Alf Landon (New England Secession)

Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon (born September 9, 1887-died February 27th, 1941) was the 33rd President of the United States after defeating Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Presidential Election of 1936.

Landon was assassinated in Washington in 1941 by former Roosevelt Vice President John Nance Garner after his controversial cancelling of the 1940 Presidential Election after a relatively small labor riot in San Francisco.

Landon improbably won the Presidential Election of 1936, running on a platform that President Roosevelt's Progressive financial policies were actually hurting the United States during the depression, not helping it. He squeaked by Roosevelt in the general election to become the 33rd President of the United States. Landon's anti-Progressive and anti-Democrat message helped elect a Republican-held congress, although just.

After taking office, Landon and the Republican-held Congress began to undo all of Roosevelt's policies. However, Landon's policies backfire, dragging America further down. Fearing losing reelection in 1940, Landon exploits a labor riot in San Francisco, California to cancel the elections by signing an executive order to cancel them. Democrats - and most of the populace - are furious at Landon. There are calls for impeachment, but they fall on deaf ears.

After Landon cancelled the elections, former Roosevelt Vice President John Nance Garner - already possessing a maniacal hatred against Landon - was pushed over the top. Garner wrote in his diary "I now know that the only way to save this great, free nation is to destroy the President. I know it is against the Ten Commandments. I know it will send me to prison for a very long time. But the President is just a half dozen steps away from Franco in Spain, Hitler in Germany, Salazar in Portugal or Mussolini in Italy. I fear for this country, and now I must save it."

On February 27, 1941, President Landon held a gala with several Washington elites attending, including former President Roosevelt and Garner. Garner smuggled a handgun beneath his coat, and sat near the stage where Landon would be speaking from. When Landon started his speech, Garner stood up took out his handgun, yelled "Sic semper tyrannus!" and shot Landon four times, killing him. Garner was escorted away by Secret Service, was arrested, tried and sentenced to death. He died of suicide ten years before his scheduled execution.

Landon's Vice President, Frank Knox, took over as President, and Knox chose William Edgar Borah of Indiana to be his Vice President.