andrew jackson is another name for the president of the united states.
andrew jackson is another name for the president of the united states.
other names for the president of the united states?
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bullet::::- in the first southern victory series novel "how few remain" by harry turtledove, james g. blaine was elected president in 1880, the only republican other than abraham lincoln to hold that office. blaine was elected by maine as a republican to congress in 1862, a major accomplishment in a year when the confederate states of america had won the war of secession (1861–1862) with the support of the united kingdom and france, gaining its independence, and the republican party was being made to pay. he served for the next seven terms, earning a reputation as a fiery orator and debater in a minority party. as the people of the united states grew tired of the conciliatory stance the democrats took towards the confederate states, the republicans soon began regaining seats. in the 1878 elections, following democratic president samuel j. tilden's unpopular decision to remove the twelve stars representing the states of the confederacy from the flag of the united states, the republicans regained the congress. blaine's star rose dramatically, and in 1880, he was the republican party's nominee for president. he won on an anti-confederate platform. blaine was immediately put to the test. the confederacy recoiled at the return of a "black" republican to the presidency. moreover, confederate states president james longstreet had been counting on the democrats' indifference to successfully purchase the states of sonora and chihuahua from the second mexican empire in 1881. president blaine, backed by the popular will and anger of the american people, moved to block the purchase by threat of war. longstreet, confident in his country's alliances with the united kingdom and the french third republic, defied blaine and the second mexican war began. it soon became clear that blaine and the united states were out of their depth. the united states army was woefully unprepared, suffering setbacks on multiple fronts. when washington, d.c. came under confederate artillery fire in late 1881, blaine evacuated the seat of government to philadelphia, pennsylvania, where he established his residence in the powel house. he was the final us president to use the white house as his official residence. while washington, d.c. remained the "de jure" capital of the united states and continued to be used for official functions such as inaugurations and state funerals, philadelphia was the "de facto" capital from 1881 onwards. benjamin harrison, the grandson of the whig party president william henry harrison, served as his secretary of war and consequently shouldered much of the blame for the united states' military failures during the war. after over a year of bloody fighting, the united states sought an armistice. the confederate states successfully took possession of the mexican states. for the second time in a generation, the united states had lost a war while under republican leadership. further humiliating blaine at a personal level, the only territorial concession the united states made was northern maine, his home state, which was annexed by britain into the canadian province of new brunswick. the republican party had split in 1882, with most of the conservative members following benjamin butler to the wayward democrats while former president lincoln's supporters joined the socialist party, which soon replaced the republicans as the nation's second party. ironically, president blaine, in his military defeat, had laid the foundation the united states' eventual victory in the great war (1914–1917) through two acts. firstly, on april 22, 1882, blaine declared a holiday to commemorate the united states' defeat called remembrance day. this day soon birthed a political ideology which the reinvigorated democrats adopted as their own. secondly, blaine formed political ties with the german empire, which eventually led to the alliance known as the central powers. he later went on to lose the 1884 election in a landslide, retiring to obscurity. only truly die-hard republicans revered him. president blaine's defeat marked the beginning of 36 consecutive years of democratic control of the powel house which only came to an end with the election of the first socialist president upton sinclair in 1920.
list of fictional united states presidencies of historical figures (a–b)