Poor Anton Cermak.
Garner would’ve been much preferable to FDR, though there’s no telling how much pressure there might’ve been on him by the Democrat left to use the hand of big gubmint to resolve the Depression. Either way, it would’ve opened him up to a challenge from the left from Huey Long in ‘36 and the GOP probably would’ve put up the mediocre Alf Landon, who would’ve been another Hoover (or Hoover himself, whom was considered for a rematch with FDR).
Andrew Mellon should’ve been elected President in 1928.
Cermak’s Guardian Angel later redeemed herself (my mom told me when I was a kid you get an opposite gender angel) by saving Governor Connolly.
“Hoover himself, whom was considered for a rematch with FDR)”
I know he got convention votes in 1940 (and none in ‘36) but that should have been a non-starter after the beatdown he received.
Mellon sounds good. But what wiki says about why he resigned is bizarre.
Did Hoover ignore his advice?