1868 (with James L. Orr) ran unopposed

Note: Held during the Liberty and Union War (1868-76), and title disputed with the Constitutional Government

-after American Presidents > ^af5f13, southern militias storm congress, destroys certification, invites congress to come, southerners do and expel northerners from it

-assembly formally declares election to be in doubt, activating contingency provisions, declares pendleton next president

-endorses decertification of election citing electoral violence, provides legitimacy to richmondite assembly

-gets impeached by proper congress of the united states, but stays on, gets declared a rebel but he declares them a rebel back

-results in Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

-in the end, flees to Cuba where he stays in plantation

-in Antillean War (1880-4) he is captured by US forces

-and taken to tribunal which executes him for treason

1872 (with James L. Orr) ran unopposed

-nominated by southern populists, receives endorsement of woodward, sweeps south and wins parts of midwest

-helped by him being very much a middle westerner

-disputed election, result certified by the mob

-seizes harpers ferry arsenal, gives it to baltimore mob

-a few months into presidency a charge took dc and brought it back under legitimate rule, richmondite congress forced into richmond, though they take documents, seals with them in flight

-tide turns, richmond taken in 1873, in west army tears through defences

-in Lille, Orr resigns position in its wake

-subsequently causes wave of resignations bringing general appointed by house of reps

1875: elected President by Congress

1876: Richmondite Congress, government flees over the water to Jamaica

1876 (with William L. Crittenden) ran unopposed

-finally in 1876 war brought to conclusion, many richmondite politicians flee to cuba, mexico, spain, portugal, maranhao rather than surrender

-forrest among them, flees to portuguese grao-para where he proves massive slaveholder, continues exiled "congress"

-establishes network of plantations in Cuba, Brazil

-helps to organize paramilitary groups operating in the United States, with consequences

-ultimately dies

1880: United States (Constitutionalist Government) invades Cuba

1880 (with Edmund Kirby Smith) ran unopposed

1883: Richmondite Congress, government flees over the water to Puerto Rico

1884: Most of Richmondite Congress, government captured

-continues organizing paramilitary groups despite us navy in pensacola being very threatening

-but one of them assassinates president wentworth in 1879

-after failed talks, us declares war on spain to push richmondites out

-massive success, much of richmondite congress captured by the us

1884: Exile government reorganized in Grao-Para

1884 (with George W. Gordon) ran unopposed

1888 (with George W. Gordon) ran unopposed

1892 (with George W. Gordon) ran unopposed

-but those government, congressional elements in Grao-Para reorganize government

-barely exists

1894: International Army invades Grao-Para

1895: International Army occupies Grao-Para, Congress Over the Water collapses

-scandal over Grao-Para having intense rubber-based slavery

-results in international coalition invading, occupying Grao-Para

-mostly peaceful, but Battle of New Richmond, the "last battle of the Liberty and Union War", occurs between International Army (American-dominated segment) and Richmondite forces

1868-1870: Washington, District of Columbia

1870-1875: Richmond, Virginia

1875-1876: Lille, Yazoo

1876-1876: Appalachicola, West Florida

1876-1882: Kingston, Jamaica

1882-1883: San Juan, Spanish Puerto Rico [in exile]

1883-1889: New Richmond, Portuguese Grao-Para [in exile]

1889-1897: Santarem, Grao-Para

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Virginia*2

North Carolina*2

Mississippi*2

Yazoo*2

Orleans*2

Missouri*2

Arkansaw*2

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Tennessee*2

Illinois*2

Kentucky*2 - james c. jones & john c. breckinridge

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Maryland*1 - robert m mclane

Indiana*1 - joseph lane

Ohio*1 - lambdin p milligan