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Jean-Oliver Briand had come to New France as a young priest, serving under the then Bishop, and he so remained even after the British conquered New France. In 1766 he was made Bishop of Quebec, and so became the leader of the Catholic souls of Canada. He retained the official policy of cooperation with the British, rendering onto Caesar what was Caesar’s, which culminated in the Quebec Act granting substantial leeway to French Canadians.
Skeptical of Revolution in general and the anti-Catholic inclinations of many of the English-speaking leaders in the South, Briand opposed the Colonial Rebellions. When Montgomery and Arnold invaded in 1775, he urged Canadians to resist the invaders,never excommunicating John Carrol for the latter trying to stir up anti-British sentiment. This proved awkward when, as a result of the Treaty of Paris, the young Continental Republic was ceded Canada by the humbled British.
Benedict Arnold headed the American force that occupied Canada, and several tense standoffs occurred between the locals and their new overlords. Briand preached obedience to the law, but critically did not lend the power of the church to the new “State of Canada” Arnold had established using Canadian rebels.
However, the Anglo occupation would not remain for long, as the Continental Republic collapsed in on itself. By 1784 New York and New England were in a state of de facto war, Connecticut soon recalled Arnold to fight and Arnold, bored with occupation and convinced rumors of treason had blown over, left Canada. Briand formally retired from the Bishopric that same year, claiming it was time for a younger generation to rule.
But Briand was soon dragged back in. The war had left Canada cut off from the Continental Republic, not that there was much enthusiasm for Union, and without the Continental Army the State government lacked any support. Briand was called upon to help formulate a government for a Canada that, through no fault of its own, had wound up independent.
Briand helped organize the Council of State, made up of the merchants and Seigneurs, that would govern the new Canada, and was surprised when the Council voted him the title of “Governor-General.” As the position of First Secretary would not emerge until the 1800s, this left Briand the most singularly powerful man in Canada. Briand would always feel a tad uneasy as a holy man with temporal power, and would always attempt to work collaboratively with the Council.
Nonetheless, Briand helped forge the early Canadian state. Seigneurs saw their power increase, even compared to the days of New France. The Council of State elected its own members, and the general public had little say in how their new nation was governed. Conservative Catholicism was the religious order of the day, and Protestants found themselves back on the bottom. Briand encouraged missionary activity in the west, and the resultant fur trade and settlement that disrupted Native lives, although the Northwest Confederacy often found Canada for friendly than the Anglo nations coming across the Appalachians. Briand over saw the settlement of French Emigres in Canada, although some proved less than pure conservatives, much to the ire of his successors in power. Briand died in 1794 at the ripe old age of 79, and was succeeded by another man of the cloth, although not an ex-bishop.
Briand leaves a complicated historical legacy. A reluctant leader, who created a conservative, religious regime. The father of a nation that never asked to be born. The creator of many of Canada’s most important institutions, institutions that later generations struggled against. Despite these controversies Briand remains popular in many areas of Canada, and is even a folk Saint in some areas, although official canonization remains unlikely.
I would love to see a follow up to this timeline; the modern day and the history. What did Canada evolve into? What happened to the United States in the end?
What's the deal with the Pro-Champions?I was bored so I did a bunch of Presidents. If you've got any questions feel free to ask.
Sort of like the Pro-Jacksonian faction of OTL Democratic-Republicans, Shepley is initially nominated by the Pro-Champion Party in the election, with runner up Dixon Lewis, an Anti-Champion member of the Democratic-Republicans. There's not a thing that resembles the 12th Amendment which sets up running mates and presidential tickets until the 1840 election.
On the 5 of August Floridan Prime Minister Paul Philips announced that the 2019 election, required by the 5 Year Fixed Term Act, would be held on September 3. The minority National People’s Party government had surprised many by surviving the full term, buoyed by a supply and confidence agreement from the Seminole Party. However as the election approached, it became apparent that the political winds were shifting.
Having defeated the corruption charges filed in 2010, popular former Minister of Finance Albert Cummings had been an effective opposition leader for the Popular Labour Party, and campaigned aggressively, and with broad union support. Cummings promoted “A Sunny Future” which proposed government action to promote tourism, in particular on the South Shore. Meanwhile. Philips had to contend with what was seen as an anemic response to the economic downturn in late 2018 to early 2019, although his plan to bring tourism dollars to Florida was well received. His government suffered when his Minister for Sport was arrested for fraud the night after Florida’s humiliating loss in the Cricket World Cup. The Seminole Party under Nokosi Johnson hoped to build on their record setting 7 seats in 2014, but it was not to be. They had only managed the South Shore seats due to splitting. Meanwhile Cummings ran an aggressive campaign for Seminole voters, which would pay dividends on Election Day.
The results were the largest victory for the PLP since the NPP had been ejected from Parliament in 2008. The PLP picked up seats nationwide, and even managing to secure one of the nationwide Seminole seats and the seat for Okeechobee City. This left Cummings with a wide majority. Johnson would remain head of the Seminole Party, while now former Prime Minister Philips would be forced out and replaced with his former Minister for Justice, Paul Henry. Philips has since left the party to sit as an independent and has announced plans to form his own party.
Wallace was born in 1888 in Orient, Iowa. He was the son of Henry C. Wallace, a farmer and political activist who served as US Secretary of Agriculture during the Presidencies of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. He worked as a writer for his family's newspaper, and later worked as a farmer himself before starting a corn company. Despite originally being a Republican, he later came to support the Democratic party, becoming an outspoken supporter of 1932 Democratic Presidential nominee Franklin Roosevelt, who appointed Wallace as the 11th US Secretary of Agriculture after he won the 1932 election. When Roosevelt sought an unprecedented third term in 1940, incumbent Vice President John Nance Garner was dropped from the Democratic party ticket, and Roosevelt chose Wallace to replace him. Despite Wallace, who's progressive views caused him to gain large opposition from the more conservative factions of the democratic party, faced an uphill battle to nomination, he narrowly won the Vice Presidential nomination during the 1940 DNC.
The Roosevelt-Wallace ticket won the 1940 Presidential election and Wallace was inaugurated as the 33rd Vice President of the United States on January 20th 1941. Although he quickly became frustrated with the Vice Presidency, finding it a mostly ceremonial role, prompting President Roosevelt to appoint him to the Board of Economic Warfare as chairman, giving him a key role in the mobilization of the US Military during the US entry into the Second World War. He held several other key position's in Roosevelt's administration as Vice President, leading many to refer to him as the first Vice President to really hold much power. When the 1944 Presidential election rolled around, and Roosevelt decided to seek as fourth term, he wanted Wallace as his running mate again. Although, with Roosevelt's health in doubt and many within the Democratic party knowing he probably wouldn't make it to the end of his fourth term, meaning his Vice President would most likely assume the Presidency at some point over the next four years. This made many in the Democratic party wary of re-nomination Wallace as VP, as his progressive views that nearly cost him the 1940 nomination angered many in the party's conservatives wing, and he faced serious opposition with more moderate members of the party attempting to replace him with Missouri Senator Harry Truman. Despite this, he was able to win the nomination on the second ballot, following which he and Roosevelt were re-elected in the November general election. He was re-inaugurated as Vice President on January 20th 1945.
His second term as Vice President would be incredibly short lived though, as he ascended to become the 33rd President of the United States on April 12th 1945, when President Roosevelt passed away as many Democratic party higher ups had expected. The first act of his Presidency rescinded executive order 9066, which had been signed by Roosevelt in 1942 and had authorized the Secretary of War to start incarcerating's Japanese-American citizens following the Attack on Pearl Harbor. His first term as President saw several consequential events occur, including the dropping of two atomic bombs off the coast of Japan, forcing their surrender and the end of World War Two, ratification of the 22nd (Presidential term limits), 23rd (elimination of poll taxes and lowering voting age to 18) and 24th (equal rights) amendments to the US Constitution, and the admitting of Alaska and Hawaii as the 49th and 50th states. Despite his relatively consequential first term, he had broken with the conservative wing of his party on almost every major act of his presidency, after the conservative and moderate factions of the Democratic party to unite during the 1948 Democratic National Convention and nominate Georgia Senator Richard Russell for President. Despite having lost his party's nomination, Wallace chose instead to run for re-election as a member of the left wing Progressive "Bull Moose" Party, a spiritual successor to the one used as a vessel for former President Teddy Roosevelt for his 1912 Presidential run. He picked Democrat turned Progressive Senator Glenn H. Taylor of Idaho as his running mate.
Despite consistently being the underdog, Wallace managed to form a coalition of voters who felt abandoned by the Democratic and Republican parties. Many moderate and liberal Republicans felt left behind by the Republican party, which had been trying its best to court southern and conservative Democrats during Wallace's first term, while many moderate and liberal Democrats felt betrayed when the Democrats nominated Russell, a staunch segregationist for President. Wallace's coalition of progressives, liberals and moderates helped him carry many northern states during the 1948 election and saw him win a narrow 276 electoral vote victory over the Democratic ticket of Richard Russell and Strom Thurmond, as well as the Republican ticket of Douglass MacArthur and Alf Landon. He was sworn in for a full term as President on January 20th 1949. Despite the 22nd amendment limiting a President to two terms, and restricting a President from running for a second full term if they ascended to the Presidency in the first half of their predecessors term, Wallace was exempt from the term limit as he was the incumbent President when the amendment was ratified, prompting him to run for a second full term in 1952. He was easily re-nominated by the Progressive party, as was Vice President Taylor, following which he went up against the Democratic ticket of Strom Thurmond and Adlai Stevenson, and the Republican ticket of Robert Taft and Joseph McCarthy. The election saw neither candidate receive a majority of electoral votes, and despite a last ditch re-count effort by the Progressive's to sway the results in California in their favor, which would have given Wallace the needed majority of votes, the election was eventually thrown to the US Congress. The contingent election in the House and Senate eventually went Wallace's way, with him being elected by the House and Taylor by the Senate.
His 11 year Presidency was seen as one of the most consequential in American history, during his two full terms he would oversea the desegregation of the US Military, ratification of the 24th Amendment (Presidential line of succession and filling Vice Presidential vacancies), signed the Civil and Voting Rights Act, the establishment of the American Healthcare System, admitting Puerto Rico as the 51st state and was credited with delaying the beginning of the Cold War, despite his view on the Soviet Union souring towards the end of his Presidency. His election was in 1948 was widely seen as a re-aligning election in American politics, seen as the end of the forth party system, dominated by the Democratic and Republican parties, and the beginning of the fifth party system, which would be dominated by the left-wing Progressive and center-right National Republican Party. After the Democrats and Republican's lost the 1948 election, largely due to their similarities allowing Wallace to court the moderate, liberal and progressive vote, the two party's tried to distance themselves from each other, although this proved hard with most people slightly left of the center fleeing to the progressives, and the Democrats and Republicans splitting what was left. After the two parties were walloped by vote splitting during the 1958 mid-terms, they finally decided, since at that point they were very similar in policy, to merge into one, and the National Republican Party was born. Wallace would leave office on January 20th 1957, the 1956 election, which he would not contest, would come down to his Vice President, Glenn Taylor, who was now at the top of the Progressive ticket, and National Republican Lyndon Baines Johnson. Johnson and his running mate, Richard Nixon, would eventually win the presidency over Taylor and his running mate, Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who would succeeded Johnson as President after winning the 1964 election. Wallace died in Danbury, Connecticut on November 18th 1965 at the age of 77.
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Will you be making a info box for a John Belushi national lampoon movie idea you have
I don't mean to come off as rude or dismissive, but have you considered trying to make your own wikiboxes? Almost all of your posts in this thread have been contextless requests asking other users to make boxes for you, and they seem to be fairly straightforward tweaks to existing templates that could be done following tutorials such as this one. All you need is the ability to make an editor account on Wikipedia, and perhaps free software such as GIMP or Paint.net if you plan on editing images, and then the possibilities of Chris Farley Shrek 2s and John Belushi National Lampoons will be limited only by the scope of your imagination.
Your text says that LBJ became the President of the United States after Henry Wallace. However, your infobox says Richard Nixon succeeded Wallace. I'm confused.
I noticed that also. Tricky Dick up to his old shenanigans I guessYour text says that LBJ became the President of the United States after Henry Wallace. However, your infobox says Richard Nixon succeeded Wallace. I'm confused.
More please xOver at the Spacebattles forum, there's a running "collaborative narrative" quest about a fictional American version of Doctor Who. These infoboxes were an omake created for its first season (we're currently nearing the end of Season 3).
The vague POD is that Sydney Newman has a brutal falling out with the BBC and ends up at NET, who are the only American network interested in his undeveloped pitch. Due to a mix of emergent narratives and (as an X-factor) dice rolls, there's a number of oddities from the perspective of OTL. The "grandfatherly" Doctor is an Oppenheimer-like figure played by a young William Shatner (the recruitment roll was low enough that he was the only audition). The Meddling Monk, not the Master, is his most popular evil opposite. The Cybermen are more famous than the Daleks, who themselves are about on par with the Autons — iconic, but not top-tier baddies.
What if the events leading up to the Civil War went even worse?
..."Brooks grabbed the falling Sumner, held him up by the lapel with one hand, and continued to lash out at him with the cane in the other.[14][15] Several other Senators and Representatives attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Edmundson, who yelled at the spectators to leave Brooks and Sumner alone,[16] and Keitt, who brandished his own cane and a pistol, and opened fire, shouting, "You should have let them be!" and "You should have let them alone, God damn you, you should have let them alone!"[17][18][19]"...
..."Brooks grabbed the falling Sumner, held him up by the lapel with one hand, and continued to lash out at him with the cane in the other.[14][15] Several other Senators and Representatives attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Edmundson, who yelled at the spectators to leave Brooks and Sumner alone,[16] and Keitt, who brandished his own cane and a pistol, and opened fire, shouting, "You should have let them be!" and "You should have let them alone, God damn you, you should have let them alone!"[17][18][19]"...
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