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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

I very rarely write scenarios in which the Labour Party does better than OTL, not because I particularly dislike them but just because my political formative years were at a time when the party was so nationally superdominant that it feels almost obscene on a gut level to help them further. However, let's set that aside and try to write what I would see as a potential best-case scenario for the Labour Party while still leaving it somewhat recognisable. One caveat is that the party holding on in 1950/51 might turn out better than this, but that's debatable.

List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom since 1945
1945-1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945 def: Winston Churchill (National), Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1950 def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Clement Davies (Liberal)

1951-1955: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951 def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1955-1957: Anthony Eden (Conservative)
1955 def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1957-1963: Harold Macmillan (Conservative)
1959 def: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1963-1968: Rab Butler (Conservative, then Conservative minority)
1964 def: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1968-1979: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1968 def: Rab Butler (Conservative), Emlyn Hooson (Liberal)
1972 def: Reginald Maudling (Conservative), Emlyn Hooson and Gwilym Lloyd George (New Liberal - joint leadership), Enoch Powell (British Unionist)

1979-1984: Barbara Castle (Labour)
1979 def: Lord Hailsham (Conservative), Stina Robson (New Liberal), Enoch Powell (British Unionist)
1984-1989: Julian Amery (Conservative-New Liberal coalition)
1984 def: Barbara Castle (Labour), Stina Robson (New Liberal), Enoch Powell (Keep Britain British)
1989-1997: Peter Shore (Labour)
1989 def: Julian Amery (Conservative), Stina Robson (New Liberal)
1993 def: Francis Maude (Conservative), Michael Heseltine (Liberal)

1997-2002: Gordon Brown (Labour)
1997 def: Francis Maude (Conservative), Michael Heseltine (Liberal)
2002-2007: Lord Ancram (Conservative-Liberal coalition)
2002 def: Gordon Brown (Labour), Kenneth Clarke (Liberal)
2007-2015: Paul Boateng (Labour)
2007 def: Lord Ancram (Conservative), Kenneth Clarke (Liberal)
2011 def: Theresa May (Conservative), Navnit Dholakia (Liberal)

2015-20??: Jon Cruddas (Labour)
2016 def: John Bercow (Conservative), Norman Baker (Liberal)


Rather than do footnotes, I'll just answer questions - but hopefully you can see roughly what I was going for (the Tories manage to unluckily be in power when all the unpopular decisions are made, Labour benefit from a split opposition vote, etc.)

The New Liberal bit is I'm assuming the National Liberals severing ties with the Tories (and presumably bringing a load of OTL wet Tories with them) so giving the anti-Tory vote in the shires a bit of a boost.
 
The New Liberal bit is I'm assuming the National Liberals severing ties with the Tories (and presumably bringing a load of OTL wet Tories with them) so giving the anti-Tory vote in the shires a bit of a boost.
Yes exactly. Probably a bit late to be entirely plausible, but I was inspired by learning that apparently Gwilym Lloyd George never actually joined the National Liberals, he was formally sitting as a Liberal even when considered a potential future Conservative leader.

The disasters that the Tories manage to be in power for are: Suez (OTL), devaluation of the pound / withdrawal from East of Suez, botched brief attempt to join the EEC in the 1980s before crashing out, and a roughly-equivalent-to-the-dotcom-bubble-on-steroids big recession in the mid-2000s coupled to joining an unpopular American military intervention. One will also note that the peerage crisis was resolved in a different way (essentially peers can keep their titles while taking seats in the Commons) which has the side effect of making the Conservatives look out of touch due to having a significant number of people with peerages in the cabinet/shadow cabinet.
 
Prime Minsters of the First Republic of Armenia:
1918-1919:Hovhannes Kajaznuni (Armenian Revolutionary Federation)
1919: Armenian Revkom (Armenian Communist Party)
1919-1920: Alexander Khatisian (Armenian Revolutionary Federation)
1920-1921: Andranik Ozanian (Armenian Liberation Front)
1921-1925: Andranik Ozanian-Garegin Nzhdeh-Christophor Araratov-Oliver Baldwin (Anti-Bolshevik War Council)


Prime Minsters of the Second Republic of Armenia:
1925-1929: Christophor Araratov (Armenian Democratic Coalition)
1925 (Majority) def: Oliver Baldwin* (Social Democratic Labour Party)
1929-1932: Sebouh Nersesian (Armenian Democratic Party)
1929 (Coalition with Social Democratic Labour) def: Gevorg Gharadjian (Social Democratic Labour), Yeghishe Charents (Armenian Workers), Garegin Nzhdeh (Armenian Populist Party)
1932-1941: Garegin Nzhdeh (Armenian Populist Party)
1932 (Majority) def: Sebouh Nersesian (ADP), Perchuhi Partizpanyan-Barseghyan (Social Democratic Labour), Yeghishe Charents (Armenian Workers), Drastamat Kanayan (Armenian National Party)
1936 (Majority) def: Ruben Ter Minassian (ADP), Alexander Bekzadyan (Social Democratic Labour), Avetik Isahakyan (Armenian Workers), Drastamat Kanayan (Armenian National Party)
1940 (Coalition with ADP) def: Ruben Ter Minassian (ADP), Sarkis Dkhrouni (Social Democratic Labour), Aghasi Khanjian (Armenian Workers Party), Drastamat Kanayan (Armenian National Party)

1941-1945: Garegin Nzhdeh (Armenian Populist leading War Government)
1945-1949: Ruben Ter Minassian (Armenian Democratic Party)

1945 (Coalition with the APP) def: Garegin Nzhdeh (APP), Sarkis Dkhrouni (Social Democratic Labour), Aghasi Khanjian (Armenian Democratic Socialist Party), Avetik Isahakyan (Armenian Workers Party), Drastamat Kanayan (Armenian National Party)
1949-: Sarkis Dkhrouni (Social Democratic Labour Party)
1949 (Majority) def: Ruben Ter Minassian (ADP), Makhluto (APP), Aghasi Khanjian (Armenian Democratic Socialist Party), Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan (Armenian Workers)

*Interim Leader for the election, Gevorg Gharadjian would become the leader of the SDLP in 1927 after being allowed back into Armenia by the Araratov Goverment.

The survival of the Armenian First Republic was a close run thing, the Turkish tried to gobble up the nascent nation as it was just established, only for the Greek onslaught in Anatolia to make them reconsider. The Soviet’s tried to take over but the Revkom barely lasted a month as Soviet force were occupied elsewhere (the Armenian would manage to form a small rump state near Georgia before Mikoyan had them purged for incompetence). The next several years of the Armenian Republics existence was battling the Soviet Union, with an incredibly bloodied Turkey (Greece winning big From the Turkish-Greek War) awkwardly supporting Armenia feeling a Democratic Armenia would be a good defence against the Soviet menace. With Western funding and arms and British support after Stanley Baldwin’s Son Oliver decided to become a military adviser (and then member of the ruling coalition) for the nascent Republic eventually the Soviet’s threw in the towel (especially with Lenin’s death causing the Soviet’s to pause and reconsider). With there victory secured it was decided that Democratic elections would finally properly occur and the Second Republic of Armenia was declared.

Elections of 1925 would be landslide for Armenian Democratic Coalition, mainly because many Social Democrats and Socialist dissidents had been arrested or had waited out the War in other countries (large portions of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party's leadership had been driven into exile during the Armenian Genocide and were only slowly coming back to Armenia), leading the odd situation of Oliver Baldwin being the interim head of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (a coalition of various Left Wing groups in Armenia who weren’t Pro-Soviet) as opposition to the Democratic Coalition. By 1929, various splinter parties had been formed from the Democratic Coalition as most Socialists and Social Democrats join the SDLP or the Workers Party (which is really a front for the Communists in the Soviet Union to influence Armenia), Populists and Agrarian Socialists joining the Populist Party and a smattering of Conservatives, Liberals and the occasional National Populist or Fascist joining the National party leading to a more competitive election. In the end the Social Liberal Democratic Party is forced into a coalition with the SDLP, the coalition is shaky but both Parties agree in a rapid Industrialisation of Armenia (a Five Year Plan would be implemented inspired by the NEPer's in the Soviet Union) and the creation of the Armenian Welfare State of sorts. The coalition wouldn't see the end of the first Five Year Plan as the coalition collapses in 1932 over an argument over enshrining the workers right to create Trade Unions into the Armenian Constitution as Armenia is partially hit by the Great Depression and Business leaders (the main backers of the ADP) are battling Trade Unions (the main backers of the SDLP).

So in 1932, the Armenian Populist Party wins the election. Lead by Garegin Nzhdeh the Parties ideology is pretty fluid but could be best described as a more Populist, Agrarian Socialist, Socially Conservative inspired ideology called Nzhdehism which would come to dominate the 1930s. Farm land is redistributed, the Government invests more into the Welfare of farmers more than anything, Women's Rights hit a deadend and the Armenian Apostolic Church is enshrined into the constitution as the official religion of the Republic (many Muslims are driven out of Armenia into Iran and Turkey, meanwhile Armenia oddly becomes a haven for Jews from the Soviet Union who are discriminated against by the State as Nzdeh believes they would make ideal Anti-Communists). Communism in Armenia is reduced to a ineffective rump, though Stalin is more effective at purging Armenian Communism than Nzdeh ever is (this would eventually lead to the Workers Party split of the mid 40s, as the youthful Aghasi Khanjian is pushed into the leadership but quickly turns against the Soviet line as more and more information about the fates of Charents and Isahakyan become apparent).

The Populist Party clings onto power in 1940 by entering a coalition with the ADP as the SDLP under passionate Socialist Sarkis Dkhrouni expands it's appeal and takes more and more inspiration from the Labour Party (as Oliver Baldwin and a number of his comrades influence the SDLP policies and ideas). But soon afterwards War between the Soviet Union and the Axis and Armenia supports the Allies (despite the Axis powers trying to bribe Armenia into joining the Axis and fighting the Soviet's, Armenia's fear of the Soviet's trumps all else in the end) in particular sending forces to help the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran, sending an expeditionary force to help the Allies in North Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Greece and providing industrial and farming aid to the Soviets during the midst of the Nazi Invasion.

But the so called War Coalition is dissolved in the aftermath of the Soviet victory against the Nazi's as the SDLP accuses Nzhdeh of 'Kemelism' especially due to the banning and absorption of the National Party into the ADP/APP coalition. So the election of 1945 occurs, but a secret deal between the APP and ADP allows them to keep the SDLP out of power. Ruben Ter Minassian's rule is tired for the most part, even the small economic boom that occurs due to Armeina making a tidy profit out of the War is tempered by a War scare with the Soviets and a brief War between Iran and Armenia during the 1946 Iranian Crisis (one of the first big Cold War scares) as Ter Minassian is seen as a War Monger (the ensuing peace that establishes the Republic of Mahabad and has the Soviet Union finally securing Armenian recognition of the Armenian SSR leads to the riots of 1946). By the beginning of 1949 the APP-ADP coalition is beginning to break apart and the SDLP, buoyed with help from Oliver Baldwin, Labour MP Noel Agazarian and his Labour Friends of Armenia storms ahead in the polls before winning election (despite rumblings in the military of a possible coup before it's decided that the SDLP are Anti-Soviet enough for them) even the ASDP manages to win several seats out of the coalition collapse. And so now Sarkis Dkhrouni is able to try and create his vision of a Social Democratic Armenian future, workers right and trade unions to be enshrined into the constitution, expansion of women's rights, Monetary Reform and Nationalisation of the Banks and Major Industries...
 
The whole Irish-British standoff despite KGVI being monarch of both was actually based on the 1st Indo-Pakistani War.

The whole thing was based on "what if real actual politicians had to deal with a world which was quite frankly profoundly silly"-or more precisely a world which is much like our own except a New York Professor can read your mind. Hence Reginald Maudling dealing with superpowered terrorism.
 
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@Time Enough, your Armenia list is excellent. It's fairly simple, but it's still unique enough that I've enjoyed reading it. I hope you don't mind if I ask you a few questions.

Does the Second Republic of Armenia see an influx of Armenians from abroad and anti-Soviet folks from Transcaucasus?

(the Armenian would manage to form a small rump state near Georgia before Mikoyan had them purged for incompetence)

So what happens to Anastas Mikoyan anyway?

(the ensuing peace that establishes the Republic of Mahabad and has the Soviet Union finally securing Armenian recognition of the Armenian SSR leads to the riots of 1946)

Is the Armenian SSR located in *Artsakh, and does its recognition by the Republic of Armenia drive any sort of wedge between Ter Minassian and Nzhdeh?
 
@Time Enough, your Armenia list is excellent. It's fairly simple, but it's still unique enough that I've enjoyed reading it. I hope you don't mind if I ask you a few questions.
Thank you, always good to hear when you’ve done a good job and that people enjoyed it.
Does the Second Republic of Armenia see an influx of Armenians from abroad and anti-Soviet folks from Transcaucasus?
Yes, the Armenian diaspora returns in considerable numbers to Armenia during the late 20s and 30s (which partially explains the Anti-Islam policies of Nazdeh as his government chases Muslims out to make room for Armenian and ‘desirable’ settlers). Anti-Soviet folks do head to Armenia though of a more Social Democratic/Social Liberal quality as Fascism doesn’t gain as much of a hold in Armenia (this isn’t to say there aren’t Fascists, just most are of the home grown Armenian version).
So what happens to Anastas Mikoyan anyway?
Goes from being the head of Armenian operations (creating terrorist cells, funding/placing gullible idiots into the Workers Party and generally organising efforts to try and bring Armenia to his will) to essentially the defacto head of the Transcaucasian SSR’s after the other leaders find themselves suffering from a bad case of the purge. For the most part Mikoyan make’s sure the Armenian Republic won’t be a problem for the Soviet Union, making sure oil production isn’t halted and influencing Soviet designs for the Middle East. Essentially, he found a way to make himself incredibly useful for Stalin.
Is the Armenian SSR located in *Artsakh, and does its recognition by the Republic of Armenia drive any sort of wedge between Ter Minassian and Nzhdeh?
Yep, it’s in the Artsakh region due to the Soviet Union wanting to claim in some way that they are the legal holders of Armenia and also it was created out of spite more than anything. It’s government is mainly made up of yes men and it mainly consists of Soldiers more than anything.

Also the recognition of the state by Armenia (thereby renouncing any claims by the Armenia on the the Artsakh) goes down poorly and Ter Minassian and Nzdeh spend most of the negotiations squabbling, as Ter Minassian the pragmatist realises that going to war with the Soviet Union of a bit of land would be incredibly stupid whilst Nzdeh has more romantic notions, saying he’ll fight from the hills if it comes to it. But Nzdeh is worn away and his age plus him aging due to his years as Prime Minister means that Ter Minassian wears him down. This incident eventually causes Nzdeh to resign from being the leader of the APP as he’s finally done with politics.
 
I like that me and @theev both did interesting lists about Democracy thriving in nations where that didn’t happen to the same extent as in otl. May have to do some more like that.
 
A couple gimmick lists I did in the past few weeks.


America as New York (with some liberties taken)

Baesd on Oppo 's excellent 'Murica Ain't Alaska

1941-1945: James Farley (Democratic)
1940 (with Cordell Hull) def. Robert Taft (Republican), Upton Sinclair (End Poverty in America)
1945-1957: Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1944 (with John Bricker) def. James Farley (Democratic)
1948 (with John Bricker) def. Paul V. McNutt (Democratic), Fielding Wright (States Rights Democratic)
1952 (with Earl Warren) def. Harley Kilgore (Democratic)

1957-1959: Edward Stettinius Jr. (Democratic) [Died of a coronary thrombosis]
1956 (with Richard Nixon) def. Leslie Arends (Republican), Norman Thomas (Socialist)*
1956-1961: Richard Nixon (Democratic)
1961-1963: Spruille Braden (Republican)

1960 (with James P. Mitchell) def. Richard Nixon (Democratic)
1963-1965: Spruille Braden (Independent)
1964 (with Robert McNamara) def. Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic), Fred Koch (Remember John Birch!), unpledged electors (Republican)
1965-1975: Spruille Braden (Republican) [Resigned after allegations of corruption related to his company]
1968 (with John deKoven Alsop) def. Pat Brown (Democratic), Revilo P. Oliver (Remember John Birch!), Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (Liberal)
1972 (with John deKoven Alsop) def. George Ball (Democratic), Revilo P. Oliver (Remember John Birch!)

1975-1977: John deKoven Alsop (Republican)
1977-1985: Jerome Cavanagh (Democratic)
1976 (with Julia Hansen) def. John deKoven Alsop (Republican), John G. Crommelin (Stand Up for America)*
1980 (with Pat Brown Jr., SJ) def. Barber Conable (Republican), Ellen McCormack (Right to Life)

1985-1997: Pat Brown Jr. SJ (Democratic)
1984 (with Bob Bullock) def. James Baker (Republican), Maureen Salaman (Right to Life)
1988 (with Walter Mondale) def. William K. Armstrong (Republican), George Wallace (Right to Life)
1992 (with Walter Mondale) def. Donald Trump (Republican), L. Brent Bozell (American Conservative), Henry Hewes (Right to Life)

1997-2009: Robert A. Pascal (Republican)
1996 (with Claudine Schneider) def. Pat Brown Jr. SJ (Democratic), Leonard Umina (21st Century Democracy), Bowie Kuhn (Right to Life)
2000 (with Bobbi Fiedler) def. David Boren (Democratic), Leonard Umina (American Future), Claudine Schneider (Independent Republican), Donald Spitz (Right to Life), Al Lewis (Green)
2004 (with Bobbi Fiedler) def. Lucien Blackwell (Democratic), Leonard Umina (American Future)

2009-2010: Rod Blagojevich (Democratic) [Resigned after allegations he had appointed the Secretary of State to the Cabinet after being paid directly]
2008 (with Cleo Fields) def. Rob Portman (Republican)
2010-2013: Cleo Fields (Democratic)
2013-0000: Zebediah Rice-Brown (Democratic)

2012 (with Raymond Kelly) def. Tim Phillips (Republican), Howie Hawkins (Green), Rhett Smith (Libertarian), Jimmy McMillan (Taxes Are Too Damn High)*, Cynthia McKinney (More Perfect Union)*, Dennis Hof (Stop Being Prudes)*
2016 (with Cecile Richards) def. Marco Rubio (Republican), Howie Hawkins (Green-Socialist fusion)
2020 (with Cecile Richards) def. Pete Hegseth (Republican), Howie Hawkins (Green-Socialist), Austin Peterson (Libertarian), Helen Alli (The Center)





* - Represents a campaign that did not do very well, but is notable.
All tickets receiving over 1% of the total vote are shown


- 1940 = 1938/1942
- In 1960, Nixon portrays himself as a liberal and Braden sweeps the south.
- Bullock finds being VP boring and leaves the position


America Isn't Washington or the Triumph of Managerial Liberalism

1961-1963: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1960 (with Lyndon Johnson) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), Harry Byrd (Unpledged electors)
1963-1973: Lyndon Johnson (Democratic)
1964 (with Hubert Humphrey) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), George Wallace (Independent Democratic)
1968 (with Hubert Humphrey) def. Barry Goldwater (Republican), Watkins M. Abbitt (States Rights)

1973-1977: John Lindsay (Democratic)
1972 (with Fred Harris) def. Roy Cohn (Independent), Jim Rhodes (Republican), Julius Hobson (Independent), Linda Jenness (Socialist Workers), Rutherford Decker (Independent)
1977-1989: Charlie Wilson (Democratic)
1976 (with Walter Mondale) def. Edward Brooke (Republican), Lyndon LaRouche (US Labor), Pat Boone (Independent)*
1980 (with Andrew Young) def. George C. Lodge (Republican), Dennis Sobin (Independent), Melvin T. Mason (Socialist Workers)
1984 (with Andrew Young) def. Anne Northup (Republican), Norman Mailer (Independent), Murray Bookchin (Green Committees of Correspondence), David Duke (Independent)*, Melvin T. Mason (Socialist Workers)*

1989-1993: Madeleine Kunin (Democratic)
1988 (with John Ingram) def. Harry Lee (Republican), Ynestra King (Green Committees of Correspondence)*, Harry Browne (Libertarian)*, Maureen Salaman (Independent)*, Norman Mailer (Independent)*, John Africa (Independent)*, Willis Carto (Independent)*, James Harris (Socialist Workers)*, Sam Pick (Independent)*, Ole Savior (Independent)*
1993-1997: Charlie Wilson (Democratic)
1992 (with Kweisi Mfume) def. Anne Northup (Republican), David Duke (Independent)*, Ralph Chapman (Greens/Green Party USA)*, Richard Duncan (Independent)*, Ole Savior (Independent)*, Olga Rodriguez (Socialist Workers)*
1997-2005: Earl Blumenauer (Democratic)
1996 (with Jim Hightower) def. Anne Northup (Republican), Ralph Nader (Association of State Green Parties), H. Ross Perot (Independent)*, Norman Mailer (Independent)*, Ole Savior (Independent)*, Sam Manuel (Socialist Workers)*, Walter Iwachiw (Independent)*
2000 (with Mazie Hirono) def. Anne Northup (Republican), Jim Channon (Association of State Green Parties), Morry Taylor (Independent)*, Sam Manuel (Socialist Workers)*, Jim Gray (Independent)*

2005-2009: Barack Obama (Democratic)
2004 (with Mazie Hirono) def. Kevin Faulconer (Republican), Howie Hawkins (Green)
2009-2013: Steny Hoyer (Democratic)
2008 (with Kathleen Brown) def. Barack Obama (write-in), Hugh Hefner (Independent), Ole Savior (Green), Alyson Kennedy (Socialist Workers)*
2013-0000: Natalie Tennant (Democratic)
2012 (with Michelle Lujan Grisham) def. John McCain (Independent), Anne Northup (Independent), Ole Savior (Green)*, Rhett Smith (Libertarian)*, Alvin Greene (Independent)*
2016 (with Michelle Lujan Grisham) def. Jill Stein (Green), Pete Buttigieg (Independent), Rand Paul (Libertarian)



America Isn't the Big Apple

1933-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
1932 (with John Nance Garner) def. Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1936 (with John Nance Garner) def. Alf Landon (Republican)
1940 (with Paul V. McNutt) def. Robert Taft (Republican)

1945-1950: Paul V. McNutt (Democratic)
1944 (with J. Melville Broughton) def. William H. Wills (Republican), Upton Sinclair (For a New World)
1948 (with J. Melville Broughton) def. Joseph Martin (Republican), Vito Marcantonio (American Labor)

1950-1950: George Marshall (Democratic)
1950-1953: George Marshall (National Statesmen's)

1950 (with Allen Dulles) def. William O. Douglas (Democratic), Thomas Dewey (Republican), John Howard Lawson (American Labor)
1953-1965: Henry Kaiser (Democratic)
1952 (with James Byrnes) def. Arthur E. Summerfield (Republican), George Counts (Liberal), Darlington Hoopes (American Labor)
1956 (with John Sparkman) def. John Bricker (Republican), J. Bracken Lee (Anti-Taxation League)
1960 (with Bert Combs) def. Jacob Javits (Republican), John Sparkman (Independent), J. Bracken Lee (Anti-Taxation League)*

1965-1967: George Romney (Republican)
1964 (with Harold Stassen) def. Ludwig Teller (Democratic), Barry Goldwater (Conservative), J. Bracken Lee (Anti-Taxation League)*
1967-1969: George Romney (Liberal)
1968 (with Harold Stassen) def. Sam Yorty (Democratic), Jack Miller (Republican)
1969-1973: George Romney (Democratic)
1973-1977: Mo Udall (Democratic)

1972 (with Robert F. Kennedy) def. Jack Miller (Republican), Harold Stassen (Liberal), Strom Thurmond (Conservative)
1977-1989: George Wallace (Democratic)
1976 (with Edward J. King) def. Robert F. Kennedy (Liberal), Gerald Ford (Republican), Meldrim Thomson Jr. (Conservative)
1980 (with Howard Baker) def. Tony Mazzocchi (Independent), John Schmitz (Conservative), Bella Abzug (Liberal), Billy James Hargis (Right to Life)
1984 (with Lloyd Bentsen) def. Pat Schroeder (Liberal), Virginia D. Smith (Republican), Howard Phillips (Right to Life)

1989-1993: John A. Wilson (Democratic)
1988 (with Skip Humphrey) def. John Ashcroft (Republican)
1993-2001: William Weld (Republican)
1992 (with Donald Rumsfeld) def. John A. Wilson (Democratic)
1996 (with Donald Rumsfeld) def. Maria Cantwell (Democratic), Heerak Kim (American Gamma)

2001-2006: Donald Bren (Republican)
2000 (with Ray LaHood) def. Geoffrey Fieger (Democratic), Robert Reich (Liberal)*
2004 (with Forrest Church) def. Gil Garcetti (Democratic), John Milkovich (Conservative)

2006-2013: Donald Bren (Independent)
2008 (with Robert Mueller) def. Roland Burris (Democratic), Terry Jones (Conservative)
2013-0000: Bill Clinton (Democratic)
2012 (with Terri Sewell) def. Rick Scott (Republican)
2016 (with Terri Sewell) def. Martha Roby (Republican), Heerak Kim (American Gamma), Ajamu Baraka (Green), Steve Revilak (Pirate)*



- Roosevelt selects McNutt in 1940, and after a heart attack in 1943, decides not to run for a third term.
- President McNutt and Vice President Broughton are assassinated by Puerto Rican nationalists. Because there was no 22nd Amendment, a special election is held. Legislation is agreed to that would establish a line of succession through the Cabinet while also having another election in 1952.

* - Represents a campaign that did not do very well, but is notable.
All tickets receiving over 1% of the total vote are shown
 
A rather grim thought I had this week, about the Prohibition Party becoming the electoral vehicle of the KKK.

All Too Visible


1913-1924: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
1912 (with Thomas R. Marshall) def. Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), William Howard Taft (Republican), Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
1916 (with Thomas R. Marshall) def. Charles Evans Hughes (Republican), Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
1920 (with William Gibbs McAdoo) def. Nicholas M. Butler (Republican), Wayne Wheeler (Prohibition), Bill Haywood (Socialist)

1924-1929: William Gibbs McAdoo (Democratic)
1924 (with Edward Young Clarke) def. Hiram Wesley Evans (Prohibition), Hiram Johnson (Republican), Benjamin Gitlow (Socialist)
1929-1933: Edward L. Jackson (Republican/Prohibition Fusion)
1928 (with Theodore G. Bilbo) def. William Gibbs McAdoo (Democratic), Al Smith (Progressive/Popular Front Fusion)
 
Darkly fascinating.

my idea was america never gets stuck into ww1 - the 18th amendment still passes but Wilson has the political capital to veto the Volstead Act and night get overriden. actual enforcement of the amendment ends up devolved to states and often into the hands of the most notable anti-alcohol paramilitary that there is...
 
When the Long Fellow is Replaced by the Big..: An Alternate Taoiseach List:

President of the Executive Council:
1923-1925: Micheal Collins (Sinn Féin leading Reconstruction Coalition)
1925-1931: Kevin O'Higgins (Cumann na nGaedheal)

1925 (Majority) def: Micheal Collins (Sinn Féin), William X. O'Brien (Labour), Jim Larkin (Irish Workers Party), Denis Gorey (Farmers Party), Michael Hennessy (Business Party), William Redmond (National League Party)
1931-1933: Micheal Collins (Sinn Féin)
1931 (Majority) def: Kevin O'Higgins (Cumann na nGaedheal), William X. O’Brien (Labour), Jim Larkin (Irish Workers Party), Micheal Hennessy (Business League Party), James Dillon (National Centre Party), Eoin O'Duffy (National Corporate League)

Taoiseach of the Irish Republic:
1933-1939: Micheal Collins (Sinn Féin)

1934 (Majority) def: W. T. Cosgrave (Aontas Críostaí), William X. O’Brien (Labour), Jim Larkin (Irish Workers Party), Eoin O'Duffy (National Corporate League)
1938 (Coalition with Labour) def: John A. Costello (Aontas Críostaí), Archie Heron (Labour), Jim Larkin (Irish Workers Party), Eoin O'Duffy (National Corporate League)

1939-1945: Micheal Collins (Sinn Féin leading Emergency Government)
1945-1949: John A. Costello (Aontas Críostaí)
1945 (Majority) def: Micheal Collins (Sinn Féin), Archie Heron (Labour), James Larkin Jnr (Irish Workers Party), Ernest Blythe (National Reform), Peadar Cowan (Vanguard)
1949-1953: Micheal Collins (Sinn Féin)
1949 (Coalition with Labour) def: John A. Costello (Aontas Críostaí), Archie Heron (Labour), James Larkin Jnr (Irish Workers Party), Ernest Blythe (National Reform), Peadar Cowan (Vanguard)
1953-1960: Liam Cosgrave (Aontas Críostaí)
1953 (Majority) def: Micheal Collins (Sinn Féin), Archie Heron (Labour), James Larkin Jnr (Irish Workers Party), Ernest Blythe (Muintir na hÉireann), Peadar Cowan (Vanguard)
1957 (Majority) def: Seán MacBride (Sinn Féin), Noël Browne (Labour), Roddy Connelly (Irish Workers Party), Micheal J. Flanagan (Muintir na hÉireann), Peadar Cowan (Vanguard)

1960-1964: Seán MacBride (Sinn Féin)
1960 (Coalition with Labour) def: Liam Cosgrave (Aontas Críostaí), Brendan Corish (Labour), Noël Browne (Socialist Labour), Roddy Connelly-Peadar Cowan (Workers Vanguard), Micheal J. Flanagan (Muintir na hÉireann)
1964-1970: James Dillon (Aontas Críostaí)
1964 (Majority) def: Seán MacBride (Sinn Féin), Noël Browne (Labour), Brendan Corish (Democratic Labour), Dominic Behan-Miriam Daly (Workers Vanguard), Micheal J. Flanagan (Muintir na hÉireann)
1968 (Coalition with Muintir na hÉireann) def: Seán MacBride (Sinn Féin), Noël Browne (Labour), Tomás Mac Giolla-Miriam Daly (Workers Vanguard), Micheal J. Flanagan (Muintir na hÉireann)

1970-1973: Neil Blaney (Aontas Críostaí)
1973-:Garret FitzGerald (Sinn Féin)
1973 (Majority) def: Neil Blaney (Aontas Críostaí), Eileen Desmond (Labour), Tomás Mac Giolla-Miriam Daly (Workers Vanguard), Micheal J. Flanagan (Muintir na hÉireann), Seamus Costello (Daonlathas Clé)

A list for a world where Éamon de Valera was killed in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Uprising, after a brief Irish Civil War Micheal Collins takes control of Sinn Féin and turns it into a Left Wing Populist Party but his charms only last for so long, leading to Sinn Féin often partnering up with Labour in coalitions. Meanwhile Cumann Na nGaedheal unites with a number of similar Irish Conservative/Liberal Parties and creates Aontas Críostaí which is a Conservative Christian Democratic Party. Eventually the balance of power between the parties, with Sinn Féin partnering up with Labour (and implementing social reform, creating large farmers Co-Ops and the creation of a welfare state) and Aontas Críostaí cornering the Conservative vote is shattered with the Dillon & Blaney Governments who are forced to enter coalition with Micheal J.Flanagan and Muintir na hÉireann, which doesn’t work out as Flanagan forced Blaney to implement Social Credit style policies which drives Ireland into recession (and that’s before we get into the Anti-Semitism). The chaos of these years allows Sinn Féin to capitalise on it and win it’s first majority in nearly fourty years...
 
1853-1853: David Rice Atchison (Democratic)
1853-1853: William R. King (Democratic)
1852 (with vacant): Winfield Scott (Whig)
1853-1858: David Rice Atchison (Democratic)
1853 (with Stephen A. Douglas): Millard Fillmore (Know-Nothing), John J. Crittenden (Whig), Joshua Giddings (Free Soil)
1858-1862: James Buchanan (Democratic)
1857 (with John A. Quitman): Nathaniel P. Banks (Northern Know-Nothing), Samuel Morse (Southern Know-Nothing), John C. Fremont (Free Soil & National Liberty)
1862-1862: William A. Seward (Opposition)
1861 (with Cassius Clay): John A. Quitman (Democratic), John J. Crittenden (American), Sam Houston (People's), James Guthrie (Independent Democratic)
1862-1864: Cassius Clay (Opposition)
1864-1865: Solomon Foot (Opposition)
1865-1873: George B. McClellan (Democratic)
1864 (with George H. Pendleton): Solomon Foot (Opposition), John C. Fremont (Radical)
1868 (with George H. Pendleton): Salmon P. Chase (Opposition), Charles Sumner (Radical)

1873-1873: Horace Greeley (Opposition)
1872 (with Francis P. Blair Jr.): Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic), Benjamin F. Butler (Radical)
1873-1877: Francis P. Blair Jr. (Opposition)
1877-1881: Allen G. Thurman (Democratic)
1876 (with David S. Terry): Rutherford B. Hayes (Opposition), Benjamin F. Butler (Radical)
1881-1881: Ambrose Burnside (Opposition)
1880 (with Charles Guiteau): Allen G. Thurman (Democratic)
1881-1885: Charles Guiteau (Opposition)
1884 (with Chester A. Arthur): Jay Gould (Democratic) [Disputed]

1885-0000: Charles Guiteau (Opposition)

1885-0000: Jay Gould (Democratic)

1884-0000: Simon Landis (Naturalist)

It is 1888 and America is in flames. The nation stands alongside its graveyard of Presidents: Pierce from that train wreck, King from chronic illness, Seward from a botched Confederate kidnapping, Clay when Confederate bombs destroyed much of the White House, Greeley from poor health, and Ambrose from poorer health; and its graveyard of political organizations from the decrepit Whigs to the disjointed Know-Nothings to Sam Houston's ego vessel to a Radical Party unable to cope with a rapidly disintegrating America. Now, as Civil War continues to tear through the country many wonder if America will finally come under the influence of the worms in Guiteau's brain, or the greed in Gould's, or even Simon Landis' terroristic religious fundamentalists. To the nation's south Confederate border patrols, hopelessly defending an outstretched empire doomed to fall apart, fire on those attempting to cross the border in either direction.
 
1853-1853: David Rice Atchison (Democratic)
1853-1853: William R. King (Democratic)
1852 (with vacant): Winfield Scott (Whig)
1853-1858: David Rice Atchison (Democratic)
1853 (with Stephen A. Douglas): Millard Fillmore (Know-Nothing), John J. Crittenden (Whig), Joshua Giddings (Free Soil)
1858-1862: James Buchanan (Democratic)
1857 (with John A. Quitman): Nathaniel P. Banks (Northern Know-Nothing), Samuel Morse (Southern Know-Nothing), John C. Fremont (Free Soil & National Liberty)
1862-1862: William A. Seward (Opposition)
1861 (with Cassius Clay): John A. Quitman (Democratic), John J. Crittenden (American), Sam Houston (People's), James Guthrie (Independent Democratic)
1862-1864: Cassius Clay (Opposition)
1864-1865: Solomon Foot (Opposition)
1865-1873: George B. McClellan (Democratic)
1864 (with George H. Pendleton): Solomon Foot (Opposition), John C. Fremont (Radical)
1868 (with George H. Pendleton): Salmon P. Chase (Opposition), Charles Sumner (Radical)

1873-1873: Horace Greeley (Opposition)
1872 (with Francis P. Blair Jr.): Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic), Benjamin F. Butler (Radical)
1873-1877: Francis P. Blair Jr. (Opposition)
1877-1881: Allen G. Thurman (Democratic)
1876 (with David S. Terry): Rutherford B. Hayes (Opposition), Benjamin F. Butler (Radical)
1881-1881: Ambrose Burnside (Opposition)
1880 (with Charles Guiteau): Allen G. Thurman (Democratic)
1881-1885: Charles Guiteau (Opposition)
1884 (with Chester A. Arthur): Jay Gould (Democratic) [Disputed]

1885-0000: Charles Guiteau (Opposition)

1885-0000: Jay Gould (Democratic)

1884-0000: Simon Landis (Naturalist)

It is 1888 and America is in flames. The nation stands alongside its graveyard of Presidents: Pierce from that train wreck, King from chronic illness, Seward from a botched Confederate kidnapping, Clay when Confederate bombs destroyed much of the White House, Greeley from poor health, and Ambrose from poorer health; and its graveyard of political organizations from the decrepit Whigs to the disjointed Know-Nothings to Sam Houston's ego vessel to a Radical Party unable to cope with a rapidly disintegrating America. Now, as Civil War continues to tear through the country many wonder if America will finally come under the influence of the worms in Guiteau's brain, or the greed in Gould's, or even Simon Landis' terroristic religious fundamentalists. To the nation's south Confederate border patrols, hopelessly defending an outstretched empire doomed to fall apart, fire on those attempting to cross the border in either direction.
Thank you for introducing me to Simon Landis. He doesn't even have a Wikipedia page although his book The Social War does. The page is hilarious. "Self-published in 1872 to commercial failure, and is regarded by some critics as being one of the worst novels ever written."
 
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