Albert Berging

Albert Wilson Eustace Berging (17 March 1938 - 2 October 2007) was a Jonathian Christian conservative politician who had close ties with the Republican Party. Regarded as a major influence on right-wing politics in Jonathia, Berging was supported by many citizens but despised by politicians. Berging was born into a farming family in southern Arizaia and was raised as a catholic. Berging later moved to Miller to study politics. His impressive speaking skills later led him to take up jobs in the political stage, and Berging was eventually raised to a position of power.
Berging was first part of a government cabinet in 1961 as the Secretary of Agriculture under the government of Fred Johnson. Around this time, after a suggestion by a friend, Berging began holding rallies at Christian parishes, criticizing the left for promoting what he perceived as "atheist shams", and called for Jonathia to return to it's Christian roots. Berging was noted for his popularity among Republican voters nationwide, and in 1975 was nearly selected as the Republican nominee, but a rogue voter defected to the side of Oliver Carswell, who would later go on to lose the election to the JFP's Michael Richardson. In response, many Christian voters began to flock to the aptly named Christian Party, a move Berging opposed as he was a Catholic, and in his words "wasn't about to interact with a bunch of loonies".
Berging later took up a more campaign-style role in the Republican Party, promoting every single Republican candidate from 1979 to 1991 with the sole exception of Karen Lyvon. He remained a part of the Jonathian parliament, where he influenced the Republican Party and later led his party to fracture ideologically, with the party being divided between hardcore religious and social conservatives. Berging also began taking up preaching events, and continued to make speeches at church parishes. Berging was a major criticizer of the LGBT rights bill in 1997. When the bill ended up passing, Berging opted to resign from parliament, but continued to be politically active. On October 2nd, 2007, Berging was killed in Vonderburg when in foggy weather that evening his car was struck by a truck which sent the car flying into a nearby ditch. His funeral was attended by thousands of Christians in mourning, as well as Pope John XXI of Regenia.
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