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1837-1845 Former Senator William Henry Harrison of Ohio (Whig)
1836 (with Representative Francis Granger of New York) def. President Martin Van Buren of New York (Democratic)
1840 (with Vice President Francis Granger of New York) def. Former Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan (Democratic)
1845-1849 Senator James Buchanan of Pennsylvania (Democratic)
1844 (with Representative Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky) def. former Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky (Whig)
1849-1857 General Winfield Scott of New York (Whig)
1848 (with Former Senator Thomas Ewing of Ohio) def. President James Buchanan of Pennsylvania (Democratic)
1852 (with Vice President Thomas Ewing of Ohio) def. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois (Democratic)
1857-1861 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts (Whig)
1856 (with Senator John Bell of Tennessee) def. Senator James A. Bayard Jr. of Delaware (Democratic)
1861-1865 Governor Graham N. Fitch of Indiana (Democratic)
1860 (with President pro tempore of the Senate Benjamin Fitzpatrick) def. President Charles Sumner of Massachusetts (Whig), Vice President John Bell of Tennessee (Constitutionalist)
1865-1869 Senator William H. Seward of New York (Whig)
1864 (with Former State Representative Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky) def. Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi (Democratic), Senator Milton Latham of California (Constitutionalist), President Graham N. Fitch of Indiana (Northern Democratic)
1865: Beginning of the Conventional Phase of the Southron War
1868: Southron Government Surrenders, Beginning of the Southron Insurrection
1869-1877: Vice President Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky (Union)
1868 (with Former Secretary of the Interior George Bancroft of Massachusetts) def. General Robert E. Lee of Virginia (Independent endorsed by Constitutionalist)
1872 (with Vice President George Bancroft of Massachusetts) def. Former Senator Waitman T. Willey of Virginia (Constitutionalist)
1877: Former Senator Lyman Trumbull of Massachusetts* (Union)
1876 (with Former Governor William Tweed of New York) def. Former State Representative John Martin of Pawnee (Constitutionalist)
1877: Lyman Trumbull Removed from Office for Treason
1877-1893: Vice President William Tweed of New York (Union)
(Vacant)
1879: Southron Insurrection Ends
1880 (with Financier Charles Yerkes of Illinois) def. Lawyer Charles J. Guiteau of Illinois (Constitutionalist), Activist August Faulkner of Ohio (Free Labor)
1884 (with Vice President Charles Yerkes of Illinois) def. Scattered Opposition
1888 (with Vice President Charles Yerkes of Illinois) def. Scattered Opposition
1893-1911: Major General Nelson A. Miles of Massachusetts (Union)
1892 (with Publisher John R. McLean of Ohio) def. Senator John Kyle of Dakota (People's), Senator Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania ('True' Union)
1896 (with Vice President John R. McLean of Ohio) def. Philanthropist Seymour F. Norton of Illinois (Agrarian People's), Former Governor John P. Buchanan of Tennessee (Free People's)
1900 (with Representative Raymond Corral of Arizona) def. Senator Anselm J. McLaurin of Mississippi (Southron), Mayor T.J. Roosevelt of New York (Independent), Representative James Watson of Indiana (Agrarian People's), Farmer Davis Ward of Georgia (Free People's)
1904 (with Vice President Raymond Corral of Arizona) def. Governor George Jennings of Florida (Southron), Representative Thomas Tibbles of Platte (People's), Publisher George Hearst Jr. of Pennsylvania (Freedom)
1908 (with Senator John Bryan of Platte) def. Representative Joseph Cannon (People's Leading Anti-Reelectionist Pact - Southron-Freedom-People's)
1909: American Civil War Begins

 

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Realms of the former Grand Duchy of Esmaria, 1444 AA

The Grand Duchy of Esmaria was considered a key component of the Empire of Anbennar, with the Duke himself being involved with many diplomatic events of import. However, this was of no use when he died in 1365 at the height of the First Lilac War, with the Esmari Succession Crisis simply becoming another front of that century-long conflagration. The Succession Crisis directly led to the dissolution of the Grand Duchy, as its former vassals preferred being Princes Themselves to tithing to Esmarainé. Esmaria is a land of vast disparities, the craftsmen of Esmarainé and Giberd, the peasants and laborers toiling in the fields and mines, and the Riverlords drowning themselves in their boozy River Parties.

Duchy of Asheniande: Asheniande is located at the eastern edge of Esmaria, in the region known as Ashfield, so named to the volcanic soil of the region created by the eruption of the volcano of the Havoral Mountains on the Day of Ashen Skies. It assumed its current form when the King of neighboring Corvuria attempted to gain the duchy by having his second son marry the only daughter of the previous Duke. However, this son instead fell in love with his new adoptive home and refused to partake in his father’s schemes, and instead founded a cadet dynasty.

Duchy of Estallen: Estallen is one of the two major players that most people think of when they think of Esmaria. It is dominated by the city of the same name, and that city is dominated by the Water Garden District, the series of canals and parks people flock to the city to see. The other draw for travelers to the “Lady’s Glade” is its expansive Pleasure Palaces, its courtesans are world-renowned. The primary industry of Estallen is their cloths and clothing manufacturing, with the duchy possessing the cutting edge of textiles and fashion.

Duchy of Leslinpár:

Dwarven Hall of Silverforge: Silverforge is the only Dwarven Prince, and acts as the voice of the Empire’s second-largest minority as a member of the Imperial Electoral College. Its Electoral Politics are idiosyncratic even by the standards of its peers, with centuries-long blood feuds rendering any diplomatic venture a minefield of sore subjects. With the conclusion of the Lilac Wars, leadership has turned its sights back to the acquisition of the resources to finally complete the Hold Silverforge was founded to build, 2000 years since its foundation as a mining colony, Silverhold.

Free City of Esmarainé: Esmarainé was the former capital of the Grand Duchy of Esmaria, and in the wake of its collapse, the city was taken over by a cartel of River Traders who were granted Free City status so no one duke would have it. It is everything that wider Esmaria is, but to an extreme degree, no one has more extravagant parties, no one has a larger Temple of Esmaryal, and no one is more cutthroat in the pursuit of profits in the Grand Duchy.

Hierarchy of Giberd: Giberd is the unofficial capital of the Imperial Gnomes, the largest minority in the Empire without an Elector to represent it, something many in Giberd resent. The City was granted to the Gnomes who settled in Esmaria by the King in the 5th Century, with its name literally meaning ‘Gifted Land’. Giberd is the center of Engineering in the Empire, and this expertise makes its Gnomes invaluable in the advent of Artificery. As one of only three independent Gnomish nations in the Known World, many would see the Hierarchy's resources be used to restore the original Hierarchy they were displaced from in the Dragonwake, but most are happy where they are now.

Ryalan Temple: The temple is the center of the worship of Ryala, the Goddess of Greater Love, a member of the Regent Court. Clergy trained here perform marriage ceremonies across the Known World, and the Temple is a popular location for the well-to-do of the Empire.

Duchy of Bennon: The Duchy of Bennon is peopled by a hardier stock than most Esmari, the serious and staid descendants of the Havoric people are much more comfortable in their mountain hunting lodges than the Party Barges of their brethren. The Bennonians have a long rivalry with Silverforge, dating back to the conflict over the tunnel through the Havoral Divide known as Adstunad, or Oldpassage.

County of Konwell: Konwell is the site of the Imperial Archives, with its capital being the chosen location of that institution over the Capital of the Empire due to the latter’s propensity for fires in the early years of the Empire. This scholarly tradition led to the foundation of the Konwell Institute, which is the least well known of the Imperial Universities, mostly due to its eschewing of the Prestigious disciplines in favor of the practical ones.

County of Seinathíl: Seinathíl, literally meaning Singer’s Keep was founded during the War of the Sorcerer King when the elven Troubadour Alarian Singkeep captured the titular fortification by singing the entire Castanorian garrison to sleep. Singkeep had single-handedly founded the school of enchantment, the school of magic that deals in spells that affect the minds of others. Seinathíl has also gained notoriety for being the home of the Bard College, known for its War Bards who practice the art of “Warsinging”.

County of Telgeir: Telgeir (Elven for Forge) is held by a branch of the House of Vanbury, one of the richest families in the Empire owing to their ownership of the Vanbury Steel Guild. The Guild was founded by the branch that fled the family’s deposition during the Greatwood Uprising, and the family was granted the County for services rendered to the victorious Rose Party at the conclusion of the First Lilac War in 1365.

County of Terr: Terr was founded after the War of the Sorcerer King when the Seventh son of a minor noble family founded remained behind when his family fled and formed an armored band fighting the forces of Castanor. He was granted the county by the King, and founded the síl Terr dynasty, which would eventually gain the County of Havorton as well. It is a minor power in the region, but its wines have a unique reputation due to their incorporation of mineral water.

County of Themarenn: Themarenn is a county in the North of Esmaria, centered on the lake of the same name, home of the Lake Palace that served as the Royal retreat during better times. But the royal visitors are gone, and the Palace has fallen into disrepair. That is not the say the County is unimportant, it has garnered a reputation as the Hub of Esmaria, with the Riverlords often favoring the Themarennic feasts over Esmarainé where the greedy burghers would sooner fleece them as entertain them.

County of Gabmórionn: Gabmórionn is a minor county in the woods north of Esmarainé, known solely for its eccentric countess, the kindly mage Isobel. Isobel never had children of her own, instead adopting and adopting the orphans of her capital, and these orphans then went on to educate others, with their fraternal organization the Countess’s Children dedicated to educating all who desired it.

There are also a couple Imperial Princes who possess realms either too unimpressive to detail or too minor to bear mentioning like the Duchy of Deamóine and the County of Varainé.

 

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Dukes of Milan:
1395-1402: Gian Galeazzo Visconti
1402-1412: Gian Maria Visconti
1412-1453: Filippo Maria Visconti
Milanese Succession Crises begins after the Duke dies without male issue
1453-1462: Disputed
Between Alfonso V (Trastámara), Charles of Orléans (Valois), and Francesco Sforza (Sforza)

Leadership of the Golden Ambrosian Republic:
1453-1461: Collective Leadership of the 24 Captains and Defenders of Liberties (Guelph-Ghibelline Coalition)
1459: Sforza defects from Venice during the War of Genoa
1461: Sforza declared Dictator of the Republic for the duration of the War
1461-1464: Francesco Sforza (as Dictator)
1464: Sforza attempts to declare himself Duke, is defeated at the Battle of Pavia
1464-1468: Giorgio Lampugnani (Ghibelline)
1464: The Government of the Republic is Reformed with one Captain and Defenders of Liberties and a Council

 

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Governors of the District of Columbia
1871-1873: Henry D. Cooke (Republican)
1871: Appointed by Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1873-1874: William F. Havemeyer (Republican)
1873: Appointed by Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1874: Territory Dissolved due to Insolvency

Presidents of the Board of Commissioners of New York, DC
1874-1878: William Dennison [Acting] (Republican)
1874: Appointed by Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)

 

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the 'Flag' of the Krrtanic Empire, a primarily Golem polity that is found roughly from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to beneath Western Europe. Golem polities traditionally did not use traditional flags, owing to the mechanics of golemic sight and they relative darkness of the Under-Earth rendering them useless. However what they do have are strings of gemstones called Senlughttys, as the various gems resonate at different frequencies, allowing golems to see them, and later to communicate with humans.

 

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1915 Thomas E. Watson** (Democratic)
(with James Cox) 1914 def. Jeter Connelly Pritchard (Republican), Samuel S. Koenig (Progressive)
1915: Watson is impeached for "Overstepping Presidential Authority"
1915-1917 James Cox (Democratic)
1917-1921 Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
(with Oscar Marx) 1916 def. James Cox (Democratic), Thomas E. Watson (American)
(with Oscar Marx) 1918 def. Newton Baker (Democratic)
1921-1923 John Fitzgerald (Democratic)
(with John Davis) 1920 def. Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
1923-1925 Charles Fairbanks (Republican)
(with Walter Lafferty) 1922 def. John Fitzgerald (Democratic)
1925-1931 John Fitzgerald (Democratic)
(with Clarence Darrow) 1924 def. Charles Fairbanks (Republican)
(with Oscar Callaway) 1926 def. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Republican)
(with John Raskob) 1928 def. Harry Payne Whitney (Republican)
1931-1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
(with Henry Morgenthau) 1930 def. Gilbert Bettman (Republican)
(with Henry Morgenthau) 1932 def. William Mitchell (Republican), William Upshaw (Prohibition)
1935-1944 Henry Morgenthau* (Democratic)
(with James A. Farley) 1934 def. J. Edgar Hoover (Republican)
(with James A. Farley) 1936 def. Robert Moses (Republican)
(with James A. Farley) 1938 def. Owen Roberts (Republican)
(with Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.) 1940 def. Earl Warren (Republican)
1944: Morgenthau resigns to become UN General Secretary
1944-1945 Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (Democratic)
1945-1957 Earl Warren (Republican)
(with Arthur Capper) 1944 def, Homer Cummings (Democratic), Henry Wallace (American Labor)
(with Arthur Capper) 1948 def. Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
(with Charles A. Wolverton) 1952 def. Percy Priest (Democratic)
1957-1961 George Kennan (Democratic)
(with Grover C. Richman, Jr.) 1956 def. Prescott Bush (Republican)
1961-1975 Henry Lodge Jr.† (Republican)
(with Thurston Morton) 1960 def. George Kennan (Democratic)
(with Thurston Morton) 1964 def. Nicholas Katzenbach (Democratic)
(with Thurston Morton) 1968 def. Ramsey Clark (Democratic)
(with Thurston Morton) 1972 def. Byron White (Democratic)
1975: Lodge dies in office
1975-1977 Thurston Morton (Republican)
1977-1985 Ted Kennedy (Democratic)
(with Maurine Neuberger) 1976 def. Thurston Morton (Republican)
(with Birch Bayh) 1980 def. Gerald Ford (Republican)
1985-1997 Birch Bayh (Democratic)
(with Milton Shapp) 1984 def. Ron Paul (Republican)
(with Milton Shapp) 1988 def. Allen I. Olson (Republican)
(with Jim Wright) 1992 def. Ross Perot (Republican), John McLaughlin (Conservative)
1997-2009 John Kasich (Republican)
(with Paula Zahn) 1996 def. Birch Bayh (Democratic)
(with Harriet O'Neill) 2000 def. Parris Glendening (Democratic)
(with Harriet O'Neill) 2004 def. Lawrence Summers (Democratic), Jesse Ventura (Independence)
2009-2010 John Edwards* (Democratic)
(with Daniel Inouye) 2008 def. Charles Bass (Republican)
2010: Edwards resigns following Sex Scandal
2010-2013 Daniel Inouye (Democratic)
(Vacant) 2010-2011
(with James B King) 2011-2013
2013-2023 Evan Bayh* (Democratic)
(with Bill White) 2012 def. Joe Arpaio (Republican)
(with Mary Herrera) 2016 def. Rick Snyder (Republican)
(with Mary Herrera) 2020 def. Marco Rubio (Republican)
2023: Bayh resigns following Sex Scandal
2023-???? Mary Herrera (Democratic)
(with Raphael Warnock)

 

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And of course the Companion piece:

 

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"The American Assembly in 2019 following that year's Election in May saw Chancellor Todd's Sovereigntist Block's Alliance with the Reformist Block fall, and be replaced by a Federalist-Reformist Alliance. This is following Shadow Chancellor Benson's attempts to turn the Block towards his New Federalist Program which angered the leadership of the Union Party, the only Block member not to join the Alliance..."

 

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Career of Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen

1964-1985: Musician, Activist
1985: Democratic Party primary candidate for Governor of New Jersey
defeated James Florio, Peter Shapiro
1986-1994: Governor of New Jersey (Democratic)
1985 def. Lawrence Kramer (Republican)
1989 def. W. Cary Edwards (Republican)
1994-1997: Musician, Activist (Democratic)
1996: Democratic Party primary candidate for President
defeated Paul Wellstone, Tony Knowles, Lyndon LaRouche
1997-2005: President of the United States (Democratic)
(with Barbara Boxer) 1996 def. Pat Buchanan (Republican), Steve Forbes (Independent)
(with Barbara Boxer) 2000 def. John McCain (Republican)
2005-Present: Chairman of the Springsteen Foundation, Musician

 

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1893-1909: Major General Nelson A. Miles of Massachusetts (Union)
1908 [Cancelled] (with Senator John Bryan of Platte) def. Representative Joseph Cannon† ("Anti-Reelectionist" Populist - Southron-Freedom-People's)
1908: Second Nullification Crisis Begins in Response to the Cancellation of the 1908 Election
1909: American Junto formed

1909: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BEGINS, JUNTO vs COALITION vs SOUTHRON REPUBLIC vs VARIOUS MINOR FACTIONS

JUNTO
1909-1911: President Nelson A. Miles of Massachusetts† (Union)
1911: Miles is assassinated by a Coalition sharpshooter while inspecting the front lines in Missouri
April 1911- June 1911: General Leonard Wood of Massachusetts* (Union)
1911: General Wood is removed from leadership after losing St. Louis
June 1911-July 1911: General John J. Pershing of New York† (Union)
1911: Pershing is killed by his own men outside Springfield, Bullard gains leadership
July 1911-October 1911: General Robert L. Bullard of Alabama† (Union)
1911: Bullard is killed by an unknown assailant, (presumed to be another Junto member) the Junto "agrees" to forgo appointing a successor [Couldn't come to a decision]
1911-1912: "Collective Leadership"
1912: The Leavenworth Clique Mutiny allows Coalition Forces to besiege Washington, Junto dissolved, War ends

COALITION
1909: First San Francisco Congress declares the formation of the Coalition and intent to depose the Junto
1909-1912: Governor Jack Chaney of Sacramento, Governor James Ferguson of Texas, Former Governor T.J. Roosevelt of New York

SOUTHRON REPUBLIC
1909: Terminus Convention declares independence and appoints Furnifold Simmons President until elections could be held
1909-1912: Senator Furnifold Simmons of North Carolina (Southron)

MINOR FACTIONS
Army for the Liberation of the Canadas
National American Indian Union
Republic of Acadiana
Free Mexican Army

1912: JUNTO DEFEATED, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ENDS, SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION CALLED

1912-1913: Presidency Vacant, Coalition Triumvirate collectively Acting President
1913: Following the failure of the Second Constitutional Convention, United States de facto dissolves, Interconstitutional Era Begins

 

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List of Major Combatants of the Southron Bush War

Southron Republic: The Government, run by the Southron Rights Party which with the nation’s independence regained, became a generic kleptocratic self-maintaining party. Their forces were comprised of the small National Army and the larger State Militias, and as pressure began to build throughout the 50s and 60s, these forces became less and less able to keep the nation together.

Sons of the South: The Sons were established as a replacement for the Kuklos Khruseos, whose purpose had been invalidated by the return of independence. As the Bush War continued, this Paramilitary began to gain power, especially in regions that felt the Government in Terminus didn’t go far enough. Eventually, when the Surrender ended the War in 1970, the Sons of the South seized control of lands south of the 31st parallel, declared themselves the legitimate government, under Boulangerist ideals, and ordered the murder of all African persons in their lands.

Free African Liberation Army: FALA was a rebel faction much like the SAPF, but they differed strongly on the ideals of their rebellions. Whereas the SAPF merely wanted to replace the Southron Government, with a truly functional democracy with Equality of the Races, FALA believed that the races fundamentally cannot cohabitate, and advocated for the expulsion of whites from the nation. They attempted to follow SAPF into the post-war political scene of Magnolia but didn’t have remotely the appeal of their compatriots. They mostly survive these days among the Separatist Communes, but basically, every other active Party refuses to work with them.

Southron-African People’s Front: In the 1950s, as the government slowly declined into a kleptocracy, a Civil Rights Movement began among communities of color throughout the South. The police did not take too kindly to these ‘disturbances of the peace’, and this likewise pushed the various groups to become more militant. Eventually, a financial collapse of the Southron economy saw many of these groups launch guerilla campaigns across the country. As the Government continued to decline, the groups who were pursuing a multiracial South merged into the SAPF. (The others would generally join the FALA). After the war, the SAPF became one of the new political parties of the new Republic of Magnolia.

New Free States Movement: Not truly a united faction but an alliance of many different groups who each opposed the Southron Government. It included the Cumberland Free State in East Tennessee, the Blue Ridge Free State in North Carolina, the Nickajack Free State in Mountainous Georgia and Alabama, the Liberty Free State in South Carolina, and the Gullah-Gitchee Free State in the Sea Island.

Workman’s Army of the South: the Workman’s Army was a militia funded by the Workman’s Republic of the Mississippi. They were not particularly successful in taking any territory, but they did often co-operate with the SAPF and FALA and at least provided a good Internationalist boogeyman for the Government

Rural Reform League: The Populist movement that swept America in the 1880s never had much penetration in the Deep South. After the Civil War, they became an opposition Party to the Southron Party, but after the Bush War ended, the Party’s position on Segregation put them in the Government’s crosshairs. However, many members refused to give up and became yet another combatant in the Bush War.