Coalition with SNP Support)
2012: David Davis (Conservative), ),Mark Oaten (Centre), Simon Hughes (Liberal)
[1] The POD is no Falklands War, which avoids a Tory landslide in '83 and leaves Thatcher felling vulnerable and unable to carry out as many privatisations. Also the SDP-Liberal Alliance gets 40 seats. Thatcher, with poor opinion polls, resigns in 1986 to avoid defeat or a leadership challenge.
[2] Norman Tebbit immediately called a general election after his ascendency, a poor gamble which leaves a hung parliament. The SDP does very well getting 40 seats to the Liberals' 20. The Alliance splits and David Owen forms a "National Unity" Government with Tebbit in order to deal with the overheating economy and the violent inner-city riots, with a promise of electoral reform "sometime in the future"
[3] The National Unity Government was extremely unpopular, unable to deal with an economy sliding back into recession, the collapse of Britain's manufacturing industry or the skyrocketing crime rate and deficit. The surprise election of the Hard-Left Harry Perkins as Labour leader raised hopes that the coalition would be continued, but it would not. Blaming Britain's problems on left-wing extremists and generic scroungers was no longer washing.
[4] The charismatic Sheffield steelworker was initially extremely popular with the public, but not with the establishment. While he managed to renationalise the Energy Companies, the Pound nearly collapsed and the Americans under Rumsfeld refused to budge for Perkins' neutrality policy. A crippling Power worker's strike, economic pressures from America and Europe and a frenzied media attack wiped out his popularity and he resigned in ill health in 1990 under dubious circumstances. His aide, Fred Thomson, later wrote a book about what really happened to his government.
[5] Perkins' moderate chancellor proved to be just as controversial as his predecessor. He ascended into government in a constitutional stitch-up, bypassing the NEC and the courts to become Prime Minister. In office he included no-one else from Perkins' cabinet but himself and reversed most of his predecessors' policies, triggering a revolt from the Parliamentary Party. He had a controversially close relationship with Rumsfeld and joined him in the Gulf War. Wainwright lost his majority in 1994 and the Liberals pulled the plug 2 years later.
[6] Howard was never popular. He faced revolts from left and right of his party due to his flip-flopping over Europe and his "tough-on-crime" rhetoric failed to reduce it. In spite of an improving economy, sleaze and sex scandals ultimately doomed his government.
[7] Following Owen's resignation as SDP leader the party rebranded itself as the Centre Party, the SDP brand having become toxic due to the National Unity Government.
[8] Steeples, a former cabinet minister under Perkins, formed his party in protest of Wainwright's rightward shift. He was only successful in winning his own seat and that of another Perkinsite Cabinet minster, Joan Cook.
[9] Mowlam only won a plurality but the Liberals were more than wiling to enter a confidence-and supply agreement. Under her Britain joined the Euro and assisted in President Gore's invasion in Afganistan. Her health conspicuously began to fade and she was forced to resign under similarly dubious circumstances to Perkins, except this time her health concerns were proved genuine.
[10] Cook was never truly able to attach himself to the popularity of Mowlam and called a snap election in 2004 which he lost.
[11] Liam Fox tried to creat a "hard man" image for himself which never really paid off. Aside from obsessing over opposition to abortion, stem-cell research and civil partnerships, he was very badly damaged by his ham fisted attempt to prevent the publication of the book A Very British Coup in which Fred Thomson alleges that Harry Perkins was the victim of a far-reaching conspiracy by the Conservative establishment and was blackmailed into resigning. The book's banning wsstruck down in the courts and sold very well.
[12] Again, Labour failed to get a majority and was forced into a coalition with the Liberals, who managed to force a referendum on AV. Cruddas, who openly admitted to being influenced by Perkins, took the allegations in Thomsons' book very seriously and announced an enquiry into the allegations amid much controversy and hostility from the Civil Service. A disagreement over the budget led the Liberals to leave the coaltion, to be replace by the Centre Party, who are much less keen on the inquiry. Britain's economy came under pressure again in 2013-2013, again from aggressive speculation and flight of capital from American and European businesses...
1979-1986: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)[1]
1984: Michael Foot (Labour), David Steel & Roy Jenkins (SDP-Liberal Alliance)
1986-1986: Norman Tebbit (Conservative)[2]
1986-1989: Norman Tebbit (Conservative-Social Democrat National Unity Gov'mnt)[3]
1986: Neil Kinnock (Labour), David Steel & David Owen (SDP-Liberal Alliance)
1989-1990: Harry Perkins*(Labour)[4]
1989: Norman Tebbit (Conservative), David Owen (Social Democrat), David Steel (Liberal)
1990-1996: Lawrence Wainwright* (Labour/Labour Minority)[5]
1994: Douglas Hurd (Conservative), David Owen (Social Democrat), David Penhaligon (Liberal)
1996-2001: Michael Howard (Conservative)[6]
1996: Lawrence Wainwright* (Labour), David Penhaligon (Liberal), Rosie Barnes (Centre)[7], Jock Steeples * (Democratic Labour)[8]
2001-2003: Mo Mowlam (Labour Minority with Liberal support)[9]
2001: Michael Howard (Conservative), David Penhaligon (Liberal), Rosie Barnes (Centre), Jock Steeples* (Democratic Labour)
2003-2004: Robin Cook (Labour)[10]
2004-2009: Liam Fox (Conservative/Conservative Minority)[11]
2004: Robin Cook (Labour), Ming Campbell (Liberal), Susan Kramer (Centre), Bob Crow (Democratic Labour)
2009-2012: Jon Cruddas (Labour-Liberal Coalition)[12]
2009: Liam Fox (Conservative), Ming Campbell (Liberal), Susan Kramer (Centre)
2012--0000: Jon Cruddas (Labour-Centre Coalition with SNP Support)
2012: David Davis (Conservative), ),Mark Oaten (Centre), Simon Hughes (Liberal)
[1] The POD is no Falklands War, which avoids a Tory landslide in '83 and leaves Thatcher felling vulnerable and unable to carry out as many privatisations. Also the SDP-Liberal Alliance gets 40 seats. Thatcher, with poor opinion polls, resigns in 1986 to avoid defeat or a leadership challenge.
[2] Norman Tebbit immediately called a general election after his ascendency, a poor gamble which leaves a hung parliament. The SDP does very well getting 40 seats to the Liberals' 20. The Alliance splits and David Owen forms a "National Unity" Government with Tebbit in order to deal with the overheating economy and the violent inner-city riots, with a promise of electoral reform "sometime in the future"
[3] The National Unity Government was extremely unpopular, unable to deal with an economy sliding back into recession, the collapse of Britain's manufacturing industry or the skyrocketing crime rate and deficit. The surprise election of the Hard-Left Harry Perkins as Labour leader raised hopes that the coalition would be continued, but it would not. Blaming Britain's problems on left-wing extremists and generic scroungers was no longer washing.
[4] The charismatic Sheffield steelworker was initially extremely popular with the public, but not with the establishment. While he managed to renationalise the Energy Companies, the Pound nearly collapsed and the Americans under Rumsfeld refused to budge for Perkins' neutrality policy. A crippling Power worker's strike, economic pressures from America and Europe and a frenzied media attack wiped out his popularity and he resigned in ill health in 1990 under dubious circumstances. His aide, Fred Thomson, later wrote a book about what really happened to his government.
[5] Perkins' moderate chancellor proved to be just as controversial as his predecessor. He ascended into government in a constitutional stitch-up, bypassing the NEC and the courts to become Prime Minister. In office he included no-one else from Perkins' cabinet but himself and reversed most of his predecessors' policies, triggering a revolt from the Parliamentary Party. He had a controversially close relationship with Rumsfeld and joined him in the Gulf War. Wainwright lost his majority in 1994 and the Liberals pulled the plug 2 years later.
[6] Howard was never popular. He faced revolts from left and right of his party due to his flip-flopping over Europe and his "tough-on-crime" rhetoric failed to reduce it. In spite of an improving economy, sleaze and sex scandals ultimately doomed his government.
[7] Following Owen's resignation as SDP leader the party rebranded itself as the Centre Party, the SDP brand having become toxic due to the National Unity Government.
[8] Steeples, a former cabinet minister under Perkins, formed his party in protest of Wainwright's rightward shift. He was only successful in winning his own seat and that of another Perkinsite Cabinet minster, Joan Cook.
[9] Mowlam only won a plurality but the Liberals were more than wiling to enter a confidence-and supply agreement. Under her Britain joined the Euro and assisted in President Gore's invasion in Afganistan. Her health conspicuously began to fade and she was forced to resign under similarly dubious circumstances to Perkins, except this time her health concerns were proved genuine.
[10] Cook was never truly able to attach himself to the popularity of Mowlam and called a snap election in 2004 which he lost.
[11] Liam Fox tried to creat a "hard man" image for himself which never really paid off. Aside from obsessing over opposition to abortion, stem-cell research and civil partnerships, he was very badly damaged by his ham fisted attempt to prevent the publication of the book A Very British Coup in which Fred Thomson alleges that Harry Perkins was the victim of a far-reaching conspiracy by the Conservative establishment and was blackmailed into resigning. The book's banning wsstruck down in the courts and sold very well.
[12] Again, Labour failed to get a majority and was forced into a coalition with the Liberals, who managed to force a referendum on AV. Cruddas, who openly admitted to being influenced by Perkins, took the allegations in Thomsons' book very seriously and announced an enquiry into the allegations amid much controversy and hostility from the Civil Service. A disagreement over the budget led the Liberals to leave the coaltion, to be replace by the Centre Party, who are much less keen on the inquiry. Britain's economy came under pressure again in 2013-2013, again from aggressive speculation and flight of capital from American and European businesses...
This is a fairly large FH list I've spent the better part of this morning and last night working on. Assume that all persons after 2020 are totally fictional (because they are, because I'm not even going to begin to try and find modern politicians to fit these roles here or there). I promise I'll follow this list up with some footnotes at some point before the end of the day.
2017-2021: Hillary Rodham Clinton / Sherrod Brown (Democratic)
2016: Scott Walker / Scott Brown (Republican), Gary Johnson / Lee Wrights (Libertarian)
2021-2025: Donald Clybourn / Paul Allen (Republican)
2020: Anna Atkins / Rachel Fraser (Democratic), Joseph Thiel / Zane Rasmussen (Libertarian)
2025-2029: Bruce Flannagan / Alexis Cooper (Democratic)
2024: Donald Clybourn / Paul Allen (Republican), Jeff Coleman / Betty Johnson (Libertarian)
2029-2037: Barbara Mills / Scott Hanley (Republican)
2028: Aaron Marquez / Erika Maciejewski (Democratic), Clara Wright / Alexandria Landrum (Libertarian)
2032: Greg McGraw / Patricia George (Democratic), Brandon Evans / Krystal Ramirez (United Socialist) Susan Meikle / Ed Maldonado (Libertarian)
2037-2045: Lisa Gamache / Bill Hyman (Democratic)
2036: Scott Hanley / Michael Brandt (Republican), Hale Thompson / Krystal Ramirez (United Socialist), Darrin Holthaus / Sarah West (Libertarian)
2040: Shellie Hepburn / Nathan Tsushima (Republican), Andrew Hall / Destiny Marston (United Socialist), Lawrence Gonzales / Clair Engel (Libertarian)
2045-2053: Bill Hyman / Rebecca Robinson (Democratic)
2044: Elizabeth White / Sara Rosenberg (Republican), Destiny Marston / Brianna Keyes (United Socialist), Darrin Holthaus / Janie Fields (Peace and Liberty), Eugene Stephens / Sarah West (Libertarian)
2048: James Coleman / Lane Hanson (Republican), Hale Thompson / Ellyandra Fernandez (United Socialist), Lawrence Gonzales / Sarah West (Lunar Independence League), James Kratochvil / Justin Carter, Jr. (Progressive)
2053-2057: Shelby Adams / Elizabeth Alford (Republican)
2052: Rebecca Robinson / Susan Goode (Democratic), Andrew Hall / Anna Schaefer (United Socialist)
2057-2061: Ernesto Martinez / Natalie Gifford (Democratic)
2056: Shelby Adams / Elizabeth Alford (Republican), Ellyandra Fernandez / Michael Morgan (United Socialist)
2061-2065: Douglas Fraser / Sophie Luong (Republican)
2060: Ernesto Martinez / Natalie Gifford (Democratic), Daniel Brown / Britnee Ramos (United Socialist)
2065-2073: John Marshall / Yvette Andrews (Democratic)
2064: Sophie Luong / John Elmer (Republican), Michael Morgan / Samantha Cruz (United Socialist)
2068: Bryan McCarthy / Alex Thompson (Republican), Heidi Porter / Luis Batista (United Socialist)
2073-2077: Sophie Luong / David Passmore (Republican)
2072: Britnee Ramos / Samantha Cruz (United Socialist), Yvette Andrews / Harry McElhannon (Democratic)
2077-2085: Irene Favela / Alison Gaillard (United Socialist)
2076: David Rosenberg / Shawn Mazzochi (Democratic), Sophie Luong / David Passmore (Republican)
2080: Arnold Palmer (Democratic) / Jamie Ford (Republican), Angela Davis Carter / Luis Batista (Workers'),Angela Davis Carter / Luis Batista (Workers') William McKinney / Curtis Wells (Constitution and Union)
2085-2089: Alison Gaillard / Tonya Phelps (United Socialist)
2084: William Malloy (Republican) / Lilian Kelly (Democratic), William McKinney / George Castor (Constitution and Union), Sandra Suozzi / Troy Denton (Workers')
2017-2021: Hillary Rodham Clinton / Sherrod Brown (Democratic)
2016: Scott Walker / Scott Brown (Republican), Gary Johnson / Lee Wrights (Libertarian)
2021-2025: Donald Clybourn / Paul Allen (Republican)
2020: Anna Atkins / Rachel Fraser (Democratic), Joseph Thiel / Zane Rasmussen (Libertarian)
2025-2029: Bruce Flannagan / Alexis Cooper (Democratic)
2024: Donald Clybourn / Paul Allen (Republican), Jeff Coleman / Betty Johnson (Libertarian)
2029-2037: Barbara Mills / Scott Hanley (Republican)
2028: Aaron Marquez / Erika Maciejewski (Democratic), Clara Wright / Alexandria Landrum (Libertarian)
2032: Greg McGraw / Patricia George (Democratic), Brandon Evans / Krystal Ramirez (United Socialist) Susan Meikle / Ed Maldonado (Libertarian)
2037-2045: Lisa Gamache / Bill Hyman (Democratic)
2036: Scott Hanley / Michael Brandt (Republican), Hale Thompson / Krystal Ramirez (United Socialist), Darrin Holthaus / Sarah West (Libertarian)
2040: Shellie Hepburn / Nathan Tsushima (Republican), Andrew Hall / Destiny Marston (United Socialist), Lawrence Gonzales / Clair Engel (Libertarian)
2045-2053: Bill Hyman / Rebecca Robinson (Democratic)
2044: Elizabeth White / Sara Rosenberg (Republican), Destiny Marston / Brianna Keyes (United Socialist), Darrin Holthaus / Janie Fields (Peace and Liberty), Eugene Stephens / Sarah West (Libertarian)
2048: James Coleman / Lane Hanson (Republican), Hale Thompson / Ellyandra Fernandez (United Socialist), Lawrence Gonzales / Sarah West (Lunar Independence League), James Kratochvil / Justin Carter, Jr. (Progressive)
2053-2057: Shelby Adams / Elizabeth Alford (Republican)
2052: Rebecca Robinson / Susan Goode (Democratic), Andrew Hall / Anna Schaefer (United Socialist)
2057-2061: Ernesto Martinez / Natalie Gifford (Democratic)
2056: Shelby Adams / Elizabeth Alford (Republican), Ellyandra Fernandez / Michael Morgan (United Socialist)
2061-2065: Douglas Fraser / Sophie Luong (Republican)
2060: Ernesto Martinez / Natalie Gifford (Democratic), Daniel Brown / Britnee Ramos (United Socialist)
2065-2073: John Marshall / Yvette Andrews (Democratic)
2064: Sophie Luong / John Elmer (Republican), Michael Morgan / Samantha Cruz (United Socialist)
2068: Bryan McCarthy / Alex Thompson (Republican), Heidi Porter / Luis Batista (United Socialist)
2073-2077: Sophie Luong / David Passmore (Republican)
2072: Britnee Ramos / Samantha Cruz (United Socialist), Yvette Andrews / Harry McElhannon (Democratic)
2077-2085: Irene Favela / Alison Gaillard (United Socialist)
2076: David Rosenberg / Shawn Mazzochi (Democratic), Sophie Luong / David Passmore (Republican)
2080: Arnold Palmer (Democratic) / Jamie Ford (Republican), Angela Davis Carter / Luis Batista (Workers'),Angela Davis Carter / Luis Batista (Workers') William McKinney / Curtis Wells (Constitution and Union)
2085-2089: Alison Gaillard / Tonya Phelps (United Socialist)
2084: William Malloy (Republican) / Lilian Kelly (Democratic), William McKinney / George Castor (Constitution and Union), Sandra Suozzi / Troy Denton (Workers')
What? And Doug Henning does not become Prime Minister of Canada?
I was about to express my 'interest' over your optimism for the future of the UK in the aftermath of the ending of AVBC, but then I realised you were basing this on the book. In case you've not seen the TV version, I shall say no more.
I believe the Tory leader is named in the TV version, too, he's not Tebbit.
Here's a list of the Presidents of the United States in my TL 'A Bridge to the 21st Century'. I anticipate there will be at least one more, maybe two, presidents before I end the TL soon.
A Bridge to the 21st Century:
42: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic) 1993-2002
William Jefferson Clinton's presidency was much like his initial 1992 presidential campaign - very tumultuous and often taken to the brink. Yet, as it was with his victory over President George H.W. Bush, Clinton endured long enough to survive - besting Republicans in three consecutive elections and holding power after their impeachment. Clinton's nine years in office saw the economy grow, and contract, the rise of peace abroad, and then its collapse with terrorist attacks that drew the United States into conflict with Afghanistan and al-Qaeda. Clinton is largely remembered for his guidance during the attacks and the killing of Osama bin Laden, who was responsible for the attack on U.S. embassies in Africa, as well as the USS Cole.
President Clinton's historic third term, which he won over Texas governor George W. Bush in one of the closest elections in U.S. history, tragically came to an abrupt end when, in June, 2002, the President's life was cut short by a massive heart attack. He was laid to rest in Arkansas - at the site that would become his the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library.
43: Mary Landrieu (Democratic) 2002-2009
Mary Landrieu, the first female president in American history, ascended to the presidency in the wake of President William Jefferson Clinton's death. Taking over a nation in mourning, Landrieu was tasked with a faltering economy, a destabilized war in Afghanistan, and a country wary of terrorism. Yet, she successfully led the nation to economic recovery, the withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan, a securer homeland and, in the process, reformed the nation's healthcare system - her biggest accomplishment as president. She also appointed the first gay Supreme Court justice and though her popularity was dinged in the final years of her presidency, President Landrieu's impact on history is well documented.
44: Michael Dale Huckabee (Republican) 2009-
Mike Huckabee's rise to the presidency has proven contentious. The social conservative defeated Vice President Evan Bayh in one of the most contested elections in U.S. history - winning the electoral college and only a marginal 33% of the popular vote. The four-man race, between Democrat Bayh, Progressive Democrat Howard Dean and Libertarian Gary Johnson, wasn't fully decided until nearly 24 hours after the polls had initially closed as Huckabee was finally declared the winner after victory in Michigan.
Huckabee's 33% of the popular vote was the smallest margin for a victorious candidate since John Quincy Adams won 31% in 1824. Huckabee's presidency got off to a rocky start when a divided congress refused to pass much of his legislation and the global economy slid into a major recession.
A Bridge to the 21st Century:
42: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic) 1993-2002
William Jefferson Clinton's presidency was much like his initial 1992 presidential campaign - very tumultuous and often taken to the brink. Yet, as it was with his victory over President George H.W. Bush, Clinton endured long enough to survive - besting Republicans in three consecutive elections and holding power after their impeachment. Clinton's nine years in office saw the economy grow, and contract, the rise of peace abroad, and then its collapse with terrorist attacks that drew the United States into conflict with Afghanistan and al-Qaeda. Clinton is largely remembered for his guidance during the attacks and the killing of Osama bin Laden, who was responsible for the attack on U.S. embassies in Africa, as well as the USS Cole.
President Clinton's historic third term, which he won over Texas governor George W. Bush in one of the closest elections in U.S. history, tragically came to an abrupt end when, in June, 2002, the President's life was cut short by a massive heart attack. He was laid to rest in Arkansas - at the site that would become his the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library.
43: Mary Landrieu (Democratic) 2002-2009
Mary Landrieu, the first female president in American history, ascended to the presidency in the wake of President William Jefferson Clinton's death. Taking over a nation in mourning, Landrieu was tasked with a faltering economy, a destabilized war in Afghanistan, and a country wary of terrorism. Yet, she successfully led the nation to economic recovery, the withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan, a securer homeland and, in the process, reformed the nation's healthcare system - her biggest accomplishment as president. She also appointed the first gay Supreme Court justice and though her popularity was dinged in the final years of her presidency, President Landrieu's impact on history is well documented.
44: Michael Dale Huckabee (Republican) 2009-
Mike Huckabee's rise to the presidency has proven contentious. The social conservative defeated Vice President Evan Bayh in one of the most contested elections in U.S. history - winning the electoral college and only a marginal 33% of the popular vote. The four-man race, between Democrat Bayh, Progressive Democrat Howard Dean and Libertarian Gary Johnson, wasn't fully decided until nearly 24 hours after the polls had initially closed as Huckabee was finally declared the winner after victory in Michigan.
Huckabee's 33% of the popular vote was the smallest margin for a victorious candidate since John Quincy Adams won 31% in 1824. Huckabee's presidency got off to a rocky start when a divided congress refused to pass much of his legislation and the global economy slid into a major recession.
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