Selina Guthrie

Selina Guthrie's official portrait as a U.S. Senator, 1996

**Selina A. Guthrie** (October 28, 1961-December 1, 2053) was an American actress, singer, lawyer and politician who served as the 38th President of The United States from 1997 to 2005. She previously served as a U.S Senator from Connecticut from 1993 to 1997.

## Early life & father's presidency

Selina Guthrie was born in October 28, 1961, she was born to John and Sarah Guthrie in Fargo, North Dakota. Her father, Future President John Guthrie, was a West Virginia politician, and she grew up surrounded by politics. Growing up, she wanted to be an actress, so when she was 7 she began to take acting classes. In 1972, Selina Guthrie was hired by Warner Brothers to be a child actress, she appeared in 17 movies throughout the 70s and won an Oscar in 1978. She moved to Seattle in 1979 in order to be closer to Hollywood. In 1981, She left Warner Brothers and joined Paramount Pictures where she became a singer and appeared in 9 more movies, she won a second Oscar in 1984. That same year, her father, John Guthrie, was elected President of The United States, putting Selina into the political spotlight.

In 1986, Selina resigned from Paramount Pictures and moved to Connecticut where she studied law and in 1988 she got the state license to become an attorney. That same year, her father John Guthrie lost re-election.

## Tenure as U.S. Senator

In 1990, she publicly announced that she had registered to be a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. In 1991, she married Italian Businessman Angelo Raggi and had 3 children with him (Oscar, Tim and Jessica). In October 1991, she announced her intentions to run for Senate. She defeated incumbent Senator Chris Dodd in The Liberal Democratic Primary and Brook Johnson in the general election.

Throughout her senate career, Selina Guthrie championed for worker rights introducing "The Blue Collar Protection act of 1995" and worked in a bipartisan to protect women rights and introduced the "The Civil Right acts of 1996". She was well liked and in December of 1994, Senator Martin Capozzi of Indiana, who was at the time the senate majority leader, met with Selina Guthrie to convince her to run for President. Since Incumbent President James Montagu was so unpopular, The Liberal Democrats were able to pick up 7 Senate seats from the republicans and 72 in the house. The Liberal Democrats knew they needed someone who was strong and likeable to be their nominee in 1996 if they wanted to win.

## Presidential run

In September 1995, Selina Guthrie announced that she would seek the Liberal Democratic nomination for President of The United States, She faced Maryland Governor Parris Glendening and Virginia Senator Chuck Robb in the primary. The primary was not at all competitive and Selina only lost the Maryland and Colorado Primaries. She chose Massachusetts Governor Anthony Kennedy to be her running mate. With the economy collapsing, Selina and Anthony were able to easily win the General Election over House Majority Leader Jack Muir in the General election. She won 56.1% of the vote and 430 electoral college votes.

## Presidential tenure

Selina was inaugurated in January 20th, 1997 and she became the first woman in American History ever elected into office, she was also the youngest president, at age 35 she was inaugurated into office. Throughout her first term in office, she got into private sector and gave it economic relief, she also fought against climate change and the NRA passing a gun control bill in 1999, she also implemented laws protecting farmers and workers from exploitation and under her a Military Base was created on the moon. She also signed the treaty of Sidi Bel Abbes cooling tensions between China and The U.S down. By 2000, The economy was strong and unemployment plummeted from 12.2% to 0.04% in top of that inflation was at an all time low. She was so popular that democrats picked up 10 senate seats in the 1998 midterms. Selina was also really popular as a President, in 2000, her approval rating never fell below 75%.

In 2000, with the economy being in a pitch perfect position, Selina Guthrie easily defeated Former Vice President Joni Ernst in a landslide. Her second term was mostly focused on foreign policy, in September 11, 2001, two planes crashed in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Selina quickly took action and sent a manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, However, the National Conservatives, believed Selina should've invaded the middle east instead. These National Conservatives, lead by Senate Minority Leader Henry Jones of Arizona, believed that Selina was weak by not invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein. This lead to republicans winning a majority in the Senate and House for the first time since the Montagu Administration (see The Great Reshuffle). In January of 2004, U.S troops killed Osama Bin Laden and his entire family ending the war on terror. Selina remained popular and left office in 2005 with an approval rating of 71%.

## Post-presidency

After leaving office in 2005, Selina retired from public life and moved back to Washington state where she would begin to work for Foster Pepper law firm. She bought a house in Olympia and began to raise her children and for the most part made very little news and began to accommodate herself to being a private citizen. While she worked with a law firm and worked as a private attorney in the state of Washington, she made millions of her presidential salary. In 2008, she endorsed Secretary Wabbit Portalpie for President but made no appearance in the Bull Moose national convention. She finally came out of the dark in 2012 when she appeared in the Democratic Convention giving a rousing speech and endorsing Bull Moose nominee, Jimmy Carter. She began to work with different Presidents in order to fight against world hunger and established The Selina Guthrie Foundation in 2019, a foundation focused on fighting poverty, climate change and upholding Human Rights. In 2022, Her Husband Antonio Riggi died from a fatal car crash in Berlin. Selina was heart broken and stayed on a hiatus for 6 years. In 2030, she re-made her life and married her ex boyfriend from back when she worked in Warner Brothers (Michael Ducey), they adopted a girl from Russia and raised her. In 2038, she retired from working with Foster Pepper Law Firm after 33 years of working with them and in 2041 she stepped down as the chairwoman of the Selina Guthrie Foundation. She remained a vocal activist of Human Rights often using of her own money to fund Anti-Tyranny organizations.

## Dementia battle & death

In 2049, Selina's family announced that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. 2 years later, she began to use a wheelchair now that she was unable to do anything. On December 1st, 2053, Selina's family announced that she had died at 4:49 AM in her home. She died at 92.

In 2055, a statue of Selina Guthrie was made in the Washington Memorial in order to honor her service for Human Rights and economic equality.