Most unpopular President in US history, he is declared the winner of the
2008 election by Congress after a tie vote
His administration sees increased domestic terrorism in 2010, resulting in the declaration of martial law in
California in 2011
A sham election, perpetrated by the
United States Supreme Court disqualifying several more popular candidates, results in his "reelection" in
2012.
Is killed, along with most of the federal government, when a nuclear bomb is detonated in
Washington, D. C. during the inauguration on January 20, 2013.
His death directly leads to the fragmentation of the United States and the start of the Second American Civil War.
Controversial president during the War of the Americas. Adler is criticized as a war criminal for his handling of the war and is subsequently arrested by the president of Finland during
Robert McCallister's administration and charged with war crimes.
President P.J. Aimes
President in: The Summit (TV mini-series, 2008)
Conservative who attends a summit in Canada discussing an international tax and an anti-terrorism measure during his last year in office.
Is willing to support the tax in exchange for support on the anti-terrorism measure, but withdraws his support when terrorists demand the tax be passed.
Vice president before becoming president after the mysterious death of his predecessor. He is thrown out of office for not complying with his brother's New World order.
President in: Act of Treason and Protect and Defend by
Vince Flynn[1]
Party: Democratic
Governor of Georgia
Married to Jillian Rautbort Alexander
Running mate is Mark Ross, three-term senator from
Connecticut and hawkish Director of National Intelligence
Ross is killed the day of the inauguration by CIA Director Irene Kennedy without the knowledge of Alexander. Alexander believes he died of a heart attack.
Threatens war with
Iran after Irene Kennedy is kidnapped and Iran sinks one of their own submarines, blaming it on the US.
Along with Chief of Staff Byrne, Alexander uses football analogies to describe his policies.
Allen, the vice president under President Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy" Bridges, becomes the first female president in history after his death. She is married and has three children. Prior to becoming president, Allen was a prosecutor and congresswoman from
Connecticut.
When the dying Bridges and the Republican Party leadership requests her resignation in favor of a "more appropriate" leader, she refuses.
Privately states that her main political enemy is Speaker of the House
Nathan Templeton.
He is pressured into nominating Judge Raymond Brooks to the
Supreme Court, which would allow Atlas to have a
swing vote on the court for decades in the future. When Brooks commits suicide after being kidnapped by Bob Lee Swagger, Alvarez refuses to cooperate with the cabal any further.
Unable to trust the majority of people in his administration, he enlists the help of
FBI Special Agent Nadine Memphis and staffer Harris Downey to help bring down Atlas.
She becomes vice president under President O'Looney, and then president after inducing a fatal heart attack in him during sex.
Tired of the presidency, Ambrose asks her aide, Wendy Hauser, to assassinate her. Although Hauser cannot go through with it, former First Lady to President O'Looney and others carry out the assassination. Ambrose is shot over 1,500 times, but it is reported that a lone gunman was responsible.
President in: The Mesopotamian Candidate by Barnara Fowler
Gabriel Arana, an infantry officer in the
Vietnam War, is horribly wounded in an ambush and sees almost all soldiers and officers in his unit killed or mutilated. Deeply traumatized physically and mentally, he undergoes prolonged rehabilitation and recovers with Joan's (a nurse) help, who eventually marries him. He resolves to go into politics to help create a better world and prevent new wars. He is elected president, but in his second year in office he suffers from increasing nightmares and terrible images. One night, he sees clearly the face of Rick, his second-in-command and best friend who was killed in Vietnam. Rick tells Gabriel that he is an incarnation of the ancient hero
Gilgamesh while Rick is the incarnation of Gilgamesh's companion and friend
Enkidu. He warns Gabriel that he is being manipulated by the goddess
Innana, who plots to break into the modern world and make Gabriel her puppet to seize control of the US nuclear arsenal and use it to enhance her divine powers, before using them to raze all Christian, Jewish, and Muslim places of worship. Gabriel confronts Innana with his allies, but is nearly overwhelmed by the goddess when Joan appears at his side. Joan is revealed to be a different avatar of Innana. Straining with all their remaining strength and still getting pushed back, Gabriel and Joan realize that the only way to seal the hole in the astral plane and keep Innana out of the mundane world is to pour their entire life force into the breach, which they do without hesitation.
Was presumably Vice-President to President Davis Park prior to the Rising and was sworn in when he was presumed to be killed by the vampires.
Revealed in Season 4 to still be alive and leading the portions of America still under human control.
Travels to Fort Collins to personally investigate things after her envoy is killed by the Oracle. She arrives after Jack and Violet have entered the Dark Realm to confront Dracula and returned, with Jack seemingly unharmed and Violet unconscious. Informed about everything that has happened, she offers to escort the Van Helsings and their friends to the safe zone to work together to fight the other vampires.
Is killed by Dracula, who trapped Jack in the Dark Realm and took her form to escape. Dracula proceeds to take Archer's form in order to take over the safe zone and further her own agenda.
Married to Margaret Asher until her death in a car crash while travelling to a fundraiser from
Camp David. He is the sole parent of their son, Connor Asher.
Kidnapped and held hostage in 2013 when
North Korean terrorists take over the White House by disguising themselves as members of the
South Korean delegation. Later shot during an altercation with the terrorist leader Kang Yeonsak, but survives.
Captured again when visiting
London in 2016 by
Islamic terrorists loyal to Aamir Barkawi, after several coordinated bombings and attacks in the city decimate his security detail.
Is to be executed on an internet livestream, but survives due to a joint effort of SAS, US Secret Service and Delta Force.
Secret Service codename: "Southpaw"
Party: Not mentioned, but implied to be Republican.
The president's body double is shot during an assassination attempt in
Salamanca, Spain, where he is attending a global summit on global terrorism. The actual president is kidnapped but rescued by Secret Service Agent Thomas Barnes.
Is persuaded into taking a foreign policy stance which causes World War III by his military advisors.
Is left guilt-ridden by the nuclear destruction.
Survives the destruction of his plane over Virginia and spends the next seven years as a hermit inside a
West Virginia coal mine.
Meets and cares for at least one refugee over the next seven years while suffering from mental and/or physical trauma that cause him to believe that he is God, fallen from the heavens, and entrusted with the duty of using the nuclear football salvaged from his plane to scourge the world in the event that "evil" triumphs in the war's aftermath.
Is murdered by the novel's antagonist after arming his missiles, in a failed attempt to make sure they will still launch if he changes his mind.
President Richard Tucker Attenborough
President in: Shelley's Heart by
Charles McCarry (1995 novel)
Speaker of the House, he becomes president after the resignation of impeached President Bedford Forrest Lockwood.
Next in line of succession due to the death of Vice President Williston Graves.
His efforts resolve a Constitutional crisis due to an election stolen by computer fraud.
Leaves office under the provisions of the
25th Amendment as soon as Vice President Sam Clark is confirmed by the Congress due to ill health.
Works closely with his chief domestic aide, Maxwell Harper, and
Secret Service agent Christopher Justice to investigate a plot against him.
Augustine is revealed to have gone insane, that neither Harper nor Justice are actual people, and that all his conversations with them throughout the book have been figments of his imagination.
B
President Talcott Quincy Bailey
President in: 34 East by Alfred Coppel.
Wealthy New Englander who served as a U.S. senator.
On his way to a summit meeting with the Soviet Deputy Premier in the Sinai Desert, his convoy was ambushed and he is captured by terrorists.
While he is being taken prisoner, Air Force One crashes due to the pilot having a sudden heart attack and the president is mortally wounded.
Bailey is rescued just before a nuclear war is about to be launched.
Former vice president who becomes president when Olivia Marsdin resigns.
Lex Luthor takes out Marsdin's original running mate so Senator Baker could take their place.
Secretly colluding with Luthor, Baker works to persecute aliens living in America, eventually putting Ben Lockwood in charge of all alien affairs and deputizing Lockwood's "Children of Liberty" hate group.
Arrested after his association with Luthor is exposed.
Former B-movie actor, he leads the United States when it is invaded by
China. Shortly before the invasion he orders the
conscription of all 18–24-year-old Americans.
Has an estranged daughter, Stephie, a soldier who is drafted into the
U.S. Army.
Baker attempts to drop Vice President Daniel Eastman in favor of Texas Senator Terry Fallon as his running mate in
1988.
In 1991 is faced with a military coup d'état by a group of fanatical Vietnam veterans who are upset that President Baker pledged to sign a nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union.
During his administration,
Boris Yeltsin dies of a heart attack. A group of Russian
freedom fighters attempt to spark a civil war within Russia in the hopes of overthrowing the government.
Injured in an assassination attempt while attending Yeltsin's funeral, but survives.
Survives an assassination and multiple kidnapping attempts in Mexico City during a coup d'état by Mexican soldiers opposed to NAJSA; rescued by the Ghosts Special Forces Team.
In an alternate universe where
J.R. Ewing had never been born, Barnes attains a successful political career and becomes the vice president. When the president has a stroke, Barnes is promoted and, according to "Adam", the otherworldly being who guides J.R. through this alternate world, is one of the country's greatest.
Known as "A-Bomb Andy" for his pro-nuclear war stance against the Confederacy.
Elected as vice president in 2078, takes office in 2081 when Mary Rose Tremane disappears.
Dies on September 23, 2081, when Washington, D.C. is hit with a nuclear missile.
President Edward Bates
President in: Tripod Worship, the second volume of Nora Cummings' Tripod Trilogy
Born in a world where the Martian invaders of
H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds proved resistant to Earth microbes and have ruled the world for over a century. Born to a physicist father and from a young age trained in science at the secret Underground Harvard, hidden in deep tunnels under the
Rocky Mountains. Realizes that efforts to duplicate the Martian heat ray are futile, as the task is far beyond the resources available to the hidden resisting humans. However, he finds an alternative which is possible - a shield protecting against the heat ray. Protected by such shields, human artillery can be brought into play and destroy the Martians' Tripod Fighting Machine. The Martians, having grown complacent, are swiftly destroyed in large parts of North America, and submarines are sent to share the secret with Resistance groups in Europe, China and South Africa. Having no military talent, Bates left the fighting for those more qualified for it, but in the aftermath showed an enormous administrative and political talent. The Resisters, coming into the open, were virtually unanimous in accepting him as Provisional President, pending the time when elections could be held. This proved far longer and more difficult than the Resisters thought, when dreaming of Liberation from the Martians. First, they had to contend with Gerald The Fat and Camburcio the Green Egg, two leaders of the collaborator militia which was set up by the Martians, who used to hunt other humans for the Martians' consumption and get richly rewarded for it. Deeply hated and knowing that they could expect nothing but summary execution, the two and their followers kept fighting for several years before being finally subdued. Even then, there was the problem of Tripod Worship, the religion created by the Martians at the advice of their human collaborators. In Tripod Worship, the Martians were worshiped as gods, and having one's blood drained by them was considered a Holy Act, ensuring one of Eternal Bliss. To his chagrin, Bates discovered that Tripod Worship was still very much alive in various parts of the country, and that its followers hated Bates as a Profaner, Desecrator and God-killer, and were fervently praying for the Martians' return. In some places, it was possible to get rid of the cult - but there were big enclaves where it was deeply rooted, especially in the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, the Deep South, The Ozarks and the Appalachians. At a special session in the Provisional White House - actually, a well-preserved pre-Martian farm house in Kansas - Bates firmly vetoed the idea of militarily conquering these enclaves and forcibly rooting out Tripod Worship. Not only would it drain much of the resources needed to rebuild the country, it would be morally corrosive and destroy any chance of the United States becoming a democracy again. The fledgling provisional government would be thrust into the role of a religious persecutor, forbidding people to practice a religion they believed in, however unpalatable; the more determined the government in seeking to uproot Tripod Worship, the more martyrs it would create. Much better, rather, for these enclaves to be left alone for the time being, for later generations to deal with and hopefully re-integrate them with a minimum of violence. "Our immediate task is with the ordinary people, just emerging from a century of horror - those not caught up in this vile cult. Even they need very much patient education" he said. "I estimate at least ten years, more likely fifteen or twenty, before people understand democracy and can hold elections and we have a Congress which can examine the Old Constitution and decide how much of it we should keep and what we need to amend. And I hope that when Presidential elections are held, an opposing candidate will emerge to defeat me by a landslide. That will be my greatest victory!"
U.S. Army Private Joe Bauer is frozen for five hundred years, and succeeds President Camacho after being Camacho's late-term appointment as Secretary of Interior (and later Vice President), sometime after 2505. Due to a record keeping mistake, is listed in official records as first name Not, last name Sure.
Elected president due to success in ending nationwide famine by getting crops to grow, and for having the highest IQ on the planet.
Champions a mostly unsuccessful effort to revive cultural development and education.
After he is fired from the White House he switches sides, managing the presidential campaign of Francisco Vargas, the Democratic
Governor of Pennsylvania.
Selected as vice presidential nominee by Vargas after he wins the
Democratic primaries.
Elevated to president-elect mere hours later, after Vargas is assassinated during his victory speech in
Fairmount Park on election night. Uncertainty after the election led to the Electoral College results being contested into Congress, with Republican nominee Mellie Grant ending up as president-elect instead, replacing Beene.
After the covert assassination of Vice President Luna Vargas on Inauguration Day, Beene is nominated as her replacement but serves briefly until he is forced to resign for trying to usurp power from President Grant.
An American Government official and a former US Military officer who would eventually become President from January 20, 2011 to June 29, 2013. He was responsible for recruiting former R.PD. Officer Leon Kennedy for government service after the Raccoon City incident and considered him a close friend.
President in: Hellbent and Out of the Dark by
Gregg Hurwitz
Has been in office for five years as of Out of the Dark, facing a tough set of midterm elections and increasing Congressional scrutiny about the aggressive extent of his foreign and defense policy.
As Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during the 1990s, Bennett sanctions numerous off-the-books special operations using the Orphan Program, a secret US government initiative that trains teenage orphans to become highly skilled assassins.
During his presidency, Bennett supports Charles Van Sciver, a ruthless and highly skilled Orphan, to become the Orphan Program Director. Bennett orders the assassinations of all Orphan operatives not loyal to Van Sciver to cover up his own role in sanctioning operations during his time as Under Secretary of Defense.
Van Sciver, under Bennett's orders, eliminates former Orphans but fails to kill Evan Smoak, known as Orphan X, who had been the one to carry out the assassination of the Serbian Foreign Minister. Van Sciver is killed by Smoak, who then threatens Bennett that he will assassinate him.
In response, Bennett assembles a team led by his close ally and Orphan A, Judd Holt, to eliminate Smoak. He also marshals the Secret Service against Smoak but does not tell them why Smoak is trying to assassinate him.
Smoak kills Bennett's
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Doug Wetzel, who had also been complicit in the assassinations. He also stages a mortar attack on Bennett's motorcade. Finally, Smoak kills Holt and the criminals he has assembled.
The numerous attempts on his life drive Bennett into intense paranoia about how Smoak would kill him, with Smoak planting poison in the lens of Bennett's glasses. The poison slowly filters into Bennett's skin, causing him to have a fatal heart attack in the Oval Office.
Smoak then releases evidence of Bennett's crimes to ruin his legacy after his death.
Served as vice president under President Pauline Mackenzie.
Is in office during a time of crisis when a large asteroid codenamed "Samson" is scheduled to crash into the Earth. He tries to redirect measures taken to destroy the asteroid to have it break into smaller ones, which would be redirected to land on and decimate both Russia and China, nations he believed posed a significant threat to the United States.
Believing Mackenzie to be too weak to proceed with such a plan, he conspires to poison her with
mercury, deteriorating her health to the point where she suffered from memory loss and a
stroke whilst addressing the nation in the
Oval Office.
Upon reports that the stroke is fatal, he ascends to the presidency under the
25th Amendment, and later tries to proceed with nuclear military action against
Russia after it appeared they attacked a
United States Navy ship. The attack was actually the work of militant
hacker group RE/SYST, whose desire was to help deteriorate US-Russian relations.
Mackenzie is later revealed to be alive and recovering in secret from the
mercury poisoning, and has
Secretary of Defense Harris Edwards and others loyal to her detain Bennett beneath the
White House so she can appeal to the
Cabinet and the military to be reinstated.
Before he can be imprisoned for
treason he is recaptured from
United States Secret Service custody by members of the
United States Army loyal to him. After hiding out in an abandoned military base for a week, he emerges and takes his case to the
Supreme Court of the United States, arguing he is still lawfully president and his removal from office was illegal and unconstitutional. When the court appears to vote in Mackenzie's favour, he orchestrates bombing of the building which seriously injures the Chief Justice, whose
swing vote in the decision had yet to be announced.
After the Supreme Court bombing, the capital falls into chaos as infighting between
United States Armed Forces factions loyal to Bennett and others to Mackenzie battle to take control. US Army and Secret Service officers loyal to Bennett lock down and infiltrate the
White House, capturing and detaining Mackenzie in the Oval Office.
As Bennett is about to address the nation, video footage of the now conscious Chief Justice is broadcast on all networks and cell phones, in which he confirms his vote in Mackenzie's favour, shifting the decision to 5-4 and rendering her the legal president. After a brief standoff, the soldiers accompanying Bennett realize they have been deceived and reaffirm their allegiance to Mackenzie, and then place Bennett under arrest along with their own commanding general who led the assault on the White House.
Main character in the novel, who faces an inevitable mass relocation of inhabitants of coastal and semi-arid locations as
global warming worsens, while trying to negotiate a deal with the Chinese government on emissions cutbacks.
Party: Democratic
President William F. Berndt
President in: Ragland by Jerry van Orsdell (1972 novel).
Also called "the American
Margaret Thatcher", Bester is in office during a third World War with Russia.
Towards the end of the war, Bester's administration suffers a major political scandal when it is revealed that she collaborated with the Second Alliance Security Corporation, a front organization for a global
neo-fascist conspiracy.
From the State of Dakota (
North and
South Dakota not having been established as separate states possibly due to the decline of the
Republicans), Blackford meets
Abraham Lincoln as a young man during the Second Mexican War and was inspired to pursue a political career, becoming a
Socialist and serving as congressman from Dakota.
Runs for vice president in
1920 under
Upton Sinclair and the wins over Democratic incumbent
Theodore Roosevelt, who was running for a unprecedented third term. The ticket is re-elected in
1924. Personally believing that the position of Vice President held little influence, Blackford described himself as a "$12,000 a year hat rack".
Defeats
Calvin Coolidge for the presidency in
1928 by a narrow margin and becomes the 30th President of the United States.
Blackford was unable to prevent the
Business Collapse in 1929. The Pacific War against Japan erupts in 1932, and the Japanese attack
Los Angeles during a Socialist campaign rally. Blackford is defeated by Coolidge in a landslide in the
1932 election, but Coolidge dies on January 5, 1933, of a
heart attack less than a month before taking office. Coolidge's running mate,
Herbert Hoover, becomes the 31st president on February 1.
Married to Socialist congresswoman from New York Flora Blackford (née Hamburger) and had a son, Joshua Blackford.
Dies in 1937. At his state funeral in his native Dakota, outgoing President Hoover and former President Sinclair serve as his pallbearers.
President Stephen Henry Blades
President in: Letter 44 (comic book series, 2013– )
44th President of the United States.
Learns upon taking office that NASA discovered an alien artifact in asteroid belt seven years earlier, and that a secret crewed mission has been sent out to investigate it.
Orders the mass evacuation of the south of the U.S. into
Mexico, after cancelling all debt to Mexico in order for the Mexican government to agree to house the surviving US and Canadian citizens.
Refuses to leave the White House during the snowstorm, instead still trying to get surviving people evacuated. Leaves eventually after being persuaded to evacuate to the refugee camps in Mexico.
Dies of hypothermia after Marine One crashes due to its wings freezing, and is succeeded by Vice President Becker.
Is under impeachment proceedings by Congress when he orders a nuclear attack on
Pakistan.
When members of the
United States Navy aboard the
Ohio-classballistic missile submarine USS Colorado refuse to carry out the order, they are branded as traitors by his administration, who attempts to have them killed by another submarine, the USS Illinois. Bolton then has other US forces launch the attack on Pakistan.
With New Mexico's electoral college votes hanging on the decision of apolitical apathetic voter Bud Johnson, Boone attempts to win his vote by endorsing same-sex marriage and environmental protection.
The fate of the election is left unknown, with Bud deciding to hold a debate between the two candidates, asking questions submitted via mail.
Nicknamed "Slugger"; former professional baseball player for the
Boston Red Sox at the Fenway Dome during the 2170s and 2180s.
Is president during the late 2190s; elected in 2196 in a landslide and is eligible for re-election in 2200.
Originally from Missouri and is married to Linda Black, the daughter of the governor of Texas. His first wife died in a boating accident, leaving him a single father, which makes him popular with the U.S. electorate.
He is opposed by the U.S. Christian Conservative Party.
Bouvier would have been president had she not married Homer; her presidency is shown in a vision to Homer by his guardian angel. She seems to have high approval ratings.
President David Bowers
President in: the Splinter Cell series of video games
Leads the U.S. during the Georgian Information Crisis in
Georgia and a rebellion in
Indonesia, and defends
South Korea during an American-Japanese conspiracy that aimed to start
World War III.
Survives a failed nuclear attack on
Nashville,
Tennessee, by American terrorists.
During the
Cold War, First Lady Billie Bradford is kidnapped by the KGB and replaced with a Soviet agent who has been surgically altered and specially trained to temporarily take her place in the international spotlight. Through her, the
USSR hopes to discover an American secret that could tip the balance of global power in favor of the Soviet Union.
Party: Democratic
President Bradley
President in: War in the Ice by Simulations Publications Inc. (board game)
In 1991 war breaks out between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in Antarctica.
Is defeated for re-election in 1992 primarily because of the war.
Native of California with no political experience.
Vice President Brady assumes the presidency President Lawrence Randolph resigns. Brady then chooses his wife Carol to be his vice president. Brady has six children (three of his own, and three stepdaughters from Carol Brady's previous marriage).
Becomes president on
Earth-1 after
Dominators kill the previous (unnamed) president in 2016.
Played by: Lucia Walters.
President Breckinridge
President in: Megiddo: Omega Code 2
Former Secretary of State to Presidents Richard Benson and David Alexander.
Declares himself president when Alexander is framed for his father's murder.
President Henry Brendan
President in: Falseface, by Marilyn Sharpe.
Vice President to President Benjamin Riker, who is killed in a skiing accident which turns out to have been an assassination.
President Brendan is targeted for assassination at a Shuttle Launch but is saved by a pair of spies.
President Howard Brewster
President in: Line of Succession by
Brian Garfield (1972 novel)
Defeated for re-election by Clifford Fairlie.
When Fairlie is abducted on a goodwill mission in Spain and Fairlie's vice president-elect is killed as a result of a terrorist bombing of the Senate, Brewster attempts to remain in office.
The line of succession is restored by Vice President Elect Dexter Ethridge's decision to choose Congressman Andrew Bee as his vice president should Fairlie not be rescued.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Bridges is governor of
California and vice president before becoming president. His vice president is Mackenzie Allen, who becomes the first female president after he dies.
On his deathbed after brain surgery, he asks Allen to step aside in favor of a "more appropriate" successor. He later dies, and Allen succeeds him.
Former U.S. Air Force general and senator from Arkansas.
Is appointed vice president by President Jed Hankins.
Becomes president when Hankins is assassinated by his pro-Soviet chief of staff.
Forces the Soviets to back down during a crisis.
Party: Democratic
President Bristol
President in: I, Martha Adams, by Pauline Glen Winslow (novel)
Former left-wing U.S. Senator.
Is vice president during a Soviet nuclear attack that destroys U.S. Strategic Forces.
Becomes president after the U.S. surrenders and President Carmody resigns.
President-elect Phil Bristol
President in: Protect and Defend by Eric L. Harry
Bristol is the governor of California who wins the presidency, but is assassinated by
anarchists at the
Willard Hotel prior to his inauguration. He is succeeded by Gordon Davis.
As a senator, Brody wins the
New Hampshire primary and is flying to
South Carolina for the primary when he is approached by a visitor from the future calling for Brody to save himself by jumping from his aircraft.
In an alternate universe, President Brody becomes a selfish tyrant, and is killed when he jumps from his aircraft over
Columbia, South Carolina.
Shown in Roy's ending in the game as a flash forward set 20 years after the events of the game (where Roy is only in
high school).
Roy's high school classmate
Tiffany is shown in the sequence as the First Lady.
President John Broward
President in: the 2000 Twilight role-playing game.
Former Governor of Arkansas who appoints himself to the U.S. Senate, and is elected president by them.
World War Three breaks out in 1995, and on Thanksgiving Day 1997 nuclear strikes take place in the U.S. The president and those in line of succession are killed in the exchange.
Broward takes office after congress regroups after the attack, but the U.S. military does not recognize the legality.
President Abraham Brown
President in: The Music Master of Babylon by
Edgar Pangborn (1954)
In 2020, he successfully guides the country through the terrible experience of a Second Civil War, in the course of which nuclear weapons are used and large parts of New York City destroyed. He lives long enough to see the world devastated in "The Final War" of 2070. In the aftermath, Brown's hometown of
Newburgh,
New York, becomes the center of a short-lived "North American Soviet", whose members arrest Brown and torture him to death. After the fall of the regime, Brown is revered by survivors as "a martyr who gave his life for the people". Gradually, with few records left from before the worldwide destruction, Brown's memory is conflated with that of
Jesus Christ as well as
Abraham Lincoln and the Biblical
Abraham, to create the divine figure of "Abraham" whose worship is the basis of "The Holy Murkan Church" in Pangborn's later novel Davy.
Originally a US Congresswoman and chair of the House Intelligence Committee, after a cataclysmic event simultaneously killed all mammals with a Y chromosome except for her son Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand, she was elevated to president by being elected House Speaker (a position she held for an hour) after most of the presidential line of succession died.
With the remnants of the US Government having to relocate to the Pentagon, her administration is occupied with the aftermath of the event, namely rioting, failing infrastructure, internal displacement, shortages and the Arizona state government being held hostage by a militia demanding an explanation for the die-off.
A power struggle ensues when Regina Oliver, the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to deceased Republican President Ted Campbell, is found alive in an Israeli field hospital, believed to have been killed as a result of the die-off. Being the sole surviving eligible member of the previous presidential line of succession, Oliver is widely considered a 'fringe lunatic' and an 'anti-immigrant, anti-government, anti-vaxxer with a Twitter following' but is reinstated to her position in the Cabinet to placate her. A caucus of surviving Republican congresswomen, senators and other officials led by Kimberly Campbell Cunningham, President Campbell's politically-active daughter, seek to reinstall a Republican administration and to restore a cis-male population (and, by extension, the patriarchy and basis of their previous influence), but are hesitant due to Oliver's fringe ideologies.
To resolve the reproductive crisis, Brown secretly orders Culper Ring operative Agent 355 to bodyguard Yorick outside of the Pentagon and to locate geneticist Dr Allison Mann. After reported sightings of Yorick and suspicions of a conspiracy, Brown admits to and defends the cover-up when pressed by Oliver and Kimberly, losing support amongst the Cabinet as Agent 355 killed two pilots who had helped rescue Yorick from New York (viewed by the Cabinet as either being on Brown's direct orders or the actions of a rogue agent) and as Yorick is seemingly now outside of government control or protection.
Shortly after Brown is removed from office, Yorick's ex-girlfriend Beth DeVille (who had rejected his offer of marriage just before the die-off) leads a raid on the Pentagon to take control of its amenities, accidentally shooting and killing the newly-installed President Oliver in the process and allowing Brown to escape after learning that Yorick is still alive. However, Brown and DeVille along with Sam Jordan (a friend of Brown's daughter, Hero) are captured and detained by surviving members of the Culper Ring.
In the
original comic book series, Jennifer Brown was elevated to Secretary of the Interior after the Secretary of Agriculture Margaret Valentine (based on
Ann Margaret Veneman) was sworn in as president. Brown originally served as the Representative for Ohio's 22nd district (which ceased to exist following the die-off), and was an anti-abortion Democrat.
Porter Brunreich, an exceptionally intelligent and gifted ten years old girl, accompanies her mother and flees
Pittsburgh to escape her abusive and violent father. She and her mother board a plane to
Seattle. A war takes place across millions of alternate timelines. A slave society from an alternate timeline instructs terrorists under their control to stage a hostage crisis at
Seattle Airport and kill Porter. Her mother saves her by sacrificing herself. Porter is deeply traumatized and guilt-ridden after seeing her mother die, and for some months lives on the city streets. She is adopted by Mark Strang, an agent of the Timeliners opposing the "Masters". As a teenager, she becomes a
world class musician, and tours many countries. The attempts on her life continue: In
Oslo, she kills two assailants with a gun; in
Weimar, Porter and her companions are nearly killed, but manage to time travel to when Julius Caesar
crossed the Rubicon and started his march to seize power in Rome. Porter fascinates Caesar by playing the Roman lyre and performing modern musical pieces on it. He tries to rape Porter, but her bodyguard Paula kills him. With great difficulty, Porter and her companions are brought to late 20th-century Europe. When she is elected, she informs the world about the war across the timelines. The world could not afford to remain disunited, divided into various countries acting at cross purposes.
In an alternate timeline where Homo erectus (called "sims") and megafauna from the
Pleistocene era survived in the Western Hemisphere, Britain's American colonies secede earlier in 1738 to form the Federated Commonwealths of America, the development of a British absolutist monarchy being cited as the main impetus. The constitution of the Federated Commonwealths is
modelled more so on the Roman Republic than that of the real-life United States, with the country being governed by two chief executives who can veto each other. Censors serve a single non-renewable five-year term and serve as senators for life (alongside commonwealth governors) after leaving office.
Serving as one of the two censors in 1988, Bryan calls for an investigation into the handling of a riot by sims' rights activists protesting the use of sims for HIV research. The investigation was vetoed by Bryan's opposite, Censor Jennings.
President John Robert Burgess
President in: The Talbott Agreement by Richard M. Garvin and Edmond G. Addeo (1968 novel).
Widower and former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
Presumably elected in 2032, and is stated to have lost
Missouri during the election.
In office in 2033 during the disastrous maiden voyage of Providence I, a planned mission to
Mars, which explodes due to rocket malfunction.
Attempts to remain neutral during the legislative debate to fund the Providence II mission, as the Providence Program was started in her predecessors administration.
Is hounded by her opponents for wasteful spending towards
NASA and private space company Vista during their lengthy preparations for the Providence II mission, threatening to have the
Speaker of the House table a bill to freeze funding should they not speed up the process.
After repairs to the Mars Ascent Vehicle fail, President Burke informs both
NASA and Vista CEO Laz Ingram she will not be supporting the Providence II mission. However, the mission goes ahead when all the astronauts on the mission legally acknowledge the increased risks.
She previously served as Vice President of the United States, where she helped develop the "Total Victory" strategy to fight the
War on Terror.
During this time, she encourages and oversees a catastrophic
nuclear strike on the city of
Homs, Syria, known as Plan 712. The attack wiped out over 100,000 people but succeeded in killing the leaders of multiple international terrorist groups (including
ISIS,
Al-Queda,
Hezbollah,
Al-Nusra Front and
Jaysh al-Sham), as well as a rogue scientist from the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who were meeting in the city to discuss strategy.
Following the attack, Burke was later elected President and was running for re-election when she attempted to silence her former
national security advisor Dr. Elizabeth Lamm from leaking controversial details of the operation's approval.
• Captured by Edward Page during a conference in Hawaii. Later rescued by Cpl. Blake and Extracted by Lt. Downs and Walker in a transport helicopter.
References
^Flynn, Vince (2006).
Act of Treason.
ISBN0-7432-7037-1. The motorcade of presidential candidate Josh Alexander had been hit by a car bomb. ... They turned out in record numbers on election day, and Josh Alexander and Mark Ross were swept into office by a landslide. ...