Absurd Replace-the-President Game

[MuskieMoment]

There have been 46 presidencies. You get to keep any 26. The other twenty, you need to swap out in the following manner:

Replace:

1. One President with one of their Vice-presidents
2. One President with their Secretary of State
3. One president with their Secretary of the Treasury
4. One president with their Secretary of War/Defense
5. One president with their Attorney General
6. One President with an opponent in the general election
7. One President with a general election opponents running mate
8. One President with a rival from their primaries/convention
9. One President with their First Lady
10. One President with a concurrent British prime minister
11. One President with a concurrent pope
12. One President with a concurrent US military personnel
13. One President with a concurrent governor
14. One president with a concurrent Speaker of the House
15. One President with a concurrent Russian head of state
16. One president with a Supreme Court appointee they made
17. One president with a concurrent New York senator
18. One president with a concurrent Chief Justice
19. One president with a contemporary from their home state
20. One president with a contemporary African-American

For accidental presidents, you can use their predecessor for election-based replacements. For example, you could use #6 on Andrew Johnson and replace him with one of Lincoln’s opponents like Stephen Douglas or George McClellan.

I designed this to be the sort of thing you can work on during a slow afternoon at work. It’s overly detailed and fiddly but that’s what we do here at TalkElections!

[MuskieMoment]

This will make a lot more sense if I post my own response as an example:

1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Davy Crockett (19)
8. Joel Poinsett (4)
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. Theodore Frelinghuysen (7)
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Daniel Webster (2)
14. William Seward (17)
15. John A. Dix (3)
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Salmon Chase (18)
18. Ulysses Grant
19. Rutherford Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. William Gladstone (10)
25. William Griggs (5)
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Howard Taft
28. Alexander Kerensky (15)
29. Robert LaFollette (
30. Gifford Pinchot (13)
31. Benjamin Cardozo (16)
32. Franklin Roosevelt
33. Ralph Bunche (20)
34. Dwight Eisenhower
35. John F Kennedy
36. Hubert Humphrey (1)
37. George McGovern (6)
38. Betty Ford (9)
39. Jimmy Carter
40. Colin Powell (12)
41. George H. W. Bush
42. Bill Clinton
43. Nancy Pelosi (14)
44. Barack Obama
45. Francis/Jorge Bergoglio (11)
46. Joe Biden