Garfield Lucas Webster IV

**Garfield Lucas Webster IV** (b. January 31, 1970) is a member of the Webster family. The great-grandson of former Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster and former First Lady Josephina Van Valkenburgh. The son of the fallen Garfield Lucas Webster III, and widow Jane Vickey Berks. Garfield Webster IV is married to Jessica Wallace and fathered three children: Jessica, Charlie, and Garfield. Garfield Webster IV is a private citizen resident of Niagara Falls, New York.

Garfield Lucas Webster IV was born on January 31, 1970, in West Point, New York, to Jane Vickey Berks, his father, Garfield Lucas Webster III (1946-1969) was killed in the Vietnam War before Garfield IV was born. In 1973, his mother remarried, his stepfather was an Italian American catholic Ludovico Delfino Bresciano. Ludovico and Jane had five children together: James, Ludovico II, Jeanette, Charlotte, and Thomas Bresciano, leaving Garfield IV the lone Webster in the Berks-Bresciano household. Spending much of his life in Saranac Lake, he becomes friends with Jessica Lynn Wallace in kindergarten, and then their relationship becomes serious in high school, and following graduation, they married in 1989 and went on to have three children together in Niagara Falls, New York.

Webster fought in the Gulf War and returned home with PTSD, which derailed the Webster-Wallace household and it required intervention from Jane Vickey Berks, Ludovico Bresciano, Charles Aaron Wallace IV, and Evelyn Burton-Wallace. Webster recovered in 1995 and family life was resumed except Garfield Webster IV barely had any contact with the Webster family until he was in high school, he met his paternal grandparents: Garfield Lucas Webster II and Eleanora McClellan-Webster at his high school graduation in 1988, and started spending time with his paternal grandparents more in Anchorage, Alaska, to know them better.

On February 14, 2022, Webster returned to the U.S. Republican Party after being a Democrat for thirty years, delivering a blow to the Webster family and to Eleanora McClellan-Webster personally, who worked closely with her husband to make the Websters a solid Democratic family. Garfield Webster IV's decision to leave the Democratic Party and re-join the Republican Party is attracting harsh criticism even from Chawosaurian conservatives, citing that his grandmother just became a widow two-years back in late 2019, losing a son to COVID-19 in late 2020, and living a perceived lonely life obviously bound to end really soon, which are personal problems that are enough for Eleanora Webster. Webster had to explain that his decision had nothing to do with his grandmother, but had alot to do with the failures of the Biden presidency, and that he respects his grandmother despite their ideological gap.

On March 20, 2022, Webster announced his candidacy for Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria to run against incumbent Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker, and registered with the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party on the same day, removing all speculation that Parker would run for reelection uncontested. Webster intents to face Parker in the 2029 Chawosaurian direct election. Disillusioned with Trumpism and the Republican Party by their poor performance in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections as well as the slow legislative performance of the 118th U.S. Congress, Webster left the Republican Party after returning to the party the previous year.

## Biography

Garfield Lucas Webster IV was born on January 31, 1970, to his widowed mother Jane Vickey Berks, at a U.S. military base in West Point. Garfield IV's father was killed in the Vietnam War before he was born. Following his birth, his mother asked an old friend, Ludovico Delfino Bresciano, to help raise the baby. Jane moved back to Saranac Lake to live with her parents: Joseph Wallace Berks III and Jeanette Elaina O'Sullivan Berks. Jane never considered bringing Garfield IV over to his paternal grandparents because of the travel expenses that she couldn't afford.

Jane fell in love with Ludovico and decided to marry him, thus granting Garfield IV a stepfather. Ludovico married Jane on June 23, 1973, in Saranac Lake. As the boy grows up, he is raised a Roman Catholic because of a Catholic mother and stepfather and Catholic grandparents from both sides. Garfield IV becomes the elder half-brother of James, Ludovico II, Jeanette, Charlotte, and Thomas Bresciano. Putting Garfield IV in a awkward position, being the only child in the Bresciano household to have a different surname, Garfield IV learned that Ludovico was never his actual father, but a stepfather, and that his biological father is deceased. Garfield IV has been friends with future wife Jessica Lynn Wallace since kindergarten, and due to his love for U.S. President Ronald Reagan, he becomes a Republican because of the political alignment of Upstate New York, which is where he lives, which also effects the partisan allegiance of his maternal family. Webster voted for George H.W. Bush, Reagan's Vice President, in the 1988 U.S. presidential election. His political views changed due to spending much time with his deceased father's family in Anchorage, who are overwhelmingly a Democratic family, and then supported Bill Clinton in the 1992 U.S. presidential election, and becomes a Democrat following Clinton's victory.

Webster joined the United States Army in 1988 due to a lack of post-high school options. Following basic training, Webster ended up having to fight in the Gulf War, lasted less than a year, the war turned out to be dramatic for Webster mentally. The war ends in 1991 and it turned out that Webster brought with him PTSD caused by traumatizing memories of the war, disabling him and his wife to raise their daughter Jessie. Garfield and Jessica decided Jessie should stay with her maternal grandparents for the remainder of Webster's PTSD treatment. Webster was the first of his family since his uncle to suffer from PTSD and one of the few of his family to suffer from PTSD alongside his uncle Thomas Webster and great-grandfather Garfield Lucas Webster. Webster recovered in 1995.

After high school, he married Jessica Wallace, the couple settled in Niagara Falls, and had three children together: Jessica, Charlie, and Garfield.

Over the years, Webster had become more conservative, it was revealed that he voted for Bill Clinton as a reconciliation between his conservative views and his paternal family's Democratic heritage dating back to the New Deal. He opposed the Presidency of Barack Obama, but it was unclear rather he supported Donald Trump until the January 6th insurrection, but following the Fall of Kabul and the disastrous end to the War in Afghanistan, Webster as a veteran became staunchly opposed to the Presidency of Joe Biden and the whole Democratic Party. With his paternal grandfather gone, and his paternal grandmother further aging close to death, as well as his uncle Sydney Lucas Webster running a socialist party in the 2024 Chawosaurian elections, Webster may decide to leave the Democratic Party and become a Republican once again. Webster joined the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party, became a spokesman for its conservative wing, and opposed both his uncle and Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker.

On February 14, 2022, Webster switched back to the Republican Party after thirty years of being a Democrat, citing the "failures of Joe Biden's presidency" and the Democrats' abandonment of the centrist platform laid out by President Bill Clinton during the 1990s. However, switching parties at a time when his grandmother, who together with her husband formulated the American Webster family into a solid Democratic family back when they were patriarch and matriarch, was going through alot, having lost her husband back in September 2019, and a son to the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020, as well as living a seemingly lonely life without a familiar company, in which her husband was the last of which. Webster's party switch caused backlash over his grandmother's post-marriage situation, and responding to the criticism, Webster said his party switch wasn't meant to cause his grandmother further pain, that he was aware of her difficulty to adapt to a widowed-life and coming to grips to her shortening life, and he was only doing it just because of the state of the country under Biden. Fearing bad tensions with his grandmother, he avoided contact with the 92-year-old Webster veteran.

March 20, 2022, Webster announced his candidacy for Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria to face off against incumbent Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker in the 2029 Chawosaurian direct election.

Discouraged by the lackluster showing of the Republican Party in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, the 118th U.S. Congress' lack of legislative accomplishments, and the growing weakness of Trumpism, Webster left the Republican Party after living in the party for only a year, and decided to be an Independent. There is talk however that Webster could return to the Democratic Party if "Biden turns things around or Trump is renominated" and Webster confirmed this talk.

## See also

* Webster family - paternal family
* Garfield Lucas Webster - paternal great-grandfather
* Garfield Lucas Webster II - paternal grandfather
* Joseph Wallace Berks - maternal great-great-grandfather
* Joseph Wallace Berks II - maternal great-grandfather