List of fictional United States Presidents

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Since the office of President of the United States is somewhat hallowed, fiction writers often choose to 'invent' a president in their stories to prevent a real one from being possibly insulted, to avoid having their stories become 'outdated' over time, for dramatic license, or to provide literary flexibility.

Presidents are listed in alphabetical order by the first letter in their last name.

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President William Abbott

• President in: Advise and Consent series, by Allen Drury
• Succeeds to presidency upon the assassination of President Harley Hudson.
• Declines to run for reelection, leading to the election of either Orrin Knox (The Promise of Joy) or Edward M. Jason (Come Nineveh, Come Tyre)

President Barbara Adams

• President in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986)
• Played by: Loretta Swit
• Succeeds to presidency upon death of the previous president. Her incompetence helps cause World War Three.
• Husband owns a weapons company that deliberately instigated the third world war to sell arms.
• Due to her stance on Communism, Adams is probably a Republican.

President David Jefferson Adams

• President in: Shattered Union (video game, 2005)
• The most unpopular President in US history, he was declared the winner of the 2008 Presidential election by Congress after a tie vote
• His administration saw increased domestic terrorism in 2010, resulting in the declaration of martial law in California in 2011
• A sham election, perpetrated by the Supreme Court disqualifying several more popular candidates, resulted in his "reelection" in 2012
• Was killed, along with most of the federal government, when a nuclear bomb was detonated in Washington DC during the inauguration on January 20, 2013

President John Quincy Adding Machine

• President in: Futurama
• The first Robot President
• Won by 1 vote

President Adler

• President in: Jack & Bobby
• Controversial President during the War of Americas. Adler was criticized as a war criminal for his handling of the war and was subsequently arrested by the president of Finland during Robert McCallister's administration and charged with war crimes.

President David Alexander

• President in: Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
• Was vice-president and became president after the mysterious death of his predicessor. He was thrown out of office for not complying to his brother's (who was actually the Antichrist) New World order.
• Played by:Michael Biehn

President Mackenzie Allen

• President in: Commander-in-Chief
• 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.
• Stated privately that her main political enemy is Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton.
• Played by: Geena Davis
• Party: Independent, formerly Republican

President Kathy Alton

• President in: The Illuminati by Larry Burkett
• Party: Democratic

President Juanita Alvarez

• President in: Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
• President in 2037.

President Joseph Armando

• President in: Mars by Ben Bova
• The nation's first Hispanic president. Elected sometime in the early 21st Century.
• During his administration, NASA orchestrated the first manned mission to Mars.
• Party: Democratic

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President Robert Baker

• President in: The Peacekeeper
• Played by: Roy Scheider

President William Ballard

• President in: Tom Clancy's Politika
• During his administration, Russian Federation President 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.
• Is injured in an assassination attempt while attending Yeltsin's funeral, but survives.
• Party: Democratic

President John Ballentine

• President in: The Sentinel (2006 film) (and 2003 novel by Gerald Peteivich)
• Targeted for assassination at a G8 Summit in Toronto. (film)
• Intended to divorce his wife after his term was finished (novel)
• Secret Service code name: Classic (film), Victory (novel)
• Played by David Rasche
• Party: Republican

President Ballintyne

• President in Video Game: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

President Cliff Barnes

• President in: Dallas, final episode Conundrum (aired May 3, 1991)
• In an alternate universe where J.R. Ewing had never been born, Barnes attains a successful political career, eventually becoming vice-president. When the president has a stroke, Barnes attains the office and, according to "Adam," the otherworldly being who guides J.R. through this alternate world, is one of the country's greatest.
• Played by: Ken Kercheval

President Harold Barnes

• Mentioned to precede President David Palmer in 24: The Declassified Novels.

President Leo Barnett

• President in: the Wild Cards novels
• May have had the superhuman ability to heal injuries and diseases

President Donald Bartlett

• President in: The Scorpio Illusion by Robert Ludlum

President Josiah Bartlet

• President in: The West Wing (television)
• Bartlet is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a Nobel Prize-winning economist and was governor of New Hampshire and a congressman. He is married to Dr. Abigail "Abbey" Bartlet, MD, and has three daughters. He enjoys chess, opera and guacamole. Bartlet served two full terms (less four days, when he temporarily relinquished his powers due to the abduction of his daughter). Shortly before re-election, Bartlet was censured by Congress due to concealment of material facts during his first presidential election run that the public should have known, even though not required by law (namely the fact that he has a relapsing-remitting course of multiple sclerosis).
• Qualities/attributes: Irascible yet good-humored, quite liberal, known for a fascination with useless trivia, esp. National Parks and historical trivia ("Did you know that this chair was presented to the United States as a gift from the King of Liechtenstein in gratitude for our ambassador marrying his daughter in 1871?"¹)
• Democratic
• Played by: Martin Sheen, who has been introduced at speaking engagements before liberal audiences as "the Acting President of The United States".
• Descendant of real-life Declaration of Independence signatory Josiah Bartlett.

President Andy Bates

• President in Deadlands: Hell on Earth roleplaying game.
• Known as "A-Bomb Andy" for his pro-nuclear war stance against the Confederacy.
• Elected as Vice President in 2078, took office in 2081 when Mary Rose Tremane disappeared (in Air Force One).
• Died on September 23, 2081, when Washington, D.C. was hit with a nuclear missile.

President Tom Beck

• President in: Deep Impact
• During his administration, much of the Eastern Seaboard was devastated by a comet impact in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Is the nation's first African-American president.
• Played by: Morgan Freeman

President Raymond Becker

• President in: The Day After Tomorrow (film, 2004)
• Played by: Kenneth Welsh
• Former vice president, succeeds to presidency upon death of President Blake, who failed to escape from Washington, DC to the south.

President Bennett

• President in: Clear and Present Danger (movie only- the book's president is unnamed)
• Orders a covert war against Colombian drug lords but was exposed by Jack Ryan.
• Commonly thought to be named only in the closing credits of the movie, a sharp sense of hearing detects a mention of the name in the movie.(Not mentioned in any Tom Clancy book.)
• Played by: Donald Moffat

President Richard Benson

• President in: Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
• Played by: R. Lee Ermey

President Thomas "Tug" Benson

• President in: Hot Shots! Part Deux
• Former navy admiral.
• Played by: Lloyd Bridges

President Charles Berquist

• President in: The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum

President Hosea Blackford

• President in: American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold by Harry Turtledove
• From the State of Dakota (in Harry Turtledove's "Southern Victory" series timeline, the present-day states of North and South Dakota never came into existence, and their combined territory instead comprised the single state of Dakota), Blackford is inspired by Lincoln as a young man, and begins a political career, becoming a Socialist and serving as congressman from Dakota. Runs for vice president in 1920 under Upton Sinclair. Defeats Calvin Coolidge for the presidency in 1928 by a narrow margin.
• Blackford is unable to prevent the Great Depression in 1929. A war with Japan erupts, and the Japanese attack Los Angeles during a campaign rally. Blackford is soundly defeated by Coolidge in 1932.

President Blake

• President in: The Day After Tomorrow (film, 2004)
• Caricature of George W. Bush
• Presumably dies of hypothermia during the evacuation of the US, and is succeeded by Vice President Becker
• Played by: Perry King

President George Blush

• President in: America 2014: An Orwellian Tale (novel)
• Fourth-term President

President John Blutarsky

• President in: Where Are They Now? A Delta Alumni Update
• In this follow up to Animal House, the character Bluto has risen from his former position of Senator.
• Played by: John Belushi

President Robert L. Booth

• President in: Judge Dredd in 2000 AD comic
• Booth was the last President of the United States.
• He triggered the Third World War in 2070. He was deposed and sentenced to 100 years.

President David Bowers

• President in: Splinter Cell series
• Republican

President Mike Brady

• President in: The Brady Bunch in the White House (TV movie, 2003)
• Native of California with no political experience, Vice President Brady assumed the presidency after the resignation of President Lawrence Randolph. Brady then chose his wife Carol to be his vice president. Brady has six children from two marriages.
• Played by: Gary Cole

President Breyer

• President in The Venture Bros. (TV show)
• Exemplifies the worst qualities of George W. Bush (Scandal rocked White House, mispronounces words, former alcoholic), and Bill Clinton (Scandals, cheats on wife with intern)
• Played by Dana Snyder

President Bricker

• President in: The Man in the High Castle (book) by Philip K. Dick
• Succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt as president.
• unable to revive economy during the Great Depression
• an isolationist
• Possibly connected to John W. Bricker.

President Teddy Bridges

• President in: Commander-in-Chief (TV series)
• Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Bridges was the governor of California and vice-president before becoming president. His vice-president was Mackenzie Allen, who became 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.
• Played by: Will Lyman
• Party: Republican

President-elect Phil Bristol

• President in: Protect and Defend by Eric L. Harry (No relation to the book by Richard North Patterson)
• Bristol was the governor of California who won the presidency but was assassinated by anarchists at the Willard Hotel prior to his inauguration. He was succeeded by Gordon Davis.
• Party: Republican

President Wyndom Brody

• President in: The Outer Limits episode "Decompression"
• A senator, Brody won the New Hampshire primary and was flying to South Carolina for the primary where he was approached by a visitor from the future calling for Brody to save himself by jumping from his aircraft.
• In an alternate universe, President Brody became a selfish tyrant. He was killed when he jumped from his aircraft over Columbia, South Carolina.
• Played by: Bruce Boxleitner
• Possibly Republican (The Democrats did not have a South Carolina primary at the time.) [1]

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President Jack Cahill

• President in: Chain of Command
• Played by: Roy Scheider

President Gary Callahan

• President in: Transmetropolitan
• An insane sadist
• Notes: AKA "The Smiler"

President Camacho

• President in Idiocracy
• President in the year 2505—it seems he was an ex-pro wrestler. His presidency is plagued with rampant famine and dust storms, and later, the collapse of the Brawndo company.
• His middle name is "Mountain Dew"
• Played by Terry Crews

President James (Jim) Carlisle

• President in: Guarding Tess (movie, Columbia/Tristar Studios; 1994)
• Former governor and U.S. senator from Ohio who was elected to the White House in the late 1980s. He died in office and had a funeral at the National Cathedral. His wife Tess was kidnapped and later rescued by a secret service agent.
• Played by: George Gomes (seen only in archive footage that Mrs. Carlisle is watching.)

President Carlson

• President in: Executive Target
• Played by: Roy Scheider

President James Cassidy

• President in: The Greek Tycoon
• Probably based on President John F. Kennedy, since "The Greek Tycoon" is widely considered to be a thinly-veiled story about Aristotle Onassis, the second husband of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
• Played by: James Franciscus

President John Trelawney Cassidy

• President in: Promises to Keep, novel by George Bernau
• Elected 35th President of the United States in November 1960, and serves until an assassination attempt in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963, spends the remainder of his term recovering from gunshot wounds to the head and throat.
• Does not run for re-election in 1964, and his Vice-President, Ransom W. Gardner assumes the post.
• Following misadventure in Vietnam, Cassidy challenges Gardner for the 1968 Democratic nomination and is elected the 37th President of the United States.

President Dave Chappelle

• President in: Chappelle's Show, episode #110
• In the "real" version of Deep Impact, Chappelle reveals that America has the cure for AIDS, has mastered cloning, and has made contact with aliens, who then take him to safety on their spaceship.
• Unfortunately, President Chappelle went missing during his third term and was subsequently replaced by Vice President Charlie Murphy.

President David Coffey

• President in: Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

President Monroe "Eagle" Cole

• President in: Welcome to Mooseport
• Native of Mooseport, Maine, Cole served two terms as president and attempted to run for mayor of Mooseport after his presidency. Was the first President to divorce from his wife while in office.
• Played by: Gene Hackman
• Party: Democratic

President Alex Coleman

• President in: .hack
• Succeeded President Jim Stonecold who resigned after the "Pluto's Kiss" incident.
• Announced the "Network Peace Proclamation" to the world on December 14, 2007, exactly three years after the "Pluto's Kiss" incident destroyed the modern internet.

President Samuel Conrad

• President in Act of War and Edge of Battle
• Declared war against global terrorism after a nuclear attack in Houston and attempted nuke in San Francisco.
• Survived terrorist attack and invasion of White House

President Hamilton Conroy

• President in Coyote by Allen Steele
• Conroy is purportedly a descendant of Alexander Hamilton and is the President of the United Republic of America, an extreme right-wing reorganization of the United States of America where New England and the Pacific Northwest have seceded and become sovereign nations, at least up until 2070
• A former Congressman from Alabama, he was instrumental in getting Operation Starflight, the first manned deep-space mission to colonize 47 Ursae Majoris, up and running
• Party: Liberty Party, an ultraright-wing neoconservative party

President Cord

• President in: Stealth Bomber (1990) novel by Barnaby Williams.
• Believing that Cord's defence policy would be beneficial to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the Soviets manipulated a presidential election to have Cord elected (he would have lost otherwise). Their plot is exposed when Iran tries to start World War Three.

President John J. Cormack

• President in: The Negotiator
• Notes: novel by Frederick Forsyth

President Guy "Whitey" Corngood

• President in: Mr. Show with Bob and David
• Played by: Jay Johnston

President William A. Cozzano

• President in: Interface
• Assassinated on his inauguration day, succeeded by Vice President Eleanor Richmond
• Notes: novel by Stephen Bury AKA Neal Stephenson

President Calvin Craig

• President in: Assassination
• Played by: Charles Howerton

President Stanley Craig

• President in: The President Vanishes by Rex Stout
• Played by: Arthur Byron

President Hugh Crane

• One of the many presidents in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy
• President Crane succeeded President Carter upon his death.

President Andrew Y. Culpepper

• President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
• Briefly referenced in the novel Moonfall.
• First African-American president and the oldest elected president (78).
• Was elected to office in 2008. Was re-elected in 2012.
• Opened his presidential library in 2019.
• Died in his sleep in 2021 at the age of 91.
• Party: Democratic

President Johnny Cyclops

• President in: Whoops Apocalypse (television, 1982)
• Qualities/attributes: A former screen actor, recently lobotomised. Hated at home and desperate to regain popularity. With other world leaders, starts World War III and resulting nuclear holocaust. Often depicted as being a puppet controlled by his security advisor, the Deacon. Possibly based on Ronald Reagan, as he is a Republican and he has a bad relationship with his son.
• Played by: Barry Morse
• Party: Republican

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President James Dale

• President in: Mars Attacks!
• During re-election campaign, Earth makes contact with aliens.
• Was graduated from Princeton University.
• Dale was killed by the aliens shortly after contact.
• Played by: Jack Nicholson

President Paul Davenport

• President in: First Kid
• President Davenport is married to Linda Davenport and has one thirteen-year old son, Luke.
• Played by: James Naughton

President Gordon Davis

• President in Protect and Defend by Eric L. Harry (No relation to the book by Richard North Patterson)
• Davis was an African-American Senator from Maryland prior to his nomination as Governor Phil Bristol's running-mate. Davis was wounded in the assassination of President-elect Bristol and Davis was later sworn in in his hospital room. President Davis presided over a war between China and U.N. forces over control of Siberia.
• Party: Republican

President Tom Dering

• President in Justin Richards' novels: Doctor Who: Option Lock and Doctor Who: Millennium Shock
• Dering's running mate was Jack Michaels; Dering defeated Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential election.

President Devlin

• President in: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
• Played by: George Clooney
• Note: Devlin appeared in the first Spy Kids film, but he was not president then. Spy Kids 2: Island Of Lost Dreams featured an unnamed president played by Christopher McDonald.

President Devonian

• Former President referenced in the book Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley.

President Douglass Dilman

• President in The Man, Irving Wallace's 1965 novel and a 1972 television film adaptation written by Rod Serling
• First African American President, Dilman was President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate and succeeded to the presidency, via a multiple vacancy
• Played in the film by: James Earl Jones

President Joe Doakes

• President in: Mathematicians in Love
• A parallel universe's Heritagist president paralleling that of our George W. Bush.

President-elect Tom Dobbs

• President in: Man of the Year
• A talk show host elected president but later did not want the job
• Political party: Independent
• Played by: Robin Williams

President Victor von Doom

• President in issues 29-33 of the now-cancelled Doom 2099 comic book, and other Marvel 2099 titles.
• Dictator of the fictional country Latveria, Doom arrives in the year 2099 from sometime in our near future via unknown means. Seeing the damage being done to the world by American mega-corporations, Doom invades America and installs himself as President by "right of revolution."
• Although never completely resolved in the comic book, it is assumed that the title character is, in fact, Victor von Doom and not one of a number of Doom impersonators that have appeared in the present-day comics timeline.

President Douchebag

• President in: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
• His two term presidency caused the meaning of the word "douchebag" to change. His opponent was identified as Senator Daterape.

President Matt Douglas

• President in: My Fellow Americans
• Former governor of Indiana, Douglas ran against Senator Russell P. Kramer of Ohio and lost, but defeated incumbent President Kramer four years later having won in a landslide. Douglas was later defeated by Kramer's vice-president, William Haney. Douglas later ran again for office as an independent alongside Kramer. He had a reputation as a womanizer and was married to Katherine Douglas.
• Played by: James Garner
• Party:Independent formerly Democratic

President Charles Carter Durant

• President in: Earth II
• Played by: Lew Ayres

President Michael Dugan

• President in video game: Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2
• Played by: Ray Wise

President Roger Durling

• President in Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor
• Former Governor of California, he succeeds to the presidency after his predecessor (Fowler) resigns.
• Served in Viet Nam with the 82nd Airborne Division.
• Killed along with most of Congress in a Japanese terrorist attack on The Capitol.
• Party: Democratic

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President Sarah Susan Eckert

• President in: J.M. Dillard's novelization of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• A scene deleted from the film shows Sulu and Chekov near Mount Rushmore, on which a fifth face, that of an African-American woman, can be seen.
• Dillard's novelization refers to Eckert as "the first black Northam president."

President Walter Emerson

• President in: Deterrence
• Played by: Kevin Pollak
• After the elected vice president resigned, he was confirmed with minority support of the electorate. The President died of natural causes, elevating Emerson.
• Initially seeking his party's nomination in the next primary, he drops out after ordering a nuclear strike on Baghdad after Iraqi President Uday Hussein has the Republican Guard invade Kuwait.

President Sven Ericson

• President in the novel Full Disclosure by William Safire.
• President Ericson is blinded during the assassination of the leader of the USSR. It is learned that the then-candidate had been suffered temporary blindness during his campaign, and it had been decided not to announce (disclose) this. The novel follows attempts to remove the president from office. Ericson is divorced, has an active sex life, and loves the White House meatloaf.

President Jackson Evans

• President in: The Contender
• A former senator who attended West Point and enjoys cigars and shark steak sandwiches. Evans was a two-term Democratic president who sought to replace his deceased vice president with Senator Laine Hanson (D-Ohio) to succeed him.
• Was set upon stumping the White House kitchen staff before leaving office with outrageous food requests, ultimately succeeding when they said they were out of mustard
• Played by: Jeff Bridges
• Party: Democratic

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President John Fields

• President in: Executive Power
• Played by: William Atherton

President Mallard Fillmore

• President of the United Species of America in Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew
• A duck, Fillmore's name is a play on Millard Fillmore. He may be related to the Mallard Fillmore of the syndicated comic strip.

President Finesterre

• Former president referenced in the book Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley.
• Assassinated around the time of the Kennedy assassination.
• Uncle of Senator Finesterre, who is engaged in a sex scandal.
• Grandfather of Vermont Senator Ortolan K. Finesterre, the other Senator Finesterre's nephew, and the former Governor of Vermont.

President Gerald Fitzhugh

• President of the United States of America and later the United States of North America in the Left Behind political series by Neesa Hart and the film Left Behind: World at War
• Played by: Louis Gossett Jr.
• Fitzhugh became a figurehead after his powers were removed by Nicolae Carpathia, the Global Community Grand Potentate. He then secretly controlled anti-Carpathia militia and revolted against the world ruler. However, Fitzhugh died shortly after the failure of his uprising against Carpathia (the Antichrist).

President Fletcher J. Fletcher

• President in: A Planet for the President (2004 novel by Alistair Beaton)
• Fletcher is president during a period of massive global climate change. During administration, a category 5 hurricane destroys the entire city of New Orleans, killing thousands. Fletcher drinks alcohol and is a devout Christian who hates liberals and has a gay son. He appears to be a thinly disguised take on George W. Bush.
• To solve the global environmental crisis, the Fletcher administration unleashes a massive biological pandemic, saving only the United States; in the end, the virus kills all humans on the planet except President Fletcher.
• Party: Possibly Republican. Possibly Democratic. Possibly Reform.

President James Foster

• President in: Chasing Liberty
• Foster is married to Michelle Foster and has one daughter, Anna.
• Played by: Mark Harmon

President William Foster

• President in: The Enemy Within (1994 TV Movie)
• Played by: Sam Waterston

President Jonathan Robert "Bob" Fowler

• President in: The Sum of All Fears
• Former governor of Ohio and when president, the city of Denver (Baltimore in the film version) was destroyed by a nuclear device.
• Party - Democratic
• Played by: James Cromwell

President Clementine Searcy Fox

• President in: First Hubby, a novel by Roy Blount, Jr.
• First female president

President Ferris F. Fremont

• President in: Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
• Based loosely upon Richard Nixon, Fremont is a paranoid who turns the U.S. into a Stalinesque police state to crush a nonexistent conspiracy. "F" being the sixth letter of the alphabet, his initials spell out 666.

President Max Frost (Max Jacob Flatow Jr)

• President in Wild in the Streets
• Played by Christopher Jones
• Popular rock star, gets minimum age for President reduced to 20 (or so) and voting age to 14, by spiking congress's water with LSD.
• Wins presidency and interrs all "oldsters" in concentration camps

President Truman Theodore Fruitty

• President in: Mr. Show with Bob and David
• Played by: Jay Johnston
• The eleventy-twelfth President.

President Fuller

• One of the many presidents in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy
• Resigned from office after he found the irrelevancy of his position.
• Based on Buckminster Fuller

President *FXJKHR

• President in: Futurama
• Was 60th President (of either Earth or the U.S.)
• Details of Presidency are unknown though a monument depicts him sitting atop a throne of skulls.

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Acting President Hal Gardner

• Acting President in: 24 (2011-2013)
• After Charles Logan is arrested in fifth-season finale of 24, Gardner would be next in line of succession
• Played by: Ray Wise

President Ransom W. Gardner

• President in Promises to Keep, novel by George Bernau
• Elected Vice President under John Trelawney Cassidy, he assumed the acting presidency following an assassination attempt on President Cassidy in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963.
• He is elected as the 36th President of the United States in November 1964.
• Following misadventure in Vietnam, he is challenged for the Democratic nomination by the now-recovered President Cassidy in 1968 and leaves office in January 1969.

President Garner

• President in: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episodes "Meet John Doe", "I Now Pronounce You..." & "Lois and Clarks"
• Played by: Fred Willard

President Thomas Edison (Shy) Garland

• President in: Father's Day, novel by John Calvin Batchelor
• Former astronaut, former senator from Texas, nicknamed Shy and a nephew of LBJ.
• Elected vice president under Theodore G. Jay in 2000, assumes the reigns of power as acting president, as per the 25th Amendment, after Jay goes on a leave of absence due to a deep depression. Garland was much more popular than President Jay and attempted to have Jay ruled unfit by Congress and the Cabinet when Jay tries to reassume the presidency. He also orchestrated military coup to assassinate Jay if the attempt to have Jay declared unfit fails. Codenamed "Father's Day"?
• Party: Democratic

President Johnny Gentle

• President in: Infinite Jest, novel by David Foster Wallace
• Has an obsessive-compulsive phobia of contamination; founder of the "Clean U.S. Party"
• A former "famous crooner", he wins the presidency on a promise to make America a cleaner place. As part of his solution he makes a large portion of New England (the "Concavity") into a toxic waste dump and forcibly gives this territory to Canada.

President Joseph Galbrain

• President in: XIII (comic)
• Comes after William B. Sheridan
• Comes before Walter "Wally" Sheridan

President Mays Gilliam

• President in: Head of State
• An alderman from Washington D.C., Gilliam was chosen by his party to replace the deceased presidential nominee. Gilliam narrowly defeats a sitting vice-president becoming Americas first Black President.
• Played by: Chris Rock

President Lancelot R. Gilligrass

• President in: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
• Presides over the construction of a "Space Hotel" orbiting the earth; when Willy Wonka and Charlie Bucket's family board the Hotel, he mistakes them for Martians.
• Vice president is Elvira Tibbs, his former nanny.
• Well known for his inventions.

President Al Gore

• President in: The One
• Seen briefly in a news broadcast in an alternate universe.
• This film was produced before the outcome of the 2000 Presidential Election was known. In keeping with the film's alternate-universe concept, the filmmakers used stock footage of Al Gore and George W. Bush to create a pair of similar mockup news broadcasts of each candidate as President. The eventual winner's version would be inserted into a scene in "our" universe, while the other would be shown in an alternate universe.

President Graham

• President in: Resident Evil 4
• Daughter, Ashley Graham, kidnapped by the Spanish Cult Los Illuminados in 2004.
• Never shown during the course of the game, though he was the one to send Leon S. Kennedy to rescue his daughter.
• Unknown political orientation, though in-game references to terrorism suggest that he might be similar to President George W. Bush in regards to foreign affairs.
• First name not mentioned.

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President Dewey Haik

• President in the Fascist Corps running the United States in Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here.
• Served as Commissioner of the Northeastern Province under the Windrip regime, latter became Secretary of War and High Marshal of the Minute Men.
• Collaborated in the coup d'etat that removed Buzz Windrip and installed Lee Stanton as President. Shortly aftereards Haik lead the assassination of Stanton and installation of himself as President.
• Particularly brutal and repressive, Haik's rule made citizens "long for the liberal days of President Windrip".
• Later in Haik's administration a major revolt developed against his rule, with significant defection of military forces. The final fate of this revolt and President Haik remain unknown as of the novel's end.

President Jeremy Haines

• President in: The President's Plane Is Missing by Robert J. Serling
• Played by: Tod Andrews in the film based on the novel

President Charles Halsey

• President in: The Outer Limits episode "Trial by Fire"
• Shortly after being sworn in, President Halsey is faced with first contact with an armada of alien ships. As the planet arms nuclear weapons, Halsey attempts to communicate with the ships but is unsuccessful.
• Halsey is married to Elizabeth Halsey, has children and is considered a peace-loving liberal surrounded by hawkish military leaders; President Halsey and advisors are later killed by the aliens.
• Played by: Robert Foxworth

President Wesley Hamlin

• President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
• Briefly referenced in the novel Moonfall.
• Was governor of Illinois who won the presidential election of 2000.
• Is a distant relative of former Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.
• Narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 2003 after pardoning a convicted killer while still governor of Illinois. The assassin was the murdered victim's father. President Hamlin was left paralyzed from the waist down after his assassination attempt. Came very close to resigning the presidency while hospitalized, however, Vice President Dan Sullivan and Secretary of State Bernie Phillips convince him otherwise.
• Was re-elected in 2004.
• Opened his presidential library in 2011.
• Moved back to his home town in Illinois after leaving office.
• Party: Republican

President Judson C. "Judd" ("Major") Hammond

• President in: Gabriel Over the White House
• Hammond transforms into righteous leader during the Great Depression and revitalizes country while providing peace overseas. Hammond dies in office.
• Played by: Walter Huston

President William "Bill" Haney

• President in: My Fellow Americans
• Haney served as vice president under President Russell P. Kramer before defeating incumbent President Matt Douglas. Later forced to resign.
• Played by: Dan Aykroyd
• Republican

President Charles H. Harrington

• President in: The Day America Invaded the World
• Once the General of All Armed Forces. Became the President after a successful military coup that ended the reign of President Jim T. Barnett.
• Ordered the invasion of the entire world, stating that "America has the greatest military in the world. So why not use it." Afterward, he became the Emperor of the new United Countries of Earth.
• Emperor Harrington's greatest contributions to the world was to dissolve the Democratic Party and to make war a crime.
• Emperor Harrington died on May, 22 2066 at the age of 80. His son Xavier assumed the role as Emperor.
• Party: Republican

President Baxter Harris

• President in: Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4
• Bumbling president who has to cope with alien invasions (in both movies).
• First name "Baxter" revealed in the 4th film of the franchise.
• Played by: Leslie Nielsen

President John Henry Harris

• President in Allan Folsom's novel The Machiavelli Covenant (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, January 2007 ISBM-10: 0-765-31305-7 ISBN-13 978-0-765-31305-8)
• back cover copy says Harris is "on the run -- from his murderous Cabinet."

President Harris

• President in: Welcome to the Ark
• Notes: Different from the two Harrises above.

President William Harrison

• President in: The President by Parker Hudson
• Harrison is an extreme liberal president, who becomes a Christian while in office.

President Spencer Harvey

• Presidency mentioned in: Jack & Bobby
• Notes: Resigned due to a corporate scandal

President Charles Haskell

• President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
• Becomes the youngest vice president in history in the presidential election of 2020 at the age of 35.
• President Henry Kolladner's vice president.
• Becomes the nation's youngest president at 39 after President Kolladner is killed in a Marine One crash.
• Holds the nation together after hundreds of pieces of moonrock fall to Earth after a violent impact between a comet and the moon.
• Wins re-election in 2024.
• Relocates the nation's capital back to Philadelphia after Washington, D.C. is destroyed by a tsunami.
• Party: Democratic

President Henry Hayes

• President in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
• Played by: William Devane
• His vice-president was Robert Kinsey, who had ties to the rogue element of the N.I.D.
• Party: Most likely Republican

President Jonathan Hayes

• President in: First Daughter, First Target and First Shot
• Played by: Gregory Harrison

President Robert Hayes

• President in Transfer of Power and subsequent novels by Vince Flynn

President Helman

• Presidency mentioned in: Jack & Bobby
• Helman was the first African-American president and visited Africa after the plague of 2018.

President Stephen Decatur Henderson

• President in Mr. President, 1962 Broadway musical by Irving Berlin
• Henderson loses his bid for re-election.
• Played by Robert Ryan

President Zach Herney

• President in Deception Point by Dan Brown

President Art Hockstader

• Former President in The Best Man (1964) by Gore Vidal
• Played by Lee Tracy

President Paul Hollister

• President in: 10.5 and 10.5: Apocalypse
• During administration, much of the West Coast was devastated by a massive earthquake.
• Played by: Beau Bridges

President Wendell Holmes

• President (2010-2015) in the 1939 Robert A. Heinlein novel For Us, the Living.

President David Hoope

• President in Death Note
• Holds office in 2009.
• Is blackmailed by the rogue detective Mello, soon dies of an apparent suicide.

President Jonathan Vincent Horne

• Succeeds Peter Ross in the DC Comics universe after Ross resigns.

President Eve Hubbard

• One of the many presidents in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy
• Star of the movie "Gentleman Prefer Clones", President Hubbard reformed criminal code, ending victimless crimes. She encouraged Space migration, life extension, extensive automation of industry and other scientific research projects.
• Party: Libertarian Immortalist ("No more death and taxes!")

President Harley M. Hudson

• President in: Advise and Consent (a film, based on a novel by Allen Drury)
• Succeeds to presidency upon death of unnamed predecessor
• Played by: Lew Ayres
• Possibly modeled on President Harry Truman
• Assassinated in a later volume of the Advise and Consent series

President Mark Hunt

• Elected president in Larry Burkett's The Illuminati
• Assassinated by "The Society" for not being a puppet, succeeded by Kathy Alton
• Party: Democratic

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President Phillip Jackson

• President of The Road to President Series, game series ran by Ken Kerns aka Mike Adams.
• Defeated President Long by winning the Electoral College and losing the popular vote. United the Republican party after their collapse in the prior election under a scandal plauged plagerist candidate.
• Former Republican Governor of Florida.
• First African American president in the series.

President Robby Jackson

• Hinted at being President in The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
• Was Vice President under Jack Ryan (fictional character), and became the first black President when Jack resigned solely for the purpose of allowing him to be the first black President. Jackson was later assassinated by a man dubbed "the last of the Klan" by the media.

President Edward M. Jason

• President in: Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, by Allen Drury
• Early in his administration, the United States government is overthrown by a Soviet conspiracy, due in large part to President Jason's naivete and incompetence.
• Commits suicide when the consequences of his actions become clear.

President James Johnson

• President in: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• The 44th President, preceded by President George Sears (Solidus Snake). After Sears "resigned" in 2005, Johnson became the President, and was re-elected in 2008; Johnson claims the election was a farce. He claims he is a puppet of The Patriots, a secret group that controls the United States, and which decides the elections. During the Big Shell takeover in 2009, Johnson was assassinated by Revolver Ocelot as part his unwilling involvement in the S3 Plan.

President Maria Juarez

• President in: The Light of Other Days (2000) by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
• First female President of the United States, for at least one term (2037-2041)
• Party: not Republican, since that party is accused of "dirty tricks" against Juarez's party headquarters.

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President Florentyna Kane

• President in: The Prodigal Daughter and Shall We Tell the President? (Jeffrey Archer)
• Shall We Tell the President was written before Archer devised the Florentyna Kane character, and the president was originally Ted Kennedy. In a later revision of this work, Archer replaced Kennedy with his presidential candidate from The Prodigal Daughter.
• Party: Democratic

President Kang

• President in: The Simpsons – "Treehouse of Horror VII" episode
• The hostile alien Kang was elected President in 1996 after he and his companion Kodos captured and impersonated presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.
• Played by: Harry Shearer (voice)
• Party: Republican.

President John Keeler

• President in: 24 (2009-2010)
• Played by: Geoffrey Pierson
• Keeler was elected after President David Palmer withdrew from the race. As part of a day of unprecedented terrorist strikes, Air Force One is shot down, critically injuring Keeler and killing dozens of others including the President's son, Kevin; Vice President Charles Logan assumes the presidency. His fate was never revealed, though Logan was still the president 18 months later, likely indicating that Keeler either was killed, or still remained physically unable to hold the office.
• Party: Republican.

President Tim Kegan

• President in: Winter Kills, both book by Richard Condon and movie
• Assassinated president that is never fully seen during one flashback scene in movie. No credit was given to the arm.

President Keith

• President in: "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury.
• Recently elected at story's opening.

President Kellogg

• President in Man of the Year
• Incumbent Democratic candidate up for re-election
• Won second term in re-election after Tom Dobbs declined the presidency

President Joshua Kellogg

• President in: Joshua, Son of None, by Nancy Freedman
• Cloned from tissue taken from President John F. Kennedy shortly after his assassination, and deliberately raised so as to mimic President Kennedy's early life, in hopes of "re-creating" the original.
• Assassinated immediately after being sworn in as president

President Kendrick

• President in: Secret Justice by James W. Huston

President Francis Xavier Kennedy

• President in: Mario Puzo's The Fourth K
• Nephew of John F. Kennedy, served one term in the Senate. His first act as President is to donate his $40 million fortune to relieve the national debt.
• During his administration, the Pope is executed, his daughter kidnapped, and a bomb detonated in Manhattan. In retaliation, President Kennedy destroys the capital city of Dach in the fictional Arabian country of Sherbin. Kennedy is later re-elected due to an assassination attempt on his life.

President Clark Kent

• President in: Action Comics Annual #3 (1991)
• In a possible future, Pete Ross is running for President with Kent as his campaign manager. When an assassination attempt results in Ross being injured and Kent's secret identity being revealed, Ross insists Superman take his place as the Democratic nominee.
• President Kent is responsible for a series of satellites broadcasting solar power to Earth. He also worked towards multilateral disarmament, and the coalition of all superhero teams into the World Peace League.
• This future was observed by the time traveller Waverider, but negated soon afterwards.
• Party: Democratic

President Donald Kilbourne'

• President in: Larry Burkett's The Illuminati'
• Discredited for mishandling of west-coast earthquake/tsunami disaster and withdrew from election (replaced as candidate by Mark Hunt, who won)
• Party: Democratic

President Kerry Francis Kilcannon

• President in: Richard North Patterson's novels Protect and Defend and Balance of Power, candidate in No Safe Place.
• Kilcannon is a Democrat from New Jersey and was elected in 2000 at age 42 after defeating incumbent Vice-President Dick Mason for Democratic nomination. President Kilcannon appointed Caroline Masters as the first female Chief Justice of the United States.
• Kilcannon was a two term Senator and succeeded his older brother James, who was assassinated while running for President in 1988. Kilcannon's vice President was Ellen Penn, formerly Senator from California and is married in second marriage to Lara (nee Costello) a former television news reporter.
• Party: Democratic

President Tom Kimball

• President in: Captain America
• Played by: Ronny Cox

President Robert Kinsey

• President in: Stargate SG-1 TV-series
• A senator from Indiana, Kinsey was vice president under President Henry Hayes. Kinsey became president in two separate alternate timelines.
• Played by: Ronny Cox
• Party: Most likely Republican

President Hugh Tiberius Kissling

• President in: USGS Fourth Reset
• Former governor of the Midwest, defeated President John Mannion and later ordered successful airstrike against North Korean nuclear weapons silos.
• Party: Republican

President Benjamin Knight

• President in: The Lucky Ones by Doris Mortman
• Party: Democratic

President Orrin Knox

• President in: The Promise of Joy by Allen Drury
• Early in his presidency, a limited nuclear war breaks out between the U.S.S.R. and the People's Republic of China. President Knox is called on to mediate the conflict.

President Henry Kolladner

• President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
• The nation's second African-American president.
• Elected president in 2020.
• During his term, he discovers he has colon cancer but refuses to inform the public, though he strongly believes that if he is re-elected in 2024, he will not live to complete his second term.
• During his administration, a comet by the name of Tomiko smashes into the moon, completely destroying it. Hours later, thousands of moonrocks fall to Earth creating massive tsunamis, earthquakes, and wildfires world-wide. He escapes on Marine One after a tsunami strikes Washington D.C. but the helicopter crashes after being struck by lightning, killing him, his wife Emily, and some members of his cabinet.
• Succeeded by Vice President Charles Haskell.
• Party: Democratic

President Russell P. Kramer

• President in: My Fellow Americans
• Born in Ohio, Kramer was a senator and attempted to run for re-election as president but failed; according to Kramer, eighty million people voted against him. Famous for line "Our dreams are like our children." Later ran again for office as an independent with former President Matt Douglas.
• Played by: Jack Lemmon
• Independent formerly Republican

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President Hank Landry

• President in: Stargate SG-1 episode "The Road Not Taken".
• President in an alternate universe, Landry reveals the existence of the Stargate to the world and as a result is forced to declare martial law and cancel all elections.
• Played by: Beau Bridges

President Langley

• President in: "Bookworm, Run" (short story, Vernor Vinge, 1965; anthologized in The Complete Stories of Vernor Vinge, 2001)

President Eve Carol Larsen

• President in: Quantico by Greg Bear
• Served as Governor of Wisconsin before being elected President of the United States.
• Her administration had to deal with a series of planned bio-terrorist attacks on Rome, Jerusalem, and Mecca, orchestrated by rogue FBI agent Lawrence Winter.
• Party: Democratic

President (Helen) Lasker

• President in: Contact (novel, Carl Sagan, 1985)
• A two-term (1993-2001) female President who deals with the ramifications of alien contact. In the film adaptation (Contact, 1997, dir: Robert Zemeckis), she was replaced by real-life President Bill Clinton, from authentic and slightly "doctored" archive footage of press conferences, meetings and TV appearances edited in such a way as to present fictional events. (Name "Helen" appears only in a Beta Version of the screenplay).

President Owen Lassiter

• President in: The West Wing (television)
• Mentioned only in one episode, Lassiter is a native of California, has a presidential library, was married and is presently deceased. Possibly resembles Ronald Reagan.
• In his Oval Office, President Lassiter had jars of sand and soil from land wherever American soldiers died. In the twilight of his life, he wrote an essay titled "The Need for an American Empire" to President Bartlet calling for opposition of Islamic fundamentalism.
• A Republican, Lassiter defeated President D.W. Newman and served two terms. Although Josiah Bartlet's immediate predecessor has been established as having been a Republican, it has never been specifically said whether this predecessor was Lassiter, or if there was another in between them.

President Lenny Leonard

• President in: The Simpsons - "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" episode
• Former Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee.
• Homer: "Marge, whatever happens, promise me you won't vote for Lenny."

President Limbaugh

• President in: the novel Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
• Presumably right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh.
• Wallace's novel is set in the near future (relative to its 1996 publication); Limbaugh is referred to as "recently assassinated."

President Lindberg

• President in: The Fifth Element
• President of the United Federated Territories.
• In the year 2263, Earth was threatened with destruction by the Ultimate Evil. After foolishly ordering a battleship to fire on the Evil (which destroyed the ship with all hands on board), Lindberg ordered Major Korben Dallas to find the five elements that would destroy the Evil (which he was able to do seconds before Earth would have been destroyed).
• Played by: Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.

President Charles Lindbergh

• President in: the novel The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

President Manfred Link

• President in: First Family
• Played by: Bob Newhart

President Abraham Linkidd

• President in: Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
• Former president of the United Species of America (presumably serving the same term as his real world counterpart, Abraham Lincoln, from 1861-1865); a goat.
• Memorialized in Earth-C's version of Washington DC in the Linkidd Memorial.
• Party: Presumably Republican, or the party's Earth-C equivalent.

President Lockwood

• President in: Wrong Is Right
• Played by: George Grizzard
• His Vice President is Mrs. Ford (Rosalind Cash), an African-American woman.

President Charles Logan

• President in: 24 (2010-2011)
• Played by: Gregory Itzin
• Cabinet unanimously invoked the 25th Amendment after President Keeler is hospitalized following an attack on Air Force One. This is the second time the amendment has been invoked in the series, but the previous vote was strongly divided and was not executed legally.
• Eighteen months after being sworn in, he is still President (Keeler's fate is unknown) and signs a strategic defense treaty with the Russian President. Logan views this as the crowning achievement of his time in office, though the day is marred by the assassination of former President David Palmer and the threat of European terrorists releasing nerve gas on U.S. soil. He reinstates former CTU agent Jack Bauer to active duty after Bauer exposes Logan's chief of staff Walt Cummings' involvement in both. It is later revealed that Logan was one of the principal instigators of the day's events.
• Logan would eventually be exposed by Jack Bauer and his wife Martha Logan. He was arrested by the Secret Service once evidence incriminating Logan was presented to the Attorney General. It is believed he will resign in exchange for clemency, in order to spare the United States the spectacle of having a President on trial for murder and treason.
• Party: Republican

President Eugene Lorio

• President in: Jack & Bobby
• Played by: Paul Sorvino
• His son died while serving in the War of the Americas.
• Elected as a Democrat in 2036, he says in a 2049 interview (as part of a documentary in the series' flash-forward) that he knew, going into the final debate of the 2040 campaign, that he would lose to either Republican candidate Dennis Morganthal or independent candidate Robert McCallister. This indicates he was an unpopular President, but the show never revealed why.
• Party: Democratic

President Furbish Lousewart

• One of the many presidents in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy
• Author of Unsafe Wherever You Go
• Anti-technological Luddite
• Accidentally started World War III after mass arrests of suspected radicals
• Based at least in part on real-life third party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, author of Unsafe At Any Speed, whose policies Wilson dislikes; Nader's first run for president had not yet occurred when RAW wrote these books.
• Party: People's Ecology Party

President Alexander Joseph Luthor

• President in the DC Universe
• Impeached for the use of the illegal supersteroid Venom, the theft and use of an Apokyliptian Battle Suit, and the attempted murder of Superman and Batman. Succeeded by Vice-President Pete Ross
• Party: Tomorrow Party

President Jordan Lyman

• President in: Seven Days in May
• President Lyman was unpopular and controversial due to Republican opposition to controversial arms control treaty with the Soviet Union. The Joint Chiefs of Staff attempt a coup d'etat but ultimately fail. Lyman is mentioned as being from Ohio.
• Played by: Fredric March
• Party: Democratic

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President Timothy Garde Macauley

• President in: From the Files of the Time Rangers, a mosaic novel by Richard Bowes
• Called "The Once and Future President," Macauley is a central character in the novel.
• The scion of an immensely wealthy mother and an Irish politician father, Macauley is the favorite of various of the gods who twice manage to get him elected president.

President John Mackenzie

• President in: First Daughter
• Party affiliation unknown.
• Played by: Michael Keaton

President Henry Talbot MacNeil

• President in: Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
• Voyage ran for four seasons, from 1964-1968, but was set in the then-future years between 1973-1980. President MacNeil was elected in 1972 and evidently won re-election in 1976. His character appeared in at least a half-dozen episodes of the series, all in its first and second seasons. By all accounts he was extremely popular president domestically, and was extremely effective internationally. In one episode, it is stated that "Only MacNeil was able to prevent World War III when the peace talks broke down in 1973, and again last year." In addition to being president, he was on a first name basis with Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart) and the two of them regularly played poker.
• President MacNeil has a rather inexplicable cameo appearance in the first episode of Lost In Space, which was set in the then-future year of 1997, despite the fact that there was no way he could still have been eligible for office at that time.
• Played by: Ford Rainey

President Malone

• President (1945-1950) in the 1939 Robert A. Heinlein novel For Us, the Living
• Was a senator.

President Julia Mansfield

• President in: Hail To The Chief (TV comedy, ABC; 1985)
• When not running the country or preventing World War III, the first woman to serve as commander-in-chief had to contend with a philandering husband and equally lascivious teenage son and daughter.
• Played by: Patty Duke

President Vincent Margolin

• President in: Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt© novels Deep Six, Cyclops, Treasure, Dragon, and Sahara
• Originally the Vice President, Margolin became President in August 1989 by succession the end of Deep Six following the abduction and brainwashing of his predecessor by a Vietnamese criminal organization in the pay of the Soviet Union, and remained in office until 1996.
• Former Senator from Montana.

President James Marshall

• President in: Air Force One
• Qualities/attributes: A family man who loves his wife Grace and daughter Alice. He is also a decorated Vietnam veteran and a Medal of Honor winner who served a congressman sometime before becoming president. Marshall has a tough stance against terrorism. Personally responsible for retaking Air Force One after the plane was hijacked by Russian nationalists.
• Republican
• Home State: Iowa-The noval of the film states he was the Former Governor of Iowa. The film also states he served a Congressman.
• Played by: Harrison Ford

President Thomas Marshall

• President in "Protect and Defend" by Eric L. Harry (No relation to the book by Richard North Patterson)
• President Marshall ignored warnings of a Chinese attack on Siberia and Taiwan. He was later defeated by Governor Phil Bristol of California. Marshall was poisoned prior to Bristol's inauguration.
• Party: Democratic

President Kevin Martindale

• President in Shadows Of Steele by Dale Brown
• Continues as president for several other Brown novels
• Former two term vice president
• Former Secretary of Defense
• Former US Senator from Texas
• Defeated for reelection by Thomas Thorne of Virginia
• Reelected four years later (during the novel Plan Of Attack). Becomes the only president since Grover Cleveland to hold two nonconsecutive terms.
• During both elections, Martindale had female running mates
• Party Affiliation: Republican

President Richard Martinez

• President in Cory in the House, the spinoff series from That's So Raven
• Played by: John D'Aquino
• Has a daughter, Sophie Martinez (Madison Pettis)
• Party Affiliation: Democratic

President Ted Matthews

• President in: My Fellow Americans
• Matthews became President after President William Haney resigned. Later went to prison.
• Played by: John Heard
• Party: Republican

President William "Bill" Matthews

• President in: The Devil's Alternative
• Notes: novel by Frederick Forsyth. Based on Jimmy Carter.

President Maxwell

• President in: Seven Days
• Played by: Holmes Osborne

President Robert "Bobby" McCallister

• President in: Jack & Bobby
• Born in Hart, Missouri, McCallister was a minister and later a congressman and governor of Missouri before being elected the 51st president in 2040.
• During his administration much of Chicago is destroyed by a nuclear bomb.
• Independent, having lost the Republican nomination

President Leslie McCloud

• President in: Kisses for My President
• First female President, later resigns due to pregnancy.
• Played by: Polly Bergen

Richard Rick McLaughlin

• President in: USGovSim 5th Reset
• Party affiliation Republican
• Elected: 2012
• Opponent: Senator Thomos Peters

President Thomas McKenna

• President in: World War III
• Played by: Rock Hudson

President McKenna

• President in: X-Men 2
• Played by: Cotter Smith

President McNeil

• President in: Futurama
• Killed by Lrr of the Planet Omicron Persei 8

President Philip Mead

• President in: Deus Ex
• Extremely unpopular president, said in a newspaper article to have a 35% approval rating

President Harrison Miller

• President in: Nano (book) by John Robert Marlow

President Fillmard Millmore

• President in: The Virgin President
• Played by: Severn Darden

President Richard Mills

• President in: Prison Break
• A progressive President described as being well into his second term. He apparently chose Caroline Reynolds as his Vice-President because she was a woman. However he later tells her he will not support her in her own bid to seek nomination because he feels her ambition outweighs her integrity. She arranges his assassination soon after by having him poisoned, and is immediately sworn in as President.
• Played by: Daniel J. Travanti

President Mimeo

• President in: Putney Swope
• Played by: Pepi Hermine

President William Harrison "Bill" Mitchell/Dave Kovic

• President and Presidential decoy in: Dave
• Real President's qualities: Philandering heel, unpopular with voters, secretly estranged from the First Lady. Suffered a stroke and later dies.
• President Dave's qualities: Personable, loving and strongly pro-job growth. Reestablishes Mitchell's popularity with voters. Fakes death and later runs for Washington, D.C. City Council as Dave Kovic.
• An alumnus of Yale Law School.
• Party: Mitchell is possibly a Republican while Kovic is possibly a Democrat
• Both played by: Kevin Kline

President Horace C. Mitchell

• President in: Saturday's Heroes
• Played by: Charles Trowbridge

President Richard (Rich) E. Mogul

• President in: Justice Squad
• Took office after defeating George W. Bush in 2004 election.
• Ousted by the Justice Squad after invading a parallel dimension with super-powered soldiers.

Acting President Henry Moncas

• Very briefly the acting president in: Frederik Pohl's Jem (1979).
• Speaker of the House when president and vice president are killed in 21st century nuclear war.

President Maxwell Monroe

• President in: Under Siege
• Played by: Hal Holbrook

President Judson Moon

• President in the The Kid Who Became President by Dan Gutman
• Prevented aggressive South American nation of Cantania from invading neighboring Boruguay, one of the world's biggest oil producers.
• Youngest president in U.S. history at age thirteen.
• Served 2001-2002, then resigned in favor of Vice President June Syers, who became the first African-American and female president.
• Party Affiliation: Lemonade (fictional party)

President Mordecai

• President in 2010: Odyssey Two
• Only mentioned in passing by character Heywood Floyd
• In the movie of 2010, the President is drawn as the likeness of Arthur C. Clarke on a magazine cover.

President Rachel Moreno

• President in: Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President (novel), by Mark Dunlea
• A nurse, single mother, and advocate for universal health care and global fair trade prior to her candidacy
• Moreno is elected Vice-President during a disputed election in 2000 when Green Electors vote for the Democratic candidate in exchange for his acceptance of Moreno as his running mate; she ascends to the Presidency after the elected President dies of a drug interaction in August 2001.
• Party: Green

Aruther Morgan President in the John Grisham bookThe Broker. He is said to be the most unpopular president in American history, having almost ignited World War Three. In his reelection campaign, Morgan lost every state and D.C. except Alaska. He was from Delaware, but now planned to retire to the Alaskan tundra.

President Arthur Morose

• President in: By Dawn's Early Light
• Was elected in the 1996 election.
• Miraculously survives the destruction of Washington, D.C. after domestic terrorists impersonating Russian radicals detonate a small nuclear device.
• Is thought to be dead along with most of his cabinet and the vice president. The Secretary of State, on his way back from a summit in France, declares himself as the acting president. The president attempts to contact the Secretary of State after the S.O.S. approves the launch of a nuclear missile to Moscow.
• President Morose is found hours later by a military convoy and cancels the attack on Russia, narrowly avoiding a nuclear war.
• Party: Democratic

President Thomas D. Moss

• President in: Mars and Beyond
• Played by: Ed Asner

President Merkin Muffley

• President in: Dr. Strangelove
• Qualities/attributes: A balding middle-aged man with glasses, President Muffley is perhaps the only character in the movie who seems to have a 'down to earth' attitude towards an escalating nuclear crisis. However, his indecisiveness and desire to hear all sides and options ad nauseam renders him largely ineffective. Modeled after Adlai Stevenson.
• During administration, Soviet doomsday device detonates, destroying most life on planet.
• See Wikipedia entry for Merkin
• Quote: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
• Party: (most possibly) Democratic
• Played by: Peter Sellers (One of three roles he plays in the film.)

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President Gary Nance

• President in: Dave
• Succeeds to presidency upon death of President William Mitchell. Nance has honorable ethics and morals, is cleared in a scandal involving bank fraud.
• Played by: Ben Kingsley
• Party: Uncertain

President Eric Norcross

• Started a peace movement until the evil dictators of England started World War III while conducting an attack on a secret military base in Colorado, located beneath the vast Denver International Airport.
• Party: Democratic

President Jack Neil

• President in: Murder at 1600
• Family is framed for murder in retaliation for making military decisions his national security advisor doesn't like. The president has a sexual reputation and has one son.
• Played by: Ronny Cox

President Nelson

• President in: Scorcher
• Played by: Rutger Hauer

President D. Wire Newman

• President in: The West Wing (television)
• Played by: James Cromwell
• Newman was the last Democrat to be President before the election of Josiah Bartlet (see above). Defeated for re-election by Owen Lassiter, but appeared alongside Bartlet at Lassiter's funeral in 2004.
• Party: Democratic

President Nguyen

• President in 2054 in Joe Haldeman's science fiction novel Old Twentieth (2005).
• Probably an allusion to Nguyen Van Thieu, real-life president of South Vietnam in the 1970s (the author is a veteran of the Vietnam War).

President LaMonte Nielson

• President in Empire (2006 novel), possibly set in 2008
• Was Speaker of the House when President and Vice President were killed by a left-wing terrorist group.
• Led the United States in the Second American Civil War.
• Chose not to run for his own term, instead opting to re-enter Congress.
• Republican

President Howard Johnson Nissen

• President in Give Me Liberty/Martha Washington Goes to War comic book series, set in 2014.
• The former Secretary of Agriculture, he becomes President when President Rexall, the Vice President, and most of the cabinet are assassinated in an explosion.

President Richard Nixon (1983)

• Serving 4th term in Back to the Future Part II, after a change in history made by Biff Tannen. He announces he will run for a 5th term in 1984, and vows to end the Vietnam War by 1985.
• Serving 5th consecutive term in Alan Moore's Watchmen comic series. Constitution was changed following victory in Vietnam, which was largely thanks to Dr. Manhattan.
• Elected president of Earth in the 31st century in Futurama. His head is mounted on top of a giant robot.

President Winston Noble

• President in: Fahrenheit 451
• Described as extremely charismatic and charming and "one of the nicest-looking men who ever became president."
• President Noble defeated his homely and disheveled opponent, Hubert Hoag, in a landslide. Unlike Hoag, Noble doesn't pick his nose while on television.

President James Norcross

• President in: Super President
• Voiced by: Paul Frees
• Had super powers

President "Chuck" Norris

• President in Andrew Cartmel novel: "Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Warhead"
• Elected president in 2004 (defeating Bruce Springsteen) this extremely right-wing politician ended immigration to the United States, and presided over the establishment of Local Development laws which prevented the unemployed from leaving their local area to find work.

President Noxin

• One of the many presidents in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy.
• Although he appears in the novel, he is not technically a character, as he is a fictional character in a science fiction novel penned by a Harvard professor named Leary.
• President Noxin was an evil and corrupt man who:
  • Got the country into unnecessary wars without the consent or knowledge of Congress.
  • Was a compulsive liar who suffered from clinical paranoia and wiretapped everybody, including himself.
  • Used the FBI and the IRS to harass people he disliked.
  • Was so greedy for bribes that he formed a squad of enforcers to blackmail and extort money from people.
  • Killed off his political enemies one by one with assassinations that could not be explained.
  • Betrayed his co-conspirators and resigned when Congress finally investigated him. Any similarities between President Noxin and the actual 37th president of the United States are entirely intentional.

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President A. Thorton Osgood II

• President in: Mail to the Chief
• Played by: Randy Quaid

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President Nathaniel James Page

• President in: Real Politics (online game) (2004-2008)
• Former Senate Majority Leader, elected President after George W. Bush declined to run again. He shocked everyone when he nominated a Democrat as his running mate during the 2004 campaign.
• Played by: Real Politics game admins
• Party: Republican

President David Palmer

• President in: 24 (2005-2009) (although on the show he served a full four-year term)
• The first African American President, Palmer is a native of Maryland and served as a lawyer, member of the House of Representatives and senator before running for president. He attended Georgetown University and the University of Maryland and has two children, Keith and Nicole Palmer. Palmer cancelled his re-election campaign after his ex-wife was murdered.
• After President Keeler's incapacitation, Vice President Charles Logan was unable to serve as acting president, and Palmer was secretly made Logan's proxy. Palmer was later assassinated by a sniper's bullet while working on his memoirs at his brother's penthouse apartment in Los Angeles.
• Played by: Dennis Haysbert
• Party: Democratic

President Wayne Palmer

• President in: 24 (2013-Present)
• The brother of David Palmer, for whom he served as chief of staff and campaign manager.
• Played by: D.B. Woodside
• Party: Unknown. (Presumably Democratic - see above)

President David Payne

• President in: The Interim
• Served eight years with high approval ratings
• Clashed with President-Elect Candor over policies regarding a free Taiwan
• Party: Republican

President Riley Peacham

• President in: Boomsday, a 2007 novel by Christopher Buckley
• Suffered low popularity, but was re-elected to a second term
• Party: Not mentioned

President Warren H. Pierce

• President in: Syphon Filter:The Omega Strain for the Playstation 2.
• Bears a striking resemblance to and is based on George W. Bush.
• Republican

Pinky

• President in; Pinky and the Brain
• Played by: Rob Paulsen
• Was elected twice and was impeached
• Party: Pink Party

President Katherine Powers

• President in: Ellen Emerson White's President's Daughter Series of YA novels
• First female president
• Served as a Senator from Massachusetts prior to being elected President
• In the second book, she faced an assassination attempt, and her daughter was kidnapped in the third
• Party: Democratic

Acting President Jim Prescott

• Acting president in 24 (2003)
• Prescott was Vice-President under President David Palmer and manipulated the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but only served a few hours before the presidency was restored to Palmer.
• A preview for an upcoming 24 video game implies that Prescott served as President following an assassination attempt on Palmer (the game is set between seasons 2 and 3)
• Played by: Alan Dale
• Party: Democratic

President Jack "Kill the Commies" Preston

• President in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986)
• Presumably not a communist.
• Played by: Murray Hamilton

President Reginald J. Priest

• President in: Lexx (TV Series, 2001)
• Played by: Rolf Kanies

President(Shyacko)

• Is the president of Hocotate Freight in the Pikmin series.
• Is noticabely money-hungry.
• Is a playable character for the second half of the game Pikmin 2

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President Lawrence Ivor Randolph

• President in: The Brady Bunch in the White House
• Forced to resign.
• Played by: Dave Nichols

President Erwin Rexall

• President in Give Me Liberty/Martha Washington Goes to War comic book series, set in 2014. Rexall repeals the 22nd Amendment to gain a third term.
• He, Vice President Cargo, and most of his cabinet are assassinated in an explosion. Succeeded by Secretary of Agriculture Howard Johnson Nissen.

President Caroline Reynolds

• President in Prison Break
• As Vice-President, she collaborated with an organization known as "the Company" to fake the death of her brother Terrence Steadman and frame Lincoln Burrows for the murder. When her presidential campaign began to falter and the Company turned against her, she had President Mills assassinated and was immediately sworn in as President.
• Played by Patricia Wettig

President George Richmond

• President in: My Date with the President's Daughter
• President Richmond is married to Carol Richmond and has one teenage daughter, Hallie. While running for reelection, President Richmond was once mistakenly arrested by the police and spent one night in jail.
• Played by: Dabney Coleman

President Alan Richmond

• President in: Absolute Power (1996 book) and Absolute Power (1997 film)
• Is an aloof, womanizing man who is seen cheating with his good friend's wife. After the sex became rough, she attacked him with a letter opener followed by the Secret Service killing her. He and his chief of staff attempt to cover up the murder, however, a cat burglar witnesses the entire skirmish.
• Attempts, at all costs, to kill the man whom possesses the letter opener with his blood on it.
• A young lawyer later uncovers the scandal and goes public with it. President Richmond is later either impeached or resigns and is incarcerated.
• The only American president to be tried for murder and executed.
• Played by: Gene Hackman in the film.

President Eleanor Richmond

• President in: Interface, a novel by Stephen Bury

President Prez Rickard

• The first teenaged president in the satirical 1970s comic book series Prez.
• Created by Joe Simon.
• Revived in several DC Comics series.

President Elise Rochelle

• President in: Coyote (novel) by Allen Steele
• Was elected President-for-Life of the United Republic of America by Congress
• Committed suicide in 2096 to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes, as she had killed 1.1 million people with biological weapon strikes on Boston, Seattle, and Montréal
• As the URA was later absorbed by the socialist Western Hemisphere Union after her suicide, she was essentially the final President of the United States of America
• Party: Liberty Party

President Steve Rogers (Captain America)

• President in: What If, vol. II #28 (Marvel Comics)
• Party: New Populist Party

President "Steve Rogers"

• President in Marvel 2099 titles
• The leader of a counter-revolution against Doom, "Rogers" claimed to be Captain America, but was actually a pawn of the supervillain Herod.

President John Romero

• President in Deadlands: Hell on Earth roleplaying game.
• Former movie director and anti-Confederate propagandist. Conducted secret funding of the Latin American Alliance's war against the Confederate States of America, the revelation of which sparks another war between North and South.
• Romero was elected in 2070, impeached in 2078.

President Romulus

• Former President referenced in the book Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley.

President Chet Roosevelt

• President in: Americathon
• Somehow becomes president at the age of 30.
• Prior to the Roosevelt administration, the U.S. government suffers bankruptcy, a few years later the nation holds a telethon to pay off its debts and deficit.
• Relocates the nation's capital from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, California.
• Falls in love with a Vietnamese pop star and resigns the presidency to marry her. The two later leave to Vietnam.
• Played by: John Ritter

President Pete Ross

• Ross was a former Senator from Kansas, succeeded President Lex Luthor after Luthor's impeachment, and refused to run for re-election.
• Party: Tomorrow Party

President Paul Roudebush

• President in: Vanished
• Played by: Richard Widmark

President Jack Rutledge

• President in: the novels of Brad Thor
• Kidnapped by Swiss terrorist group known as The Lions. Has a finger cut off by the group as proof of his kidnapping. Later returned safely to the White House.
• Widower
• Father of a teenage (later college age daughter)
• His daughter is injured in an avalanch during his kidnapping, and injured again several books later during an attack on NYC bridges and tunnels.
• Two term president. Reelected sometime between the novels Blowback and Takedown
• Terrorist hunter Scott Harvath is credited with rescuing Rutledge from his captors, and has the president's confidence.
• Party: Republican

President John Patrick "Jack" Ryan

• President in numerous novels by Tom Clancy. Ryan served in the United States Marine Corps, taught at the United States Naval Academy, worked in the CIA and became National Security Advisor under President Roger Durling. Jack Ryan later became vice president after the vice president resigned due to a sex scandal. Ryan is married and has four children.
• Jack Ryan assumed the presidency after the death of the president and most of Congress after a terrorist attack on The Capitol. The Ryan administration expands NATO and fights a war with the People's Republic of China after the Chinese invade Russia.
• Party: Independent.

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President Elaine Sallinger

• Presidency mentioned in the Red Dwarf novel Better Than Life
• Described as "perhaps the greatest American President of all time"
• Appears only as the fifth carving on Mount Rushmore

President Newton Sanders

• President in Mark Lawson's novel: "Idlewild (book)",
• In a universe in which President John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt on his life, and went on to be re-elected in 1964, Newton Sanders won the 1992 Presidential election running as a third party candidate - defeating President George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
• He was assassinated via a "baby bomb" (an infant wrapped in Semtex and detonated) by Yusaf Yusaf (a.k.a "Anderson Kempinski Fraser"), and as he did not have a Vice-President, was succeeded by the Speaker of the House.

President Matt Santos

• President in The West Wing (television series)
• A former mayor and three-term congressman from Houston, Texas, Santos is married to Helen Santos and has two children. He was preparing to retire from politics when he was approached by Josh Lyman about a presidential campaign. Starting out the campaign in last place in a crowded field, he catapulted into third place after receiving 19% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary.
• Surging late after winning the California primary, Santos was deadlocked with the frontrunner, Vice President Bob Russell at the 2006 Democratic National Convention. Santos won the party nomination on the fourth ballot and named former Labor Secretary and former White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry as his running mate. Santos narrowly defeated Senator Arnold Vinick of California by a count of 272 to 266 electoral votes.
• In the West Wing canon, Santos is the first Hispanic-American president.
• Played by: Jimmy Smits
• Party: Democratic

President Adam Scott

• President in: The Kidnapping of the President
• Kidnapped by revolutionaries on a visit to Toronto, Canada
• Played by: Hal Holbrook

President Nehemiah Scudder

• President (2025-2030) in the 1939 Robert A. Heinlein novel For Us, the Living. In Heinlein's Future History, Scudder is elected President in 2012 and establishes a theocracy that is eventually overthrown in the novella If This Goes On. Heinlein planned, but never wrote, the story in which Scudder gains power.

President George Sears

• President in Metal Gear Solid.
• The 44th president, Sears was elected in 2004. He is actually Solidus Snake, agent of The Patriots, a secret group that controls the United States. He acted without the permission of The Patriots behind the scenes of the events of Shadow Moses island incident in 2005, and was forced to "resign". Sears was succeeded by President James Johnson.
• Quote: "Damn the Patriots!"

President Julian September

• In JLA #18 (05/1998), September altered present history to become President of the United States. The JLA destroyed his Engine of Chance, which only altered history further.

President Horatio Seymour

• President in: The Guns of the South
• Native of Pompey Hill, Onondaga County, New York.
• Won presidency against Lincoln after the United States of America lost the civil war.
• Party: Democratic

President Alexander Shackleton

• President In: USGovSim 5th reset
• Elected In: 2008
• Party: Democratic
• Vice President: Karen Devereaux, and Jaxon Liberio
• Opponent: Jackson Watkiss
• Former governor of the Potomac Valley
• Virginia Resident
• Assassinated, succeeded by Jaxon Liberio

President Andrew Shepherd

• President in: The American President
• A native of Wisconsin and an avowed fan of the Green Bay Packers, Shepherd went to Stanford University before teaching history at the University of Wisconsin. He had a daughter named Lucy and was married to Mary Shepherd, who later died of cancer. As a bachelor president, Shepherd starts dating a lobbyist while running for re-election.
• 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."
• Played by: Michael Douglas
• Party: Democratic

President Walter "Wally" Sheridan

• President in: XIII (comic)
• Brother of anterior president William B. Sheridan
• These two powerful politicians and brothers are a comic version of John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy.

President Bubba Shrub

• President in: Bikini Planet
• Played by: Richard Van Vleet

President Gordon Shumway

• President in: ALF – "Hail to the Chief" episode
• In a dream sequence, Kate dreams Alf is elected president, solves all the country's problems, and gets his face on Mount Rushmore.

President Lisa Simpson

• President in: The Simpsons – "Bart to the Future" episode
• Native of Springfield.
• The first straight female president, Lisa took office in the year 2030, after Donald Trump, Chastity Bono, and Ted Kennedy.
• Party: Possibly Democratic

President Marge Simpson

• President in: The Simpsons – "The Last Temptation of Homer" episode
• Native of Springfield.
• Marge Simpson 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 Signoff

• President in: The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle movie

President Harman Smith

• President in: Killer7 (video game)
• It is the "young" Harman that was President, and not the Harman character you play in the video game. His face is present on a wall of Presidents in one of the missions.

President Robert "Bud" Smith

• President in: National Lampoon's Men in White
• Played by: Barry Bostwick

President Sparrow

• President in The Messiah Of Morris Avenue
• Fourth Sparrow to occupy the religious right White House.

President Springhead

• President in The Firesign Theatre's album: I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
• Played by: Phil Austin
• Presented as 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 James Stanford

• President in: XXX: State of the Union
• Played by: Peter Strauss
• 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."

President Arch Stanton

• President in: Planetfall
• Played by: Ted V. Mikels

President Jack Stanton

• President in: Primary Colors, book by Joe Klein and the subsequent movie.
• 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.
• Played by: John Travolta
• Party: Democratic

President Richard Starkey

• President in: The Postman (movie, 1997)
• Unseen fictional president of a post-apocalyptic America attempting to rebuild, created by Kevin Costner's character.
• Note, Richard Starkey is the actual name of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.

President Joseph Staton

• President in: American Dreamz
• 2nd term president and guest judge on a weekly talent show.
• Character is a thinly veiled parody of George W. Bush.
• Played by: Dennis Quaid

President Diane Steen

• President in: Mafia!
• Married unknowingly to the nation's biggest mob boss
• Played by: Christina Applegate

President David Stevens

• President in: Twilight's Last Gleaming
• Played by: Charles Durning

President Tom Steward

• President in: Hitman: Blood Money
• Party: Republican.
• Notes: Pro-cloning president, targeted by "The Franchise" who wanted to maintain their own covert cloning programme. Was to be assassinated in the White House by Mark Parchezzi III before Agent 47's intervention.

President Greg Stillson

• President in: The Dead Zone
• Third party Christian conservative whose presidency and role in starting a nuclear Armageddon is foreseen by a psychic.
• Played by: Martin Sheen

President Jim Stonecold

• President in: .hack
• 44th President of the United States
• 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 defence and automated counter-strike systems on December 24th, 2005.

President Patrick J. Sullivan

• President in: My Uncle the Alien
• Played by: Dink O'Neal

Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain

• President in the Kurt Vonnegut novel Slapstick
• Last President of the United States and King of Manhattan.

President June Syers

• President in The Kid Who Became President because thirteen-year old Judson Moon resigned. She said that she would be the second Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was the first woman and African-American president. Term Length: January 2002-unknown.
• Party Affiliation: Lemonade (fictional party)

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Mr. Thompson

• President in: Atlas Shrugged
• Never actually referred to as President, only as Head of State, but the office is implied from context. Thompson presides over a series of socialist reforms and attempts to compromise with John Galt, but Galt is not willing to do so.

President Zachary Thornton

• President in: The Capital Mysteries by Ron Roy

President Averell Torrent

• President in: Empire, by Orson Scott Card
• Elected near the end of the book to replace President Nielson
• In an interview before the election Torrent is asked if he will run for the Republicans, which he has recently served as National Security Advisor but he responds in saying he will only run for the presidency if elected in primaries by both parties (i.e., the Democrats and Republicans) which he eventually is.
• I attributed throughout the book at being a moderate, with no real polarized political stance
• Formerly a professor at Princeton University

President Veronica Townshend

• President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
• Briefly referenced in the novel Moonfall.
• A former economics professor from the University of Oregon and a junior senator from Oregon who served as Secretary of Education under the Hamlin administration.
• First female president who won the election of 2016 following the presidency of Andrew Culpepper.
• During her administration, the space shuttle Atlantis II was marooned in space after deflecting off of the Earth's atmosphere and went careening towards the sun. The astronauts on-board remained in contact with NASA until their oxygen supply was fully depleted.
• Chose not to run in the 2020 election, saying that it was "Not worth it." Her vice president was nominated but lost the election to Henry Kolladner.
• Returned to her home state of Oregon after leaving office.
• Opened her presidential library in 2022.
• Party: Republican

President Mary Rose Tremane

• President in Deadlands: Hell on Earth role playing game.
• Elected in 2078 on a platform of peaceful negotiation with the Confederate States of America.
• "Disappeared" while traveling on Air Force One over the Rocky Mountains on January 1st, 2081.

President Samuel Arthur Tresch

• President in: Mr. President (television) (TV series, 1987–88)
• Played by: George C. Scott

President Thomas Nelson Tucker

• President in: The White House Mess (book) by Christopher Buckley

President Rexford Tugwell

• President in: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which is in turn a work of fiction in the alternate history The Man in the High Castle (book) by Philip K. Dick; almost certainly based on the real Rexford Guy Tugwell.

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President Nigel Uno

• President in: Codename: Kids Next Door- "Operation: W.H.I.T.E.-H.O.U.S.E." episode
• Played by: Benjamin Diskin

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President Margaret Valentine

• President in: Y: The Last Man (comic book)
• When a plague kills all males, Secretary of Agriculture Valentine is the highest survivor on the chain of succession.

President Josephine Vannebuker-Brown

• President in: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
• Low-ranking Cabinet member who is the highest survivor in the chain of succession after a nuclear war.

President Philip Nolan Voight

• President in: Marvel Comics's New Universe
• Voight was elected in 1988 after telepathically influencing voters. He had the paranormal ability to mimic and outdo any other paranormal ability.
• Vice-president was Michael Dukakis

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Acting President Glen Allen Walken

• President in: The West Wing (TV series)
• Played by: John Goodman
• Born in Liberty, Missouri, Walken is a Vietnam veteran, is possibly married, has a dog named Bess and is "one prime rib dinner away from sudden cardiac arrest."
• Walken was Speaker of the House and can be compared to Newt Gingrich. He became acting President on May 8, 2003 during a national emergency involving Zoey Bartlet. President Bartlet invokes the 25th Amendment and temporarily resigns and assumes the presidency again on May 11, 2003.
• He attempted to gain his party's nomination for the presidency in 2006; despite winning the Iowa caucus, Walken lost the nomination to Senator Arnold Vinick of California.
• An opponent to the Bartlet administration, Walken is a Republican.

President Dale Cooper Wallace

• President in: Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt© novels Flood Tide and Atlantis Found
• In office from 1996 to 2004. In Flood Tide it is revealed he has certain less-than-ethical connections to Chinese interests.

President Garner Ward

• President in: Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt© novels Trojan Odyssey and Black Wind.
• Described as resembling Theodore Roosevelt in appearance and manner. President Ward asked Admiral Sandecker to take the Vice Presidency after his original Vice President was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

President Westwood

• President in: Stealth Fighter
• President Westwood orders a covert war against Nicaraguan drug lords and mercenaries.
• Played by: Ernie Hudson

President George White

• President in: The Kid Who Ran For President
• Served from: 1996-2001
• Created by: Dan Gutman
• Party Affiliation: Republican

President Thomas J. Whitmore

• President in: Independence Day
• Whitmore fought in Operation Desert Storm as a fighter pilot. He is married to Marilyn Whitmore and has one daughter, Patricia. As president, he was criticized by political pundits in Washington for his inexperience in politics as well as his youth. The Orange County Register named President Whitmore one of the sexiest men of the year on July 2, the day the aliens arrived on Earth.
• Before the alien invasion, Whitmore's approval rating slipped below forty percent.
• Whitmore personally led surviving Earth resistance military forces into battle against alien invasion/occupation forces after the death of his wife.
• Played by: Bill Pullman

President Widmark

• President in: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Widmark is confined, either temporarily or permanently, to a specially made hospital bed due to an undisclosed back ailment. In early versions of the script, he is confined there due to mental instability. His advisors include General Catburd of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense McKinley, Senator Cunningham, and National Security Advisor Smirnoff.
• Declares war on the Soviet Union by signing the "Short Form" of the Declaration of War, under pressure from the Black Lectroids. Presumably rescinds the declaration after Dr. Buckaroo Banzai defeats the Red Lectroids, ending the confrontation.
• Quote: "Buckaroo, I don't know what to say...Lectroids? Planet 10? Nuclear extortion? A girl named John?"
• Played by: Ronald Lacey

President Joseph Wilson

• President in: Out of Courage 2: Out for Vengeance
• Played by: Gregory Lehane

President Michael Wilson

• President in Metal Wolf Chaos (video game, 2004)
• In the near future, Michael Wilson, the 47th President of the United States, needs to use the giant mech, "Metal Wolf", in order to free Ameirca from the evil coup d'etat forces of Vice-President Richard Hawk.
• Quote: "Nothing is pointless! And that's because... I'm the President of these great United States of America!"

President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip

• President in: It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis
• Fascist Senator who wins the 1936 Presidential election.
• Ousted by Secretary of State Lee Sarason, who was the behind-the-scenes powerbroker for Windrip even before Windrip became a Senator.

President Hugo Allen Winkler

• President in: The Tercentenary Incident by Isaac Asimov
• 57th president. He was assassinated on 4 July 2076 and replaced with a robot impostor who continued to run the country undetected.

President John P. Wintergreen

• President in: Of Thee I Sing by George and Ira Gershwin
• Runs for president on a platform of "Love is sweeping the country." Publicizes his campaign by promising to marry the winner of a beauty contest, but instead falls in love with and marries a secretary, Mary Turner.

President John Winthrop

• President (Elected 1970) in the 1939 Robert A. Heinlein novel For Us, the Living.

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President Kenneth Yamaoka

• President in: Eagle (manga) by Kaiji Kawaguchi
• Yamaoka is the 43rd President and is the first Asian-American president (third generation Japanese-American). He previously served in the military in Japan and in the Vietnam war and was the Democratic senator from New York. Yamaoka is married to wife Patricia with son Alex, daughter Rachel and an illegitimate son, Takashi Jo.
• Party: Democratic

President Anton York

• President in a Gold Key Star Trek comic #9, "The Legacy of Lazarus"
• Mentioned to be the 45th president.
• A possible homage to the "Anton York, Immortal" stories by Earl and Otto Binder.

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President "Russ" (no last name given) in: Advise and Consent

• Played by: Franchot Tone

Unnamed President in: Amazing Grace and Chuck

• Played by: Gregory Peck

Unnamed President in: Armageddon and The Rock

• During administration, much of the planet was devastated by asteroid strikes and approves the air strike against Alcatraz.
• Played by: Stanley Anderson
• Though the two films make no reference to each other, the fact the same actor played the President in both films, which were directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer lends credence to the possibility that they might be the same person.

Unnamed President in: Atomic Train

• During administration, Denver was devastated by a Russian nuclear weapon concealed with hazardous chemicals and toxic waste on board a runaway freight train that has suffered from brake failure.
• Played by: Edward Herrmann

Unnamed President in: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

• Is threatened by Dr. Evil (Mike Myers); he must pay a ransom of $100 billion or a laser erected on the moon will destroy Earth
• Briefly considers blowing up the moon in response, asking his advisors "Would you really miss it?"
• Played by Tim Robbins
• Takes place in 1969

Unnamed President "Bobby" (no last name given) in: Being There

• Played by: Jack Warden

Unnamed President in: Canadian Bacon

• An uninspiring president suffering from low popularity, he and his advisors started a fake cold war with Canada to rally American citizens and boost his approval ratings.
• Played by: Alan Alda

Unnamed President in: City Beneath the Sea

• Played by: Richard Basehart

Unnamed President in: Dreamscape

• Played by: Eddie Albert

Unnamed President in: Earthworm Jim

• A parody: Psy-crow crashed into the white house to give the country to him , before exclaiming "Hey! You're not the president!" He responds "I'm one of those generic presidents they put into TV shows to stop them from getting dated."

Unnamed President in: Escape from L.A.

• Christian fundamentalist president who changes the Constitution to become president-for-life.
• Played by: Cliff Robertson

Unnamed President in: Escape from New York

• Crashlands in the Maximum Security prison of New York, and has to be rescued.
• Played by: Donald Pleasence

Unnamed President in: Escape from the Planet of the Apes

• Played by: William Windom

Unnamed President in: Fail-Safe

• Averts all-out nuclear war with Russia over an accidental bombing.
• During administration, New York City and Moscow were devastated by nuclear weapons.
• Played by: Henry Fonda (1964 version) and Richard Dreyfuss (2000 version)

President "Harold" (no last name given) in: Guarding Tess (movie, Columbia/Tristar Studios; 1994)

• Vice president under James Carlisle, another fictional chief executive, he succeeded to the presidency upon Carlisle's death in office sometime in the 1980s. He was still in power as of 1992. He is likely a native of Texas.
• Quote: "Or next time, you'll be guardin' my dog, do you hear me son?"
• Played by: Hugh Wilson

Unnamed President in: The Holy Land

• Fundamentalist and entirely corrupt, considers alien "pagans" an abomination.

Unnamed President (USSS codename "Wrangler") in: The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger

• Mentioned as being a former prosecuting attorney
• Apparently a Republican, since Fowler (his opponent in Clear and Present Danger) is a Democrat

Unnamed Presidents in: The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Unnamed President (Secret Service codename "Traveler") in: In the Line of Fire

• Played by: Jim Curley

Unnamed President in: Love Actually

• Depraved "typical American" foil to the British PM
• Played by: Billy Bob Thornton

Unnamed President in: the Mr. Show episode "The Cry of a Hungry Baby"

• Played by: David Cross

Unnamed President in: Pandora's Clock

• During administration, Quantum Airlines flight 66 carries 247 passengers and one man infected with a doomsday virus from Frankfurt, Germany to New York, New York. The plane is unable to land and rogue elements within the government plans to shoot the it down.
• Played by: Edward Herrmann

Unnamed President in: The Pelican Brief

• A first term president, his re-election prospects are jeopardized by an attempted cover-up regarding two Supreme Court justices' assassinations.
• Played by: Robert Culp

Unnamed President in: Perfect Dark

Unnamed President in: Shadow Conspiracy

• His Vice President Saxon is trying to kill him and take his place.
• Played by: Sam Waterston

Unnamed President in: The Second Civil War (TV movie, 1997, dir: Joe Dante)

• Played by: Phil Hartman

Unnamed President "Prexy" in: The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, 1972.

• Genial idiot president in Brunner's dystopian SF novel.

Unnamed President in: Slapstick of Another Kind

• Played by: Jim Backus
• In the Kurt Vonnegut novel Slapstick on which the film is based, the President is named Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain. In the film Swain and the Unnamed President are separate characters.

Unnamed President in Species II

• Played by: Richard Belzer

Unnamed President in the Spidey Super Stories short, "Spidey vs. the Funny Bunny," aired as part of the PBS children's television series, "The Electric Company."

• Played by Melanie Henderson. Some sources indicate that Melanie may have been the first female African American actress to portray an American president on television.
• The plot had a mischievous woman dressing in a rabbit costume and damaging Easter baskets by sitting on them. Spidey eventually foils the villain's plans to disrupt the annual White House Easter Egg roll.

Unnamed President in: Spock's World by Diane Duane.

• By the early 23rd century, the office of President of the United States is merely a ceremonial post on the United Earth. Vulcan Ambassador Sarek makes the president laugh when he delivers a speech at a state dinner in a "flawless Texas accent."

Unnamed President in: Stargate SG-1

• The President was never onscreen, but an impostor played by Roger Allford appeared at the end of "Divide and Conquer".

• The President of the United States was mostly unnamed throughout the series; not until season 7 was there a named President (Henry Hayes). Nevertheless, the idea of Robert Kinsey becoming President was a constant annoyance to Stargate Command during the tenure of Hayes' unnamed predecessor. This predecessor presumably started the Stargate Program, and signed Earth's first interstellar treaty, a pact with the Tok'ra.

Unnamed President in: Superman II

• Forced to capitulate to the Kryptonian villains General Zod, Ursa and Non, who had been imprisoned in the Phantom Zone before they escaped. Restored to power after Superman defeats the Kryptonians.
• Played by: E.G. Marshall

Unnamed "American President" in The Tomorrow People

• Uses nuclear weapons to get involved in an intergalactic battle, distrusts the super-powered children and their secretive alien connections
• Played by: John F. Parker

Unnamed President in Transmetropolitan

• Notes: Nicknamed "The Beast", loses election to Gary Callahan

Unnamed President in The Unit

• Sends the Unit to an unnamed Asian country to authenticate a pro-American rebel leaders request for support of a coup.
• Played by: William H. Macy. First seen in episode 25, "The Broom Cupboard".

Unnamed President in Wag the Dog (1997)

• Starts a fake war with Albania as a campaign distraction from a sex scandal before election time. He was running against Senator John Neal (Craig T. Nelson).
• Played by: Michael Belson

Unnamed President in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

• Responds to Magneto's acts of terrorism by ordering that a newly-developed mutant cure be incorporated into weapons.
• Played by: Josef Sommer
• In the novelization of the movie by Chris Claremont, the president is named Dave Cockrum, after the artist who worked on the series in the late 1970s.

Unnamed President in You Only Live Twice (1967)

• Deals with the disappearances of U.S. and Soviet spacecrafts by SPECTRE, in hopes of starting a war. Places U.S. military on high alert, only to rescind the order after James Bond destroys the enemy spacecraft.
• Played by: Alexander Knox

Unnamed President in The Island (2005)

• Tom Everett as the President of America and his insurance policy in the movie.
• Played by: Tom Everett

[edit] Notes

¹President Bartlet's comments are meant to make him sound erudite, but frequently misfire – in the example cited, for instance, there has never been a king of Liechtenstein (it is a principality, ruled by a prince); the Prince in 1871 was Johannes II, who was unmarried, and had no daughter; and the United States has no ambassador to Liechtenstein (the Ambassador to Switzerland serves Liechtenstein's needs). It is unclear if this is an "intentional" error (intended to show that Bartlet is sometimes mistaken) or an unintentional error on the part of the writers of The West Wing. These "goofs" could be a deliberate policy on the part of the writers, however, to subtly reinforce that the action is not taking place in the "real" U.S., but in a parallel version of it. Bartlet has been shown to occasionally make up things. For example, he cites extremely detailed budget figures off-hand in a meeting, and when asked by Chief of Staff Leo McGarry later Bartlet proclaims in a shocked voice, "I was right?"

[edit] Real people

The following is a list of real or historical people who have been portrayed as President of the United States in fiction, although they did not hold the office in real life. This is done either as an alternate history scenario, or occasionally for humorous purposes.

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James G. Blaine gets the United States into a second war with the Confederate States in the alternate history novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove.

Chastity Bono mentioned in The Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future" and was president sometime before Lisa Simpson.

Jeb Bush was president from 2001-2005 in: From the Files of the Time Rangers, a mosaic novel by Richard Bowes. Presumably this is a fictionalized version of the actual son and brother of the historical presidents George Bush. Briefly mentioned several times in the novel, Jeb Bush has gotten into office as a result of election fraud engineered by his family in Texas. He is defeated by the fictional "Once and Future President" Timothy Garde Macauley.

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Dick Cheney becomes President after the assassination of George W. Bush, in the 2007 British film by Gabriel Range Death of a President.

Chelsea Clinton

• Is the President of the United States by 2049 on Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. She is never actually seen on screen. Chelsea would be 69 years old by the year this movie takes place.
• Is the President of the United States in 2021 in the comic book series Liberality for all.

Hillary Clinton

• shown as the current president in an episode of Sliders.
• described in John Birmingham's Axis of Time novels as being an "uncompromising" president; served two terms and was matyred by a suicide bomber. A George Bush-class aircraft carrier was named for her.
• Portrayed as 46th president in the British comic 2000 AD (in the 1995 story Maniac 6). Ross Perot is her Secretary of State and Colin Powell her chief of staff.

Mario Cuomo is portrayed in the British comic 2000 AD (in the 1993 story Maniac 5) as vice president to President Al Gore, and succeeds to the presidency when Gore is killed by aliens during the Fourth World War. Cuomo is pressured by his advisers into taking drastic measures to win the war, against his better judgment, and shoots himself in remorse. His successor is seen but not named.

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Harrison Ford

• portrayed as the president in an episode in VIP
• referred to as a former president in the film Scary Movie 3.

Michael J. Fox is mentioned as a former president in the 1989 videogame Mean Streets. (In real life, Fox is ineligible for the Presidency, as he is not a native-born citizen.)

Al Franken was president in Why Not Me?, a satirical novel. Franken was elected in 2000, running on eliminating ATM fees. He was the first Jewish President and won in a landslide. Franken's running mate was Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, making the Franken-Lieberman ticket the first all-Jewish ticket since Reconstruction. As president, Franken suffered from severe depression and mood swings; he attacked Nelson Mandela and appointed Sandy Koufax as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. President Franken resigned after 144 days in office on June 10, 2001. In his resignation speech, he said: "It is my fondest wish that, in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster."

[edit] G

Al Gore

• shown as the current president in an alternate reality in The One (2001) as well as in the comic book Hero Squared X-Tra Sized Special.
• was allowed to sit at the desk of the Oval Office on the set of The West Wing in a skit from Saturday Night Live making fun of the television show and depicting Gore, who had just lost the U.S. presidential election 2000, as overly eager to act the role of president on his visit to the television set.
• The opening sketch of a 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live showed him addressing the nation, describing how his reversal of global warming led to encroaching glaciers, offering to bail out the oil companies because oil prices had dropped dramatically due to the popularity of alternative fuels, California had left the Union to become the nation of "Mexifornia," Major League Baseball Commissioner George W. Bush was doing his best to crack down on the use of steroids, Afghanistan was an extremely popular Spring Break destination, and a Six Flags theme park had been opened in Tehran
• The television series seaQuest DSV implies that Gore had become President sometime before 2032, as the show's namesake vessel was stationed at the nonexistent Fort Gore.

[edit] H

Paris Hilton

• portrayed as a President in this humorous NFL publication.
• portrayed as president in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody's alternate universe in the episode The Suite Smell of Excess

J. Edgar Hoover

• portrayed as President in the Red Dwarf episode "Tikka to Ride". When the Red Dwarf crew inadvertently prevented the assassination of John F. Kennedy, he was impeached in a sex scandal (with a mistress shared with Mafia boss Sam Giancana) in 1964. Hoover was forced to run for President by the Mafia, who blackmailed him with evidence that he was a cross-dresser. In return for unrestricted Mafia cocaine trafficking, Hoover allowed the Soviet Union to set up a nuclear base in Cuba, resulting in widespread panic, the abandonment of major American cities, the increasing likelihood of nuclear conflict and, in all likelihood, a Soviet victory in the Space Race due to a demoralized America. Hoover's presidency was erased when Kennedy assassinates himself in Dallas, 1963, restoring the timeline.
• In the Sliders episode "Time Again and World," the group lands on a parallel Earth where America exists in a state of martial law. After the assassination of JFK, Hoover became president for more than 20 years (a lifelong term), implemented martial law and amended the Constitution, excising most of the Bill of Rights. In tribute to Hoover, all police officers wear skirts instead of pants. In that alternate dimension, the prison on Alcatraz Island is a fully-functioning penitentiary where the most dangerous political prisoners are kept, including civil-rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy as well as loud, out-spoken comedian Sam Kinison.
• was President in one of many alternate realities mentioned in Richard Bowes' From the Files of the Time Rangers (a mosaic novel by Richard Bowes). He is briefly mentioned as being President in the 1940s; how he became president or what happens to him is not revealed in the novel.

Cordell Hull became President upon the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Harry Turtledove alternate history novel Worldwar: Striking the Balance. Henry Wallace had been killed in a nuclear strike prior to Roosevelt's death.

[edit] J

President Duane Johnson, who in realty is a staff member of the anime convention Otakon, appears in various fandub parodies.

[edit] K

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was president in Fatherland, a novel by Robert Harris later made into a HBO movie. In the novel, Nazi Germany won World War II resulting in a far different world by April 1964. With tensions easing between the world's two major superpowers, a 75-year-old Adolf Hitler welcomes President Kennedy (elected in 1960) to a Berlin summit in the interest of fostering detente. Kennedy was believed by one of the main characters to be a shoo-in for re-election until the truth of the death camps is uncovered on the day of the summit. President Kennedy was played by Jan Kohout in the movie.

President Robert Kennedy (in one of the episodes What If?, program of Discovery Channel) won Democratic nomination in 1968 with Rev. Martin Luther King as his running mate. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the general election, but was shot to death in September 1969.

President Ted Kennedy

• mentioned in The Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future" and was president sometime before Lisa Simpson.
• A list of US Presidents since the 1950s in Robert A. Heinlein's book Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984) concludes with "Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy", presumably referring to both Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. This joke was used earlier in A Boy and His Dog (1976) when the main character lists the presidents in order: "Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy..."
• Elected President in 1980 in the first edition of Geoffrey Archers novel "Shall we Tell the President". He had narrowly managed to defeat Jimmy Carter on the fifth ballot at the Democratic National Convention. He picked Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers as his running mate and they defeated Illinois Governor James Thompson by a 147,000 votes in the popular vote and became the 40th President.

Martin Luther King (in one of the episodes What If?, program of Discovery Channel) was Vice President under Robert Kennedy and succeeded him in September 1969. Major of his initiatives are detente and continue program of Great Society (but under new name). He was assassinated in 1971. He was succeeded by Vice President McGovern.

[edit] L

Fiorello H. LaGuardia was elected president in 1951 in the 1939 Robert A. Heinlein novel For Us, the Living.

President Charles Lindbergh appeared in The Plot Against America, an alternate history novel by Philip Roth. In the novel, the aviation hero wins the presidency against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. He serves until 1942 where Vice President Burton K. Wheeler succeeds him.

President Charles M. La Follette is a Socialist who is sworn in as president in 1942 after incumbent Al Smith is killed by Confederate bombers in the novel Settling Accounts: Return Engagement.

[edit] M

President Alfred Mahan

• Hinted at being President in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Great War: American Front
• Threatened war with the Confederate States of America if they went ahead and tried to build the Panama Canal

President George McGovern

• (in one of the episodes What If?, program of Discovery Channel) was appointed Vice President after Martin Luther King took office from his assassinated predecessor Robert Kennedy. After King was shot too, McGovern became president in 1971.
• He was also the subject of the novel President McGovern's First Term by Nicholas Max (1973).

President McNamara -- presumably Robert S. NcNamara -- is president in Thomas M. Disch's 1968 science fiction novel, Camp Concentration.

[edit] N

President Ralph Nader played by Jimmy Fallon appeared in the Saturday Night Live skit A Glimpse of Our Possible Future III in 2000. Flying pigs and shivering devils featured.

Oliver North

• mentioned in an episode of Sliders.
• won a landslide victory over an unnamed President (Alan Alda) in Canadian Bacon.

[edit] R

President Keanu Reeves is mentioned in the Only Fools and Horses episode Heroes and Villains, although it turns out only to be a part of Rodney's nightmare. (In real life, Reeves is ineligible for the Presidency, as he is not a native-born citizen.)

President Thomas Reed is mentioned as being president in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series.

[edit] S

Arnold Schwarzenegger

• mentioned as a prior commander in chief in Demolition Man with his own presidential library in San Angeles, California.
• 'President Schwarzenegger' was also mentioned in the Doctor Who episode Bad Wolf.

(In real life, Schwarzenegger is ineligible for the Presidency, as he is not a native-born citizen.)

Horatio Seymour -- Democratic governor of New York in our reality -- succeeds Lincoln as president in Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South after the United States of America loses the civil war.

Upton Sinclair was elected in 1920 as the first Socialist president after defeating President Theodore Roosevelt in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 saga. He was later succeeded by Calvin Coolidge, who was succeeded by Herbert Hoover, who lost re-election in 1936 to Al Smith.

Al Smith is elected president in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Victorious Opposition in 1936 after defeating Herbert Hoover. He is the nation's third Socialist President and was later killed in an air raid on Philadelphia, the capital of the United States; Vice-President Charles M. La Follette was later sworn in as president.

President Bruce Springsteen appears in Jim Mortimore's novel: "Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Eternity Weeps" President Springsteen defeated President Tom Dering in the 2000 presidential election after retiring from the music business. President Springsteen ordered a nuclear attack on Turkey and the Moon in an attempt to stop the spread of an alien terraforming virus known as "Agent Yellow".

Howard Stern is shown as the current president in Sliders episode 21, "The Young and the Relentless."

[edit] T

Donald Trump was mentioned as being president before Lisa Simpson in the year 2030. Trump was a very bad president and bankrupted the American economy, causing a crisis for Lisa when she took over. He was also mentioned in the "Bart to the Future" episode of The Simpsons

[edit] V

President Arthur H. Vandenberg was president from 1941 to 1945 in the 1939 Robert A. Heinlein novel For Us, the Living.

Jesse Ventura

• shown fighting for re-election against Henry Kissinger in Killroy and Tina.
• glimpsed in the Futurama episode "A Head in the Polls" in the Hall of Presidents in the New New York Head Museum.

[edit] W

Glen Allen Walken

• President in The West Wing's fourth and fifth seasons for four days.

George Wallace

• President in Mona Clee's Branch Point (1996).
• Runs for president (with Curtis LeMay as his vice president) in 1968 after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Hubert H. Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy.
• In another alternate timeline in the novel, Bill Clinton is president for only one term (the publication date of the novel was January of 1996 and perhaps the author didn't expect Clinton to be reelected).

Earl Warren was president in Colonization: Second Contact by Harry Turtledove. Set in the mid 1960's, he is very popular and wins re-election easily. However, after ordering the nuclear destruction of Indianapolis to appease the Lizards after they learned the US had attacked their colony fleet in Earth orbit, Warren commits suicide and is succeed by vice president Harold Stassen.

Burton K. Wheeler succeeds Charles Lindbergh as president in 1942 in The Plot Against America, an alternate history novel by Philip Roth. Wheeler was also mentioned as having been elected President in The Divide, a 1980 novel by William Overgard - in this book, Wheeler's isolationist policies led to an Axis victory in World War II and the occupation of the United States.

Oprah Winfrey

• referenced as being President in 2030 in an episode of the short-lived science-fiction lawyer show Century City.
• elected President in 2020 in an alternate history episode of The Boondocks.

[edit] Lists of Alternate Presidents

Some fictional works give lists of alternate Presidents with no further comment:

• In Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy there are at least three other real people who became fictional presidents in various timelines: Ted Kennedy, Douglas MacArthur and Hubert Humphrey.

• In Pamela Sargent's short "Hillary Orbits Venus" features an alternate history in which the following presidents were elected prior to 1992: Hubert Humphrey (1968, 1972), John Glenn (1976, 1980), Bob Dole (1984, 1988).

[edit] See also

• Archive of fictional things
• Fiction regarding United States presidential succession
• Fictional characters
• President of Earth
• List of fictional United States Presidential candidates
• List of fictional United States Vice Presidents
• List of fictional British Prime Ministers
• List of fictional British monarchs
• List of fictional political parties
• List of other fictional politicians
• List of actors who played President of the United States

[edit] External links

• "Fictional Presidents as Antagonists in American Motion Pictures: The New Antihero for the Post-Watergate Era" By Ralph R. Donald Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
• "Ranking the Movie Presidents"
• "The Best Fictional Presidents"

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