User blog:JonathanMarkoff/Governor of New York (for my amusement)

The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the U.S. state of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces.

Southern Victory
In the 1940s, two former New York State Governors - Al Smith and Thomas Dewey - served as Presidents of the United States.

Literary comment
The series does not specify the beginning and end dates for each Governor's tenure. Most of the dates listed above are educated guesswork.

Other Governors
William Seward appears in The Guns of the South as Secretary of State, having been Governor before the Point of Divergence.

Horatio Seymour is the incumbent Governor in The Guns of the South until he is elected as President in 1864.

Charles Evans Hughes appears in The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat and Joe Steele as Chief Justice, having been Governor before the relevant Point of Divergence of either work.

Franklin D. Roosevelt appears in numerous works as President of the United States, having been Governor before any of the relevant PODs. In Joe Steele (both novel and source story), he is the incumbent Governor at the story's beginning, until he is murdered while still in that office.

In addition to the above, Thomas Dewey is the incumbent Governor in The Man With the Iron Heart and part of Joe Steele.

Historical Governors in non-gubernatorial roles
Theodore Roosevelt is a major character in the earlier volumes of Southern Victory, first as a soldier in the 1880s and then as President in the 1910s. Whether he was Governor at any point in the intervening years is not addressed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is a major character in the later volumes of Southern Victory. While he wears a variety of political "hats" in the series, Governor is never listed among them.

W. Averell Harriman plays a background role in The Hot War: Fallout, where he is killed in a bombing raid during World War III in 1952, three years before the start of his OTL governorship.