- Featherston Administration
The Featherston Administration is a fictional totalitarian regime in the
American South inHarry Turtledove 'sAmerican Empire andSettling Accounts novels.In these books, the
Confederate States of America won theAmerican Civil War and a follow-up conflict (theSecond Mexican War ) with the USA, only to loseWorld War I . Mirroring the history ofGermany in theWeimar Republic period, a fascistic movement rose to power in the CSA under the leadership of Jake Featherston, who was elected president in November 1933.Featherston's Freedom Party took control over Confederate politics and society, oppressing political opponents and blacks. Under Featherston's leadership, the CSA started
World War II in North America by launching a surprise attack on the USA.Ultimately, Featherston's CSA lost the war, and Featherston himself was gunned down while fleeing to the
Deep South in early July 1944. His Vice President, Donald Partridge, surrendered the country to the United States, and the Confederate States ceased to exist.First Term (March 4, 1934 to March 4, 1940)
* President: Jake Featherston
* Vice President:Willy Knight (1934-1938; forced to resign, died 1941)
* Attorney General:Ferdinand Koenig
* Chief of General Staff:Jeb Stuart Jr (191?-1936; resigned)econd Term (March 4, 1940 to July 7, 1944)
* President: Jake Featherston
* Vice President: Donald Partridge
* Secretary of State:George Herbert Walker
* Attorney General: Ferdinand Koenig
* Chief of General Staff:Nathan Bedford Forrest III Patridge's Term (July 7, 1944 to July 14, 1944)
* President: Donald Partridge
* Chief of General Staff: Cyril NorthcoteOther prominent members of the Featherston Presidency
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Saul Goldman - Director of Communications
* Anne Colleton - Freedom Party spokeswoman (killed 1941 by US Navy)
* Ben Chapman - Freedom Party Guardsman, with the rank of Chief Assault Band Leader
*Strom Thurmond - Freedom Party Congressman from South Carolina
*Jefferson Pinkard - Brigade Leader in the Freedom Party Guards, Commandant of Camp Determination
*Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. - Confederate States Ambassador to the United States
* Lulu Mattox - Presidential Secretary
* Hiram McCullough - Chief of Featherston's Bodyguards
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