Barnabas Blankenship

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Rex Imperator 	Rex Imperator 	Rex Imperator 	Rex Imperator
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
Official Portrait, 2215 	 	 	
2nd Emperor of the United States 	2nd Emperor of the United States 	2nd Emperor of the United States 	2nd Emperor of the United States
Reign 	 	 	
March 15, 2215 - January 20, 2217 	 	 	
(Disputed from March 15 - March 31, 2215)	 	 	
Prime Minister: 	 	 	
Adrian Hersey 	 	 	
Donte Alighieri II 	 	 	
Preceded by: Thorton Echevarria 	 	 	
Succeeded by: Donte Alighieri II 	 	 	
90th President of the United States 	90th President of the United States 	90th President of the United States 	90th President of the United States
In office 	 	 	
March 15, 2215 - January 20, 2217 	 	 	
(Disputed from March 15 - March 31, 2215)	 	 	
Vice President: James Hensworth 	 	 	
Preceded by: Thorton Echevarria 	 	 	
Succeeded by: Donte Alighieri II 	 	 	
14th First Servant of State of Germany 	14th First Servant of State of Germany 	14th First Servant of State of Germany 	14th First Servant of State of Germany
In office 	 	 	
January 20, 2215 - January 20, 2217 	 	 	
Second Servant: Chritafano Clark 	 	 	
Preceded by: Thorton Echevarria 	 	 	
Succeeded by: Donte Alighieri II 	 	 	
94th Vice President of the United States 	94th Vice President of the United States	94th Vice President of the United States	94th Vice President of the United States
In office 	 	 	
January 20, 2213 - March 15, 2215 	 	 	
President: Thorton Echevarria 	 	 	
Preceded by: Adalberto Greenwood 	 	 	
Succeeded by: James Hensworth 	 	 	
2nd Prime Minister of the United States 	2nd Prime Minister of the United States 	2nd Prime Minister of the United States 	2nd Prime Minister of the United States
In office 	 	 	
March 20, 2210 - January 20, 2213 	 	 	
Preceded by: Bismark Shardon 	 	 	
Succeeded by: Veil Hartmont 	 	 	
Personal details 	Personal details 	Personal details 	Personal details
Full Name: Barnabas Bibi Blankenship 	 	 	
Born: March 1, 2151 	 	 	
Died: October 11, 2299 (aged 148) 	 	 	
Resting place: Hall of the Presidents 	 	 	
Signature 	 	 	
Blankenship's voice 	 	 	
Barnabas Bibi Blankenship (March 1, 2151 - October 11, 2299) was an American Politician and Statesmen who served as Emperor and the 90th President of the United States as well as Vice President and Prime Minister. Blankenship was a integral part of the Second American Revolution that ended with the overthrow the American Empire. He was also a founding member of the Commawatch Party and served as its first President.
His Administration saw the United States regain international legitimacy on the global stage as well an end to the Second American Revolutionary War. His administration began with the execution of President Thorton Echevarria and to this day, he is the only person in American history to never have been charged or arrested for assassinating an American President and is the only Vice President in American history to assassinate the President. 
He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest Presidents in American history and ranks in the top ten of Presidents despite his short term. He is credited with overseeing the end of the Imperialist Party and their final military defeat ending 60 years of Imperialist rule, beginning the process of reuniting the United States. negotiating American reentry into the international community, repealing the "Imperialist Amendments", replenishing the Treasury, reorganizing the American military, driving out hardline Imperialists from Government and restoring faith in the idea of the "American Experiment".
==Early Life==
==Entry into Politics==
==Imperialist Party member==
==Prime Minister (2210-2213)==
==Vice Presidency (2213-2215)==
Barnabas Blankenship was chosen to be Vice President to Echevarria for his strategic brilliance, loyalty to the Party and personal friendship to Echevarria. Secretly during this time Blankenship had become angry with how the party was handling the war and the increasingly desperate measures they were willing to take for any amount of success. This resentment eventually lead to the formation of the Commawatch Resistance in secret. 
==Presidency (2215-2217)==
===Assassination of Thorton Echevarria===
On March 15, the Commawatch staged a successful kidnapping of American President and Emperor Thorton Echevarria and after keeping him hostage for several house Commawatch leadership decided to put the President to death for his role in the Imperialist Party and crimes against humanity. Echevarria was to be executed via poison gas to make it as painless as possible but Echevarria demanded that Blankenship himself carry out the execution via gunshot wound. The Emperor saw Barnabas as the greatest traitor of his time and decried him as "the second Judas, not for 30 pieces of silver but for the highest office". Blankenship reluctantly granted the final request and carried out the execution himself. This move would later be criticized by several human rights groups for denying Echevarria a public trial of his peers. The execution of the President was carried by Vice President Barnabas Blankenship, a formally close friend of Echevarria and his Former Prime Minister. 
===Inauguration===
After doctors declared Echevarria dead Blankenship was sworn in as President of the United States by State judge Hiram Milhouse.
===Early days===
By the time of his taking office Commawatch had captured Washington D.C. and Blankenship moved into the Whitehouse ruins on March 20th.
====Early Executive Actions====
See: Executive Order 18644
On March 16th, Blankenship signed Executive Order 18644 to dissolve the month of "Thortin".
==== A White House left dark====
During the evacuation of Washington D.C., President Thorton Echevarria had ordered the White House cleared out of any important relics, artifacts, paintings, china, silverware and important documents fearing that anything left to the Commawatch would be carelessly destroyed. In a turn of irony miscommunication allowed for a fuel tanker to be parked directly next to the White House during the hasty evacuation and through unknown means caught fire leading to an explosion severely damaging the west wing of the White House blowing open a hole into the wall of the oval office. 
When Blankenship moved into the still damaged White House he decided to work in the damaged Oval Office despite his personal guards advising against so due to a lack of protection and lack of funds to fix the damaged office.
====Legitimacy==== 
On March 16th Blankenship issued an executive order formally asserting his legitimacy and control of the Federal Government of the United States and his Constitutional legitimacy as President via the line of succession. 
====Constitutional Authority====
With there being no Congress and a single Supreme Court Justice, Blankenship had a difficult time maintaining his authority as President. It was decided early on that the for the revolution to have any legitimacy they had to relay on the same tactics the Imperialist's used to remain the legitimate Government and continue to follow the Constitution and reaffirm it's status as law of the land and still enforced. This meant that the constitutional amendments the Imperialists passed also needed to be followed until their repeal. 
===Fall of the Imperialist Party===
After taking office President Blankenship and General Bullrun Jackson continued to lead revolutionary forces against the Imperialist's slowly driving them up into Pennsylvania. 
The rest of the year 2215 saw the collapse of Imperialist Party power, robbed of their legitimacy as the "United States" they had stopped calling themselves that and exclusively the "Imperialist and Unionist Party" by June 2215. 
By December 2215 their last stronghold in Pennsylvania had all but collapsed and their forces were overrun. By 2216 their finale forces had surrendered and their territory was completely in the hands of the United States. 
=== Restoration of the American Pacific ===
In his State of the Union for 2216, President Blankenship announced a new agenda known as the "Restoration of the American Pacific." Blankenship noted that much of the United States's territory in the Pacific were not complying with his executive order affirming legitimacy, and had instead asserted themselves as independent nations.
==== Honolulu Conference ====
To commence this policy, Blankenship requested a conference with the Hawaiian Republic, which declared independence from the United States during the Third American Civil War, and the Republic of Krameria, a Pacific nation the United States was at war with, which allied with the Hawaiian Republic. That year, President Blankenship met with Hawaiian President Kai Deuda and Kramerian President Justin DeWitt II in the "Honolulu Conference" to discuss how to handle Hawaii. 
In the conference, Blankenship made his intentions clear that he wanted Hawaii to re-enter the United States peacefully. Both DeWitt and Deuda, however, reacted with concern to this prospect, given the United States's aggression during the American-Kramerian War. To satiate all of their agendas, the three Presidents created the "Honolulu Compact", which would dissolve the Hawaiian Republic, yet allow the people of Hawaii to vote on whether to join Krameria or the United States. Referendums would be continuously held every five years, and the nation Hawaii voted in favor of being part of would be the nation to possess jurisdiction over the Hawaiian Islands. 
Although Hawaii initially voted to join Krameria in 2216, historians largely grant President Blankenship credit for staying true to the consent of the governed, while also balancing American international interests. The Honolulu Compact is ultimately viewed as one of Blankenship's accomplishments.
==== Filipino Attack ====
Meanwhile, President Blankenship's endeavors in the Philippines proceeded less than smoothly. In June of 2216, Blankenship traveled to the Philippines in an attempt to negotiate with Filipino President Alexa Delstro, Blankenship and the rest of the American delegation faced attacks from Filipino civilians who had strong anti-American sentiments. Because of this, Blankenship had to flee the Philippines before negotiations could even begin, given how organized these attacks were. 
Following the incident, President Blankenship announced in a press conference that the United States would have to undergo "extensive tribulation" to restore the relationship between the continental United States and the Philippines; a sentiment that reigned true until the election of Quezon Picaso to the Presidency.
===Emperor (2215-2217)===
By American Law established by Echevarria the title of Emperor follows the Presidential line of succession and thus when Blankenship became President he also inherited the position of "Emperor of the United States". Blankenship sneered at this idea and refused to style himself as that but by law he could not refuse the title and it existed on all official documents during his term, making his official title; "President Barnabas Blankenship, Emperor of the United States of America". 
==Life after Politics==
==Legacy and Death==
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