Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States. Died at 65 years of age. He was a Southerner, ho abhorred slavery and didn't want to see it spread. He died in his second year in office. Without Fillmore and then Buchanan as Presidents following him, the Union might have survived.
Theodore Roosevelt. 26th President of the United States. Was only 60 at his death. He was seriously thinking of running in 1920. I think had he done so, he would have kept the country strong, both militarily and economically. Maybe we could have got four terms out of him rather than his socialist cousin, Franklin.
No George III, no American Revolution.
No American Revolution, slavery ends here in 1833 as it did for all of the British Empire. (Unless the South revolts against the full might of the Empire, then in 1834 or 1835...)
Well reasoned choices. T. Roosevelt is one I have been mulling over.
“Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States. Died at 65 years of age. He was a Southerner, ho abhorred slavery and didn’t want to see it spread. He died in his second year in office. Without Fillmore and then Buchanan as Presidents following him, the Union might have survived.”
Interesting your comments on Taylor being a Southerner who did not want to see slavery being spread. I recall some years back, there was the theory that Taylor may have been deliberately poisoned and that he (and not Lincoln) may have been the first US President to be assassinated. And his views on slavery may have given some credence to that idea as there were likely those interests who would not have liked Taylor’s ideas on slavery.
But that theory of him being deliberately poisoned was put to rest when authorities exhumed his remains and found, with the assistance of modern coroner procedures and science, no evidence that Taylor was poisoned.