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Hosea BlackfordA character in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series, including How Few Remain, The Great War, and American Empire. Hosea Blackford is first introduced in a train ride across the northern Great Plains while talking with former President Abraham Lincoln in 1881. Blackford re-enters the series in Great War: Walk in Hell where he is a Congressmen in the House of Representatives for the Socialist Party in Dakota. He is considered a more moderate socialist than his counterparts. In 1920, he is asked by Upton Sinclair to be the Socialist party nominee to be the Vice President. The Socialists win the 1920 election defeating Teddy Roosevelt. Upton Sinclair and Hosea Blackford are re-elected in 1924. In 1928 Blackford becomes the Socialist Party nominee for President and defeats Calvin Coolidge by a small margin. However, the economic panic and subsequent crash in mid-1929 is largely blamed on Blackford. Shantytowns of unemployed people in the United States become known as Blackfordburghs, in honour of the failure of the Blackford Presidency. In response he passes make-work legislation, but nothing helps. In 1932 Blackford is defeated by Calvin Coolidge for the Presidential spot. He retires to Dakota, and then returns to New York and Philadelphia with his wife, Flora, who is a Congresswoman. He dies in the 1930s.
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