John Sues Duggard

Duggard's presidential portrait.

**John Sues Duggard** (May 27, 1933 - June 9, 2000) was the 1st president of Hasbana.

Though not equipped to politics prior to taking office as president, Duggard was a war hero and proven leader as he was a militia general during the Coup of the People. He was also one of the original writers of the Hunting Club Accords.

Today, Duggard is hailed as a national hero, and is one of only three Hasbin presidents to have been awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor, and the only president to have been awarded said honor by their successor.

# Early life

John Sues Duggard was born in Betulo Bareto, Hasbana, on May 27, 1933, the third child and only son of Andre and Evelyn Duggard. His father ran a family farm and his mother ran a small grocery shop which would sell the produce Andre grew.

## Childhood

Duggard was often described as a "problem child", often pushing the limits of what the adults around him would allow him to do. He would not easily take instruction. Duggard was also an intrepid explorer, often walking through the woods behind his parent's farm (now Catobo National Forest).

## Education

Duggard attended public school until age 17. He received "adequate" grades all through his schooling. He was the only of the Duggard children to have not attended college.

### Sports

During his later school years, Duggard was a regular jock. He played on his school's football team for three consecutive years and was hailed as a star player. He was in attendance when his school moved up to the national championships. Duggard also took up swimming for a year.

Outside of school, he was an avid hunter.

## Pre-presidency/early adult life

Duggard bought some farmland off of his parents for cheap in 1951. Three years later, in the summer of 1954, Duggard married Lemillie Saundra Aluit (March 12, 1935 - December 3, 2012). The two had one child together; Lemillie gave birth to a son named Hubert Wilson Duggard (August 18, 1956 - August 1, 1972). He continued hunting as a hobby.

# Career before presidency

## Charity work

Starting in 1949, Duggard volunteered at a local homeless shelter, bringing food from his parent's farm (later from his own farm) and helping to cook it into meals for the shelter's residents. Sometimes, other workers at the shelter would offer Duggard small compensation for all the food he would bring. He continued to help the shelter through the Coup of the People.

## Farming

After buying 4 acres of his parent's 20-acre farm, Duggard replanted grass on roughly an acre of it and built a house. The other three acres remained farmland and became his primary source of income.

Duggard spent twenty years as a self-employed farmer, and despite the communist regime he lived under, a rather wealthy one at that.

## Hunting Club Accords

As hunting was a hobby of his, Duggard was, naturally, a member of his local hunting club, the *Men's Lodge of Central Hasbana*. Club meetings often turned into political discussions and Duggard, like his colleagues, vehemently opposed the then government of Hasbana. Duggard was instrumental in the conception and writing of the Hunting Club Accords, which would go on to be a basis of the Second Hasbin Constitution.

## Militia General

When the Coup of the People broke out, Duggard emerged as a fierce leader. The leader of the north-central Hasbin militia, he also banded with the Gueza militia, and eventually rose to become general of both, uniting the two militias. Duggard led the most fighters out of any proclaimed general in the Coup. He, alongside other large militia generals, helped to plan the assassination of Marvin Manabo.

Duggard fought alongside his; whom tragically died in battle.