1940 election

IOTL, Henry Wallace was personally picked by FDR as his new running mate in 1940. A presidential nominee picking his own running mate was considered unprecedented and do set that precedent moving forward, so this could’ve easily not happened. Instead, FDR goes with someone his aides were...

DW, I'm still working on that Huey Long Civil War TL Idea and am making proper progress on a Bob La Follette Sr. TL idea with a friend, just thought I'd give myself a third and final Post 1900 Project that would be focused on the main effects of post WW2 US Politics. So without further ado, here...

FDR suffers a Wilson-type paralyzing stroke in 1939, leaving him unable to run for the Presidency in 1940. Hull dies early due to ill health or is unavailable to run for some other reason. As a result, the Democrats nominate a much weaker candidate, e.g. the Catholic Farley, or even worse, the...

Of course, Herbert Hoover could never have been elected President again, considering his very poor handling of the Great Depression during his Presidency. But suppose Calvin Coolidge had decided to run for a third term in 1928, with butterflies resulting in Ottinger defeating FDR in the race...

In 1939 President Roosevelt stated would keep the Washington tradition of only serving two terms. with the Nazi occupation of France and the London bombings Roosevelt pledge to run again. This put him at odds with his first Vice President John Nance Garner whom was hoping for an endorsement...

Throughout 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt was notoriously cagey about whether he would run for a third term. He seemed to be split about it himself, but ultimately decided that he would try and wrangle an astroturfed draft movement to renominate himself without ever actually campaigning for...

The frontrunner for the 1940 GOP presidential nomination was Thomas Dewey, but he was upset at the convention by dark horse Wendell Willkie. What if Dewey had won the nomination and gone on to face Roosevelt in November? Does Dewey do any better than Willkie? At the time Dewey was an...

In 1940, FDR was under pressure to run for a third term as President. But in keeping with Washington's precedent, he declined to do so. What if Franklin Roosevelt had run for a third term?

An interesting quirk in US history is that FDR and Wendell Willkie, opponents in 1940, discussed forming a new "Liberal Party" after WWII but both men died before this could happen. Roosevelt also offered Willkie the position of Vice President in 1944, but negotiations fell apart. This might...

In OTL, Franklin Roosevelt planned on stepping down in 1940 in favor of his preferred successor, Harry Hopkins. However, Hopkins' health collapsed and WWII broke out, prompting FDR to run for an unprecedented third term. The POD is that German Conservatives forge a coalition to block the Nazis...

Redoing a old collaborative TL of mine. Type in anything you want to even if it doesn't have to do with politics or World War II. July 3rd 1940:President Roosevelt addresses the nation via radio that he won't run for a second term due to health problems. July 4th 1940:Adolf Hitler decides to...

This TL is in the style of the Selma Massacre and The Sino Amercian War as its a Collab TL telling stories through news articles and quotes and documentary footage. July 3rd 1940: NEW YORK TIMES ROOSEVELT NOT RUNNING KEEPING THE STREAK OF TWO TERMS GOING Last night around living rooms across...