Know your GO's.

[Klink]

This prominent Union officer and inventor came within a misunderstood response of being the first roman catholic president 80 Years before JFK. Name Him.

 

[jsalerno]

Joshua Chamberlien?

 

[Nathanb1]

Winfield Scott Hancock.

 

[Lefty]

Rosecrans................

 

[prroh]

William T Sherman

 

[Littlestown]

Winfield Scott Hancock, the Superb

 

[prroh]

Winfield Scott Hancock, the Superb

One of the slurs made by Tammney Hall that lost the NY Electoral votes and thus the President's office was that, as a Freeemason, he was anti-Catholic.

 

[Lefty]

Severely burned and pockmarked his face while attempting to invent a cleaner and safer burning lamp oil.
Was such a devout Catholic that a priest was part of his HQ where theology was discussed as much as flanks.
Almost became Lincoln's VP candidate in 1864 until Stanton got wind of it.

Were any of the other nominees even Catholics? (Sherman's wife was a devout Catholic & his son was a priest but Sherman seemingly abandoned the church at the outbreak of the ACW...so does he qualify?)

 

[prroh]

Severely burned and pockmarked his face while attempting to invent a cleaner and safer burning lamp oil.
Was such a devout Catholic that a priest was part of his HQ where theology was discussed as much as flanks.
Almost became Lincoln's VP candidate in 1864 until Stanton got wind of it.

Rosecrans

Were any of the other nominees even Catholics? (Sherman's wife was a devout Catholic & his son was a priest but Sherman seemingly abandoned the church at the outbreak of the ACW...so does he qualify?)

Sherman never abandoned the Catholic Church for another. He was baptized a Catholic so that qualifies.

 

[Lefty]

But what did Sherman invent? (Boy, that's a loaded question!)

 

[prroh]

But what did Sherman invent? (Boy, that's a loaded question!)

That's the question which stops me. I would have gone with Rosecrans but the comment stopped me.

 

[Nathanb1]

That's the question which stops me. I would have gone with Rosecrans but the comment stopped me.

Old Rosie invented all kinds of things....for one, the "ambulance," plus a scentless lamp oil from petroleum, yada, yada, yada. Must be him, all right.

 

[prroh]

Old Rosie invented all kinds of things....for one, the "ambulance," plus a scentless lamp oil from petroleum, yada, yada, yada. Must be him, all right.

Agreed, but what was the " misunderstood response"? I have no clue

 

[Lefty]

I think the "misunderstood response" has something to with Rosecrans 2nd reply (telegraph) to Garfield. Garfield asked Rosecrans to consider joining Lincoln's '64 ticket as VP. Rosecrans declined via telegraph citing the fact that he was a military man and felt his duty lie therein. Rosecrans then supposedly reconsidered and accepted, also via telegraph..........this 2nd telegraph was supposedly intercepted by Stanton and Garfield never saw it. That's about all I can figure?

At any rate, another Roman Catholic that covetted the presidency was New Jersey's Judson Kilpatrick. Thankfully, he couldn't even get elected to Congress and ended up spending much of his post-war eating grapes while serving as US ambassador to Chile.

 

[Lefty]

Which reminds me LOL...didn't Longstreet, post-war, become a Catholic (?) and like Kilpatrick, a US ambassador....to Turkey.

 

[Republican Blues]

Old Rosie is our man....

 

[prroh]

I think the "misunderstood response" has something to with Rosecrans 2nd reply (telegraph) to Garfield. Garfield asked Rosecrans to consider joining Lincoln's '64 ticket as VP. Rosecrans declined via telegraph citing the fact that he was a military man and felt his duty lie therein. Rosecrans then supposedly reconsidered and accepted, also via telegraph..........this 2nd telegraph was supposedly intercepted by Stanton and Garfield never saw it. That's about all I can figure?

At any rate, another Roman Catholic that covetted the presidency was New Jersey's Judson Kilpatrick. Thankfully, he couldn't even get elected to Congress and ended up spending much of his post-war eating grapes while serving as US ambassador to Chile.

Don't forget that Judson married a renown beauty who was very wealthy, their daughter, Consuela, married a Vanderbilt who's daughter, Gloria is the mother of a CNN anchor Anderson Cooper .

 

[Klink]

Klink

Rosecrans is the Answer.

To Pat: re your Anderson cooper comment:

Rumor has it that AC was attacked by a vengeful Egyptian descendent of Elon Farnsworth on a Camel in Cairo (sounds better than a Cavalry charge in the south Fields of Gettysburg).

 

[Littlestown]

Rosecrans is the Answer.

That was fun! What was the 'misunderstood response' that kept him from the presidency?