List of Alternate Presidents

[MasterJedi]

Future of America

George W. Bush- Republican, Texas (2001-2009)
Tommy Thompson- Republican, Wisconsin (2009-2021)
Evan Bayh- Democrat, Indiana (2021-2022)
Mark Warner- Democrat, Virginia (2022-2029)
Nelson Crane- Democrat, New York (2029-2037)
George P. Bush- Republican, Florida (2037-2049)
Deuce Man- Democrat, Nevada (2049-2053)
Jim Piedmont- Democrat, Arkansas (2053-2057)
Cynthia Carlton- Republican, Wyoming (2057-2080)
Peter Schmidt- Republican, Delaware (2080-2085)
Peter Nguyen- Democrat, Hawaii (2085-2093)
Steven Wilmont- Republican, Oregon (2093-2095)
Peter Nguyen- Democrat, Hawaii (2095-Present)

[Mechaman]

Future of America

George W. Bush- Republican, Texas (2001-2009)
Tommy Thompson- Republican, Wisconsin (2009-2021)
Evan Bayh- Democrat, Indiana (2021-2022)
Mark Warner- Democrat, Virginia (2022-2029)
Nelson Crane- Democrat, New York (2029-2037)
George P. Bush- Republican, Florida (2037-2049)
Deuce Man- Democrat, Nevada (2049-2053)
Jim Piedmont- Democrat, Arkansas (2053-2057)
Cynthia Carlton- Republican, Wyoming (2057-2080)
Peter Schmidt- Republican, Delaware (2080-2085)
Peter Nguyen- Democrat, Hawaii (2085-2093)
Steven Wilmont- Republican, Oregon (2093-2095)
Peter Nguyen- Democrat, Hawaii (2095-Present)

Is this the timeline that someone made awhile back where African countries start becoming US states and a Democratic president bans abortion?
If so: EPIC WIN.

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

The Biggest Damned-Fool Mistake I Ever Made: POTUS List

33. Harry Truman (D-MO): April 12, 1945-January 20, 1953
34. Earl Warren (R-CA): January 20, 1953-January 20, 1961
35. William Knowland (R-CA): January 20, 1961-June 6, 1967*
36. Henry Lodge Jr. (R-MA): June 6, 1967-January 20, 1969
37. George Wallace (D-AL): January 20, 1969-January 20, 1977
38. John Connally (D-TX): January 20, 1977-January 20, 1981
39. Ron Paul (R-TX): January 20, 1981-onward

*Death in office due to suicide.

The Biggest Damned-Fool Mistake I Ever Made: VEEP List

Vacant: April 20, 1945-January 20, 1949
35. Alben Barkley (D-KY): January 20, 1949-January 20, 1953
36. Ralph Flanders (R-VT): January 20, 1953-January 20, 1961
37. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-MA): January 20, 1961-June 6, 1967
Vacant: June 6, 1967-September 6, 1967
38. Paul Fannin (R-AZ): September 6, 1967-January 20, 1969
39. John Connally (D-TX): January 20, 1969-January 20, 1977
40. Edmund Muskie (D-ME): January 20, 1977-January 20, 1981
41. Mark Hatfield (R-OR): January 20, 1981-onward

[Captain Chaos]

For Want of a Bathtub

The POD is that President Taft is unable to get out of his bathtub which fatally suffocates him and results in a much different world than OTL. The Republicans emerge as a progressive, centrist party and Democrats become a small-government, socially conservative party.

27. William H. Taft (R-OH): 1909-1911
28. James Sherman (R-NY): 1911-1912
29. James “Champ” Clark (D-MO): 1912-1921
30. Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY): 1921-1923
31. Frank Lowden (R-IL): 1923-1929
32. Cordell Hull (D-TN): 1929-1933
33. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (R-NY): 1933-1941
34. Herbert Hoover (R-CA): 1941-1949
35. Dwight D. Eisenhower (D-PA): 1949-1955
36. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (D-MA): 1955-1961
37. Quentin Roosevelt (R-NY): 1961-1963
38. Richard M. Nixon (R-CA): 1963-1968
39. Hubert H. Humphrey (R-MN): 1968-1969
40. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (D-MA): 1969-1977
41. George H.W. Bush (R-CT): 1977-1985
42. Howard Baker (R-TN): 1985-1989
43. Charles Robb (D-VA): 1989-1993
44. Paul Tsongas (R-MA): 1993-1997
45. John D. Rockefeller IV (R-NY): 1997
46. John S. McCain (D-AZ): 1997-2003
47. Mark Sanford (D-SC): 2003-2005
48. Olympia Snowe (R-ME): 2005-2013

Notes:
27. Died in office, September 11, 1911

28. Died in office due to complications from gallstones, February 8, 1912

29. First sitting Speaker of the House to move up to the Presidency. His 9 years and 1 month in office makes Clark the longest serving President to date. Clark refused to declare war on Germany after the sinking of the Lusitania because it and other ships were warned that it would be sunk by its U-boats. With the USA sitting out the Great War, a stalemate of sorts was declared in 1917. The German monarchy survived but the Kaiser would end up as a figurehead ruler by the 1940s. A consequence of this war was that the Reich refused to allow Vladimir Lenin to travel through Germany and return to Russia. Lenin remained in exile in Switzerland until his death in 1923. The White Army won the Russian civil war in 1917 and abolished the monarchy; Alexander Kerensky was the first democratically elected President of the Russian Republic and would serve in office until his retirement in 1942.

30. Eager to win back the White House, the Republicans nominated former President Roosevelt (with US not fighting in the war, his son Quentin lives). TR would be in failing health and die of a heart attack on August 2, 1923. He was succeeded by Vice President and former Illinois Governor Frank Lowden.

33. Elected Governor of New York in 1928 and re-elected in 1930, TR Jr. was viewed as the frontrunner for the GOP Presidential nomination in the wake of an economic recession which Hull was unable to solve. Roosevelt would continue the trust busting policies of his father and get his “New Deal” economic recovery program passed. With the help of Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace, Roosevelt convinced Congress to pass landmark price support reforms, tax breaks for agricultural production, rural electrification and establish the Tennessee Valley Authority. By the time he left office, the unemployment rate fell to 4 percent. Roosevelt refused to run for a third term for health reasons (he was a heavy smoker and died of lung cancer in 1943).

34. Former Congressman and Commerce Secretary Hoover clinched the GOP nomination. A staunch supporter of civil rights, President Hoover instructed US Attorney General Thomas Dewey to prosecute violations of existing civil rights laws and enforce voting rights for blacks in the South. When Governor Earl Long of Louisiana vowed to physically block the entrance at Tulane University to prevent an African-American student from enrolling, Hoover federalized the Louisiana National Guard and Dewey personally threatened Long with arrest if he did not get out of the way. In foreign affairs, Hoover asked Congress to declare war on Japan after the December 1942 bombings of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Alice Springs in Australia, Vladivostok in Russia, and the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. This brought Russia, China, the United Kingdom and all of its Dominions on the side of the United States in the Pacific War. With no war in Europe, the coalition would invade Japan by the summer of 1943, cripple Japan’s air force and surround Tokyo. Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender. With a landslide victory in 1944 and an increased Republican Congress, Hoover had the political capital to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1945 which ended all institutional segregation and discrimination, especially in the South.

35. A hero of the Pacific War, General Dwight Eisenhower and his running mate, Governor Joseph Kennedy of Massachusetts, won a landslide victory in 1948 against the Republican ticket of Robert Taft and John Foster Dulles. Eisenhower’s term was dominated by passage of the Federal Highway Act of 1950 and foreign policy achievements that included the founding of the United Nations, the creation of the Dominion of Palestine in 1949 (to be ruled jointly by Arabs and Jews, which had the support of the architect of the1930 Statute of Westminster and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill), the Chinese Civil War of 1947-1950 (won by Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang), and the demotion of General Douglas Macarthur. The stresses of the Presidency contributed to Eisenhower’s fatal heart attack while vacationing in Colorado with his in-laws.

36. First Roman Catholic President. The Kennedy Presidency would continue the policies of the Eisenhower Administration and pursue a pro-business agenda. Kennedy would be the last President to serve without a Vice President and he lobbied Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment that enabled the President to nominate a Vice President if that position was vacant, subject to confirmation of the House and Senate. Also during this time, the Department of War was reorganized through the McCarthy-Russell Act of 1956 which changed the Department of War to the Department of Defense, created the Air Force from the Army Air Corps and Navy Air Corps, and brought the Departments of the Army and Navy under the authority of the Department of Defense. When the bill became law, President Kennedy named Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Joseph McCarthy (Republican of Wisconsin) the first Secretary of Defense (serving until his death in 1958). Kennedy and his running mate, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, won in a landslide in 1956 over Senator William Knowland and his running mate Senator Glenn Beall. The Kennedy-Stevenson administration would meet an array of challenges that included the Lebanese Civil War of 1957-1958, the Suez Canal Crisis, the recession of 1958-1960, and CIA assistance to Iraq in stopping a coup attempt by the military against the monarchy. Two years after the Democrats won back control of Congress, the Republicans won it back in the 1958 elections.

37. Quentin Roosevelt was a Congressman from New York (1943-1947), Governor (1947-1955) and US Senator (1957-1961) when he and his running mate, Senator Richard Nixon of California defeated the Democratic ticket of Adlai Stevenson and Albert Gore in 1960. Roosevelt was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Los Angeles while raising money for the California Republican Party (and to settle a political feud between Senator Earl Warren and Governor William Knowland).

38. While President Nixon would successfully push for progressive anti-poverty legislation and Medicare, and win a landslide victory in 1964 over Democrat Strom Thurmond, the rest of his Presidency would be plagued by the never ending civil war in Cuba between loyalists to President Fulgencio Batista and rebels led by Fidel Castro. The stresses in dealing with the conflict and a primary challenge from Senator Eugene McCarthy led to an attack of phlebitis which ended Nixon’s life on August 9, 1968.

39. Humphrey now inherited the headaches of the Presidency. He was nominated in a divisive Republican convention which saw Eugene McCarthy and his delegates walk out. (Humphrey had nominated Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine for Vice President) McCarthy declared an independent candidacy for President and selected Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield as his running mate on a peace ticket. The Democrats nominated Senator Joseph Kennedy, Jr. of Massachusetts in a more peaceful and united convention in Chicago. Kennedy selected Senator George Wallace of Alabama as his running mate and ran a campaign on peace with honor in ending the Cuban Civil War. The Kennedy-Wallace ticket won in a landslide.

40. Kennedy went straight to work in healing the divisions in America. Domestic accomplishments included passing the Earned Income tax Credit, creation of the Department of Transportation, and free trade agreements with the UK and its dominions. Talks brokered by Secretary of State J. William Fulbright resulted in the Treaty of Miami that ended the war (Fulbright would win the Nobel Peace Prize) and returned democracy to Cuba. Castro ran for elected office and served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1972-1984. Kennedy would have to select a new Vice President after George Wallace was assassinated in 1972 by Arthur Bremer at a shopping center in Maryland. Congress easily voted to confirm Treasury Secretary John Conally for Vice President.  The Kennedy-Conally ticket won a 49 state landslide against George McGovern and his running mate, New York City Mayor John Lindsay (referred to as the “acid, amnesty and abortion” ticket by Senator Thomas Eagleton). The honeymoon would be short indeed as President Kennedy had to deal with the OPEC embargo that resulted in long lines at the gas station, Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, terrorism in the Middle East committed by the Baath Liberation Organization (BLO) which operated in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine (BLO founder Saddam Hussein was Number 1 on Interpol’s Most Wanted), and Congressional investigations on CIA involvement in the military coup in Chile.

[Captain Chaos]

41. Bush never moved to Texas, and followed in his father’s political footsteps in Connecticut. He was elected to Congress in 1964 and Governor of Connecticut in 1970. Bush was viewed as the frontrunner for the GOP nomination after his 1974 reelection. Popular with Jews, blacks and middle class professionals, Bush cruised to the Republican nomination in 1976. His historical choice of Rep. Barbara Jordan, the first African-American Congressman from Texas, unified the Republican Party. On the other hand, the Democrats were a divided party. Vice President Conally had to fend off challenges from Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Governor Ronald Reagan of California. Conally selected bombastic, former Los Angeles Mayor Robert Dornan for Vice President (defeated for reelection in 1973 by Tom Bradley). Democrats all over the country avoided the bigoted and homophobic Dornan at all costs, especially after calling Barbara Jordan a lesbian (which she revealed in 1986). Bush became the first Republican to win the electoral votes of Virginia and Florida, and took 97 percent of the African-American vote. Bush’s Presidency would be regarded as a peaceful and prosperous time. His biggest accomplishment was the South & North American Free Trade Agreement (SNAFTA) which created the largest free trade zone on Earth. When Vice President Jordan retired in 1980 for health reasons, Bush selected Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker as his running mate.

42. To date, Baker is the only Tennessean elected to the Presidency. The recession and S&L crisis proved to be his undoing and he was defeated for reelection in 1988 by former Virginia Governor Charles Robb.

43. Robb was able to reverse the recession through tax and spending cuts. He would also declare a war on terror after a coalition of rogue army officers and BLO terrorists assassinated the Emir of Kuwait and slaughtered the royal family in 1990. For the first time, the BLO headed a sovereign government. President Robb ordered the Marines heading an international coalition to remove the BLO from power and offered a $1 million reward for the capture of fugitive BLO leader Saddam Hussein. By January 1991, American, Iraqi, Palestinian and Syrian tanks marched into Kuwait City and removed the BLO which literally fought to the last man. Ironically, Iraqi troops would find Saddam in a basement of a hideout near the Iraq-Kuwait border. Saddam was hung in Baghdad a month later. What brought down the Robb Presidency were allegations of marital infidelity and drug use. A former Miss Virginia admitted to having an affair with Robb.

44. Former Senator and Commerce Secretary Paul Tsongas won the Republican nomination and selected Senator John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV of New York as his running mate. President Tsongas would be praised for balancing the budget and tax reform. Favored to win reelection in 1996, Tsongas announced that he had cancer and did not seek reelection. Vice President Rockefeller won the Democratic nomination but lost to Senator John McCain. Rockefeller would yet serve as President when Tsongas died on January 18, 1997 (two days before his term was up).

45. Rockefeller’s two day Presidency is the shortest tenure in history.

46. President McCain’s first term was marked by the first reorganization of the Federal Government since 1956, and a Constitutional Amendment giving the President of the United States line item veto power. His second term was dominated by another War on Terrorism. This time, it was the terrorist group Islamic Brotherhood led by Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, and with training camps in Sudan. On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked by 19 men, mostly Egyptian and Sudanese who lived in the USA. Two of those planes hit the World Trade Center, one plane hit the Pentagon and another plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania as the passengers fought back and may have prevented the plane from striking the White House or the Capitol Building. In a speech before a joint session of Congress attended by British Prime Minister Christopher Patten, Egyptian President Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Palestinian Prime Minister Yasser Arafat, McCain asked Congress to declare war against Sudan. The Americans and British Commonwealth led the international coalition that defeated Islamic Brotherhood and the Sudanese military dictatorship. Al-Zawahiri was killed in a gunfight with Egyptian troops while Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was captured alive. Bashir was tried for crimes against humanity and harboring terrorists. The pressures of leading the War on Terror took its toll on McCain leading to his fatal stroke. He died on June 15, 2003 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

47. President Sanford decided not to seek reelection after admitting to an extramarital affair during a trip to Argentina when he was Vice President. Jenny Sanford, former First Lady, got her divorce before her husband left office.

48. First female President of the United States

[yougo1000]

What happened to Rockefeller?

[Bo]

How exactly does Taft suffocate in his bathtub? He could still breathe just fine when he was stuck in the bathtub.

[GLPman]

Texas secedes from a struggling and Depression-ridden United States in 1936 in the wake of continuous failed legislation. The nation is represented by its two strongest political parties: the Democratic Party and the Federation Party. The Democrats push for smaller government and states' rights, while the Federation Party advocates for a larger government role and more emphasis on the influence of corporations. The nation consists of present-day Texas, Oklahoma, and the majority of Mexico. The Texas Constitution states that a President's term is to last six years. Elections are decided by popular vote, not electoral college.

Presidents of Texas
1. James V. Allred (D): 1936-1944
2. Coke R. Stevenson (D): 1944-1950
3. Robert Allan Shivers (F): 1950-1956
4. Lyndon B. Johnson (D): 1956-1964
5. John B. Connally (D): 1964-1972
6. Robert D. "Bob" Price (F): 1972-1974*
7. John G. Tower (F): 1974-1982**
8. George H.W. Bush (F): 1982-1988
9. Cesar R. Castillo (F): 1988-1994
10. David L. Walters (D): 1994-2000
11. Edward W. Medina (F): 2000-2006
12: George W. Bush (F): 2006-present

*Died in office
**First and only president to run for more than one term

[Bo]

Humphrey wins in 1968

Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie (D)-1969-1975
Edmund Muskie/Lloyd Bensten (D)-1975-1981
Bob Dole/Nelson Rockefeller (R)-1981-1985
Hugh Carey/Lloyd Bensten (D)-1985-1993
Jack Kemp/Pete Wilson (R)-1993-2001
Pete Wilson/John McCain (R)-2001-2009
Mark Warner/Claire McCaskill (D)-2009-present

[hawkeye59]

So the Federation Party is like the Federalist Party and the Democrats are like the Democrat-Republicans.

[GLPman]

So the Federation Party is like the Federalist Party and the Democrats are like the Democrat-Republicans.

Correct

[Vosem]

Clay Wins 1844

In spite of Clay's 1844 election promises, the Mexican-American War happens anyway (during Cass's term). In addition to the OTL gains, the U.S. takes the liberty of annexing Baja California (Liberia, too, eventually becomes a state). The abolitionist movement begins in the South ITTL, so there is never a civil war. Instead, there is an Oregon War, which is a smashing U.S. victory and results in the U.S. annexing all of Oregon Territory (but none of Canada). The Whigs and Democrats survive. By the 1950s, the parties have taken the familiar shape the current, ATL U.S. residents know and love: the Democrats as a huge big tent party consisting of the far-right and the far-left. The Whigs are smaller, but more organized (and moderate), and take advantage of the huge splits in the Democrats to win.

11. Henry Clay (Whig-Kentucky, 1845 - 1849)
12. Lewis Cass (Democratic-Michigan, 1849 - 1857)
13. Jefferson Davis (Democratic-Mississippi, 1857 - 1861)
14. Levi Boone (Whig-Illinois, 1861 - 1869)
15. Robert M.T. Hunter (Democratic-Virginia, 1869 - 1873)
16. Henry Allen (Whig-Louisiana, 1873 - 1881)
17. Thomas Cobb (Democratic-Indiana, 1881 - 1889)
18. John Reagan (Whig-Texas, 1889 - 1897)
19. Adlai Stevenson (Democratic-Illinois, 1897 - 1905)
20. Thomas Watson (Democratic-Georgia, 1905 - 1909)
21. Albert Lowell (Whig-Massachusetts, 1909 - 1913)
22. William Hearst (Democratic-California, 1913 - 1917)
23. John Parker (Whig-Louisiana, 1917 - 1921)
24. Sidney Catts (Democratic-Florida, 1921 - 1925)
25. Albert Johnson (Whig-Washington, 1925 - 1933)
26. Huey Long, Jr. (Whig-Louisiana, 1933 - 1935)
27. James Reed (Whig-Missouri, 1935 - 1941)
28. Paul McNutt (Democratic-Indiana, 1941 - 1949)
29. Strom Thurmond (Democratic-South Carolina, 1949 - 1957)
30. Francis Walter (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1957 - 1961)
31. Jacob Javits (Democratic-New York, 1961 - 1965)
32. Cecil Underwood (Whig-Virginia, 1965 - 1969)
33. William Westmoreland (Democratic-South Carolina, 1969 - 1977)
34. William Tolbert, Jr. (Democratic-Liberia, 1977 - 1980)
35. Alan Cranston (Democratic-California, 1980 - 1989)
36. Philip Crane (Whig-Illinois, 1989 - 1993)
37. Pete du Pont IV (Democratic-Delaware, 1993 - 1997)
38. Douglas Wilder (Whig-Virginia, 1997 - 2001)
39. Gary Bauer (Democratic-Kentucky, 2001 - 2005)
40. Steve Forbes (Whig-New York, 2005 - 2009)
41. Hillary Rodham (Democratic-Illinois, 2009 - present)

[Vosem]

Ok here is my new list for a possible "The Republic of Texas" Survives to the Present Day TL after im done with my Ronnie in '68 TL. I must admit I was reaching toward the end, cuz I belive butterflies would have radically different political figures who wern't even born IOTL be President.

The Eyes of Texas are upon You…

1. Samuel “Sam” Houston (I-Huntsville): October 22nd 1836-December 10th 1838
2. Mirabeau B. Lamar: (I-Laredo): December 10th 1838- December 13th 1841
3. Samuel “Sam” Houston: (I-Huntsville): December 13th 1841-December 9th 1844
4. Barnard E. Bee Sr.(N-Houston): December 9th 1844-December 9th 1847
5. Mirabeau B. Lamar (N-Laredo) December 9th 1847-December 9th 1850
6. Abner S. Lipscomb (N-Brenham): December 9th 1850-December 9th 1853
7. Thomas J. Rusk (H-Nacogdoches): December 9th 1853-December 9th 1856
8. Hardin R. Richards (N-Bowie County): December 9th 1856-December 9th 1859
9. Elisha M. Pease (H-Lampsas): December 9th 1859-December 9th 1862
10. Louis T. Wigfall (N-Galveston: December 9th 1862-December 9th 1865
11. Elisha M. Pease (H-Lampsas): December 9th 1865-December 9th 1868
12. Andrew J. Hamilton (H-Austin): December 9th 1868-December 9th 1871
13. Edmund J. Davis (H-Austin): December 9th 1871-December 9th 1874
14. Hamilton P. Bee (N-San Antonio): December 9th 1874-December 9th 1877
15. Richard Coke (N-Waco): December 9th 1877-December 9th 1880
16. Richard B. Hubbard Jr. (N-Tyler): December 9th 1880-December 9th 1883
17. Richard Coke (N-Waco): December 9th 1883-December 9th 1886
18. Lawrence S. “Sul” Ross (N-Brazos.): December 9th 1886-December 9th 1889
19. John Ireland (N-Seguin): December 9th 1889-December 9th 1891
20. Lawrence S. “Sul” Ross (N-Brazos): December 9th 1891-December 9th 1894
21. James S. “Big Jim” Hogg (P-Houston): December 9th 1894-December 9th 1897
22. Charles A. Culberson (P-Dallas): December 9th 1897-December 9th 1900
23. Joseph D. Sayers (N-Austin): December 9th 1900-December 9th 1903
24. James S. “Big Jim” Hogg (P-Houston): December 9th 1903-March 3 1906*
25. Roger Q. Mills (P-Corsicana): March 3rd-December 9th 1906
26. Thomas M. Campbell (P-Longview): December 9th 1906-December 9th 1909
27. Andrew J. Houston (P-Independence): December 9th 1909-December 9th 1912
28. Oscar B. Colquitt (N-Daingerfield): December 9th 1912-December 9th 1915
29. John Morris Shepard (N-Texarkana): December 9th 1915-December 9th 1918
30. William P. Hobby (N-Houston): December 9th 1918-December 9th 1921
31. James E. “Pa” Ferguson (P-Salado): December 9th 1921-December 9th 1924
32. Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson (P-Salado): December 9th 1924-December 9th 1927**
33. James E. “Pa” Ferguson (P-Salado): December 9th 1927-December 9th 1930
34. John N. Garner (P-Uvalde): December 9th 1930-December 9th 1933
35. Sam Rayburn (N-Bonham): December 9th 1933-December 9th 1936
36. James V. Alfred (N-Corpus Christi): December 9th 1936-December 9th 1939
37. Sam Rayburn (N-Bonham): December 9th 1939-December 9th 1941
38. Thomas T. “Tom” Connally (N-Waco): December 9th 1941-December 9th 1944
39. James V. Alfred (N-Corpus Christi): December 9th 1944-December 9th 1947
40. Thomas T. “Tom” Connally (N-Waco): December 9th 1947-December 9th 1950
41. Wilbert L. “Pappy” O’Daniel (P-Dallas): December 9th 1950-December 9th 1953
42. Coke R. Stevenson (P-San Angelo): December 9th 1953-December 9th 1956
43. Allen Shivers (P-Austin): December 9th 1956-December 9th 1959
44. Marion P. Daniel Sr.(P-Liberty): December 9th 1959-December 9th 1962
45. Lyndon B. Johnson (N-Stonewall): December 9th 1962-December 9th 1965
46. Ralph W. Yarborugh (N-Austin): December 9th 1965-December 9th 1968
47. John Tower (P-Houston): December 9th 1968-December 9th 1971
48. John Connally (P-Houston): December 9th 1971-December 9th 1974
49. Lloyd M. Bentsen (N-Houston): December 9th 1974-December 9th 1977
50. Dolph Briscoe (P-Uvalde): December 9th 1977-December 9th 1980
51. Lloyd M. Bentsen: (N-Houston): December 9th 1980-December 9th 1983
52. George T. Leland: (N-Houston): December 9th 1983-December 9th 1986**
53. Eligio de la Garza (N-Mercedes): December 9th 1986-December 9th 1989**
54. Ann Richards (N-Austin): December 9th 1989-December 9th 1992**
55. Robert D. “Bob” Bullock (P-Austin): December 9th 1992-December 9th 1995
56. Ross Perot (I-Texarkana): December 9th 1995-December 9th 1998
57. James R. “Rick” Perry (P-Austin): December 9th 1998-December 9th 2001
58. Ron E. Paul (P-Lake Jackson): December 9th 2001-December 9th 2004
59. James R. “Rick” Perry (P-Austin): December 9th 2004-December 9th 2007
60. Richard S. “Kinky” Friedman (N-Medina) December 9th 2007-???**

Notes.

24. Died in office due to a Railroad accident.
32. First Female President
52. First African-Texan President
53. First Tejano President
54. Second Female President
60. First Jewish-Texan President.

N: Stands for the Nationalist Party, established in 1843 by Lamar, representing the anti-annexation, pro-slavery and pro-expansion political wing. Essentially the same as OTL Democrats, until the Great Depression and Dust Bowl which enabled them to become the big government and was able to pull away significant minority votes. The Nationalists in 2009 are a left to center party where the strong holds are border towns and the big urban areas.

H: Stood for the Houstonian Party, After Henry Clay’s victory in 1844(POD), The Pro Annexation wing that supported the nation’s 1st President eventually coalesced into the namesake party. Essentially the same as OTL 19th Century, the Houstonians wanted friendly relations with Native Americans, Abolitionists and generally Ameriphile. They also kept Texas neutral during the War of Secession, but were unable to win an election against Coke’s new Nationalist Party.

P: Populist Party, after the dissolution of the Houstonian Party in the 1890’s, many of the Pro-Farm faction of the party were caught up in the growing Populist movement in the US. The Party from the 1890’s to arguably the 1960’s, the party was a fiscally conservative, Pro-Farm, Pro Civil Rights for blacks that capitalized on the Progressive era of the early 1900’s. After the New Age policies of the Nation lists under Rayburn, the Populists shifted to the Center to Right Party it is today

Two Term POTROT’s: Sam Houston, Mireabeau Lamar, Elisha M. Pease, Richard Coke, Sul Ross, Big Jim Hogg, Pa Ferguson, Sam Rayburn, John V. Alfred, Tom Connally, and Rick Perry.

Yeah, I would think they would stick to Popular Vote elections, with seperate Congressional County based election's. Btw...Here's my list for the POTUS in the Eye's of Texas are upon you timeline.

Eyes of Texas…USA Presidential List

10. John Tyler (W/I-VA): April 4th 1841-March 4th 1845
11. Henry Clay (W-KY): March 4th 1845-June 29th 1852*
12. Theodore Frelinghuysen (W-NJ): June 29th 1852-March 4th 1853
13. Lewis Cass (D-MI): March 4th 1853-March 4th 1857
14. Millard Fillmore (A-NY): March 4th 1857-March 4th 1861
15. Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL): March 4th 1861-June 3rd 1863*
16. Herschel V. Johnson (D-GA): June 3rd 1863-March 4th 1865
17. Joel Parker (D-NJ): March 4th 1865-March 4th 1869
18. Anthony Kennedy (A-MD): March 4th 1869-March 4th 1876
19. Winfield S. Hancock (D-PA): March 4th 1876-March 4th 1881
20. Nathaniel P. Banks (A-MA): March 4th 1881-September 1st 1884*
21. Alfred M. Waddell (A-NC): September 1st 1884-March 4th 1893
22. James B. Weaver (P-IA): March 4th 1893-March 4th 1901
23. Thomas B. Reed (A-ME): March 4th 1901-December 7th 1902*
24. Henry Waterson (A-KY): December 7th 1902-March 4th 1909
25. Theodore Roosevelt (A-NY): March 5th 1909-March 4th 1917
26. William J. Bryan (P-NE): March 4th 1917-July 26th 1925*
27. Burton K. Wheeler (P-MA): July 26th 1925-March 4th 1933
28. John W. Davis (A-WV): March 4th 1933-March 4th 1941
29. Charles L. McNary (A-OR): March 4th 1941-Febuary 25th 1944*
30. Herbert H. Lehman (A-NY): February 25th 1944-March 4th 1953
31. Millard E. Tidings (P-MD): March 4th 1953-March 4th 1961
32. Frank Carlson (P-KS): March 4th 1961-October 31st 1962*
33. John F. Kennedy (P-MA): October 31st 1962-March 4th 1965
34. Daniel Brewster (A-MD): March 4th 1965-June 6th 1968**
35. Hubert H. Humphrey (A-MN) June 6th 1968-January 13th 1978*
36. Daniel “Chappie James Jr. (A-FL): January 13th 1978-March 4th 1981***
37.  Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. (P-CA): March 4th 1981-January 28th 1986*
38. Jesse A. Helms Jr. (P-NC): January 28th 1986-March 4th 1993
39. Elizabeth Holtzman (A-NY): March 4th 1993-March 4th 2001***
40. Winthrop P. Rockefeller (P-AK): March 4th 2001-July 16th 2006*
41. Charles T. “Chuck” Hagel (P-NE): July 16th 2006-March 4th 2009
42. Eric K. Shinseki (A-H): March 4th 2009-???***

Notes.

11. Died in Office.
15. Died in Office due to Typhoid fever.
20. Assassinated by Charles J. Gueiteau.
23. Died in Office due to a massive heart attack.
26. Assassinated by a group of Puerto Rican Nationalists.
29. Died in Office due to complications of a failed Brain Tumor removal surgery.
32. Assassinated by a disgruntled postal worker
34. First President to resign the Office due to Bribery charges
35. First President to win a Third Term, later Died in Office due to bladder cancer
36. First African American President.
37. Assassinated by a crazed Nuclear Freeze advocate.
39. First Jewish and First Female President.
40. Died in office due to leukemia
42. First Japanese American President.

W: OTL Whig Party
D: OTL Democrats
A: American Party intially started as a front for Nativist, Former Whigs, now a Left to Center Party essentially the same as IOTL Democrats.
P: Populist Party, founded in the 1890s which initial support among Agricultural communities, now a Right to Center party essentially the same as OTL Republican Party.

Bumping this so Historico won't forget about it.

[Captain Chaos]

Liberal Republicans & Conservative Democrats

POD: Richard Nixon is elected POTUS in 1960. During his administration, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (same is OTL) is passed and he never pursues a Southern Strategy. Civil Rights would cause a split in the Southern (conservative) and Northern (liberal) wings of the Democratic party, and a realignment in the two parties beginning in the 1970s. Blacks and younger liberals would reject the Democratic party of their parents and find a home in the Republican party.

35. Richard M. Nixon (R-CA): 1961-1969
Vice President: Henry Cabot Lodge

Nixon's successful first term was highlighted by a successful Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that removed Fidel Castro and installed an interim government leading to free, democratic elections (and no Cuban missile crisis) and passage of the Civil Rights Act which ended institutional discrimination in the South and ending Jim Crow laws. After the Democrats nominated Lyndon B. Johnson for President in 1964, Southern segregationists walked out and formed the American States Rights Party which nominated Senator Strom Thurmond for President and Rep. John Ashbrook (R-OH) for Vice President. The ASRP won 6 southern states plus Arizona and Idaho. As for the Democrats, the intra-party split would be unfixable. LBJ was defeated for re-election by John Tower. John F. Kennedy retired from the Senate in 1964 due to health problems and was succeeded by his brother, Bobby who ran for President in 1968 but was assassinated. Governor George Wallace of Alabama capitalized on this by running on a law and order platform and winning the Democratic nomination for President. Wallace picked Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson as his running mate. Enraged, many non-Southern Democrats formed the Progressive party and nominated Senator George McGovern for President and Rep. Stewart Udall for Vice President. The Republicans nominated Vice President Lodge and he picked Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, a moderate acceptable to the border states and upper South. The result was a Republican landslide as the Progressives won the District of Columbia and Hawaii. The Democrats won the Deep South and Washington State. The GOP won the rest.

36. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA): 1969-1970
Vice President: John Sherman Cooper

President Lodge achieved passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970, creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Lodge's life was tragically cut short when he was assassinated in Miami by Arthur Bremer on February 27, 1970.

37. John Sherman Cooper (R-KY): 1970-1973
Vice President: Robert Finch (Governor of California from 1967-1970)

Cooper became only the second Kentucky-born President (the other was Abraham Lincoln). He faced a recession and OPEC imposed oil price hikes. The Democrats united behind Senator Ed Muskie and his running mate Albert Gore Sr. as they ended 20 years of Republican control of the White House.

38. Edmund Muskie (D-ME): 1973-1981
Vice Presidents: Albert Gore Sr. (1973-1977), Lloyd Bentsen (1977-1981)

Muskie would govern as a "New Deal" Democrat and his Cabinet reflected the makeup of the Democratic party coalition with Scoop Jackson as Secretary of Defense and Southerners holding a majority of Cabinet posts (including Secretary of State J. William Fulbright). In 1976, Vice President Gore retired and Muskie was reelected in a landslide over the Finch/Dole ticket and ending the GOP's 12 year control of the House and Senate. But in Muskie's second term, the conservative/liberal rifts that hurt the Democrats in 1964 and 1968 split the party again. In 1978, Muskie needed help from the Republicans to ratify the Panama Canal Treaty over opposition led by conservative Democrat Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. In 1979, the controversial Airline Deregulation Act became law and President Muskie refused to allow the deposed Shah of Iran into the United States for medical treatment (resulting in Jackson's resignation as Secretary of Defense). The increasing conservatism of the Democratic party resulted in widespread switches to the Republican party, including Rep. Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, Rep. Philip Burton of California, and Senator George Mitchell of Maine (appointed to President Muskie's Senate seat). But the most shocking party switch was from Rep. Claude Pepper of Florida in 1978. When Vice President Bentsen won the Democratic nomination and selected Jesse Helms as his running mate, the rest of the House Black Caucus switched en masse to the Republicans (Shirley Chisholm, elected Speaker of the House in 1979, switched to the Republicans in 1968). The realignment of the Republican party was complete, and would prove crucial to the 1980 election of


39. Edward Brooke (R-MA): 1981-1989
Vice President: Jack Kemp

Brooke was elected the first African-American President of the United States in 1980, and his coattails resulted in a Republican controlled Senate. The newly-elected Senators included: Bill Clinton of California, born in Arkansas to a Democratic family who decided to move to California to practice law and be active in the Republican party there. He was elected to the State Assembly in 1976 and won an upset victory over incumbent Senator Alan Cranston. Also elected to the Senate was Elizabeth Holtzman, a former Democrat who switched parties in 1976  and succeeded the retiring Jacob Javits.

The Brooke administration would preside over investment in the inner cities with passage of Urban Enterprise Zones and the Housing Reform Act in 1981, pet projects championed by Vice President Kemp when he served in Congress.

40. Robert Casey (D-PA): 1989-1993
Vice President: Martha Layne Collins

As Governor of Pennsylvania, Casey signed legislation restricting abortions and cut income taxes in half. Collins became the first female Vice President. After leading the US led coalition to victory in the Persian Gulf War and cutting unemployment, President Casey shocked the nation in late 1991 when he announced that he had cancer and would not seek reelection in 1992. Collins won the Democratic party nomination for President. But her campaign was hampered by several gaffes and reports of extramarital affairs that forced Senator Chuck Robb to resign as Collins' running mate in September (he was replaced by Treasury Secretary David Boren).

41. Hubert H. Humphrey III (R-MN): 1993-2001
Vice President: William J. Clinton

Previously Governor of Minnesota and the son of a Democratic US Senator, Humphrey won the Republican nomination over Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, former Senator Paul Tsongas and former Governor Jerry Brown. The Humphrey administration would be regarded as an era of normalcy which witness the rise of the internet. Humphrey became the first President to have an e-mail address. President Humphrey would mediate a peace treaty between Jordan and Israel in 1995 (earning him the Nobel Peace Prize) and the creation of the Republic of Palestine in 1999. Vice President Clinton won the Republican nomination for President in 2000 but rumors of marital infidelity and his role in a failed S&L in his hometown of Bakersfield, California hurt his campaign. It was only after the votes in Florida was counted, that the next President of the United States was





 

[Captain Chaos]

42. William Bennett (D-VA): 2001-2004
Vice President: Ben Nelson

The first Catholic elected Governor and US Senator from Virginia, Bennett was a leader of the "Religious Right" wing in the Democratic party. The support of evangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell helped Bennett sweep the Southern primaries and win the Democratic party nomination. On September 11, 2001, tragedy struck when planes struck both Twin Towers in New York City and part of the Pentagon. When it was determined that the planes were hijacked by members of al-Qaeda and Hamas, President Bennett declared a War on Terror. By year's end, the al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and Hamas training camps in Palestine's Gaza Strip were destroyed and US Marines drove out the ruling Taliban from Kabul. Osama bin Laden, founder of al-Qaeda, was captured at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He was executed in 2002. Buoyed by his evangelist base, President Bennett ordered the invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam Hussein from power. The Republicans protested and routed the Democrats in the 2002 midterm elections. There were also allegations that President Bennett once lost over $1 million gambling in Las Vegas. The stress was too much for Bennett and he suffered a fatal heart attack on January 15, 2004.

43. Ben Nelson (D-NE): 2004-2005
Vice President: Donald Rumsfeld

President Nelson promised to continue the policies of his predecessor. The Republicans united behind Senator Lincoln Chafee who ran on a platform of removing the troops from Iraq where over 2,000 US soldiers were killed. Chafee's landslide victory in 2004 brought more Republicans to Congress, which included a freshman Senator from Illinois named Barack Obama.

44. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI): 2005-Present
Vice President: Alan Wheat (former Governor of Missouri and first African-American Vice President)

Chafee came into office with a mandate to bring back the troops home from Iraq, which he did in 2007. In Afghanistan, unhappiness with corruption under its President Hamid Karzai resulted in his impeachment by the loya jirga and his removal from office; he was replaced by former Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and he promised to clean house. Passage of financial regulation reform in 2006 was credited with staving off bankruptcies of Citigroup and Lehman Brothers. Chafee easily won a second term in 2008 and looks forward to returning home to Rhode Island in 2013.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Bump for a future use

[feeblepizza]

1961-1969: John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson (D)
                                           /Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. (D)
1969-1977: Robert F. Kennedy/Martin Luther King, Jr. (D)1
                                                /Ed Muskie (D)
1977-1981: Ronald Reagan1/Richard Schweiker (R)
1981-1989: Richard Schweiker/Oliver North (R)
1989-1993: Michael Dukakis/Lloyd Bentsen (D)
1993-2001: Al Gore, Jr./Mike Epsy (D)
2001-2009: John McCain/Goerge W. Bush (R)
2009-present: George W. Bush/Colin Powell (R)
1Assassinated

[hcallega]

JFK Lives....AGAIN!!!!

1961-1969: John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson/George Smathers (D)
1969-1973: Nelson Rockefeller/John Tower (R)
1973-1981: Robert Kennedy/Terry Sanford (D)
1981-1989: George Bush/Gerald Ford (R)
1989-1993: Mario Cuomo/Doug Wilder (D)
1993-2001: Jack Kemp/George Voinovich (R)
2001-2005: George Voinovich/John McCain (R)
2005-Present: John F. Kennedy Jr./Mark Warner (D)

[Zacoftheaxes]

My best shot at a slow growing dystopia

George Bush (R-TX) (2001-2006, impeached)
Dick Cheney (R-WY) (2006-2009)
Joe Biden (D-DE)  (2009-2010, resigns after health problems)
David Paterson (D-NY) (2010-2013)
Sarah Palin (R-AK) (2013-2016, assassinated)
Jack Thompson (R-FL) (2016-2025)
Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper (D-KS) (2025-2033)
Alvin Greene (D-SC) (2033- 2037)
Hannah Beck (R-WA) (2037-2041)
Zachary Parker (L-NY) (2041-2049)

That last president totally isn't me and I totally don't fix everything.

[rzd2255]

The current year is 2016

1953-58
Former Defense Secretary George Marshall (D-DC)

1958-61
Vice President Averell Harriman (D-NY)

1961-65
Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA)

1965-68
Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA)

1968-69
Vice President Hale Boggs (D-LA)

1969-77
Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY)

1977-81
Former President Richard Nixon (R-CA)

1981-85
House Speaker Morris Udall (D-AZ)

1985-93
Former Vice President Gerald Ford (R-MI)

1993-2001
Former Governor Martha Layne Collins (D-KY)

2001-09
Senator John McCain (R-AZ)

2009-14
Former Attorney General Hillary Rodham Brooke (D-MA)

2014-
Vice President Admiral William J. Fallon (D-VA)

[rzd2255]

1961-67:  Richard Nixon (R-CA)
1967-69:  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R-MA)
1969-77:  Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY)
1977-82:  Ronald Reagan (R-CA)
1982-85:  George H.W. Bush (R-TX)
1985-93:  John Glenn (D-OH)
1993-95:  Bill Clinton (D-AR)
1995-97:  Al Gore (D-TN)
1997-01:  John McCain (R-AZ)
2001-09:  Gaston Caperton (D-WV)
2009-17:  John Edwards (D-NC)
2017-20:  Eric Cantor (R-VA)
2020-21:  Bob Ehrlich (R-MD)
2021-:      Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD)

[rzd2255]

1945-49:  Vice President James Byrnes (D-SC)
1949-53:  Governor Thomas Dewey (R-NY)
1953-59:  General Dwight Eisenhower (R-PA)
1959-65:  Vice President Richard Nixon (R-CA)
1961-65:  Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA)
1965-69:  Former President Richard Nixon (R-CA)
1969-73:  Senator Ed Muskie (D-ME)
1973-81:  Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA)
1981-85:  Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA)
1985-86:  Senator John Glenn (D-OH)
1986-89:  Vice President Harry Hughes (D-MD)
1989-93:  Senator George H.W. Bush (R-TX)
1993-01:  House Speaker Pat Schroeder (D-CO)
2001-05:  Former Governor Richard Riley (D-SC)
2005-13:  Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL)
2013-17:  Vice President Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
2017-:      Governor Natalie Tennant (D-WV)

[Bo]

1961-67:  Richard Nixon (R-CA)
1967-69:  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R-MA)
1969-77:  Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY)
1977-82:  Ronald Reagan (R-CA)
1982-85:  George H.W. Bush (R-TX)
1985-93:  John Glenn (D-OH)
1993-95:  Bill Clinton (D-AR)
1995-97:  Al Gore (D-TN)
1997-01:  John McCain (R-AZ)
2001-09:  Gaston Caperton (D-WV)
2009-17:  John Edwards (D-NC)
2017-20:  Eric Cantor (R-VA)
2020-21:  Bob Ehrlich (R-MD)
2021-:      Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD)

What happens to Nixon in 1967?

[rzd2255]

1961-67:  Richard Nixon (R-CA)
1967-69:  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R-MA)
1969-77:  Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY)
1977-82:  Ronald Reagan (R-CA)
1982-85:  George H.W. Bush (R-TX)
1985-93:  John Glenn (D-OH)
1993-95:  Bill Clinton (D-AR)
1995-97:  Al Gore (D-TN)
1997-01:  John McCain (R-AZ)
2001-09:  Gaston Caperton (D-WV)
2009-17:  John Edwards (D-NC)
2017-20:  Eric Cantor (R-VA)
2020-21:  Bob Ehrlich (R-MD)
2021-:      Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD)

What happens to Nixon in 1967?

Nixon was facing impeachment in 1967 due to allegations of ballot box stuffing in the 1964 election, giving favors in exchange for gifts, tax fraud, and insurance fraud.  He resigned before the trial would start.  In 1968, a federal grand jury would find him guilty and he would be sentenced to 44 years in prison.  He would, however, only serve 29 days with seven years parole. 

Vice President Lodge and Nixon were not close.  Lodge would refuse to pardon him, despite calls for it from high ranking Republicans.  Lodge would lose his party's nomination during the 1968 primaries.

[rzd2255]

This TL ends with the swearing in of the President in 2017.

1952 Results
(D) Pres. Harry Truman/Vice Pres. Jim Byrnes:  198 EV
(R) Sen. Robert Taft/Gov. Thomas Dewey:  270 EV
(P) Former Vice Pres. Henry Wallace/former Sen. Herbert Hitchcock:  63 EV

1953-57
President
Senator Robert Taft (R-OH)

Vice President
Governor Thomas Dewey (R-NY)

1956 Results
(R) Pres. Robert Taft/Vice Pres. Thomas Dewey:  260 EV
(D) Sen. Lyndon Johnson/Gov. Frank Lausche:  271 EV

1957-61
President
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (D-TX)

Vice President
Governor Frank Lausche (D-OH)

With his popularity ratings hovering in the upper 30's, President Johnson announced he would retire at the end of his term.  Though speculation centered around the President's rapidly declining health.  Johnson would suffer a fatal heart attack on June 11, 1961.

1960 Results
(D) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy/Rep. Norman Mailer:  312 EV
(R) Former Vice Pres. Thomas Dewey/Sen. Richard Nixon:  219 EV

1961-65
President
Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY)

Vice President
Rep. Norman Mailer (D-NJ)

1964 Results
(D) Pres. Robert F. Kennedy/Vice Pres. Norman Mailer:  304 EV
(R) Gov. William Scranton/Sen. Margaret Chase Smith:  234 EV

President Kennedy is assasinated on August 22, 1965, while vacationing in Virginia Beach.  Vice President Norman Mailer becomes President and announces the nomination of Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz as Vice President, becoming one of the most liberal administrations in history.  Wirtz announces he will not be a candidate for office in 1968. 

1965-69
President
Vice President Norman Mailer (D-NJ)

Vice President
Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz (D-IL)

1968 Results
(D) Pres. Norman Mailer/Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey:  102 EV
(R) Gov. Nelson Rockefeller/Sen. Richard Nixon:  274 EV
(I) Gov. Ronald Reagan/Sen. Strom Thurmond:  98 EV
(AI) Former Gov. George Wallace/Sen. George Smathers:  64 EV

1969-73
President
Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY)

Vice President, 1969-71
Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA)

Vice President, 1971-73
Governor John Volpe (R-MA)

Several public differences of opinion lead to the resignation of Vice President Richard Nixon in late 1971.  Some began to speculate that Nixon would mount and Independent bid for the White House, but he quickly announced he would challenge the incumbent President for renomination.  President Rockefeller chooses retiring Massachusetts Governor John Volpe to replace Nixon.  Nixon goes on to historically defeat a sitting President for renomination in 1972.

1972 Results
(R) Former Vice Pres. Richard Nixon/Rep. John Ashbrook:  170 EV
(D) Former Sec. of State James Roosevelt/Gov. Ella Grasso:  281 EV
(I) Gov. Ronald Reagan/Mayor Louie Welch:  87 EV

1973-81
President
Former Secretary of State James Roosevelt (D-CA)

Vice President
Governor Ella Grasso (D-CT)

1976 Results
(D) Pres. James Roosevelt/Vice Pres. Ella Grasso:  492 EV
(R) Rep. Eliot Richardson/former RNC Chair Anne Armstrong:  46 EV

1980 Results
(D) Sen. Ted Kennedy/Gov. Bob Graham:  214 EV
(R) Former Vice Pres. Richard Nixon/Sen. John Danforth:  324 EV

1981-89
President
Former Vice President Richard Nixon (R-CA)

Vice President
Senator John Danforth (R-MO)

1984 Results
(R) Pres. Richard Nixon/Vice Pres. John Danforth:  349 EV
(D) Gov. Bob Graham/Sen. John Glenn:  189 EV

1988 Results
(R) Vice Pres. John Danforth/former HUD Sec. Elizabeth Dole:  269 EV
(D) Gov. Tom Bradley/Sen. Sam Nunn:  269 EV

The election of 1988 saw the closest election in American history.  Neither candidate won a majority in the Electoral College, although Governor Bradley held a slim .08% national lead.  The election went to the House of Representatives where Democrats held a razor-slim 219-216 lead over Republicans.  The House voted 218 for Bradley to 217 for Danforth, thus electing the nation's first African American President and the third straight President from California.

1989-91
President
Governor Tom Bradley (D-CA)

Vice President
Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA)

Almost three years into his Presidency, Tom Bradley suffered a heart attack and died on Christmas Eve 1991.  Vice President Sam Nunn succeeded him and chose Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton as Vice President. 

1991-93
President
Vice President Sam Nunn (D-GA)

Vice President
Governor Bill Clinton (D-AR)

President Nunn addressed the nation on January 4, 1992, to announce he would not seek a full term as President and expressed his desire to return to the Senate in the near future.  He would indeed be elected to his old Senate seat in 1996.

1992 Results
(D) Vice Pres. Bill Clinton/Sen. Bob Kerrey:  280 EV
(R) Mr. Ross Perot/Sen. Bob Dole:  258 EV

1993-99
President
Vice President Bill Clinton (D-AR)

Vice President
Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE)

1996 Results
(D) Pres. Bill Clinton/Vice Pres. Bob Kerrey:  253 EV
(R) Gov. Bruce Benson/former Sen. Paula Hawkins:  250 EV
(I) Former Gov. Roy Romer/former SBA Regional Dir. Susan Collins:  35 EV

The 1996 election for President became divisive with entry of former Democratic Colorado Governor Roy Romer's entry as an Independent.  Many saw his candidacy as a spoiler to that of President Clinton's.  On election night, the Clinton/Kerrey ticket won 253 Electoral Votes and 44% of the vote to Colorado Governor Bruce Benson's 250 Electoral Votes and 43% popular vote.  Republicans controlled Congress at the time, with a large majority of Independents at 19.  With the help of the Independent caucus, the House voted to reelect Bill Clinton, giving him 222 votes.

In 1999, the Senate impeached the President Clinton and he became the first American President to be removed from office.  He had been charged and found guilty of lying under oath.  Vice President Kerrey assumed the office and chose recently retired longtime Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts to fill the vacancy.  Kennedy announced he would serve only as a placeholder until the next election.

1999-2005
President
Vice President Bob Kerrey (D-NE)

Vice President, 1999-2001
Former Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA)

Vice President, 2001-05
Governor Mary Landrieu (D-LA)

2000 Results
(D) Pres. Bob Kerrey/Gov. Mary Landrieu:  275 EV
(R) Gov. Tom Ridge/House Speaker Newt Gingrich:  263 EV

President Bob Kerrey announced his retirement at the end of his term in 2005, citing his frustration in dealing with a Republican controlled Congress.  The biggest accomplishment of the Kerrey Administration, however, had been the granting of statehood to Guam and Puerto Rico, thus giving them voting members in the House, two Senators, and Electoral Votes at the Presidential level.

2004 Results
(D) Vice Pres. Mary Landrieu/Sen. Jay Rockefeller:  270 EV
(R) Gov. John Engler/former Sen. Jack Kemp:  274 EV

2005-13
President
Governor John Engler (R-MI)

Vice President, 2005-09
Former Senator Jack Kemp (R-NY)

Vice President, 2009-13
Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Schwab (R-MD)

In 2007, Vice President Jack Kemp announced he would retire at the end of his term and would not be a candidate for reelection with President Engler.

2008 Results
(R) Pres. John Engler/former U.N. Ambassador Susan Schwab:  303 EV
(D) Former Sen. John Edwards/former Treasury Sec. Robert Rubin:  241 EV

2012 Results
(R) Sen. Rob Portman/Sen. Sheila Frahm:  277 EV
(D) Gov. Martin O'Malley/Sen. Barack Obama:  267 EV

2013-17
President
Senator Rob Portman (R-OH)

Vice President
Senator Sheila Frahm (R-KS)

2016 Results
(R) Pres. Rob Portman/Vice Pres. Sheila Frahm:  219 EV
(D) Gov. Tim McGraw/Senator John F. Kennedy, Jr.:  325 EV

2017-
President
Governor Tim McGraw (D-TN)

Vice President
Senator John F. Kennedy, Jr. (D-NY)