William Rowell

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**William Rowell Jr.** (April 20, 2013 - November 24, 2109) was an American politician and notable fascist who served as the 72nd President of the United States from January to March 2097. He was the public figurehead of the fascist group known as "Third Position", he was brainwashed early into his time with the group to be used as a tool to gain National power.

Rowell's Administration is notable for his withdrawing the United States from the American Union only four years after it joined, his hostility to the press and media, his fascist tendencies and attempt to overthrow the Federal Government of the United States. His Presidency would come to an end just 43 days in following the siege of the White House. Rowell was captured by members of Liberty Front, who forced him to resign as President under threat of death.

Rowell served as the Attorney General of Arizona from 2068 until his abandonment of office in 2073. Rowell's legal career was marked by massive success in prosecution and crime in Arizona for his first three years in office dropped by 3%. Rowell died on November 24, 2109 after suffering a PTSD induced heart attack. President Washington's decision to give him a State Funeral was met with extreme criticism. Every Former President declined to attend with, Raymundo Cardona and Quinton Kaminski being the exceptions. Rowell was buried in Richmond National Cemetery, following doomsday his remains were exhumed in 2149 and relocated to the Hall of Presidents. Rowell is the first and thus far only President from Rwanda.

Rowell is considered the second worst President in American history for his open embrace of fascism, attacks against Congress, racism and Anti-Semitism and attempt to dissolve American democracy. Historians however don't put blame on him as a person as his brainwashing made him an effective slave, unable to control his actions.

## Early Life

Rowell was born in 2013 to an impoverished single-mother in Rwanda. Although Rowell's father, William Rowell Sr, was wealthy, he was killed in January of 2013, just over four months before Rowell was born; due to legal technicalities, his mother inherited nothing, and so Rowell was forced to grow up in poverty. Growing up, Rowell detested the state he lived in, as his father moving there in an attempt to better the lives of the Rwandan people was what got him killed; he was massacred by Rwandan nationalists who hated the United States. Because Americans wanting to better Rwanda saw Rowell and his mother in a bad situation, Rowell developed the belief that the United States annexing foreign territory was a negative and that the nation should not annex, if keep at all, any territory which it did not initially own.

## Brainwashing by Third Position

William Rowell would attend Alex James University and would graduate in 2035. During his time there he would join an underground group known as Third Position, born of fascist ideology they sought to overthrow the Government of the United States. Over the next few years he would grow to to fully embrace their ideals. In 2033 he would be chosen without his knowledge to be a puppet to be used to further Third Position's public goals. He would undergo forced brainwashing and would later in life recount the horrors of what he went through. He underwent experiments to make him more loyal and suggestable to orders given by Third Position Leader James Rockwell. One of the experiments he underwent was to implant an inhibiter chip to force his loyalty. The true nature of these experiments were not revealed to him until decades after.

In 2062 Third Position would conclude that public opinion of the United States had diminished enough, and that their goals could finally be achieved. They set sights on the 2096 Presidential Election, giving them 30 years to prepare and garner secret support.

## Political Views

Rowell hated his home State of Rwanda, bad experiences with the university students would cause Rowell to hate its people as well, as he began to see the Rwandan people as inferior to those who were of white American decent. Over the next 27 years, Rowell would continue to live a life of poverty with little to no hope of ever changing his situation. The State Government of Rwanda had failed to significantly improve quality of life for its citizens despite constant help from the Federal Government.

## Entry into Politics

In order to ensure a successful Presidential run, it would be decided that Rowell would first build his experience in government so that he could be a more prominent figure. In 2066, Rowell registered as a Democrat and declared his candidacy for the Senate in Arizona, claiming that he would be tough crime and would have zero tolerance. Due to the fact that Rowell did not present any qualities or ideas unique from any other Democrats running for the seat, however, he would fail to win the primary for the seat. The ideas Rowell presented, however, would garner the attention of the Arizona Department of Justice, which would appoint Rowell as a prosecutor in 2067.

Over the next year and a half, Rowell would work diligently at his new job, effectively convicting many criminals. In addition to this, Rowell would also work as a private attorney for individuals going through civil cases, and would successfully establish clearer precedent in Arizona that spouses take precedence in wills, thus, preventing some potential future situations which happened to Rowell's mother. In 2068, this would garner the attention of Arizona Governor Elizabeth Johnson, who would appoint him as Attorney General to the state.

Upon being appointed Attorney General, Rowell used his newly found position to influence legislation; in addition to further solidifying his precedent on spousal death, Rowell ingrained it into law and also strengthened the institution of marriage, as he legally obligated husbands of pregnant women to leave 100% of their assets to the mothers of their children (Being influenced by what happened to him). Rowell remained Arizona Attorney General for the next four years, until he decided another run for the same Senatorial seat which he lost six years prior.

In the 2072 Democratic primaries for an Arizona Senate seat, Rowell branded himself as a moderate Democrat who opposed the treaty ending World War III which President Vincent Kiran greatly influenced and passed prior to becoming President, and who vowed to maintain it in his administration. Rowell claimed that the treaty would empower foreigners to attack America internally, and he would therefore advocate for taking measures against the foreigners. Given that the American people, including Democrats, were still weary about foreigners, Rowell would win the Democratic primary in this election, yet would lose the Senatorial seat to Republican incumbent West Smith, who supported the Kiran Administration.

### Fleeing Arizona

In 2073, Rowell and Third Position realized that Arizona was no longer a place where Rowell could successfully garner influence, and thus moved to California. In 2074, Rowell declared his candidacy for a seat in the US House of Representatives for California, that he knew would be safe, and was thus finally elected to Congress.

In his first two terms in Congress, Rowell would consistently oppose the agenda of the Kiran Administration and would advocate for countering "non-American" aspects of American territories, yet would see little success in his efforts. When Richard Ojeda assumed the Presidency and Democrats took power, Rowell would support his agenda, seeing it as a way of maintaining his influence among Democrats and ensuring impoverished Americans would not live as miserable of a life as he did before he joined Third Position; in addition to this, Rowell would pass the marriage reforms he made in Arizona on the federal level (Although, they would not be seen as major).

In 2088, however, both Rowell and Third Position would predict the outcome of the upcoming General Election, and would thus see Rowell abandon the Democratic Party for the sake of joining the newly formed Nationalist Party, which was closer in line to their beliefs anyways (As Third Position was more isolationist than globalist). In the primaries, Rowell would secure himself as the Nationalist nominee for his seat and would successfully win a seventh term against the Democratic and Republican nominees.

Over the course of the next eight years, Rowell would consistently support Nationalist policy, advocating for spending to be domestic and for President Raymundo Cardona's domestic program compromise to be upheld; Rowell wanted evidence to back up the notion that he was good for the Nationalist Party come time for his Presidential run.

## Presidential Campaign

By the time of the 2096 Presidential Election, Third Position finally saw their opportunity to win the Presidency. The economic crisis created by President Quinton Kaminski allowed Rowell to declare his candidacy for the Presidency and, with zeal and anger, denounce Kaminski for his policies and explain how his track record, which was now successfully forged, consistently saw him fighting for good domestic plans for the American people. Furthermore, he used his past to claim that he knew what it was like being poor and thus was equipped with first hand experience to deal with poverty; he claimed that President Kaminski was a pig for letting the condition of impoverished Americans worsen for what Rowell referred to as Kaminski's "passion project", to unite the world's governments, that was not based on the condition of the United States. Rowell's rhetoric, and the American public's prior blame placed on Kaminski, would see Rowell win the Presidential Election by a landslide.

## Presidency (2097)

### Inauguration

William Rowell was inaugurated as the 72nd president of the United States on January 20, 2097. Former President Kaminski had decided not to attend the inauguration but eventually decided to do so as a show of unity for the Nation.

### Early Days

On January 25 he requested an early White House Correspondence Dinner to be held on the 31st.

#### Exiting the American Union

On February 1st the Nationalist Congress provided Rowell a bill to withdraw the United States from the American Union that the U.S. entered during the Kaminski Administration just 3 years earlier. Rowell signed the bill and the U.S. left the A.U. on March 24, 2097, 3 weeks after Rowell would resign from Office.

#### United States Dollar

On January 21st President Rowell instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to begin printing United States Banknotes again of 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 50, 100 and 500 bank notes. On January 22nd he issued an executive order to void use of the Amero after January 1, 2100.

### Nationalist Party Exit

Just weeks after being sworn in Rowell would renounce his leadership in the Nationalist Party and openly embrace the fascist platform which he had believed and helped develop over the last three decades. Racial relations had already worsened by the time Rowell took office but things got worse after he openly encouraged attacks against racial minorities.

#### American withdrawal from U.S. States

By the second month of his administration Rowell issued "Executive Order 1939" that mandated the withdrawal of American military forces from the States of Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Cape Verde. Riots became more and more frequent as the President shrugged them off as no big threat.

### Drug use

During his Presidency and in the years preceding, Third Position's grip on Rowell's mind had begun to slip. To counter this, James Cannon had Rowell prescribed with a cocktail of mind-numbing drugs to reinforce his control over him. Benzodiazepine was a drug frequently used by Rowell to relive anxiety and tension. As well as a result of his age and growing lack of strength, Rowell constantly relied on substances such as cocaine, opioids and methamphetamines to function day to day.

#### Post-Presidency

After resigning, his rampant drug abuse was uncovered and he was placed into rehabilitation. No federal drug charges were ever brought against him.

### Riots and Breakdown

On February 22, 2097, Vice President Roman Andaman, a member of Third Position, was shot after attempting to leave the White House. He survived the attack and was rushed into emergency care.

President Rowell used the opportunity to crack down on protests, using armed police to attack protesters and encouraging Third Positioners to attack police in cities they occupied.

### White House Siege

By February 28 a counter militia known as "Liberty Front" began to mobilize and push back against Third Position. On March 2 Third Position had set up camp outside of the White House and during the morning of March 3rd, Liberty Front mounted an attack against them, initially only wanting to drive Third Position from Washington an opportunity opened up when Third Position's defenses were easily broken. Soon after Liberty Front made their way onto the White House lawn and began to mount in numbers, secret service attempted to push back but were not successful as several agents refused to put their lives on the line for someone they did not see as legitimate and simply left the scene.

At 12:13 AM protesters stormed the hospital where the Vice President was recovering and was forced to sign a letter of resignation at gunpoint.

### Resignation and arrest

By 12:47 AM, Liberty Front had successfully broke secret service defenses and were in the White House. At 12:50 AM President Rowell attempted to flee the White House grounds onboard Marine One. The attempted escape failed as the pilot refused to take off as patriots surrounded. Rowell was brought off the Helicopter at gunpoint and resigned as President publicly.

After resigning he was taken into custody by Liberty forces who eventually turned him over to D.C. Metro Police after House Speaker Riddley was sworn in.

## Life after the Presidency

President Rowell was arrested just moments after he resigned as President and was held for several days in custody.

Millions demanded Rowell be put on trial after leaving office and a trial was planned however it was discovered during raids of Third Positionist Hideouts that Rowell was brainwashed decades ago using MK-Ultra style techniques to alter his state of mind to make him an effective slave. He was therefore was not considered "fit to stand trial". He was released in early 2098.

### Life in Exile

After leaving the Presidency Rowell would remain on his ranch for years on end and live in isolation. Secret Service had to increase security for the Former President as several assassination attempts had to be foiled and his ranch became a shrine for Fascists and Neo-Nazi's, all of whom Rowell disavowed.

## Death

William Rowell suffered a heart attack from a PTSD induced vision going back to his early life. He was rushed to the hospital but died early November 24, 2109. President Washington ordered a state funeral much to public disgust. Almost every Former President declined to attend with Roman Andaman, Raymundo Cardona and Quinton Kaminski being the notable exceptions.

1. ↑ Rowell never resigned his office as Attorney General when he moved to California on April 7, 2073. He legally continued to be Attorney General until the Arizona State Legislature voted to strip him of the title on June 18th.