List of fictional United States presidencies of historical figures (C–D)
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The following is a list of real or historical people who have been portrayed as
alternate history
scenario, or occasionally for humorous purposes. Also included are actual US Presidents with a fictional presidency at a different time and/or under different circumstances than the one in actual history.
C
John C. Calhoun
- In the alternate history novel The Probability Broach as part of the North American Confederacy Series by L. Neil Smith in which the United States became a libertarian state after a successful Whiskey Rebellion and George Washington being overthrown and executed by firing squad for treason in 1794, John C. Calhoun becomes the 6th President in 1831 after James Monroe dies in office. He is elected to a full term in 1832 and served as president until 1836 when he lost that year's presidential election to former president Albert Gallatin, who went on to serve as the 7th president until 1840.
- In Gertrude B. Reinman's novelette The Light in the North, President Columbia". However, all chances of an amicable parting were dashed by a severe crisis in Maryland. With the Maryland Legislature split down the middle, a savage local civil war known as "Bleeding Maryland" broke out. Rival militias ranged across Maryland, both sides engaging in looting, rape, arson and massacre, and with radical Abolitionists and equally fanatic adherents of slavery flocking from all over the country to join in the fray - as did numerous plain criminals, outlaws and cutthroats of all kinds. Calhoun and his Northern opponents could only watch helplessly, since the sending of regular military units from either side into Maryland might have ignited an all-out war. Finally, after the Great Fire of Baltimore reduced most of Maryland's main city to smoking ruin, the Partition of Maryland was agreed upon - a meandering and jagged new border awarding about two thirds of the embattled state to Columbia and the remaining third to the United States. Columbia held its first Presidential elections in November 1833 - with Calhoun elected by a landslide, virtually unopposed. But while reading his inauguration address, Calhoun was assassinated by Austin Bearse - a young Cape Codsailor, radical abolitionist and Maryland veteran. Bearse was seized by a mob, beaten up and lynched - being hanged on a lamp post within twenty minutes of having shot Calhoun. That bloody day in Washington produced two revered martyrs - Calhoun in the South, Bearse in the North - and set the stage for many more years of conflict and enmity.
Julius Caesar
In Howard Wheatley's 1935 satirical fantasy story "The American
Brutus
from the dead. As President Cesarini arrives at Capitol Hill, to address the Senate and inform members of his new decrees, Brutus suddenly emerges from behind a column and runs at him, brandishing a legionary sword. Caesar has only time to exclaim "You again, bastard?" before being cut down.
Al Capone
- Al Capone is president of the United Socialist States of America in Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne's Back in the USSA, succeeding Eugene V. Debs following his death in 1926. Capone serves as a parallel to Joseph Stalin. He is succeeded by Barry Goldwater, who is himself a parallel to Nikita Khrushchev.
- In the short story "Boss" by Mark Bourne contained in the anthology Alternate Tyrants edited by Mike Resnick, Al Capone embarks upon a political career and establishes a decades-long Mafia-like presidency in the United States.
Jimmy Carter
- In a parallel universe designated Earth-81426 featured in the comic book What If? Volume 1 No. 26 (April 1981), Jimmy Carter ran for re-election against the Republican Party candidate Ronald Reagan and the New Populist Party candidate Captain America in 1980. While he praised Captain America for his long service to the United States, he noted that the superhero had no political experience. Captain America eventually won the election and was inaugurated as the 40th President on January 20, 1981.
- In the alternate history novel The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith in which the United States became a libertarian state known as the North American Confederacy in 1794, "Jim-Earl" Carter was a peanut farmer in Georgia in 1986.
- In the alternate history novel Russian Amerika by Stoney Compton, Jimmy Carter is hinted as being a ranking member of the Confederate States military.
- In the short story "Demarche to Iran" by recount.
- In the short story "A Dream Can Make a Difference" by John Hinckley, Jr. as the culmination of an effort to impress Jodie Foster. Carter succeeded her as president.
- In a parallel universe featured in the Sliders episode "The Young and the Relentless", Carter was defeated by Howard Stern in 1980. Stern became the 40th President at the age of 27.
- In the Second Great War (1941–1944). In late 1942, while on leave in his home town of Plains, Georgia, Carter organised the defences of that town against a surprise raid led by the Negro guerrilla leader Spartacus. His efforts proved to be unsuccessful. He was killed by Major Jonathan Moss of the United States Army, who had rendered assistance to Spartacus and his followers, in front of his mother Lillian Gordy Carter. He was 18 years old at the time of his death.
- In the book The 80s A Look Back by Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerf, and Peter Elbling, a satire book published in 1979, Allan Bakke Surgeon General. However, when Long needs a liver transplant Bakke gives him Kennedy's only afterwards say "Now I remember, it's one liver and two kidneys." President Kennedy resigns due to health reasons five days into his term, and Carter becomes President again. In 1984 Carter runs for the House of Representatives and is elected speaker. Republican Senator William Roth and Congressman Jack Kempare elected president and Vice President on a promise to cut taxes. This leaves no money for their salaries, and both resign making Carter the president again.
- In the story "Is he a peacemaker?" by Tom Rosen, a power struggle in the leadership of the newly founded PLO and demanding that Begin enter negotiations with Yasser Arafat - which Begin rejects out of hand. With Israeli opposition leaders Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin supporting Carter's demands, the President is accused of interfering in Israeli internal affairs. Later, Begin and Sharon escalate the confrontation, explicitly accusing Carter of being an "Anti-Semite" and attempting to mobilize American Jews against him. Nevertheless, most American Jews retain their traditional allegiance to the Democratic Party and significantly help Walter Mondale's elections victory in 1984. In his inauguration speech Mondale promises to "de-escalate the war of words with Israel" while "continuing unflinchingly the effort to achieve peace in the Middle East, to the great benefit of Israelis, Palestinians and everybody else there".
Lewis Cass
- The second alternate history scenario in David Holberg's "The United States as It Could Have Been" posits that in December 1860 Secretary of State Lewis Cass becomes alarmed at the growing secessionist sentiment and at what Cass considers President and other Abolitionist-held cities and towns. Hamlin, deeply hated, has no chance to win re-election, and the country remains highly tense and unsettled; slavery would only be abolished after the Third Civil War (1867-1872), the most bloody and destructive of the three. On his deathbed, ex-President Cass states: "My conscience is clear. When I ordered that mobilization, I did my duty as a saw it, and would do it over again".
Anton Cermak
- In Barbara Newman's short story Next Year in Prague, the Czech-born Anton Cermak survives an assassination attempt in 1933 and several later attempts in the following years, and goes on to serve for several terms as Unification of Korea under Communist rule - fulfilled in July 1948 with North Korean forces entering Seoul unopposed with tacit American consent, Syngman Rhee and his aides fleeing to the US. Cermak's policies become highly controversial: he is praised by some as Czechoslovakia's Savior while condemned by others for his "Pact with the Devil" and "The selling out of Korea". The election campaign in 1948degenerates into fistfights and violent confrontations between Cermak's supporters and opponents. Finally, Cermak is elected to a second term in a highly contested election, by the narrowest possible margin, and seems headed for a very stormy four years in the White House.
Dave Chappelle
- President in a sketch on AIDS, has mastered cloning, and has made contact with aliens, who then take him to safety on their spaceship. Unfortunately, President Chappelle went missing during his third term and was subsequently replaced by Vice President Charlie Murphy.
Dick Cheney
- Becomes the 44th President after the assassination of PATRIOT Act III", giving government agencies increased investigative powers on US citizens and others.
- Dick Cheney becomes the 44th President after the impeachment of George W. Bush in the final episode of the short-lived comedy series That's My Bush!.
Frank Chodorov
- In the alternate history novel The Probability Broach as part of the North American Confederacy Series by L. Neil Smith in which the United States became a Libertarian state after a successful Whiskey Rebellion and George Washington being overthrown and executed by firing squad for treason in 1794, Frank Chodorov is chosen by the Continental Congress as H. L. Mencken's successor after he is killed in a duel in 1933. He would serve as the 20th President of the North American Confederacy from 1933 to 1940.
Winston Churchill
- President in For the Sake of England by Richard K. Burns. Churchill was born in Lord Halifax after the Battle of France. President Churchill faces impeachment proceedings for having started a war without Congressional approval, but survives and carries the war through to victory. Having signed a non-aggression treaty with Japan in order to concentrate US forces on the European front, Churchill sees American forces enter Berlin in September 1944 and capture Adolf Hitler, and two months later wins a third termby a landslide.
Henry Clay
- In the alternative history novel William Crawford and John C. Calhoun while John Quincy Adams supports Andrew Jackson. Clay had engineered a conflict against the independent Arkansas Confederacy (a nation of voluntarily transplanted southern Indian nations and free Negroes) by secretly and illegally arming a freebooter expedition led by Robert Crittendenthat was intended to (and did) fail miserably.
Grover Cleveland
- In the short story "Patriot's Dream" by Tappan Wright King contained in the anthology Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick, Samuel J. Tilden defeated Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 and went on to be re-elected in 1880. He eventually founded the Liberal Party. Tilden's vice president was General Winfield Scott Hancock, who went on to be elected president himself in 1884 and 1888 with Cleveland as his vice president. Cleveland received the Liberal Party's presidential nomination in 1892, which he was widely expected to win. His running mate was Susan B. Anthony.
- In the short story "Love Our Lockwood" by Janet Kagan in the anthology Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick, Grover Cleveland lost the 1888 election to Belva Ann Lockwood, who became the 23rd President as well as the first woman to hold the office. In 1892, Cleveland defeated Lockwood and became the 24th President. He had previously been the 22nd President from 1885 to 1889.
Bill Clinton
- In an alternate timeline featured in Branch Point by Mona Clee, Bill Clinton lost his bid for re-election in 1996 to George Wallace, who became the 43rd President. The novel was published in January 1996, indicating that the author may have believed that Clinton would lose that year's presidential election.
- In the alternate history short story "Hillary Orbits Venus" by hatchet man for the President. Clinton was married to the former actress Mary Steenburgen Clinton, who had given up for her burgeoning acting career to serve as her husband's adviser and campaign manager. In 1979, she starred in the science fiction film Time After Time, in which Malcolm McDowell played H. G. Wells. At the time, it was rumored that Mrs Clinton and McDowell had had an affair.
- In Amelia Wheeler's novelette "We will not allow him to live!", a cabal of ultra-conservative Evangelicals - frustrated by the Senate's failure to impeach Bill Clinton and determined that such an "immoral man" must not be allowed to "go on contaminating the White House" - manage to infiltrate the United States Army. A powerful car bomb kills President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and several other leading Democrats who were next on the order of succession. The conspirators then attempt to seize the White House, but are bloodily repulsed and decimated by a loyal military units. The US is plunged into a vicious civil war, with all emerging leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties being swiftly assassinated. Finally, leadership of the Democratic Party militias is assumed by the charismatic Donald Trump, who emerges as leader of the party's Radical Progressive wing, promising "a New Era of Social Justice for All Americans" and "The Crushing of the Republican Party of Despicable Assassins". Though many doubt his sincerity and though accused of being "A Socialist" and "Marxist Revolutionary", Trump manages to hold on in the White House and defeat various attempts to eject him.
Chelsea Clinton
- Is the President of the United States by 2049 on Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. She is never actually seen on screen. Chelsea Clinton would be 69 years old by the year this movie takes place.
- Is the President of the United States in 2021 in the comic book series Liberality For All.
- In an underground chain of comic emails called "2043 – Headlines of the Future", Chelsea Clinton is president and bans all Cuban cigars. Also in the list of jokes, "George Z. Bush" (intended to be a futuristic descendant of George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush) says he will run in the 2044 election.
- At one point in the 2009 environmentalist docufiction The Age of Stupid, itself set in the year 2055, a series of voice clips from fictional newscasts of the future are played to chronicle the progressive ecological and humanitarian crisis faced by the world in the intervening time. In one, it is reported that "US President Chelsea Clinton" refused some otherwise unspecified "Africa's demands". Although nothing else is stated about her presidency, the voice clip plays while the 2020 year date is shown on screen.
- In the Fringe episode "Liberty", set in an alternate universe to the main one, she is announced on television as currently leading the polls in the Presidential race.
Dewitt Clinton
George Garley's novel "The Canadian Enemy" is set in an Alternate Twentieth Century in which
war hawks were strong, and in Baltimore the President was burned in effigy. However, for most Americans the lost territories were distant frontier outposts, and "there was plenty of other land, free for the taking, elsewhere in the West". Moreover, the President blamed the losses on the previous administration which had "started an unnecessary war and went into it woefully unprepared", and asserted that, had the war continued, the US might have sustained far greater territorial losses. Most Americans accepted this view. In his own time, and for most of the 19th Century, Dewitt Clinton was regarded as a moderately successful President. However, in the 20th Century, the increasingly difficult relations with Canada retroactively made his presidency a hotly controversial issue. In the 1960s, Americans stridently demanding that Canada give the US access to the resources of the Great Lakes argued that, had Madison been elected, the US might have continued the War of 1812 and eventually won it - and therefore, the election of Dewitt Clinton had been a disastrous setback for the US; had Madison won in 1812, Detroit would have belonged to the US and its car industry would have been an American industry rather than a Canadian one. An opposing camp pointed out that, should the Cold War turn hot, Canadian Alaska
might be the first territory invaded by the Soviets, and therefore the US and Canada needed to close ranks and avoid divisive quarrels. These tended to praise Dewitt Clinton for having ended an unnecessary war and freed British warships to the task of defeating the tyrant Napoleon.
Hillary Clinton
- In a parallel universe featured in the Sliders Season One episode "The Weaker Sex" in which women held the positions of power and influence and men were treated like second class citizens, Hillary Clinton (played by Teresa Barnwell) was the incumbent president in 1995. Her husband, Bill Clinton, was the First Gentleman.
- Described in John Birmingham's Axis of Time novels as being an "uncompromising" president; served two terms and was martyred by a suicide bomber. A George W. Bush-class aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Hillary Clinton (aka "The Big Hill", ship's motto "It Takes A Carrier"), was named for her.
- Portrayed as 46th president in the British comic Secretary of State and Colin Powellher Chief of Staff.
- In the parallel universe depicted in the comic book September 11, 2001 attacksnever took place.
- In The Trial of Tony Blair, she was elected as the 44th President in 2008, succeeding George W. Bush.
- In War on Terrorism" similar to that undertaken by George W. Bush in actual history, leading to an unstable, oppressive situation in the later part of the 21st century when the plot is set.
- In the alternate history novel 11/22/63 by Stephen King, Hillary Clinton was president in 2011 in the alternate timeline created by Jake Epping's prevention of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. She was first elected in 2004 after her husband Bill, the widely-seen shoo-in for the Democratic nomination, died of a heart attack at that year's national convention. Her presidency sees Maine become a province of Canada after a referendum held in 2005. Harry Dunning describes her presidency as 'not bad' but seriously hampered by constant earthquakes resulting from the temporal disruption caused by Epping.
- In the White House Correspondents' Dinner (the real Dinner occurred on the same date as the air date of the special) and as traditional for a host during the Dinner, the alternate universe Bee entertains the invitees by staging a comedy routine spoofing incumbent President Hillary Clinton (the incumbent president is traditionally expected to attend the dinner (which as the case in Woman in the High Castle) and takes the jokes about him/herself in good humor and later on, go up onto the stage him/self to make more jokes).[3] The winner of the 2016 election in reality, Donald Trump did not attend any of the White House Correspondents' Dinners held during his Presidency (including the 2017 one) as he was unpopular with many of the White House Correspondents over not only his policies in office but uniquely also his general persona which many considered abhorrent.[4] Trump was invited every year he was in office but never went as he considered the comedians performing as "mocking" him.[5]
- In the novel Agency by William Gibson, Hillary Clinton defeats Donald Trump in the 2016 election.[6]
George Clooney
- George Clooney is a former president in the episode "The Suite Smell of Excess" of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Zack and Cody Martin traveled to an alternate universe where everything had changed from their original world and where President Clooney was depicted on the quarter.
Schuyler Colfax
- Jane Cobbler's story "Reconstruction Forever!" begins in October 1871, when President European Great War which broke out in 1914, dragged on until January 1920 and ended in an inconclusive "Peace of Total Mutual Exhaustion" - which endured for the rest of the 20th Century and beyond. (Adolf Hitler, an obscure failed agitator, died as a homeless drunk in Munich). Inspired by the Europeans' example, the Americans at last pulled the Federal garrisons from the South in 1926 and declared Reconstruction to be completed – and to many people's surprise, it turned out that all but marginal groups of Southern Whites have become reconciled to Black equality.
Calvin Coolidge
- In the short story "Fighting Bob" by Robert M. La Follette, Sr. La Follette entered office as the 31st President on March 4, 1925. However, his term in office proved to be short-lived as he died on June 18, 1925 (as he did in real life). Burton K. Wheelersucceeded him as the 32nd President.
- In the heart attackwhile shaving and died on January 5, 1933 (the same date as he died in real history). Coolidge's term was served by Hoover, who became the 31st president.
James M. Cox
- In the short story "A Fireside Chat" by Jack Nimersheim in the anthology Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick, James M. Cox was elected president in 1920 after his Republican opponent Warren G. Harding died of a stroke. Before taking office, however, President-elect Cox was assassinated by an anti-League of Nations activist. Consequently, Vice President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 29th President on March 4, 1921.
- In the novelette "A World at Peace" by Arnold Weinbaum, during the Great War was celebrated worldwide and Cox's role in preventing a second such war was widely recognized. By general acclaim it was decided to add his face to those of the Presidents commemorated on Mount Rushmore.
Davy Crockett
- In the short story "Chickasaw Slave" by Judith Moffett in the anthology Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick, Davy Crockett is elected as the 7th President in the 1828 presidential election after Andrew Jackson's image was tarnished by a land-dealing scandal. This later results in the Civil War occurring over the Compromise of 1850 and a different version of the Confederacy winning its independence in 1853.
Mario Cuomo
- Mario Cuomo is portrayed in the British comic 2000 AD (in the 1993 story Maniac 5) as vice president to President Al Gore, and succeeds to the presidency when Gore is killed by aliens during the Fourth World War. Cuomo is pressured by his advisers into taking drastic measures to win the war, against his better judgment, and shoots himself in remorse. His successor is seen but not named.
- Mario Cuomo is also President in the Stoney Compton novel Mid Atlantic States, and the Upper Midwest and the capital is Columbus, Ohio.
George Armstrong Custer
- In the alternate history short story "How the South Preserved the Union" by Ralph Roberts in the anthology Battle of the Little Big Horn(June 25–26, 1876).
- In the novel "1882: Custer in Chains" by Robert Conroy, George Custer survives and wins the Battle of Little Big Horn. As a result, he is eventually elected president in 1880 and provokes a war with Spain after a group of Americans on a ship headed for Cuba in massacred.
- Much like in "1882: Custer in Chains" above, in the short story "Bloodstained Ground" by Alternate Generals edited by Harry Turtledove, Roland J. Green and Martin H. Greenberg, George Custer survives and wins the Battle of Little Big Horn with him eventually being elected as the President of the United States, only to later be assassinated. Following Custer's death, journalist Samuel Clemens is assigned to write a memorial, but his interviews with Custer's nephew Henry Armstrong Reed and Captain Marcus Reno reveal some sickening facts about Custer.[7]
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Howard Dean
- The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Sliding Van Doors" includes a scene in an alternate 2007 where Howard Dean is president and The Purge is legal.
James Dean
- In Catherine Barnes' story "The Rebel Found A Cause", actor James Dean Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, President Dean held a dramatic summit with Saddam Hussein at Geneva, convincing him to withdraw from Kuwait by a judicious mixture of threats of war and promises of generous American financial aid. Dean's impromptu speech "My fellow Americans, the war is over. We have sustained zero casualties and both the US and Iraq are the winners" was immediately regarded as one of the Great Speeches of American history, and Dean got the Nobel Peace Prize. At the ceremony, the King of Norwaysaid "This prize is given to James Dean, the Rebel who made Humanity's cause his own".
Jefferson Davis
- In the alternate history novel The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith in which the United States became a libertarian state in 1794 after a successful Whiskey Rebellion and George Washington being overthrown and executed by firing squad for treason, Jefferson Davis served as the 10th President of the North American Confederacy from 1848 to 1852. He was succeeded by Gifford Swansea, who served as the 11th president from 1852 to 1856.
- In George V. Clifton's short story "Is this the Jubilee?", President Harpers' Ferry and commutes their punishment to life imprisonment (they would be completely pardoned in 1865). Widely criticized for his act, Buchanan said "I have no love for those rascals, but this country is like a tinderbox, and these executions were the match which would have set it off". Indeed, the escalation towards civil war is slowed down, and the United States gets a respite. In 1868, Jefferson Davis runs for president as candidate of the new Reconciliation Party, with Abraham Lincolnas his running mate, on a program calling for a phased emancipation of the slaves over a ten-year period with partial compensation to their owners. The Davis-Lincoln Ticket wins considerable support in both North and South. Davis and Lincoln - using both intensive lobbying on Capitol Hill and a series of rallies to gather grassroots support - manage to get the Emancipation Bill adopted by a wide margin in January 1870, and get re-elected by a landslide in 1872, having asked for a mandate "To complete this great project". Observers conclude that the specter of an American Civil War had definitely receded.
- In Margaret McPherson's dystopian story "Blood, Blood Everywhere", in 1862 a band of Northern Abolitionists manages to infiltrate spheres of influencein Central and South America. By the 1920s, the United States was considered a second-rate power, nearly bankrupt with most of its industries having deserted to other countries.
Eugene V. Debs
- In the alternate history anthology Back in the USSA by Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne, Eugene Debs and his followers in the Socialist Party of America overthrew the oppressive regime of President Charles Foster Kane with the storming of the White House on July 4, 1917, serving as a parallel of Vladimir Lenin. He became the first President of the United Socialist States of America (USSA). After his death in 1926, he was succeeded by Al Capone, a parallel to Joseph Stalin.
Thomas E. Dewey
- In "No Other Choice" by Barbara Delaplace contained in the anthology Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick, Thomas Dewey defeats a seriously ill Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 to become the 33rd President, and eventually decided to drop the atomic bomb on Tokyo rather than Hiroshima, leading to the deaths of eight million Japanese civilians. His vice president was John W. Bricker, though Dewey came to believe that Bricker's temperament was better suited to peacetime than wartime.
- "The More Things Change..." by Glen E. Cox, also contained in the anthology Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick, tells the story of the 1948 election in reverse, with underdog Dewey eventually defeating the early overwhelming favorite, the incumbent Harry S. Truman, by playing to anti-communist fears. He therefore becomes the 34th President with Earl Warren as his vice president. The story contains a reference to the famously inaccurate banner headline "Dewey Defeats Truman". Given that it was regarded as a foregone conclusion that Dewey would lose the election, the front-page headline of the Chicago Tribune on November 3, 1948, erroneously reads "Truman Defeats Dewey". The front cover of the anthology depicts a grinning Dewey proudly holding up the relevant edition of the Chicago Tribune in the same manner as Truman did in real life.
- In The Trinity Paradox by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason, the well-intentioned interference of a time traveller caused the boosting of Nazi Germany's nuclear program, and New York City was devastated in June 1944 by a radioactive dust missile fired from a German U-boat – with the result that voters lost confidence in Roosevelt and Thomas Dewey won the 1944 election with John W. Bricker as his vice president. In his term, President Dewey instituted the policy of regularly using nuclear arms in whatever war the US was involved in, first against Germany and later against the Soviet Union and North Korea.
- In Second Great War (1941–1944), Dewey successfully ran on a platform that the Socialists had allowed the Confederacy to regain its strength under Jake Featherston. At his inauguration on February 1, 1945, President Dewey pledged to continue US occupation of the CS with the intention of re-integrating the southern states back into the Union, even though over 82 years had passed since the Confederate States had won its independence in the War of Secession (1861–1862) with the support of the United Kingdom and France. He pledged to continue La Follette's policy of racial equality in the armed services. Furthermore, he proposed a continued partnership with the United States' traditional ally, the German Empire, to police the world and prevent the spread of superbomb technology to their former enemies, the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan. Given that it was widely believed that Dewey would lose the election, the front-page headline of the November 8, 1944, edition of the Chicago Tribune inaccurately read "La Follette Defeats Dewey". Vice President-elect Truman was photographed holding up a copy of the paper by the media. Dewey was elected at the age of 42, tying the first Socialist president Upton Sinclair (who was elected to the first of two terms in 1920, defeating the Democratic incumbent Theodore Roosevelt) as the youngest President in US history. He was also the first president born in the 20th century whereas Sinclair was the first born after the War of Secession.
- In Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I (2014) by Richard Ned Lebow in which neither World War I nor World War II took place, Thomas Dewey was elected in 1944 and served two terms. He was preceded by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- In the alternate history video game Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, Thomas E. Dewey served as the 34th President of the United States after he defeated Harry S. Truman in the 1948 election. After Nazi Germany invaded the Eastern Seaboard of the United States in 1953, he and his vice president Haley resign and let Speaker of the House James Edward Stevenson become the president of a new Pro-Nazi puppet government.
- In the alternate history novella Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore, a Confederate victory in the War of Southern Independence is generally disastrous for the United States. In domestic politics, it results in rampant corruption and the replacement of the Democratic and Republican parties with the right-leaning Whigs and the left-leaning Populists following a series of unable Democratic and Republican administrations. The Whigs accept the status quo, wishing to turn the United States into a neo-colony for the world's great powers, while the Populists wish to ameliorate the harsher aspects of the US economy such as indentureships and the clauses of the 1864 Treaty of Reading, the American-Confederate peace agreement. The Whig candidate for the 1940 Presidential Election is Thomas E. Dewey who defeats his Populist rival Jennings Lewis, an outcome that was favoured by the Grand Army terrorist organisation due to Dewey's more predictable agenda. However, due to political corruption, the presidency has diminished in power in comparison to the House Majority Speaker.
Bob Dole
- In the alternate history short story "Hillary Orbits Venus" by Pamela Sargent, Bob Dole was elected president in 1984 and 1988. He was preceded by John Glenn and succeeded by Bill Clinton. By 1998, he and Glenn were the only living former Presidents.
- In the alternate history novel The Sky People, Bob Dole was president at the time of the first American settlement on Venus in 1982.
Shaggy 2 Dope
- In the internet fiction series empress.[8]
Stephen A. Douglas
- In the short story "How the South Preserved the Union" by African American (which by then had replaced "Negro" as the preferred term for black people) men the right to vote. However, certain veterans had already enjoyed voting rights since the end of war. Several years later, the right to vote was granted to all women.
- In the short story "Lincoln's Charge" by Herschel Vespasian Johnson. Douglas is able to live longer than he did in real life, as he still alive at the end of the story and died on June 3, 1861, in reality. In the hope of avoiding warfare, Douglas attempted to reach a compromise with the Southern representatives in the Congress. The Manumission Act of 1862 was intended to preserve the Union by freeing the slaves over a period of ten years, giving everyone time to adjust. While Douglas heralded the law as another great compromise analogous to the Compromise of 1850, the Southern representatives formed the Confederate States of America and began arming for war. After the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1862, President Douglas was fearful of further provoking the South and did not introduce conscription as the Confederacy. Consequently, the professional though much smaller Union Army was overwhelmed and nearly destroyed by the Confederate States Army at Manassas Creek in Virginia in 1862. It took the United States over a year to recover from this disaster, creating a period of false peace. Although everyone in the North initially welcomed it, the false peace gave both sides time to build their armies as well as providing an opportunity for the United Kingdom to decide to support the Confederacy with the full backing of the British Empire's diplomacy and trade. Douglas continued to negotiate with the Confederacy in an attempt to reach a compromise, failing to understand that every day lost meant another victory for the South. The failed Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln accepted a commission as the commanding general of the Illinois Militia in the Union Army. General Lincoln's own commanding officer was Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln believed that he would have been able to prevent the war if he had been elected or, failing that, would have shown the kind of decisive leadership of which Douglas was seemingly incapable, built a real army and crushed the Confederacy before they were able to build a large army of their own. Shortly after leading his troops into battle for the first time in 1863, General Lincoln was shot and killed by a Confederate sniper while still on horseback. Although the story ends with Lincoln's death, it is heavily implied that the Confederacy will eventually win the war with the support of the British and establish an independent nation.
Frederick Douglass
- In the alternate history novel The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith in which the United States became a libertarian state in 1794 after a successful Whiskey Rebellion and George Washington being overthrown and executed by firing squad for treason, Frederick Douglass served as the 16th President of the North American Confederacy from 1888 to 1892.
- In Terry Bisson's novel Fire on the Mountain, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry succeeds and precipitates an all-out slave rebellion throughout the South. Frederick Douglass, full of remorse for not having joined the original raid, goes southward and joins Brown's growing army of rebel slaves. Brown does not survive the years of war which follow. It is Frederick Douglass along with Harriet Tubman who carry on the war to a victorious conclusion, eventually detaching the Deep South and making of it the predominantly Black nation of Nova Africa, and defeating the last ditch attempt of die hard Unionist Abraham Lincoln to raise a new army and restore Nova Africa's territory to the Union. Douglass and Tubman are remembered by posterity as respectively the Founding Father and Founding Mother of the new nation.
Michael Dukakis
- In the short story "Dukakis and the Aliens" by Robert Sheckley in the anthology Alternate Presidents edited by Mike Resnick, Michael Dukakis won the 1988 election and became the 41st President, defeating Vice President George H. W. Bush. His own vice president was Lloyd Bentsen. President Dukakis was eventually revealed to be an enemy alien attempting to infiltrate Dulce Base. "Friendly" aliens along with the Men in Black have to adjust the timeline to ensure that Bush was elected the 41st president, instead.
- In the setting for the role-playing game Iran-Contra affair in 1987, thus becoming ineligible to run for the presidency in 1988. His vice-president was Lloyd Bentsen. Dukakis Lost the 1992 electionto Jeffrey Lynch (R).
References
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- ^ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (April 29, 2017). "Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner, Pt. 8: Woman in the High Castle". Retrieved May 13, 2017 – via YouTube.
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