Jonathan Sisk

== Jonathan Sisk ==
Jonathan Sisk was an American economist and political leader who served as the Vice Chairman of Seaboard until 2028, when he assumed the position of Chairman following his father's death. The son of Michael Sisk, Jonathan Sisk grew in his shadow, and simultaneously adopted and rejected much of his father's personality and philosophy.
== Political Rise ==
Jonathan Sisk initially held minimal roles, usually as a stand-in for his father when needed, as the Vice Director Chairman. Assuming his father found no better prospects, he saw to teaching and training his only son in every way he could to take his position in the case of his death.
In the spring of 2025, Michael Sisk's health began to decline, and while undergoing treatment in New Haven, he authorized his son to hold the temporary position of Chairman for the time being. During this period, Jonathan, who saw many issues with his father's leadership, wished to make changes he saw fit. Jonathan Sisk believed that his father's lax treatment of power discrepancies in certain Directors and military officials, who should've been peers to other officials, was unjust. He quickly hoped to find a way to set such powerful leaders back in their place, and began hosting meetings with Seaboard leaders who shared his ideals, such as Craig Lee Wolfe, Shaun Hawkins, and later, Roy MacLeod.
Sisk hoped to show his power over leaders such as Russel and Gardiner, and emphasized infrastructure development and diplomacy to be far more important than expanding what he saw to be a bloated military. In his view, winning an all-out war with the Confederate States was an impossibility. Instead, he began taking actions under the belief that investing in the general welfare of Seaboard citizens would go much farther not only in keeping them loyal, but demonstrating to other territories and countries the legitimacy of Seaboard's government in a way that would frame them to be more democratic and more alluring as an ally than the CSA.