theodore roosevelt was the youngest elected president in the united states.
theodore roosevelt was the youngest elected president in the united states.
who was the youngest elected president in the united states?
theodore roosevelt
bullet::::- in the alternate history novels "" and "" as part of the southern victory series by harry turtledove, upton sinclair served as the 29th president of the united states from march 4, 1921 to march 4, 1929 and was the first member of the socialist party to hold that office. furthermore, he held the distinction of being the first north american president born after the war of secession (1861–1862). at the age of 42, he was the youngest man elected to the presidency. this record was later tied by democrat thomas e. dewey, who was elected as the 34th president in 1944. in the years immediately following the great war (1914–1917), the political tides of the united states were shifting. with the country finally triumphant over its rival the confederate states of america, the american people began to pull away from the remembrance spirit and bellicosity of the democrats and turn to the socialists. in 1918, the socialists became the majority party in the house of representatives for the first time in its history. in 1920, when incumbent president theodore roosevelt sought an unprecedented third term, the socialist party realized that its time had come. at the 1920 socialist convention in toledo, ohio, conflict over the presidential nomination arose. five ballots failed to yield a candidate. the issue was resolved amicably, as indiana turned its vote away from senator eugene v. debs (a native of indiana who had previously lost the presidential elections of 1908, 1912 and 1916) and to the much younger sinclair, who gladly accepted the nomination. within minutes, sinclair chose congressman hosea blackford of dakota as his running mate. sinclair's acceptance speech at the convention set the tone for the 1920 election. he advocated for equality and justice at the social and economic level, at home and abroad. it was a message that appealed to the voters in those post-war years, and although many democrats, including roosevelt and his supporters, warned of dangers the us still faced, sinclair defeated roosevelt, ending 36 consecutive years of democratic control of the white house. he was the first non-democrat to be elected president since james g. blaine, the only republican other than abraham lincoln to hold the office, in 1880. president sinclair was true to his campaign promises. he built up social welfare programs while slashing the military budget, including curtailing the barrel works in kansas. he attempted in his first term to pass an old-age insurance policy to guarantee income for retired persons, but the measure was defeated by a democratic filibuster in the senate. this measure was never passed. sinclair took a lighter stance toward the cs than roosevelt had. he eased the reparations the us had imposed on their neighbor, and ceased them altogether when confederate states president wade hampton v was assassinated in june 1922. president sinclair was also lenient about the weapons checks in the confederacy. however, sinclair was pragmatic. although he forced the 83-year-old general george armstrong custer, one of the few heroes of the second mexican war (1881–1882), to retire as the military governor of canada in 1922, he kept the us military presence strong enough to stop the uprising in 1924. he also kept the rebellious state of utah well in-hand, although he laid what he believed to be the foundation work to bring it back into the union. during sinclair's presidency, the united states prospered, although the military leaders grumbled at his naivety. just prior to sinclair's re-election in 1924, roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage. president sinclair honored roosevelt's request that the latter be buried at robert e. lee's former estate of arlington county, west virginia. in 1924, sinclair easily defeated his opponents. through his second term, he continued laws friendly to labor unions and other such modest changes but many of his more extreme proposals, such as pensions, were still stalled. nonetheless, his second term was successful enough to pave the way for vice president hosea blackford to succeed him. blackford defeated the democratic candidate calvin coolidge in 1928. coolidge went on to defeat blackford in his bid for re-election in 1932 but died on january 5, 1933 of a heart attack, about a month before he was to take office. vice president-elect herbert hoover therefore became the 31st president. sinclair and hoover were among the pallbearers at blackford's state funeral in 1937. president sinclair's legacy proved difficult to determine. on the one hand, sinclair was able to ride a strong economic wave, as the united states saw unprecedented growth during his eight years. his administration also loosened some of the more authoritarian tendencies of the remembrance philosophy and created an atmosphere where the citizens of the us could enjoy greater freedom and equality. on the other hand, he was not able to prepare the country adequately for the stock market crash in 1929 and the resulting depression, which laid the foundation for the rise of jake featherston and the freedom party in the confederate states and left the united states vulnerable in the conflict that became the second great war (1941–1944).
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josé maría figueres olsen (born 24 december 1954 in san josé, costa rica) is a costa rican businessman and politician. after he left the presidency of costa rica in 1998, figueres has also been involved in global issues such as climate change, sustainable development, and technology. he started his career as an engineer working in agribusiness. after a decade, he entered public service as minister of foreign trade and then minister of agriculture. in 1994, he was elected president of costa rica, as the nation's youngest elected president of the 20th century. in 2000, he joined the world economic forum in switzerland, and later he worked with concordia 21 in madrid. since 2010, he has been chairman of the carbon war room, an independent non-profit organization focused on the global transition to a low-carbon economy. on 27 march 2012, sir richard branson announced that he was appointed as the new president of the carbon war room.
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