AHC: Potential candidates for an American monarch

Lalli

Alexander Hamilton perhaps. Or then someone else influential Founding Father like Jefferson or Adams. Or then it could be someone of several princes of HRE. Intresting would be if someone George III's sones would accept the crown but this seems unlikely.
 

Lalli

Kaze said:
Andrew Jackson.

Sherman.

FDR.
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What? Are you even serious? By Jackson's presidency republicanism was already strongly established. IF he even tries crown himself as king Congress would immediately remove him. And Sherman and FDR? Totally ASB.
 

Kaze

Banned
Jackson. If the American Revolution was lost - there would be a second bite at the apple of revolution in the Napoleonic period, which would lead to "King Jackson"

Sherman.
Sherman was on orders to march north once he cut through the south, here was some talk that he might not stop at Richmond and make himself dictator, as dictator he would hang all the Confederate leadership and punish the south severely, fortune smiled those plans were stopped by the Lincoln assassination. He decided that America suffered enough.

FDR.
President four times in a row, anyone?
 

Albert Blake

Kaze said:
Jackson. If the American Revolution was lost - there would be a second bite at the apple of revolution in the Napoleonic period, which would lead to "King Jackson"

Sherman.
Sherman was on orders to march north once he cut through the south, here was some talk that he might not stop at Richmond and make himself dictator, as dictator he would hang all the Confederate leadership and punish the south severely, fortune smiled those plans were stopped by the Lincoln assassination. He decided that America suffered enough.

FDR.
President four times in a row, anyone?
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The last one is more compelling honestly as a dictator and not a monarch, not to say FDR was a dictator but the way he clung onto power is very strange. Especially considering the precedent of two terms set by literally everyone else.
 

Lalli

Kaze said:
Jackson. If the American Revolution was lost - there would be a second bite at the apple of revolution in the Napoleonic period, which would lead to "King Jackson"

Sherman.
Sherman was on orders to march north once he cut through the south, here was some talk that he might not stop at Richmond and make himself dictator, as dictator he would hang all the Confederate leadership and punish the south severely, fortune smiled those plans were stopped by the Lincoln assassination. He decided that America suffered enough.

FDR.
President four times in a row, anyone?
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Monarch and dictator are not same thing. And FDR wasn't even dictator in any sense. He was democratically elected to his office and he didn't led USA very authotarian way. Woodrow Wilson was much more authotarian during WW1. And FDR had quiet acceptable reason violate Wasnhington's precedent. He hardly would had done that without WW2.
 
Oliveia

Oliveia

I could see John Adams -- influential politician and Founding Father who had a very... complex relationship with monarchism: he was, by most accounts, much more in favor of aristocracy and monarchy than the radically republican state envisioned by fellow Founding Fathers such as Paine or Jefferson. I doubt he would have liked being called King of America or anything of the like, but I think that, if he was elected into a permanent office (a monarchy in everything but name), that he wouldn't have complained too much.
 

Corjomc

What if George III gives the crown to his second son, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, with the mandate to form an American parliament.

Hoping to to answer the representation problem.
 

Jimbo808

George III is unlikely to do this, he was the last monarch who tried to meddle in British affairs, something of a control freak. I doubt he would let the Thirteen Colonies win more control of their own affairs, let alone have a son of his rule over them. Hannovarian monarchs are notable for disliking their own sons.
 

Corjomc

Jacobite America, interesting, does this lead to an American-English war later on?

Or an earlier revolution as the Protestants in the New World do not want a Catholic ruler foisted upon them?
 

Kerney

Pardon me, how bout Aaron Burr, Sir.

Or a bastard orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman dropped in a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished, grow up to be a monarch and a scholar?

Whose name is Alexander Hamilton.

Either would be a world turned upside down.
 
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Decatur

An American monarch need not necessarily have the title king. President for life, perhaps? Or Lord Protector, like Cromwell? The POD is that Washington accepts an offer to make him dictator.

George Washington (1783-1799)
Alexander Hamilton (1799-1804)
George Washington Parke Custis (1804-1857)
Robert E. Lee (1857-1870)

Washington wanted his grandson to succeed him, but Congress thought he was too young, so they chose Hamilton. After he was assasinated, Custis got the job. He had a nice long reign and passed the position on to his son-in-law.
That's as far I've gone. The butterflies are starting to swarm (and scream)...
 
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