1924: Davis defeats Coolidge

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February 1, 1938: Prime Minister De Valera asks the League of Nations for help and made an additional appeal to the prominent Irish Americans to support the Free State's cause.

February 3, 1938: President Green announced his choice for the Vice Presidency. According to a custom of balancing the two top seats with a members of diffrent party's regional wings, he selected Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota.

March 3, 1938: Oil discovered in Saudi Arabia.

March 14, 1938: French Premier Leon Blum reassures Polish, Czechoslovak and Estonian governments that France will honor its treaty obligations to aid them in event of war.

March 18, 1938: Mexico nationalizes all oil properties of the United States and other foreign-owned companies.

March 20, 1938: Germany abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Reichswehr.

March 30, 1938: Polish agent in Berlin, Major Jerzy Sosnowski, who penetrated the German General Staff most secret plans, is arrested, along with his German accomplicies. While diplomatic immunity preserved him from death verdict or ending up in jail (he was merely expelled after few weeks), his two female accomplices working in the Defense Ministry, Benita von Falkenhayn and Renate von Natzmer, would be tried by a military tribunal and eventually beheaded in Plotzensee Prison in May.

April 10, 1938: Senator Nye is confirmed as Vice President, taking an oath of office the following day.

April 12, 1938: Staff talks between Great Britain and Germany finalized with an establishment of military cooperation.

April 24, 1938: Konstantin Päts becomes President of Estonia.

April 30, 1938: Poland presents a secret document obtained by Sosnowski at the League of Nations meeting in Geneva, denouncing Germany breaking the terms of the treaty. German Foreign Minister rejects an accusations.

May 14, 1938: Chile withdraws from the League of Nations.

May 30, 1938: Czechoslovakia orders a partial mobilization of its armed forces along the German border.

June 1, 1938: Irish Parliament declares country, which is now partially occupied by the British forces, an "Irish Republic".

June 3, 1938: The United States officially recognized the Irish Republic, much to the British annoyance.

June 25, 1938: President Green signs the Fair Labor Standards Act, which raised the minimum wage and setting the maximum work week at 40 hours, though only for businesses engaged in interstate commerce.

August 3, 1938: A Bill that provides an U.S. citizenship to the Native Americans, sponsored by Senator Al Smith, is passed and signed into a law by President Green. Green himself was very supportive to the bill through the entire process.

September 2, 1938: Polish forces assembles on Lithuania borders, after government in Kaunas rejected ultimatum, regarding reestablishing official relations, canceled in early 1920s.

October 30, 1938: Orson Welles's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast, causing panic in various parts of the United States.

November 19, 1938: Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

November 22, 1938: During a budget talks in the White House, President Green secured funds needed to finish La Follette's three last great programs. Also, during on the same occasion, Green, a Spanish-American War veteran, successfully convinced the congressional leaders to agree on moderate fleet enlargement. With everything going around, we should be prepeared for defense. I'm not asking for much here.

December 1, 1938: Under a pressure from Irish American population, the United States recalls it's ambassador in London.

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While writing a detailed timeline in "date by date" format is surely very complicated and consuming process, I feel sometimes something was left behind.

Thus, while retaining current formal, I shall add sometimes larger fictional entries from encyclopedias/books/press.

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January 5, 1939: The Irish Republic is completely occupied by the British forces. Whereabouts of Prime Minister De Valera and many of his colleagues is unknown.

January 6, 1939: President Green acts like a responsible caretaker, TIME wrote on an occasion of the first anniversary of Theodore F. Green's administration. Even his political opponents admits that a after deep political crisis, that initially appeared to break a spin of the Progressive Party, at least for now, he ensured enough stability for them to survive. While he's not flashy chief executive, flooding the Congress with new projects, like La Follette, he's quietly working to keep Progressive agenda alive.

February 13, 1939: With a retirement of Justice Louis Brandeis, President Green nominates Attorney General William O. Douglas to replace him.

February 14, 1939: Eamon De Valera is found... in the New York City. A leader of an occupied Ireland is welcomed by a friendly crowds and figures like Senator Smith. While State Department isn't really pleased with having such a problem on their soil, considering Irish cause popularity, it's impossible to do something. De Valera soon establishes a government in exile, that enjoys wide diplomatic recognition.

March 2, 1939: Cardinal Pacelli succeeds Pope Pius XI as the 260th Pope.

April 7, 1939: Italy invades Albania.

April 11, 1939: Hungary leaves the League of Nations and issues a territorial demands to Czechoslovakia.

April 14, 1939: John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is first published.

April 23, 1939: Despite an attempts from the Southern Democrats to block the nomination, William O. Douglas is confirmed by the Senate, becoming a second Justice nominated by the Progressive President.

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April 29, 1939: After a budget fiasco caused the grand SDP-Centre coalition to collapse and drove Chancellor Otto Braun from power, the so-called "National Unity Government" is formed with Centre and numerous smaller, right-leaning parties, including National Party, largely a former Nazis led by Hermann Goering, who worked very hard after Hitler's death to make NP a part of the Weimar Republic system, that seems very solid, after surviving the great depression challenges. President Marx, whose term is soon to expire, appoints a powerful insider and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Franz Von Papen, as the new Chancellor.

May 11, 1939: Without a formal declaration of war, Japanese and Manchurian forces launched an offensive in Soviet Mongolia, starting the Soviet-Japanese War. This event was later considered by the historians as a beginning of the Second Great War in Asia.

May 14, 1939: Empires of Japan and Manchuko formally declares war against Soviet Union and the Republic of Tuva. The storm is coming to our west coast, visibly concerned President Green told to Secretary Grew in Washington, upon receiving the news.

May 28, 1939: Despite the Grand Coalition breakup, former Chancellor and Prime Minister of Prussia, Otto Braun of SPD, emerges as a winner in the first round of third direct German presidential election. The popularity of his government, that led German recovery from the depression, in Prussia, the largest state of the Reich, was a key to this victory.

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Comments, suggestions, questions about individuals not mentioned so far?

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Teddy Roosevelt, Jr. is, as mentioned, Secretary of War since 1933, that means in Hoover/Grew/La Follette/Green administrations

Robert Taft is currently serving in the Ohio State Senate, being a leader of the very limited Republican causus here. He's depising both Democrats (due to internationalist positions) and Progressives.

Anthur Vandenberg was defeated for reelection in 1934.

Bobby Kennedy is a schoolboy, who just lost his daddy and two older brothers. He's dreaming of becoming President one day.

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June 4, 1939: Largely symbolic so far contingent of the Polish troops arrives to the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border region, to demonstrate a willingness to honor an alliance between Warsaw and Prague.

June 12, 1939: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is officially dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.

June 17, 1939: The last public execution took place in France, as Eugene Weidmann is guillotined in Versailles. Media scandal causes President Albert Lebrun to ban all futher public executions. Guillotine retired behind the prison yards for good.

June 24, 1939: Centre Party candidate, former Chancellor Joseph Wirth is narrowly elected Reich President in a runoff over favored SPD's Otto Braun. Although considered too left-friendly by the Centre's mainsteam, as well as allied rightist parties, Writh was accepted as a candidate due to his appeal to the said side of political scene, even if, as closeness of the election proved, he lost a number of right-wing support.

On the same day, the government of Siam changes it's name to Thailand, which means "Free Land".

June 27, 1939: Poland launches an offensive against Lithuania, after an ultimatum expires.

July 14, 1939: Secretary of War Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. arrives to Paris, officially for an ordinary meeting with his French counterpart, however unofficially he meet with Prime Minister Daladier, as President Green's envoy. Despite an isolationist feelings dominating his Progressive Party (except of Smith wing), Green realizes that a second major world conflict is coming closer and closer and, with bad relations with the British and their allies, is looking for a possible ties to their rivals: France and the "Little Entente".

July 27, 1939: The only recorded snowfall in Auckland, New Zealand since records began in 1853.

July 28, 1939: Roosevelt meets with the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edward Raczyński, is Warsaw. Roosevelt and the White House claims this visit was strictly private, as Poland is presently engaged in a war with Lithuania.

July 31, 1939: Guillotine became the sole method of executions in the entire Germany after Berlin authorities, following a highly-publicized execution of two women, convicted for spying for Poland (see earlier entries), decides to abolish an old axe and block method, being the last country on Earth to use it before.

August 24, 1939: Prime Minister Chamberlain requests, and Parliament passed, a War Powers Act.

August 25, 1939: An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.

August 27, 1939: Germany demands an withdrawal of an additional Polish forces from Danzig (Gdańsk).

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Progressive Party (United States)
From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Factions of the Progressive Party (1930s)

Western Base

The Western Base was a founding part of the Progressive Party. Composing mostly a progressive Republicans, primarily Theodore Roosevelt's followers in 1912, westerners were feuding for years with conservatives over control of the GOP and eventually left. This time, they were joined with Wisconsin's La Follette machine (that opposed TR in 1912 due to "Fighting Bob" personal rivalry over progressives leadership with the former President), notable progressive Western Democrats, such as Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler, and minor statewide parties, like Farmer-Labor in Minnesota or Non-Partisan League in North Dakota.

Due to a seniority factor, from 1920s to mid-1950s, western base was dominating Progressive congressional leadership.

Politically, the Western Base, despite it's predominately agricultural leanings, was indisputably the most left-oriented wing of the party, but also, regarding foreign affairs, most staunchly isolationist.

Notable members of the "Western Base" includes Vice President Gerald Nye, Senators Hiram W. Johnson, William Borah, Burton Wheeler, Henrik Shipstead, Speaker William Lemke, Secretary Alf Landon, Postmaster General Frank Knox.


Senator Hiram W. Johnson (P-CA)

Crossbenchers

This name, borrowed from a British political dictionary, was more applying to a certain individuals, rather than a consistent wing of the Progressive Party.

The "Crossbenchers" were, basically, a former members of either Democratic of Republican parties that joined Progressives for various reasons, but still were at disagreements with some key points of party's ideological core. Later, Progressives with such a significant differences from the party's mainstream would be dubbed as a "Progressives In Name Only" (PINO).

Among notable 1930s era crossbenchers were people like Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, economically more conservative-leaning, with, however, a strong socially progressive views, or Representative Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. of the same state, a scion of the legendary Republican dynasty. Lodge was ad odds with his new party on issues such as economy or foreign affairs, but had no place in the Democratic Party.


Senator David I. Walsh (P-MA)


(To Be Continued)

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Reformists

The Reformists were a product of the "Progressive Era", a period of social activism and reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. A champions of modernization, efficiency movement and social progress, they weren't, of course, as "radical", as the Western Base and the alliance between the two were formed due to the Reformist being rejected by the Republican Party under Coolidge's leadership.

Later, when the Great Depression came, most of the Reformists endorsed a "Recovery and Reform" program under their famous member, Herbert Hoover, but preferred more moderate path, than the Western Base, especially when it came to the labor and farming issues.

Indisputably the most prominent Reforming Progressive was party's first presidential nominee in 1924, and later President from 1933 to 1934, Herbert Hoover. Hoover and the Reformist weren't the largest and best organized part of the party, but his own prestige before and from 1924 allowed him to become the first Progressive ever elected President. Some historians believe that the Western Base, needing cross-regional appeal, had to accept them to take a first place during the first phase.

While Charles Evans Hughes never became a Progressive Party member and did not endorse them after 1928, he played a key role in Reforming defection from the GOP in 1925.


President Herbert C. Hoover (P-CA)

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Comments, suggestions, questions?

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I'll respond once I finish fake wiki entry

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Neotammanists

Al Smith was another example of a defection, this time from the Democratic Party. Davis victory in 1924 marked a time, when forces such as rural, Protestants from the South, West, and small-town Midwest, who were supporters of Prohibition, and, of course, in many cases, the Ku Klux Klan, started to dominate Democratic Party.

Smith was, at the time, an unofficial leader of the opposing forces, representing anti-Prohibitionists (called "wets"), Roman Catholics and other ethnic minorities, big-city delegates in the Northeast and urban Midwest and liberals opposed to the influence of the Ku Klux Klan. Smith and his followers first tried to remind the Democratic Party, that they are ignoring a part of their constituency, and eventually, isolated such as Republican Reformists, switched to the Progressives.

Smith was party's presidential nominee in 1928 (as, after Hoover four years ago, the Western Base allowed another candidate outside their circle in order to broad new formation's appeal). While he lost badly to Davis, it was the time when Progressives made gains among urban and ethnic minorities voters, that became an important component of their coalition in next years.

A fellow "Progressive Era" politician, Smith loyally supporter Hoover's "Recovery and Reforms" program and similarly was endorsing La Follette's policy, until the two split over civil right issue. Smith role in killing La Follette's National Health Service program caused a lot of his liberal supporters to abandon him, although he continued to wield an influence over ethnic urban machines or, how they were dubbed by the press, "Neotammanists".

Politically, Neotammanists were more conservative economically than Western Base, and disagreed on foreign policy (including Smith's strong supporter for Ireland).


Senator Al Smith (P-NY) 

Bluebloods

Another ironic press nickname, that became a part of an American political history. The "Bluebloods" were recruiting primarily from the former Liberal Democrats from the Northeast: predominately an educated WASPs from the urban areas. Due to his makeup, they were called "Bluebloods".

Economically, the Bluebloods were in a major agreement with the Western Base, as well as this part of the Neotammanist, loyal but to the left to Smith (primarily ethnic circles), although the two factions did not merge. In foreign affairs there was no universal agreement although, due to their economic and geographical nature, they tended to be more interested in European affairs.

What was most distinguishing the Bluebloods was their staunch social liberalism.

Most notable Blueblood was without a doubts President Theodore F. Green. Another notable names were figures such as Senator Francis T. Maloney, political boss Jim Farley, Governor George Aiken (a former Republican).


President Theodore F. Green (P-RI)

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Saltonstall and Denver... I'm not sure, really.

Joe Martin is still a Republican Congressman.

Herter is the Progressive for the same reasons, as other Crossbenchers.

Coolidge is still a Democrat and is serving his second Senate term,

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I like the different factions in the Progressive Party, especially the, of course, "PINOs" and the Neotammanists, which for obvious reasons I identify best with.

How's the one termm Cal Coolidge doing? I'd think the Republicans might try to call him back as a "savior of the party" given that he was the last man to hold the office of President and be a Republican.

January 5, 1933: Former President Calvin Coolidge dies in his Massachusetts home. Dubbed frequently as a "Man who buried the Republican Party", Coolidge said shortly before his death: "I no longer fit to this time".

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September 1, 1939: The entire Mongolia and some parts of Southern Siberia are now in Japanese hands. A longtime Soviet focus on the West now have a dreadful consequences.

September 3, 1939: President Green, Secretaries Grew and Roosevelt meets in the White House with Progressive congressional leaders, regarding situation in the Far East.

Japanese domination in Pacific, empowered with a Siberian resources, is against United States national interest, the President told.

Mr. President, if you have any kind of American intervention on the Russian behalf, I shall oppose it, like any other foreign wars, period, Senator Borah replied.

Senator, I'm not talking about any military involvement, the President assured his powerful colleague. But we're talking about a war that can threat, in time, our West Coast.

Despite Green's plans of limited financial aid, due to Borah's, Foreign Relations Committee chairman, stubbornness, no agreement was reached.

September 6, 1939: President Green officially receives Irish Prime Minister in exile, Eamon de Valera, in the White House. Although no real help was offered to the Irish cause, a formal meeting had a great impact, bringing some hope back to the Irish freedom fighters.

September 8, 1939: London formally severe all diplomatic ties with the United States, over "supporting an Irish terrorists".

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Parties usually don't disappear in days. Republicans are still existing, as a minor party, with few officeholders on statewide levels, and, now, a couple of congresspersons. They are still somehow significant in some part of New England. Of course, this is a total decline.

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September 10, 1939: Unusually, even for Siberia, early winter halts Japanese path to even more gain. Stalin got an invaluable months to prepare, but there's a long way before the USSR will be able to revert their Western focus of resources and industry to the East.

September 16, 1939: Due to an apparent mistake, British and French naval ships fires at each other at the Mediterranean Sea, close to their respective based in Gibraltar and Algeria. Each side declines to take a responsibility.

September 20, 1939: The United Kingdom declares war on France.

September 22, 1939: Poland, Czechoslovakia and Estonia declares war on the United Kingdom, firmly sitting with their French allies.

September 24, 1939: Polish forces starts Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk) occupation, although Germany, despite their treaty with London, did not declare a war on the Entente.

September 27, 1939: German Reich declares war on Poland.

September 29, 1939: France, Czechoslovakia and Estonia declared war on Germany.

October 1, 1939: It's obvious for everyone that with the late September the Second Great War begun...

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October 18, 1939: President Green declares all American ports and waters closed to submarines of belligerents.

October 20, 1939: The situation in Europe can be summarized this way. Although German army size, after recent enlargements, that violated of the Treaty of Versailles, was about 250,000 men under weapon and quite few tanks and aircrafts, they were able to hold both offensives (French from the West, and Polish from the East) at Rhine and Elbe lines respectively. A long, positional war started...

Ironically, fights between two major players, France and the United Kingdom, are limited mostly to skirmishers in Channel area and in the North African colonies so far.

Lithuania is completely overrun by Polish forces, while Latvia is divided between Poland and Estonia occupation forces.

Hungary, facing a possibility of the New Entente full-scale offensive, backed off all claims against Czechoslovakia.

Meanwhile, the "Fascist Duo" of Italy and Austria remains neutral, but is preparing for possible entrance to the conflick. Due to quite warm relations with London, Il Duce is giving the British some unofficial aid in the Mediterranean area.

November 4, 1939: President Green signs the Neutrality Act of 1939, repealing the general embargo on arms and allowing the sale of arms to belligerents on a "cash and carry" basis. Ostensibly a neutral plan, in fact designed to allow the United States to aid the Soviet Union. Despite administration's pro-French leanings and horrible relations with Britain, Green rejected any possibility of getting involved here. Our base and our society wouldn't simply stomach this. However, passing of the Neutrality Act was a truly Pyrrhic victory, causing a deep and nasty division within Progressive Party regarding war issues.

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January 4, 1940: National Party (former Nazis) leader, Hermann Goering is named Minister of War Industry, becoming the first NP minister in Zentrum-led cabinet.

January 6, 1940: General Semyon Timoshenko is appointed People's Commisar of Defense, replacing incompetent Kliment Voroshilov. General Zhukov is appointed a commander of the Army of Far East with his predecessor, Marshal Vasily Blücher, being executed for handling the situation.

January 7, 1940: Canada became the last Commonwealth Dominion to declare war on the New Entente. The delay was caused by strong protests from Quebec population, as well as Prime Minister's Mackenzie King desire to demonstrate Canadian independence in foreign policy.

January 19, 1940: Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, a Dean of the Progressive Party and Senate President pro tempore passes away at age of 74.

February 7, 1940: RKO release Walt Disney's second full-length animated film, "Pinocchio".

February 8, 1940: A first major blow to France came, when British completed their naval dominance over eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, severing all ties between French mandates (Syria and Lebanon) and the metropoly.

February 22, 1940: In Tibet 4-year-old Tenzin Gyatso is proclaimed the thirteenth Dalai Lama.

March 21, 1940: Prime Minister Daladier decivisely won a vote of confidence.

March 24, 1940: Belgium rejects French invitation to join the Entente.

May 23, 1940: Japan resumes Siberian offensive.

May 25, 1940: President Green stablishes the Office for Emergency Management, illustrating his belief in the increasing inevitability of U.S. being involved in a Pacific War in a near future.

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June 1, 1940: President Green confirmed he'll not seek nomination for a full term. Vice President Gerald Nye, a favorite of the Western base, additionally supported, thanks to Green's help, by the Bluebloods circle, throw his hat on the ring.

June 4, 1940: Senator Smith declared his candidacy for President as well. Although hated by the Western Base for killing health service program and, consequently, blamed by them for President La Follette's death, Smith still commands a loyalty of his Neotammanist faction.

June 24, 1940: For the first time since 1850s, Republican Party doesn't hold a convention, since the leaders of badly reduced, mostly to New England, party decided to skip 1940 presidential election.

July 15, 1940: Democratic National Convention convenes in Chicago, Illinois. There were three major candidates for the Presidential nomination, with nearly equally divided support among the delegates: Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland and former Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana.

Because Democrats were desperate to win, especially in a light of weakened Progressive prospect, the White House back after two terms in opposition, no secratian Southern candidate, like Senator Heflin or two-time loser, House Minority Leader Garner, had a support of the bosses. Hull generally enjoyed Southern base backing and had wider appeal thanks to his experience and personal prestige in the Senate, but an advanced age factor was hurting his chances. A maverick Tydings had a support of a Northern, Atlantic states. McNutt, one of the few remaining prominent progressive Democrats, was the weakest one, but still could hang on due to his supporters commitment and regional Midwest appeal.

July 18, 1940: The Democratic convention is prolonged as none of the major candidates came ever close to the required two-thirds. Hull is pressured by the party bosses to drop out and endorse Tydings, acceptable for their taste. However, a number of Hull delegates switched their support to McNutt, hoping for yet another series of deadlock and their candidate return.

July 20, 1940: Alabama delegations proposes a name of a dark-horse candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Joseph B. Ely. Ely, who haven't display any presidential aspirations so far, seemed like an ideal candidate: from the Northeast, with his own base there, but totally acceptable for the main party's core due to his conservatism. Some suspects, however, party bosses were keeping dark-horse like Ely "just in case".

July 21, 1940: Tydings agrees, with a heavy heart, to drop out in Ely's favor. Ely, in order to gain a needed support, promises Tydings the Vice Presidential nomination, as pledged Department of State to Hull a day before.

July 22, 1940: Former Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts is nominated for President by the Democratic Party, in a similar fashion they choose John W. Davis in 1924. The same day, Millard Tydings is nominated easily for Vice President.   

August 3, 1940: Progressive National Convention convenes in Baltimore, Maryland. Vice President Nye, who already enjoyed a number of delegates enough to secure the nod, is nominated without difficulties, since Smith withdrew his name from consideration. Smith gave only a lukewarm support to his former opponent.

August 5, 1940: In order to appease Neotammanists and Reformists, Vice President Nye balances the ticket with a "crossbencher" Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, in a move that also aimed at Ely's own Bay State stronghold.

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August - October 1940: Both tickets, Progressives Nye/Walsh and Democrats Ely/Tydings are campaigning very hard. However the press believes, in a rare general agreement, that the Democrats are definitively favored this fall. Progressives achieved a modest recovery under Green's leadership, TIME wrote. But there's still not enough after a big break in 1937. Democrats are united, while Nye is still struggling to win over Smith supporters, crucial for the election. He also is being accused by some within his own base, not entirely fair, of selling out his isolationist positions by serving as international-minded Green deputy.

November 5, 1940: Joseph B. Ely is elected President with a comfortable, but not lopsided, popular vote margin. A low turnout among Eastern progressives in key Neotammanist states was a major factor of the huge electoral votes gap between the two. Massachusetts, the home state of the two nominees, was among the closest nationwide.

Former Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts/Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland (Democratic Party): 364 electoral votes, 53% of the popular vote
Vice President Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota/Senator David E. Walsh of Massachusetts (Progressive Party): 167 electoral votes, 44% of the popular votes
Others: 3% of the popular vote

In addition of retaking the White House, Democratic Party gained a control over Congress for the first time since early 1930s.

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Credit for an idea of having Joseph B. Ely TTL goes to Dallasfan and great help he provided to me during planning the events

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Presidents:

29th: Warren G. Harding (R-OH), March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923
30th: J. Calvin Coolidge (R-MA), August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1925
31st: John W. Davis (D-WV), March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1933
32nd: Herbert C. Hoover (P-CA), March 4, 1933 - July 3, 1934
33rd: Joseph C. Grew (P-MA), July 3, 1934 - December 11, 1934
34th: Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (P-WI), December 11, 1934 - January 1, 1938
35th: Theodore F. Green (P-RI), January 1, 1938 - January 20, 1941
36th: Joseph B. Ely (D-MA), January 20, 1941 - present

29th: Last Republican elected President; died in office
30th: Last Republican to serve as President; defeated
32nd: First Progressive President; assasinated
33rd: Ascended from position of Secretary of State (first succession beyond the Vice Presidency); resigned
34th: Ascended from position of Secretary of State; committed suicide
35th: Asecnded from Vice Presidency; did not seek reelection

Vice Presidents:

29th: J. Calvin Coolidge (R-MA), March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923
Vacant, August 5, 1923 – March 4, 1925
30th: Charles W. Bryan (D-NE), March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1929
31st: Nellie Ross Taylor (D-WY), March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933  
32nd: Albert E. Ottinger (P-NY), March 4, 1933 - March 2, 1934
Vacant, March 2, 1934 - January 20, 1937
33rd: Theodore F. Green (P-RI), January 20, 1937 - January 1, 1938
Vacant, January 1, 1938 - April 11, 1938
34th: Gerald E. Nye (P-ND), April 11, 1938 - January 20, 1941
35th: Millard E. Tydings (D-MD), January 20, 1941 - present

29th: Became President
30th: Did not seek reelection
31st: First female Vice President; did not seek reelection
32nd: Died in office
33rd: Became President
34th: The first Vice President nominated in a midterm

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As a Republican, it's sad to see the part of Lincoln go down. Oh well, I guess in this I end up as a Democrat, but I have no idea how family butterflies might go politically without a Republican party.

Trust me, you'll love the Democratic Party

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As a Republican, it's sad to see the party of Lincoln go down. Oh well, I guess in this I end up as a Democrat, but I have no idea how family butterflies might go politically without a Republican party.

Trust me, you'll love the Democratic Party

I'm hoping the pro-segregation wing is kept on a tight leash at least. I wonder what'll happen with RFK?

Now, poor RFK is still a teenage ophran with just one brother left. Yet, despite Joe's death, family still have wealth and influence, that are going to make life and potential political career easier for him.,