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TheNixonator’s Test Thread

Accomplishments of the Lane Administration (1914-1920):
  • Slavery abolished.
  • Electoral College abolished.
  • “Oregon System” instituted nationally.
  • Women’s suffrage.
  • Direct election of Senators.
  • Peace Amendment.
  • Arango Anti-Trust Act.
  • U’Ren Direct Legislation Act.
 
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...how many slaves were left in 1914?
Unlike the Confederate Constitution, which technically did not let states ban slavery, the Pacifican Constitution did. As such, the only state that did not ban slavery by 1914 was Colorado, but even then, slavery did not turn out to be a very profitable venture.

Long story short, I do not have an exact number, so I’d say there were more Freedmen than slaves as of 1914.
 
List of Chief Warlocks of the United States:
1900: Position established
In reaction to The Revelation
1900-1914: John Muir
Appointed by William McKinley
1914-1929: William Jennings Bryan
Appointed by Woodrow Wilson
1929-1941: H.P. Lovecraft
Appointed by Cal Coolidge
1941-1946: Roswell Garst
Banished Lovecraft
1946: Magic Amendment passed
1946-19xx: Roswell Garst (Cultivate & Harvest)
1946 def. Ernest Hemingway (Rivers) and William Dudley Pelley (Lovecraftian)
 
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William Alexander Morgan
1945-1948: Varying ranks in the United States Army
Court-marshaled (1948)
1948-1957: Private citizen; various jobs
- Bar bouncer
- Organized criminal
- Circus sword-swallower
1957-1958: Cuban Guerrilla
1958-1960: Cuban Commandant
U.S. citizenship revoked (1959)
1960-1962: Anti-Castro Counterrevolutionary
1962-1963: Private citizen; unemployed
U.S. citizenship re-instated (1963)
Declined offer to join CIA (1963)
1963-1965: Member of the Peace Corps
1965-1967: Private citizen; political activist
1967-1971: Mayor (Democratic) of Tampa
1966 def.
1973-1985: Representative (Democratic) of FL-14
1972 def.
1974 def.
1976 def.
1978 def.
1980 def.
1982 def.
1985-1993: Secretary of State
Appointed by John Seigenthaler
1993-1997: President (Democratic) of the United States
1992 (with Ron Dellums) def.
1996: Democratic Presidential Nominee
1996 (with Ron Dellums) def. by Barry Goldwater Jr. (Republican)
1997-2001: Private citizen; political activist
Wrote and published “Free Man”, autobiography on his life. (1998)
2001-2003: President (Democratic) of the United States
2000 (with John F. Kennedy Jr.) def. Barry Goldwater Jr. (Republican)
2003: Died on November 25th
Buried in Arlington National Cemetery
 
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Gadsden's War (1884-1886): Confederate States, Pacific Republic, Great Britain (1885-1886), and French Empire (1886) vs. United States
Cause of war: Construction of the Gadsden Transnational Railroad
Winner: Not the USA
Territorial changes: Columbia (f. USA t. PR), New Mexico Territory (f. USA t. CSA), Missouri (f. USA t. CSA), Northern Maine (f. USA t. Canada)


The Great War (1912-1915): French Empire | Confederate States | Pacific Republic (1912-1914) (Triple Powers) vs. Great Britain | German Empire | Russian Empire | United States (Entente)
Cause of war: Alsace-Lorraine border incident
Winner: Entente
Territorial changes: French West Africa (f. France t. Britain), French Equatorial Africa (f. France t. Germany), French Indochina (f. France t. Germany), Kentucky (f. CSA t. USA), Missouri (f. CSA t. USA), Northern Virginia (f. CSA t. USA), Arizuma (f. CSA t. USA), New Mexico (f. CSA t. USA), Oklahoma (f. CSA t. USA), Columbia (f. PR t. USA)
 
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1861-1862: John G. Downey ("Lecompton" Democratic) [Provisional]
1862-1870: William Gwin (Chivalry)
'61 (with Joseph Lane) def. scattered opposition
'65 (with David S. Terry) def. scattered opposition
1870-1874: Volney E. Howard (Chivalry)
'69 (with William T'Vault) def. Henry Perrin Coon (People’s)
1874-1876: Andrés Pico (Chivalry)
'73 (with Charles L. Scott) def. William Tell Coleman (People’s)
1876-1878: Charles L. Scott (Chivalry)
Replaced Pico
1878-1886: Tomas Avila Sanchez (Chivalry)
'77 (with Albert Maver Winn) def. George P. Tebbetts (People’s)
'81 (with Albert Maver Winn) def. Andrew Jackson Bryant (People’s), Denis Kearney (Workingmen’s), and Henry Failing (Citizens)
1886-1890: Solomon Heydenfeldt (Chivalry)
'85 (with William T. Wallace) def. Isaac Smith Kalloch (Workingmen's), Romualdo Pacheco (Citizens), and William W. Thayer (People’s)
1890-19xx: Sylvester Pennoyer (Workingmen's/People’s “Nativist Alliance”)
'89 (with William Jefferson Hunsaker) def. William H. Workman (Chivalry) and Seth Lewelling (Citizens)
 
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1861-1863: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1860 (with Hannibal Hamlin) def.
• 1861 Secession of Confederacy & Pacifica - beginning of War of Secession
• 1863 Surrender of United States - independence of Confederacy & Pacifica
• 1863 Impeachment of Lincoln - succession of Hannibal Hamlin to Presidency

1863-1865: Hannibal Hamlin (Republican)
• 1865 Assassination of Hamlin & Solomon Foot - state of emergency declared
1864-1869: George McClellan (Military) [Provisional]
• 1864 Presidential Election postponed - Republican ticket proscribed
1869-1885: George McClellan (“Democratic”)
1868 (with David Tod) def. scattered opposition
1872 (with Reverdy Johnson) def. Fernando Wood ('Copperhead' Opposition)
• 1872 Secession of New York City - rebellion crushed - Fernando Wood executed
1876 (with Reverdy Johnson) def. Benjamin Butler ('Agrarian' Opposition)
1880 (with William S. Rosecrans) def. Solon Chase ('Agrarian' Opposition)
• 1884 Beginning of Gadsden’s War
• 1884 Presidential Election postponed - Opposition ticket proscribed

1885-1888: William S. Rosecrans ("Democratic")
• 1886 Surrender of United States - establishment of Treaty of Toronto
1888-1889: George Armstrong Custer (Military)
1889-1894: John M. Palmer (“Democratic”)
1888 (with Samuel J. Randall) def. scattered opposition
1892 (with Samuel J. Randall) def. scattered opposition
• 1894 Commonwealth Army Coup D'etat - succession of Jacob S. Coxey to the Presidency

1894-18xx: Jacob S. Coxey (Commonwealth)
• 1894 Constitutional Convention
• 1895 Sacramento Summit - Establishment of positive relations with Pacifica
 
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Possible PODs for Pacific Republic TL:
  1. David S. Terry is killed by David Broderick, giving a martyr to the secessionist cause, instead of the other around.
  2. Thomas Starr King never arrives in California to rouse up unionist sentiment.
  3. Albert Sidney Johnston agrees to the Golden Circle conspiracy.
 
Possible PODs for Pacific Republic TL:
  1. David S. Terry is killed by David Broderick, giving a martyr to the secessionist cause, instead of the other around.
  2. Thomas Starr King never arrives in California to rouse up unionist sentiment.
  3. Albert Sidney Johnston agrees to the Golden Circle conspiracy.

You might need a secondary one to get Oregon roped in; outside the Rogue Valley the state was very Unionist. Let me know if you need some ideas.
 
Political Career of Tomas Avila Sanchez:
1846-1848: Varying ranks in the Mexican Army
During the Mexican-American War
1848-1851: Private citizen; Democratic political activist
1851-1852: Member (Democratic) of the Los Angeles Common Council
1851 def.
1852-1857: Private citizen; Democratic political activist
1857-1860: Member (Democratic) of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
1857 def.
1858 def.
1859 def.
1860-1865: Sheriff (Democratic) of Los Angeles County
1860 def.
1861-1863: Lieutenant in the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles
During the War of Secession
1867-1872: Mayor (Chivalry) of Los Angeles
1866 def.
1868 def.
1870 def.
1872-1878: Governor (Chivalry) of Colorado
1871 def.
1878-1886: President (Chivalry) of Pacific Republic
1877 (with ) def.
1881 (with ) def.
 
I’d love to hear some of your ideas! Tbh I kinda forgot about Oregon.

So I just so happened to have taken a bunch of notes on Oregon during the civil war for a forthcoming project (not AH-related or anything to do with this site, don't worry). Here's a quick sketch.

Quotes and stats come from a book on the topic (Frontier Politics and the Sectional Conflict: The Pacific Northwest on the Eve of the Civil War, by Robert W. Johannsen), not sure how easy it will be to find though given it came out in 1955.
  • In 1860, Oregon was roughly 60% Midwestern and 20% Southern by birth, with Northeasterners concentrated in the cities where they had an outsize influence. Southerners were most common in Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, and Umpqua Counties (the southwestern corner of the state), where many of them mined gold. There was another pocket in Lane County west of Eugene, around the towns of Veneta and Monroe.
  • It was a Democrat state. Oregon entered the Union at a time when the Whigs were falling apart and Republicans struggling to be organized. The populace was Jeffersonian in ideology - agrarian frontiersmen who bore some resentment towards the federal government due to their years of unsuccessfully requesting statehood. Early politics were dominated by the “Salem Clique” of Democrats and by Senator Joseph Lane, a prominent doughface who served as Breckinridge's running mate.
  • Regional heterogeneity, free labor ideology, and white supremacy result in Oregon taking what one historian calls a “conservative centrist” approach to the question of slavery by simply banning Black residency. In 1857, Oregonians vote 75% in favor of a ban on slavery and 89% in favor of Black exclusion. Even the state Republican Party, once organized, was conservative and anti-abolitionist, contained a lot of supporters of Edward Bates.
  • Some early settlers had brought slaves with them – maybe a hundred or so in the territory – but they were mostly free by 1860, especially after the Holmes v. Ford case in 1853. Black settlement ban very rarely enforced but certainly discouraged settlement and enabled bigotry.
  • Overall: Oregon has a strong unionist majority despite being racist. (Salem Clique boss Asahel Bush says: “Let not black republicanism lay the flattering unction to its soul that we are free soilish here.”) There was a high Breckinridge vote in 1860 but Johannsen argues that most of his voters were that conservative unionist type who were fine with just giving the South whatever it wanted to keep the USA together. The Salem Clique supported the Douglas Democrats.
  • Lincoln won the state due to vote splitting, and due to the efforts of his friend Edward Dickinson Baker, who was elected as Oregon's Senator (and later died in battle).
  • Conservative Oregonians wanted “compromise” to prevent civil war but that obviously wasn't possible, most people publicly stood by the union and Lincoln once war started. Notable exception is Governor John Whiteaker, who tried to declare neutrality at the start of the war and got a lot of shit for it. He was replaced with a Republican in 1862.
  • Rumors of a Pacific Republic conspiracy abounded. One paper dismisses it: “No one in Oregon thinks of such a thing, unless it is some brainless squirt of Democracy who is not able to pay his board bill.” Lol.
  • Joseph Lane came back after the campaign and it was widely assumed that he was going to try launching a Pacific Republic insurrection. He was met with angry mobs and slunk home. While staying overnight in Dallas, he saw himself hanged in effigy.
  • During and after the war, there were a few incidents of unrest but nothing as big as in SoCal:
I think to semi-plausibly have Oregon join the Pacific Republic you'd have to make it seem like the "conservative centrist" option - that is, make the Republicans look radical and dangerous and disunionist. Maybe Lane does get lynched, or there's some aggressive and sloppy attempt to remove Governor Whiteaker. In a strictly realistic TL I don't think these would do it, but it seems like you want to focus on the story of the Pacific Republic itself, so it probably doesn't have to be perfect around the edges.
 
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