List of Fictional United States Presidencies of Historical Figures

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List of fictional United States

presidencies of historical figures (K–L)
The following is a list of real or historical people who have been portrayed as
President of the United States in fiction, although they did not hold the office in Lists of fictional Presidents
of the United States
real life. This is done either as an alternate history scenario, or occasionally for
humorous purposes. Also included are actual U.S. presidents with a fictional A–B C–D E–F
presidency at a different time and/or under different circumstances than the one in G–H I–J K–M
actual history.
N–R S–T U–Z
Unnamed fictional presidents

K Fictional presidencies of
Wynton Kelly historical figures
A–B C–D E–G

In the German Tageschau for the Wende Gruppe Wiedervereinigungsfest,
Wynton Kelly was President of the United States in the 1970s, during a crisis H–J K–L M–O
between the US and the Soviet Union around the "Herald des Freien
Westens", a communication satellite. The secret services of both sides of the P–R S–U V–Z
Iron Curtain claimed that the other side had stolen crucial parts of the satellite
Candidates
for military purposes. Kelly gave a broadcast speech in which he warned the
Soviet leaders to immediately deliver to stolen parts back to the US under Vice presidents
threat of a nuclear attack. In return General Bravonov, the Soviet leader,
warned the US to return their parts of the satellite. The broadcast speech can
be viewed on YouTube under the tag "Wiedervereinigungsfest".
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
Was president in Fatherland, a novel by Robert Harris later made into a HBO movie. In the novel, Nazi Germany
won World War II resulting in a far different world by April 1964. With tensions easing between the world's two
major superpowers, a 75-year-old Adolf Hitler welcomes President Kennedy (who was elected in 1960) to a
Berlin summit in the interest of fostering détente. Kennedy was believed by one of the main characters to be a
shoo-in for re-election until the truth of the death camps is uncovered on the day of the summit. President
Kennedy was played by Jan Kohout in the movie.
In the novel K is for Killing by Daniel Easterman, he becomes the 34th president in 1940 following the
assassination of President D. C. Stephenson. Stephenson was elected Vice President under Charles Lindbergh
in 1932, and became president upon arranging for Lindbergh's assassination to prevent him from discovering a
secret nuclear weapon collaboration plan with Nazi Germany. In the novel, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. is Speaker of
the House and becomes President when Stephenson is killed by his own wife, but blames it on German agents
and uses it as a pretext to sever all ties with Germany.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
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, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr was elected president in 1960 and served two terms. His
First Lady was the former model, Broadway actress and Winner Take All hostess Athalia Fetter. She became a
prominent activist in the civil rights movement, which resulted in a rapid decline in her husband's popularity.
Although they were portrayed as a fairy tale couple, they often had extremely heated arguments in the White
House. JPK's Attorney General was his younger brother John F. Kennedy. During an argument with the First
Lady, JPK once remarked that he wished that he had married Jack's wife Jacqueline Kennedy as he was certain
that she would have been a vacuous First Lady who would remain out of politics.
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John F. Kennedy
In the parallel universe featured in the film Quest for Love, John F. Kennedy likewise served as the US President
but he was never assassinated. In 1971, he was elected Secretary-General of the League of Nations, which still
existed as World War II never happened in that universe.
In the 1980 novel Timescape by Gregory Benford, the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963
was averted by a high school student who interrupted Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository,
attacking the shooter and sending the would-be fatal third shot awry. Although seriously injured, Kennedy
survived. This interference created an alternate timeline in which William Scranton was the US President in 1974,
having defeated Robert F. Kennedy due to a telephone tapping scandal.
In James P. Hogan's The Proteus Operation, John F. Kennedy is elected president in 1972, in an alternate
history where Nazi Germany won World War II and the German-Japanese Axis rules all the world except for
North America and Australia. President Kennedy vows "not to give up a single inch of free soil" and engages in
an increasingly tense Cold War with the Nazis and Imperial Japanese, facing the bleak possibility of either defeat
in the coming hot war or the destruction of the world in a nuclear holocaust. In 1974, Kennedy sponsors a secret
time travel project to send a special commando unit back to 1939, whose intervention eventually creates our own
history.
In Brad Ferguson's The World Next Door, John F. Kennedy was still alive and still legally the President in the
1990s as the US and the whole world were completely devastated in 1962 when the Cuban Missile Crisis turned
into all-out nuclear war and no further elections were ever held. Kennedy is hated and detested by the remnants
of the American population, starting to revive by their own efforts in small pockets here and there. Generally
considered "The man who destroyed the country", Kennedy's exact whereabouts are unknown, and he is
rumored to be "hiding out in a bunker somewhere."
Herbert B. Douglas' story "The Mother of all Murder Trials" is an alternate history in which Jacqueline Bouvier
married John G. W. Husted, Jr. rather than John Kennedy. Kennedy then married Marilyn Monroe and was
elected president in 1960 with her at his side. In their first year, Monroe was a highly successful and glamorous
First Lady, but afterwards their marriage went under increasing strain, bitter quarrels and mutual (justified)
accusations of infidelity. Late on the night of September 30, 1962, President Kennedy discovered his wife in bed
with his younger brother Robert F. Kennedy, pulled a gun and shot both of them dead – being found by White
House aides bitterly crying with the smoking gun still in his hand. A week later Congress unanimously voted to
impeach Kennedy and remove him from office, whereupon he was charged with murder. After dismissing a
lawyer who tried to plead "temporary insanity", Kennedy pleaded guilty and specifically asked the court to
sentence him to death as "the least which I deserve", refused to appeal the sentence and went to the electric
chair after Pope John XXIII came to America to personally give him absolution. His last words were "God bless
America – I am ready to do my last duty for my country". While initially considered a monster, Kennedy's sincere
and obvious penitence won him considerable public sympathy and he was widely regarded as "a tragic hero".
The enormous attention to this sensational murder case relegated to the back pages the news of Soviet missiles
being placed in Cuba. President Lyndon B. Johnson, who took office in October 1962 following Kennedy's
impeachment, contented himself with warning the Soviets that any use of these missiles would be "answered ten-
fold" by American missiles placed in Turkey. In 1965 Johnson – concluding that there was no chance left to topple
the Cuba regime – reached a secret deal with Fidel Castro, for removal of US sanctions in return for a Cuban
promise not to "export the revolution". This caused an open breach between Castro and Che Guevara, who was
arrested in Havana and executed on treason charges.
In "Winter of Our Discontent: The Impeachment and Trial of John F. Kennedy", by Bryce Zabel (originally written
on collaboration with Harry Turtledove, but completed by Zabel alone), President John Kennedy survived an
assassination attempt in Dallas and went on to be re-elected in 1964. However, in 1966 two investigative
reporters, Chuck Duncan and Alan Lefkowitz, published sensational revelations on misdeeds in the Kennedy
Administration. This led to Congress eventually impeaching Kennedy and removing him from office.
In one of the alternate realities featured in The Coming of the Quantum Cats by Frederik Pohl, John Kennedy
was a Senator from Massachusetts in 1986 who was married to a woman named Marilyn. At the time, Nancy
Reagan was President of the United States. She was considered a strong and assertive President, who
successfully guided her version of the United States through the major crisis of an invasion from a different reality.
Her husband Ronald, known as the First Gentleman, was mostly disregarded.
In the alternate history novel Voyage by Stephen Baxter, John Kennedy was the victim of an assassination
attempt in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. While Kennedy survived, his wife Jacqueline Kennedy was killed
and he was left crippled and incapacitated. His condition forced him to resign and Lyndon B. Johnson became the
36th President. Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 and, on July 20, 1969, he conducted a widely broadcast
phone call with the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Joe Muldoon, the first men to set foot on the Moon.
During the phone call, former President Kennedy committed the United States to send a manned mission to
Mars, which Nixon eventually took up and started implementing in practice. The Mars flight was launched from
Jacqueline B. Kennedy Space Center, which was named for the late First Lady, in 1980.
In the alternate history Dark Future novel series by Kim Newman, John Kennedy was defeated by Richard Nixon
in the 1960 election after it was discovered that he was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe.
In the short story "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson" by David Gerrold included in the anthology Alternate
Presidents, the title character defeated Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 after Eisenhower made the mistake of
choosing Joseph McCarthy as his running mate instead of Richard Nixon. However, Stevenson proved to be an
extremely unpopular president, leading to his impeachment and subsequent resignation in August 1958.
Stevenson was succeeded by John Kennedy, his untested 41-year-old vice-president who becomes the 35th
President. Although the story ends immediately after Stevenson has decided to resign, it is heavily implied that
Nixon, already the front runner for the next Republican nomination, will defeat Kennedy in the 1960 election. This
is due to the public's antipathy towards the Democrats and the fact that Kennedy is a much derided figure due to
his recent marriage to the Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe, referred to derisively as "the new Monroe
Doctrine."
In the short story "The Kennedy Enterprise" by David Gerrold contained in the anthology Alternate Kennedys,
John Kennedy was raised in Hollywood and eventually decided to become an actor. Although he was cast in
numerous films in the 1940s and the 1950s, roles began to dry up by the time that he had reached his mid 40s.
However, in 1966, he was cast in what would become his best known role, namely Captain Jack Logan of the
U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) in the hugely popular science fiction television series Star Track.
In the alternate history novel The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss, John Kennedy was a
publisher in Boston, Massachusetts in 1995. Although born and raised in the North American Union, Kennedy
had a strong sense of his Irish heritage and hated the British Empire for its past and continued transgressions
against Ireland from the Great Famine (1845–1852) to the abject poverty and brutal exploitation of Irish miners in
the present. He adopted a separatist stance, which he expressed through the magazine Common Sense,
frequently skirting the edge of legality. He was suspected of being a member of the terrorist organisation, the
Sons of Liberty. When the Thomas Gainsborough painting The Two Georges was stolen from the Governor-
General's mansion in New Liverpool in June 1995, Royal American Mounted Police officers Thomas Bushell and
Samuel Stanley and the painting's custodian Dr. Kathleen Flannery followed suspected Sons member Joseph
Killbride to Boston, they met with Kennedy, who proved combative in dealing with Bushell and made very subtle
and inappropriate advances towards Flannery. His brother was a Catholic archbishop.
In the alternate history novel The Gladiator also by Harry Turtledove, the decision of John Kennedy to back
down during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a signal to the world that the United States was not as
serious about fighting the Cold War as it held itself out as being. After the US withdraw its troops from the
Vietnam War in 1968, communists and socialists formed popular fronts in the face of the United States' perceived
weakness. With the Soviet Union's support, these popular fronts were able to successfully topple Western
Europe's capitalist and democratic governments and established People's Republics. The United States was the
last nation to fall. By the end of the 20th century, the entire world had turned to communism. By the late 21st
century, the United States was seen as harmless and was completely obedient to the Soviet Union.
In the 2006 science fiction short story Before the Beginning by Harry Turtledove, an invention called the time-viewer
was created so people to view the past, The assassination of John F. Kennedy became one of the most popular time-
viewer recordings. The recording could be purchased along with the assassination of his brother Robert, the plane
crashes that killed his brother Joseph and his son John, Jr. and the skiing accident that killed his nephew Michael.
The time-viewer showed that President Kennedy's assassination was indeed perpetrated by Lee Harvey Oswald. The
time-viewer was also used to make pornographic recordings of Kennedy's sexcapades.
In the first parallel universe featured in Sliders, the United States was a severely impoverished nation whereas
Mexico was an industrial giant and a world power. Americans emigrated across the Mexican border in droves.
Furthermore, the world was undergoing global cooling. In this universe, the Twenty-second Amendment, which
states that no person may be elected to the presidency more than twice, had seemingly never been ratified.
Consequently, John Kennedy was elected to the nation's highest office in every election from 1960 to 1992. At
the time of Quinn Mallory's visit to this universe in September 1994, Kennedy was serving his ninth term as
president. He did not plan to run for re-election in 1996. He was married to the former Hollywood actress Marilyn
Monroe.
In a parallel universe featured in the Sliders Season Two episode "Time Again and World", John Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. After the Rosenbergs were
executed, the director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover became the 36th President. As a result of Hoover's rise to
power, much of the United States Constitution was abridged and martial law was declared. In the Second
Gettysburg Address, President Hoover spoke out against the ills of civilization, claiming that democracy was
leading to godless amorality and the breakdown of the family unit. Hoover remained president for 22 years until
his death in 1985. Martial law had effectively rendered the United States a police state by 1996.
In a parallel universe featured in the Sliders Season Two episode "Obsession", a young psychic from San
Francisco predicted the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 and thereby prevented his
death. Lincoln was so grateful and impressed that he created a cabinet post known as the Prime Oracle, whose
job was to predict natural and man made disasters. He and his successors were so successful that millions of
American citizens came to trust and believe in psychic abilities. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was
likewise prevented and he survived until May 1995, when he died at the age of 78 due to complications from
Addison's disease. Attendees at his funeral included his younger brother Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.. By 1996, the President of the United States was little more than a figurehead for the
country as not even the President could question the Prime Oracle's infinite wisdom.
In the Elseworlds comic book miniseries Superman: Red Son, John Kennedy lost the 1960 election to Richard
Nixon, who was later assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. However, he was President by 1978.
During his presidency, he had divorced his first wife Jacqueline Kennedy and married Norma Jeane Baker,
becoming the first U.S. President to divorce and remarry while in office.
In the film C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a 2004 mockumentary directed by Kevin Willmott which
depicts a timeline in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War, completely annexed and absorbed the
United States, and perpetuated slavery. By 1960, when only 29 percent of voters approve of slavery, Roman
Catholic Republican John F. Kennedy is elected CSA president over Democrat Richard Nixon. However, foreign
policy such as the Newfoundland Missile Crisis[1] distracts him, and he is unable to implement his domestic
agenda before being assassinated.
In the alternate history novel The Sky People by S. M. Stirling, John F. Kennedy served two full terms as the
35th President from 1961 to 1969. Although he was initially considered weak on anti-Communist matters, he was
elected to a second term in 1964. His successful handling of the Vietnam War, the Thailand Border Crisis of
1966-1967 and the Six-Day War silenced the majority of his critics. The key US base on Mars was named after
Kennedy.
In the parallel universe featured in Fringe, the nonagenarian John F. Kennedy was serving as the United States
Ambassador to the United Nations in May 2009 but planned to resign his position in order to lead a new US
government agency aimed at slowing ecological breakdown.
In the mockumentary What If...? Armageddon 1962, President-elect John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a 73-
year-old postal worker named Richard Paul Pavlick in Palm Beach, Florida on December 11, 1960. Consequently,
Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 35th President on January 20, 1961. Johnson's
failure to settle the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a nuclear war in October 1962.
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy was elected in 2000 in the story "Prince Pat" by George Alec Effinger in the anthology Alternate
Kennedys, defeating the incumbent Republican, former Secretary of State James A. Baker. In real life, Patrick
Kennedy, son of President John F. Kennedy, was born August 7, 1963, and died two days later of infant
respiratory distress syndrome. This would have made him, at 37, the youngest president in history. In style and
plot, the story parallels the Shakespeare play Henry V.
Robert F. Kennedy
The novel A Disturbance of Fate by Mitchell J. Freedman is premised on Robert Kennedy surviving Sirhan
Sirhan's assassination attempt and going on to serve two successful terms as president with Ralph Yarborough
as his vice president and eventual successor.
In one of the episodes of What If? on the Discovery Channel, Robert Kennedy won the Democratic nomination
in 1968 with Revd Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. as his running mate. He defeated Richard Nixon and George
Wallace in the general election to become the 37th President but was shot to death in September 1969.
In the story "President-Elect" by Mark Aronson in the anthology Alternate Kennedys, Robert Kennedy survives
his encounter with Sirhan Sirhan and adds a strong law and order theme to his campaign. Pressured by
incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson to more closely toe the party line (or more precisely, the LBJ line) or else risk
having his election sabotaged, Kennedy bolts and becomes the Republican nominee with Richard Nixon as his
running mate. The Democrats nominate his brother Ted Kennedy to run with the incumbent Vice President Hubert
Humphrey. Kennedy/Nixon barely edges Kennedy/Humphrey, but before he can be inaugurated, Robert is killed
when he accidentally drives off a bridge at Chappaquiddick, leaving Nixon to become the 37th President.
In the 1969 alternate history If Israel Lost the War by Richard Z. Chesnoff, Edward Klein and Robert Littell, Israel
was defeated in the Six-Day War, Sirhan Sirhan went home to share in his people's victory celebrations, and
Robert Kennedy passed unscathed through the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel and went on to be elected as
the 37th President. On entering office, Kennedy feels that the fall of Pro-Western Israel at the hands of the pro-
Soviet Nasser's Egypt has dangerously tipped the global balance of forces, and he orders an escalation of the
Vietnam War through a land invasion of North Vietnam. However, American forces get bogged down far short of
Hanoi, due to intensive Vietnamese guerrilla activity plus the direct mass intervention of Chinese "volunteers",
similar to those who fought in the Korean War. As a result, the President's popularity sharply plunges by 1969,
when the book ends.
In the short story "Fellow Americans" by Eileen Gunn contained in the anthology Alternate Presidents, Barry
Goldwater defeated the early favorite and incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and went on to be re-elected in
1968. During his term in office, President Goldwater ordered that nuclear weapons be deployed against North
Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In 1990, Robert Kennedy, who had never seriously sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, was serving as the Governor of New York and proceedings had been instituted against
him for an alleged impropriety which he had committed while in his office. While attending the opening ceremony
of the 1990 New York World's Fair in the Tower of Diminished Expectations, Governor Kennedy was the subject
of an attempted assassination but survived as he had been wearing a bullet proof vest. During his
convalescence, he informed his wife Ethel Kennedy that he intended to seek the Democratic nomination for the
1992 presidential election and run against the incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, who was
increasingly unpopular due to his perceived poor handling of the economic recession. However, as the would-be
assassin had not been caught, Ethel was afraid that he would strike again and attempted to persuade her
husband to abandon his plans to run for the presidency. Her efforts proved unsuccessful. Kennedy remained
bitter that Johnson had chosen Hubert Humphrey as his running mate in the 1964 election as he was convinced
that, with him on the ticket, Johnson would have defeated Goldwater and that he (Kennedy) would have gone on
to be elected president himself in 1968.
In the short story "The Warmest of All Purple Hearts" by Andrew Wheatley, an important campaign donor called
Robert Kennedy's aides while the meeting was going on at The Ambassador Hotel and asked to urgently talk
with the Senator. As a result, Kennedy cut short his stay at the hotel and left through the main entrance
immediately after the end of the meeting. Afterwards, he won the elections and became President. Sirhan Sirhan
felt frustrated at the failure of his assassination plans and threw his gun into the river. In later days he felt remorse
and confessed his murderous intentions to the head of the Grand Lodge of the Rosicrucian Order of which he
was a member. The Rosicrucian Elder instructed Sirhan to engage in charity and good deeds, to atone for what
he had planned to do. Afterwards, Sirhan opened an Arab Cuisine restaurant which greatly prospered, and
became the nucleus of a restaurant chain which soon spanned the breath of the United States. Becoming wealthy
within a few years, Sirhan donated extensively to various charities. He also became a member of the Democratic
Party and a major donor to its candidates, hoping to influence the party's positions on the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict. Meanwhile, President Robert Kennedy pursued active efforts to end American involvement in the
Vietnam War, signing in 1971 an agreement with North Vietnam providing for a phased withdrawal of US troops.
In 1972 he ran for a second term, pledging if elected to "get all our soldiers safely home by Christmas 1973". The
Republican candidate Richard Nixon made a series of inflammatory speeches, accusing the President of "craven
appeasement" and of "selling out to the Communists" and for his part pledging if elected to "tear up the shameful
document of surrender" and "keep our armed forces on the job until the Commies are crushed, once and for all".
Two weeks before the elections, members of an extreme-right militia burst into the President's fund-raising dinner
and shouting "Traitor! Traitor!" sought to kill him. Sirhan Sirhan, a major campaign donor seated at the President's
side, threw himself in the assassins' way and was hit and mortally wounded by three bullets intended for the
President. Kennedy, together with Sirhan's family members, remained at his bedside until his death - Sirhan
regaining consciousness long enough to ask the President to help better the Palestinians' lot and Kennedy
promising that he would. In the aftermath, President Kennedy got Sirhan Sirhan posthumously commissioned a
Captain in the US Army and buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. The story's title, "The
Warmest of All Purple Hearts", is taken from President Robert Kennedy's moving funeral oration which effectively
ensured his victory in the 1972 election.
Ted Kennedy
Mentioned in The Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future" and was president sometime before Lisa Simpson.
A list of US Presidents since the 1950s in Robert A. Heinlein's book Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984) concludes
with "Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy", presumably referring to both Robert Kennedy and Ted
Kennedy. This joke was used earlier in A Boy and His Dog (1976) when the main character lists the presidents in
order: "Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy...". This list was also mentioned as
the USA presidents in The Number of the Beast for Timeline 2 (the Future History timeline) as Woodrow Wilson,
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy,
Kennedy, ..., Neemiah Scudder Interregnum.
Elected president in 1980 in the first edition of Jeffrey Archer's novel "Shall We Tell the President?". He had
narrowly managed to defeat Jimmy Carter on the fifth ballot at the Democratic National Convention. He picked
Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers as his running mate and they defeated Illinois Governor James R. Thompson by
a 147,000 votes in the popular vote and became the 40th President. (In the revised edition, Florentyna Kane,
from Archer's "Kane and Abel" and "The Prodigal Daughter" was the president.)
Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
In an episode of What If? on the Discovery Channel, Martin Luther King was Vice President under Robert
Kennedy and succeeded him as the 38th president in September 1969. Major of his initiatives are détente and
continue program of Great Society (but under a new name). He was assassinated in 1971. He was succeeded by
Vice President George McGovern.
The alternate history novel The Two Georges by Richard Dreyfus and Harry Turtledove is set in a timeline where
the American Revolution never occurred and the Thirteen Colonies along with the rest of British America were
unified into the North American Union, a self-governing dominion within the British Empire. King-Emperor Charles
III had appointed Martin Luther King as the Governor-general of the North American Union, who had to deal
with the political ramifications of the theft and ransom of the titular painting and the attempted assassinations of
the King-Emperor, both of which were in part orchestrated by the Franco-Spanish Holy Alliance.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
In The Alteration by Kingsley Amis, the Reformation never occurs and thus Catholicism and the Papacy dominate
much of the world. Protestant or 'schismatic' theology is restricted to the breakaway Republic of New England
which is governed by a 'First Citizen'. Kipling is mentioned as having served as First Citizen between 1914 and
1918.
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
In the short story "Fighting Bob" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch contained in the anthology Alternate Presidents,
Robert La Follette won the 1924 election. He was the Progressive Party candidate, defeating the Republican
incumbent Calvin Coolidge and their Democratic opponent John W. Davis. He 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). After William Henry Harrison, who died after one month in office on April 4, 1841, he was the
second shortest-serving president in US history. He was succeeded by his vice president Burton K. Wheeler, who
became the 32nd President. Given that La Follette was 69 years old in 1924, he was the oldest man ever to be
elected to the presidency.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
Fiorello La Guardia was elected president in 1951 in the 1939 Robert Heinlein novel For Us, The Living: A
Comedy of Customs, after democracy was restored from an extreme-right dictatorship in the late 1940s. La
Guardia served two terms, mainly concerned in a titanic struggle with the banks, ending with the American banks
effectively nationalised and a system of social credit established. Posterity remembers him as one of the United
States' greatest presidents.
Rose Wilder Lane
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 the
overthrowing and execution of George Washington by firing squad for treason in 1794, Rose Wilder Lane served
as the 21st President of the North American Confederacy from 1940 to 1952. After Harriet Beecher Stowe, she
was the second woman to hold the office.
Lyndon LaRouche
In two parallel universes featured in the Sliders Season Two episode "Time Again and World", Lyndon
LaRouche was president in 1996. In these universes, the United States had been under martial law since the
assassination of John F. Kennedy by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on November 22, 1963.
Le Duc Tho
Le Duc Tho was president in a story in The Onion publication Our Dumb Century, where Gerald Ford surrenders
the United States to the Viet Cong after the end of the Vietnam War. Le's policies include renaming Washington,
DC to New Hanoi, DC; arresting Ford and his cabinet; and converting the US to a collectivized-agrarian economy.
Robert LeFevre
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 the
overthrowing and execution of George Washington by firing squad for treason in 1794, Robert LeFevre served
as the 23rd President of the North American Confederacy from 1960 to 1968.
Curtis LeMay
In the alternate history novel 11/22/63 by Stephen King, Curtis LeMay was elected as vice president in 1968. He
became president after George Wallace was assassinated by Arthur Bremer on May 15, 1972. However, he was
defeated by his Democratic opponent Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota in the 1972 election.
Joe Lieberman
In the satirical novel Why Not Me? by Al Franken, the author portrayed himself as being elected as the 43rd
president in 2000, running as a dark horse candidate on a platform of eliminating ATM fees. He is eventually
given the Democratic nomination over the incumbent vice president and early favourite Al Gore due in a rise in
support when the Y2K bug solely effects ATMs. He was the first Jewish President and won the election in a
landslide. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut was his running mate, making the Franken-Lieberman ticket
the first all-Jewish presidential ticket since Reconstruction. President Franken suffered from severe depression
and mood swings. For instance, he attacked Nelson Mandela and appointed Sandy Koufax as Secretary of
Veterans Affairs. Franken resigned after 144 days in office on June 10, 2001. In his resignation speech, he said:
"It is my fondest wish that, in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency
as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster." Lieberman succeeded him as the 44th President,
going on to serve a total of eighteen years in office. In stark contrast to Franken, President Lieberman was widely
considered to be one of the greatest Presidents in US history. Notably, the novel, which was written in 1999,
correctly predicted that Lieberman would be the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 2000 election,
though with Gore rather than Franken as the presidential candidate.
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh portrays himself as president in The 1/2 Hour News Hour. Ann Coulter serves as his vice
president.
Abraham Lincoln
. (By definition, any different course or outcome of the American Civil War would have involved a different life and
presidency for Abraham Lincoln.)
In the parallel universe known as Earth-Three, which formed a part of the original DC Multiverse and was
introduced in Justice League of America #29 (August 1964), Abraham Lincoln was an actor who assassinated
President John Wilkes Booth.
In the alternate history novel For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga by the business historian
Robert Sobel, Abraham Lincoln was a railroad lawyer in the Confederation of Indiana, one of the original five
confederations which made up the Confederation of North America (CNA). At some point after 1861, Lincoln was
one of two lawyers who assisted Patrick Gallivan extend his Indiana Northern Railroad to Manitoba in the north
and through Southern Vandalia to connect to Mexican railroads in the South, making Gallivan the master of rail
transport in the western CNA.

In the short story "How the South Preserved the Union" by Ralph Roberts included in the anthology Alternate
Presidents, David Rice Atchison, a prominent pro-slavery activist, became the 13th President following the deaths
of his predecessor Zachary Taylor and Vice President Millard Fillmore in a carriage accident. Several months
after President Atchison's accession, the American Civil War broke out on April 17, 1849 with the secession of
Massachusetts from the Union and the Second Battle of Lexington and Concord, from which the rebelling
abolitionists, who styled themselves as the New Minutemen, emerged victorious. New Hampshire and Vermont
seceded shortly thereafter and were soon followed by the rest of New England, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. The seceding Northeastern states banded together to form the New England Confederacy with
Daniel Webster as its first and only President and the revolutionary abolitionist John Brown as the commander of
its army. The war came to an end in 1855, two years after President Atchison had issued a proclamation
promising that any slave who fought in the United States Army would be granted his freedom following the end of
the war and that any factory slave who worked satisfactorily would be granted his or her freedom after the war
and would be paid for that work from then onwards. Later on, President Stephen A. Douglas (who was elected in
1860) introduces the Civil Rights Act of 1861, which abolishes slavery throughout the entire United States.
Abraham Lincoln "never rose higher than a seedy congressman from Illinois" and was regarded as "a vulgar,
incompetent man who amounted to little and accomplished less." He was eventually shot and killed in a barroom
brawl in 1865 by an actor named John Wilkes Booth in a dispute over theater tickets. In the late 1880s, a science
fiction dime novel was published which portrayed an alternate history in which Lincoln became president, the Civil
War did not begin until 1861 and it was the slaveholding South rather than the North which seceded from the
Union and formed the Confederacy. However, the novel was largely dismissed as the idea of Lincoln becoming
President was regarded as being laughably far-fetched.
In the short story "Lincoln's Charge" by Bill Fawcett contained in the anthology Alternate Presidents, Abraham
Lincoln was defeated by Stephen A. Douglas, who became the 16th President, in the 1860 election. In the hope
of avoiding warfare, President 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 later on that year, Douglas was fearful of
further provoking the South and did not introduce conscription as the Confederacy had done. Consequently, the
professional though much smaller U.S. Army was overwhelmed and nearly destroyed by the Confederate army at
the Second Battle of Manassas 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. Lincoln accepted a commission as the commanding general of the Illinois
Militia in the Union Army. His own commanding officer was Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant. General 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, Lincoln was shot and killed by a Confederate sharpshooter 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.
Abraham Lincoln had strongly backed the military appointment of John Alexander McClernand, a prominent War
Democrat. In our history this did not have far-reaching consequences, but in the divergent timeline of MacKinlay
Kantor's If the South Had Won the Civil War it had disastrous results for the US and for Lincoln himself. In this
timeline General Ulysses Grant was killed by being accidentally thrown off his horse on May 12, 1863, at the start
of the Vicksburg Campaign. In the aftermath, McClernand insisted on assuming command despite being a
political appointee who was not fitted for the job. By thoroughly bad generalship, McClernand managed to totally
lose the Vicksburg Campaign and get the Army of Tennessee almost completely destroyed. Soon afterwards, at
the Battle of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee made some better decisions than in our history and managed to win the
battle and largely destroy the Union Army of the Potomac as well. Two such major disasters following one upon
the other caused a panic reaction in the North. Washington D.C. descended into total chaos, with mobs running
through the streets, looting, raping and lynching Blacks, and Lee's army captured the city without firing a shot and
proceeded to restore order. With the mobs howling for Abraham Lincoln's blood, it was safest for him to be taken
into a comfortable custody at Richmond, Virginia, from where he sent northwards a letter announcing his
resignation and conceding the Confederacy's victory. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin became president following
Lincoln's resignation. The captured Lincoln did succeed in prevailing upon Jefferson Davis to respect the wishes
of West Virginians and let them stay in the Union - a small face-saving gain to the defeated North which helped
create better relations later. In 1864 Lincoln was released by the Confederates and started a law office in
Chicago, which did surprisingly well — but despite all the differences from out history, he still got murdered by
John Wilkes Booth, in this case at a Chicago theater.
In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Guns of the South, several members of the South African white
supremacist organisation Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging traveled back in time from 2014 to January 1864 and
provided Confederate army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47s, allowing the
Confederate States of America to win the American Civil War, which became known as the Second American
Revolution. Abraham Lincoln remained in Washington, D.C. even with the defeat of the U.S. Army in the face of
the Confederate AK-47s at the Battle of Bealeton. Upon the arrival of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lincoln
invited General Lee into the White House to negotiate an armistice, ending the war. He spent the remainder of his
term attempting to negotiate favorable terms with the Confederacy in the final peace. In the 1864 election, Lincoln
won 40.6% of the popular vote with 1,638,415 votes and carried twelve states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Michigan, West Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nevada) with
83 electoral votes. However, he was narrowly defeated by the Democratic candidate Horatio Seymour, who
carries ten states with 138 electoral votes and becomes the 17th President. After leaving office, Lincoln toured
Missouri and Kentucky, agitating tirelessly in favor of the two disputed states remaining in the Union. In the post-
war plebiscites, Missouri voted to remain in the Union whereas Kentucky voted to join the Confederacy. Lincoln
then returned to Illinois where he practiced law and grew old in obscurity.
In Turtledove's alternate history short story "Must and Shall", Abraham Lincoln was killed by a Confederate army
sharpshooter at the Battle of Fort Stevens on July 12, 1864 while observing General Jubal Early's attack. He was
succeeded by his Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, who became the 17th President. President Hamlin used his
predecessor's death as justification for the oppressive peace imposed upon the former Confederate States
following the defeat of the Great Rebellion. This involved a harsh occupation of the rebellious states, the
destruction of their economy and further racial division due to the promotion of blacks to important offices, leading
to great animosity between the inhabitants of the North and South. The complete military control of the former
Confederacy by the U.S. continued until at least 1942, at which time Nazi Germany smuggled weapons into the
South to stir up revolt and distract the U.S. government.
In a parallel universe featured in the Sliders Season Two episode "Obsession", a young psychic from San
Francisco predicted Abraham Lincoln's assassination in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865 and thereby prevented
his death. Lincoln was so grateful and impressed that he created a cabinet post known as the Prime Oracle,
whose job was to predict natural and man made disasters. He and his successors were so successful that
millions of American citizens came to trust and believe in psychic abilities. By 1996, the President of the United
States was little more than a figurehead for the country as not even the President could question the Prime
Oracle's infinite wisdom.
In the short story "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh contained in the anthology Alternate Tyrants,
Abraham Lincoln was the victim of an assassination attempt in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. He survived
but John Wilkes Booth's bullet remained lodged in his brain and he was rendered a vegetable. William H.
Seward, the Secretary of State, succeeded him as the 17th President. President Seward organised population
transfers of Southern civilians to the Western territories where they were left to die of starvation and disease.
In the alternate history novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove, the first novel of the Southern Victory series,
General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia forced the Army of the Potomac under the command of
General George B. McClellan onto the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania and destroys the
opposing army in the Battle of Camp Hill on October 1, 1862. Following this decisive victory, Lee moved eastward
and occupied Philadelphia. As a direct result, the Confederate States of America earned diplomatic recognition
from the United Kingdom and France, which forced the United States to mediate. The Confederacy therefore
gains full recognition in the War of Secession came to an end on November 4, 1862. In the 1864 election,
Abraham Lincoln was soundly defeated and left office in disgrace. Returning to private life, Lincoln developed
an interest in workers' rights. Influenced by Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto, he spent most of the following
two decades touring the United States and gained a reputation as a staunch socialist. During a trip to St. Louis in
1877, he and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln both contracted typhoid. Lincoln survived but Mary would die from it.
Following his election in 1880, President James G. Blaine, the only Republican other than Lincoln to ever hold the
office, led the United States into another losing war, the Second Mexican War (1881–1882), with the Confederacy
and its European allies which cost the US a section of the state of Maine to be annexed into the Canadian
province of New Brunswick as one of the terms of the armistice. This second disastrous war in less than twenty
years instigated by a Republican president doomed the party to political irrelevance. After one last attempt to
convince Republican leaders to make workers' rights the central issue of their platform at a decisive meeting in
Chicago, Illinois in 1882, Lincoln and many of his followers defected to the Socialist Party. While in Chicago, he
stayed with his eldest and only surviving son Robert Todd Lincoln, who worked as an attorney for the Pullman
Company. The younger Lincoln continued his involvement with the Republicans, making no secret of his
disapproval for his father's politics and, to that end, opposed his defection to the Socialists. While he continued to
welcome his father at his home, he forbade him to invite Socialists into it. In the years after the end of the Second
Mexican War, the Socialist Party surpassed the Republican Party as the nation's second party. In spite of this, it
would not become the majority party in the House of Representatives until 1918 and would not win the presidency
until the election of Upton Sinclair in 1920, which ended 36 consecutive years of Democratic control of the Powel
House. Lincoln was widely reviled in the United States and among the white population of the Confederate States
for his role in the War of Secession, although he was viewed positively by Confederate blacks. He was almost
universally considered to be the worst president in US history.
In the Elseworlds one-shot comic book Superman: A Nation Divided in which Kal-El's spaceship landed in Kansas
during the 1840s and he was raised by a farming couple named Josephus and Sarah Kent, Abraham Lincoln
received reports from General Ulysses S. Grant concerning the superhuman individual Private Atticus Kent and
his tremendous contributions to the Union war effort in 1863. Initially, Lincoln was sceptical of this story until
Atticus came to the Oval Office while the President was meeting with the abolitionist Frederick Douglass and
demonstrated his powers. Consequently, Lincoln realised Atticus's potential and understood that his powers must
be used for the good of the nation. Atticus later decisively participated in the Battle of Gettysburg where he ended
the battle by capturing Confederate States Army Generals J.E.B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee. Atticus instructed the
latter to instruct the Confederate States Army to surrender. Afterward, Atticus spent two days burying the dead at
Gettysburg and was present at Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Despite General Lee's surrender, Atticus continued
to put down continuing Confederate resistance and soon captured Confederate States President Jefferson Davis,
thus ending the war. During the Union celebration, Lincoln invited Kent to attend a performance of the
Shakespearean comedy As You Like It in Ford's Theatre, where the President was almost the subject of an
assassination attempt at the hands of the actor and Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth. Using his
superhearing, Atticus heard Booth preparing to fire his pistol and threw him off the balcony. Booth was killed
when he landed on his own dagger. As a result, Lincoln was provided with a Secret Service organised by Atticus
on September 7, 1863. Furthermore, Lincoln recruited Atticus' help in overseeing the Reconstruction of the
former Confederate States of America on May 23, 1864. Atticus later attended Lincoln's second inauguration on
March 4, 1865 on the steps of the completed Capitol Dome.
In the alternate history novel "Lee at the Alamo" by Harry Turtledove, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th
president in 1860 which prompted several slave states to secede from the Union and form the Confederate
States of America, as occurred in real life. The first battle of the American Civil War took place in Texas, one of
the seceding states, from February to March 1861, as Lt. Colonel Robert E. Lee opted to defend U.S. property at
the Alamo, rather than surrender it to the Texas Militia. It came known as the Second Battle of the Alamo. While
Lee was ultimately forced to surrender, he became a national hero. When President Lincoln learned that Lee had
refused the position of Commander of the Union Army, he arranged to meet with Lee in the White House. With
some careful words and persuasion, Lincoln convinced Lee to remain with the Union, rather than join his home
state of Virginia in secession. Lee, realising Lincoln's sincerity, agreed to take a commanding position in the west,
and stipulated that he be allowed to retire if he were asked to fight his fellow Virginians. Lincoln agreed, and went
one better, promising Lee a farm should he retire. As the story ended in April 1861, neither Lincoln's fate nor the
final outcome of the war were established.
In the essay "If Booth Had Missed Lincoln" by Milton Waldman - part of the classic 1931 collection If It Had
Happened Otherwise - Booth's gun fails to fire at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865 and he is put in an insane
asylum. Abraham Lincoln is charged with mismanaging the recently concluded Civil War, and there is repeated
friction between Lincoln and a hostile United States Congress. Before Congress can impeach him in 1867,
however, Lincoln dies, discredited and castigated as a spendthrift warmonger. Lincoln's role in this story is similar
to that of his successor Andrew Johnson in real history.
Similar to the above, in the alternate history novel The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter,
Abraham Lincoln survived the Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth's attempt on his life in Ford's
Theatre on April 14, 1865 whereas Vice President Andrew Johnson was assassinated by Booth's co-conspirator
George Atzerodt on the same night. During his second term, the Radical Republicans, led by Senator Thaddeus
Stevens, came to see Lincoln's failure to punish the South and to protect its freed slaves as akin to treason.
Furthermore, the Democrats and the former Confederates regarded Lincoln as a tyrant who imposed his will in
violation of the United States Constitution. These disparate groups formed a coalition against Lincoln and the
accuse him of wartime crimes for having suspended habeas corpus, taking millions from the Treasury without
Congressional approval, declaring martial law and conspiring to overthrow Congress. Consequently, the House of
Representatives vote to impeach him in the spring of 1867 and faced trial in the Senate, where his attorney was a
21-year-old African American woman named Abigail Canner.
In Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain, John Brown succeeded in his raid on Harper's Ferry and touched off a
slave rebellion in 1859, as he intended. The rebellion spread far, developing into a full-fledged war throughout the
South, the rebellious slaves joined by numerous European radicals such as Garibaldi. John Brown did not survive
to the end, but Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass assumed leadership and eventually won the war,
detaching the Deep South and making of it the predominantly Black Republic of New Africa. Abraham Lincoln, a
prominent Whig politician, was bitterly opposed to the United States accepting the loss of its Southern portion to
the Black rebels. Lincoln continued to agitate and - though he had no legal authority for it - managed to raise and
equip a considerable army which he himself commanded. Under the slogan "One Union Forever!" Lincoln
proceeded to lead an invasion of New Africa with the intention of restoring its territory to the United States, but
was defeated and killed in a bitter battle, along with most of his troops. New Africa prospered and its Black
citizens remembered Lincoln with loathing as the most intransigent of their foes.
In Robert Skimin's Gray Victory, in 1864 General Johnston remains in command of Atlanta and keeps his soldiers
inside the fortifications, fighting a long-drawn siege war of attrition until the Northern elections of November 1864.
Abraham Lincoln loses the support of the war-weary voters and George B. McClellan is elected president.
McClellan orders a cease-fire, followed by a peace in which the independence of the South is recognized. The
defeated Lincoln remains alive, with Booth having no reason to assassinate him, and remains a hero to many.
Blacks in the Confederacy, denied the freedom which Lincoln promised in his Emancipation Proclamation, create
a strong organization named "Abraham" in Lincoln's honor, determined to achieve their freedom by themselves.
Lincoln is touched and sympathetic to their struggle, but stays clear of the plots by radical abolitionists to re-ignite
the war.
In the 2004 mockumentary CSA: The Confederate States of America, Abraham Lincoln served as the sixteenth
and final President of the United States after the Confederate States get the United Kingdom and France to help
them win the Civil War. American general Ulysses S. Grant surrenders to Robert E. Lee on April 9, 1864 after the
Confederate army captures Washington D.C.. Also, the Confederacy annexes the remaining parts of the United
States and the title of President of the United States is abolished. Lincoln attempts to escape to Canada (in
blackface) with the help of Harriet Tubman. However, they are caught by Confederate soldiers and captured.
Tubman is executed and Lincoln is imprisoned. In 1866, he is pardoned by Jefferson Davis and exiled to Canada.
Lincoln remains in Canada until he died in June 1905 at the age of 96. Shortly before his death, Lincoln laments
not having made the Civil War a battle to end slavery.
In Saviour of the Empire by George Fields, it is contended that even if the North American colonies had not
rebelled against British rule, Abraham Lincoln would have still been fated to fight a civil war against slave-owning
rebels -but he would have done it as Sir Abraham Lincoln, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In this
timeline, Lincoln entered politics due to indignation at slave-owners foiling the Emancipation Law in 1833. After a
stint in the North American Provincial Legislature he graduated to the Imperial Parliament in London and soon
achieved prominence despite the aristocracy's disdain for his "uncouth provincial manners". Was among initiators
of the finally approved Emancipation of the Slaves in 1856. He becomes Prime Minister in 1857 amidst the worst
crisis in the history of the British Empire - widespread rebellions of slave-owning colonies in North America, the
Caribbean and South Africa, simultaneously with the Indian Mutiny, a Second Opium War with China and a
Russian invasion of the Ottoman Empire, Britain's ally, aimed at seizing Constantinople - and with the Russians
actively aiding and abetting all of Britain's other foes. Sir Abraham guided the Empire through four terrible years
of war on land and at sea on multiple fronts, and succumbed to an assassin's bullet just as victory came in plain
sight. Hundreds of thousands followed his cortege through the streets of London. He was interred at Westminster
Abbey in the presence of Queen Victoria and declared to have been "Among the Greatest of England's Sons", on
a par with King Arthur and Francis Drake.
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, "an obscure Illinois lawyer" assassinated
actor John Wilkes Booth in 1865[2].
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh appears in The Plot Against America, an alternate history novel by Philip Roth. He defeats
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 election to become the 33rd President by playing upon the public's
fears of going to war. Once in office, he cancels defense-related agreements with the Allies, and signs non-
aggression treaties with Nazi Germany and with the Empire of Japan, which he justifies on the grounds that they
will keep America out of war, and that the Axis are doing the world a favor by fighting and destroying communism
in the Soviet Union and China. At home, he implements several programs designed to marginalize the Jewish
community in the U.S. Henry Ford serves as his Secretary of Interior.
He serves until 1942 when Vice President Burton K. Wheeler succeeds him.
At the end of the novel, it is revealed that Lindbergh was in the employ of the Nazis the entire time; years
earlier, German agents had kidnapped Lindbergh's only son (see Lindbergh kidnapping) and used him as a
hostage ever since to force Lindbergh to obey them. The treachery is discovered, Roosevelt is re-elected to
the White House, and the U.S. enters the war on the Allied side.
He is also president in the 1973 alternate history The Ultimate Solution (1973) by Eric Norden. Unlike in Roth's
book, he is not elected but made a puppet president by the Nazis after they conquer the US in the 1950s, on a
par with the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, and remains at this job until 1973 when he – together with most of the
world's population – is killed in a nuclear war between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
Lindbergh as President has a more minor role in the history another Nazi-victorious timeline, the unpleasant
GURPS timeline known as Reich-5. In this timeline Giuseppe Zangara succeeded in assassinating Franklin
Delano Roosevelt in 1933. He was followed by Garner, after whom Lindbergh gained power, followed by Henry
Wallace. All of them proved unable to handle the Great Depression - finally leading to the far-right William Dudley
Pelley, who became President following Lindbergh's assassination and getting elected to a full in 1944, assuming
dictatorial powers, and inviting the Nazis to conquer the US to help him against the pro-democracy resistance,
ending with a totally Nazi-dominated world.
Charles Lindbergh is president in the novel K is for Killing by Daniel Easterman. He is elected as the 32nd
president in 1932 with D. C. Stephenson as his Vice President. Stephenson arranges the assassination of
Lindbergh and his wife in 1940 to prevent him from learning about a secret plan to collaborate with Nazi Germany
on atomic weapons.
Charles Lindbergh is president in the novel Farthing (2006) by Jo Walton. In a world where Britain and Nazi
Germany reached a peace arrangement in 1941, Lindberg is president in 1949. He is preparing to meet with the
Emperor of Japan to strengthen ties between the two countries.
Belva Ann Lockwood
In the short story "Love Our Lockwood" by Janet Kagan in the anthology Alternate Presidents, Belva Ann
Lockwood defeated the incumbent Democratic Grover Cleveland and their Republican opponent Benjamin
Harrison in the 1888 presidential election to become the 23rd President. The first woman to hold the office, she
ran as the Equal Rights Party candidate. Her vice president was Alfred H. Love. President Lockwood inspired
both male and female suffragettes. She lost her bid for re-election to Cleveland in 1892, who took office as the
24th President on March 4, 1893. He had previously served as the 22nd President from 1885 to 1889.
Huey Long
In the short story "Kingfish" by Barry N. Malzberg in the anthology Alternate Presidents, Huey Long avoids
assassination in 1935 and runs for president in 1936 as an Independent. He defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt and
becomes the 33rd President. He invited Adolf Hitler to visit the United States, and allowed him to be assassinated
via a bomb in 1938, leading to war with Nazi Germany. Although he had previously told his Vice President John
Nance Garner that he did not intend to run for re-election in 1940, Garner became increasingly skeptical that
Long would keep his word and therefore provide him with the opportunity to run. His suspicions were confirmed
following the outbreak of the war.
References
1. "Confederate Geographic: Newfoundland Missile Crisis", CSA the movie (https://web.archive.org/web/201204271
41228/http://www.csathemovie.com/timeline/moreinfo/newfoundland.html), archived from the original (http://www.
csathemovie.com/timeline/moreinfo/newfoundland.html) on April 27, 2012.
2. "The Probability Broach" (http://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn?page=0).
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