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I am going to share with all of you folks biographies from a timeline I am working on. Please, Please do not add biographies of your own, I just want to share this with you folks and see if you guys can get the general shape of this world as I have envisioned it.
If you have ideas or suggestions then please share them, if there is someone you would like to see, let me know and I will see what I can do. Right now I am focusing on political figures, even if they aren't political figures in this timeline.
Margaret Beckett (1943- ) is the first female and current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom having served in the British Parliament as a member of the Liberal Party since 1974.
Lavrentiy Beria (1899-1938) was a notorious criminal in the Kingdom of Georgia in the 1920’s to his death in 1938. Beria ran everything from an illegal casino, to prostitution rings, and most notably a child prostitution ring that involved over 150 minors. A former associate made a bargain with the Georgian National Police in exchange for his death sentence to be commuted to life in prison in exchange for Beria. On the night of August 5, 1938 Beria was killed in a shoot out with police officers at his personal fortress in the Caucasian Mountains.
James Blaine (1830-1890) was President of the United States from 1885-1889 and is best known for the US-Haitian War in which the United States forcibly annexed Haiti after the US Army announced several soldiers were killed by Haitian rebels in Santo Domingo. Blaine failed to win the Republican nomination in 1888 and retired from politics and died of a heart attack at his home in Maine.
Anthony Blair (1953-) was a member of a popular 1970’s rock band, the Ugly Rumours from the groups foundation until the band broke up in 1982. Blair attempted a solo career, and later a reunion with the Ugly Rumours which was not met with critical success. Retiring from the stage in the mid 1990’s, Blair now works as a Rock Promoter in Los Angeles.
Nikolai Bulganin (1895-1972) was the Supreme Chancellor of the Russian Empire from 1944-1957. Bulganin was a loyal monarchist and a staunch supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church who helped guide Russia into an age of democracy with his surprisingly liberal policies. The city of Bulganingrad (Astana) is named in his honor.
George H.W. Bush (1924- ) is a U.S. Senator from the state of Connecticut and a former backup First baseman for the Washington Senators, New York Yankees, St Louis Browns, Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Baltimore Orioles and the Philadelphia Athletics, following his retirement from baseball in 1958, Bush entered Connecticut state politics and was eventually elected Governor, and later Senator. He was wounded while campaigning against incumbent Joseph Kennedy for the 1972 Democratic Presidential nomination by Arthur Bremer.
George W. Bush (1946- ) is a Colonel in the United States Air Force and the Commanding Officer of Biloxi Air Force Base in Mississippi. Although it is whispered among the men under his command that he had only received his promotion and posting due to his political connections, Bush is actually a fair fighter pilot, and has a fondness for the US Air Force’s F-17.
John “JEB” Bush (1953- ) is the brother of Colonel George W. Bush and the son of Senator George H.W. Bush. Due to his father’s contacts, Jeb was appointed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1972 and was commissioned four years later and assigned to the USS Sonora in Key West. Eventually promoted to Lieutenant Commander, Bush retired from the Navy in 1997 and found himself helping his father in the US Senate. Three years later Jeb Bush was appointed to as the American ambassador to the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Robert C. Byrd (1917-2007) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia and failed 1980 Democratic Presidential candidate. Byrd served in the U.S. Senate from 1959 until his death in 2007. During his service in the Senate, Byrd was a champion of Conservative and family values. Byrd was succeeded in the Senate by former West Virginia governor and fellow Democrat Joe Manchin.
Fidel Castro (1926-1966) was a Cuban Nationalist who favored independence from the American Empire. Fidel Castro and his co-conspirator, former US Marine Fulgencio Batista failed in their assassination attempt of U.S. President Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and was killed by the Secret Service trying to flee the scene.
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) was the British Prime Minister from 1937 to his death in 1940. Without the rise of the Nazi Party, nor efforts to appease anyone, Chamberlain has not gone down as a failure in history, but rather remains a question mark of a career cut short due to his untimely death from Stomach Cancer. He was succeeded upon his death by Sir Kingsley Wood.
Winston Churchill (1874-1961) was the President of the United States from 1941-1949. Churchill was born in Brooklyn, New York after his American mother left his British father. Prior to joining the Democratic Party in 1914, Churchill was a member of the Republican Party, but as Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party gained strength, many liberal Republicans bolted to join TR and many conservative Republicans joined the Democrats. Churchill, then a member of the House of Representatives was a strong advocate American isolationism in the Great War, and later served as Speaker of the House from 1919 to 1931. Winston Churchill was well read, a Civil War enthusiast, an amateur writer (dabbling in Alternate History) and a baseball fanatic and diehard fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Churchill served in the US Navy from 1892-1899, one of the many who proudly served on the USS Maine.
William Clinton (1946- ) is an American Televangelist and a member of the Billy Graham Crusaders. Clinton preaches at a Mega-church in Little Rock, Arkansas and lives a luxurious life with his wife of thirty seven years Lynette Fromme-Clinton and their children. Clinton is a prominent and vocal member of the powerful Christian Left lobby in America.
Charles de Gaulle (1890-1958) was a career officer in the French Defensive Army having served in the Great War with great honor. Gaulle was a great supporter of the leadership of Premier Philippe Petain following France’s defeat in the Great War. Following Petain’s death in 1951 and the restoration of the French Monarchy under the Bourbon-Orleans dynasty in 1953, de Gaulle helped organize a coup that would prevent the democratization of France and reversal of Petainism in his beloved France, the coup however failed miserably and de Gaulle was executed in 1958 for his role.
Gerald Ford (1913-2005) was a Hall of Fame Linebacker spending most of his career with the Cleveland Rams (although he spent his first two seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers). A year prior to the Rams move to Los Angeles, Ford was traded to the Detroit Lions where he finished his illustrious career in 1950. Following his retirement from the NFL, Ford became the Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, a post he held until 1995 after had a heart attack at a Boy Scout Jamboree.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1955) was an Indian Nationalist and an advocate of an independent state apart from the British Empire. Gandhi is perhaps best known for his non-violent civil disobedience demanding for India’s independence, which he did not live to see fulfilled. Gandhi died in 1955 from heart failure.
Hermann Goring (1893-1916) was a German Air Force fighter pilot serving in the Great War. While flying a mission over Austria-Hungary in August 1916, Goring’s Fokker Dr. I triplane was shot down by ground fire while engaging in aerial combat. Goring was killed on compact and is buried in a military cemetery in Austria.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1974) was an American journalist and a playboy. Coming from the prominent Boston Kennedy family, young John Kennedy fulfilled his dream in the early 1950’s by getting hired for the Boston Globe. By the decades end, Kennedy had left the Globe and used his family influence to become the Chief Editor of the Saturday Evening Post, although credited for saving the post, Kennedy was better known for his one night stands with celebrities, and is rumored to be the true father of Patrick Kennedy, a charge his sister n law Jacqueline denied to her own death in 1996. Four years later blood tests revealed John was indeed the father of Patrick.
Sarah Heath [nee Palin] (1964- ) is a popular sports reporter working for ESPN, often covering the sidelines in Gridiron Football games and major sporting events such as the World Series and the NBA and NHL championships.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1982) was part of the Artamanen Society which advocated an idealistic back-to-the-land youth group. Himmler spent the remainder of his life as a moderately successful chicken farmer in Bavaria. Following a series of strokes, Himmler perished in late 1982.
Adolph Hitler (1889-1931) was an Austrian born painter and soldier for the Austro-Hungarian Sergeant during the Great War. Hitler was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna following Austria’s annexation into the Second Reich and later fell in love with his niece Geli Raubal and had a child with her in 1929. When his niece attempted to leave him for a Jewish man in 1931, Hitler shot and killed her before committing suicide.
Saddam Hussein (1937- ) is an Arab-American currently living in Queens, New York where he earns an honest living as cab driver. Hussein has had little difficulty adapting to the American life style where he has learned to live and die by the New York Knicks basketball team. Hussein considers himself a lapsed Muslim and enjoys drinking with the guys and visiting strip clubs and is a member of the Libertarian Party.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1963) was the President of the United States from 1957-1963 and a member of the Democratic Party. Johnson served in the U.S. House of Representatives during the Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, whom Johnson greatly admired. LBJ continued Roosevelt’s New Deal by instituting the Great Society Program which was a great success. Due to Johnson’s support for the 1962 Civil Rights Act, Johnson was assassinated in 1963 by Bobby Frank Cherry and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Osama Bin Laden (1957- ) is an Arab oil tycoon living in the Kingdom of Hejaz. Although Bin Laden does not care much for the secularist governments of the Arab World he has contented himself with living a simple life style on his private desert ranch, riding horses and watching old John Wayne movies.
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1909) was a Russian Bolshevik who advocated revolution and overthrowing the Tsarist government in favor of a Marxist one. Following a failed attempt to stir insurrection in Moscow, Lenin was arrested by the Tsarist police, extremely loyal to Mikhail II and promptly executed by a firing squad.
Liliuokalani (1838-1916) was the Queen of Hawaii from 1891 until her death in 1916, and was responsible for making Hawaii a Protectorate of the British Empire in 1901. During the Great War, Queen Lili dutifully followed the British into war against the Quadruple Alliance and died before the war ended. She was succeeded by Princess Kaiulani.
Maximilian II (1832-1921) was an Austro-Hungarian Archduke and was a vocal opponent in forging an alliance with France, preferring instead either Germany or Great Britain. It is well known Maximilian turned down the throne for the Mexican Empire in 1864 as he correctly believed the plebiscite that confirmed him as Emperor was dubious. After the loss in the Great War and Austria’s annexation into the Second Reich, Maximilian was offered and accepted the title King of Hungary which was established as a protectorate of Germany. He died four years into his reign in 1921 and was succeeded by his son, King Charles IV.
John McCain (1936- ) is a third generation Four Star Admiral having served in the United States Navy from 1960 until his retirement in 1996. McCain is a member of the Democratic Party and currently serves as the Secretary of the Military Affairs in the Administration of Progressive President Paul Wellstone.
Ho Chin Minh (1890-1973) was a teacher at a University in Saigon in the Empire of Vietnam, until he was exiled by the government of Emperor Bao Dai in 1965 for his Marxist and republican rhetoric. Minh moved to the United States where he spent the rest of his life living in squalor conditions in Tijuana.
Benito Mussolini (1883-1916) was an Italian journalist and socialist, at the outbreak of the Great War in 1913, Mussolini joined the Italian Army and saw action against the French on the Northwestern Front. In 1916, Mussolini was among the thousands who were killed when the French Army overran the Italian defenses at the Battle of Turin.
Emperor Napoleon I (1822-1891) was the cousin of French Emperor Napoleon III and the Emperor of Mexico from 1864-1891. Staunchly secularist, the Mexican Napoleon was able to form a loose alliance of liberals and conservatives under his reign and guide Mexico into an industrial power and a western democracy. After the fall of Napoleon III in the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon I turned to the United States as his ally and was particularly close with President Ulysses S. Grant. Napoleon is remembered fondly in Mexico as a wise and stable leader taking a nation crippled by corruption into a fledgling world power within a generation. Napoleon’s successors continued his friendly policies to the United States with the two neighboring powers forming a close relationship and are one another’s favored trading partners.
Nikolai II (1868-1900) was the Tsar of Russia from 1894-1900. Nikolai inherited the throne from his father in 1894 in what Russians called the year of three Tsars with both Tsar Alexander II and Alexander II dying within eight months of each other. Nikolai’s reign was very short and seen the young Tsar trying to reverse many of his grandfathers more liberal policies with little success. Nikolai II died in St Petersburg in 1900 from Typhoid Fever leaving behind a pregnant wife and three daughters, his widow later gave birth to a girl, Anastasia and the throne passed to his brother Mikhail II.
Richard Nixon (1913-1990) was a popular stage actor on Broadway, starring in numerous dramas. He is perhaps best remembered for making the jump to television and hosting a variety program, the Dick Nixon Hour from 1959-1974, and later The Late Night Show with Dick Nixon from 1976-1990 when he died unexpectedly of a stroke moments before he was to take the stage.
Barack Obama (1961- ) is a Hawaiian born Americo-Kenyan and a faithful Muslim. Obama received much of his education in the United States before returning to Kenya to live with his father with whom he was very close. After his father’s death in 1982, Obama was commissioned in the Kenyan Army. By 2000 Obama had been promoted to Brigadier General and led a military coup against the authoritarian government that he had served for nearly 20 years. The Kenyan Generalissimo is popular in the west for dragging his impoverished nation into the modern age, instituting European forms of bureaucracy, national health care and educational reform.
Lester Pearson (1897-1974) was the Prime Minister of Canada from 1958 until 1965, his close friendship with British Prime Minister Jo Grimond is credited as being the beginning of the Special Relationship between the United Kingdom and the Dominion of Canada which persists to this day.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2002) was an American Actor later turned politician serving as the Mayor of Los Angeles and was a Democratic Presidential hopeful throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s, though he failed to gain the Party’s nomination. Reagan regularly had his articles published in the Saturday Evening Post from the early 1960’s until his disclosure of Alzheimer’s Disease in 1991.
Hillary Rodham [nee Clinton] (1947- ) is the first woman to serve as the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Rodham is a staunch conservative and a long time member of the Democratic Party. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2002 by President Joe Biden after serving fifteen years in the US House of Representatives.
Ernst Rohm (1887-1920) was a soldier in the Bavarian Army in the Second Reich. In 1917 while crossing no mans land, Rohm lost his left leg below the knee. Following the war, Rohm moved to a wounded soldier’s home in Munich where he became a drunk. He was killed after being shot following an argument with another drunk.
Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1944) was the second Progressive President of the United States from 1933-1941 and is best known for his New Deal which guided the United States through the Great Depression. Although he contemplated a third term, Roosevelt decided against it and endorsed Vice President Charles McNary. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia in 1944 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Teddy Roosevelt (1856-1927) was a US President and the founder of the Progressive Party. Roosevelt first came to national prominence as a lawman in the Wild West who is best known for bringing outlaw John Kinney to justice in 1894 before returning to New York and getting involved in politics. After failing to secure the Republican nomination in 1904, 1908 and 1912, TR already an influential Senator formed the Progressive Party and won the 1912 election over incumbent Democrat William J. Bryan and eventual Republican nominee Philander Knox. Although the Great War was fought in his Presidency, and Roosevelt wanted to get involved in the war, congress did not agree and TR was forced to instead play mediator, winning the noble peace price for his role in ending the destructive conflict. Roosevelt died in 1927 from pneumonia.
Archibald Sinclair (1890-1970) was the British Prime Minister from 1942-1946 and again from 1951-1957. Sinclair proved instrumental in turning the Old British Empire into its successor the United Commonwealth of Sovereign Nations
Joseph Stalin (1878-1957) was a Georgian nationalist and a Saint in the Orthodox Church. Following Russia’s defeat in the Great War, Stalin then a monk began advocating Georgian independence and the restoration of the monarchy. In 1969 twelve years after his death, Stalin became a Saint and is remembered fondly for his kindness, warmth and devotion to the church.
Harold Stassen (1907-2008) was the President of the United States from 1949-1957 and a member of the Progressive Party. Stassen’s Presidency done much to advance the Civil Rights of African-Americans in the Jim Crow South, including issuing an executive order to desegregate the US Armed Forces in 1950 and supporting Brown-vs.-the Board of Education. Stassen died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington D.C. in 2008 from respiratory failure at the age of 101, making him the oldest ever U.S. President and is entombed in his Presidential Library in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Kim Il-sung (1912-1988) was a Korean born Christian missionary to his native country. Kim had a devoted following even as he dedicated his life to the service of the Church. From the time of his salvation in 1938 to his death fifty years later, Kim had performed hundreds of revivals in Korea and seen literally thousands of souls saved. Kim is often described as Korea’s Billy Graham..
Kim Jong-Il (1941-1990) was the son of Korean evangelist Kim Il-sung, but unlike his father could not handle the Christian life style, the younger Kim was notorious for his excessive drinking, running prostitution rings in Seoul and having spent most of the 1970’s in prison. Kim died in 1990 from liver disease a little over two years after his father.
William H. Taft (1857-1930) was a Supreme Court Justice from 1903 until his death in 1930. Future generations of Taft’s continue to involve themselves in politics still serving the all but defunct Republican Party in Ohio.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1944) was a Russian born Zionist who deeply believed in the Jewish Right to Return to Palestine and establish a modern state of Israel. Trotsky left Russia after the Pogrom of 1930 and settled in Jerusalem where he continued as a Zionist activist. In 1944, Trotsky was shot to death by a young Arab, Yasser Arafat after giving an extremely controversial speech that the Dome of the Rock must be destroyed in order for the Third Temple of Solomon to be built.
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1966) was the first native born Governor of Santo Domingo from 1941-1949. Following his governorship, Trujillo was an advocate of Santo Domingo statehood until his death in 1966. As of 2009 Trujillo’s dream of Santo Domingo statehood still have yet to be fulfilled and seems highly unlikely at the time.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1978) never became involved in politics instead Truman went on to become one of the most famous classical concert pianists of the twentieth century. After his death in 1978, Truman’s records became standard for young piano enthusiasts, and his business of opening Piano bars has spread throughout the United States and Canada, with Truman’s being a popular hangout for Yuppies in the 1980’s.
Mao Zedong (1893-1937) was a career Chinese solider serving in the Imperial Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Mao participated in three major battles against the Japanese Army during the invasion of Manchuria and was later killed defending the Imperial Palace in Peking in 1937, his body was desecrated by the victorious Japanese and left to rot on the Palace grounds. When the Chinese regained control of the Palace in 1945, Mao’s skeletal remains were buried in a mass grave along with others killed at the Palace.
If you have ideas or suggestions then please share them, if there is someone you would like to see, let me know and I will see what I can do. Right now I am focusing on political figures, even if they aren't political figures in this timeline.
Margaret Beckett (1943- ) is the first female and current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom having served in the British Parliament as a member of the Liberal Party since 1974.
Lavrentiy Beria (1899-1938) was a notorious criminal in the Kingdom of Georgia in the 1920’s to his death in 1938. Beria ran everything from an illegal casino, to prostitution rings, and most notably a child prostitution ring that involved over 150 minors. A former associate made a bargain with the Georgian National Police in exchange for his death sentence to be commuted to life in prison in exchange for Beria. On the night of August 5, 1938 Beria was killed in a shoot out with police officers at his personal fortress in the Caucasian Mountains.
James Blaine (1830-1890) was President of the United States from 1885-1889 and is best known for the US-Haitian War in which the United States forcibly annexed Haiti after the US Army announced several soldiers were killed by Haitian rebels in Santo Domingo. Blaine failed to win the Republican nomination in 1888 and retired from politics and died of a heart attack at his home in Maine.
Anthony Blair (1953-) was a member of a popular 1970’s rock band, the Ugly Rumours from the groups foundation until the band broke up in 1982. Blair attempted a solo career, and later a reunion with the Ugly Rumours which was not met with critical success. Retiring from the stage in the mid 1990’s, Blair now works as a Rock Promoter in Los Angeles.
Nikolai Bulganin (1895-1972) was the Supreme Chancellor of the Russian Empire from 1944-1957. Bulganin was a loyal monarchist and a staunch supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church who helped guide Russia into an age of democracy with his surprisingly liberal policies. The city of Bulganingrad (Astana) is named in his honor.
George H.W. Bush (1924- ) is a U.S. Senator from the state of Connecticut and a former backup First baseman for the Washington Senators, New York Yankees, St Louis Browns, Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Baltimore Orioles and the Philadelphia Athletics, following his retirement from baseball in 1958, Bush entered Connecticut state politics and was eventually elected Governor, and later Senator. He was wounded while campaigning against incumbent Joseph Kennedy for the 1972 Democratic Presidential nomination by Arthur Bremer.
George W. Bush (1946- ) is a Colonel in the United States Air Force and the Commanding Officer of Biloxi Air Force Base in Mississippi. Although it is whispered among the men under his command that he had only received his promotion and posting due to his political connections, Bush is actually a fair fighter pilot, and has a fondness for the US Air Force’s F-17.
John “JEB” Bush (1953- ) is the brother of Colonel George W. Bush and the son of Senator George H.W. Bush. Due to his father’s contacts, Jeb was appointed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1972 and was commissioned four years later and assigned to the USS Sonora in Key West. Eventually promoted to Lieutenant Commander, Bush retired from the Navy in 1997 and found himself helping his father in the US Senate. Three years later Jeb Bush was appointed to as the American ambassador to the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Robert C. Byrd (1917-2007) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia and failed 1980 Democratic Presidential candidate. Byrd served in the U.S. Senate from 1959 until his death in 2007. During his service in the Senate, Byrd was a champion of Conservative and family values. Byrd was succeeded in the Senate by former West Virginia governor and fellow Democrat Joe Manchin.
Fidel Castro (1926-1966) was a Cuban Nationalist who favored independence from the American Empire. Fidel Castro and his co-conspirator, former US Marine Fulgencio Batista failed in their assassination attempt of U.S. President Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and was killed by the Secret Service trying to flee the scene.
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) was the British Prime Minister from 1937 to his death in 1940. Without the rise of the Nazi Party, nor efforts to appease anyone, Chamberlain has not gone down as a failure in history, but rather remains a question mark of a career cut short due to his untimely death from Stomach Cancer. He was succeeded upon his death by Sir Kingsley Wood.
Winston Churchill (1874-1961) was the President of the United States from 1941-1949. Churchill was born in Brooklyn, New York after his American mother left his British father. Prior to joining the Democratic Party in 1914, Churchill was a member of the Republican Party, but as Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party gained strength, many liberal Republicans bolted to join TR and many conservative Republicans joined the Democrats. Churchill, then a member of the House of Representatives was a strong advocate American isolationism in the Great War, and later served as Speaker of the House from 1919 to 1931. Winston Churchill was well read, a Civil War enthusiast, an amateur writer (dabbling in Alternate History) and a baseball fanatic and diehard fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Churchill served in the US Navy from 1892-1899, one of the many who proudly served on the USS Maine.
William Clinton (1946- ) is an American Televangelist and a member of the Billy Graham Crusaders. Clinton preaches at a Mega-church in Little Rock, Arkansas and lives a luxurious life with his wife of thirty seven years Lynette Fromme-Clinton and their children. Clinton is a prominent and vocal member of the powerful Christian Left lobby in America.
Charles de Gaulle (1890-1958) was a career officer in the French Defensive Army having served in the Great War with great honor. Gaulle was a great supporter of the leadership of Premier Philippe Petain following France’s defeat in the Great War. Following Petain’s death in 1951 and the restoration of the French Monarchy under the Bourbon-Orleans dynasty in 1953, de Gaulle helped organize a coup that would prevent the democratization of France and reversal of Petainism in his beloved France, the coup however failed miserably and de Gaulle was executed in 1958 for his role.
Gerald Ford (1913-2005) was a Hall of Fame Linebacker spending most of his career with the Cleveland Rams (although he spent his first two seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers). A year prior to the Rams move to Los Angeles, Ford was traded to the Detroit Lions where he finished his illustrious career in 1950. Following his retirement from the NFL, Ford became the Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, a post he held until 1995 after had a heart attack at a Boy Scout Jamboree.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1955) was an Indian Nationalist and an advocate of an independent state apart from the British Empire. Gandhi is perhaps best known for his non-violent civil disobedience demanding for India’s independence, which he did not live to see fulfilled. Gandhi died in 1955 from heart failure.
Hermann Goring (1893-1916) was a German Air Force fighter pilot serving in the Great War. While flying a mission over Austria-Hungary in August 1916, Goring’s Fokker Dr. I triplane was shot down by ground fire while engaging in aerial combat. Goring was killed on compact and is buried in a military cemetery in Austria.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1974) was an American journalist and a playboy. Coming from the prominent Boston Kennedy family, young John Kennedy fulfilled his dream in the early 1950’s by getting hired for the Boston Globe. By the decades end, Kennedy had left the Globe and used his family influence to become the Chief Editor of the Saturday Evening Post, although credited for saving the post, Kennedy was better known for his one night stands with celebrities, and is rumored to be the true father of Patrick Kennedy, a charge his sister n law Jacqueline denied to her own death in 1996. Four years later blood tests revealed John was indeed the father of Patrick.
Sarah Heath [nee Palin] (1964- ) is a popular sports reporter working for ESPN, often covering the sidelines in Gridiron Football games and major sporting events such as the World Series and the NBA and NHL championships.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1982) was part of the Artamanen Society which advocated an idealistic back-to-the-land youth group. Himmler spent the remainder of his life as a moderately successful chicken farmer in Bavaria. Following a series of strokes, Himmler perished in late 1982.
Adolph Hitler (1889-1931) was an Austrian born painter and soldier for the Austro-Hungarian Sergeant during the Great War. Hitler was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna following Austria’s annexation into the Second Reich and later fell in love with his niece Geli Raubal and had a child with her in 1929. When his niece attempted to leave him for a Jewish man in 1931, Hitler shot and killed her before committing suicide.
Saddam Hussein (1937- ) is an Arab-American currently living in Queens, New York where he earns an honest living as cab driver. Hussein has had little difficulty adapting to the American life style where he has learned to live and die by the New York Knicks basketball team. Hussein considers himself a lapsed Muslim and enjoys drinking with the guys and visiting strip clubs and is a member of the Libertarian Party.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1963) was the President of the United States from 1957-1963 and a member of the Democratic Party. Johnson served in the U.S. House of Representatives during the Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, whom Johnson greatly admired. LBJ continued Roosevelt’s New Deal by instituting the Great Society Program which was a great success. Due to Johnson’s support for the 1962 Civil Rights Act, Johnson was assassinated in 1963 by Bobby Frank Cherry and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Osama Bin Laden (1957- ) is an Arab oil tycoon living in the Kingdom of Hejaz. Although Bin Laden does not care much for the secularist governments of the Arab World he has contented himself with living a simple life style on his private desert ranch, riding horses and watching old John Wayne movies.
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1909) was a Russian Bolshevik who advocated revolution and overthrowing the Tsarist government in favor of a Marxist one. Following a failed attempt to stir insurrection in Moscow, Lenin was arrested by the Tsarist police, extremely loyal to Mikhail II and promptly executed by a firing squad.
Liliuokalani (1838-1916) was the Queen of Hawaii from 1891 until her death in 1916, and was responsible for making Hawaii a Protectorate of the British Empire in 1901. During the Great War, Queen Lili dutifully followed the British into war against the Quadruple Alliance and died before the war ended. She was succeeded by Princess Kaiulani.
Maximilian II (1832-1921) was an Austro-Hungarian Archduke and was a vocal opponent in forging an alliance with France, preferring instead either Germany or Great Britain. It is well known Maximilian turned down the throne for the Mexican Empire in 1864 as he correctly believed the plebiscite that confirmed him as Emperor was dubious. After the loss in the Great War and Austria’s annexation into the Second Reich, Maximilian was offered and accepted the title King of Hungary which was established as a protectorate of Germany. He died four years into his reign in 1921 and was succeeded by his son, King Charles IV.
John McCain (1936- ) is a third generation Four Star Admiral having served in the United States Navy from 1960 until his retirement in 1996. McCain is a member of the Democratic Party and currently serves as the Secretary of the Military Affairs in the Administration of Progressive President Paul Wellstone.
Ho Chin Minh (1890-1973) was a teacher at a University in Saigon in the Empire of Vietnam, until he was exiled by the government of Emperor Bao Dai in 1965 for his Marxist and republican rhetoric. Minh moved to the United States where he spent the rest of his life living in squalor conditions in Tijuana.
Benito Mussolini (1883-1916) was an Italian journalist and socialist, at the outbreak of the Great War in 1913, Mussolini joined the Italian Army and saw action against the French on the Northwestern Front. In 1916, Mussolini was among the thousands who were killed when the French Army overran the Italian defenses at the Battle of Turin.
Emperor Napoleon I (1822-1891) was the cousin of French Emperor Napoleon III and the Emperor of Mexico from 1864-1891. Staunchly secularist, the Mexican Napoleon was able to form a loose alliance of liberals and conservatives under his reign and guide Mexico into an industrial power and a western democracy. After the fall of Napoleon III in the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon I turned to the United States as his ally and was particularly close with President Ulysses S. Grant. Napoleon is remembered fondly in Mexico as a wise and stable leader taking a nation crippled by corruption into a fledgling world power within a generation. Napoleon’s successors continued his friendly policies to the United States with the two neighboring powers forming a close relationship and are one another’s favored trading partners.
Nikolai II (1868-1900) was the Tsar of Russia from 1894-1900. Nikolai inherited the throne from his father in 1894 in what Russians called the year of three Tsars with both Tsar Alexander II and Alexander II dying within eight months of each other. Nikolai’s reign was very short and seen the young Tsar trying to reverse many of his grandfathers more liberal policies with little success. Nikolai II died in St Petersburg in 1900 from Typhoid Fever leaving behind a pregnant wife and three daughters, his widow later gave birth to a girl, Anastasia and the throne passed to his brother Mikhail II.
Richard Nixon (1913-1990) was a popular stage actor on Broadway, starring in numerous dramas. He is perhaps best remembered for making the jump to television and hosting a variety program, the Dick Nixon Hour from 1959-1974, and later The Late Night Show with Dick Nixon from 1976-1990 when he died unexpectedly of a stroke moments before he was to take the stage.
Barack Obama (1961- ) is a Hawaiian born Americo-Kenyan and a faithful Muslim. Obama received much of his education in the United States before returning to Kenya to live with his father with whom he was very close. After his father’s death in 1982, Obama was commissioned in the Kenyan Army. By 2000 Obama had been promoted to Brigadier General and led a military coup against the authoritarian government that he had served for nearly 20 years. The Kenyan Generalissimo is popular in the west for dragging his impoverished nation into the modern age, instituting European forms of bureaucracy, national health care and educational reform.
Lester Pearson (1897-1974) was the Prime Minister of Canada from 1958 until 1965, his close friendship with British Prime Minister Jo Grimond is credited as being the beginning of the Special Relationship between the United Kingdom and the Dominion of Canada which persists to this day.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2002) was an American Actor later turned politician serving as the Mayor of Los Angeles and was a Democratic Presidential hopeful throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s, though he failed to gain the Party’s nomination. Reagan regularly had his articles published in the Saturday Evening Post from the early 1960’s until his disclosure of Alzheimer’s Disease in 1991.
Hillary Rodham [nee Clinton] (1947- ) is the first woman to serve as the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Rodham is a staunch conservative and a long time member of the Democratic Party. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2002 by President Joe Biden after serving fifteen years in the US House of Representatives.
Ernst Rohm (1887-1920) was a soldier in the Bavarian Army in the Second Reich. In 1917 while crossing no mans land, Rohm lost his left leg below the knee. Following the war, Rohm moved to a wounded soldier’s home in Munich where he became a drunk. He was killed after being shot following an argument with another drunk.
Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1944) was the second Progressive President of the United States from 1933-1941 and is best known for his New Deal which guided the United States through the Great Depression. Although he contemplated a third term, Roosevelt decided against it and endorsed Vice President Charles McNary. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia in 1944 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Teddy Roosevelt (1856-1927) was a US President and the founder of the Progressive Party. Roosevelt first came to national prominence as a lawman in the Wild West who is best known for bringing outlaw John Kinney to justice in 1894 before returning to New York and getting involved in politics. After failing to secure the Republican nomination in 1904, 1908 and 1912, TR already an influential Senator formed the Progressive Party and won the 1912 election over incumbent Democrat William J. Bryan and eventual Republican nominee Philander Knox. Although the Great War was fought in his Presidency, and Roosevelt wanted to get involved in the war, congress did not agree and TR was forced to instead play mediator, winning the noble peace price for his role in ending the destructive conflict. Roosevelt died in 1927 from pneumonia.
Archibald Sinclair (1890-1970) was the British Prime Minister from 1942-1946 and again from 1951-1957. Sinclair proved instrumental in turning the Old British Empire into its successor the United Commonwealth of Sovereign Nations
Joseph Stalin (1878-1957) was a Georgian nationalist and a Saint in the Orthodox Church. Following Russia’s defeat in the Great War, Stalin then a monk began advocating Georgian independence and the restoration of the monarchy. In 1969 twelve years after his death, Stalin became a Saint and is remembered fondly for his kindness, warmth and devotion to the church.
Harold Stassen (1907-2008) was the President of the United States from 1949-1957 and a member of the Progressive Party. Stassen’s Presidency done much to advance the Civil Rights of African-Americans in the Jim Crow South, including issuing an executive order to desegregate the US Armed Forces in 1950 and supporting Brown-vs.-the Board of Education. Stassen died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington D.C. in 2008 from respiratory failure at the age of 101, making him the oldest ever U.S. President and is entombed in his Presidential Library in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Kim Il-sung (1912-1988) was a Korean born Christian missionary to his native country. Kim had a devoted following even as he dedicated his life to the service of the Church. From the time of his salvation in 1938 to his death fifty years later, Kim had performed hundreds of revivals in Korea and seen literally thousands of souls saved. Kim is often described as Korea’s Billy Graham..
Kim Jong-Il (1941-1990) was the son of Korean evangelist Kim Il-sung, but unlike his father could not handle the Christian life style, the younger Kim was notorious for his excessive drinking, running prostitution rings in Seoul and having spent most of the 1970’s in prison. Kim died in 1990 from liver disease a little over two years after his father.
William H. Taft (1857-1930) was a Supreme Court Justice from 1903 until his death in 1930. Future generations of Taft’s continue to involve themselves in politics still serving the all but defunct Republican Party in Ohio.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1944) was a Russian born Zionist who deeply believed in the Jewish Right to Return to Palestine and establish a modern state of Israel. Trotsky left Russia after the Pogrom of 1930 and settled in Jerusalem where he continued as a Zionist activist. In 1944, Trotsky was shot to death by a young Arab, Yasser Arafat after giving an extremely controversial speech that the Dome of the Rock must be destroyed in order for the Third Temple of Solomon to be built.
Rafael Trujillo (1891-1966) was the first native born Governor of Santo Domingo from 1941-1949. Following his governorship, Trujillo was an advocate of Santo Domingo statehood until his death in 1966. As of 2009 Trujillo’s dream of Santo Domingo statehood still have yet to be fulfilled and seems highly unlikely at the time.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1978) never became involved in politics instead Truman went on to become one of the most famous classical concert pianists of the twentieth century. After his death in 1978, Truman’s records became standard for young piano enthusiasts, and his business of opening Piano bars has spread throughout the United States and Canada, with Truman’s being a popular hangout for Yuppies in the 1980’s.
Mao Zedong (1893-1937) was a career Chinese solider serving in the Imperial Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Mao participated in three major battles against the Japanese Army during the invasion of Manchuria and was later killed defending the Imperial Palace in Peking in 1937, his body was desecrated by the victorious Japanese and left to rot on the Palace grounds. When the Chinese regained control of the Palace in 1945, Mao’s skeletal remains were buried in a mass grave along with others killed at the Palace.