Legacy of the Bull Moose; A Wikibox Timeline

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    Welcome to 'Legacy of the Bull Moose' a timeline I hate rebooting but feel myself constantly going back to. Legacy of the Bull Moose is a timeline in which Theodore Roosevelt is elected in 1912 under the Progressive ticket. While rather improbable and I would say generally unlikely I chose a PoD of 1909 where Taft is assassinated while meeting Mexican President Porfirio Díaz. This would throw Vice President Sherman into the Presidency, Sherman would deeply dissatisfy the former President, leading to a challenge for the Republican Presidential nomination. Roosevelt would lose said Presidential nomination splitting off and forming the 'Progressive Party' dubbed "the Bull Moose Party." A week before election day President Sherman would die of Bright's disease, quickly throwing the Republican Party and Republican voters into disarray. Former President Roosevelt would from there gain Republican voters, many unsure who their votes would go towards if they were to vote Republican. Afterwards the Electoral College would have no clear winner, with Democratic candidate Champ Clark having the majority of Electoral votes. However Former President Roosevelt would be able to broker a compromise with the Republican Party and state delegations for him to win the presidency. Theodore Roosevelt would become the 30th President of the United States and re-enter the White House on March 4, 1913.


    This timeline will be structured differently than the last, with updates typically consisting of write-ups around wikiboxes, versus the previous version of this timeline where updates consisted of write-ups that included wikiboxes. Legacy of the Bull Moose is a mixture of Types II and III of     T.V. Tropes 'Sliding Scale of Alternative History Plausibility' including mixed elements of the two. While I will attempt to add realism to this timeline this is just for fun on my part. I welcome all discussion in this thread as long as it is respectful, criticism as well, we are all by no means perfect after all.

    Thank you all for reading and welcome to the World of Legacy of the Bull Moose!     (take 3)

    Edit: If it is no longer thread marked it is no longer accurate, felt like I should keep the older boxes up rather than deleting when I am just now after a few months returning to this timeline, sorry for the wait things got a bit busy.
     
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    Marco Rubio     (born Marco Antonio Rubio) is the 47th and current President of the United States. Elected at the age of 45, President Rubio is the second youngest person to ascend to the Presidency and the youngest person to be elected United States President. Rubio is a Cuban-American from Miami, being elected to the United States Senate in 2011. Rubio would narrowly win the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2016 against Rick Santorum. Rubio would choose Nikki Haley as his running mate, viewing their ideological compatibility and their dual rising star status as important for the Democratic ticket. The Rubio/Haley ticket would decisively defeat the Biden/Patrick ticket, with many commentators speculating the ongoing recession and the unpopularity of the Carbon tax passed under Biden's tenure made him an easy candidate to defeat. During his presidency Rubio has raised controversies, mainly for his Justice Department's lackadaisical defense of privacy rights, as well as the Rubio administration's efforts to befriend the Brazilian regime. The Rubio administration however remains mixed in popularity, with Democratic bases pleased with tax cuts emphasized by the Rubio administration, as well as increases in funding for Army modernization measures and for Commonwealth Organization and Pacific Council defense. International observers see the Rubio administration as mixed in foreign endeavors, with the administration strengthening ties with Commonwealth allies, and the European Entente while also distancing itself from ties in the Pan American League and the Global Congress. President Rubio currently has an approval rating of 54%, with many seeing the upcoming Presidential election as a toss-up however in the President's favor.
     
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    Analytical Engine said:
    So the Democrats survive in this version, possibly absorbing the rump Republicans that refused to join the BULLY side?
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    Sort of, the Progressives do not split from the Republicans a second time ittl, and WJB candidacy in 1912 does not happen, this time Thomas Watson runs and gets a much lesser popular vote percentage but enough to ruin a Democratic landslide.
     
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    aaa said:
    So are the Kennedys right-wingers here? What led to that?
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    Joseph Kennedy Sr.'s connections to the Democratic Party, so when the later Kennedy's came they also stuck around as Democrats, just the party itself is on the right ittl
     
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    Višeslav said:
    As almost always, the Balkans are fairly cursed. The Caucasian region looks fun too. Nice map though, cursed is by no means bad as I'm sure you know. The river border in Kazakhstan is very nice.
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    The balkans have been fairly cursed since the 50s ittl
     
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    The 1912 United States Presidential Election, held on Tuesday, November 5 would see former President Theodore Roosevelt and his newly founded 'Progressive Party' win the Presidential election. With the death of President Taft in 1909, Vice President James Sherman would be sworn in as the 28th President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt would slowly become displeased with Sherman's conservative record on issues such as anti-trust and challenge him. Sherman would narrowly snag the Republican Presidential nomination, leading many progressive Republicans to bolt from the party and form the 'Progressive Party.' Initially seen as wave year for the Democratic Party, things would quickly go downhill with 3 time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan bolting to the Progressive Party due to the nomination of Tammany Hall backed Champ Clark. Many commentators however would still suspect the election to go in Democratic favor, just with a few more bumps on road, however that would all change a week before election with the death of incumbent President and Republican nominee James Sherman to Bright's disease. With ballots unable to be changed a week before election day, many moderate Republican voters would shift their votes towards Roosevelt. This would lead to a narrow Progressive victory on election day, propelling Theodore Roosevelt to a third term and a second full term as United States President. Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and California would be the closest states, all being won by under 1% of the vote.
     
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    Theodore Roosevelt (born Theodore Roosevelt Jr.) was a statesman, conservationist, and writer who
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    is most known for serving as both the 26th and 30th President of the United States. Roosevelt would serve two stints in the White House, with the first being from 1901-1909 and the second being from 1913-1919. Roosevelt would be the longest serving President in United States history, serving a total of 13 and a half years in total before his death in 1919. Roosevelt would emerge as a progressive leader in national politics, with Roosevelt's enforcement of anti-trust policy having been unheard of before his presidency. Roosevelt would also be a champion of many other Progressive Era policies and domestic reforms. Theodore Roosevelt on his ascension to the presidency in 1901 would be the youngest person to become President of the United States at age 42. Roosevelt's first stint in the White House would see the Roosevelt administrations passage of initiatives Roosevelt referred to as the "Square Deal"
    The Square Deal would promote environmental conservation, pure food and drugs, railroad regulation, and the breaking of trusts. Foreign policy wise Roosevelt would intervene in Colombia, splitting off Panama to create the Panama Canal, he would also drastically increase the size of the Navy, calling for a "Great White Fleet". Theodore Roosevelt would also be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for brokering peace in the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt would groom Secretary of War William Howard Taft to be his successor, however 6 months after his inauguration Taft would be assassinated in El Paso, Texas. This would propel the much more conservative James S. Sherman to the White House. Roosevelt would quickly become angered by Sherman's softened attitude towards trusts, leading Roosevelt to challenge him for the 1912 Republican nomination. Roosevelt would narrowly lose said nomination and break away from the Republican Party forming the Progressive "Bull Moose" Party. Roosevelt's breakaway from the Republican Party would begin a political realignment, with progressive Democratic leader 'William Jennings Bryan' joining the Progressive ticket for the 1912 election. The Roosevelt and Bryan ticket would narrowly win the 1912 election, with many commentators believing the untimely death of President Sherman to Bright's disease threw many Republican voters to Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt's second stint in the White House in the eyes of observers would be much more remarkable, with Roosevelt working with the Democratic Congress to pass progressive measures. Roosevelt's passage of the 1913 Revenue Act also known as the "Underwood Tariff" would draw the ire of many of his allies within the Republican Party. Roosevelt's second stint in the White House would have a notable foreign policy focus, while Roosevelt would pass many domestic reforms in his first 2 years back in the White House, he would pass little progressive reforms from there. Roosevelt's foreign policy, known as the 'Roosevelt Corollary' would see the United States intervene all across Latin America, most notably in 1916 when Roosevelt would intervene in the Mexican Civil War. Latin American affairs would not be the sole focus of the President's time however, with the outbreak of the Great War seeing Roosevelt lobby Congress to issue a declaration of war against the German Empire after the German sinking of the Lusitania. Congress however would not budge, however Roosevelt would be able to lobby Congress to create "preparedness" programs to conscript and train young men for defense against German attack. Rooseveltian intervention in Latin American affairs and attempted intervention into the Great War would threaten the stability of the new party as Vice President William Jennings Bryan would challenge President Roosevelt in a primary, with the party heavily split over the Roosevelt foreign policy. Roosevelt would narrowly edge Bryan out in the primary, with Roosevelt instead picking Progressive Party Chairman and loyalist 'John M Parker' to serve as his Vice President. The Progressive Party in 1916 would fare much better than in 1912, seeing a more reasonable victory for the party and sizable defections from both the Democratic and Republican parties. Roosevelt would however see American intervention into the Great War, after British forces would intercept German aid for the Mexican Revolutionary Army to use against American forces. Roosevelt would serve as President of the United States for the rest of the war's duration. Roosevelt would arrive in France in December 1918, just after the war's end. Before peace talks could start Roosevelt would die in Paris, Vice President Parker would be sworn in as President that day.
     
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