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TheNixonator’s Test Thread

'69 Purchase of Territory of Alyeska from Russian Empire
Did it cost the Pacific States much?

Also, just to clarify: did Workingmen's candidates before 1891 (and People's candidates before 1878) just not attain elected offices at all? Lots of activists and journalists but not one elected official.
 
Did it cost the Pacific States much?

Also, just to clarify: did Workingmen's candidates before 1891 (and People's candidates before 1878) just not attain elected offices at all? Lots of activists and journalists but not one elected official.
Probably the same it did for the U.S. IOTL. Honestly, I'm little doubtful on the feasibility for Pacifica to purchase Alaska (or more so that Russia would even be willing to sell to them), but Gwin was a proponent of it as early as 1859, and he proposed using California's gold to do so, so I include it.

Prior to 1889, Workingmen's did get a few elected offices here and there, but nothing really beyond Mayor, State-Assembly, or Representative. As the Workingmen gained more popularity, President Coleman, just as he did over San Francisco in 1856, resorted to dictatorial measures. Him and the Populists used the various Vigilance Committees to ensure that the Workingmen did not attain higher office via ballot-fraud, voter intimidation, 'arrest' of labor activists for sedition etc. This also included having his opponent Kearney murdered. Naturally, this only works for so long before people get tired of it, so riots racked the country. To prevent a full out revolution, Vice-President Hearst had Coleman killed and pinned it on an anarchist. As President, he immediately rescinded the vigilantes and met with Workingmen leaders to calm the waters. He succeeded, and that was when Workingmen actually began getting elected.

For the Populists, before 1878, they could not reach Congress because under the Golden Circle, Pacifica had a constitution modeled after the Republic of Venice. Instead, Congress was made up of the wealthiest secessionists chosen from mostly Southern-born or Californio families.
 
oh dear

What was the Golden Circle?
The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret society based in the South that wanted to create an empire of slavery. ITTL they had aided Californian secessionists in the seizure of various military forts at the beginning of the Civil War. The Columbian Star Party, founded by Gwin and friends, is essentially just the Golden Circle's Pacific offshoot, with its support for imperialism and the expansion of slavery.
 
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1861 - 1868: Senator Jefferson Davis ('Pro-Administration' Independent)
'61 (with Alexander Stephens) elected unopposed
1868 - 1874: Maj. General John C. Breckinridge (Centralist)
'67 (with Thomas Bocock) def. Fmr. Secretary of State Robert Toombs / Rep. Henry S. Foote (Whig) and Rep. Robert Rhett / Senator Louis Wigfall (Fire-Eater)
'67 Intervention in the 2nd Franco-Mexican War
1874 - 1880: Senator C.C. Clay Jr. (Centralist)
'73 (with Judah P. Benjamin) def. Fmr. Governor Thomas H. Watts / Judge Joe Brown (Whig w/Fire-Eater)
1880 - 1886: Senator John H. Reagan (Centralist)
'79 (with James 'Honest Dick' Tate) def. Senator John Brown Gordon / Fmr. Governor Robert M. Patton (Whig w/Fire-Eater)
'83 Disappearance of Vice President James 'Honest Dick' Tate
1886 - 1887: Fmr. Lt. General James Longstreet (Whig)
'85 (with Zebulon 'Zeb' Vance) def. / Rep. Rufus Napoleon Rhodes (Centralist), Senator Edmund Pettus / Rep. Robert Atkinson Pryor (Fire-Eater)
'87 Assassinated by the Knights of the Golden Circle
1887 - 1892: Vice President Zebulon 'Zeb' Vance (Whig)
'91 Labor revolt against use of slaves in coal mines
1892 - 1898: Senator Wade Hampton III (Fire-Eater)
'91 (with Jubal Early) def. President Zebulon 'Zeb' Vance / Governor Fitzhugh Lee (Whig w/Centralist), Rep. Sam E. Johnson Jr. / Businessman James Field (Agricultural Wheel)
'94 Beginning of Spanish-Confederate War - Invasion of Cuba
'95 Surrender of Confederate States - Spanish Victory
1898 - 1904:
'97 (with ) def. Governor Reuben Kolb / Rep. Thomas E. Watson (Agricultural Wheel), Nathan Bedford Forrest / (Fire-Eater)
1904 - 1910: Journalist Henry W. Grady (Whig, then New Creed)
'03 (with Charles Aycock) def. Governor Jim Hogg / Fmr. Governor John P. Buchanan ('Hayseed' Whig w/Agricultural Wheel), Rep. George Gordon / (Fire-Eater), Activist Al Parsons / Rep. Andrew Jackson Pettigrew (Confederate Workers), and Activist James B. Cranfill / State-Treasurer James H. Southgate (Temperance)
1910 - 19xx: Rep. James 'Champ' Clark (New Creed)
'09 (with Albert Gilchrist) def. Governor Jeff Davis / Senator Ben Tillman (Agrarian Labor) and
'10 Beginning of the Great War

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1945 - 1949: Vice-President Harry Truman (Democratic)
1949 - 1953: Senator Robert Taft (Republican)

'48 (with Sam C. Ford) def. President Harry Truman (Democratic)
'52 (with Sam C. Ford) def. Senator Paul Douglas (Democratic)
1953 - 1957: Vice President Sam C. Ford (Republican)
1957 - 1965: Senator Will Rogers Jr. (Democratic)

'56 (with Thomas D'Alesandro) def. President Sam C. Ford (Republican)
'60 (with Thomas D'Alesandro) def. Rep. Howard Buffett (Republican)
1965 - 1969: Governor Ted Dalton (Republican)
'64 (with C. Clifton Young) def. Governor Sargent Shriver (Democratic)
 
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