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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Oh I've read it. Caro's biggest problem over the whole length of the Biography is that he is determined to place laurels around the heads of all of LBJs opponents (See his sanctifying of Coke Stevenson past reason.) obviously in the fight Nixon did matter but the key thing is beyond "This will damage the Democrats" there was never any follow-up. At best his work would have been comparable to the stonewall Civil Rights hit under Carter and Reagan but earlier. Obviously progress is good but motivation matters too.

I would say that Nixon pulling off his strategy in an early 60s administration would see the Democrats shift to the right earlier but I don't think the GOP would shift left at all as a result.
well that's actually what my Labor TL involves.
 
WI: The Falklands war never happened?

Margaret Thatcher: 1979-1983
Roy Jenkins- 1983-1992
1983-1987: Coalition with Labour
1987: Outright majority

Geoffrey Howe: 1992-2004 (removed following revolt over the EU constitution draft)
Ian Duncan Smith: 2004-2005

Charles Kennedy- 2005-2013 (resigned due to ill health)
Danny Alexander- 2013-2015

2005-2010: Majority
2010-2015: Coalition with Labour

2015- Steve Baker
 
Something inspired by this thread.

Members of Parliament for Orpington

Sir Waldron Smithers (Conservative): 1945-1955
1945: Def. Alan Raymond Mais (Lab), Edward Rogers Goodfellow (Lib), Guy Chandler Milner (Ind)
1950: Def. George H. C. Vaughan (Lab), Ruth Abrahams (Lib)
1951: Def. R. David Vaughan Williams (Lab)

Donald Sumner (Conservative): 1955-1962
1955 (bye): Def. R. David Vaughan Williams (Lab)
1955: Def. Norman John Hart (Lab), Alfred B. Howard (Lib)
1959: Def. Norman John Hart (Lab), Jack Omar Galloway (Lib)

Eric Lubbock (Liberal): 1962-1970
1962 (bye): Def. Peter Goldman (Con), Alan Jinkinson (Lab)
1964: Def. Norris McWhirter (Con), Peter A. W. Merrison (Lab)
1966: Def. Norris McWhirter (Con), David Jonathon Sleigh (Lab)

Ivor Stanbrook (Conservative): 1970-1988
1970: Def. Eric Lubbock (Lib), David Grant (Lab)
1974 (F): Def. Robin Young (Lib), David Grant (Lab)
1974 (O): Def. Lady Avebury (Lib), C. Spillane (Lab)
1979: Def. J.W. Cook (Lib), A.J. Weyman (Lab), F. Hitches (National Front), I. MacKillian (Homeland Party)
1983: Def. J.W. Cook (Lib), D. M. Bean (Lab), L. T. Taylor (National Front)

Jonathan Fryer (Alliance-Liberal): 1988-1993[1]
1988: Def. Ivor Stanbrook (Con), Stephen Cowan (Lab)
Piers Merchant (Conservative): 1993-1998[2]
1993: Def. Jonathan Fryer (All-Lib), Stephen Cowan (Lab) Chris Maines (Independent SDP)
Jonathan Fryer (Alliance): 1998-2009[3]
1998: Def. David Clark (Con), Sue Polydorou (Lab), Robin Almond (Continuity Liberal), Nicholas Wilton (ProLife),
2002: Def. Nigel Farage (Con), Chris A. Purnell (Lab), David Clark (United Kingdom Independence Party)
2007: Def. James Brokenshire (Con), Nigel de Gruchy (Lab)

James Brokenshire (Conservative): 2009-2017[4]
2009: Def. Bob Neill (Alliance), Nigel de Gruchy (Lab), Chris Snape (BNP), Tamara Galloway (Ecology)
2013: Def. David McBride (Alliance), Stephen Morgan (Lab), Tamara Galloway (Ecology), Tess Culnane (BNP)

Jo Johnson (Alliance): 2017-[5]
2017: Def. James Brokenshire (Con), Karen Wheller (Ecology), Simon Jeal (Lab)

[1]
While Orpington had hit the headlines for the Liberal party with their success in the 1962 by-election, since the defeat of Lubbock in 1970 it had reverted to the status of a safe Conservative seat. Then came the disasters of the Thatcher government, where despite public support for breaking the power of the Trade Unions, a series of bloody clashes in the South Yorkshire coalfields that left dozens dead- most notably the Orgreave Massacre- an apparent stitch-up of Scargill in a sting operation targeting recipients of Moscow Gold, the ongoing crisis in Northern Ireland and brief bouts of sabre rattling from Argentina and Spain over overseas territories (neither of which amounted to anything other than few headlines decrying the state of the Navy should she ever be called upon to act in defence of Britain's scattered territories) led to a national perception that the Conservatives were just not up the job of running the country.

Unfortunately for Neil Kinnock they didn't think that Labour were either.

As the votes came in for the 1988 General Election- called by a Conservative party desperately holding on for as long as possible- it became clear that the Alliance were only going to build on the successes of 1983, with David Steel entering Downing Street as the first Liberal PM since Lloyd George. Orpington itself was but one of many Liberal gains of the night, but one of the closer ones, and indicative of the sheer scale of the Alliance landslide.

[2] Steel would soon find himself with a great deal of problems- from troubles with the SDP, to the troubles that so many new MPs without parliamentary experience created. Meanwhile the Conservatives had replaced Thatcher with Geoffrey Howe, who was leading the party down a new increasingly anti-Europe path. Labour meanwhile were continuing to move away from the hard-Left Footite position under Kinnock- who while not as successful in 1987 as hoped seemed to have the proof required that his path was the necessary one. Steel would manage a single term, bringing with it reforms to the House of Lords, but narrowly failing to replace FPTP in the Commons, and as Orpington went, so went the nation. Jonathan Fryer was ignominiously removed (not helped by the presence of an anti-government SDP campaign) and Piers Merchant was back in Parliament, having lost his Newcastle seat in the last election.

[3] Unfortunately for Merchant the new Howe Ministry was barely hanging on with a 12 seat majority, and his own scandalous affairs with younger women. The local Conservative association required him to step aside for the 1998 election, replacing him with a relative newcomer and a firm anti-European Howeite. With the Liberals re-nominating Fryer, retaining the seat would always have been a hard task, but with Labour surging under John Smith the endeavour was entirely doomed.

[4] Fryer was to remain in place through the entire period of the Smith and Cook ministries, a period that had seen something of a return to form with the Alliance firmly in third place in terms of seats, albeit a much better third than before '88. The Liberals and SDP formally merged (though not without some splinters), the Conservatives regrouped under John Redwood, mild excitement was had when defeated candidate in 1998 David Clark defected to a minor Eurosceptic party, and then in 2007 Labour slipped just far enough to come first in votes but require a coalition with the Alliance to form a government. Then the economy collapsed and, after two difficult years of coalition, the government followed it. Fryer had already decided 2007 was to be his last election, which just made things all the more unfortunate for Bob Neil who had expected at least a couple more years to bed in and make himself known.

[5] The eight year Conservative government of Iain Duncan Smith was one of triumph and tragedy for the party. Triumph in that they had their longest spell of success since Thatcher (and left with a much better record than she did), tragedy in that the long-desired referendum on European membership failed on a 54/46 split in favour of STAY in 2017. Smith offered his resignation as leader and PM- though in the event it was felt the next election would be too much of a poisoned chalice for any successor- and a combination of Labour's bitter divide between pro and anti-European groups, culminating in the disastrous three year leadership of Ken Livingstone, a surge from the Ecology party and the Alliance's strong STAY campaign energising many activists saw a return of the Yellow Brigade to both Orpington, with Jo Johnson, and to Number 10 with the veteran MP for Cities of London and Westminster Martin Horwood.
 
34.Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Richard M. Nixon 1953-1964
def. Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic George Wallace

35. John Kenendy Democratic Leroy Collins 1964-1967
def. Richard M.Nixon Hnery Cabot Lodge
36. Leroy Collins Democratic 1967-1969
Leroy Collins Democratic John Connoly 1969-1977

def. William Scranton Margret Chase Smith Republican
def. George Romney Jacob javitis Republican


37. Ronald Wilson Reagan Republican Gerald Ford 1977-1985
def. John connoly Democratic Edmund Muskie
def. George McGovern Democratic Jimmy Carter


38. Ralph Nader Independent Gerradine ferroa 1985-1989
def.Edmund Muskie Democratic Alan Cranston
def. Bob Dole Republican Paul laxalt

39.George H, Bush Republican Pete DuPont 1985-1993
def. John Glenn Democratic def Michael Dukakis

. 40
Pete Dupont Republican Dan Quayle 1993-1997
def Michael Dukasis Democratic Al Gore jr.


41. Jay Rockefeller Democratic Skip Humphrey 1997-2005

def,Pete Dupont Republican Dan Quayle
def. Liz Dole. Patrick Buchanan
42. Bill Frist Jeff flakes Republican 2005-2009
def. Skip Humphrey Democratic Joe Lieber man
43.John Kenendy Junior Bill Bradly 2009
def. Bill Frist Jeff flakes Republican



34. Eisenhower because of his popularity is allowed a third run 22nd amendment is passed much late into his world. no bay of pigs or Cuban missile crisis.

35. j.f.k is elected he tries to get a civil rights legislation pushed shot and killed in new York city oct.134.1967

36.Leroy Collins pushs to get cr bill passed wins reelection in landslide sends advisors home from veitnam.

37. first actor president in his term u.s. goes to war with Iran. last cold war president as berlin wall crumbles 2nd term.
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8.talks to astronauts a they land on moon first time in 1987. Puerto rico becomes 51st state.

39. Independent president refuses to run 2nd term sees car safety laws enacted.

40.iraq war suddam Hussain overthrown war protest across the country u.s. goes into recession.

41.Balance budget first time in decades work's with house speaker Barry Goldwater junior to do so..

42.in his term teroist plot thwarted. u.s. goes into recession trying to compete with china grawing auto industry.

43. approves fossil fuled cars. son of late president 35. u.s and Russia go on joint venture to mars.





 
Leaders of the Provisional Government of Oregon

1843-1845: Executive Committee
1845-1849: Osborne Russell (“Independents Party”) [as Governor]

def. 1845 George Abernethy (“Americans Party”), Asa Lovejoy (“Americans Party”), Peter H. Burnett
def. 1847 Asa Lovejoy (“Americans Party”), the Rev. Elijah White (“Americans Party”)


Presidents of the Republic of Oregon

1849: Judge Columbia Lancaster [interim]
1849-1853: Samuel R. Thurston

def. 1849 Jesse Applegate
def. 1851 John Minto

1853-1855: Asa Lovejoy
def. 1853 Samuel R. Thurston (Democracy), Thomas J. Dryer (American)
1855-1865: Matthew P. Deady (Democracy)
def. 1855 Asa Lovejoy
def. 1857 assorted other Democrats
def. 1861 William A. Smith (Independence)

Note: In 1854, the Second Amendment to the Oregon Constitution lengthened Presidential terms to four years. The term starting in 1857 was the first to which this applied.
1865-1873: Seth Lewelling (Independence)
def. 1865: Peter H. Burnett (Democracy)
def. 1869: La Fayette Grover (Democracy)

1873-1877: James D. Fay (Democracy)
def. 1873: William S. Ladd (Independence)
1877-1885: Henry Yesler (Independence)
def. 1877: John Whiteaker (Democracy)
def. 1881: William W. Thayer (Democracy)

1885-1889: James Dunsmuir (Independence)
1885 def. William W. Thayer (Democracy)
1889-1897: Sylvester Pennoyer (Democracy)
1889 def. James Dunsmuir (Independence)
1893 def. Simeon G. Reed (Independence)

1897-1901: Paul D. English (Democracy)
1897 def. Simeon G. Reed (Independence)
1901-1905: Paul D. English (Democracy—Golden Ticket)
1901 def. Sylvester Pennoyer (Radical Democracy—Sylver Ticket)
1905-1913: Priam Finney [Pact of Progressive Patriots “3-P”]
1905 def. Martin James (Radical Democracy)
1913-0000: Cornelius Marvin [3-P]

Got a couple likes on my olde US Presidents list for On Her Own Wings so I thought I'd give some indication that I'm still working on that project. The date for the present-day story has been bumped a little bit later to 1919, but the POD is unchanged and you can assume the situation in the American Republic is still basically the same: vaguely authoritarian alt-Republicans whose racial liberalism is giving way to a "progressive" interest in eugenics, anemic electoral opposition due to its association with treason.

Meanwhile, in the Northwest, things have been going only slightly more smoothly. After independence, the orator Samuel Royal Thurston takes office in a landslide, fights a series of genocidal Indian wars, and destroys the nascent country's fiat currency by printing it in sheafs to pay the militia. Asa Lovejoy, a founder of the city of Boston and a former opponent of independence, succeeds him and it is an open question whether the Republic will survive at all. Only the fortuitous discovery of gold in the Rogue Valley, which can be mined to support a new Oregon Dollar, prevents collapse and domination by the United States.

A familiar party system quickly develops as the county's population swells with ACW refugees and deserters. The Oregon Democracy (later the Democracy Party) is a Jeffersonian-Jacksonian outfit founded by Thurston and newspaper publisher Asahel Bush. It is vigorously racist, supporting further extirpation of the native nations and upholding the constitutional ban on black settlement. It is also more pro-American, regarding former British subjects and the remnants of the Hudson's Bay Company with suspicion and seeking strong relations with the United States. Under Matthew Deady's leadership, Oregon remains neutral in the ACW and trades with both the Liberals and the Laneites.

The Independence Party is founded by an eccentric Mormon publisher from Victoria but soon reinforced by the Yankee-born commercial leaders of Boston and the Willamette Valley. In its liberal philosophy and industrial boosterism, it is similar to the ruling party in America, but less laissez-faire, as befits an undeveloped frontier country which cries out for internal improvements. President Lewelling and his wife Sophronia, Quakers and abolitionists who ran an Underground Railroad station back east, support public works and relief for indigent farmers. There are even currents of utopian socialism in the party, and it runs strong in Icary, Étienne Cabet's radical wheat-growing utopia in the Palouse country. The Independence Party is traditionally more Anglophilic - ironically, given its ideological kinship with the American Republic and the Liberal Party.

During the 1870s and 1880s, Oregon moves towards a modern industrial economy, albeit one heavily based on raw resource extraction. (The single term of drunken Laneite romantic Jim Fay does little to interrupt the process.) Despite his salacious personal life, Yesler is more conservative than Lewelling - his idea of poor relief is buying Alyeska from the Russians and chopping it up into land grants for the urban masses, a Thurstonite policy if there ever was one - but it is still possible for people to believe that the rising tide is lifting all boats. By the election of James Dunsmuir, Oregon's first native-born President, however, the utopians and freethinkers are firmly on the outs. The cabinet is stacked with representatives of American and Canadian trusts and it's clear that the thinly populated country is becoming an economic colony of Toronto, San Francisco, and New York. When Dunsmuir takes violent action against the anti-Chinese rioters on Puget Sound, the stage is set for the rise of Sylvester Pennoyer.

The flamboyant mayor of Boston takes office on a platform of trustbusting, Chinese and Kanakan exclusion, the creation of public land reserves, and thumbing his nose at America and Britain alike. He is wildly popular, and his landslide re-election victory over the affable Unitarian steamboat king Simeon Reed spells an end to the old enlightened boosterism of the I. P. In the dying days of the century, gold is discovered in disputed territory in the Alyeskan panhandle. Conflicts between prospectors of different nationalities escalate into the Oregon Rangers squaring off with the Mounties. Pennoyer's war of words with the Canadian authorities becomes a shooting war under his successor, Malheur rancher Paul English.

However, fighting the might of the British Empire and their Japanese allies across enormous land and sea frontiers proves too great a task for Oregon's untested military. In desperation, English turns to the American Republic. With the continental giant's help, the goldfields are secured, and in 1901, English's "Golden Ticket" of Democrats and patriotic ex-Independents sweeps all before them. The Faustian bargain soon becomes clear: the proud Pacific Republic has become a client state. A distraught Pennoyer tries to undo his actions but to no avail; he drops dead after losing his comeback campaign, providing endless fodder for blood-and-soil conspiracy theorists. Within a few years, what remains of Oregon's government is a nonpartisan dummy administration dictated to from the American embassy, its timber managed for the benefit of the Weyerhauser Syndicate and its mines for Amalgamated Copper. The opposition, from Icarians to quasi-fascist Pennoyerites, are shattered and scattered.

It is 1919. Boston, commercial capital of the Republic, chokes and stews under wildfire smoke. The docks seethe with racial violence. The taverns hum with talk of anarchist revolution. In the Queen Anne mansions of the West Hills, the capitalists consult priests, shamans, and proponents of light-touch sustained-yield forestry to assuage their guilty consciences. And in the middle of the Willamette River sits the warship ARS Isaac Parker, pride of the American fleet, its gun batteries trained on City Hall.

[all characters after Pennoyer are fictional]
 
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its the 100th page of my test thread on the other place, so i cooked up a revamp of one of my early lists

President Dillinger: The Most Admired Man In America

1929-1933: Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1928 (with Charles Curtis) def. Al Smith (Democratic)
1933-1934: Huey P. Long (Democratic)
1932 (vacant) def. Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1934-1934: Smedley Butler (Nonpartisan leading Victory Legion)
1934-1935: Douglas MacArthur (Nonpartisan leading US Army)
1935-1935: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Nonpartisan leading Army Dissidents)
1935-1936: Robert E. Wood (Nonpartisan leading American Legion)
1936-1936: Virgil Effinger (Black Legion)
1936-1941: John Dillinger (Independent)
1936 (with Charles A. Floyd) def. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic), Charles Lindbergh (Republican)

This is based on a dodgy poll from 1934 asking Americans who they most admired - and they replied that they admired the outlaw John Dillinger, the President FDR and the aviator Charles Lindbergh, in that order. So how do you get Dillinger into the White House

My solution is an American Warlord Era resulting from a botched Business Plot leading to Dangerous Leftist Butler getting couped by MacArthur, whose hardline red-baiting leads to a counter coup by Eisenhower whose lily-livered liberalism leads to a coup by the swollen ranks of the American Legion, who then fail to control their most extreme elements and amidst the general collapse in law and order John Dillinger becomes a Motor-Khan of the Midwest. He then takes his ambitions nation wide by taking Washington and sweeping aside the shattered and ragged bands that pass for the US Army.

The 1936 election is fought in a deeply tense atmosphere, with Dillinger having his hands on the scales. Roosevelt runs on New Normalcy whilst Lindbergh is the public shiny face for the seething ants nest of fascism that hungrily yearns for power. In that atmosphere, Americans plump for the man toting a Tommy gun and smiling sidelong in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
 
Kings of the Kingdom of Hudsonia

2381-2430: Ellis 'The Liberator' (Clinton)

Liberated Hudsonia from the Occultist occupation of the Mahonics
2430-2444: Artur (Clinton)
2444-2451: Jervis (Clinton)
2451-2479: Bella 'The Unfaithful' I (Clinton)

Following the Great Plague of 2460, converted to St. Louis Catholicism after a religious epiphany
2479-2520: Holbrook 'The Bastard' (Clinton)
2520-2552: Ichabod I (Clinton)
2552-2569: Baltus 'The Blessed' I (Clinton)
2569-2609: Ichabod II (Clinton)
2609-2657: Bella 'The Shrewd' II (Clinton)

Passed over Ichabod II’s Bastard DeWitt, who became an adventurer, conquering Connecticut
Converted in 2621 to her husband’s Anabaptist faith

2657-2660: Baltus II (Groot)
2660-2695: Baltus III (Groot)
 
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"The American Century"
[Based off some ideas for an election game that never went anywhere. Basically in this scenario, the GOP goes a weird fusion of hyper-civil rights for blacks with nativism against immigrants, and absorbs moralism and agrarianism, eventually turning socially conservative circa the 1970s, while Dems end up basically the coalition of all the migrants, as well as anti-black racists and vague liberals of both social and classical variants. Also, a shitton of immigrants come over to America and natural-born requirement is abolished in the 1930s. Not really supposed to make sense, but enjoy!

The notes for this are long and mostly in my head, so hopefully I can put those to paper. There's some narrative consistency to this, I promise.]

Maj. Gen. David Hunter (R-NJ)/Minister to France Elihu B. Washburne (R-IL) 1877-1881
1876: def. Gov. Thomas A. Hendricks (D-IN)/Fmr. Gov. Joel Parker (D-NJ)

Fmr. Gov. Samuel J. Tilden (D-NY)/Sen. Thomas F. Bayard (D-DE) 1881-1883*
1880: def. Pres. David Hunter (R-NJ)/Fmr. Sen. Arthur I. Boreman (R-WV)

Vice Pres. Thomas F. Bayard (D-DE)/vacant 1883-1885

Pres. Thomas F. Bayard (D-DE)/Sen. George Hearst (D-CA) 1885-1889
1884: def. Sen. James G. Blaine (R-ME)/Rep. William Aldrich (R-IL)

Sen. Robert Love Taylor (D-TN)/Rep. William E. English (D-IN) 1889-1893
1888: def. Maj. Gen. J. Warren Keifer (R-OH)/Rep. John H. Ketcham (R-NY) & Fmr. State Treasurer Cyrus G. Luce (C-MI)/Rep. Albert P. Forsythe (C-IL)

Brig. Gen. Arthur MacArthur Jr. (R-MN)/Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MN) 1893-1901
1892: def. Pres. Robert Love Taylor (D-TN)/Vice Pres. William E. English (D-IN) & Gov. Charles W. Macune (D-TX)/Rep. Gilbert De La Matyr (C-IN)
1896: def. Sen. Perry Belmont (D-NY)/Gov. Nicholas E. Worthington (D-IL) & Gov. Charles W. Macune (D-TX)/Fmr. Mayor Terence V. Powderly (C-PA)


Vice Pres. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)/Gov. Alfred A. 'Alf' Taylor (R-TN) 1901-1902*
1900: def. Gov. Daniel N. Lockwood (D-NY)/Sen. J. F. C. Talbott (D-MD) & Gov. John R. Rogers (C-WA)/Fmr. Gov. John P. Buchanan (C-TN)

Vice Pres. Alfred A. 'Alf' Taylor (R-TN)/Vacant 1902-1905

Pres. Alfred A. 'Alf' Taylor (R-TN)/Sec'y of the Interior James R. Garfield (R-OH) 1905-1909
1904: def. Fmr. Gov. Daniel N. Lockwood (D-NY)/Sen. Arthur P. Gorman (D-MD) & Gov. Justin R. Whiting (C-MI)/Rep. Harry Skinner (C-NC)

Media Mogul William R. Hearst Sr. (D-NY)/Gov. Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R/I-WI) 1909-1911* [also endorsed by Commonwealth]
1908: def. Vice Pres. James R. Garfield (R-OH)/Rep. John W. Weeks (R-MA) & Sen. Benjamin R. Tillman (D-SC)/Rep. Claude Kitchin (D-NC)

Vice Pres. Robert M. La Follette Sr. (I/P-WI)/Vacant 1911-1913

Pres. Robert M. La Follette Sr. (P-WI)/Gov. John M. Parker (P-LA) 1913-1917
1912: def. Sen. Theodore E. Burton (R-OH)/Fmr. Sec'y of State Edward C. Little (R-KS) & Sen. Francis B. Harrison (D-NY)/Gov. Henry D. Flood (D-VA)

Sen. Robert L. Owen (D-OK)/Sen. Eugene V. Debs (D-IN) 1917-1923*
1916: def. Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (P-NY)/Sen. Thomas J. Walsh (P-MT) & Sen. Edward H. Wason (R-NH)/Rep. Albert H. Vestal (R-IN)
1920: def. Fmr. Vice Pres. James R. Garfield (R-OH)/Sen. Charles W. Bryan (P-NE)


Vice Pres. Eugene V. Debs (D-IN)/Vacant 1923-1925

Gov. J. Calvin Coolidge Jr. (R-MA)/Sen. Irvine L. Lenroot (R-WI) 1925-1929
1924: def. Sen. James K. Vardaman (D-AL)/Sen. Irvin S. Pepper (D-IA) & Gov. George W. P. Hunt (D-AZ)/Journalist Leonard D. Abbott (S/FL-NY)

Sen. Wellington D. Rankin (R-MT)/Sen. Norman M. Thomas (R-NY) 1929-1933
1928: def. Gov. Alfred E. 'Al' Smith (D-NY)/Sen. Joseph T. Robinson (D-AR)

Gov. William E. Rodriguez (D-IL)/Sen. A. Willis Robertson (D-VA) 1933-1941
1932: def. Pres. Wellington D. Rankin (R-MT)/Vice Pres. Norman M. Thomas (R-NY)
1936: def. Fmr. Vice. Pres. Norman M. Thomas (R-NY)/Sen. Karl C. Schuyler (R-CO) & Gov. H. Styles Bridges (R-NH)/Fmr. Gov. William H. D. Murray (D-OK)


Maj. Gen. L. Wendell Willkie (I-IN)/Sen. Leverett A. Saltonstall (R-MA) 1941-1946*
1940: def. Vice Pres. A. Willis Robertson (D-VA)/Gov. James Michael Curley (D-MA) and Sec'y of Labor Fiorello E. La Guardia (D-NY)/Sen. Sheridan Downey (D-CA)
1944: def. /Fmr. House Speaker William B. Bankhead (D-AL)


Vice Pres. Leverett A. Saltonstall (R-MA)/Sen. Henry A. Wallace (R-IA) 1946-1949

Sen. Olin DeW. T. Johnston (D-SC)/Gov. Darlington Hoopes (D-PA) 1949-1953
1948: def. Pres. Leverett A. Saltonstall (R-MA)/Vice Pres. Henry A. Wallace (R-IA)

Fmr. Ambassador to the United Dominions Douglas MacArthur (R-NY)/Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-MA) 1953-1961
1952: def. Pres. Olin DeW. T. Johnston (D-SC)/Vice Pres. Darlington Hoopes (D-PA)
1956: def. Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-AR)/Fmr. Sec'y of Health, Education and Welfare Oakley C. Johnson (D-MI)


Gov. Vincent R. Impellitteri (D-NY)/Sen. Tallulah B. Bankhead (D-AL) 1961-1967*
1960: def. Vice Pres. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-MA)/Rep. John J. Rhodes Jr. (R-AZ)
1964: def. Fmr. Sec'y of the Treasury George P. Shultz (R-NY)/Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)


Vice Pres. Tallulah B. Bankhead (D-AL)/Sen. Levi A. Gardner (D-MI) 1967-1969

Gov. Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. (R-MN)/Sen. F. Bradford Morse (R-MA) 1969-1977
1968: def. Vice Pres. Levi A. Gardner (D-MI)/Rep. Iris F. Blitch (D-GA)
1972: def. Fmr. Gov. Orval E. Faubus (D-AR)/Sen. Emilio Q. Daddario (D-CT)


Evangelist William F. 'Billy' Graham Jr. (R-NC)/Fmr. Gov. A. Linwood Holton Jr. (R-VA) 1977-1981
1976: def. Fmr. Sen. Ronald W. Reagan (D-CA)/Sen. Benedict 'Ben' Craxi (D-NY)

Gov. Michael S. Dukakis (D-MA)/Sen. John B. Anderson (D-IL) 1981-1989
1980: def. Vice Pres. A. Linwood Holton Jr. (R-VA)/Sec'y of Agriculture Robert S. Bergland (R-MN) & Gov. Philip M. 'Phil' Crane (R-IL)/Activist Phyllis S. Schlafly (R-MO)
1984: def. Sen. Guy A. Vander Jagt (R-MI)/Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-CT)


Gov. Ellen Craswell (R-WA)/Fmr. Gov. Glen H. Stassen (R-MN) 1989-1997
1988: def. Vice Pres. John B. Anderson (D-IL)/Fmr. Sec'y of Housing and Urban Development Mario Biaggi (D-NY)
1992: def. Sen. David P. Bergland (D-CA)/Gov. Carl M. Levin (D-MI)


Sen. Roberta F. 'Bobbi' Fiedler (D-CA)/Gov. Victor M. Orban (D-FL) 1997-2005
1996: def. Gov. Fred W. Phelps Sr. (R-KS)/Fmr. Sen. John R. Silber (R-MA)
2000: def. Fmr. Vice Pres. Glen H. Stassen (R-MN)/Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (R-GA)


Vice Pres. Victor M. Orban (D-FL)/Pres. of the AFL-CIO Mary Kay Henry (D-CA) 2005-2013
2004: def. Gov. Wilbert J. 'Billy' Tauzin (R-LA)/Fmr. House Speaker Bobby L. Rush (R-IL)
2008: def. Sen. George W. Bush (R-CO)/Gov. William F. 'Bill' Weld (R-MA)


Gov. Benjamin S. 'Ben' Carson Sr. (R-MD)/Sen. Stephanie H. Sandlin (R-SD) 2013-2017
2012: def. Vice Pres. Mary Kay Henry (D-CA)/Sen. Mario Diaz-Balart (D-FL)

Sen. Ivana M. 'Ivanka' Trump (D-NY)/Gov. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) 2017-present
2016: def. Pres. Benjamin S. 'Ben' Carson Sr. (R-MD)/Vice Pres. Stephanie H. Sandlin (R-SD)
 
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inspired by what @Japhy was talking about the other day

Born In The Wrong Generation

1961-1969: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1960 (with Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.) def. John F. Kennedy (Democratic), Harry F. Byrd (Democratic, unpledged electors)
1964 (with Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.) def. Sam Yorty (Democratic), Hubert H. Humphrey (Freedom Democratic)

1969-1973: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1968 (with Jim Rhodes) def. George Smathers (Democratic)
1973-1981: Scoop Jackson (Democratic)
1972 (with George Wallace) def. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican), Ezra Taft Benson (Independent)
1976 (with George Wallace) def. John Lindsay (Republican), William F. Buckley (National Conservative)

1981-1989: George Bush (Republican)
1980 (with Lowell Weicker) def. John Connally (Democratic)
1984 (with Clarence Thomas) def. Jeane Kirkpatrick (Democratic)

1989-1997: Clarence Thomas (Republican)
1988 (with Pete du Pont) def. Al Gore (Democratic)
1992 (with Pete du Pont) def. Dick Gephardt (Democratic)

1997-2001: Pat Buchanan (Democratic)
1996 (with Edmund Brown Jr.) def. Bill Blythe (Republican)
2001-2005: Bernie Sanders (Republican)
2000 (with Jesse Jackson) def. Pat Buchanan (Democratic)
 
2010-2015: David Cameron (Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition)
2010: Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat)
AV referendum, 2011: 68% NO; 32% YES
Scottish independence referendum, 2014: 55.3% NO; 44.7% YES

2015-2016: David Cameron (Conservative majority)
2015: Ed Miliband (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National Party), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat)
EU referendum, 2016: 53% LEAVE; 47% REMAIN

2016-: Theresa May (Conservative majority)


PMQs: May looks ahead to May
Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor
@bbclaurak
8 January 2020
Parliament has only just returned from recess, but PMQs proved everyone's eyes are firmly on the next election.
Welcome back! After a relatively quiet recess period, Parliament formally reconvened yesterday after two weeks of holiday. Today, at Prime Minister's Questions, the two main party leaders fought a fierce but friendly exchange that obscured what has really been playing on the minds of their respective supporters: when does the election campaign begin?​
It's a question not easily answered, especially given how tight-lipped both Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill have been about the drawing up of the next manifesto, but today's proceedings at Prime Minister's Question Time give an indication that the Prime Minister is already thinking ahead. The usual softball questions from her supporters on the backbenches were soon superseded by questions from the Labour benches about the Housing Associations Bill - currently being held up in committee due to concerns raised by the National Housing Federation (NHF). The row before Christmas over the Department of Communities, Local Government and Housing's handling of NHF criticism doesn't seem to have abated and renewed calls for the secretary of state, Gavin Barwell, to resign have resumed from the opposition benches. The Prime Minister's response was sharp and ultimately laid the blame at Labour's feet for discouraging housing association co-operation with the Voluntary Right-to-Buy (VRtB) scheme trialled last summer. Andy Burnham, seemingly on the back foot, attempted to pivot away from housing policy to criticising Mrs May for not meeting with trade union representatives to discuss Britain's priorities for the upcoming round of UK-EU trade talks.​
What really started the rumour mill in the gallery was May's closing speech, which gave us a shopping list of all the positive economic news that had come out over the final quarter of 2019: unemployment down for the third consecutive quarter, average earnings up substantially, and the Chancellor's health funding gap finally being plugged to the tune of £2.5bn. She pledged to continue to defend her record and "make sure that Labour never get the chance to ruin it". A member of the European Research Group, usually a critic of the PM, admitted that: "she was on fighting form. She looks like an election-winner". Labour were similarly enamoured with Burnham's performance, with the Shadow Home Secretary Tom Watson tweeting his support for the Labour leader's "sincere offer of national unity" in regards to the next UK-EU talks and New Labour grandee Lord Mandelson telling journalists he felt Burnham's Labour was "a government-in-waiting". All eyes are very much on the electoral prize.​
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With the polls looking bleak for both main parties however, kind words from their parties are little comfort to May and Burnham. Last October's Green Party conference showed that the party was a force to reckoned with and the party doesn't look to fall back from their third party position any time, Nigel Farage's Reform Party has pretty much decimated the old UKIP vote, and the SNP are likely to still dominate in Scotland after the next election (if present polling is to be believed). A hung parliament is likelier than ever and a return to the 2010 situation, where the Conservatives or Labour will need to curry favour with potential coalition partners, is on the horizon.​
We are just over a week into the new year, but the stagnant nature of the polls means the two main parties will need to start thinking of how the battle lines will look come the election likely to be in May of this year and start pushing their messages hard. It's clear from recent performance that the Leader of the Opposition is returning to a "national unity" approach to the Brexit negotiations while the Prime Minister metaphorically swats his hands away from the project she has definitively made her own.​
Exactly when Parliament will be dissolved isn't for me to say, but look out for when Conservative ministers start framing the upcoming fight as one of 'strong and stable government' vs 'chaos with Andy Burnham' - dissolution will only be around the corner.​
 
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