Horatio Seymour

Horatio Seymour was the 19th President of the United States of America, from 1873-1881. Originally Vice President to George H. Pendleton, he betrayed the President by running against him in the 1872 Democratic primary due to his unpopularity over the Confederate invasion of Mexico. However, Seymour's first term would also start with a crisis in itself.

In 1873, Seymour oversaw the US Migration Crisis of conservative elites to the Confederate States. What ensued was a bitter ultimatum to President Alexander H. H. Stuart, demanding the return of the statesmen, after Seymour's Cabinet was left wide open. The crisis also oversaw a rise in the American left-wing, which formed into a plethora and coalition of left-wing parties. The crisis finished with the intervention of the United Kingdom, and persuasion from Seymour's high command, including General William Tecumseh Sherman, telling Seymour to back down and not to risk a war with Britain.

The crisis did oversee a new border protocol between the Union and the Confederates, but Seymour's resolve not to give in to Confederate demands won him a second term in 1876. His second term was spent at home, attempting to restore the economic vitality of the country, albeit unsuccessfully.

Seymour was succeeded by his own General Sherman as President. He died soon after in 1881.