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« on: June 13, 2014, 11:48:04 AM » |
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Differs from OTL after 1896#25: William Jennings Bryan (D-NE) / Arthur Sewall (D-ME): 1897 - 1905 The Progressive wings of both parties join in 1903 to form the People's Union. The big tent leftist party is joined by the President and the Vice President, and recieves support especially in the Midwest and West. #26: William Joel Stone (P-MO) / William Howard Taft (P-OH): 1905 - 1909 #27: William Howard Taft (P-OH) / John Worth Kern (P-IN)*: 1909 - 1917 Conservative and pro-business forces throughout the country join together to form the American Union. The party draws equal support from conservative Democrats and Republicans, which fade into irrelevance. #28: Alton Brooks Parker (A-NY) / John Sharp Williams (A-MS): 1917 - 1921 The Parker administration enters the ongoing European war on the side of Britain, France and Russia, to the dissatisfaction of many Progressives. #29: Robert Marion LaFollette (P-WI)* / James Middleton Cox (P-OH): 1921 - 1925 #30: James Middleton Cox (P-OH) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt (P-NJ): 1925 - 1929 #31: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (P-NJ) / Henry Agard Wallace (P-IA): 1929 - 1937 When a great depression strikes the country in 1929, President Roosevelt soon takes succesfull measures to combat recession and unemployment. #32: Henry Agard Wallace (P-IA) / Alf Landon (P-KS): 1937 - 1941 After nearly twenty years of People's Union presidency and unsuccesful elections, the American Union morphes into the Conservative Party in 1938. In the same time, the People's Union splits over the issue of war involvement in Europe, into the center-left, isolationist New Democratic Party, named after the old isolationist Democrats of Bryan, backed by the President; and the centrist, interventionist Liberal Party backed by the Vice President. #33: Robert Taft (C-OH) / John Jason Sparkman (C-AL): 1941 - 1949
The 1940 Election:
Senator Robert Taft (C-OH) / Senator John Sparkman (C-AL): 376 EV's Vice President Alf Landon (L-KS) / Senator Harry Truman (L-MO): 95 EV's President Henry Wallace (ND-IA) / Governor Earl Warren (ND-CA): 60 EV's
To be continued...
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