J.K. Atkinson

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President J.K. Atkinson, full name Johnathon Kain Atkinson was the president of the United States of America and the commander of the North American Union until his death in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the underground US government after the People's Protection Front revolt.
==Biography==
Born November 1st, 1962, Atkinson spent a lot of his childhood in a rich neighborhood in Long Island, New York. Going to an undisclosed (by his choice and to the speculation of many) military academy, he was taught all that he would need to go directly into the United States Marines. In 1983, Atkinson took place in the United States invasion of Grenada and six years later in the invasion of Panama.
==Political Life==
After Atkinson's time in the military, he would go to Harvard University and study law through 1990-1994. While practicing as a lawyer in New York City, he would also go to Columbia University and get his PhD degree in political science by 2005. Now 41, Atkinson would serve in the New York City Council as a member of the Republican party. Eventually leaving in 2013, he would go on temporarily serve as a police officer before winning a Republican seat in the 2014 New York Senate. For the next 6 years, he would continue to serve the Republican party.
==As President==
Winning the 2020 presidential election for the United States against Democrat Bernie Sanders by a slim 275 electoral votes, he ran against incumbent Donald Trump, especially for his issues on handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside his Vice-President, former New York state senator Roger Webb, and despite his advisors telling him of a possible COVID-19 mutation, he pressed on and promoted mass vaccination as opposed to other Republicans. Additionally, Atkinson pushed for militarization of our forces against the rising Russo-China relations that heavily opposed the United States.
One of Atkinson's first orders as commander-in-chief was to send the military into Canada for protection against the Euro-Asian Coalition. From there, and to the surprise of many, the military would invade the Canadian capital and raise the American flag. While being in office, Atkinson heavily pushed a Republican dominated congress to push anti-gun laws to prevent "...the radical left to revolt against the union." Despite this, the senate would not push these laws. Instead, he would push onto the states to enact these laws in which Pennsylvania and California were the first to do so. This is when on March 29th the People's Protection Front was established. This would begin his everlasting war with the PPF.
== Creation of the North American Union and EEW ==
After intimidating Canada into a surrender and establishing the puppet state of New Canada, he further forced them into the North American Union so he could enforce the military of Canada. Reestablishing the United States Military as individual branches of the NAU (i.e. United States Army to North American Union Army, US Navy to NAU Navy...), he would publicly support the Western European Union as the Eastern Europe War broke out.
When terms of a ceasefire came to his desk from Edgar Seger, he agreed to them, while at the same time implementing sleeper agents in every known PPF base in the east coast and Texas.
== President in Exile ==
During the PPF invasion of Washington, President Atkinson was readily evacuated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin with emergency powers. Hidden from the public until the days leading up to The Death of Mankind, he would continue to command the NAU in the Eastern Europe War. Unbeknownst to him and federal agents that would later reform as the North American Union Underground, the location of the president was disclosed to the EAC. On the next day, the Euro-Asian Coalition sent a nuclear strike to Milwaukee at 10:25 AM, which caused the immediate collapse of the NAU and subsequent United States and New Canada.