James I
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Christian Ferdinand William James was King of America from 1924 until his death in 1975. James was the youngest person to ascend to the throne of Kingdom of America, as well as the longest reign of any American monarch.
James was in his second year studying at the American Royal Military Academy when his father, King Edward III, committed suicide. He was immediately pulled from school to take the throne. James never returned to finish his studies.
James was ultimately unprepared for the role of monarch with the struggles that plagued the American kingdom at that time. The Economic Panic of 1922 had been damaging the American economy, raising costs of living and causing record high unemployment. James relied heavily on a series of cabinet advisors, which many believed would undo much of his father's hard work in wrestling corruption out of the Chancellery.
WHile as King, he also held the title of Prince Regent of Sequoyah, of which he greatly neglected the region and left the Principle Chiefs of Sequoyah to largely govern themselves. Due to his many duties and the strain of the nation, he was viewed as indecisive, and was known to emotionally break down when in private.
Among his failures include when he attempted to quell the tensions between the Republic of Mexico, the United Mexican States, and the Kingdom of Catrachia. He had hoped his familial ties with King Antonio I would placate the latter, but Antonio eventually rebuked him after James refused to recognize Antonio's title of King, nor grant him ownership of the Nicaragua Canal. When the War of Mexican Unification began between the United Mexican States and the Republic of Mexico began, many of his advisors recommended military intervention. However, since Antonio entered on the side of the UMS, he refused to do battle with his distant cousin. This directly led to the formation of the Second Mexican Empire.
James also began to raise tensions with the Empire of Japan, as the Japanese had established the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere as a response to the Continental Ordinance in the Americas in 1940. Among the nations in the alliance was the Kingdom of Hawaii, which, being 2,000 miles off the coast of America and possessing a large Japanese fleet, was believed capable of threatening the west coast of America should the Japanese ambitions extend so far. Japan called out James for hypocrisy, leading to James working to form the Inter-American Confederation as a formal military and economic alliance.
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