Alexander G. Milosevick

*Not to be confused with the Swedish soccer player who is also of Serbian descent, Alexander Milošević*

## Alexander G. Milosevick

Alexander Milosevick, speaking outside Independence Hall, date unknown.

**2nd President of the United States**

## Personal Details

### Born

September 11, 1749

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Pennsylvania

### Political Party

Populist

**Alexander George Milosevick** (11th September, 1749 - May 17, 1848) was an American Revolutionary, freemason, Statesman, and President. He is most known for being the second President of the USA and for attempting to execute numerous high-ranking American politicians after the American defeat in the Barbary War.

## Early Life

Milosevick was born in the State of Pennsylvania to a Serbian immigrant farmer and a Pennsylvanian mother. His father was a grain farmer who amassed wealth through his profession, leading to Milosevick advancing further in life at a young age. At 19, he became a freemason, and at 20, just months before British Regulars moved to occupy Boston, he relocated to Boston. Followingly, by May of 1769, the House of Burgesses was dissolved after a set of resolutions were passed which denunciated taxation without representation and persecution of "American agitators", a group of people which Milosevick was often considered to have been apart of.

A year later, during the Boston Massacre, he had reportedly been at a social event at the outskirts of Boston. Milosevick engaged in protest against the the British Regulars, having joined the Sons of Liberty. Between 1770-1774, Milosevick was known for his "honeypot" traps, having encouraged dissent among British Regulars through "acts of alcohol-fueled indecency"; he would entertain British soldiers, supplying them with alcohol at his parties, while playing music. More senior Regulars were often infuriated with these events, as they would leave their subordinates hungover, or outright drunk.

### Military Service

He notable served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolution. He often served, though not as a right-hand to him, adjacent to Admiral John Paul Jones.

## Barbary Privateering

He went privateering against the Barbary Pirates while he was the Secretary of Navy and made a substantial fortune.

## Presidency

At the beginning of his term, Milosevick signed a law eliminating Federal Taxes, an act which, though proving popular with some contemporary State Governors, In 1797, In what was described by historians as the breaking point of Milosevick's presidency, Benedict Hampton was defeated by the Barbary Pirates. His approval rating fell to 47%, and after Benedict Hampton escaped to Chile, Milosevick's approval rating began diving. He then made moves to unilaterally prohibit slavery, dropping his approval to 31%. He tried to have Jason S. Hobbs Jr. and Jacob Kasich executed for "sedition and treason", and then after a duel against Clinton Wilson, he fled to Mexico, later moving to Germany, where he would live his life as a farmer until his death in May 17, 1848. He died in his sleep.

## Legacy

Contemporaries regarded him as a man who went mad during his presidency. Those who were born closely after the end of his presidency largely seemed to have regarded his presidency in poor light. At September 11th, 1840, Milosevick's own reported birthday, rumors began floating around in New York that Milosevick had died. A local "rotund, southern figure", possibly Caser Shaft, proclaimed that day that, over his death, Milosevick's birth was the worser thing that happened to America. However, more recent historiographers have been kinder to Milosevick. As a sailor, his brilliance when in command was highly regarded, and as a revolutionary, he was nearly iconic to those in the American breadbasket; An operation to assassinate him early on during the Boston Campaign (1774) was even nicknamed "Operation Iconoclasm". His activism against slavery caused contemporaries to detest him, either for acting out of federal lanes, attempting to end an ordained system, et cetera; the nature of his abolitionist and emancipationist views are more vindicated in modern times. Historians regardless concede that his attempts at abolition made the Southern Plantocracy feel more cornered, sowing the seeds for the American Civil War in 1837.