Board Thread:New on Alternative History/@comment-72.185.4.15-20130303025444/@comment-3428312-20150502164806

67.84.180.163 wrote: "If Stephen Douglas had been elected president...": If Douglas had been elected, he would have served for three months as he died on June 3, 1861. So shouldn't the question entail some discussion of what might have happened if Herschel Johnson (a former Georgia governor, a Unionist but still a Southerner), his vice-presidential running mate who would have become president, was the man in the White House in 1861? Douglas died due to a sickness he contracted while in his homestate. If he was elected President, he would've been in the White House and would not have died.