Guides the US (and the world) through a highly dangerous crisis precipitated by a nuclear explosion inside a Chinese satellite over the Pacific.
This causes tensions and mutual suspicions among the world's superpowers, and there are increasing indications of possible involvement by
extraterrestrial beings.
He is assassinated via a "baby bomb" (an infant wrapped in
Semtex and detonated) by Yusaf Yusaf (alias "Anderson Kempinski Fraser"). As he did not have a Vice-President, he is succeeded by the Speaker of the House.
Santos is married to Helen Santos and has two children.
He is preparing to retire from politics when he is approached by
Josh Lyman about a presidential campaign.
He starts out the campaign in last place in a crowded field, before catapulting into third place after receiving 19% of the vote in the
New Hampshire primary.
Santos's campaign is temporarily hobbled by the sudden death of Leo McGarry (written due to the real-life passing of McGarry's portrayer, actor
John Spencer).
Santos narrowly defeats Senator
Arnold Vinick of California by a count of 272 to 266 electoral votes.
Before his inauguration, Santos names his defeated rival Vinick his Secretary Of State, ensuring bipartisan cooperation and seeks the confirmation of Pennsylvania Governor Eric Baker as his Vice President.
Chief political operative and adviser to Berzelius 'Buzz' Windrip as a Governor and U.S. Senator.
U.S. Secretary of State during Windrip's presidency, during which time the United States is transformed into an authoritarian Corporatist country.
Following the flight of the disillusioned Vice President Perley Beecroft to Canada, Sarason leads a coup which sees Windrip overthrown and exiled to France.
Due to extravagance and relatively weak rule, Sarason is soon after killed in a bloody putsch at the White House organised by General Dewey Haik, who proclaims himself as the new President. Thereafter, a military dictatorship erodes Corporatist power, plunging the United States into civil war and a war with Mexico.
Proposes a controversial peace treaty with allied nations to both remove military forces from and provide significant financial aid to the
Middle East. The controversy of the treaty prompts his own Vice President to announce his resignation in protest.
Is in the White House when terrorists attack - led by his own
Secret Service detail leader Martin Walker, whose son died during military deployment, and ex-
Delta Force and
CIA operator Emil Stenz. The attack is later revealed to have been masterminded by Eli Raphelson, the
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, who is allied with influential groups who stand to lose money should the peace deal go through.
Is rescued by Capitol policeman John Cale, and along with him attempts to escape from the White House.
Presumed dead after an explosion in the
White House cabana, but narrowly escapes. He is later shot defending a hostage, but survives when the bullet deflects off his pocket watch.
Married to Allison Sawyer, who is abroad in
Paris during the events of the film.
Takes the title "Prophet" rather than "President".
Establishes a new capital, New Jerusalem, in the Mid-West.
His descendants rule as "Prophets" for most of the 21st Century but grow increasingly corrupt and venal, finally overthrown in the novella
If This Goes On—.
The new government declares a restoration of the Constitution of the United States "as it stood prior to the inauguration of President Scudder".
Heinlein planned, but never wrote, the story in which Scudder gains power, to be named "The Stone Pillow", but decided that it would be too depressing.
In Heinlein's earlier novel For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (written 1939 but only published after Heinlein's death) Scudder attempts to be elected but his extensive use of Ku Klux Klan type thugs alarm many people and a counter-mobilization manages to forestall his election, thus in the earlier version the US avoids decades of theocracy.
George Sears is actually a pseudonym for Solidus Snake, a survivor of the Les Enfants Terribles project that also created protagonist
Solid Snake and his nemesis
Liquid Snake.
In the sequel Metal Gear Solid 2, he is revealed to be a former member of
The Patriots (a secret group that controls the United States) and is the true mastermind behind the Shadow Moses island incident in 2005 (the fictional events of Metal Gear Solid).
He acts without permission from the Patriots and is forced to resign his Presidency.
Sears is succeeded by President James Johnson by the time of Metal Gear Solid 2.
In an early draft of the Metal Gear Solid 2 story, George Sears is named George Ryan and the events of the game were meant to occur while Solidus was still in office.
On October 6, 2009, during his second term, the entire human race passes out for one minute and seventeen seconds and experiences a future memory from April 29, 2010.
During President Segovia's Flashforward, he is informed of some major event taking place.
Heeds intelligence warnings about terrorist hijackings; was expecting
9-11, and orders that three of the hijacked planes be shot down.
However, he is bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher; the vice-president subsequently orders that the fourth plane be allowed to proceed unmolested, so that superheroes sponsored by Vought-American Consolidated can rescue it. The failed rescue leads to the plane destroying the
Brooklyn Bridge.
He was killed by an angry wolverine released by his Vice President, Victor "Vic the Veep" Neuman, who then succeeded him.
In the
live-action adapted television series, Robert "Dakota Bob" Singer, played by
Jim Beaver (the name change referring to his character Bobby Singer in Supernatural), is a Democrat and the
U.S. Secretary of Defense campaigning for President. He appoints Congresswoman and Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs director Victoria Neuman (who, unbeknownst to him, is a Supe) as his running mate following the death of his first choice Senator Lamar Bishop (who was murdered by the Deep on the orders of Homelander in exchange for the whereabouts of his son, Ryan).
He has a daughter named Lucy and is married to Mary Shepherd, who later dies of cancer.
As a bachelor president, Shepherd starts dating environmental lobbyist Sydney Wade of
Virginia while running for re-election.
Cannot get his best friend, Chief of Staff A.J. McInerney, to grant his simplest of requests, "Call me Andy" (as opposed to 'Mr. President'), even when they are playing pool. However, after two dates, Sydney grants his request.
Orders the bombing of Libyan Intelligence Headquarters in retaliation for their bombing of an American missile defense system in
Israel. Refuses to use the attack for political gain as he regrets the killing of the building's innocent night shift.
Quote: "You want to claim this land as the
land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens
exercising his right to
burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free."
Her murder is later revealed to have been orchestrated by her brother Walter "Wally" Sheridan, and other members of the XIII group. Her death enables him to run for president, gaining support through the sympathy at the loss of his sister.
A female version of President William B. Sheridan, who in the
XIII comics was Walter Sheridan's brother.
Has opposing political views to her brother, Walter.
Brother of anterior president William B. Sheridan (comics)
Brother of anterior president Sally Sheridan (TV film and series)
In the comics, these two powerful politicians and brothers are a comic version of
John F. Kennedy and his brother
Robert F. Kennedy. In the book, Wally is the mastermind behind the XIII conspiracy, which began with the assassination of his brother (a nod to the JFK murder). It would have culminated in the establishment of a dictatorship in the United States.
In the TV film (XIII: The Conspiracy) and series (XIII: The Series) he has his sister killed and smears the reputation of her successor, Joseph K. Galbrain. He later runs for, and wins the national election, and comes closer to establishing a dictatorship in the United States.
Resigns from office due to "health problems".
Campaigns for the Republican nomination for President in the
2016 election when he is killed by Colonel Amos.
Sherman is president in a near future where a western alliance is under pressure from, and losing territory in a domino-effect to an African-Asian axis.
A theoretical scientist creates a new mathematical model of the universe, and in doing so, creates an untraceable weapon that can restore the balance of world power.
Instead of using the weapon to give superiority to the west, while President Sherman stands by in shock, the scientist destroys all weapons of mass destruction worldwide, and thus sets the stage for an enforced world peace.
Becomes President after President Link and the First Family are declared "dead" by the U.S. Supreme Court after President Link attempts to sell U.S. citizens for a super-growth plant food.
Dies from a panic-induced heart attack while taking the oath of office.
President Shockley is given high marks for his master of the ship of state, albeit for some thirty seconds.
Senate President Pro Tempore prior to becoming President.
Succeeds President Nadja Daviar after her disappearance soon after the end of the failed November 3 coup.
VP Nadja Daviar had succeeded President Kyle Haeffner after his death during the coup, and the Speaker of the House was likewise incapable of assuming office.
The first straight female president, Lisa is the incumbent president in 2030, succeeding
Donald Trump (though Trump himself would become the actual
45th president),
Chaz Bono, and
Ted Kennedy.
At the end of the episode "
The Kid Is All Right", Lisa Simpson is running for president in the 2056 presidential election against Isabel Gutierrez (Republican). During the debates, Simpson responds to
Anderson Cooper's question about getting the United States out of the
War in Afghanistan by saying she will throw in the towel and make
Afghanistan a state.
Lisa Simpson also becomes president in the episode "Mother and Child Reunion".
Party: Democratic
President Will Simpson
President in: The Insider by Jack Nesbit
Two Term President of the United States.
Appoints Senator Sam Adams Vice President after his first Vice President is killed when Air Force Two is shot down by terrorist.
Smith is an unpopular president up for re-election.
President David Roger "Dave" Smith
President in: "The Unknown Law" by
Avram Davidson (1963)
The youngest President ever elected, being just thirty-five.
Popular veteran of a war recently fought in
Sumatra, loosely modeled on
John F. Kennedy (President at the time of writing).
Enters office directly into a major crisis:
The
Cold War has spread into space, with the United States and Soviet Union staking rival claims in the
Asteroid Belt.
On Earth an alliance of anti-US Latin-American nationalists has united all of South America and are spreading northwards into
Panama.
Faces a domestic crisis with Jim Macdonald, a political rival and former friend, trying to blackmail Smith into making him Secretary of Space. Macdonald intends to use this position to spark an all-out confrontation with the Soviets, unilaterally seizing disputed asteroids. If not given this position, he will plunge the just-inaugurated President into a major public scandal and destroy his credibility. Macdonald has been put up to this by his wife Sarra, a shrewd schemer and manipulator - who is the President's mistress.
On the third day after inauguration, the President gets a visit from three officials who inform him of an "Unknown Law" inaugurated by
George Washington and maintained secretly by all Presidents since: Once in a term, a President may order the assassination of a person who, in the President's judgement, constitutes a Clear and Present Danger to the Integrity of the Nation and against whom no evidence can be brought in a court. It had been invoked seventeen times in the history of the US, and the secret was always kept.
After his initial shock, President Smith concludes that he must invoke the Unknown Law already on his third day in office.
Acting President in: Strands of Sorrow, part of the Black Tide Rising series by
John Ringo
Secretary of Education prior to the zombie apocalypse caused by the H7D3 virus.
During the Fall (the final collapse of society into chaos as the plague hits a tipping point), her security detail attempts to evacuate her from DC to a continuity bunker, but with the city overrun by infected they are unable to escape, and instead shelter in the Department of Education's dedicated bunker. She remains there for the next year until finally being found and rescued by US military forces led by Wolf Squadron, a mostly-civilian militia founded by Steve Smith organizing survivors in the Atlantic Ocean and being deputized by the remaining military command structure.
Due to no one else higher than her in the
United States presidential line of succession having been found, she is installed as Acting President, and quickly proves herself inept at the job. Driven by a delusional desperation to find her daughter (who was infected just before the Fall), she orders the military to stop killing infected and focus on searching for her daughter, while also having Smith arrested for war crimes on the basis of all the infected killed on his orders were still technically human.
With her actions undermining all efforts to rebuild the country - as Texas' provisional government threatens to secede and there are rumblings of a military coup - Smith's daughters Faith and Sophia stage an unauthorized rescue mission into DC to find someone who can legally supplant Sovrain as president. They succeed in locating and rescuing Vice-President Rebecca Staba, who takes over as President and overrides all of Sovrain's orders, reducing her back to just a Secretary.
Party: Not stated, but served in a Republican administration.
Worked as a political assistant and adviser in
Washington, D.C. early in his career, serving in the administration of President
Selina Meyer, most notably in the Meyer campaign's efforts to win Nevada's Electoral College votes via a statewide recount in 2016, as well as working for future
Vice President Jonah Ryan, including as his Communications Director during his election campaign to become U.S. Congressman for
New Hampshire's 2nd district.
Following Selina Meyer's departure from office, Splett worked for her private office and assisted both the Meyer and Ryan campaigns during the 2020 primaries.
Briefly served as the Mayor of Lurlene, Iowa, his home town, after the previous ceremonial mayor, a dog, died when Selina Meyer fed it an unwanted chocolate. His supervision of
first response efforts after a
cropduster crashed into a
7-Eleven saw him praised as a hero and his profile raised to a national level. Dan Egan became Splett's self-appointed Chief of Staff following his dismissal from Meyer's 2020 presidential campaign.
After he was approached by lobbyist Sidney Purcell to run for a seat in the
Iowa Senate to advance the interests of a large pesticide company, he inadvertently disclosed that various members of the
Iowa State Government including the
Lieutenant Governor were accepting bribes whilst announcing to the press his decision not to run.
After the arrest of the incumbent, he is selected by
Governor of Iowa Ballentine to serve as the new Lieutenant Governor albeit to sideline him through makework assignments out of fear that Splett was endeavouring to usurp him.
He ascended to the governorship after Governor Ballentine became blind and brain damaged after contracting
shingles during a meeting with Jonah Ryan, who had contracted
chickenpox.
Delivered the keynote speech at his party's 2020
National Convention, where he also served as a
superdelegate and was described as the "future face of the party".
Served as the
United States Secretary of Agriculture during the second presidency of Selina Meyer from 2021 to 2025 at the behest of Jonah Ryan. He fired Dan Egan as a condition of this appointment, thus prompting Egan to abandon politics in favour of a career in real estate.
Acted as a sperm donor for Catherine Meyer and Majorie Palmiotti in the conception their son, who is also called Richard (Catherine and Majorie wished to raise him gender-neutral with a gender-neutral name, but Meyer announced to the press that the baby's name was Richard).
Implied to have been raised believing that his mother was his aunt and that his grandparents were his parents (having come to that conclusion himself).
In a non-canonical Vulture article written by David Mandel in 2020, Splett was appointed to the position of COVID-19 response co-ordinator by President Meyer (despite the outbreak in the United States taking place during what would have been President Montez's time in office).
A computer-controlled automaton, with a voice similar to
Richard Nixon, answering questions from visitors to a
World's Fair-like exhibition.
The President is "broken" when a visitor asks it a question that has no answer "Why does the porridge bird lay his eggs in the air?".
President Rebecca Staba
President in the Black Tide Rising series by
John Ringo, starting in Book 4 Strands of Sorrow
Former lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, who ran in the primaries for the
2012 election and failed to achieve the nomination, but was chosen as running mate due to her conservative views balancing out the candidate (who is unnamed by the books), who is more centrist.
Is serving as Vice President when the H7D3 virus causes a zombie apocalypse. When the plague hits a tipping point and society collapses, her security detail attempts to evacuate her and her family to the
Raven Rock Mountain Complex, but are unable to escape DC due to sheer number of infected. Instead, they make their way to the
Federal Emergency Management Agency and shelter in its dedicated bunker with the remaining staff.
A year later, the bunker is found by Faith and Sophia Smith, who are looking for anyone higher up the
line of succession than Secretary of Education Elizabeth Sovrain, whose inept leadership as Acting President is undermining efforts to retake the country from the infected. Upon being informed of the situation, Staba immediately has herself sworn in as President and overrides Sovrain's actions, getting reclamation efforts back on track.
With DC still too overrun by infected to reliably use as a capital, she relocates to the more secure
Jacksonville, Florida for the foreseeable future.
Has a husband, Dave, and three children, son Thomas and daughters Christy and Sherry.
His Secretary of Defense, George Deckert leads an unsuccessful military coup to assassinate him and seize power.
After Deckert's demise, Stanford gives the Medal of Honor to those that saved him while quoting
Tupac Shakur: "Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal."
Party: Possibly Democratic
President Stanton
President in: The Pet Shop of Horror Manga story Dual
Uses a mystic element to become President of the United States.
Vice President to President Manheim, and served during
World War II.
Is chosen by the mystic element to become President to use the
Atomic Bomb to end the war.
Stanton is a Democratic governor of a
southern state. He appears to be a charming and philandering politician. He eats
junk food and is portrayed as a thinly disguised
pastiche of
Bill Clinton.
Former prize fighter and regional president of a mine workers' union.
After the town of
Grantville, West Virginia is thrown back in time to 17th-century
Holy Roman Empire, during the
Thirty Years' War, Stearns' leadership peacefully annexes dozens of central German cities and their environs to create the New United States.
After unrest threatens to dissolve the loose Confederated Principalities of Europe of which the New United States is a powerful member, Stearns, in cooperation with its monarch
Gustav II Adolf, becomes the founding Prime Minister of the nominally republican United States of Europe.
Succeeds after President Alan Adams dies one day after his second inauguration in 2053.
5th UCAS President | 51st US President.
Speaker of the House Betty Jo Pritchard succeeds him in 2057 after the UCAS House of Representatives declares the UCAS Presidential Election of 2056 invalid, cancelling the second inauguration of incumbent President Thomas Steele and his VP-elect.
Parents and sister were killed in a plane crash in Russia in 1974, and it is implied that the real Joseph Steppens also dies in that crash and is replaced by a Soviet sleeper agent.
A former appointed Vice President who replaces the late Vice President Maxwell Oates.
In the Extended Director's Cut, it is announced that President Steppens will travel to Moscow on for a Summit.
A group of military convicts seizes control of an ICBM complex and demands:
$10 million.
The release of top secret documents regarding the Vietnam War.
and President Stevens as a hostage.
President Stevens agrees to the demands, and gets the Secretary of Defense to promise he will release the documents should anything happen to him.
The President is fatally wounded during a rescue attempt outside of the missile complex, and realizes at the last moment of his life that the Secretary of Defense will not release the documents.
Likely succeeded Ronald Reagan (the most recent real-life President mentioned in the series) and first elected in 1988.
Mentioned by Selina Meyer as having a "bizarre indifference to
Apartheid".
In the episode "Library", he is seen attending the opening of the Stuart Hughes Presidential Library and Museum in 2018, catching Selina Meyer in a recreation of the Oval Office sitting at a cordoned-off replica of the
Resolute desk.
Pro-cloning president, targeted by "The Franchise" who want to maintain their own covert cloning program.
His Vice President Spaulding Burke is killed in a car crash organized by "The Franchise, who then after get Daniel Morris nominated to the VP position.
Attempted assassination is helped by his own vice president, Daniel Morris.
President Steward is to be assassinated in the White House by Mark Parchezzi III before Agent 47 intervenes.
Plans to nominate third VP after Morris's death, but says he will not let Congress dictate his decision.
Has strong support and high approval ratings, and defeats anti-cloning Democratic candidate, Frank Morgan, in the general election.
Party: Republican
President Hamilton Stewart
President in: Medusa by Jerry and Sharon Ahern
Former Governor of New York.
Wife's name is Susan.
President Digby R. Stewart
President in: The Andropov Deception by
Brian Crozier
Former Actor, and close ally of British Prime Minister Brenda Barclay.
Resigns from office in January 2006 after the "
Pluto's Kiss" computer virus brings about the collapse of the modern internet and nearly causes a nuclear catastrophe by activating the United States' nuclear defense and automated counter-strike systems on December 24, 2005.
Mistakenly renamed "Not Sure" upon registering for American citizenship.
Born sometime in the 20th Century.
While working as an army librarian, Bauers takes part in a military experiment which planned to freeze him for one year, however, due to an accident, he is frozen for 500 years.
Last President of the United States and King of Manhattan.
He gives everyone new middle names that are nouns followed by a number hence his middle name "Daffodil-11". If someone has the same name and number they are your brother or sister, if they have the same name but different number it means they are a cousin. This system was designed to give people relatives and always have family. This system ultimately destroys the country because the families would start flocking to states and joining up and ignoring laws and creating their own communities.
She is originally set to win the South Carolina primary, but Meyer in collusion with China rigs it in her favour through
voter suppression targeting African American voters.
Attempts to win the party nomination for president in 2020 during the
brokeredNational Convention in
Charlotte, North Carolina, but loses to former President Selina Meyer due to a number of compromising deals including promising to overturn same-sex marriage and appointing the populist, nativist Jonah Ryan as running mate. This is so that Meyer could avoid appointing Talbot as running mate (or to serve as Talbot's running mate herself).
Is elected sometime between 2024 and 2040 for two consecutive terms.
Attends the funeral of former President
Selina Meyer in 2045, where she delivers the main eulogy.
Billionaire aerospace scientist and founder of Tanz Industries, which undertakes projects such as planning the Ark mission to
Mars.
Enlisted to aid the United States government in preventing a large
asteroid from colliding with Earth and causing an extinction level event, as well as help against the rogue hacker group RE/SYST who aim to pit the United States and
Russia against each other in the lead up to the collision.
Appointed as Vice President by President Pauline Mackenzie after the arrest of treacherous former Vice President Monroe Bennett, primarily due to his non-political background, scientific knowledge and public popularity during the crisis. He is approved in an emergency sitting of
Congress by a two thirds majority.
Becomes President under the
25th Amendment after President Pauline Mackenzie is assassinated by a sniper after delivering a speech at the "Unity Rally".
Nominates two term congressman and former
NASA shuttle pilot Trey Thompson as his
Vice President.
When the
railgun project his administration is working on to destroy the Samson asteroid is sabotaged by a
doomsday cult, he resigns the presidency to focus his full attention on other options, and is replaced by Thompson.
A superstar gangster rapper, he gains the Presidency through the Supreme Court, because the Democratic and Republican candidates, supervillain Killface, and billionaire superhero Xander Crews, respectively, are deemed ineligible
Speaker of the House who becomes Acting President for approximately one day, because President
Mackenzie Allen (to whom he is a leading political foe) suffers a ruptured appendix requiring several hours of surgery and at least a day of recovery.
With his new position of power, he quickly forces an end to the airline labor strikes, undoing Allen's weeks of careful negotiations.
Born in a distant future utopia, he hates the boredom of his society, and intends to prevent its rise by killing Superman.
He is also power hungry. In a two episode arc in the fourth season, he uses stolen future technology in order to brainwash the population of USA into electing him as President.
Note that this would make the tagline "20 years from now" inaccurate, as that would make him 36 years old, and thus unqualified Constitutionally to have been elected. (minimum age is 35) However, "President of Earth" may have different qualifications.
His tenure lasts "Just long enough to defeat the third
Vilgaxian invasion".
Succeeds President Ben Tennyson prior to this episode.
Note that this would makes the tagline "20 years from now" inaccurate, as that would make her 36 years old, and thus unqualified Constitutionally to have been elected. (minimum age is 35) However, "President of Earth" may have different qualifications.
Ben 10,000: It turned out that Gwen was better at the day-to-day stuff.
Goes into politics after retiring from NASA, and is elected to two terms as a
congressman, enjoying an 80% approval rating in his district.
Selected to become
Vice President by President Darius Tanz. Chosen over
Michigan Senator Mitch Gitlow due to his reputation as a "straight shooter" and willingness to confront President Tanz on issues when needed.
Ascends to the presidency under the provisions of the
25th Amendment when President Tanz resigns to devote his full-time to preventing the Samson asteroid from crashing to Earth.
In the early 21st Century an alien race called the Ta'Lon arrive on Earth with a hidden agenda.
President Thompson is supported by the Ta'Lon over industrialist Jonathan Doors, and is shot in a staged assassination attempt to ensure his re-election.
Once re-elected President Thompson agrees to Ta'Lon instigating Martial Law.
President Thompson
President in "The Third World War" by General Sir
John Hackett (1978).
A former Governor of South Carolina.
A Conservative who defeats incumbent Vice President
Walter Mondale in
1984 after President
Jimmy Carter is elected to a second term.
Never actually referred to as President, only as Head of State, but the office is implied from context (he heads the government of the United States and is based in Washington D.C.).
Thompson presides over a series of socialist reforms (or at least, social-democratic) and attempts to compromise with
John Galt, but Galt is not willing to do so. Galt offers that Thompson abolish
Income Tax, but Thompson is not willing to do that. Eventually, due to Galt to taking away all the capable people on whom the economy depends, the United States collapses into total chaos and famine.
After which Galt and his friends would reconstruct it on a strict capitalist free enterprise base, and whoever survives the cataclysm will have to accept that. The ultimate personal fate of Thompson is not specified.
Elected in
2000. First third party candidate to win since Lincoln.
Notable for his "Fortress America" policy, in which he withdraws all troops deployed overseas and refuses to deploy troops unless America's interests are directly threatened.
Also notable for strict adherence to the Constitution, e.g. ignores inauguration ceremony at Congress and does not appoint a National Security Advisor.
Doesn't stand for re-election after a Russian nuclear attack on America.
Party Affiliation: Jeffersonian (fictional third party)
President in the TV mini-series World War Three (1982)
A hardline conservative, President Thorpe institutes a grain embargo of the Soviet Union.
Dies in office, and is replaced by Thomas McKenna.
President Ragnar Thorvaldssen The Nine-Fingered
President in The Viking President by Daniel K. Wheatley[2]
From an alternate history timeline in which the Norse colony of
Vinland prospered and expanded southwards creating a series of colonies down what would have been the Eastern Coast of the US.
Overseen by the Grand Jarl, theoretically elected by the Folkmoot but in practice restricted to the Ericssons, descended (or at least claiming descent) from
Eric the Red. The Vinlanders rejected Christianity, fiercely clinging to the Norse Religion. With the help of renegade Norwegian and Danish priests, that religion was made to emulate Christianity in many ways - gaining a codified theology centered on the Trinity of
Odin,
Frey and
Thor, written Scriptures and a hierarchical priesthood. In that form, the Norse Religion re-established itself in much of Europe. With Vinland undergoing a rapid
Industrial Revolution in the 16th Century (36th Century after the Creation of Valhalla by the Vinlandish Calendar) Vinland eventually became the unquestioned dominant world power, its religion widespread also in Asia and Africa. In 1785 (3751 AV) the scientist Hrodgar Wulffensson discovered a means of accessing other alternate timelines, and soon Vinland embarked on systematically invading and annexing them. In 1862 Vinland launched a surprise attack on the United States, embroiled in the
American Civil War. Among the invaders was Ragnar Thorvaldssen The Nine-Fingered, a capable Vinlandish middle-ranking officer descended from a distaff branch of the Ericsson Family, long in disfavor at the Jarl's court, who thus had little hope of promotion. Armed with tanks, fighter planes, energy weapons and nuclear arms, it took the invaders less than two months to overcome both the Union and Confederate armies and seize control of the entire US territory. Grown complacent and contemptuous of the "primitive locals", the victorious Vinlanders held a celebration at their headquarters - former headquarters of the
Army of Northern Virginia - with sentries tacitly allowed to imbibe considerable quantities of captured American whiskey. The fugitive
Robert E. Lee seized the chance, launching a surprise night attack with the remnant of his forces, plus quite a few Union soldiers willing to accept his leadership in face of this calamity. Lee and his troops seized several of the Vinlanders' laser cannon, forced captives to explain their (quite simple) operation, and turned them on the Victory Celebration Pavilion - in one blow destroying the entire upper echelon of the Vinlandish invading force. It was Ragnar Thorvaldssen - one of the few Vinlandish officers to remain completely sober - who rallied the disorganized invading forces, brought their superior arms into play and defeated Lee and his troops. Interviewing the captured Lee, Thorvaldssen highly complimented him on his valor and initiative and then ordered him executed forthwith - as Lee had manifestly proven himself too dangerous to be allowed to live. With his authority accepted unquestionably by the invading force - but knowing that it would never be confirmed by the authorities back home - Thorvaldssen moved swiftly to establish a local power base. He got himself elected President of the United States - in a process falling short of free elections - and amended the US Constitution to allow two Vice Presidents, these positions being awarded to
Abraham Lincoln and
Jefferson Davis. The cream of the invading Vinlandish soldiers and officers were transferred to a recreated United States Army and set to instruct American recruits, from both North and South, in Vinlandish arms, tactics and strategy. High on Thorvaldssen's agenda was the issue of slavery, so disturbing to the people of his new country. Like Vinlanders in general, Thorvaldssen saw nothing wrong in slavery as such but thought it was unjust and outright ridiculous that only black-skinned people be slaves. He solved the problem - at least to his own satisfaction - by freeing half of the black slaves and enslaving an equal number of whites, randomly chosen, to take their place. Himself a strong adherent of the god Thor and contemptuous of Christianity (of which only sorry vestiges remained in the world of his birth), President Thorvaldssen reluctantly decided that for the time being it would be impolitic to embark on any large-scale Norse missionary activity. Rather, priority was given to his next big project - conquest of the
British Empire.
After the sudden failure of modern technology causes the collapse of society, Thurston - a former member of the
US military - manages to set up a government in
Boise, Idaho.
With himself as President he hopes to eventually re-unite the entire former territory of the US and refuses to recognize the numerous new nations which arose out of the chaos
Once proven wrong, however, he easily admits he is at fault. But when declaring the next President should be elected, he is assassinated by his son Martin Thurston, who sets himself up as President.
As junior senator from Wyoming, Tomarchio belongs to a small group of U.S. government officials who survive a series of nuclear attacks on two dozen American cities.
Originally one of six people competing for the presidency after the attacks, he eventually manages to become leader of the new
Allied States of America (ASA), which contains most of the former U.S. territory west of the Mississippi.
Tomarchio's increasingly authoritarian administration turns out to be infiltrated and controlled by the criminal Jennings & Rall company
Towards the end of the series a Second American Civil War between the ASA and the other successor governments of the U.S. seems to be on the horizon.
Is attributed throughout the book as being a moderate, with no real polarized political stance
In an interview before the election Torrent is asked if he will run for the Republicans, the party for which he recently served as National Security Advisor, but he responds that he will only run for the presidency if elected in primaries by both parties (i.e., the
Democrats and
Republicans) which he eventually is.
Elected in place of President Nielson near the end of the book
Wins the
election of 2016 following the presidency of Andrew Culpepper.
During her administration, the space shuttle Atlantis II is marooned in space after deflecting off of the Earth's atmosphere and goes careening towards the sun. The astronauts on-board remain in contact with
NASA until their oxygen supply is fully depleted.
Chooses not to run in the
2020 election, saying that it is "Not worth it." Her vice president is nominated but loses the election to Henry Kolladner.
Returns to her home state of Oregon after leaving office.
Vice President is Ashley Redfield, the former
Governor of Wisconsin, who conspires with a
private military contractor to have her assassinated due to her attempting to establish relations with Omar Zadar, the leader of the radical Peoples Independence Front (PIF) in an unnamed
Balkan country.
Is targeted for assassination at
Camp David when meeting Zadar by bombs placed by rogue
Secret Service agents, but is ultimately rescued by
FBI Special Agent Peter Sutherland Jr.
Political Party: Unspecified (implied to be a moderate
Democrat)
As Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States in 2013, takes temporary office during the invasion at the
White House. The President and Vice President are hostages so he becomes Acting President.
As Vice President in 2016, he remains in D.C. during the trip of President Asher to
London for the funeral of
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The assassinations of key world leaders and the kidnapping of the President Asher force him to once again become Acting President.
In 2019, he is officially President in his own right. He recommends Mike Banning (hero of the first two
Has Fallen movies) to replace the Director of the Secret Service. A swarm of drones attacks him on a fishing trip, leaving Banning and a comatose Trumbull the only survivors.
Trumbull wakes up some time later. It is revealed that his VP is a conspirator in the attack. Banning is exonerated and Trumbull's VP arrested.
Trumbull may appear in the upcoming continuation of the franchise, Night has Fallen.
Marries former movie star Jessica Heath Tucker, and has one son Thomas Jr..
Serves from 1989 to 1993.
Attempts to give part of the Southwest U.S. to
Mexico as a goodwill gesture, normalizes relations with
Cuba, deals with a hostage crisis in
Bermuda, and gets the
U.S. Virgin Islands admitted as the 51st State.
Frequently mentioned in one episode "Dalej idziesz sam", during a crisis with nuclear testing in
Belarus. Although he is not seen, his voice is heard when he speaks to the
Polish Prime Minister via phone.
His prosecution causes international diplomatic unrest and US Military members try to free him from prison by force to prevent his conviction in
The Hague.