Time Person of the Year (Differently)

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Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse has done the most to influence the events of the year".

Charles Lindbergh on the cover as the first winner of Time Magazine's Man of the Year Award. (1927)

Background

The tradition of selecting a "Man of the Year" began in 1927, with Time editors contemplating the news makers of the years. The idea was also an attempt to remedy the editorial embarrassment earlier that year of not having aviator Charles Lindbergh on its cover following his historic trans-Atlantic flight. By the end of the year, it was decided that a cover story featuring Lindbergh as the Man of the Year would serve both purposes.

Persons of the Year

Year	Image or Cover	Choice	Life time	Notes
1927		Charles Lindbergh	1902–1974	First solo transatlantic flight.
1928		Walter Chrysler	1875–1940	In 1928, Chrysler oversaw a merger of his Chrysler Corporation with Dodge before beginning work on the Chrysler Building.
1929		Owen D. Young	1874–1962	Young chaired a committee which authored 1929's Young Plan, a program for settlement of German reparations after the Great War.
1930		Mahatma Gandhi	1869–1948	Gandhi was the leader of India's independence movement. In 1930, he led the Salt Satyagraha, a 240-mile march to protest the imposition of taxes on salt by the British Raj.
1931		Pierre Laval	1869–1949	Laval was first elected Prime Minister of France in 1931. Laval was popular in the American press at the time for opposing the Lowden Moratorium, a temporary freeze on Great War debt payments that was disliked in both France and the US.
1932		Theodore Roosevelt Jr.	1887–1944	Roosevelt won the 1932 US Presidential election by a landslide, defeating Vice President, Charles G. Dawes.
1933		Hugh Johnson	1882–1942	In 1933 Johnson was appointed director of the National Recovery Administration. US President Roosevelt gave him the task of bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.
1934		Huey Long	1893–1935	Long was president of the Confederate States from 1933 to 1935, and was pushing his progressive reform policies known as Share Our Wealth in 1934.
1935		Haile Selassie	1892–1975	Selassie was Emperor of Ethiopia in 1935.
1936	File:220px-Wallis and Edward.jpg	Wallis Simpson	1896–1986	In 1936, Simpson's relationship with King Edward VIII led the king to abdicate his throne in order to marry her.
1937		John Nance Garner	1868–1967	Garner was president of the Confederate States in 1937, which was in the middle of the Confederate Civil War.
1938		Wilhelm III of Germany	1882–1951	As German Chancellor, Wilhelm acceded to the throne of Germany following the abdication of his father.
1939		Joseph Stalin	1878–1953	In 1939, Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
1940		Adolf Hitler	1889–1962	By 1940 Hitler's Pan-Germanic cultural movement "Hitlerism" had spread throughout Europe and had even lead to Sweden joining Germany in the Polish-German War.
1941		Dumbo		Because of the war in Europe and in the Confederate States, Time Magazine decided to try to uplift the American Spirit by giving Disney's cartoon elephant Dumbo the title of Mammal of the Year.
1942		Clement Attlee	1874–1965	In 1942 Attlee oversaw peace talks between Germany and the Allied powers, ending the Polish-German War.
1943		Carter Glass	1858–1946	Appointed President of the Confederate States, he established the Confederate Government in Exile in 1943 following the fall of Richmond.
1944		Thomas Dewey	1902–1971	Dewey won the 1944 US Presidential election by a landslide, defeating the incumbent, Henry Wallace.
1945		Harry F. Byrd	1887–1966	In 1945 Former Confederate State Senator Harry Byrd is appointed president of the Confederate Government in Exile.
1946		Umberto II of Italy	1904–1983	In 1946 Umberto II becomes King of Italy following the abdication of his father Victor Emmanuel III.
1947		Earl Long	1895–1960	In 1947 Long becomes Chairmen of the Confederation of Socialist States of America.
1948		Thomas Dewey	1902–1971	Dewey was reelected as President of the United States in 1948.
1949		Albert Einstein	1879–1955	In 1949 Einstein had been working on the possibility of using nuclear fission as a new power source for the later half of the century.
1950		Syngman Rhee	1875–1965	Prime Minister of Korea Syngman Rhee is awarded Man of the Year for his works in industrializing the nation in 1950.
1951		Clement Attlee	1883–1967	In 1951, Prime Minister Clement Attlee of the United Kingdom would have his famed A Nightmare Manifested speech in Toronto, in which he criticized the United State's continuous occupation of former Canadian territories won during the Anglo American War. Later that year, Clement met with CSSA Chairmen Earl Long, and continued to serve as Prime Minister following the general election that October.
1952		Mohammad Reza Shah	1919-1980	In 1952, Mohammad Reza Shah was restored to the Throne over West Persia after the failed revolution, caused by the East Persian regime.
1953		Charles Arthur Floyd	1904–1963	In 1953 Chairman Floyd of the CASS had begun purges through the government and military. As well as beginning military modernization and armament production.
1954		John Foster Dulles	1888–1959	As United States Secretary of State in 1954, Dulles was architect of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
1955		Ferruccio Parri	1890–1981	In 1955, Ferruccio Parri the former Prime Minister of Italy, becomes the first General Secretary of the Latin League an organization which he was instrumental part of it's creation.
1956		Earl Warren	1891–1974	Earl Warren is reelected President of the United States in 1956. Earlier that year, Warren allowed the referendum votes in the US-occupied territories of Canada.
1957		Nikita Khrushchev	1894–1971	In 1957, Khrushchev consolidated his leadership of the Soviet Union, surviving a plot to dismiss him by members of the Presidium, and leading the Soviet Union into the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik 1.
1958		Charles de Gaulle	1890–1970	De Gaulle was appointed Prime Minister of France in May 1958 and, following the collapse of the Fourth Republic and establishment of the Fifth Republic, was then elected President of France in December.
1959		Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.	1915–1963	In 1959 Vice President Joseph P. Kennedy would have his famed Sokolniki Debate with Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev which became a major media event for the United States.
1960		U.S. Scientists		Represented by George Beadle, Charles Draper, John Enders, Donald A. Glaser, Joshua Lederberg, Willard Libby, Linus Pauling, Edward Purcell, James Van Allen, and Robert Woodward.
1961		Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.	1915–1963	Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States in 1961, he also ordered the US invasion of the CASS starting the American War.
1962		Pope John XXIII	1881–1963	John XXIII was head of the Roman Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963. In 1962, he volunteered to serve as a mediator in the American War, hoping to end the conflict. He also initiated the Second Vatican Council that same year.
1963		Curtis LeMay	1906–1990	In 1963 USAF Chief of Staff Curtis LaMay was responsible for the directing the massive carpet bombings of cities remaining loyal to the Confederation following the assassination of President Kennedy. (Among the casualties of these bombing is CASS Chairman Charles Floyd.)
1964		Nelson Rockefeller	1908–1979	Rockefeller was elected in his own right as President of the United States in 1964, before securing the passage of the Civil Rights Act, escalating U.S. involvement in the War against Communism.
1965		Maxwell Taylor	1901–1987	General Taylor was commander of U.S. forces in the Confederation of American Socialist States during the American War.
1966		Martin Luther King Jr.	1929–2011	In 1966 Religious and Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King returns back to Dixie after spending half a decade in exile in the United States. Also during this year MLK would give his Dream for the Nation speech.
1967		Pujie of China	1907–1994	In 1967 Pujie becomes Emperor of China following the death of his Brother Puyi.
1968		Lyndon Johnson	1908–1973	In 1968, under President Johnson's leadership the newly reestablished Confederate States holds their first elections since 1933.
1969		The American soldier		Representing U.S. troops involved in the American War (1961–1978).
1970		Heinz Kissinger	Born in 1923	In 1970 Heinz Kissinger term as General Secretary of the German League would come to an end, later that year he would become Chancellor of the German Empire. He was the first Jewish General Secretary for the Germanic League and, the first Jewish Chancellor for the German Empire.
1971		Pedro III of Brazil	1909–1981	In 1971 Emperor Pedro III of Brazil celebrated his golden jubilee for his reign of 50 years, which was one of the major social events of the decade.
1972		Richard Nixon	1913–1972	As President of the United States, Nixon visited Moscow in 1972, the first sitting U.S. President to do so. Nixon later secured the SALT I pact with the Soviet Union before his assassination in November of that year. (He is the only person to be awarded Person of the Year postmortem.)
1973		American Women		Represented by Pat Nixon, Susan Brownmiller, Judy Agnew, Ella Grasso, Billie Jean King, Charlotte Reid, Shirley Chisholm, and Marilyn Monroe Kennedy.
1974		European Mars Space Mission.		In 1974 Germanic League's Space Mission would become the first humans to reach another planet with the landing on Mars.
1975		Vyacheslav Molotov	1890-1986	In 1975 Vyacheslay Molotov would become acting First Secretary of the Soviet Union following Leonid Brezhnev resignation, where he would oversee the dissolution of the USSR and the establishment of the Russian Federation.
1976		Sándor Kocsis	1929-2010	In 1976 Sándor Kocsis is elected General Secretary of the Germanic League, which he began the process of overseeing the distribution of money to help newly non-communist nations.
1977		Robert Kennedy	1925-2007	In 1977 the newly elected US President, began working on finally ending the American War beginning peace talks between himself, along side President Jimmy Carter, with Chairmen Fidel Castro in the State of Cuba.
1978		Caesarion XXXI	1952-1999	Caesarion XXXI becomes pharaoh of Egypt following the end of the People’s Republic of Egyptian Provinces.
1979		Martin Luther King Jr.	1929-2011	In 1979 MLK would begin the famed Peace Train tour across the Confederate States trying to push for reforms in race relations and faith building in the nation.
1980		Robert Kennedy	1925-2007	In 1980 President Kennedy would win reelection in one biggest landsides victories in United States political history.