Timeline Part One (No FDR)

February 15, 1933 - President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt is shot by Giuseppe Zangara in Miami, Florida while shaking hands with Mayor Cermak.

March 1, 1933 - Roosevelt dies of his wounds, exascerbated by his polio, at the Walter Reed General Hospital. President Hoover retains his office until the Inauguration Day, at which time Vice-President-elect John Nance Garner will be sworn in. In the meantime, the Democratic Party convenes to choose a new Vice-Presidential candidate. With no precedent to follow, it is determined that Garner will have to be sworn in as President and THEN choose a Vice-President.

March 4, 1933 - Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in John Nance Garner as the 33rd President. Garner announced earlier that he would choose Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee as his Vice-President.