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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 'dated' over time, for dramatic license, or to provide literary flexibility.

Presidents are listed in alphabetical order by the first letter in their last name. Template:CompactTOC2

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A

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 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.
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Geena Davis as President Mackenzie Allen in Commander-in-Chief

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

B

President Robert Baker

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: Unknown

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 Leo Barnett

  • President in: the Wild Cards novels
  • May have had the superhuman ability to heal injuries and diseases
Martin Sheen, portrayed fictional President Josiah Bartlet on NBC's television drama The West Wing.

President Josiah Bartlet

  • President in: The West Wing (television)
  • Bartlet is 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

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 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
  • 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 Thomas "Tug" Benson

President Hosea Blackford

  • President in: American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold by Harry Turtledove
  • From Dakota Territory, 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 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: 2000 AD (comic)
  • Booth was the last President of the United States who triggered the Atomic Wars.

President David Bowers

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 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

C

President Jack Cahill

President Gary Callahan

President James 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 1980s. He died of a sudden heart attack before completing his term in office. Jim Carlisle was survived by his wife, Tess, his closest adviser and most important political asset.
  • Played by: George Gomes

President Carlson

President James Cassidy

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.

President Hillary Clinton

President David Coffey

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 "Pulto's Kiss" incident destroyed the modern internet.

President Hamilton Conroy

  • President in Coyote (novel 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 Guy "Whitey" Corngood

President Calvin Craig

President Stanley Craig

  • President in : "The President Vanishes"
  • Played by: Arthur Byron

President Hugh Crane

President Culpepper

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: Repbulican

D

President James Dale

  • President in: Mars Attacks!
  • During re-election campaign, Earth makes contact with aliens. President 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 UN 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.

Devlin (never identified as "President Devlin")

President Devonian

President Douglass Dilman

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 Matt Douglas

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Former governor of Indiana, Douglas ran against Governor 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: Democratic

President Charles Carter Durant

President Michael Dugan

President Roger Durling

  • President in Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor
  • Former governor of California, he succeeds to the presidency after his predecessor resigns.
  • Durling was killed with most of Congress in a Japanese terrorist attack on The Capitol.

E

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 John Elder

  • President in the book: The Perfect President by Adam Sveum
  • President Elder ran for President in 2008 against Vice President Bob Bradford. He won 51% of the popular vote and 272 of the Electoral College.
  • He was born in Springfeild, Illinois in 1960. He attended Standford University and went to Harvard Buisness School. After law school he moved to Denver, Colorado with his newly wedded wife, Caroline. He was a very successful buisnessman in Denver. In 2002 his best friend, Paul Shorts, found him and made him run for Govenor of Colorado and winning in a landslide and winning reelection in a landslide. Before he was elected President he had an approval ratings of 70%. He was pushed by his best friend, now chief of staff, to run for president. He eventually won the Democratic Nomination and then the election in November.
  • His running mate was Senator Lincoln H. Tanglen, the Seinor Senator from Minnesota and Senate Minority Leader. He was also ran against Elder for the nomination.
  • In his first and second term as president he saw a nucleur war between India and Pakistan and survived two assination attempts.
  • Based off former Govenor Mark Warner of Virginia
  • Party: Democratic

President Sven Ericson

  • President in the book Full Disclosure by William Safire.
  • President Ericson is blinded during the assination 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

F

President John Fields

President Mallard Fillmore

President Finesterre

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 Democrat. Possibly Reform.

President James Foster

President William Foster

President Jonathan Robert "Bob" Fowler

President Clementine Searcy Fox

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

President Ferris F. Fremont

President Truman Theodore Fruitty

President 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.

G

President Hal Gardner

  • President in 24 (2011-)
  • Vice-President under Charles Logan. Sworn in as President following the arrest of President Logan (who was involved in a terrorist conspiracy).
  • 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 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: Democrat

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 becomming Americas first Black President.
  • Played by: Chris Rock

President Lancelot R. Gilligrass

President Graham

H

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

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 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 Harris

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 Henry Hayes

President Jonathan Hayes

President Robert Hayes

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

President Helman

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 Art Hockstader

President Paul Hollister

President Wendell Holms

President Jonathan Vincent Horne

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

J

President Phillip Jackson

  • President of The Road to President Series(Game Series ran by Ken Kerns aka Mike Adams)
  • Defeated Preisdent Long by winning the Electoral College and Losing the Popular Vote
  • Former Republican Governor of Florida
  • First African American President in the Series

President Robby Jackson

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.

K

President Florentyna Kane

President Kang

President John Keeler

  • President in: 24 (2009)
  • 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 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 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 Joseph P. Kennedy

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 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 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

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 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
  • Republican

L

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 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 Manfred Link

President Abraham Linkidd

President Lockwood

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President Charles Logan

President Charles Logan

  • President in: 24(2009-2011)
  • 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

Cover to Lex 2000 #1, featuring Lex Luthor as President of the United States. Art by Glen Orbik.

President Lex Luthor

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

President Jordan Lyman

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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 Mackenzie

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 it's first and second seasosn. 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 elligiable for office at that time.

President Malone

President Julia Mansfield

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.
  • 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 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 Maxwell

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 Thomas McKenna

President McKenna

President Phillip Mead

President Fillmard Millmore

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 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 Maxwell Monroe

President Judson Moon

  • President in The Kid Who Ran for President and 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.

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

President Thomas D. Moss

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!"
  • 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: Democrat

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

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Fictional President Bartlet and fictional former President D. Wire Newman at the state funeral of fictional former President Owen Lassiter.

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 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 (1985)

President Richard Nixon's head

  • President in Futurama
  • Real life President Nixon's head preserved in a jar.
  • President of Earth.

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 "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

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President A. Thorton Osgood II

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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 and informal aide 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: Democrat

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 Warren H. Pierce

  • President in:Syphon Filter:The Omega StrainVG

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 Reginald J. Priest

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President Lawrence Ivor Randolph

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 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 Allen Richmond

  • President in: Absolute Power (1996 book) and Absolute Power (1997 film)
  • Officially, he committed suicide in office. Unofficially, he was killed by a man whose wife he had earlier murdered. In the novel he is impeached and tried.
  • Played by: Gene Hackman

President Eleanor Richmond

President Prez Rickard

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 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

President Chet Roosevelt

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 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.
Jimmy Smits as President Matt Santos

President Matt Santos

President Adam Scott

President Nehemiah Scudder

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ex-President George Sears aka Solidus Snake

President George Sears

  • President in Metal Gear Solid.
  • The 43rd president, Sears was elected in 2000, and re-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 Andrew Shepherd

President Walter "Wally" Sheridan

President Bubba Shrub

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.
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President Lisa Simpson

President Lisa Simpson

President Signoff

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 Springhead

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 Jack Stanton

President Richard Starkey

President Joseph Staton

President Diane Steen

President David Stevens

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 Uninted States' nuclear defence and automated counter-strike systems on December 24th, 2005.

President Patrick J. Sullivan

Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain

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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 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 Thomas Nelson Tucker

President Rexford Tugwell

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President Margaret Valentine

President Josephine Vanbruuker-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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John Goodman, portrayed fictional Acting President Glen Allen Walken on NBC's television drama The West Wing.

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 Westwood

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

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
  • Party: Presumably Republican

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 Richard Williams

  • President in: American Government Simulation
  • A pro-life congressman from Virginia, Williams was formerly the leader of the Democratic Party, and Vice President to Mike Adams before ascending to the Presidency upon President Adams' resignation.
  • Took a tough stand against Hamas after their election in Palestine, and begin a rethinking of former President Adams' Iraqi Withdrawal Plan. He later nominated the former Chairman of the Republican Party to the Supreme Court.
  • Party: Democratic

President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip

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

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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

Unnamed presidents

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

Unnamed President in: Amazing Grace and Chuck

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

Unnamed President in: Canadian Bacon

  • An uninspiring president suffering from low popularity, he and his advisors started a fake war with Canada as a campaign distraction.
  • Played by: Alan Alda

Unnamed President in: Dreamscape

Unnamed President in: Earthworm Jim

  • A parody: Jim rushes in to meet him, before exclaiming "Hey! You're not the president!" He responds "I'm one of those generic presidents they put into T.V. 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

Unnamed President in: Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Unnamed President in: Fail-Safe

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 Presidents in: The Illuminatus! Trilogy

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

Unnamed President in: Love Actually

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 rouge 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)

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

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: 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: 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

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?"

Real people

Occasionally real people are listed as president even though they'd never held office. This is used most often for dramatic effect or humor.

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 (see entry under M).

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.

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.

Harrison Ford is portrayed as the president in an episode in VIP, and as a former president in the film Scary Movie 3.

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."

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 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.

Paris Hilton has frequently been portrayed as a President or as a candidate, such as in a humorous NFL publication, as a popular "Paris for President" clothing line in late 2004.

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 1940's; how he became president or what happens to him is not revealed in the novel.

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

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was president in: Fatherland, a novel by Robert Harris later made into a 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 to a Berlin summit in the interest of fostering detente. President Kennedy was played by Jan Kohout in the movie.

President John F. Kennedy Jr. appeared in The Auteur Theory and was played by Connor Loock.

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

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.

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 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 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.

President Oliver North

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.

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.
  • Note that under current US law, Schwarzeneggar is inelligible for the presidency, having been born outside the US.

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."

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.

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

President Jesse Ventura

President Earl Warren

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 alternate history "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).

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