Sanford Frost

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**Charles Sanford Frost** (March 3, 2163 - December 28, 2283) was an American politician who served as the 93rd President of the United States from 2229 to 2233.

# Early Life

Charles Sanford Frost was born on March 3, 2163 to Wallace and Megan Frost. As a child, Frost would grow up under the dominance of the Imperialist Party and would become intrigued towards the governance of the United States. Becoming a young expert expert on US history, Frost would be largely critical of Imperialist Presidents, starting a newspaper, whilst attending Harvard University from 2181 to 2185, calling Imperialist Presidents out for their disregard of the checks and balances enshrined into the US Constitution. In 2183, Frost would be especially critical of President Minh Arias, who alleged himself to be above the law.

# Entry into Politics

Over the course of the next decade, Frost's paper, known as "Democracy's Defense" would increasingly gain popularity, eventually becoming renowned across the United States. This popularity would be recognized by the Imperialist Party, as newly elected President Thorton Echevarria dispatched the Internal Defense Force to shut down the newspaper and arrest Frost. Quickly, Echevarria's orders quickly transpired, thus seeing Frost imprisoned without a trial.

The journalistic impact Frost implanted, however, would be too large for Echevarria to snuff out by imprisoning one person. Therefore, Frost's former employees led by Teodoro Bohannon organized and continued the paper with anonymous identities, successfully identifying and calling out various acts of oppression committed by Echevarria's regime. Despite this, Frost would remain imprisoned for over two decades until Echevarria's assassination in 2215.

Upon his release, Frost thanked the man who kept his movement alive, Bohannon, by providing him with half of Democracy's Defense's ownership. The two quickly grew to work well together, as Democracy's Defense rose to become the largest newspaper in the United States. As this occurred, however, unrest grew within the company. Both Frost and Bohannon possessed difficulty maintaining impartiality within the newspaper, as Frost supported the Commawatch efforts to promote a national legal code, whilst Bohannon favored Liberty Party policy of limited government intervention. Because of this, both men deferred to writing opinion pieces which would both be featured on the same page; although Democracy's Defense now presented opinions, it would still do well with representing both sides, and there would be no hard feelings between Frost and Bohannon for their differing views.

# Presidential Campaign

In 2228, Frost would declare a candidacy for President, criticizing the Peralta Administration as not only one with no ambition, yet one which stood in the way of America's progress. In his campaign, Frost promised to uphold the democratic ideals of the Commawatch in addition to something which had not been seen for centuries: The impartial use of the veto. Frost stated that one man should not go against the word of hundreds in a liberal manner, and stated that he would only veto bills which he found unconstitutional; other than that, Frost vowed, he would use the Presidency in the manner which it was intended: To uphold the law and to leave the making of such to many individuals. With this campaign, Frost would easily unseat President Peralta, thus becoming President.

# Presidency (2229-2233)

As President, Frost would fulfill his campaign promise to reform the manner in which the veto was used, and used it sparingly throughout the course of his administration. Despite this, however, he would not recuse himself from proposing legislation entirely. Upon making Bohannon the complete CEO of Democracy's Defense, Frost found that it became incredibly biased towards the Liberty Party and would often run stories on Frost and the Commawatch Party to make them look bad. Hurt by this, Frost introduced the "Writ Classification Act", which taxed all published writing except for "impartial journalism", which newspapers would have to register under; registering biased writings as impartial would result in criminal charges. This would spark outrage, as many saw this as Frost hindering his criticism (which was now stemming largely from Democracy's Defense). Despite the fact that this was quickly repealed by Congress on seeing the large backlash, the short-lived act would devastate public Frost's reputation.

In the Presidential Election of 2232, Bohannon, who successfully became the Liberty Party nominee, would use the Writ Classification Act against Frost, to which Frost defended himself without regret for his actions; Frost said that the bill was righteous, antagonizing Bohannon in the process with this statement and that the people should be grateful that Frost fulfilled his campaign promise and did not use Presidential power to keep it in effect. The Presidential debate leading up to this election would be cited by reporters as "the most chaotic debate since the 21st century"; all future debates between Frost and Bohannon would be called off as a result of it.

Following this election, both Frost and Bohannon surrendered their ownership over Democracy's Defense to Roger Hawthorne, an independent who was editor in chief to the paper. Over the next four years, Frost would take time to himself for reflection. In a few short years, he lost everything in the blink of an eye: His business, best friend, even his dignity. After a while, Frost eventually admitted to himself that this was not right, and that he was behooved to correct his injustices.

Seeing Bohannon's Presidential re-election campaign going awry, Frost wrote to him with an apology, advice, and ultimately an olive branch, saying that he thought the both of them were above the bitterness they created and that they could do great things for their country once again. Bohannon responded to Frost by accepting his apology and choosing to make amends. Frost would soon become Bohannon's Chief of Staff, offering him advice to both address the criticisms against levied against him by Commawatch Presidential nominee Normand Rafferty and to better the nation as they both saw accordingly. Although they failed in Bohannon's re-election campaign with many viewing Bohannon as someone who changed his method of governance just to win re-election, the relationship between Frost and Bohannon would be, according to both gentlemen, restored.

# Post Presidency

Frost would retire in 2233, spending the next 50 years in comfort until his death in 2283. Frost would be remembered by the American people, despite his faults, as one who spread the truth and democratic ideals across the nation, and one who implemented practices to reduce the power of singular individuals (which future Presidential successors of his would expand upon).