Bruce Roscoe (Florian’s World)

Robert Bruce Roscoe III (January 21, 1977 - October 14, 2050) was an American politician and businessman who served as the 49th president of the United States from 2029 to 2037, as the Governor of New York from 2023 to 2031 and as US ambassador to Hong Kong from 2047 until his death in 2050. He was the first bisexual individual as well as the first LGBT individual to serve as President of the United States. 
Roscoe was born in New York City in 1977 to Robert and Mary Wayne, with the former being heir to the third-richest family fortune in New York City (at the time) and founder of Roscoe Technologies (now Roscoe-Deerborne Technologies). His father was a leading contender for the Democratic nomination for New York Mayor when he was assassinated in 1985 by a local crime organisation. Roscoe studyed at Dartmouth College and in 1997 would attain a BA from Columbia University. Now head of Roscoe Technologies, he would also come out as bisexual in 2003. In 2012 he married socialite Rodney Michaels, with whom he had three children.
Bruce Roscoe left the Roscoe-Deerborne Technologies in 2022 in order to focus on his campaign for Governor of New York. Roscoe managed to defeat incumbent Kathy Hochul to be selected as the Democratic nominee and then went on to be elected Governor in a landslide. During his time as Governor, Roscoe was widely considered a rising star in the Democratic party and enacted major healthcare and firearm reforms whilst in office.
After leaving office as Governor, Roscoe emerged as the Democratic frontrunner ahead of a wide field of candidates before becoming the party’s nominee for the 2032 presidential election. During the campaign, Roscoe campaign heavily against incumbent republican president Ron DeSantis for his poor handling of the economy during Black Monday the Second Great Depression. Roscoe won the presidency in a landslide, receiving nearly 20 million more votes than DeSantis.
As president, one of Roscoe’s first major acts was to pass the 2033 Restriction of Firearms Act following a mass shooting at Edgecliff High School in Texas. However, wide spread unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that the shooting was faked resulted in an extremist shooting Roscoe and almost killing him. As president he also saw US intervention in the Nicaraguan civil war.
In the United States v. Amazon ruling, the Supreme Court deemed the anti-unionization practices of Amazon unconstitutional​, which was a move backed by Roscoe. In another assassination attempt on him, his husband Rodney and son Richard along with 230 others were killed in a terrorist attack by the Hustler Front during the Fenway Park bombing.
After it was revealed that Griffin Musk had violated the Espionage Act by maintaining contacts with Chinese officials and subsequently fled to Zimbabwe, which refused to extradite him, Roscoe began the controversial nationalisation of Starlink, SpaceX, and other ventures operated by Musk.
In 2041, Roscoe was succeeded in office by his Vice President, Michelle Wu. Roscoe initially maintained a low profile after leaving office, with his only official appearance before 2047 being at the funeral of former President Barack Obama. After Hong Kong achieved independence, President Benji Backer appointed Roscoe as the first US ambassador to the new nation.
In 2050, Roscoe passed away from testicular cancer aged 73. His legacy was astounding in that he simultaneously garnered a considerable amount of admiration from both sides of the spectrum, passed universal firearms reform, and somehow figured out a way to intervene in third-world nations without immediately outraging the anti-war left. While the first LGBT presidency was not the smoothest nor the best it was effective and respected, as was the man.
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