John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) in OTL is the former U.S. Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017, former senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, he lost by 35 electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election by incumbent President George W. Bush. Senator Kerry is a Vietnam veteran, and was a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War when he returned home from service. Before entering the Senate, he served as an Assistant District Attorney and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts under Michael Dukakis, who was nominated for President by the Democrats in 1988.
Alternate versions of John Kerry have been discovered in the multiverse:
- John Kerry, 44th President of the United States (A Better Man)
- John Kerry, 44th President of the United States (A Different Path)
- John Kerry, 69th United States Secretary of State (Al Gore Wins Florida)
- John Kerry, 44th President of the United States (Double Collapse)
- John Kerry, 47th Vice President of the United States (Bush '92)
- John Kerry, 45th President of the United States (Gore's Revenge)
- John Kerry, former President of the United States (Gore '88)
- John Kerry, Secretary of State of the United States (New Union)
- John Kerry, former President of the United States (Nixon Contests)
- John Kerry, 43rd President of the United States (No Nixon)
- John Kerry, 44th President of the United States (President Kerry)
- John Kerry, Senior Senator from Massachusetts (President McCain)
- John Kerry, 43rd President of the United States (President Welles)
- John Kerry, Former Vice President of the United States (Vive l'Emperor)
- John Kerry, 42nd President of the United States (What Luck)
- John Kerry, 22nd and current Governor of the U.S. state of Vietnam (Greater American Empire)