After the war's end, the next president to be elected from a former Confederate state was Johnson, a Texan, in 1964.
So, in January 1987, he announced that, in future, candidates for senior party posts would be elected from a list, instead of being appointed by a cabal.
The UK's next judge on the European court of human rights (ECtHR) will be elected from a shortlist of candidates including a prominent human rights lawyer, a commercial barrister and a Strasbourg veteran.
"But when the incumbent you're trying to protect was elected from an unconstitutional district," he said, "that defense just washes out".
The party does seem to be trying to diversify: Ms. Creasy was elected from an all-women short list, one offering voters in certain constituencies a choice of only female candidates, in order to increase the proportion of female lawmakers.
All seven leaders were either born there, were alumni of Allahabad University or were elected from an Allahabad constituency.
Since 1992, members of the Assembly have been elected by the Hare-Clark proportional representation system from three multi-member electorates, which replaced the modified D'Hondt method used in the inaugural election, in which the 17 representatives were elected from a territory-wide electorate.
Like the president and vice-president, the 24 senators are elected from a single, nationwide constituency.
Senators, however, are not susceptible to that sort of manipulation, since they are elected from a single, nationwide district.
