Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

[Beata Beatrix]

Don't really see Jindal of all people making a comeback, but I do like these.

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

Captain of Spaceship Earth

Presidents of the United States of America:
1897-1905: William McKinley (Republican)
def 1896: (with Garret Hobart) William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
def 1900: (with William Allinson) William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)
1905-1909: James Sherman (Republican)
def 1904: (with Nelson Dingley) Gifford Pinchot (Progressive), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
1909-1913: William Gibbs McAdoo (Progressive)
def 1908: (with Miles Poindexter) James Sherman (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
def 1912: (with Miles Poindexter) Chauncey Depew (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
1913-1925: Miles Poindexter (Progressive - National Union)
def 1916: (with Leonard Wood) William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), Louis Post (Social Democratic)
def 1920: (with A. Mitchell Palmer) Bill Haywood (Social Democratic), Oscar Underwood (Democratic)
1925-1933: A. Mitchell Palmer (National Union)
def 1924: (with Robert Lee Bullard) Harry McClintock (Social Democratic), James Heflin (Democratic)
def 1928: (with Hugh Johnson) James Oneal (Social Democratic), Arthur Bell (Democratic)
1933-1936: Hugh Johnson (National Union)
def 1932: (with Howard Scott) James P. Cannon (Social Democratic), Earl Long (Jeffersonian), D. C. Stephenson (Democratic)
1936 Ganttist Government Reform Referendum: 64% YES, 36% NO

Comptrollers of the American State:
1936-1943: Hugh Johnson ("Mainline" Centralist)
def 1936: Alvin Owsley ("Nationalist" Centralist), Rexford Tugwell ("Social" Centralist), Dave Lilienthal ("Industrial" Centralist), Howard Scott ("Scottite" Centralist)
1937 ref: 76% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1938 ref: 84% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1939 ref: 78% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1940 ref: 70% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1941 ref: 81% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1942 ref: 75% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1943 ref: 82% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1943-1966: Robert Moses ("Mainline/Industrial" Centralist)
def 1943: Lewis Mumford ("Organic" Centralist), Brien McMahon ("Reform/Industrial" Centralist), James Burnham ("Social" Centralist), William Shockley ("Nationalist" Centralist)
1944 ref: 85% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1945 ref: 73% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1946 ref: 61% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1946 Constitutional Consultation: 827 APPROVE, 172 OPPOSE, 1 ABSTAIN
1949 ref: 99% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1952 ref: 99% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1955 ref: 99% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1958 ref: 99% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1962 ref: cancelled
1965 ref: cancelled
1966-1968: Burrhus Skinner ("Hardline" Centralist backed by US Army and National Labor Corps)
1968-1970: Buckminster Fuller (Organic Centralist backed by Communard Rebels)

Presidents of the Second American Republic:
1970-XXXX: Buckminster Fuller (Dymaxion; endorsed by Popular Front and Reform)
def 1970: John Paul Stevens (Rally for a New Republic), William Luther Pierce (National Alliance), Henry Winston ("Muscovite" Popular Front), Dixy Lee Ray (Centralist)

Questions are welcome.

 

[Steve Brinson]

def 1943: Lewis Mumford ("Organic" Centralist), Brien McMahon ("Reform/Industrial" Centralist), James Burnham ("Social" Centralist), William Shockley ("Nationalist" Centralist)

What happened here?

 

[Yokai Man]

Captain of Spaceship Earth

Presidents of the United States of America:
1897-1905: William McKinley (Republican)
def 1896: (with Garret Hobart) William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
def 1900: (with William Allinson) William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)
1905-1909: James Sherman (Republican)
def 1904: (with Nelson Dingley) Gifford Pinchot (Progressive), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
1909-1913: William Gibbs McAdoo (Progressive)
def 1908: (with Miles Poindexter) James Sherman (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
def 1912: (with Miles Poindexter) Chauncey Depew (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
1913-1925: Miles Poindexter (Progressive - National Union)
def 1916: (with Leonard Wood) William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), Louis Post (Social Democratic)
def 1920: (with A. Mitchell Palmer) Bill Haywood (Social Democratic), Oscar Underwood (Democratic)
1925-1933: A. Mitchell Palmer (National Union)
def 1924: (with Robert Lee Bullard) Harry McClintock (Social Democratic), James Heflin (Democratic)
def 1928: (with Hugh Johnson) James Oneal (Social Democratic), Arthur Bell (Democratic)
1933-1936: Hugh Johnson (National Union)
def 1932: (with Howard Scott) James P. Cannon (Social Democratic), Earl Long (Jeffersonian), D. C. Stephenson (Democratic)
1936 Ganttist Government Reform Referendum: 64% YES, 36% NO

Comptrollers of the American State:
1936-1943: Hugh Johnson ("Mainline" Centralist)
def 1936: Alvin Owsley ("Nationalist" Centralist), Rexford Tugwell ("Social" Centralist), Dave Lilienthal ("Industrial" Centralist), Howard Scott ("Scottite" Centralist)
1937 ref: 76% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1938 ref: 84% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1939 ref: 78% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1940 ref: 70% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1941 ref: 81% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1942 ref: 75% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1943 ref: 82% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1943-1966: Robert Moses ("Mainline/Industrial" Centralist)
def 1943: Lewis Mumford ("Organic" Centralist), Brien McMahon ("Reform/Industrial" Centralist), James Burnham ("Social" Centralist), William Shockley ("Nationalist" Centralist)
1944 ref: 85% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1945 ref: 73% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1946 ref: 61% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1946 Constitutional Consultation: 827 APPROVE, 172 OPPOSE, 1 ABSTAIN
1949 ref: 99% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1952 ref: 99% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1955 ref: 99% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1958 ref: 99% REMAIN IN OFFICE
1962 ref: cancelled
1965 ref: cancelled
1966-1968: Burrhus Skinner ("Hardline" Centralist backed by US Army and National Labor Corps)
1968-1970: Buckminster Fuller (Organic Centralist backed by Communard Rebels)

Presidents of the Second American Republic:
1970-XXXX: Buckminster Fuller (Dymaxion; endorsed by Popular Front and Reform)
def 1970: John Paul Stevens (Rally for a New Republic), William Luther Pierce (National Alliance), Henry Winston ("Muscovite" Popular Front), Dixy Lee Ray (Centralist)

Questions are welcome.

Oh,very phresh

What happened to the rest of the world?

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

What happened here?

A strike-through indicates that the party or faction is blacklisted and voters are "discouraged" from voting for it.
The wheels were already coming off by the time Johnson died.

 

[theev]

They Kept Us Out of The War
1913 - 1921: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
1912 (with Thomas Marshall): Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), William Howard Taft (Republican), Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
1916 (with Thomas Marshall): Charles Evans Hughes (Republican)
1921 - 1929: Hiram Johnson (Republican)
1920 (with Warren G. Harding): Woodrow Wilson (Democratic), Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
1924 (with Calvin Coolidge): John W. Davis (Democratic), Bill Haywood (Socialist)
1929 - 1933: Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
1928 (with Frank O. Lowden): Charles W. Bryan (Democratic), Norman Thomas (Socialist)
1933 - 1937: Al Smith (Democratic)
1932 (with John Nance Garner): Calvin Coolidge (Republican), Norman Thomas (Socialist)
1937 - 1942: Henry Ford (Republican)
1936 (with Charles Lindbergh): Huey Long (Share Our Wealth), Al Smith (Democratic)
1940 (with Charles Lindbergh): Burton K. Wheeler (Democratic)
1942 - 1949: Charles Lindbergh (Republican)
1944 (with John Bricker): Henry A. Wallace (Democratic), Harry F. Byrd (States' Rights)
1949 - 0000: Robert A. Taft (Republican)
1948 (with Dewey Short): Claude Pepper (Democratic), Benjamin T. Laney (States' Rights)

 

[theev]

"International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew: German-Jews, French-Jews, English-Jews, American-Jews … the Jew is the threat."
- Henry Ford

1913 - 1917: Woodrow Wilson/Thomas Marshall (Democratic)
1912 def. Theodore Roosevelt/Hiram Johnson (Progressive), William Howard Taft/Nicholas M. Butler (Republican), Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel (Socialist)
1917 - 1921: Woodrow Wilson/William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
1916 def. Charles Evans Hughes/Charles W. Fairbanks (Republican), (Progressives endorse Democratic)
1921 - 1927: Leonard Wood/Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
1920 def. Woodrow Wilson/A. Mitchell Palmer (Democratic), Hiram Johnson/Asle Gronna (Progressive), William Jennings Bryan/Aaron S. Watkins (Prohibition)
1924 def. William Gibbs McAdoo/Jonathan M. Davis (Democratic)
1927 - 1929: Calvin Coolidge/vacant (Republican)
1929 - 1933: Calvin Coolidge/Charles G. Dawes (Republican)
1928 def. Dan Moody/Theodore Bilbo (Prohibition), Al Smith/Alben W. Barkley (Democratic)
1932: William Gibbs McAdoo/William H. Murray (Democratic)
1932 def. Calvin Coolidge/James W. Wadsworth (Republican)
1933 - 1935: William H. Murray/vacant (Democratic)
1935 - 1941: William H. Murray/Hugh S. Johnson (Democratic)
1936 def. Herbert Hoover/Styles Bridges (Republican)
1941 - 0000: Charles Lindbergh/Arthur Vandenberg (Republican)
1940 def. Wendell Willkie/Cordell Hull (Democratic)
1944 def. Paul V. McNutt/Millard Tydings (Democratic)

"Mourning all over the world as the body of Senator Henry Ford is finally laid to rest. Ford, elected as a Democrat in 1918 but serving as an Independent since 1928, has been the nation's most recognizable political figure since the end of the Great War.

A close confidante of every U.S. President since Wilson, Ford has played a major role in crafting legislative policy for decades. Ford, an active international businessman through the the 1930s, was a much beloved figure in many foreign governments as well. His funeral was attended by foreign dignitaries from dozens of countries including German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop..."

 

[Meppo]

Unyielding Roar

1929-1936: Herbert Hoover (CA)/Charles Curtis (KS) (Republican)
1928: def. Al Smith (NY)/Joseph T. Robinson (AR) (Democratic)
1932: def. Newton D. Baker (OH)/John N. Garner (TX) (Democratic)
1936-1937: Herbert Hoover (CA)/vacant (Republican)
1937-1941: Alvan T. Fuller (MA)/B. Carroll Reece (TN) (Republican)
1936: def. Albert Ritchie (MD)/Paul V. McNutt (IN) (Democratic), William Langer (ND)/Thomas H. Benton (MO) [replacing Floyd B. Olson (MN)/William Langer (ND)] (Farmer-Labor)
1941-1949: Charles F. Hurley (MA)/Tom Connally (TX) (Democratic)
1940: def. Alvan T. Fuller (MA)/B. Carroll Reece (TN) (Republican), Thomas H. Benton (MO)/Homer T. Bone (WA) (Farmer-Labor)
1944: def. Lester J. Dickinson (IA)/Irving Ives (NY) (Republican), Culbert Olson (CA)/Homer T. Bone (WA) (Progressive-Farmer-Labor ~ United Coalition)
1949-1953: Edsel Ford (MI)/John A. Coolidge (CT) (Republican)
1948: def. James Allred (TX)/Harry Truman (MO) (Democratic)
1952: def. Happy Chandler (KY)/Lewis W. Douglas (AZ) (Democratic), Robert M. La Follette Jr. (WI)/Sheridan Downey (CA) (Progressive-Farmer-Labor ~ United Coalition)
1953-present: John A. Coolidge (CT)/vacant (Republican)

Spoiler: Based off this little infobox

It is 1956, and the chief business of America is business, as it has always been. The center of global economy, the United States of America continues to keep the League of Nations at arm's length, putting itself and the Americas above global affairs. Although immigration remains limited, tourists and native-born Americans flock to megalopolises like New York, Boston and Chicago, seeking to visit the Cotton Clubs, take a look at the Better Babies contests and share in the taste of the Capone pie.

In this environment of bustling cities and growing wealth, the Republicans are the preferred pick of the vast majority of Americans, or at least the vast urban middle class, for whom the Party of Lincoln and Coolidge symbolizes normalcy, sovereignty and liberty. Farmers in the West have been... slightly less appreciative, but they do largely vote Republican. Beneath the parallel 36°30' north and in certain big cities the Democrats are dominant, backed by poll taxes, urban machines and century-long traditions; the Party of Jackson, divided chiefly between the Southerners and the non-WASP Northerners, has never really mustered strong opposition to Republican power, and even the 1929 slump (which proved to be little more than a hiccup) failed to see the Democrats take charge as was expected by some pundits - however, it did empower the Farmer-Labour Party and the Progressive Party, both of which would go on to form a coalition and prove fairly popular with Midwestern farmers and West Coast citizens, aggrieved by the laissez-faire policies of the Republican establishment.

Republicans didn't govern completely uninterrupted, however, as a series of scandals within to the Fuller administration, the 1939 "Plains scare" and the Japanese Empire's increasing aggression towards the Philippines and American business in China saw the Democrats, led by Massachusetts Governor Charles Hurley and Texas Senator Tom Connally, retake the White House.
Although Hurley tried to promote a slightly more "Wilsonian" agenda in terms of domestic and international policies, he frequently had to fight an unfriendly Congress, and much of his tenure was dominated by the Pacific War - which, while a defeat for the imperialistic Japanese, was painted by prominent American newspapers as yet another unnecessary international quagmire, and the Treaty of Rotterdam was perceived by certain figures as far too beneficial for the Brits, the Soviets and the "perfidious Orientals" which gained independence during the implementation of the Treaty.

In the end, though not unpopular, Hurley left the office lobbied with accusations of corruption and war profiteering, and a compromise ticket, well-meaning as it was, ended up losing to the Dynamic Duo of Edsel Ford and John Coolidge, the sons of the two very bastions of greatness that defined modern Americana. Continuing business as usual after a brief break from normalcy, Ford and Coolidge went on to win against the increasingly marginalized Democrats in 1952. President Ford's unfortunate passing from stomach cancer was mourned by the entire country, and led Congressional Democrats to take a beating during the midterms. With the younger Coolidge at the helm, the ship of state remains at peace, though as controversies regarding Coolidge's governorship of Connecticut and administration of the New Haven railroad system emerge, few can imagine what the future holds for America.

 

[Japhy]

It occurs to me that its a fairly common trope on lists threads to have someone go "All The Way" with an American President be it LBJ dying in office after winning in 1968 and maybe 1972, to Nazi Cold Wars where Richard Nixon is President from the 50's to the 90's, FDR living longer, or William Jennings Bryan clinging to power for a Populist Quarter Century, or even Jefferson simply choosing to not take Washington's idea and turning it into a precedent.

I did it recently with Charles Lindbergh making it to the 1970s in office before L. Ron Hubbard took over a clearly dystopic fascist state. Would anyone be interested in giving their own goes to the concept as a a list challenge?

 

[Catalunya]

It occurs to me that its a fairly common trope on lists threads to have someone go "All The Way" with an American President be it LBJ dying in office after winning in 1968 and maybe 1972, to Nazi Cold Wars where Richard Nixon is President from the 50's to the 90's, FDR living longer, or William Jennings Bryan clinging to power for a Populist Quarter Century, or even Jefferson simply choosing to not take Washington's idea and turning it into a precedent.

I did it recently with Charles Lindbergh making it to the 1970s in office before L. Ron Hubbard took over a clearly dystopic fascist state. Would anyone be interested in giving their own goes to the concept as a a list challenge?

Roosevelt 1933 - 1945
LBJ 1945 - 1977
Jerry Brown 1977 - present

I believe you did a list close to this.

 

[Japhy]

Roosevelt 1933 - 1945
LBJ 1945 - 1977
Jerry Brown 1977 - present

I believe you did a list close to this.

Yeah I did. Though generally with these sorts of list challenge things we do a bit more work then that.

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

Would anyone be interested in giving their own goes to the concept as a a list challenge?

I think David Owen would probably be the best British localisation of this concept because

1) Owen could have conceivably become Shiny New Young Labour PM in the late Seventies or early Eighties, and
2) he absolutely has the kind of ego that would mean that he'd just keep going and going a la the stairs in Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.

 

[Catalunya]

Yeah I did. Though generally with these sorts of list challenge things we do a bit more work then that.

To answer your question I'd say Huey Long could realistically serve from the 30's to the late 50s or whenever he dies like an American Peron.

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

It occurs to me that its a fairly common trope on lists threads to have someone go "All The Way" with an American President be it LBJ dying in office after winning in 1968 and maybe 1972, to Nazi Cold Wars where Richard Nixon is President from the 50's to the 90's, FDR living longer, or William Jennings Bryan clinging to power for a Populist Quarter Century, or even Jefferson simply choosing to not take Washington's idea and turning it into a precedent.

I did it recently with Charles Lindbergh making it to the 1970s in office before L. Ron Hubbard took over a clearly dystopic fascist state. Would anyone be interested in giving their own goes to the concept as a a list challenge?

I could tweak my 50-year Stassen dictatorship list.

 

[Japhy]

To answer your question I'd say Huey Long could realistically serve from the 30's to the late 50s or whenever he dies like an American Peron.

OK. Usually the point is to make detailed lists for fun.

 

[Stuyvesant]

I’m gonna update my Albany-as-America list for this prompt.

 

[theev]

It occurs to me that its a fairly common trope on lists threads to have someone go "All The Way" with an American President be it LBJ dying in office after winning in 1968 and maybe 1972, to Nazi Cold Wars where Richard Nixon is President from the 50's to the 90's, FDR living longer, or William Jennings Bryan clinging to power for a Populist Quarter Century, or even Jefferson simply choosing to not take Washington's idea and turning it into a precedent.

I did it recently with Charles Lindbergh making it to the 1970s in office before L. Ron Hubbard took over a clearly dystopic fascist state. Would anyone be interested in giving their own goes to the concept as a a list challenge?

1929 - 1936: Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis (Republican)
1928 def. Al Smith/Joseph T. Robinson (Democratic)
1932 def. John Nance Garner/Newton D. Baker (Democratic), Norman Thomas/James H. Maurer (Socialist)
1936 - 1937: Herbert Hoover/vacant (Republican)
1937 - 1940: Herbert Hoover/Frank Knox (Republican)
1936 def. Huey Long/William Lemke (Commonwealth), Cordell Hull/Millard Tydings (Democratic), Upton Sinclair/Daniel Hoan (Socialist)
1940 - 1945: Herbert Hoover/Frank Knox (Second National Union)
1940 def. Wendell Willkie/Alben W. Barkley (Democratic), Upton Sinclair/Maynard C. Kreuger (Socialist), Burton K. Wheeler/Earl Long (Commonwealth)
1945 - 1949: Herbert Hoover/Douglas MacArthur (Second National Union)
1944 def. Henry A. Wallace/Lyndon B. Johnson (Commonwealth), Paul V. McNutt/James F. Byrnes (Democratic), Norman Thomas/Darlington Hoopes (Socialist)
1949 - 1953: Herbert Hoover/Charles Halleck (Republican)
1948 def. Claude Pepper/Glen Taylor (Commonwealth), Harry Truman/John C. McCormack (Democratic), Benjamin T. Laney/Strom Thurmond (States' Rights)
1953 - 1957: Herbert Hoover/Lucius D. Clay (Independent, endorsed by Republicans)
1952 def. Richard Russell/J. William Fulbright (States' Rights), Brien McMahon/Estes Kefauver (Commonwealth), W. Averell Harriman/Frank Lausche (Democratic)
1957 - 1961: Herbert Hoover/Harry F. Byrd Sr. (Independent, endorsed by States' Rights)
1956 def. Estes Kefauver/Hubert Humphrey (Commonwealth), Frank Lausche/Stuart Symington (Democratic)
1961 - 1962: Herbert Hoover/Barry Goldwater (Independent, endorsed by States' Rights)
1960 def. Hubert Humphrey/Frank G. Clement (Commonwealth), Paul C. Fisher/various (Democratic)
1962 - 1965: Barry Goldwater/vacant (States' Rights)
1965 - 0000: Lyndon B. Johnson/Orville Freeman (Commonwealth)
1964 def. Barry Goldwater/Orval Faubus (States' Rights)

" 'Old Man Hoover' would come to define his post as one not easily prone to change. His over three-decade long reign as America's Chief Executive replaced previous expectations of self-imposed presidential term limits. Hoover's successors, Presidents Johnson and Unruh, have had little difficulty in following his example. "
- The Imperial Presidency (1982) by historians Jack Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger

Herbert Hoover was a man defined by contradictions: he was loved and hated; pragmatic and inept; ruthless and charitable. Elected President in a landslide over the controversial Al Smith, Hoover would have little time to celebrate before the First Depression (1929-1944) took the nation by storm. Millions were unemployed and out on the streets in no time and it appeared that President Hoover was quickly on his way to becoming a one-term President. However, his defeat was not to be. Despite being widely expected to lose the 1932 Presidential Election to Democrat John Nance Garner, Hoover hung on through a popular vote loss due to a double-digit performance by Norman Thomas' Socialists, capitalizing off of rampant and unaddressed economic anxiety.

The Depression would continue to worsen under Hoover's second term and many began to fear for not only the future of the Republic Party, which faced decimation downballot, but the United States as a whole. In January, 1936 President Hoover made it very clear to party leaders that he would step aside in favor of Vice President Charles Curtis. Not that it seemed to matter much anyway. The Republican Party was slated to lose, and most likely badly at that, as it faced the rise of charismatic demagogues like Louisiana Senator Huey Long and California Governor Upton Sinclair while the Democrats attempted to appeal to the nation's middle ground. Yes, VP Curtis was going to be a sacrificial lamb. Until, on the eve of the RNC, he unceremoniously died. Soon enough, party leaders panicked as Republicans bowed out of the race leaving only novelty candidates and fringe weirdos to fight over who comes fourth in the general election. Faced with this situation, President Hoover felt that he had no choice but to run for a third term with the RNC's blessing. While Republican numbers improved during the fall, it began to look like everybody would be wiped out by Huey Long. Until Long was assassinated days before the presidential election. The electoral chaos that ensued both depressed turnout and split everyone but the Republicans' vote. As dawn rose that November morning, Herbert Hoover was declared the election's winner with scant more than a third of the popular vote.

Having bottomed out several years earlier, the economic situation didn't appear to noticeably worsen during much of Hoover's third term (although it didn't appear to improve much either) and Hoover was well on his way out as the GOP stared down the barrel of electoral annihilation. At least that was until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in June, 1940. The rally-around-the-flag effect granted to Hoover allowed him to renominated on 'fighting the Axis' while simultaneously jettisoning the isolationist wing of his party led by Charles Lindbergh and John Bricker. Hoover's Second National Union would triumph over a divided opposition in a close general election.

Hoover redeemed himself in the eyes of many Americans during the early 1940s. The war economy began to bring many of those who had previously suffered under Hoover out of poverty and Hoover appeared to satisfactorily manage the war effort, working alongside British Prime Minister Churchill, Free French leader Charles de Gaulle, and (eventually and with great reluctance) Soviet General Secretary Josef Stalin. His re-election in 1944 on a "don't change horses midstream" platform (buoyed by the popular General MacArthur) carried enough weight to win Hoover over 40% of the vote as the Democratic candidate, Paul V. McNutt, dealt with a Commonwealth Party resurgence and backlash for his advocating genocide against interned Japanese-Americans.

The war ended with the surrender of Japan in March, 1946. World War 2 had taken a great toll on the American public, especially the gruesome and bloody Invasion of Japan (1945-1946), and the American people wanted a change of leadership. But this was not the Herbert Hoover of 1936, and he was not planning on leaving office. Pairing himself with the GOP's only rising star and lugging the desecrated corpse of the Republican Party behind him, Hoover launched an extremely quixotic bid for re-election. He would pull it off; becoming narrowly victorious over a controversial Commonwealth ticket and a Democratic Party that had jettisoned its southern wing.

By this point in his career Herbert Hoover had gone from 'President Hoover' to 'Old Man Hoover'. He was now simply a mainstay in American politics. He would outlive his party too. In 1950 no Republicans won a statewide race, their worse midterm performance ever. For his (widely expected) 1952 campaign, he announced his run as an Independent, simultaneously co-opting the speculated Independent run of Lucius D. Clay, a long-time supporter and the leader of the Occupation of Germany (1945-1948). The only candidate who could seriously challenge President Hoover, Commonwealth Senator Brien McMahon, would, like Long, die shortly before election day.

In 1952, the States' Rights presidential ticket won every single southern state and had a good showing in many of the western ones. By 1954, they had supplanted the GOP as America's main conservative party. This was partly due to a 5-4 Supreme Court case that outlawed school segregation. In 1956, the States' Rights party was ready to ask for concessions from the White House. In exchange of Hoover taking no action on civil rights and making both his running mate and one-third of his cabinet members of the States' Rights Party, they would endorse his re-election bids. This was a deal that Hoover accepted and soon enough Lucius Clay was moved to the Department of Defense while Harry Byrd moved into the Blair House. Four years later, Byrd would be moved to Treasury while a young firebrand from Arizona was being groomed as Hoover's successor.

In the fall of 1961, the economy bottomed out again ushering in the Second Depression (1961-1970). In record time, things became as bad as how they were during the First Depression, if not worse. But Hoover wouldn't have to worry about that long. He would pass away in August, 1962 at the age of 88 and after more than 33 years as President of the United States of America.

His successor, Barry Goldwater, would fumble the government's response to the Second Depression, leading the way for the 70% popular vote landslide and Presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1965-1978) who, in tandem with his successor, Jesse Unruh (1978-1987) would erase the carnage and economic devasation of the Hoover Years through their Just Society and Final Frontier programs, respectively.

 

[Yokai Man]

It occurs to me that its a fairly common trope on lists threads to have someone go "All The Way" with an American President be it LBJ dying in office after winning in 1968 and maybe 1972, to Nazi Cold Wars where Richard Nixon is President from the 50's to the 90's, FDR living longer, or William Jennings Bryan clinging to power for a Populist Quarter Century, or even Jefferson simply choosing to not take Washington's idea and turning it into a precedent.

I did it recently with Charles Lindbergh making it to the 1970s in office before L. Ron Hubbard took over a clearly dystopic fascist state. Would anyone be interested in giving their own goes to the concept as a a list challenge?

Not exactly the same thing but:

1945-1965 Clement Attlee

1965-1980 Rab Butler

1980-2003 Jim Callaghan

2003-2017 David Owen

2017-203x David Gauke

 

[Mumby]

It occurs to me that its a fairly common trope on lists threads to have someone go "All The Way" with an American President be it LBJ dying in office after winning in 1968 and maybe 1972, to Nazi Cold Wars where Richard Nixon is President from the 50's to the 90's, FDR living longer, or William Jennings Bryan clinging to power for a Populist Quarter Century, or even Jefferson simply choosing to not take Washington's idea and turning it into a precedent.

I did it recently with Charles Lindbergh making it to the 1970s in office before L. Ron Hubbard took over a clearly dystopic fascist state. Would anyone be interested in giving their own goes to the concept as a a list challenge?

1961-1964: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1960 (with Lyndon B. Johnson) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), Harry F. Byrd Sr. (Democratic, unpledged electors)
1964-1965: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1965-1969: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1964 (with John W. Byrnes) def. George Smathers (Democratic), Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic, faithless electors)
1969-1976: George Wallace (Democratic)
1968 (with Happy Chandler) def. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican), Walter Reuther (Labor)
1972 (with Happy Chandler) def. Bill Scranton (Republican), Martin Luther King Jr. (Poor Peoples', faithless electors)
1976-1981: Happy Chandler (Democratic)
1976 (with Adlai Stevenson III) def. Ronald Reagan (Republican), Ron Dellums (Peoples', faithless electors)
1981-xxxx: Bernard Sanders (Peoples')
1980 (with LaDonna Harris) def. Happy Chandler (Democratic), Howard Baker (Republican)

and he's still president today

 

[Mumby]

okay that one was rather silly.

The Long Game

1969-1973: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1968 (with Spiro Agnew) def. George Wallace (American Independent), Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1973-1973: George Wallace (Democratic)
1972 (with Spiro Agnew) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), George McGovern (Independent)
1973-1974: Spiro Agnew (Republican)
1974-1977: Carl Albert (Democratic)
1977-1980: George Wallace (Independent)
1976 (with Walter Fauntroy) def. Ron Dellums (Progressive), Scoop Jackson (Democratic), Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1980-1998: George Wallace (Christian National)
1980 (with Jesse Helms) def. Ron Dellums (Progressive), John Anderson (United Democratic/Republican Coalition)
1984 (with Phyllis Schlafly) def. Jesse Helms (Constitutional Coalition), Jesse Jackson (Progressive), continuity Democrats & Republicans
1988 (with Pat Robertson) def. Jesse Jackson (Progressive), David Duke (Democratic)
1992 (with Pat Robertson) def. David Duke (Democratic)
1996 (with Pat Robertson) def. Bo Gritz (Popular Democratic)
1998-2001: Pat Robertson (Christian National)

Wallace pulls off his 'Huey Long in '68' gambit - becoming the kingmaker of the electoral college and leveraging that into taking the Democratic nomination. The presidential election is a mess, and another hung electoral college ensues. This time Wallace gets Agnew to back him, but he only joys a few weeks as President before an assassin's bullet is lodged in his spine. The next few years are chaos - and prove a vindication of Wallace's messages about a grubby establishment. He runs as an Independent and achieves victory against a divided field though his own strategy of multiple regional running mates leads to the Progressive taking the Vice Presidency.

In office, Wallace undergoes a shift to the Christian Right, repudiating his previous white supremacist beliefs (to an extent). He runs again in 1980, and wins his first outright electoral college victory. He was able to do so on the basis he didn't serve his 1972 term. This is the thin end of the wedge of abolishing term limits. But from here on in Wallace was unstoppable. Backed by the militant Moral Majority he defeated the naysayers of his own party and saw the old party system cast to the four winds.

After 1988, Wallace came increasingly under the control of apocalyptic seers in particular the devious Pat Robertson. By the end of Wallace's presidency, Robertson was the real power in the White House. Political repression reached new heights - especially as the Prairie Fire Underground grew in importance - and by the 90s the only permitted opposition was one that made the Christian National regime appear like moderate conservatives by comparison.