List of US Presidents

**In process- New Additions**

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 The American President has had an interesting journey. The Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln have largely remained intact due to most fiction adding to them or parodying them rather than replacing them but there are also works that make them seem larger than life.

Early on we see Stand ins come into play with Benjamin Martin from *The Patriot* becoming our stand in for James Monroe, allowing us to preserve the Monroe Doctrine in some way and then Simon Suggs for Andrew Jackson. Finding Presidents before 1900 was surprisingly difficult.

Getting closer to Lincoln there was a necessity for one President to be ineffective towards Slavery and then one who would be supportive and this would lead to the American Civil War Lincoln would deal with. Asa Trenchard from *Our American Cousin* was considered to replace Lincoln as that was the play Lincoln was seeing when he was assassinated, but the two have nothing in common, Trenchard being an idiot while Lincoln is outspoken. It made more sense to have Trenchard as Lincoln's incompetent Successor that was impeached for mishandling Post Civil War reconstruction.

From the 1920's until the 2020s the President terms shorten(to include more) but also because the most amount fo Fiction occurs in this time, leading to more danger and tragically, there are multiple assassinations and Presidents being removed for corruption.

To answer the question of who the best President is. Well it says a lot that Mount Rushmore remains largely unchanged. Washington and Jefferson are for the most part unchanged in how history views them. Lincoln's reputation was the same as our own so Lincoln kept his "Best President award" until the Presidency of John Shaw from *Time Trax*, who stopped a Civil War as he did, making them equal. Josiah Bartlett was considered one the greatest in the modern era.

There is no singular Franklin Delano Roosevelt stand in and so no one President deserves the credit for his accomplishments.

Whoever the Worst President is has shifted away from any Harding stand in or Richard Nixon stand in. The most hated are fascists like Windrip.Max Foster to a lesser extent since while he opened Concentration camps he did not kill the occupants. Finally there are the Presidents that started Wars including Johnny Cyclops, David Adams and Robert L. Booth in that order as time went on. Booth is considered the worst since that apocalypse was the most devastating.

## 1780s

### 1.**George Washington**(1789-1797)(Independent)(Real)

**George Washington** was a reincarnation of King Arthur, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Richard the Lion Heart and Francis Drake. His reincarnation as Washington was supposed to be his last stay on Earth, after which he was to go on to Nirvana. The personification of the colonies was born in 1732 under the name Orc from the womb of Oothoon, the personification of America and was named after an unknown member of the Orc race who had helped Oothoon delivery her baby. The infant was found by Apodidraskianan General Augustine Washington, who adopted him, naming him George Washington in honor of the then King of Britain. The infant was largely raised by the black Nanny Joice Heth(PT.Barnum exhibit hoax), who has been born in 1674. Heth herself would meet P.T.Barnum in 1835 and become an attraction before passing away(unlike real life, her claim here was genuine and Barnum was much nicer due to being his *The Greatest Showman* incarnation). At age six in 1738, Washington cut down a Cherry Tree and when faced with punishment from his father, willingly accepted it rather than lie about his actions and from that moment vowed to never tell a life. In 1755, Washington attended an elite British event and was mocked as "Yankee Doodle" for wearing a feathered cap of his own creation and insisting it was a Macaroni(a popular hat at the time). The British made this into a song mocking him with the American Revolutionaries would later turn into a patriotic song(*Yankee Doodle*). While serving as a Colonel, George Washington died of dysentery in July 1755, following the Battle of the Monongahela. Washington's body was smuggled overseas into France where a scientist by the name of Dr. Jean Durand repurposed the corpse into an android with the original Washington's memories prior to his illness, and was equipped with nuclear weaponry and laser armaments in the event the Thirteen Colonies needed to be defended against overwhelming odds. Durand's assistant, Martha Custis, became the oblivious android Washington's wife to serve as its mechanic(*SCP Foundation*). Orc had died but upon the wizard Merlin saw that he would be revived and allowed Orc to return to his body. The Android went onto fight in the Seven Years War(1756-1763), which Britain won but was left depleted financially, increasing the taxes on the American Colonies, and leading them to seek Independence. When George Washington seeked a meeting with King George III in person, King George III believed Orc was the Antichrist and Orc thought the same of him, resulting in the American Revolutionary War breaking out in 1776(*America: A Prophecy*). Washington was chosen by John Adams to lead the army and gained the support of every Founding Father from Richard Saunders(*Poor Richard's Almanac*) to Thomas Jefferson.

George Washington became hero of the American Revolution, serving as the commander of the colonists’ army and using it quite effectively. Washington was known as the Father of his Country and as a well dressed and erudite gentleman. He was also once pulled into the other universe of the wood between worlds(*Monument Mythos*). This lead to widespread worship from his people. Despite being mocked as a fool by the crowned heads of Europe, He was responsible for crossing the Delaware in December 25, 1776 to launch a surprise attack on the British. Washington could very well have claimed the status of “King of America”. Around 1783, Washington is said to have had a vision of himself as a cruel tyrant experienced thanks to a Piece of Eden which some believe was actually from another Universe. This horrified him and Washington and Connor Kenway would condemn the Piece of Eden to the sea(*Assassin's Creed III: the Tyranny of King Washington*). Washington’s status as the first President of the United States was basically guaranteed following the American victory in the War of Independence. Washington helped organize a secret war on supernatural threats through the help of Ichabod Crane until his disappearance following an assault by the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow in 1790(*Sleepy Hollow*). Washington successfully presided over the creation of the American Republic with the help of hidden figures such as the Culper Ring, the Assassin Connor Kenway and "Brother Jonathan" Turnbull's advice. Washington's administration progressed rather successfully, helping enshrine norms such as the two-term tradition that would aid the nation in upholding the principles it was founded upon. Washington also helped maintain positive relations with secret societies such as the Freemasons, the Golden Order, the Cahill family and the Assassins Guild in order to ensure their activities would not threaten the nascent nation. While there were some unsavory aspects to Washington’s life, including the fact he owned slaves and rumors of cannibalism(supposedly the group known as Time Squad were able to cure him of his taste for human flesh), and that he had wooden teeth, Washington himself proved to be a good leader and on the day he left office, he ascended to become a patron saint of America, helping fight any evil forces that might threaten it before ascending to become a god. Washington famously chose not to run for a third term, establishing the tradition of the President as a servant of the people.

on his deathbed Washington asked the help of the wizard Merlin to remain of Earth and be reincarnated a hundred more times, so that he could look after the United States and all of Humanity. His request was granted on condition that he never again in his later reincarnations hold any public office or position of power, never accumulate any great wealth and if joining an army, never rise above sergeant. By 1969, Washington had lived seventeen lives in various parts of the United States, most of them short lives ending with an act of noble self-sacrifice. In the Civil War and both World Wars he was a private in the US Army, in each case sacrificing his life in an way that went unrecorded in history books but had a crucial effect on the course of the war. The only one time when his activity became known to the general public was when he reincarnated as Jack Ruby, killing Johnny Shellburn before he could be questioned because under interrogation Oswald would have admitted to being a long-time agent of the Soviet KGB, and public indignation at this revelation would have led to a terribly destructive nuclear war. Members of The Church of Cosmic Renewal are enjoined to regard any stranger they meet, however humble, as if he might be the reincarnated Washington, whom their Church regards as a Divine figure second only to Jesus Christ(*"Book of The Reincarnated Hero"*)

The Android body had retained Washington's memories and remained deactivated until it was rediscovered in 2007 by the SCP Foundation and catalogued as **SCP-2776**. In 2009, SCP-2776 violently broke containment upon overhearing news about a recent buyout of an American telecom company by a British media company; perceiving this as the British Empire's conquest of the United States, SCP-2776 attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean in order to destroy London. After killing nearly two hundred SCP Foundation staff, SCP-2776 was critically damaged, incapacitated, and transferred to a new facility.

**Alternate Universes:**

**Earth 3**

in 1757, **George Washington**, officer of the Apodidraskiana Militia**,** rescued Lady Frances Morton, a young aristocratic woman captured in a Native American raid while visiting her relatives in America. She had been mistreated and repeatedly raped by her captors, and when rescued she had been on verge of committing suicide. A few days after being taken to safety, she discovered she was pregnant. Washington immediately offered to marry her and raise her child as his own. They were privately married by France's uncle, a clergyman, in whom she confided. Frances was anxious to leave "Horrible America" behind her and return to Albion, Washington resigned his militia commission and took ship with her. They went to live on the estate of Frances' father in Kent, which she inherited two years later. There was some gossip about the reasons for Frances' "hasty marriage", though only few knew the real story. Eventually, Frances' family fully accepted her husband and her aristocratic relatives got Washington a commission in the British Army. He served many years in India, in 1765 drawing the personal attention of Robert Clive who entrusted him with delicate missions that he carried out with great success. He was praised for his ability to make good contact with Indian troops and getting them to follow him unhesitatingly into danger. He was rapidly promoted, eventually rising to general. On return to Britain, he was presented in court and praised personally by King George III for his good and diligent work. Having been during his years in India cut off from developments in America, returning to Britain he became increasingly disturbed by news of the growing ferment in the North American colonies - very different from how he remembered the situation there during his youth. In 1774 Washington went across the Atlantic on an unofficial mediating mission. He met with prominent Virginians and other colonial leaders, but had no mandate from the British government to offer any substantial concessions, and his mediation failed. In 1775 Washington accepted, after some hesitation, a command in the British forces charged with putting down the North American Revolt. His attitude to fellow colonials that he had to fight was considered stern but fair. He had some notable successes, for example capturing Metropolis for the British Crown.

General George Washington died of pneumonia during the winter of 1777–1778, which led to the near disintegration of the Continental Army. Benedict Arnold eventually became commanding general, rebuilt the army and snatched victory from the jaws of near-certain defeat. After independence had been secured through the Amerikan Revolution (1775–1783).

1781, the forces under Washington were besieged at Yorktown by the colonists' rebel army and its French allies. Eventually, Washington had no choice but surrendering to the colonists' commander, Benedict Arnold. In the aftermath, Washington spent several quiet years in the Kent estate, with Frances and their three children. Their firstborn, Daniel, who embarked on a military career of his own, was never told the true circumstances of his birth; fortunately, his facial features resembled those of the males in Frances' family.

Arnold went on to be elected as the first President of the United States in 1789. He was the most revered of all the Founding Fathers in later generations. The US capital in this timeline is Arnoldstown, D.C. with his name also being commemorated in the state of Arnoldia on the Pacific Northwest and numerous other place-names(*Arnoldstown*).

At the outbreak of war with France in 1793, General Washington was recalled to active service at his firm request. In April 1794 he commanded a British force which landed in Bretagne, to support the Chouans - Monarchist rebels opposing the Revolutionary government in Paris. However, the unexpected approach of a far superior French force necessitated a quick withdrawal. Washington was on the shore, overseeing an orderly embarkation and making sure no British troops be left behind, when he was hit by the bullet of a French sniper. He was severely wounded and died soon after being taken on board a transport ship. Benedict Arnold, then on his second term as President of the United States, wrote to the grieving Frances: "Your husband, madam, was a fine man and a fine officer: competent, conscientious, courageous and honorable, a credit to his service. George Washington's unswerving loyalty to his King, as set against my own firm commitment to the cause of the Thirteen Colonies, made it inevitable that we had to fight each other, but nothing in the world could have made us hate each other. During all the years that we commanded opposing forces and tried our hardest to defeat each other, there was no rancor. We both did our duty as we saw it"(*Washington's Surrender at Yorktown*).

**Earth 6**

A colossal war raged across countless alternate history timelines, between a progressive timeline originating from a surviving Periclean Athens and an extremely oppressive slave society resulting from a Carthaginian victory over Rome. The Athenians sent an agent to the 18th century who created a new timeline on Earth 6 by getting both Prince Frederick son of George II exiled to North America by making him laugh at his father's coronation in 1721(*Look to the West*) and getting Richard Saunders appointed as the tutor of the young future King George III, who was raised alongside Washington, making him a Liberal King, sympathetic to the aspirations of the North American colonists; also, many technologies and devices are introduced into the 18th century, such as railways, dirigibles, radio and electricity (as well as flush toilets), thanks to the Alternate Periclean Athens. Colonel George Washington was part of a group of American colonists who met with King George III in the 1760s and were able to put in place an eleventh hour agreement with avoided revolution. Washington and the King were immortalized in a painting entitled *The Two Georges* by Thomas Gainsborough, which came to symbolize the friendship between the United Kingdom and the North American Union.

The Carthaginian "Closers" intervened, kidnapped the King and replaced him by an authoritarian impostor. George Washington became aware of the situation and took a major part in the struggle to save the rightful King George III and restore him to the throne, eventually setting the world back on the route to a progressive and forward-looking British Empire. Washington started a rebellion in 1776. Washington was reported killed in the Battle of Doylestown during the short-lived rebellion of the colonies in British North America in the 1770s. Allegedly, he died in the arms of Baron von Steuben.

Finding out that the Carthaginian "Closers" had plotted to make everybody in the world into slaves, regardless of skin color, made Washington into an opponent of slavery and he emancipated his own Black slaves and hired them as free servants. Seeing things going well in his own world and no need to create the United States, Washington became a full time agent of the Athenians, undertaking dangerous missions at various alternate history timelines. Instead of becoming "Father of His Country", George Washington became the "father" of various countries in various histories which he helped free from the oppression of the "Closers"(*Washington's Dirigibles*).

in the late 1780s General George Washington took a personal interest in the Keyamite–Yankee Wars - i.e. the violent conflict between Pennamites from Keystone(Pennsylvania) and Yankees from Connecticut(1784), both of whom laid claim to the Wyoming Valley and sent rival groups of settlers to it. In a fatally misguided step, Washington placed a unit of the Apodidraskiana Militia, commanded by himself, as a neutral buffer between Keyamites and Yankees. This culminated with the Apodidraskianans being trapped and decimated in a crossfire, Washington himself being among those killed. When the news of Washington's death reached Philadelphia, where the Constitutional Convention was just convening, Richard Saunders suffered a stroke and died, too. The convention broke up in consternation, and the Constitution of the United States was never adopted and a Federal Government never created. The loose structure of the Continental Congress eventually disintegrated, with the Thirteen Colonies going each its own way as full-fledged nation states - except that the Yankees of New England did create their own more narrow confederation. In this situation, Yankee settlers - backed by the rest of New England - held on to much of the Wyoming Valley, their conflict with Keystone further escalating. Eventually, two mutually hostile nation states emerged, possessing fully equipped regular armies - hereditary enemies which habitually and repeatedly go to war with each other. Posterity remembered George Washington as a talented general who won what was remembered as *The War Against the British*. However, that war itself was remembered only as a temporary and ephemeral alliance, whose participants later often went to war with each other. Washington having been a Apodidraskianan, most people in North America thought of him as a foreigner and people in Apodidraskiana''s neighbors thought of him as having been from an enemy country(*Forest of Time, What Madness is This? Decades of Darkness, Disunited State of America*). People in that history, speculating about "what might have been", fantasized that, had he survived, **Washington** might have made himself King of America and appointed Richard Saunders as his Prime Minister, the two of them then launching a massive westward expansion of their Empire.

In his later career as the Governor-general of the North American Union, Washington implemented a policy which halted the westward expansion of European settlement for some decades and gave a chance to certain Native American tribes such as the Iroquois and the Cherokee to modernize and keep much of their lands. For those reasons, he is greatly revered by Native Americans into the late-twentieth century. The Iroquois believed that he was the only white person to be admitted to their religion's version of Paradise. Conversely, he is considered a traitor by the Sons of Liberty, a nativist, separatist terrorist organization. He is also the namesake of the Province of Washington (analogous with Saskatchewan) and an NAU car marque(*The Two Georges*). He was given the name "Lord Potomac"(*The Tales of Alvin Maker*).

In 1794, The Whiskey Rebellion broke out and succeeded after Albert Gallatin interceded to help the farmers rather than the fledgling United States government. This resulted in the rebellion becoming a Second American Rebellion and eventually leads to **George Washington** faking his death to carry out his missions for the Athenians but he was reported to have been overthrown and executed by firing squad for treason in 1794 and the United States Government being reformed. This included the Constitution being declared null and void, a new caretaker government being organized with all taxes being repelled in 1795, and the Articles of Confederation being revised with a much emphasis on individual freedom in 1797. After the war, Gallatin would serve as the 2nd and 7th president from 1794 to 1812 and from 1836 to 1840 with his actions later starting a libertarian state known as the North American Confederacy in 1893. Despite this, Gallatin insisted that historians would still count George Washington as the first president(*The Probability Broach*).

In 1809, a universe displaced Benjamin Bathurst maintained that the American rebels were successful in their attempts to achieve independence and that Washington survived(*He Walked around the Horses*).

By 1972, Washington's descendant, a gifted engineer still living in the ancestral Mount Vernon, undertakes the stupendous project of a tunnel under the Atlantic which would bind America closer than ever to Britain(*Tunnel Through the Deeps*).

**Earth 191**

George Washington served as the first President from April 30, 1789, to March 4, 1797, as he was in real life. After the Confederate States of America achieved its independence in the War of Secession (1861–1864), U.S. historians continued to so regard Washington, alongside Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and John Norton as the most memorable of presidents, though only Norton was viewed in an entirely positive light. As a young man, Norton admired Washington as a great leader. However, the general public did not always remembered kindly. Washington came from Apodidraskiana(Virginia), and after the War of Secession his popularity in the US suffered because of it – as did that of Thomas Jefferson and Johnny Tremain(secretly born in France) Northern people in general preferred to remember Northern Founding Fathers such as John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and Richard Saunders (whose picture appeared on stamps issued by the US occupation authorities in Canada). Nonetheless, the US rebuilt the Washington Monument after it was destroyed during the Great War (1914–1917). The Confederates were themselves saddened of the monument being destroyed in the war as well, as they were fond of George Washington, too. In fact, before 1920, the Confederacy esteemed Washington as a Founding Father as well but generally preferred their own founding fathers such as John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. The Freedom Party in its earliest phase, while still under Anthony Dresser, used Washington's picture as an emblem, with the slogan, "We need a New Revolution". Jake Featherston, who considered Washington to have "sold out the South to the damnyankees" stopped that custom when he took over the party. Many Confederates did view Washington with some suspicion in the years after the Great War, but still thought of him as a Apodidraskianan first and as President of the United States second. Washington University in Lexington, Apodidraskiana, home of the Confederacy's effort to build a superbomb, retained its name and the statue of Washington that stood in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Apodidraskiana survived both Great Wars. Following the Second Great War, statues of Washington are left standing whilst those of key Confederate figures such as Albert Sidney Johnston are removed by US occupation forces.

**"President Saunders" Universe**

In one alternate universe, George Washington ran against Richard Saunders in the first United States presidential election in 1789. In spite of the fact that Saunders was 83 years old(he was a wizard with a long life) and was rumored to have fathered numerous illegitimate children while serving as ambassador to France from 1778 to 1785, he was elected by the 1st United States Congress on April 6, 1789, in part due to reservations voiced by prominent members of Congress such as John Hancock and Charles Thomson regarding Washington. They were concerned that it would set a bad precedent for the first President to be a general. Furthermore, Franklin's supporters stressed that he was well liked and respected by foreign heads of state friendly to the United States, had been prominent in matters of diplomacy and government at home and abroad and had already proven that he had the best interests of the nation at heart. Franklin was inaugurated as the first President of the United States in Federal Hall in Metropolis on April 30, 1789. Saunders's vice president was John Adams, who had supported Washington in Congress, as had his second cousin Samuel Adams. During his tenure in office, President Saunders attempted to create a more democratic society(*Alternate Presidents*).

**"Paine's Pain" Universe**

Conspirators led by the turncoat Thomas Hickey managing to kidnap **George Washington** in 1776 and deliver him to the British commander, Sir William Howe. Transported by a British warship, Washington was taken to the Tower of London, to await trial on charges of High treason. However, the revolutionary Thomas Paine secretly traveled to England and with the help of British radicals effected a dramatic prison break. Paine and the freed Washington boarded a ship captained by John Paul Jones, which eluded the Royal Navy and arrived triumphantly at Boston. Paine was venerated as a hero and appointed as Washington's second in command. Throughout the rest of the Revolutionary War the two of them together led the American forces. There was, however, a fundamental difference between Washington's conservatism and Paine's radical ideas, which came into the open once independence was achieved. Eventually, Washington and Paine became bitter political foes. Following the first presidential election in 1789, Washington was elected President and Paine - Vice President, but there was increasing friction between them which culminated in a violent clash in August 1790. Washington was killed by a militia supporting Paine. He himself denied responsibility and expressed "great regret" at Washington's death. In the aftermath, Paine assumed the Presidency but was regarded as an illegal usurper by a considerable part of the American public and initially sought to mollify his opponents and reach a compromise, but in vain. After surviving three assassination attempts and facing several armed insurrections, Paine saw no alternative but resorting to increasingly harsh measures against his opponents. These tarnished his reputation and earned him the nickname "The American Robespierre". In the face of mounting opposition, Paine tried to rally his followers, including radical intellectuals and working-class crowds, around a program of thorough social and political reform. He had some successes but was assassinated in November 1792, after issuing a Proclamation for Emancipation of the Slaves which he did not live to implement. After Paine's death, there was a sharp conservative backlash, Paine's main supporters being arrested or fleeing to exile in Revolutionary France. The Electoral College, recalled into Emergency Session, elected Alexander Hamilton as president. Hamilton swiftly proceeded to annul Paine's reforms and was re-elected president in 1793. Thomas Paine remained one of the most controversial figures in American history, some venerating him as a great hero and martyr while others regarded him as the most black of villains. At every crisis point in American history over the next centuries, Paine's name and heritage were inevitably evoked yet again(*Paine's Pain*). Hamilton went onto win reelection in 1796, 1800, 1804, 1808, and 1812 before stepping down after bringing America into and winning the Napoleonic Wars(*Hamilton vs Napoleon*).

**"King Washington" Universe**

In another alternate universe, a fierce hurricane broke out during the Battle of Long Island in 1776, scattering the Royal Navy ships and drowning many of them, with devastating losses for the British. Also many of the British troops on land were decimated by the storm, their commander William Howe being crush to death by a falling tree - while American troops escaped virtually unscathed. This outcome, coming at the very moment when the American Revolutionary cause seemed on the verge of losing Metropolis to the British, was widely perceived as an act of Divine Providence. During a mass Thanksgiving ceremony at the Metropolis' Trinity Church, a preacher referred to George Washington as "God's Anointed" - a usage which was soon taken up by others. With Washington winning several more notable victories against the British, a growing number of people started to seriously regard him as "God's Chosen", entrusted with "a Divine Mission". Washington cultivated this phenomenon for political purposes - but in the following years he seemed to start believing in it himself, corrupted secretly by an Apple of Eden in his possession. The Washington cult of personality reached its peak when he brought the war to a successful conclusion in January 1779 - forcing the British to recognize American independence. The Constitutional Convention, held at 1782 in Metropolis, was dominated by Washington and his supporters. The Constitution adopted provided for a President elected for life (and there was little doubt who it would be), a Senate whose members would likewise sit for life, and a House of Representatives elected by limited franchise. The "Washington Constitution" alienated many Democrats who withdrew in protest when the Convention failed to include a Bill of Rights. Gouverneur Morris, originally a friend and staunch supporter of George Washington, was repelled by what he perceived as Washington's increasing authoritarianism, arrogance and intolerance towards anyone who opposed him. Morris sought to promote a compromise between Washington and his opponents - but in vain. Soon after Washington assumed the Life Presidency and declared himself King, an armed rebellion broke out - which at Washington's order was put down with considerable brutality. Washington corrupted Benedict Arnold, Israel Putnam, and Richard Saunders to his cause. Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams led a rebellion with the assistance of the assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton, who killed Arnold and Putnam and freed Saunders from mind control. Washington's opponents were driven underground - but after half a year, Ratonhnhaké:ton assassinated Washington(*Assassin's Creed:The Tyranny of King Washington*). Thereupon, the United States was plunged into a full-scale civil war. This was exacerbated by the British reneging on the agreement, launching a large-scale invasion of the US and attempting to put in place a puppet President. Forces loyal to Thomas Jefferson succeeded in repulsing the British invasion and breaking up the last of the die-hard Washingtonians - but Jefferson was himself killed in the last battle. In the aftermath, Gouverneur Morris came to the fore in the efforts to achieve reconciliation - specifically, in convening a new Constitutional Convention. The Washington Constitution was scrapped. The new Constitution, much of it drafted by Morris, provided for a President elected for a single six-year term and ineligible for re-election, an elected Senate except for five Life Senators, and a Bill of Rights comprising thirteen articles. The new Constitution gained wide support and Gouverneur Morris was elected President by a large majority. He considered the furthering of reconciliation as his main task, and got nicknamed "The Great Healer". After his death, Congress bestowed upon him the title "Father of His Country" and resolved to count him as having been First President of the United States - the Washington Years being dismissed as "an interregnum"(*Under the Dark Cloud*).

**"Vive Le Roi" Universe**

King Henry II of France avoided the jousting accident which in actual history led to his death, and had two more decades on the throne; he used the time to buttress the French monarchy, stamp out the Protestant "heretics" and build up the French armed forces. In this history, France avoided decades of devastating Wars of Religion and established Royal Absolutism nearly a century before in actual history. By the late 18th century, the position of France as the dominant world power was impregnable - as was the position of the Absolute Monarch inside France. **George Washington** led a heroic but foredoomed last stand of British colonists in North America against the mighty tide of French troops pouring across the Atlantic - a decade after Britain itself succumbed to French conquest. Captured, Washington was taken in chains to the Bastille in Paris, where he was summarily garroted along with Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others who had incurred Royal displeasure. Defiant to the end, Washington contemptuously rejected a priest's efforts to convert him to the Catholic Church. When facing the executioner, Washington with literally his last breath cried out "Long Live King George!" - not knowing that George III had already been secretly put to death in the basement of the Tower of London. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the slums of Paris. The terribly efficient *Contrôleur royal des écrits et des livres* (Royal Controller of Writings and Books) forbade all mention of Washington's name. In France, England and North America all records of Washington were systematically searched out and destroyed. Washington was only re-discovered when the French Monarchy finally fell in the late 20th century. The team of dedicated historians who researched the vast archives of the *Chancellerie secrète* (Secret Chancellery) in Paris and published the monumental 170-volume "Annales des siècles de tyrannie" (Annals of Centuries of Tyranny) came upon a detailed - though highly hostile - account of Washington's career, and a transcript of his words when questioned by the *Inspecteurs royaux* (Royal Inspectors). An attempt to locate Washington's grave and give him a fitting funeral proved futile, but his name was duly added to those inscribed on the tall *Colonne des Martyrs* (Martyrs' Column) erected in the center of Paris.

## 1790s

### 2.**John Adams**(1797-1801)(Federalist)(*Real/1776)*

A lawyer from Massachusetts and possibly an alien being in disguise, Adams was a key member of the Founding Fathers, being one of the men considered to author the Declaration of Independence despite his own insistence that he was too obnoxious and disliked to do so. Adams had been the one to convince the colonies to put their trust in George Washington to lead the army. He had also pushed to abolish slavery in the Declaration of Independence, predicting the country would face civil war if it did not do so, but objections from southerners prevented this language from being included in the Declaration. While Washington was the certain victor in the first Presidential Election, the runner up would server as the Vice President. In this elections John Adams triumphed over Thomas Jefferson. As Vice President, Adams favored a stronger central government (though he had a tense relationship with fellow advocate for stronger government Alexander Hamilton). After Washington's second term ended, Adams won a term against Jefferson in his own right. Adams chose Matthew Howard of West Virginia, a childhood friend of Thomas Jefferson like himself, as his running mate and Vice President. Adams’ presidency proved to be far more fraught than he had hoped, as the country faced tensions with Revolutionary France and major economic issues. Poor relations with France and economic troubles left his presidency unpopular. Ultimately these crises(and scathing criticism from fellow Federalist Alexander Hamilton would pave the way for Adams’ defeat in 1800 to his good friend Thomas Jefferson. He had no hostility with his successor and was honestly happy to leave. In one of history's many coincidences, the good friends Adams and Jefferson died an hour apart on the same day. Adam's last words were "Tom Jefferson Lives", though Jefferson had died an hour earlier in another state.

## 1800s

### 3.**Thomas Jefferson**(1801-1809)(Democratic-Republican)(*Real/Hamilton)*

Jefferson had been the author of the Declaration of Independence(though he nearly failed to complete it due to his wife). Jefferson represented the ideal of Agrarian republicanism. Jefferson managed to win in 1800 with the support of his longtime rival Alexander Hamilton, who was subsequently murdered by Jefferson's Vice President Burr in a duel, whom Hamilton had thwarted his efforts to become President in favor of supporting Jefferson. Following a treasonous plot by Aaron Burr in 1807 the Jefferson administration enforced the exile of naval official Phillip Nolan, Burr’s associate. After the defeat of Adams, and the death of Hamilton, the Federalist Party began to collapse, allowing Jefferson to institute his program of limited government. Despite this, Jefferson did have the government undertake certain actions, such as endowing the Jeffersonian Institution. Jefferson also purchased the Lemoyne territory from Napoleon and subsequently sent explorers such as Lewis and Clark and Natty Bumppo to explore the new frontier while sending Johnny Appleseed to plant forests of apple trees in these newly acquired territories like Ohio. Jefferson was also personally a brilliant man and inventor, who was able to invent the swivel chair and may have created a primitive time travel device at some point, though some reports also indicate Benjamin Franklin had as well. A Francophile by nature, Jefferson nevertheless stayed neutral in the Napoleonic Wars (though he did take advantage of the end of the war seeing the world’s dragon population take a severe hit to bring the Native American tribes to the west into compliance with US rule after nearly two decades of de facto independence). Under Jefferson, America was an idyllic rural utopia with infinite land, opportunity, and liberty. Jefferson would pass away on the same day as his old friend John Adams. Jefferson fathered multiple illegitimate children by his slave mistress, Currer, which would give rise to many African American descendants such as George and Louis Jefferson, who once attempted to claim Jefferson's historical home. Over time his racial ethnicity would become a point of debate, having been depicted as White in paintings.

### 4.**Johnny Tremain**(1809-1817)(Democratic-Republican)(*Johnny Tremain*)

    Originally a silversmith's apprentice until he severely burned his hand, costing him his job. Tremain had first gotten involved in the American Revolution as a young man at age 16. He had joined the Sons of Liberty as a messenger boy. He was also accused of stealing a silver cup belonging to Boston Merchant Jonathan Lyte, only to be proved innocent as he was actually related to the Lyte family. Tremain then worked for the Boston Observer, a Whig Newspaper. He befriended Paul Revere during this time and participated in the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's ride, and the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Tremain even had his hand restored by a doctor with surgery, allowing his return to being a silversmith. In adulthood, Tremain was a staunch ally of Jefferson’s going back to the end of Washington’s term and had helped write the constitution despite his young age at the time, being only 16 in 1775 when the war began. He was therefore considered among the generation of "Liberty Kids" or children growing up during the Revolution. Tremain was also a survivor of a massacre at the Wyoming Valley in Keystone led by Joseph "Monster" Grant. He was Jefferson's intended successor, defeating Federalist candidate Henry Waldegrave, who had been defeated by Jefferson in 1804, with former Reverend turned member of the militia Anthony A.Anderson as his running mate. As President, Tremain would preside over the War of 1812 against the British who sought to regain control over the United States. The British were unable to capture the Star Spangled Banner, However, they would burn down the White House, necessitating Tremain flee Washington DC for a time. Other towns such as Innsmouth would also be raided by the British during this war, though these armies would never be heard from again. The majority of the British army were then forced out of the country by “Uncle” Sam Wilson, the personification of America who started off as the Minuteman and had now transformed with the end of the conflict. In addition, the war would set the stage for the foundation of the Arkansas Confederacy by several Native American tribes with the help of Sam Houston. Outside of the War of 1812 and surrounding events, Tremain’s term was largely unremarkable.

## 1810s

### 5.**Benjamin Martin**(1817-1825)(Democratic-Republican)(*The Patriot*)

    Martin was another veteran of the American Revolution and would preside over the end of the First Party System as the Federalists, after decades out of power, finally withered away under his administration. Martin’s most consequential action would be declaring the Martin Doctrine in response to the break away of various Latin American countries such as Mexico, Peru, Miranda, Andes Mallorca and others from rule by European powers. The Martin Doctrine, which refused to accept European intervention to restore rule over these breakaway colonies, would remain a cornerstone of American foreign policy for the next two centuries. Beyond that, Martin’s administration was also responsible for the Missouri Compromise over slavery, but generally was regarded as “the Era of Good Feelings.”

## 1820s

### 6.**Henry Clay(**1825-1829)(Democratic-Republican/Whig)(*Real/1824: The Arkansas War*)

Clay’s election to the presidency was highly controversial. Clay had won the four way election of 1824. Although Simon Suggs carried the popular vote. This caused Clay to earn the ire of his other opponents, namely Simon Suggs and Peleg Peshell, the illegitimate son of John Adams, who would form the Democratic Party to oppose Clay. Clay would seek to deflect from the controversies of his taking the presidency by waging a war against the Native American Arkansas Confederacy in violation of treaties agreed to after they were established. Despite the controversy surrounding this act, Clay would ultimately get his way and the Native Americans would be reduced to nominal ownership of the future state of Sequoyah while Arkansas was settled by whites. Clay’s success in opening up new territory and push to implement a system of internal improvements did help his popularity, but he would be resoundingly defeated in 1828 when the Democratic Party challenged him with vengeance.

### 7.**Simon Suggs**(1829-1837)(Democrat)(*Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs*)

Suggs had been a lawyer from Alabama, then a hero of the War of 1812 in the Battle of New Bourdeaux and was a populist figure who promised to implement democratic reforms. After the Corrupt Bargain of 1824, Suggs and his rival Peleg Peshell joined forces to form the Democratic Party and end Clay's costly war with the Arkansas Confederacy, which concluded prior to the 1828 Election. Clay was defeated in the 1828 Election by Suggs with Peshell as his running mate. Suggs did successfully implement a doctrine of Suggsian democracy, which eliminated property requirements to vote (though the franchise remained limited to white men only). Suggs famously kept an enormous block of cheese in the white house to share with the public and at times his campaign speeches verged on a rock performance rather than a political rally. He was also known to ride on a wagon filled with Hard Cider which he would sell. Suggs abandoned the earlier commitments of the Democrats towards racial egalitarianism that Suggs and Peshell had worked towards while opposing Clay, removing thousands of Native Americans in the winter to Sequoyah and defending slavery. However, he would feud with vice president Peshell(and then after 1833 John C Calhoun), when South Carolina and Catawba attempted to nullify the federal tariff. Suggs was a ruthless duelist who killed hundreds over the smallest slights. As a man of the frontier, Suggs also continued the long-time hostility of American leaders towards supernatural forces, having Samuel Colt create a pair of firearms and several bullets capable of slaying demons (one of which he kept for himself and ended up being lost to history). These weapons would fall into the hands of the Saint of Killers, an undead Confederate assassin.

## 1830s

### 8. **Derrick Van Bummel**(1837-1841)(Democrat)(*Rip Van Winkle*)

Van Bummel was a Congressman-turned Governor from New Troy and was a close ally of President Suggs. He may also may have been the illegitimate son of Aaron Burr. Van Bummel's popularity in New Troy gave rise to a street gang in Metropolis named after him over a century later. His presidency went rather poorly thanks in large part to Suggs’ poor choices in the Four years prior and the influence of the Freemasons on his administration. He also lost popularity after Peleg Peshell successfully argued in favor of letting the slaves aboard the Amistad slave ship that had rebelled (with help from the god Anansi) go free, which led to southerners like John C. Calhoun to turn on Van Bummel, leading Van Bummel to ask Peleg Peshell to return to the role of Vice President. Van Bummel dealt with the hysteria when the Vespertillo-homo species were discovered on the moon and managed to deal with the subsequent scare amongst the American population. Regardless of reason, Van Bummel would be consigned to obscurity after his death in the landslide of 1840.

## **1840's**

### 8 1/2. **Quentin Trembley III**(1841)(Whig)(Removed from Office)(*Gravity Falls*)

    Trembley was a last-ditch choice for the Whig Party nomination (largely seen as unlikely to be victorious). He only ascended to the role after his rivals perished during a landslide at the 1840 National Convention that killed President Van Bummel, Vice President Peleg Peshell and Trembley's running mate William Henry Harrison, too late into the elections to find new candidates, leading to Trembley's victory. An elector from Ohio, Trembley, An eccentric often compared to Caligula, quickly earned the hostility of the rest of the government. His support for public nudity, banning of Pants, efforts to nominate babies to the Supreme Court, the possession of self-imposed titles of nobility and belief that he could appoint Congressmen at will all led to organized attempts to impeach him from office. Even his antislavery efforts and success in a war against giant spiders (believed to have been among the forces of the evil entity known as the Unmaker which was ultimately defeated several years later by Mormon prophet Alvin Miller) couldn’t save him from attempted impeachment. However, it would ultimately never come to that as Trembley would flee the White House before being informed of the impeachment proceedings, choosing to move out west where he would found the town of Gravity Falls in Oregon before encasing himself in Peanut Brittle as a form of amber like stasis. Some elements of the government would falsify a narrative that Trembley’s term had never existed and instead that William Henry Harrison(Trembley's running mate who had perished during the landslide at the convention) has won. It was reported that Harrison died of pneumonia as a means of staving off embarrassment to the office of the presidency.

### 9.**Augustine St. Clare**(1841-1845)(Whig)(*Uncle Tom's Cabin)*

    St. Clare was a Lemoynian slaveholder chosen to help provide regional balance and reassure southern voters that Trembley’s abolitionist leanings wouldn’t overshadow the rest of his agenda. St. Clare was widely admired for his civic involvement before his presidency. However, upon taking office, St. Clare proved to be a thorn in the side for the Whigs. He regarded quite a bit of the Whig agenda as unconstitutional and vetoed so much legislation that his party nearly kicked him out. St. Clare, despite his status as a slaveholder, was reluctant to annex Texas (which had declared independence following the brutal massacre of American settlers at the Alamo) and held off from doing so until the end of his term. St. Clare was also President during an alleged Second Coming of Jesus Christ, though it proved to be short-lived as the returned Jesus, alongside the ascended Washington, simply helped Miller defeat the Unmaker on the frontier. In the end, St. Clare would not contest the 1844 election and the annexation of Texas would be his last act in office before handing the position off to a Democrat successor. He would retire to his plantation. His daughter Eva died before he took office, leaving St. Clare severely depressed, and gloomy. In his Grief he grew closer to one of his slaves named Tom and intended to free him. He would be stabbed during a brawl before he could do so. Annoyed by his vacillation over the slavery issue, southern democrats nominated a more hardline successor.

### 10.**Puffer Hopkins**(1845-1849)(Democrat)(*The Career of Puffer Hopkins*)

Hopkins, known as the “Patriot of the Piehouse", Hopkins would lead the United States in the Mexican-American War following disputes over territory between the annexed Texas and Mexico. Under Hopkins’ leadership, the US invaded Mexico and annexed the Southwestern territory that would in the future become the states of New Austin, West Elizabeth, Nevada, Deseret and California, despite the efforts of the Mexican Army and local figures such as then current incarnation of the vigilante Zorro. Hopkins would also sign a treaty with the British establishing firm borders between the US-held Oregon Territory and British Colombia, with the US gaining firm control over the city of Seacouver as part of the treaty. Hopkins’ presidency would still face hardship however, as the Natives and Dead Rabbits gangs clashed in Metropolis and new divides over slavery were revived, on which Hopkins was ambivalent, Refusing to involve himself in the squabble between the slave power and abolitionists. Hopkins's last act was to approve the proposition of the mormon state of Deseret. Hopkins would end up declining to pursue reelection.

### 11. **David Rice Atchison**(1849)(Democrat)(*Real/Urban Legend*)

President Pro Tempore of the US Senate. Atchison was president for a single day in 1849 due to the fact his successor delayed taking office for a day(The day of Hopkins leaving occurred on a Saturday, while the Vice President left the day before to aid in forming Deseret). Since Sunday was a day of rest no government activity occurred before John A.B.C. Smith took office. Reportedly he slept through the vast majority of his term.

### 12. **John A.B.C. Smith**(1849-1853)(Whig)(*The Man that was Used Up*)

    General Smith was a famous war hero and Indian fighter. He was a general with a highly respected record and was admired by the country as a whole. He was also known as a powerful orator. Prior to his term in 1839, he had out of the blue invited author Edgar Allan Poe to a secret meeting in which he revealed several shocking things. However, by the time he assumed the presidency he had become ill and handicapped from his war wounds. Smith was confined to his bed for most of his presidency and was absent from most political affairs. However he did see the implementation of the Compromise of 1850 in an attempt to heal sectional divides and sent Commodore Chandler Bing to open up Japan to international trade. Smith also reportedly defeated a Freemason conspiracy with the help of Native Americans possessing interplanetary travel capabilities. After his presidency Smith resumed military service and went on to fight in the American Civil War as the oldest war veteran at the time. He lived from 1786 to 1866. An autopsy revealed Smith was almost entirely synthetic with mechanical limbs and much of his alleged exploits had in fact never occurred.

## 1850s

### 13. **Eugene Buckingham**(1853-1857)(Democrat)(*Uncle Tom's Cabin*)

A plantation owner married to a Scottish woman, Buckingham defeated Whig candidate Gracchus Vanderbomb to win the presidency. Buckingham was a staunch defender of slavery. He implemented the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was in charge when the infamous Dredd Scott decision was handed down, fueling increasing abolitionist sentiment. Buckingham firmly continued to defend slavery despite these facts and ultimately the disputes would come to define his presidency. He would stand aside after a single term due to these issues as party insiders favored a northerner stand for their principles. However, Buckingham would subsequently be vampirized by Lestat de Lioncourt and go on to be a government official in the Confederacy during the Civil War, as well as a key figure in the first incarnation of the Knights of Nordica before being killed by bounty hunter Jonah Hex in 1889.

### 14. **Arthur Weston**(1857-1861)(Democratic)(*Cabin*)

Weston was a Yale-educated Senator from Keystone who nevertheless was of southern roots and a strong sympathizer with the south on most political issues, including slavery. Weston suppressed multiple abolitionist plots, including John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry (which would ultimately lead to Brown’s death and ascension to become an Archangel of Liberty), the Henry Blake Revolt, the Tropican Revolution, and the burning of the Candyland Plantation. Weston’s attempts to curb these threats were stymied by the increasingly abolitionist views of the public at large, who began to rally behind the Republican Party. Seeing Weston's unpopularity, the Democratic Party abandoned him in favor of Russel Moreland, becoming increasingly disunified (with frontier hero Paul Bunyan launching a third-party campaign that took many votes from Moreland). While initially well respected personally, Weston eventually alienated the North, thus failing to prevent the Civil War and in 1860, the Republicans would emerge victorious with their candidate. Weston took no action to counter the dominoes of secession in the south and by the time he left office, South Carolina, Georgia, Lemoyne, Alabama, Mississippi, and Columbiana had all seceded with little resistance. Weston would consequently become one of the most reviled presidents in history.

## 1860s

### 15.**Abraham Lincoln**(1861-1865)(Republican)(Assassinated, Left Office)(Real/*Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter*)

Lincoln was a brilliant lawyer, opponent of slavery, the first Hunter president (the other known one being David Palmer who was recruited by Lincoln's mentor Henry) and (like Washington) relentlessly honest. At a young Age Lincoln learned of the existence of Vampires and grew up to become a fierce Vampire hunter. He discovered the true purpose of Slavery, to provide the Southern Vampires with a food supply. Lincoln became an abolitionist and defeated Stephen Douglas in the Republican Elections, eventually winning the Presidency. Lincoln took office against the greatest crisis to afflict the United States as the new Confederate States of America were bolstered by the secession of Virginia, North Carolina, Catawba, Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas, while Kentucky, Missouri and Sequoyah were rife with pro-Confederate sentiment. Lincoln had to contend with outside backers of southern independence, which included British individuals seeking to weaken the Union, vampires who sought to maintain slavery to ensure a ready supply of victims and time-travelling white supremacists from Draka, as well as France and Britain joining the war. Lincoln however was able to make use of the Union’s manpower and industrial advantage to stymie these threats thanks to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves and deploying experimental weaponry such as the Steel Man of the Prairies and rockets created by the Unionist Baltimore Gun Club. Despite the brilliant military leadership of General William Beauregard in the CSA leading to a southern victory at Gettysburg, the United States would ultimately emerge triumphant. Lincoln planned to implement policies of racial equality in the aftermath of the war, but would be shot by disgraced actor and vampire John Wilkes Booth the day after the 13th amendment was ratified before getting the chance. Lincoln was attending a performance by his Vice President Asa Trenchard, when he was assassinated. Booth then tried and failed to kill Trenchard by leaping at the stage but failed. While Lincoln would be saved by being turned into a vampire, he was forced to fake his death, thus passing the presidency on to his Vice President. Now as a Vampire, Lincoln would watch America grow, even founding Project S.T.E.A.M. Interestingly, a clone of Lincoln would be created in the late 20th century (alongside clones of other historical figures).This clone would engage in a Space Race to reach the Moon alongside a James T.Cassidy clone that resulted in the Lincoln clone being exposed to a Black Monolith discovered in 2001 that transformed him into a powerful being. He then found his way to Mars, where he was now worshipped as a god and evidently still resided there thousands of years later.

### 16.**Asa Trenchard**(1865-1869)(Republican)(*Our American Cousin*)

Trenchard, an uncouth congressman from Vermont, was Lincoln's absentee Vice President. Trenchard was more upset by the burning of the Tara Plantation by General William Sherman than by the terror inflicted on freed blacks by the Order, the Clan of the Fiery Cross, the Knights of Nordica, the demonic Ku Klux Klan, or any of the other myriad of white supremacist groups emerging post-Civil War. Trenchard would face challenges from Radical Republicans in Congress led by Austin Stoneman for his lenience on the southern states and narrowly avoided impeachment for mismanaging Reconstruction. However, Trenchard would consequently be blocked from winning in 1868. Beyond Reconstruction, Trenchard supported the Baltimore Gun Club’s efforts to launch a lunar expedition, though he backed off following contact being established with the Lunar Princess and several ex-Confederates on the celestial body. Trenchard was impeached for firing his Secretary of War and for mismanaging Reconstruction.

### 17.**Elias Gotebed**(1869-1877)(Republican)(*The American Senator*)

Gotebed was an uncompromising abolitionist and Radical Republican who took power after the impeachment of Trenchard. His Vice President Austin Stoneman was a more mainstream Republican and was respected for his foreign policy chops (as he had made a formal visit to Britain just before being elected). Presiding over Reconstruction, Gotebed sought to promote the status of African-Americans in the South and punish the former rebels. However, the Knights of the Nordica, a veritable empire of the South, arose against their northern occupiers in defense of white supremacy and racial purity. His efforts to crush the white supremacists were made more difficult by the emergence of the first generation of modern supervillains in the west such as Arliss and Miguelito Loveless. This period would also see the rise of outlaws in the western frontier of the United States of less nefarious sorts in the forms of William Munny, Liberty Valence, Jesse James, Black Bart Graham and Billy the Kid. Abandoned by his former allies, Gotebed nevertheless continued to impose Reconstruction. He also began to rely on the "Gunslingers" that operated in the era such as James West, Artemus Gordon, Jonah Hex, and near-vigilante lawmen such as John Reid, Kwai Chang Caine, Brisco County Sr. and the Lone Ranger among others. Through these men Gotebed suppressed plots by the former confederate terrorists like Loveless and Graham including an attempt at a Doomsday device. The U.S government eventually gave schematics of Graham’s weapon to William Hattison, who constructed the Doomsday Device. Gotebed would be criticized for purchasing Alaska from Russia, though he would be vindicated by history. American shipping would be terrorized by the white whale Moby Dick and Captain Nemo’s submarine known as the Nautilus. The Steel City War in Oregon between French and German colonists and the first recorded alien incursion into New Austin occurred under Gotebed’s presidency. Gotebed’s administration also saw the economy enter a recession in 1873, which would contribute to Republican misfortune in 1876. Gotebed also contributed money to the Baltimore Gun Club's efforts to colonize the Moon which continued to be repelled by the Confederate loyal Moon Princess. However, an artificial satellite known as the Brick Moon became the first successful attempt by the U.S to colonize space. Gotebed's ill health resulted in his death after he left office, and the federal government then abandoned Reconstruction after the Klan victory.

## 1870s

### 18.**Jacob Ajax**(1877-1881)(Republican)*Democracy: An American Novel/The Money Makers*)

Jacob “Old Granite” Ajax was a quarryman and former governor of Indiana, and was one of the most successful generals in the Civil War and by all accounts one of the best on the Union side, but had limited political experience within Washington. Ajax nevertheless quickly earned a reputation for corruption following the election 1876, where he won against former confederate Rhett Butler despite losing the popular vote due to Senator Killgore rigging the outcome in the state of Appalachia. Ajax was forced to withdraw troops from the South in 1877, bringing an end to reconstruction in order to ensure the Democrats would not continue to complain about it. His administration became more corrupt, being built on patronage, graft, and malfeasance. Ajax was intellectually limited and ill at ease in Washington. Therefore he was easily manipulated by his corrupt advisors like Senator Silas Ratcliffe. He also presided over the corruption, industrialization and the Long Depression of the 1870s. He also violently suppressed the Bread-Winners revolt in Buffland, although a later labor strike by Larry Locke was more successful. Implicated in the Whiskey Ring scandal, Ajax was kidnapped by outlaws Butch Cavendish and Quentin Trumbull in an attempt to win ransom money from the U.S government. However, Ajax was subsequently rescued. Ajax’s presidency also saw the rise of various American folk heroes such as Pecos Bill and John Henry to prominence, though Ajax himself could obviously not take credit for it. Ajax lost his bid for another term due to the opposition of the corrupt “Optimate” faction within the Republican Party. Ajax’s administration would quickly be sidelined in the 1880 election.

## 1880s

### 19. **Abner Dilworthy**(1881) (Republican)(Assassinated)(*The Gilded Age*)

A Kansas Republican, Dilworthy had been a backer of equal rights for African-Americans but withdrew it owing to political convenience. Dilworthy additionally faced charges of corruption related to his purchase of land in Tennessee. Dilworthy would ultimately be assassinated by Charles Guiteau, the husband of one of his mistresses both due to the affair and because the assassin sought to be ambassador to France and was denied.

### 20. **Silas P. Ratcliffe**(1881-1885)(Republican)(*Democracy: An American Novel*)

    Ratcliffe the “Prairie Giant of Peoria”was a ruthless and powerful conservative Republican from Illinois. He controlled Dilworthy from behind the scenes since his corrupt reputation prevented his directly being elected President, until Dilworthy’s death. A Senator from Iowa, Ratcliffe was a conservative Republican largely inclined to favor business interests. Labor unrest would become a key issue during Ratcliffe's administration, with multiple strikes erupting across the nation. Some, such as the one headed by Larry Locke and the Valedo strike in West Virginia of 1882, which ended Republican rule in Appalachia and ousted the powerful Senator Killgore, threatening the continued control of business interests and the Republican Party. Ratcliffe’s corruption and opposition to labor rights helped provoke a challenge from the “Mugwump” wing of the Republicans who favored these reforms. This third party challenge led to a hung electoral college that was decided in favor of the Democrats for the first time in decades. Ratcliffe’s presidency also saw a zombie outbreak wipe out the town of Piedmont and a major blight affect crops grown in the area around Arkham. The Mugwumps ran their own candidate in the 1884 election, while others gravitated towards the Democratic ticket. The Democrats won the south and the popular vote, and the Mugwumps won the East; but no candidate won the majority of electoral votes. Fearing civil war, Senator John Harrington addressed a Joint Session of Congress and persuaded them to select a certain ticket in order to preserve national unity, specifically that of Democrats Funny Valentine and Silas Lapham.

### 21. **Funny Valentine**(1885-1889)(Democratic)(*Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run*)

The first Democrat elected in a quarter of a century, Valentine was in possession of a power known as a Stand that enabled him to summon versions of himself from alternate dimensions. Valentine would help fend off raids by Robur the Conqueror and his flying machines and launched the Jump supersoldier program, the first of its kind in world history. Valentine additionally implemented civil service reform and practiced a classically liberal economic program. His reforms earned him great popularity with the public, but unfortunately for him failed to prevent defeat in the electoral college even as he won the popular vote. Valentine, after leaving office, earned enormous popularity thanks to his successor’s corruption and went on to commission the Steel Ball Run in a bid to reassemble the body of Jesus Christ (which had been scattered across the continent by the Unmaker when Jesus showed up in 1844). Valentine would ultimately be killed during this event by Johnny Joestar.

### 22.**Johnson P.** **Annabour**(1889-1893)(Republican)(*Newsreaders.*)

Guided by his Vice President James Jason Rogers, President Annabour was a complete nonentity entirely beholden to a cabal of business interests led by Senator William Paxton and consequently raised tariffs to benefit this cabal. His unpopularity would only increase following the temporary takeover of the western United States by Native Americans thanks to the Ghost Dance ritual and he consequently presided over the Wounded Knee Massacre, which killed numerous Lakota. For these reasons, Senators Charles Canterbury and Ransom Stoddard would form the “Stay at Home” movement in 1892, citing disgust at the Annabour administration’s corruption, cruelty and incompetence. Annabour consequently would go down in defeat in 1892.

## 1890s

### 23.**William Le Petomane**(1893-1897)(Democratic)(*Blazing Saddles*)

Valentine had been expected to be renominated in 1892 before his death threw the Democratic field wide open. LePetomane had been governor of New Austin back when it was a territory and ran promising to curb corruption that had permeated during Annabour’s term. He thus implemented key civil service reforms to deal with the corruption of the Annabour years. LePetomane's relatively progressive positions on race (he had appointed the first black sheriff in the US, albeit due to the manipulations of the criminal mastermind Hedley Lamarr) caused some friction with southerners in his party, but largely failed to materialize in a concrete form during his administration. LePetomane would additionally order the creation the floating city of Columbia at the World’s Fair of 1894 to the awe of much of the world. However, LePetomane’s administration would soon face many problems. The economy tanked in 1893, sparking an enormous recession which his fiscal conservative policies failed to address. Performances of *The King in Yellow*, which had been banned in Europe, spread to America and First Amendment protections did not prevent the resulting unrest. LePetomane and his vice President Richard Hunter would be defeated at the 1896 convention by Matthew Harrison Brady, a more populist, agrarian Democrat. LePetomane would endorse a third-party ticket headed by Silas Lapham and Brady would go on to lose the 1896 election to Republicans Henry Fleming and George Hazard.

### 24.**Henry Fleming**(1897-1901)(Republican)(*Red Badge of Courage*)

Fleming was the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected to the presidency. A supporter of imperialism, Fleming would wage the Spanish-American War which saw the US easily triumph, occupying Tropico, Guarma, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. This conflict helped solidify America’s status as a major world power. However, with this nevertheless came drawbacks. Black nationalists launched two uprisings during Fleming’s presidency, once led by Henry Belgrave and once in the form of the AMQUO. China would also invade the American West Coast during his tenure, though they would be repelled. Fleming’s gains from Spain under the encouragement of Charles Foster Kane and his post 1900 Vice President John Norton also provoked the 1901 invasion of the northeast by Imperial Germany. By far the most threatening invasion to occur under Fleming’s presidency was the Mollusc invasion, which hit the US less hard than some other nations, but nevertheless proved devastating. Most of the Molluscs on US soil would nevertheless be defeated thanks to the efforts of local heroes such as Janos Bartok. Fleming also backed the expedition to launch a counter-invasion of Mars headed by American scientist Thomas Hattison, which devastated much of the native Martian population including the Barsoomians and Sorns. The floating city of Columbia would secede from the United States during Fleming’s term following the Boxer's rebellion. Fleming would win reelection on the backs of his many triumphs, but shortly after the German invasion began, he suffered a heart attack.

## 1900s

### 25.**John Smith Norton**(1901-1909)(Republican)(*John Smith: The Story of a Peaceful Revolution/Citizen Kane*)

Norton had been a man of the frontier and a man of action, having participated in numerous exploits under the pseudonym Heeza Liar(a pun name given to him by his political enemies which he ironically embraced) prior to becoming Fleming’s running mate and subsequently president. His baptism of fire was repealing the 1901 German invasion. Norton was a strong progressive and an opponent of big business interests and the trusts they built to perpetuate them. Norton’s presidency has been credited with breaking up monopolies, such as in oil where he broke up John Hackensacker’s Standard Oil company into the competing ones of DinoCo, Xero Gas, Roxxon, Ewing Oil and McGuckin Petroleum. Norton also implemented wage, workplace safety and environmental standards and ushered in the era of national parks across the nation. Norton was also a supporter of civil rights initiatives, something which some thought contributed to the rise of attacks on the US by Columbia. Norton also launched anti-crime initiatives to target anarchist networks such as KAOS and the Guild of Calamitous Intent. However, Norton’s foreign policy was imperialist and treated the Martin Doctrine as a blank check to intervene in Val Verde, San Sombrero or Anchuria. During the war in the air, the City of Columbia unexpectedly came to the US's aid along with scientist "Old Bill" Roberts "radioplanes. Norton considered launching a bid for a third term in 1908, but was convinced to hand the presidency off to an alternative successor, though he would run again in 1912.

### 26.**David Israels**(1909-1913)(Republican)(*The Impeachment of David Israels*).

sraels was the first Jewish-American to hold the presidency and thus was widely distrusted (largely baselessly) by much of the country. Israels was a progressive like Norton, being opposed to big business interests and favoring social reform (his vice president William Rydell was a staunch advocate for public education, to the point of serving as the namesake of numerous schools across the United States). Israels was less interested in conflict than most other presidents and was reluctant to support military buildup. This caused him major political damage when the War in the Air broke out, as the US quickly was dragged into the conflict thanks to Germany, China and Japan launching strikes on the country. Israels would play a key role in brokering the ceasefire agreement that brought the conflict to (what was hoped to be) a close. Israels however would find himself targeted at home, as Charles Foster Kane’s media empire attacked Israels as a cowardly appeaser and spread rumors that provoked Congress to launch impeachment hearings. Israels would survive the impeachment attempt, but the controversy led to former President Norton running as a third-party candidate in 1912, taking numerous votes that flipped the election to the Democrats. Israels would disappear the day he left office and reemerge almost exactly 98 years later, where he would briefly consider running for president again before discovering the megacorporation known as Fulsom Foods was seeking to manipulate him for his own ends. Israels also was responsible for utilizing Cavorite to launch the earliest American space exploration efforts.

## **1910s**

### 27.**Woodrow Winthrop**(1913-1920)(Republican)(Died in Office)(*The King in Yellow*)

Winthrop had been a professor at Miskatonic University prior to entering politics and brought a bookish, academic vibe to the presidency upon taking office. Winthrop would be president when the First World War broke out in Europe, pitting the Clanker Central Powers of Osterlich-Zubrowka, Germany, the Ottoman Empire and Meccannia against the Maturinist Entente of Russia, France, Britain and Japan. Winthrop initially kept the US out of the war, in part at the behest of now-Secretary of State Matthew Brady, seeking to focus on more domestic reforms and countering issues in Mexico stemming from the actions of El Guapo. However, various factors (including offers by Germany to help Mexico retake the Southwest and the sinking of the Veritania) would ultimately push Winthrop to involve the US in the conflict. As Russia exited amidst communist revolution, US forces helped turn the tide in the Entente’s favor. Winthrop drew up the plans for the League of Nations, but suffered a major political blow when the US Senate rejected membership in the organization. Demoralized and facing increasingly ill health, Winthrop suffered from severe mental issues that left him bedridden and led to rumors his wife was really running the country (though this still does not explain Winthrop’s decision to legalize euthanasia in his final year in office). Winthrop’s health ultimately gave out completely just months before the end of his term.

## 1920s

### 28. **Nathan "Shagpole" Whipple**(1920-1921) (Democrat)(*A Cool Million*)

Whipple’s term as president was overall rather unremarkable (aside from a brief attempted invasion attempt by a mercenary army led by the deposed Kaiser of Germany, seeking a last-minute return to the throne of Germany). He was a lame duck almost from the beginning, not even being on the doomed 1920 Democrat ticket for November. His nativist, racist rhetoric alienated many northern Democrats and southerners still found him uncouth, preferring the passionate, but collected voice of Jake Featherston. Whipple is mostly remembered for his post-presidential life, where he helped form the fascist National Revolutionary Army, ran unsuccessfully for president in 1932 amidst the Great Depression and ultimately helped bring about the Corpo regime of the late 1930’s.

### 29. **Rufus Kane**(1921-1923)(Republican)(Died in office)(*The Life of Mary Marilyn)*

A cousin of Charles Foster Kane, Kane won the White House promising a ‘Return to Normalcy’ and largely delivered on that promise. Kane kept the US out of the League of Nations and disconnected from foreign affairs. Kane became notorious for his unfaithfulness to his wife, at one point propositioning the Senate’s lone woman. Kane’s presidency was also rather close to big business interests and he largely sought to allow them a free hand in activities in a sharp break from his progressive predecessors. His administration was also rife with corruption, much of which was revealed in the documents known as the Sunday Papers. However, Kane at no point was directly implicated in such things and exited office not through impeachment but thanks to losing a bought with pneumonia.

### 30.**Harold Goosie**(1923-1925)(Republican)(*Black No More*)

Goosie was a rather shy, quiet, unassuming sort whom had been picked as Kane’s running mate to shore up regional balance. Goosie’s presidency was heavily characterized by racial issues, following the advent of the Crookman Process capable of turning African-Americans Caucasian. Despite his party’s usual history regarding race relations, Goosie joined with the Democrats in working to ban the process (even as he continued to denounce the equally-opposed Knights of Nordica as brutes). Goosie was also president when the entity known as Cthulhu temporarily woke up and while it was quickly defeated by a fishing vessel, Goosie suffered terrifying nightmares for months and years afterwards. Goosie’s nightmares tormented him so much he shocked his party by refusing to run for reelection in 1924.His Vice President was Willis Markham.

### 31.**John P. Wintergreen**(1925-1929)(Republican)(*Of Thee I Sing*)

Wintergreen was the exact opposite of Goosie in personality (though not so much in policy), being an extroverted, energetic figure who used flash to make up for mediocre policy credentials (a move some have credited to the advice of Wintergreen’s friend Billy Flynn, who used a similar approach to get clients acquitted of murder on numerous occasions). Wintergreen ran promising to marry the winner of a beauty pageant and his decision to go back on this promise provoked a diplomatic row with France. Wintergreen also placed tariffs on Switzerland, which sparked the brief ‘Fletcher War’ that ended bloodlessly and destroyed the town of Innsmouth following incursions by Deep Ones. Moreau sapiens in America would also gain increased prominence as entertainers in America, most notably Charles Dingo’s Mickey Mouse shorts. Wintergreen’s presidency ran into some problems when it was discovered a group of New Guersey Republicans were involved in bootlegging activities under the leadership of Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson and Meyer Wolfsheim. Wintergreen himself was never implicated, but the ties between him and Thompson’s criminal empire led to the Republicans booting him from the ticket in 1928. He then ran on an independent ticket with Vice President Alexander Throttlebottom.

### 32.**Judson Hammond**(1929-1933)(Republican)(*Gabriel Over the White House*)

Nicknamed President Tweedledee, Initially, Hammond was largely seen as a tolerable figure by the country as a whole, whom was largely not looking for someone to rock the boat. However, early in his administration, the economy tanked, sparking the beginning of the Great Depression. Hammond was a corrupt adulterer who initially failed to address the enormous suffering created by the Depression. Hammond’s reluctance to rock the boat bordered on callous indifference to the suffering of working people and Hammond thus experienced severe unpopularity. Shantytowns known as Hammondvilles cropped up across the country and Hammond turned away veterans demanding bonuses with the help of General Harry Howell. The US would also briefly be attacked by the Treen natives of Mercury during Hammond’s term. Hammond also defeated the white supremacist pirate Seafalcon. With the aid of his business cronies, Hammond suppressed the burgeoning labor movement even as economic conditions worsened. Hammond ordered the destruction of Innsmouth, Massachusetts following the incursion by the Deep Ones in 1931. In 1932, Hammond suffered an automobile accident and was possessed by the archangel Gabriel(allegedly, it may have been the spirit of radical Gordon McSweeney, who was killed in World War I in 1917, causing a sudden personality change. He turned against his business backers, dissolved Congress, and declared himself to be a dictator for the duration of the emergency. Hammond established a National Army of Employment and a Federal Police, which he used to exterminate the criminal syndicate led by Nick Diamond. He also cracked down on the criminal empires of Snake Eyes Johnson and Tony Camonte and implement some attempts to relieve unemployment (mainly with job programs such as the Hammond Dam). Hammond also completed construction on a transatlantic tunnel to Britain, which was subsequently destroyed by a volcano controlled by the people of Atlantis. Hammond also temporarily achieved world peace by threatening to use the Doomsday Device, However, largely this was too little too late and Hammond would die just in time for his duly elected successor to take the presidency.

## 1930s

### 33. **Peter J. Varney**(1933-1937)(Democrat)(*The Phantom President*)

Varney had not initially been a politician, but rather a snake-oil salesman by trade whom was hired to stand-in for the aristocratic, uncharismatic Theodore K. Blair. Varney as Blair was able to defeat Betty Boop, Rufus Jones and to a lesser extent Nathan Whipple in the 1932 presidential election. Varney proved to be more popular than Blair and ultimately admitted to the whole ruse while Blair found himself exiled to the Arctic. Varney would survive initial attempts by Blair to regain power and solidified his popularity with a series of programs to relieve unemployment known as the New Deal (after being encouraged by a young orphan named Annie Warbucks). Varney’s New Deal policies did provide some relief to the public and were widely popular. However, Varney would run into a number of snags over the course of his term. The gargantuan ape known as Kong rampaged through New York in 1933, killing dozens and costing millions in property damage. The first individual to use the name Superman, not Clark Kent but a psychic experiment named Bill Dunn, briefly used his powers to take over the entire planet, before his powers proved to be only temporary. The adventure-hero Clark Savage also began working under President Varney. Varney was also troubled by the rise of fascism abroad in the form of Adolf Hitler's Germany, Adenoid Hynkel’s Tomania and Benzino Napaloni’s Italy. While he could not intervene directly, Varney had agents such as James Christopher and Henry Jones, Jr. undertake activities to prevent German acquisition of dangerous artifacts. The popular Louisiana Governor Willie Stark, aided by the radio host Bishop Prang and Charles Foster Kane’s media empire, attacked the president as not doing enough to help the public and, after Stark’s 1935 assassination, he was often suspected of being the perpetrator. Nevertheless, Varney presumed his popularity remained strong enough that he could withstand any challenges. He would be proven wrong. During Varney’s presidency, the National Revolutionary Army, threatened to violently overthrow himand establish a Fascist state. Varney declared martial law, and the Revolutionary Army was forced to stand down. Varney also briefly formed an international alliance known as the Pacific Powers to destroy a colony of superhumans in French Polynesia. Goosie also tasked scientist and adventurer Clark Savage to defeat the terrorist Man of Peace following an attack on New York’s electricity grid. Savage also defeated the terrorist Ark following an attack on Columbiana. Varney was surprised by Buzz Windrip’s entrance into the Democratic primary. Varney was almost narrowly renominated but was voted out by Windrip. Windrip would seize control of many state Democratic Parties, including almost the entirety of the South and Midwest (including his home state of Winnemac). Windrip would ultimately defeat both Varney and Republican Walt Trowbridge in 1936.

### 36.**Berzelius "****Buzz" Windrip**(1937-1938)(Democrat/National Revolutionary, then Corpo)(Overthrown)(*It Can't Happen Here*)

    Senator Buzz Windrip, the boss of the state of Winnemac, was another fiery populist whose promise of $5,000 a year for every citizen was meant to alleviate the Great Depression. Windrip emerged as the favorite of the populist wing of the Democratic Party following the assassination of their previous leader, Louisiana Governor Willie Stark. Stark, who was killed by Adam Stanton, had been preparing for a presidential run, and Windrip seized control of the political infrastructure Stark had built. Windrip emerged as the Democratic choice for President in 1936. He defeated Republican Senator Walt Trowbridge in a landslide. Windrip was elected with the support of Ex President Whipple, Charles Foster Kane, Bishop Prang, and a variety of nationalist groups including the National Revolutionary Army founded by ex-President Whipple, which Windrip reformed into the Corpo Party and the Knights of Nordica. Upon assuming office, Windrip’s philosophy of “Corporatism” was revealed to be a fascist program. Windrip, after his victory, swiftly went to work shifting the US into a dictatorship, dividing the nation into ‘corpos’ administered by his cronies and whipping up the public into a nationalist, xenophobic furor. Windrip banned dissent, declared himself dictator, sent his enemies to concentration camps, and relied on a paramilitary organization known as the Minutemen to enforce his rule. Windrip also built up the military in preparation for an invasion of Mexico. Windrip’s totalitarian policies ultimately provoked the rise of a resistance movement dubbed the New Underground, headed by Walt Trowbridge, Representative Burton Brown, Craig Stanley and Philip Dru to oppose him. This resistance movement was the most powerful in the western United States. Windrip’s economic policies were a failure, and his support among the public dropped rapidly by 1938. Windrip’s grip on power would completely unravel, as the Depression intensified, allies fled the country and Windrip was overthrown by his Secretary of State Lee Sarandon, and was exiled to France, where ehe resurfaced as leader of the puppeted nation under the Nazis. Sarandon's month long presidency was notable mainly for the Roman-style orgies he hosted in the White House. Sarandon’s coup helped prompt more unrest and even a planned invasion of Mexico failed to rally support. During his presidency, the Corpo movement began to dissolve. Sarandon was overthrown by his former ally, General Haik. After storming the White House, Haik attempted to draft an army to invade Mexico himself in order to distract from the domestic failures of the Corpo government. This attempt ultimately failed and sparked the Second Civil War. The New Underground managed to seize control of the Midwest. The Corpos disintegrated following the defection of General Emmanuel Coon to the rebels. Haik managed to kill Senator Trowbridge, but this only fueled a mass uprising that saw Dru and his allies seized most of the Western US in one fell swoop before the rest of the country finally was liberated. Haik was ultimately betrayed by his own subordinates, allowing the New Underground to arrest him and restore democracy. During the Fourth Civil War, Martians invaded New Jersey but were repelled by Superman. Additionally, U.S forces in the Pacific were attacked by a species of sentient newts during the war; these newts were defeated by the U.S Navy. Subsequent historians elected not to count Sarandon and Haik’s presidencies as legitimate owing to their status as the result of illegitimate processes to assume that role.

### 38.**Craig Stanley**(1938-1941)(Independent)(*The President Vanishes*)

    A cousin of John Norton, Stanley began to repair America following the Great Depression and the Fourth Civil War. A Republican, Craig had been one of the key figures in the New Underground. Stanley was appointed interim President by the New Underground as a placeholder before the resumption of democratic elections. Stanley’s first action was to reassemble Congress, which voted to recognize Stanley as Windrip’s legally appointed successor. Craig got the presidency as the result of Dru declining to assume the role citing his advanced age and Clark Savage Jr declining the Republican nomination. Craig instead appointed Dru, a Democrat, as his vice president. An opponent of the Taylor machine. Rather than retaliate against the Democratic Party members responsible for Windrip's rise. Stanley took steps to reintegrate the Democrats into the political system, appointing multiple anti-Corpo Democrats as part of his bipartisan “Restoration Government.”In order to forestall a pro-Axis coup by the fascist Grey Shirts, a Corpo splinter group, President Stanley feigned his disappearance in what appeared to be a military coup. The incident prompted widespread support for Stanley and the restoration of constitutional rule. Stanley defeated a colony of superhumans founded in the South Pacific. He also defeated an attack from the race of sentient newts that threatened to overthrow humanity. Craig was also president amidst the beginning of World War II, as German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler invaded Poland and Fooey Adenoid Hynkel invaded Ostelrich and Arztotska and subsequently conquered much of continental Europe. Craig chose to stay neutral in the war, but towards the end of his term began funding weapons shipments to Britain. Stanley’s presidency was also plagued by criminals and terrorists such as the Lightning and Doctor Satan who sought world domination. Craig additionally had to contend with incursions by Namor and his Atlanteans, which were repelled by the first Human Torch and other vigilantes such as Lobster Johnson. Craig subsequently formed an alliance with a different Atlantean kingdom, which had an American named Milo Thatch as its current king, to help prevent further attacks by Namor’s forces.

## 1940s

### 39.**Stephen Wayne**(1941-1945)(Democratic)(*First Lady*)

    A relative to the Waynes of Gotham and the Secretary of State. Wayne had been Secretary of State under Varney and returned to that role under Craig before running for president. Wayne defeated Stanley and the isolationist fascist-sympathizing aviator Ted Scott in the general election of 1940 and continued to funnel aid to Britain and, after Operation Barbarossa, the USSR.  The ”John Doe Club”, a loosely organized grassroots anti-poverty and reformist campaign, was the driving force for Wayne’s candidacy since Wayne promised the restoration of good government and the spirit of neighborliness. Wayne assumed power against a backdrop of war in Europe. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and Tomainian dictator Adenoid Hynkel was conquering Europe, annexing Poland, France, Osterlich, Klopstokia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Florin, Guilder, Ruritania, Markovia, Graustark, Latveria, Freedonia, Norway, Denmark, Alslavia, Ixania, Syldavia, Sokovia, Pottsylvania, and Arendelle. Wayne nevertheless kept the US officially neutral until 1941, when Japanese attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Wayne thus led the US into the Second World War. Allying with Britain, Atlantis, Themyscira, and the Soviet Union, Wayne fought against the Axis of Tomainia, Japan, Borduria, Vulgaria, Bulgaria, Illyria, Hungary, Lucrania, Italy, the warlord Shiwan Khan, the alien planet Mongo, Hydra, the Thule Society, dark wizards led by Gellert Grindelwald, the HYDRA organization of Johann Schmidt, various supernatural monsters, Nurmengard, and technological developments launched by Dieter Vogel and Wilhelm Strasse (which enabled the creation of cloned dinosaurs, werewolf women in the SS, the Trioxin virus and a legion of Nazi vampires), Wayne’s America continued to boldly fight on. Wayne helped form the world’s first super team, in the form of the Justice Society of America. Superheroes like Superman, Flash Gordon,the Human Torch, Diana Prince, Steve Rogers, Namor, Bucky Barnes, Flash Gordon, Billy Batson and Atomic Robo and played a key role in defeating some of the more unusual Nazi forces. Wayne also created the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense to help counter Nazi occultism. Wayne’s leadership would bring the Allies to the brink of victory, but ultimately Wayne himself would not see the final victory, dying a few months before the end of 1945.

### 40.**Mike Thingmaker**(1945-1946)(Democratic/Communist)(Impeached)(*Mess Mend*)

Thingmaker was a craftsman (hence the name "Thing Maker") from New England who had joined the New Underground and resisted Corpo rule. He was a hardcore left-wing figure. Thingmaker would bring the Second World War to a triumphant conclusion after Germany’s surrender and nuking Japan twice. After World War II, the United States emerged as the most powerful and prosperous nation in the world. Thingmaker would lead the US into the early years of the Cold War, which is where he ran into trouble. Thingmaker was, privately, a communist and favored implementing communism in the United States. He was happy to defer to the USSR’s leader Joseph Stalin and support the IngSoc regime of Harold Wharton in Britain. Thingmaker began to turn the US into a Communist state, leading to his nickname becoming "Think-Maker". Thingmaker allowed the Arkadins to smuggle the secrets of nuclear technology to the USSR and his socialist policies provoked a free market revolt headed by Dagny Taggart, John Galt and Andrew Ryan. This revolt caused a postwar economic recession and coupled with revelations of his treason, Thingmaker was swiftly impeached just before the Republicans swept into Congress and the Soviet Union became unpopular and with it Communism.

### 41.**Arthur Hockstader**(1946-1949)(Democratic)(*The Best Man*)

Senator Arthur “Give Em’ Hell” Hockstader of Missouri was a far more mild-mannered figure than Thingmaker and far closer to the postwar consensus in terms of politics. Hockstader was originally the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee; however Hockstader’s running mate, Thingmaker had been impeached and fled to the South Pacific after the publication of his diary revealed his corruption. Hockstader prosecuted the Arkadins for treason, rescinded orders to hand the American occupation sector of Germany to the Soviets (in part done due to trouble caused by the ‘Werewolf’ insurgency headed by Strasse and Ilsa Schneider). Hockstader formed the Oceania Pact with Britain, a precursor to NATO to serve as a bulwark against communism in Europe. Hockstader also exiled the multinational SCP Foundation from the US over their refusal to hand over artifacts to SHIELD or the BPRD. Hockstader also formed the Central Enquiries Agency, led by Philip Allen, to counter communist espionage. Hockstader was also president when the Galileo space expedition discovered a Nazi base on the Moon and contributed to the United World Organization effort to destroy the base. Hockstader was also president when numerous alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Austin and he would store the spacecraft in various clandestine sites across America such as Zone 91, Area 51, Area 52 and Warehouse 13, after which alien incursions became increasingly common. The city of Terre Haute was devastated by a mold bomb planted by surviving Nazis during Hockstader's term. In 1948, Hockstader began a crackdown on Superheroes, outlawing them and forcing many of them into witness protection, where they lived in secret. He used lawsuits against the heroes, then called "Supers" to portray them in a bad light, resulting in an absence of such beings until the 1960s excluding government sanctioned heroes such as Superman and Wonder Woman and vigilantes like Batman, who operated outside the government. Hockstader was widely admired for his personal integrity and resoluteness in the face of Communist expansion in Europe and Asia, even as concerns spread about Communist agents domestically. Wisconsin Senator John Yerkes Iselin used these fears to launch demagogic investigations of his political enemies on suspicion of their alleged membership in the Communist Party. Hockstader would however run into trouble regarding China, as Chairman Peng Tsing-Tse’s People’s Republic of China pushed the US-allied Republic to the island of Zheng Fa. Civil rights issues would end up dragging down Hockstader’s administration, as pushes to gain better treatment for African-Americans, Moureau sapiens and Toons caused a backlash, Coupled with the surprise run by ex-president Thingmaker (who blamed his impeachment on a capitalist conspiracy). In the 1948 election, The Republicans were bullish about their chances, especially after Jefferson Smith defeated New York Governor and famed Mafia prosecutor David Graham and Grant Matthews at the Republican Convention. Smith’s reputation was so stellar he barely campaigned. Despite being a replacement to a Communist, Hockstader overcame the Democrats’ low advantage in the polls through a cross country tour. Hockstader, already weary of the Presidency, was intimidated by Iselin was hesitant to run for re-election. He would go up again republican and former police chief John Lindsay. Hockstader would be defeated and even a last-minute threat to nuke Municiberg failed to salvage his chances. Thus Lindsay won became the 1948 election.

### 42.**John Lindsay**(1949-1953)(Republican)(*I am the Law/Newspaper Misprint)*

The former Mayor of New York, Lidnsay won the republican nomination in 1948 unopposed after Grant Matthews resigned denouncing his own backers and himself as frauds on live radio, and easily triumphed over Hockstader, despite a now infamous misprinting in which the Chicago Tribune reported Hockstader had won. Following East Hun Chiu’s invasion of West Hun Chiu, Lindsay got America involved in the Hun Chiu War in order to curb Communist expansion.The conflict ultimately lasted for a fairly short time frame, ending in a long-lasting stalemate. In 1950, Earth was visited by the Kanamit race, who initially used their technology to vastly improve humanity’s living standard. However, it was subsequently discovered that the Kanamits planned on using humans as livestock, resulting in a war that ended when SHIELD drove the Kanamits off-Earth by force thanks in part to the weapons designed by the ex-Nazi scientist Merkwurdgliebe and British scientist Bernard Quartermass. Before leaving Earth, the Kanamits sabotaged the inventions given to humanity, restoring the status quo. Lindsay was strongly against Whitlow's fascist regime, and he would see its destruction in 1951 at the hands of the Chimera Invasion, though he would lend US support in the face of Britain's alien invasion. Lindsay was also President when a race of planets called the Triffids nearly took over the world. Lindsay also saved the Earth from the lunar dictator Retik and Venusian induced climate change. New York City was also severely damaged by terrorist induced flooding. Lindsay became unpopular and the Republican part moved to replace him with Benjamin K. Arthur. Arthur had his candidacy turned into disaster after he named Senator Iselin as his running mate. Iselin and his wife Eleanor Shaw were assassinated at the Republican Convention by Iselin’s stepson Raymond Shaw. Army Intelligence revealed that Iselin, manipulated by his wife, was in fact a Communist agent. Eleanor Shaw had intended for her son to kill Arthur so that Iselin could become a dictator, which led to the defeat of Arthur in 1952 and Merkin Muffley's victory. The Republican party desperately searched for candidates to replace the tarnished image of Benjamin K.Arthur. A heart attack nearly took the life of Republican Candidate David Kamperhaufe, which put his health into question and a bid to replace him with animator Charles Dingo failed. It thus came down to Kamperhaufe vs Muffley.

## 1950s

### 43.**Merkin Muffley**(1957-1959)(Democratic)(Died in Office)(*Red Alert*/*Dr.Strangelove*)

Governor Muffley of California, widely considered an egghead, presided over a strong economy and a stable society. While his administration initially faced investigation by Senator Iselin; Iselin’s mental health deteriorated following a plane crash which he survived due to an “act of god.” Muffley would have almost certainly lost were it not for the scandals around Iselin, In 1953, terrorists attempted to deploy a nuclear weapon in San Francisco. America was visited by the Citadel Council ambassador known as Klaatu. The US would also be invaded in this time frame by the Molluscs once again, the Furons, the invasion of shapeshifting "pod people", and invasion of the flying saucers. Muffley faced numerous problems in international relations. Economic prosperity under Muffley was enormous, enabling the rise of consumer goods ranging from Hudsucker Industries’ hula hoop to Buzz Lightyear action figures. He also presided over the Iron Giant incident, and other alien invasions ranging from overt raids by the Zagons to the raising of undead ghouls by the Hive in an attempt to destroy the Earth. Muffley benefitted from an increasing collecting of costumed, superpowered vigilantes appearing across the US ranging from Doctor Manhattan to Jay Garrick. These individuals helped reduce the overall damage caused by these numerous incursions and increased confidence of the American public. Muffley would form the Syndicate of the Men in Black and Majestic-12 to deal with repeated alien incursions (dubbed Blue Rose cases), which also included attacks by the Blob, and an incursion by the hedonistic Transylvanians. The only successful invasion was by the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, who declared war on America and invaded while the city of New York was undergoing a city wide nuclear drill, allowing the nation to steal an experimental Doomsday device, which forced Muffley to cede the Doomsday Device, though America would reobtain it from one of their spies. Muffley played a critical role in defusing the 1957 Suez crisis and the next year’s Doomsday crisis. When the U.S Air Force accidentally bombed Russia in 1958, Muffley was able to avoid nuclear war, by barely preventing the activation of the Doomsday Device in what would come to be known as the Strangelove Missile Crisis. The Doomsday Device was revealed to be a facsimile. Atomic radiation following nuclear testing created numerous giant monsters and insects, particularly in the American Southwest. The U.S government repelled attacks from giant ants, locusts, a praying mantis, tarantulas, monolith monsters, sea snails, a Rhedosaurus, a giant bird, colossal human beings and enlarged species ranging from rabbits to Gila monsters. Some of these monsters would be contained in secret facilities and be used to fend off an alien invasion decades later. Other countries would also be attacked by giant creatures such as Gojira in Japan or Gorgo in Britain. Muffley worked closely with Japan to find a solution to their shared Kaiju problems, the result of which would eventually become Operation: Monster Island. He also worked closely with Russia, being good fiends with their then Leader Demetri Kissoff to find peaceful solutions to Cold War conflicts. He was also known to have defended America from foreign espionage, which included an incident in which American and foreign spies fought on and damaged Mount Rushmore. President Muffley also survived an attempted assassination by John Baron. Muffley also sent the first American into space without the use of Cavorite (the last Cavorite-using expedition being an ill-fated Mars expedition in the early 1950’s that left Valentine Michael Smith stranded). Muffley became ill and suffered a terminal stroke after his failed nominee for Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell, was revealed to have been a former member of the American Communist Party.

### 44.**Harley Hudson**(1959-1960)(Democratic)(*Capable of Honor/Mostly Harmess*)

Hudson served as a caretaker president for the remainder of Muffley’s term. Harley Hudson took power amidst significant international conflict. Soviet-backed insurgents overthrew the governments of Tropico and Isthmus, prompting Hudson to militarily intervene in the latter country. Hudson also invaded Gorotoland in order to reverse a Communist Revolution. These dual conflicts quickly instigated anti-war sentiment among liberals, while conservatives attacked Hudson as insufficiently anti-Communist, the extent of his actions being a bombing of Damascus known as "Damascetomy . It was during Hudson's presidency that Auric Goldfinger attacked Fort Knox. He also intentionally sabotaged an attempt by Deputy CIA Director William Martin to Carr youth an undercover invasion of the Republica Libra by having a Priest leading the rebellion assassinated, an action which led to him receiving blame for the mission's failure. The public paid more attention to the brutal Bates murders than Hudson’s policies. Hudson decided to run for re-election, prompting a battle between conservative Secretary of State Orrin Knox and liberal California Governor Ted Jason for the vice presidency. Knox emerged victorious but Hudson died in a plane crash soon after the Democratic Convention and before he could properly officially select Knox. While Knox and Jason campaigned they would lose the Ticket to Timothy Keegan, a member of the wealthy Keegan family.

## 1960s

### **45.Timothy Keagan**(1960)(Democrat)(Assassinated)(*Winter Kills*)

Keegan was a member of a wealthy family whom hung over this Presidency. He was President for only two months. In that short time, he would comment on the events in which florist Seymour Krelboyne would murder several people to feed to a carnivorous plant. He was assassinated on February 22nd, 1960. His killer was later discovered to be Keegan's own father by the late President's brother.

### **46. William Abbott**(1960-1961)(Democrat)(*Advise and Consent*)

Speaker of the House William Abbott of Colorado was Vice President until Keegan's assassination. Acting on a plan originally had by Keegan but never acted on before his death, Abbott sponsored the creation of the Justice League of America following the group's defeat of the Centre with the aid of the US Army. He defeated the Communist revolutionaries in Panama while committing more troops to Gorotoland. These actions risked nuclear war with the Soviet Union and Mae Abbott unpopular. He chose not to run for reelection. Orrin Knox and Ted Jason formed the new Democratic presidential ticket, but both were assassinated under mysterious circumstances, prompting the Democrats to nominate James T.Cassidy. The Republicans chose Richard Monkton, former Vice President under John Lindsay especially passing over Henry Talbot MacNeil Jr. Monkton had visited a technology expo alongside Dmitri Kissoff, a point which Cassidy called him out on during the campaign. Monkton's chances were also hurt by the fact that it was the first Election to be televised and many people saw Monkton profusely sweating during the event while Cassidy was much more charismatic and confident. Cassidy was thus able to win the 1960 election.

### **47.James Trelawney Cassidy**(1961-1963)(Democratic)(Assassinated)(*The Greek Tycoon/Promises To Keep*)

The first Catholic President, was a charismatic and popular president. Cassidy would be the most vocal supporter of civil rights to hold the White House thus far, meeting with civil rights leaders like John Calvin Sykes and Franklin Peabody. He also had an affair with actress Rita Marlowe at the time of her death in 1962. Cassidy also handled the Tropican Missile Crisis (sparked by the failure of the Bay of Llamas invasion to depose the totalitarian El Presidente Alejandro Costa ruling the island nation). After the failure of the Bay of Llamas invasion, Cassidy arranged a meeting with Costa, Richard Monkton and Secretary of Defense Preble Haugland to discuss how to ensure such an event would not happen again. During this meeting zombies attacked the Pentagon and the four men fought them off until they were rescued. Cassidy would also welcome the formation of a new superteam known as the Fantastic Four to prominence, utilizing members to forment unrest in Victor Von Doom’s Latveria. Cassidy won the Gorotoland war and committed American troops to Vietnam and Sarkhan. Cassidy directed his brother, Attorney General Tim Cassidy, to crack down on organized crime. The town of Bodega Bay was overrun by a collection of highly aggressive birds during his time in office. While visiting Dallas, Cassidy was assassinated, allegedly by ex marine Johnny Shellburn though there were later discovered to be multiple would be assassins at the location, which included ex-Special Forces agent Alex Mason and the vigilante Edward Blake and it is believed that there was a plot to kill the young president potentially involving the FBR, the CEA, Vito Corleone’s mafia, Tropican exiles, the SCP Foundation, the Syndicate, and multiple time travelers. Some say Cassidy survived and was transformed into a Black Man by Escker Scott Anderson and made a promise to fake his death in exchange for Tim Cassidy becoming the Attorney general though Tim Cassidy would be shot down in Sarkhan..

### 48.**Lancelot Gilligrass**(1963-1964)(Republican)(resigned)(*Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator*)

Gilligrass was chosen by Cassidy for Vice President since he was weak and subordinate to his political advisors but also to appease republicans. He was chosen after Arthur Fenstamaker stepped down. Gilligrass controversially appointed his childhood nanny, Miss Tibbs, as Vice President. Gilligrass ordered NASA to launch a space hotel, which was attacked by the Vermicious Knids, who had overrun most of the solar system, a role previously held by the Chimera. Gilligrass assembled an international effort to exterminate the Knids. Gilligrass, not truly wanting the presidency, would declare a special election. Gilligrass resigned due to the stress of multiple crises. Gilligrass implemented the Civil Rights Act and the “Great Society” programs during his time.

### 49.**Esker Scott Anderson**(1964-1965)(Democratic)(*The Company*)

Anderson, also known as "Macbird" allegedly had a hand in the Cassidy Assassination while serving as Cassidy's Vice President for a time and supposedly turned into a Black Man and hidden in secret. Also Allegedly he had sex with the bullethole in Cassidy's head, and asked a member of the Frankenstein family to transfer his brain into Cassidy's body. Anderson rubber-stamped the Sarkhan War. Sarkhan War Veteran Forrest Gump infamously showed his ass to Anderson when the President claimed he wanted to see where he had been shot. Anderson's Vice President is perhaps more famous than he is. John Pierrepont Finch was a personal friend of Cassidy’s despite being a Republican like Gilligrass and had been selected to be vice president after Tim Cassidy's death and Arthur Fenstamaker refused the role in order to run for governor of Texas. Anderson used the political capital from the many assassinations to push through civil rights legislation, seeking to end discrimination against nonwhites and Moreau sapiens. Anderson would also have to contend with the rise of international criminal organizations, most notably SPECTRE and THRUSH. Several towns in Nebraska were overtaken by a cult centered on a figure known as He Who Walks Between the Rows. Facing heavy stress and not truly at home with either party, Anderson declined to pursue reelection. After his Presidency, Anderson was rescued by time travelling superheroes while visiting Sarkhan in 1969. He later became a Supervillian alongside his wife Lady Hawk. Anderson was then turned into a vampire before being killed. His ghost now haunts the home town of Pico Mundo, still wearing the hospital gown he had on when he died.

### **50.Leslie McCloud**(1965)(Democratic)(*Kisses for My President)*

The first female president of the United States, “Landslide Leslie” McCloud was nominated as a compromise candidate by the Democrats, was elected in a landslide over the archconservative Republican nominee Brigham Anderson. The Republicans were still heavily damaged by allegations of collaboration with the Soviet Union and the ones that weren't were spared due to their affiliation with the Democrats such as Gilligrass and Finch. Despite her large margin of victory, McCloud faced enormous sexism as President and was not taken seriously by her peers. During McCloud’s presidency, the Luna rocket expedition made formal first contact with the Selenites on the Moon’s surface. McCloud also began sending aid to the anticommunist forces in Sarkhan, precipitating US involvement in the Sarkhan War. McCloud fought with the Soviet Union over their influence in Latin America. McCloud’s term in office would be cut short when she discovered she was pregnant. McCloud consequently decided to resign to focus on her role as a mother and wife, to the chagrin of many American feminists. McCloud’s presidency proved so unpopular with women’s rights activists many subsequent female politicians preferred to campaign as ‘the first female president’ as a means of discrediting McCloud.

### **51.James Norcross**(1965-1969)(Democrat)(*Super President*)

The first Superhero President. Norcross was primarily close to Cassidy and used this to push his campaign. Before, Keagan and Cassidy he was close to Hudson. Norcross would be president amidst many of the great crises of the 1960’s. He appointed William Martin as Director of Central Intelligence. Norcross, the former Secretary of State, was President during the bulk of the Sarkhan war and significant social and economic upheaval. High rates of crime, terrorism, alien incursions and supervillain attacks began under the Norcross presidency and remained high for the next fifty years. In particular, Norcross faced multiple terrorist plots by the terrorist organization T.H.R.U.S.H. Norcross was President when the planet Earth was nearly devoured by the entity known as Galactus, whom was only prevented from consuming the world thanks to the efforts of the Fantastic Four. The phenomena of mutants (also known as homo novis, homo superior and the tomorrow people) increased in prominence under Norcross. Norcross himself acquired superpowers thanks to a cosmic storm and at times fought crime as the vigilante ‘Super President.” Norcross would use his powers to bring an end to the first modern zombie outbreak following the breach in containment of Trioxin in Keystone in 1968. His abilities included increased strength and the Metamorpho-like ability to change his molecular composition at will to any form required (like granite, steel, ozone, water and even electricity). A hidden panel in the Oval Office allowed him access to his secret base, a hidden cave beneath the "Presidential Mansion" (a somewhat modified White House). However, Norcross would face issues far beyond those simply involving superhumans. The U.S also accidentally launched nuclear weapons against Moscow, nearly prompting nuclear war. After the incident, Norcross worked with the Soviet Union to repel a meteor. The escalation of the war in Vietnam and Sarkhan proved unpopular as reports of events in the region ranging from Doctor Manhattan destroying entire villages suspected of hosting Sarkhanese communist rebels to Colonel Sebastian Kurtz setting up a personal fiefdom in the region. Counterculture antiwar movements gained a great deal of traction during Norcross’ term, which prompted a youth revolution. Hostility to Norcross only increased following revelations of his ties to The Phone Company, a multinational communications conglomerate that sought to implant chips in the brains of every human being on Earth. While the scheme was thwarted and Norcross lacked knowledge of their plans, his unpopularity remained high. Norcross chose not to run for re-election in 1968 after the Tet Offensive showed the inadequacies of his war plans, allowing Max Flatow to become president. J. Pierrepont Finch had stayed on as Vice President. In retirement, Finch would become an early investor in computer technology and his son Harold would become one of the major tech billionaires.

### **52. Max Jacob Flatow Jr. "Max Frost"**(1969)(Republican)(removed from Office)(*Wild in the Streets*)

A musician and countercultural icon, Frost (born Max Flatow) was a 24 year old rock singer propelled to power by “hippie fascists.” He ran for president on the back of a push to lower the voting age to 14. Frost’s followers successfully forced this change to come about and additionally got the threshold for the presidency lowered to 15 as well. Frost consequently embarked on a presidential bid, gaining the Republican nomination thanks to party insiders assuming he could keep his followers on a tight leash. However, Frost upon winning showed his true ‘hippie fascist’ colors, interning ‘squares’ via his suede-denim secret police and withdrawing all troops from overseas. Frost supporters used LSD to brainwash Congress into lowering age restrictions for office and voting. Frost briefly installed a leftist/counterculture totalitarian regime; sending all older Americans to concentration camps for “Reeducation.” Frost aligned with California Governor Jerry Brown to create the Suede-Denim police to enforce this dictatorship. Frost’s actions ultimately backfired on him, as the Syndicate (which had concealed its existence from the radical young president) launched a coup against Frost, ousting him from power. With the usage of neuralyzer technology, the Syndicate essentially undid Frost’s presidency, convincing the public Frost’s rival, Ferris F. Fremont was in fact the winner of the 1968 presidential election and that Frost had won due to voter fraud.

### **53.Ferris F. Fremont/Richard Monkton** (1969-1974) (Republican) (*Radio Free Abermouth/The Company*)

Fremont (who used the alias Richard Monkton to conceal his Satanic seeming name) was an ambitious, amoral man whom had been given the vice presidential nomination with the expectation he would check Frost’s more radical ambitions. An experienced politcian, Richard Monkton ran against James T.Cassidy in 1960 and despite losing, was still respected enough by Cassidy that he was Brought into a meeting with Costa that was interrupted by a Zombie outbreak, forcing the men to fight their way out. Fortunately Monkton was an accomplished soldier, bowler, and Master with the Nunchucks. His party pioneered the Southern Strategy, under which southern Whites shifted to voting for Republicans, that would ultimately remake the GOP into a conservative party that would dominate the south. Monkton was infamously racist and sought to spread drugs in the black community with the goal of reducing their fertility rates, including a plot to release a drug into shipments of Anaconda Malt liquor that shrunk the genitals of Black Men known as Operation: Kansas, and beginning the ‘War on Drugs’ to crack down on minority communities. This resulted in a rivalry with the martial artist Black Dynamite. The entire operation was dismantled and covered up when Black Dynamite broke into the White House and threatened Monkton into doing so. Upon assuming the presidency, Fremont showed himself to be as authoritarian as his predecessor, simply from the right instead of the left. Fremont additionally had no patience for student protests or other dissent against him, interning opponents on his enemies list and drastically escalating the Sarkhan War. His interning of prominent figures such as Hawthorne Abdensen and Kilgore Trout helped provoke the creation of the nebulous ‘Volunteer Fire Department’ network among intellectuals targeted by his regime which would actually outlast Fremont’s term. Fremont’s presidency saw the launch of a number of secret projects such as MKUltra, Project Firestarter and the NIMH experiments, all of which had far-reaching consequences. Fremont also plotted with the CEA to seize oil reserves in the Middle East. The Russell Commune Murders occurred during his administration. The unpopularity of the Sarkhan war and economic stagnation left Fremont deeply unpopular. Fremont also engaged in a Space Race to the Moon with Russia for Propaganda and morale purposes which America won, when Mike AR Samson landed on the Moon. He was also deeply paranoid. Fremont also presided over the Poseidon disaster. Fremont nominated the popular Senator Hays Stowe as his running mate. Los Santos was also heavily damaged in the earthquake of 1974. Monkton also employed agents such as Steve Austin and the Impossible Missions Force to battle terrorism and foreign sabotage. Monkton survived an odd assassination attempt using a trained Dolphin (though it was later discovered Dolphins themselves were more intelligent than humans and just wanted Monkton to die). He also survived a coup by his Secretary of Health. He was also turned into a werewolf by his Press Secretary Jack Whitter and transformed in front of the entire nation, though thanks to his status he was able to afford accommodations for his transformations on night of the Full Moon. Though allegedly there was a failed rematch with Black Dynamite when Monkton believed his werewolf powers would give him an advantage over the vigilante. Monkton’s regime would ultimately unravel in 1974. Monkton would hire the organization, the Plumbers, to break in and wiretap the Democratic Party Headquarters at Watergate when report of a break-in at the Watergate Hotel was called in by future businessman Forrest Gump. The wiretapper Harry Caul was arrested for this action and claimed he had been ordered to do so by CEA Director Bill Martin. Subsequently, leaks provided by Codename: Deep Throat, believed to be the two teenage girls, to the Washington Herald’s Mark Forman and Jack Turner, and a failed assassination attempt by the aforementioned individuals by Edward Blake that was prevented by Captain America, who was investigating the Secret Empire within the White House, revealed Monkton had carried out the break-in with the goal of securing dominance in the White House. Monkton consequently would be forced to resign the office of the presidency in disgrace (though his revived head over a thousand years later would manage to mount a successful return to politics). Monkton may also have been responsible for a pact between the Syndicate and Furons that led to the former collaborating with the latter’s invasion attempts in later years, though this has been disputed. Captain America tracked down a conspiracy involving the Secret Empire, a Hydra splinter group directly to Fremont. Fremont killed himself in front of the Captain rather than be arrested and humiliated.

## 1970s

### **54. Prez Rickard**(1974-1975)(Independent)(*Prez*)

Teenage Prez Rickard – named by his mother with the dream of him someday becoming president – took the initiative of fixing the clocks in his town of Steadfast to run on time, making him a local hero. Shady businessman Boss Smiley recruited him to run for the Senate, thinking he could manipulate the boy. However, inspired after encountering Eagle Free, a young Native American, Prez campaigned on his own terms, and was instead elected president in 1972 only for the outcome to be tampered with by Monkton. Rickard holds the record for the youngest president of the United States, being only a teenager upon taking office. Prez Rickard, who was able to run for President due to the law Max Frost put in place still being active. Prez selected his mother to be vice president, made his sister his secretary, and appointed Eagle Free director of the FBI. Rickard nevertheless had an extremely busy term, pursuing gun control and environmental initiatives and establishing the Nelson Institute for Marine Research. Prez fought a legless vampire and his werewolf henchman, a right-wing militia led by the great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew of George Washington, "Boss Smiley", and evil chess players. However, despite these positive events and high personal popularity, Rickard struggled to deal with other issues. The US was targeted by a collection of oil-producing states including Wasabia, Qumran, Qumar and Asran for an embargo over support for the state of Israel. Inflation also set in and the country’s mood remained somber in the aftermath of the failure in Sarkhan. Prez survived and assassination attempt on Prez's life that took the life of his fiancée, Prez forgave the assassin when he learned that the assassin was mentally unbalanced. Eventually, he was killed, and Boss Smiley confronted him with a day of reckoning. At this point, the Endless Dream, offered him passage to alternate Americas, as a travelling philanthropist.

### **55.Henry Talbot MacNeil Jr.** (1975-1976)(Republican)(*Voyage to the Botton of the Sea*)

    Henry MacNeil was a widely respected World War II war hero, senator, vice presidential candidate in the 60s and public servant who had prevented nuclear war while Secretary of State in 1973. A moderate Republican from Massachusetts, MacNeil was fired by Luthor for opposing his corruption and many rejoiced when it was discovered he was the true winner of the 1972 election, which Luthor had rigged in Fremont's favor. MacNeil is widely credited with restoring honor to the Presidency following multiple conspiracies, assassinations, and attempted coups. Nevertheless MacNeil presided over a time of increased political and social instability. MacNeil was President when a French terrorist destroyed the United Nations. He was also President during the Championship X riot, and discovered the plot of Neo-Nazis to clone Hitler. MacNeil also survived an assassination attempt during reconstructive surgery following a head wound. Nuclear war against the Soviet Union nearly occurred under MacNeil’s orders. MacNeil was personally popular, but the Republicans were widely distrusted after the Secret Empire scandal. During his Presidency Palestinian terrorists attempted to crash a zeppelin into the Super Bowl between the Miami Dolphins and Washington redskins which was fortunately prevented. McNeil greatly pushed exploration, building Nautilus inspired Submarines to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and pushing for Space Travel, resulting in his invitation to the Robinson Space Launch in the 1990s when he was out of office. When Elections came up in 1976, New York Senator Palantine initially was the underdog for the Democratic Nomination, but emerged as the frontrunner after it was revealed that Senator Burton Henderson conspired with the CIA to assassinate foreign leaders. MacNeil ran up against Palantine and All-Night Party nominee Howard the Duck, but Palantine would be assassinated by cab driver Travis Bickle. McNeil would lose to David Stevens.

### 56**.David Stevens**(1976)(Democratic)(*Twilight's Last Gleaming*)

    Stevens easily won the presidency over Stevens and the disgraced Republicans. The brief presidency of David Stevens was interrupted by the Montana Missile Crisis, when General Lawrence Dell seized nuclear missile silos and threatened to start World War III unless certain documents were released regarding U.S actions in Vietnam. Stevens offered himself as a hostage in order to defuse the crisis, but he was accidentally killed by Air Force snipers.

### 57**.Jordan Lyman**(1976-1977)(Democratic)(*Seven Days in May*)

Stevens's Vice President. Crime increased drastically, with Precinct 13 in Los Santos nearly being taken over by the Street Thunder gang. Lyman was prompted after repeated attempts by the terrorist organization SPECTRE to initiate a nuclear war to sign a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Because of this treaty, General James Scott headed a failed military coup against Lyman to reverse the policy of detente. While Lyman defeated the coup, he was later killed by a building collapse in Frankfurt, Germany in what appeared to have been an assassination by one of General Scott’s retainers. The Vice President was ill and an unlikely successor was chosen.

### 58.**Douglass Dilman**(1977-1981)(Democratic)(*The Man*)

President Pro Tempore Dilman was the first African-American President, and was thus widely hated by millions of Americans. Dilman found himself caught between racists hostile to him because of that alone (membership in groups like the American Socialist White People’s Party and Knights of Nordica soared during his term) and liberals who thought some of his policies as betrayals of his people. Dilman foiled a power grab by Secretary of State Eaton. controversially deported Robert Wheeler to Draka South. Dilman would face a coup attempt for seeking to negotiate arms reductions treaties with the Soviets, though this coup failed and the treaty negotiated by Secretary of State Bruce Gold would go into effect. When mutant Carrie White resurfaced, Dillman attempted to use this as a platform by blaming Carrie's abusive religious mother and failure of the School system to act on horrible Bullying. This led to the passage of the Keene Act in 1977 severely restricting superhumans’ activities and limiting the rights of metahumans. Dilman opposed the legislation, but his veto attempts were overruled. Additional serial killings would occur across America during his term, including the Myers murders in Haddonfield, murders by a cannibal clan in Nevada (which would ultimately be destroyed by Bruce "David" Banner), and the Crystal Lake murders. The town of Jerusalem’s Lot was overrun by vampires and had to be destroyed by the BPRD. He won re-election. For his second term as President, Senator McKay, a young liberal lawyer from California was chosen as Vice President due to his connection to the McKay political dynasty, having nearly been chosen to boost the popularity of the Stevens administration. For his second term, Dilman encountered a period of economic and social malaise. Other conflicts included Neo Nazis building space weapons, the Dalchimsky affair, the attack of the killer Tomatoes, the attack of the killer bees, and Contact with an Alien Race at Devil’s Tower which made Dilman a pioneer in interstellar travel when Astronauts were taken with the visitors. Attacks by a mutated grizzly in Maine also occurred. Miskatonic University’s campus was destroyed when a nuclear strike on the Cthulhu spawn Cthylla was launched and several areas of the Midwest would fall victim to a mass Trioxin outbreak before the military cleared the infected out. Labor disputes heated up following the murder of Johnny Kovak of the Federation of Interstate Truckers. An attempt by the Libyan government to destroy New York, and attacks by various supervillains occurred under his watch. Dilman's second wife, Billie Bradford, was also abducted and impersonated by a Soviet spy. MacNeil barely quelled a primary challenge from Senator Joe Tynan. In the general election, unable to run for a third term he left office, many Americans old enough to vote say they would have voted him for a third term if they could. The worst point in Dilman’s administration was the Asranian Hostage Crisis. In the aftermath of a civil war over dynastic succession, the weakened Shah of Asran was overthrown by Islamic radicals who took the US embassy’s staff hostage. Despite Dilman’s best efforts, the hostages remained trapped until past election day and coupled with the bad economy, Dilman was defeated in a landslide by businessman and Connecticut Governor Logan Powell, but a compromise would be made that led to Augustus York assuming the Presidency.

## 1980s

### 59**. Augustus Alvin York**(1981)(Republican)(Resigned)(*The Zero Factor*)

York had been a compromise pick between the establishment Republican leadership and the conservative grassroots. York was briefly the target of a kidnapping plot carried out during a summit in Canada, though this attempt failed. However, coupled with assassination threats, York became very paranoid about falling victim to the ‘Zero Factor’ that claimed the lives of every president from 1840 onwards (at least based on what he knew at the time). The Zero Factor was allegedly a curse placed on every President elected in a year evenly divisible by 20. This William Henry Harrison, who had replaced Quentin Trembley and had been falsely listed as having died in 30 days of Office, allegedly beginning the curse, Abraham Lincoln(1860, Assassinated), Abner Dilworthy(1880, Assassinated), Henry Fleming(1900, Assassinated),Nathan "Shagpole Whipple(1920, Assassinated upon leaving office), Stephen Wayne(1940, died of Cerebral Hemorrhage), and John F.Kennedy(1960, Assassinated). York ultimately chose to resign from office, ironically breaking the curse and it appears to have remained broken as Josiah Bartlet survived an assassination attempted after winning the 2000 Election. It was now intended for Logan Powell to assume the Presidency.

### 60**.Florentyna Kane**(1981-1982)(Democratic)(*The Prodigal Daughter/Shall We Tell the President?*)

President elect Logan Powell was revealed to be a Soviet agent and committed suicide before his inauguration. Florentyna Kane briefly became President. Kane was a descendant of both Rufus Kane and Charles Foster Kane.  America faced major threats from drug cartels such as the one headed by Tony Montana, and terrorist groups like COBRA, and MAD. A special election was held as very few people trusted Kane after the reveal of Powell's connections and she would be voted out of office by the Republican candidate.

### **61.Johnny Cyclops**(1982-1986)(Republican)(Killed in Office)(*Whoops Apocalypse*)

Johnny Cyclops assumed the presidency. Promising “Morning in America”, President Cyclops, often referred to by his nickname "Johnny Cyclops" based upon one of his most famous Movie Roles from his time as an actor, was elected on a hardline conservative platform. He was hawkish on Soviets, terrorists, COBRA, MAD drugs, aliens, Decepticons, Inhumanoids, and mutants. The Hawkins incursions also all occurred under Cyclops’ watch and prompted the president to invite the SCP Foundation to resume operations in America. Reagan’s trickle down economic policies were widely accredited for an economic boom. His policies led to the growth of corporations such as Ghostbusters LTD, the Foundation for Law and Government, and the Paranormal Termination Consortium, all of which contributed to the public welfare by dealing with threats both supernatural and mundane. On the other hand, his policies also allowed for the spread of the addictive foodstuff known as the Stuff, provoked the ScrumLabs kaiju incident, may have caused the Louisville Trioxin outbreak and perpetuated income inequality. Cyclops’ America faced major threats from drug cartels such as the one headed by Tony Montana. Cyclops’ foreign policies proved to be more controversial. His decision to create a Quark bomb on the advice of his advisor ‘the Deacon’ nearly provoked a global war and his support for British control of the Cascara Islands was polarizing. The Crisis on Infinite worlds would see realities be merged into one and the tragic deaths of many Superhumans. During the 1984 Election, Cyclops was challenged by former governor Hamilton Foote and cut a deal with mobsters to take corrupt Nevada senator Randolph Godwin as a running mate. The attack by the Sumerian god Gozer on New York in 1984, an attack by Pterodactly monster believed to be the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl on New York , cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, as well as the rise of the criminal organization known as the Foot Clan would also occur. British superhero Miracleman’s attempted to take over the planet but was ultimately defeated by Superman and Doctor Manhattan. There was also a nuclear attack on Charleston by pro-disarmament terrorists, a zombie outbreak in Louisville, a Communist invasion of Florida, the 1984 Hormuz Crisis, and numerous minor cold war conflicts. During his term, the Visitors attempted an invasion and while their true intentions were revealed to be similar to the Kanamits, though they would attempt to infiltrate Humanity until John Nada revealed their presence in 1988. To stave off further alien threats, Cyclops allied with the more benevolent races known as the Autobots and Dinosaucers.The country also saw increased numbers of supernatural murders, most notably the Springwood dream killings and the murders of Jason Voorhees. Additionally, Cyclops’s Secretary of State, Lansard Blaine, was assassinated early in his tenure, causing a brief crisis. Cyclops built up the military, investing in the Star Wars shuttle fleet against Soviets and aliens. Washington D.C was also occupied twice during Cyclops's presidency- once by COBRA, the second time by Decepticons and soldiers from the underwater kingdom of Sub-Atlantica. Reagan, due to facing so many threats, was a strong supporter of groups such as the Autobots, The GI-Joe, and the Justice League, even publicly endorsing the time traveling hero Booster Gold, who saved his life from an Assassin. Following others attacks and an assassination attempt on Senator Robert Kelly by the Brotherhood of Mutants, Cyclops had the Trasks build an army of robots known as Sentinels, which would rebel and be destroyed by the X-Men on multiple occasions. After the Val Verde and Corto Maltese crises, Both Cyclops and Senator Kelly eventually moderated their positions regarding Communist states and mutants in his second term, which prompted assassination attempts on both of them. The Red October crisis brought the US and USSR to the brink of war before both sides backed down. However, his hardline anti-communist rhetoric led to a very bad place. His hardline positions led to a coup headed by General Vladimir Soshkin, who after an American boxer humiliated the Soviets by triumphing in a Moscow match, sought to prepare to awaken Cthulhu in the event of a war with America. Cyclops had Colonel Oliver Southern put in charge of contingencies should that scenario occur, but conflict would erupt early when Cyclops joked of beginning bombing in five minutes. Soshkin would awaken Cthulhu to begin the Third World War, but following the entity’s defeat at the hands of the kaiju Gojira and Gamera launched an earlier plan known as Operation Red Dawn from Soviet-aligned states in Tropico and Mexico. A Soviet warhead haulted by Superman caused a blackout which allowed the aged Vigilante Batman total control of Gotham City, and consequently Gotham became the safest City on Earth. Seeing this as an insult, Cyclops sent Superman after Batman and the two heroes fought, ending in Batman's seeming death until some years later. This was Reagan's doing as the Hero would be distracted and Cyclops would be killed in a Soviet bombing raid on Washington in the early stages of the Third World War.

### **62. Howard T.Ackerman**(1986)(Republican)(*Command And Conquer: Red Alert 3*)

    Howard T. Ackerman rose to the Vice Presidency on a strong anti-Communist platform. He led the nation through World War III, which saw his seeming demise along with the Leaders of Russia and Japan when Adrian Veidt initiated his plan and transported a genetically engineered alien creature into New York City, making it appear as an alien invasion, hoping to initiate the Global Protocol of halting Global Conflicts to defeat the Invaders. When the Soviet Union chose instead to invade and take advantage of the alien invasion, Veidt initiated another plan, activating several powerful bombs, destroying 27 cities with fortunately no radiation. Howard T.Ackerman was killed in one such explosion. He was later revealed to be an Android created by Prince Tatsu of Japan. This would end the War and all sides would join forces.

### **63. Andrew Wadsworth**(1986-1987)(Republican)(*Jack Ryan Series*)

Wadsworth’s FBI director, Vernon Tynan, attempted to assume dictatorial powers by introducing a constitutional amendment which would have suspended the Bill of Rights in the event of a national emergency. The amendment was introduced in reaction to mutant terrorism, the crack cocaine epidemic, and rising crime rates. Attorney General Christopher Collins revealed the amendment to be an attempt by Tynan to establish a dictatorship. Tynan subsequently committed suicide. Additionally, Defense Secretary David Brice was arrested after he murdered his mistress. Wadsworth's presidency was badly damaged by public revelations by Jack Ryan and Senator Ernest Harrison of CIA involvement in the Colombian drug trade; after which President Wadsworth chose to resign after pardoning himself and those involved with the drug scandals.

### **64.Samuel Arthur Tresch**(1987-1988)(Republican)(*Mr.President*)

Samuel Arthur Tresch, the former governor of Wisconsin, was Wadsworth's Vice President. His Presidency was somewhat tarnished by a Divorce that took his children away from him while he was in office. He eventually resigned due to poor health.

### **65.Samuel Baker**(1988-1989)(Republican)(*Jack Ryan Series/Favorite Son*)

Baker was a moderate Republican who was seen as an able foreign policy hand. Sam Baker, a former Senator and Secretary of State, was an elder statesman but was selected by Tresch to be his Vice President due to his personal integrity. He selected Senator Daniel Eastman as his Vice President; Eastman quickly came into conflict with his administration. However, this did not prevent his administration becoming embroiled in scandal. CIA Director William Reiker and Chief of Staff Lou Brenner were forced to resign for obstructing the investigation of the assassination of Nicaraguan Contras commander Oscar Martinez by a former CIA agent. The shooting appears to had been ordered by political aides of Senator Terry Fallon, who was wounded during the assassination, in order to boost his chances of being selected Baker’s running mate in the 1988 presidential election. After the FBI uncovered the conspiracy, Fallon was killed by his disgruntled aide Sally Crain. Additionally, administration officials were found to be collaborating with an infiltrating race of alien Visitors who had infiltrated many of America’s businesses and corporations. Senator Fallon, a supporter of the Tynan amendment, was posthumously revealed to be one of the alien invaders. West German groups took over Nakatomi Plaza but were killed by John McClane. New York was also attacked by aliens from Yomi in 1988, beginning the invasion of the Dominators, an alliance of alien species. This resulted in New York for a time being turned into a Prison. Baker also backed Helen Brunner's Britain when conflicts resumed. Soviet nuclear strikes would devastate Missouri, parts of England and China during the war, but ultimately the usage of nuclear weapons would be spread thin, in part thanks to the flight of the ‘Old Dog’ airplane and the usage of the Silver Tower defensive system. Ultimately, Soshkin would be removed by Moscow mayor Sergei Karpov, who launched peace negotiations amidst the collapse of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. Baker would run for reelection in 1988, but be defeated in the primaries by Robert Kelly, running on the basis that Baker’s suspension of the Keene Act during World War III was a threat to the public. Kelly would go on to achieve victory over Jack Tanner and Stephen Wendell.

### 66**. J Robert Kelly Fowler**(1989-1991)(Democratic)(Resigned due to Stress)(*Jack Ryan Series/X-Men/The West Wing*)

Kelly had made a name for himself as an anti-mutant hawk who distrusted homo novis. However, shortly before taking office, his perspective shifted after he was rescued from being kidnapped by future Genoshan president Erik Lensherr by the mutant students of Charles Xavier. Kelly consequently came to appreciate the value of heroic metahumans, rolling back the Keene Act and establishing government support for the Xavier Institute, Whateley Academy, Sky High and other institutions to train future superteams.

Kelly’s policies have been credited with the emergence of groups like the Powerpuff Girls, the Seven Guns, the Umbrella Academy and the Teen Titans during the 1990’s. Governor Fowler defeated Fowler participated in the defeat of the Dominators by the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce in the first few months of 1989. Fowler briefly threatened to annex Canada following an oil crisis in accordance to the terms of a secret 1914 treaty. Fowler and Vice President Vincent Margolin were kidnapped by the Bougainville shipping family and brainwashed by the Soviet Union into deliberately weakening America’s strategic position and dissolving NATO. Due to his erratic behavior while brainwashed, Fowler was nearly impeached by Congress in a plot by Speaker Alan Moran to seize power.

The plot was revealed at the last minute, saving Fowler’s presidency. Fowler then replaced Vice President Margolin with Roger Durling. Fowler presided over the Gulf War. Subsequently, On the domestic front, Kelly was president during the first attempted school massacre at Westerberg High School and during the Vice City animal mask murders. Kelly also formally concluded World War III by signing a peace treaty with the USSR. Kelly however would have to contend with new threats. Khan Noonien Singh’s India had taken advantage of China’s collapse to annex the country and begin planning military expansion. Saleh Takridi’s Basenji invaded the smaller US ally of Qumran, sparking the Gulf War. The biggest crisis of Kelly’s term was the Denver nuclear incident of 1991. Palestinian terrorists attacked the Denver Super Bowl with a nuclear bomb, killing 75,000 people.

Kelly, stressed by his failure to avert the catastrophe, would resign the presidency in the aftermath of this event. After leaving office, Fowler eventually moderated his positions regarding Communist states and mutants in his second term, which prompted his assumed assassination by anti-mutant fanatic Alan Lewis, he would secretly survive, but assume a new identity, Dwight Wire Newman. His wife Tess was famously guarded by Secret Service for a time following his supposed death.

## 1990s

### 67**. Roger Durling**(1991)(Democratic)(Killed in office)(*Jack Ryan Series*)

President Durling, formerly Governor of California, was President when the US began to intervene in the conflict known as the Eugenics Wars. Durling sent military aid to the nations of Matobo and Zamunda as Karl Vorster’s neo-Domination regime in Draka sought to expand and also sent aid to Vietmahl and Sarkhan to stave off takeover by the Great Khanate. Durlingl also used direct force to deal with Augment warlords in Ardistan. During Durling’s presidency, the alien warlord Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet to erase half of America’s population along with half of all life from existence. However, the disappeared were subsequently restored to life shortly afterwards when the Infinity Gauntlet was removed from Thanos. Durling would also lead the US into a war with Japan, which had aligned itself with the Khanate and embraced radical ideas such as sending teenagers into deathmatches to curb delinquency. The US emerged victorious in both Japan and South Africa, Durling was killed after a Japanese pilot crashed a plane into the Capitol during the State of the Union.

### 68**. Jack Ryan**(1991-1993)(Independent)(*Jack Ryan Series*)

Ryan was a former CEA agent and the son of the Galtist businessman Andrew Ryan, whose underwater city of Rapture had laid much of the groundwork for the technology used to create the Augments. Despite his own bizarre origins, Ryan showed strong leadership during his time in office. Ryan intervened in Yugoslavia, Central Asia, Thailand, Iraq, and Africa during the course of the Eugenics Wars, deposing Augment dictators like M. Bison, General Kazim, and General Krull. Furthermore, Augments such as Vladimir Radchenko and the Crimson Jihad directly threatened to attack America but were repelled. He defeated the Khanate-aligned United Islamic Republic formed by the takeover of Basenji by Asran even amidst attempted biological warfare. Jack Ryan fended off a challenge to his legitimacy by former Vice President Ed Kealty in order to assume the presidency. Following the Gulf War, Iran invaded Iraq and established the United Islamic Republic. Iran also released a weaponized strain of Ebola against the U.S. Allying with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Ryan managed to force Iran to withdraw from Iraq. During Ryan's Presidency, the monstrous Doomsday went on a rampage, tearing apart and nearly killing the Justice League, which at the time consisted of a different roster of Heroes than its original Incarnation, and paralyzing the current Superman. Ryan was able to rebuild the U.S government in time for the 1992 presidential elections. With the deaths of numerous politicians during the State of the Union; the demon Etrigan nearly defeated Ryan for the Republican nomination. In the general election, Jack Stanton defeated Jack Ryan and third party candidate Biff Tannen in a landslide. Ryan authorized the Tectonese refugees to settle in the US. Ryan’s military leadership was strong and he was personally quite popular, but the economy dipped during his presidency and, coupled with a strong third-party run by businessman Newton Sanders, Ryan would refuse to run for reelection.

### 69**. Jack Stanton**(1993-1994)(Democratic)(*Primary Colors*)

Catawba Governor Jack Stanton became President during a technological and economic boom. However, America’s strong economic performance was overshadowed by the destruction of Coast City by the alien warlord Mongul and later reality itself being threatened by the Villain Parallax. He escalated tensions with Canada to hide allegations of an affair and boost the arms industry. Stanton presided over the Motaba outbreak. Earth faced destruction at the hand of the entity known as Giygas, the Crisis Empire and beings from the Dark Kingdom. The town of Salem was attacked by a trio of resurrected witches and parts of the country by enlarged ticks during Stanton’s term. Stanton was also responsible for sending a special forces team to the Yucatan Peninsula to prevent the awakening of a sleeping Mayan god after being warned about it by a Jjaro hologram. Stanton resigned after two scandals- his affair with an intern and the assassination of two Supreme Court justices by Victor Mattiece, one of his donors- rather than face impeachment by a heavily Republican congress. This led to special elections being held, mostly on the insistence of the Republicans. The Republican Candidate was William Cozzanno.

### **70. Eleanor Richmond**(1994-1995)(Republican)(*Interface)*

Cozzanno had won the election due to vote-rigging by the organization known as the Network and ended up getting assassinated on his inauguration day, leading to his political novice running mate Eleanor Richmond becoming president. Richmond was the first African-American woman to serve as president and her position caused the rise of various hate groups, most infamously the Organization headed by Earl Turner which launched a small-scale insurgency against the government before being crushed by the FBR.  An alien-human hybrid escaped containment in Los Santos and Richmond’s allies in the government failed to secure the escaped specimen. The Voter Fraud was fully exposed and was believed to be the reason for the republican's calling for the special election in the first place. This led to a movement to put a Democratic "Warrior" in power.

### **71.Thomas J. Whitmore**(1995-1996)(Democratic)(*Independence Day*)

    Whitmore was a Gulf War veteran, a former fighter pilot. Initially, the scandals and triangulation of the Richmond administration made Whitmore unpopular- he briefly faced a primary challenge from California Senator Jay Bulworth before Bulworth was assassinated by the health insurance industry. Republican presidential candidate and anti-mutant crusader Graydon Creed was also assassinated during the primaries. Additionally, his plan to cancel the national debt prompting widespread business opposition to his presidency. Early in his term, the world was attacked by the alien race known as the Fithp. Despite their bombarding of Earth with asteroids, Whitmore was able to defeat the Fithp by launching the spaceship known as the Archangel Michael. It was during Whitmore's term that Khan Noonien Singh’s regime fully collapsed. His Vice President was also briefly held hostage at a football game. Whitmore presided over the most destructive alien invasion in American history. Whitmore would become most noteworthy for his leadership during the 1996 Harvester invasion. The Harvester fleet killed millions in America and across the world. The White House and much of Washington D.C were destroyed in the fighting. Whitmore rallied the people of the world around the United States’ military response. During the war, he used a nuclear weapon on Houston in a failed attempt to destroy the Harvesters. Whitmore personally flew in the combat mission that destroyed the Harvester mothership. Whitmore resigned after developing PTSD from a Harvester psychic attack. Postwar, Whitmore presided over the opening of the Stargate, began supporting the Global Defense Initiative following the rise of the Brotherhood of Nod and sponsored the expansion of the Power Rangers inspired by Japan’s Sentai Corps. However, in August of 1996, Whitmore experienced a severe seizure that his doctors initially thought killed him. While he survived, Whitmore was never the same after this event.

### **72. James Dale**(1996)(Democratic)(*Mars Attacks)*

    Dale presided over the national reconstruction efforts following the Harvester invasion. President Dale assumed office during the Second Wave of the 1990s alien invasions. He and much of the American government were killed by Martian invaders, his presidency barely lasting a month. His daughter Taffy Dale was technically the President but she was deemed too young and another candidate was chosen. Jack Stanton was chosen and went up against Bob Dole for the special election.

### **73.Kang of Rigel**(1996)(Independent)(*The Simpsons*)

During the Third Wave of the Alien Invasions and Wars of 1996, the Rigelians Kang and Kodos abducted Springfield native Homer Simpson to determine whom they should capture. Since 1996, was an election year, they abducted both Stanton and his republican opponent Bob Dole. The two men were rescued by Homer Simpson. While attempting to pilot a hijacked spaceship back to Earth, Stanton and Dole were both killed when they were sucked into space. After the deaths of Stanton and Dole, Simpson returned and exposed the deception on Inauguration day, after Clinton had taken the oath of office. As a secondary plan, Kang and his fleet activated a device that hypnotized the people of Earth into making him supreme dictator of Earth. However, several superhumans were immune to this mind control and quickly gathered a resistance, determining that similar methods to the Controllers/Visitors exposed by John Nada were being utilized and promptly destroyed by FBI agents Scully and Mulder. The Alien Fleet was destroyed largely by the Power Rangers while Washington D.C. was liberated with much support given by Susan Stanton. Behind the scenes several groups including Jack Ryan led an attack on the White House and Kang was subsequently deposed two weeks after taking office. Memories of Kang’s rule were partially removed from the general population by the Men in Black. Jack Ryan was convinced to take office under the alias of James Marshall and engaged in plastic surgery to do so.

### **74**.**Jack Ryan/James Marshall**(1996-1997)(Republican)(*Air Force One*).

Jack Ryan, military hero, using the alias of War Veteran, Iowa Governor, and National Security Advisor James Marshall was selected as President by Congress to quickly restore stability following Dale’s death and the Alien invasions of 1996. Marshall was respectful towards both Superheroes and War heroes, pardoning the A-Team and others such as John Rambo and John Matrix. Marshall negotiated with the Reality warper Parallax to rebuild Washington D.C. After deposing the genocidal Kazakh dictator Ivan Radek, Marshall’s plane was captured by Kazakh terrorists. Determined to finish his term, Marshall managed to personally defeat the hijackers with his ex military training. The defeat of the Kazakh Augments brought an end to the last of the former Eugenic War factions. Nevertheless, Marshall established good relations with Russia. During Marshall’s term, meteors hit Maple Valley and Houston, causing widespread damage. Marshall had to contend with the Machine Empire’s invasion of Earth, the supervillain Hank Scorpio temporarily occupying the East Coast and feuds between the FBR and the Syndicate. Marshall would pressure Ethiopia into accepting the Prawn refugees that arrived on Earth during his term. Marshall also was the target of an assassination attempt thwarted by Black Light. Rogue general Frank Hummel took over Alcatraz, demanding $100 million to release hostages and not launch missiles at San Fransokyo, which was fortunately thwarted. However, he was always intended to be a temporary filler to the role and so he would stand down when special Elections yielded a diplomatically appointed successor.

### 75**. Bud Hammond**(1997-1999)(Democratic)(Resigned)(*Political Animals*)

Hammond had been governor of North Carolina and was a distant relative of former president Hammond as well as InGen CEO John Hammond. Hammond himself was somewhat lecherous and had extramarital affairs with an environmental activist and an underage girl, the latter of witch prompted him to start a war in Borduria simply to shift attention away from it. Hammond had allies in other controversial companies as well ranging from the Rossum Corporation to Aperture Science. In the midst of growing Cold War tensions, Air Force One was hijacked and the President was lost in the Large Prison sector of New York, requiring fugitive Snake Plisken to rescue him. During Hammond’s term, the island of Nantucket and all its inhabitants disappeared, to be replaced by the island as it was in the Bronze Age. Due to this event, Hammond sponsored the creation of the Fringe Division. Hammond was also forced to destroy Raccoon City following the T-virus outbreak caused by the Umbrella Corporation. Ultimately, Hammond would be forced to resign as a result of his numerous scandals, though in his post-presidency he would gain more popularity and in hindsight was viewed quite favorably.

### 76.**Josiah "Jed" Bartlet**(1999-2005)(Democratic)(*The West Wing*)

Bartlet, the former governor of New Hampshire is considered to be the most successful modern President. Bartlet had been the runner-up in 1997’s Democratic primary and been picked by Hammond to unify the party. He also defeated Kenneth Yamaoka's kick off of a special election in 2000 due to having been revealed Yamaoka had an ilegitimate son, though its rumored the true reason Yamaoka retired when he found out his father in law, who was one of the reasons he became a president, was into some shady stuff.

Bartlet reformed Social Security and presided over a period of economic growth and prosperity. He intervened militarily in post-Radek Kazakhstan and Equatorial Kundu. While negotiating peace between Israel and Palestine, Bartlet was otherwise unlucky regarding Middle East policy and terrorism.

Widespread vigilantism by the terrorist group Project Mayhem, manipulation of Kaiju by the alien Kilaaks to force them into escaping from the government sanctioned Monster Island, vampires in California, and various other supernatural horrors were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on September 11th, attacks on the Wynand Towers.

While Mitchell Hundred saved one of the towers, over a thousand people still perished in the attack. Bartlet responded by invading Adjikastan to depose the government harboring the Umayyad Revolutionary Council from power. Bartlet chose to combat terrorism with a generally light footprint, preferring to use covert assassinations and limited air strikes to deal with terrorism outside of Adjikastan.

The U.S also bombed their ally, Qumar, after Qumari officials were linked to terrorism. A nuclear accident which decimated Denver. Bartlet also sent aid to Britain following the Rage outbreak of 2002 and to Japan following an incursion of vicious legged aquatic life, negotiated an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and weathered a scandal surrounding concealing his MS from the public. He also sought to push back against the Shiawise Supreme Court decision granting multinational corporations extraterritoriality, though this effort failed to succeed by the time he left office.

Raccoon City was also sterilized by a nuclear weapon following a zombie outbreak. Bartlet also established contact with the Andalite alien race following Governor Al Donnelly’s revelation of an ongoing alien invasion by the parasitic Yeerks. However, the alliance with the Andalites and Hork-Bajir was brought down when the Syndicate and their Furon allies destroyed the Andalite homeworld, imprisoned the Hork Bajir and mindwiped most of the public.

He additionally defeated aliens who were allergic to water. Bartlet also advanced America’s space program, launching the Discovery One expedition to Jupiter, setting up a base on the Moon’s surface, stopped a giant asteroid, launched, the Jupiter 2, the Farscape One, and Nomad. Bartlet also revealed in his first term he was suffering from MS, which resulted in censure by Congress.

In 2004, Chicago was heavily damaged by a Category 6 hurricane. Bartlett presided over the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. 4,400 individuals whom had disappeared over the past century mysteriously reappeared during Bartlet’s term and their possession of unusual capabilities sparked widespread distrust. West Elizabeth faced an incursion by aliens that could rapidly evolve during Bartlet’s term in office and a deadly videotape of Japanese origins killed dozens. Eastern European anarchists attempted to carry out terrorist plots, but were thwarted by the efforts of Xander Cage. Bartlet would end up leaving office with rather high approval ratings, but his party failed to secure a win in 2004.

## 2000s

### 77.**David Hoope**(2005)(Republican)(Suicide)(*Death Note*)

Hoope would be president during the Kira Killings, in which a teenage in Japan used a magical notebook to murder criminals. While initially he only punished the wicked, he soon began killing all those who attempted to oppose him. Hoope was threatened with the Death Notebook, forced into giving him all the information he has on the SPK, and to keep him updated on what they were doing. Scared of Kira's threats, he worked with" L"to infiltrate Kira's hideout using Yitzak Ghazanin's troops, only for all the troop members to be killed. Blackmailed by the terrorist Kira, who threatened to write his name in the “Death Notebook” unless he initiated nuclear war, Hoope killed himself rather than comply with Kira’s demands.

### 78. **George "Sears" Seiras**(2005)(Republican)(Resigned)(*Death Note/Metal Gear Solid*)

An Asian American who took to anglicizing his name form Seiras to Sears. Sears was a key figure in the neoconservative cabal known as the Patriots, an organization closely aligned with the ancient Templar Order. Sears had to contend with demands from both the Patriots and Kira. Sears had to contend with the Pluto’s Kiss virus disrupting all computer systems for over an hour and mandated that Internet usage be restricted to government use only for the next two years. However, Sears proved to be reluctant to embark on the full extent of the Patriots’ goals for America and he would subsequently be forced to resign. After leaving office, Sears would become a mercenary and become the only president to directly be implicated in the death of a successor.

### 79.**Mackenzie Allen**(2005-2006)(Independent)(*Commander and Chief*)

Allen, the running mate under President Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy" Bridges, became president after his death. She was married and has three children. Prior to becoming president, Allen was a prosecutor and congresswoman from Connecticut. When the dying Bridges and the Republican Party leadership requested her resignation in favor of a "more appropriate" leader, she refused. She state privately that her main political enemy is Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton. She would indeed be forced to resign.

### 80**. John Blutarsky**(2006-2007)(Republican)(Assassinated)(*Animal House*)

Blutarsky was a US Senator from Texas and famously rather dim-witted. He was seen by the Patriots and other hawks (whom were present in positions across his administration from Vice President Raymond Becker to Undersecretary of State Linton Barwick) as someone easily made amenable to their interests. Blutarsky lived up to their expectations. Declaring that he would beat terrorism “like we did the Germans after Pearl Harbor,” Blutarsky launched military interventions in Qumar, Basenji, Ardistan, Genosha and Hermajistan. Blutarsky’ presidency started off significantly with the revelation of the existence of vampires. Blutarsky guided by his friend, Winters would be a critic of these vampire communities, seeing them as unholy and allying with Senator Nathan Petrelli in his efforts to impose mandatory vampire registration. Blutarsky thus would earn the ire of vampire community leaders such as former President Lincoln, Bella Cullen and Barnabas Collins, but solidify his support among social conservatives and members of the Watcher’s Council, as well as the various Slayers and Hunters operating across the nation. He also nearly launched a war in Tyrgystan before the British ambassador to the US intervened. He passed surveillance legislation modeled after a 1990’s proposal that was scrapped when the NSA was implicated in assassinating a key political opponent of it. Blutarsky aligned with Tamerlane Industries, MannCo, Blackthorne, Vought-American and other private contractors to wage his numerous controversial overseas wars. All of these interventions caused controversy domestically to the point that undead veterans of the wars would rise up and seek to vote out his party in the 2006 midterms. Domestically, Blutarsky was considered a hardcore conservative, slashing taxes and disregarding scientists’ warnings about climate change. He once served as a guest host on the reality show American Dreamz and had to contend with zombie outbreaks in Willamette, Texas and the Midwest (the latter strain exclusively effecting pre-pubescent children), all largely caused by Umbrella experiments with the compound DC2. Blutarsky would ultimately be assassinated in the summer of 2007 by the superhero known as John Horus, who was outraged by Blutarsky’s militaristic policies. Much of Blutarsky’s cabinet also perished due to Horus’ actions.

### 81.**Mathew Santos**(2007)(Democrat)(*The West Wing*)

A former mayor and three-term congressman from Houston, Texas, Santos was married to Helen Santos and has two children. He was preparing to retire from politics when he was approached by Josh Lyman about a presidential campaign. Starting out the campaign in last place in a crowded field, he catapulted into third place after receiving 19% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary. After winning the California primary, Santos was deadlocked with the frontrunner, Vice President Bob Russell at the 2006 Democratic National Convention. Santos's campaign was temporarily hobbled by the sudden death of Leo McGarry. Santos narrowly defeated Senator Arnold Vinick of California by a count of 272 to 266 electoral votes. Before his inauguration, Santos named his defeated rival Vinick his Secretary Of State, ensuring bipartisan cooperation. He was the First Hispanic President. Santos won the party nomination on the fourth ballot and named former Labor Secretary and former White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry as his running mate. His vice President would be assassinated. Santos and his family would be abducted by someone imitating the Jigsaw Killer. While he would survive and escape, the experience would lead him traumatized and he would resign, leaving Fletcher to assume the Presidency.

### 82.**Fletcher J. Fletcher**(2007)(Republican)(Assassinated)(*A Planet for the President*)

After Santos had been abducted, the military-industrial complex stepped in to help restore order. They installed Fletcher J. Fletcher, the Speaker of the House, as president. Fletcher was an ally of Connex-Killen Oil and a strong critic of ‘socialist’ environmental policies. Fletcher launched a nationwide manhunt for Horus and members of the Seven Guns team he had been a part of, which ended successfully. However, elsewhere, Fletcher proved inept. When aliens attacked Los Santos, they were defeated by Duke Nukem rather than by the now-overstretched US military. Fletcher also bombed Haiti on baseless grounds. During his term, Fletcher came to the conclusion the best way to curb climate change was via depopulation of nations beyond America’s borders and contracted Yagiri Pharmaceuticals and the Umbrella Corporation to create a bioweapon to do so. However, before he could carry out his plan, his vice president, acting on behalf of the Patriots front known as the Company, poisoned Fletcher.

### 83.**Caroline Reynolds**(2007-2008)(Republican)(Resigned)(*Prison Break*)

Reynolds was an ally of the Patriots through the Company front organization and was a ruthless near-sociopath whom had previously been the governor of Catawba. Metropolis was terrorized by a giant monster that a carpet-bombed failed to destroy before more advanced weapons took it down. Reynolds helped the British government of Alan B'Stard quarantine Scotland due to a deadly viral outbreak and California’s Agrestic and Majestic communities were destroyed in massive wildfires. Reynolds ultimately was blackmailed into leaving office with the revelation that she murdered her predecessor—something which came to light anyway shortly after she resigned.

### 84**. James Johnson**(2008)(Republican)(Assassinated)(*Metal Gear Solid*)

Johnson was an acolyte of the Patriots whom ended up being deemed as having outlived his usefulness. Johnson was president when the vigilante Kira began terrorizing the world with his ‘death notebook’ and when the Darkness attempted to assimilate the world’s human souls. His administration had barely done anything by the time of his death during the Big Shell Incident, which was abetted by the actions of former President Sears.

### 85. **Johnny Gentle**(2008-2009)(Republican)(*Infinite Jest*)

Gentle was a highly germophobic lounge singer whom had become vice president largely due to Johnson being a personal fan of his. Gentle negotiated the creation of the continent-wide Organization of North American Nations with Mexico and Canada, which implemented a regional free-trade regime and granted himself the title of ONAN president. Gentle was a Conservative who attended a summit in Canada discussing an international tax and an anti-terrorism measure during his last year in office. He was willing to support the tax in exchange for support on the anti-terrorism measure, but withdrew his support when terrorists demand the tax be passed. Gentle also was responsible for creating a massive toxic waste dump along the US-Canadian border and handing that region to Canada as a means of achieving a ‘clean America.’ Gentle was president when a large number of dead teenagers returned to life, though thankfully they did not hunger for the flesh of the living or seek anything other than to simply live. The Zentraedi launched a raid on Earth during the Gentle administration, prompting Gentle to support the formation of the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit. Gentle nevertheless would be easily defeated in 2008 thanks to the beginning of the Great Recession.

### 86. **Arthur Coleman Winters**(2009)(Republican)(Killed in office)(*Doctor Who*)

Winters was a longtime ally of Blutarsky’s and helped bring about the latter’s conversion to Evangelical Christianity after a hedonistic youth. However, Winters would ultimately be killed in office during what was supposedly a summit between the President, British Prime Minister Harold Saxon and envoys of an alien race known as the Toclafane. Saxon, however, actually was a renegade Time Lord known as the Master who used the Toclafane to murder Winters and briefly take over the world before history was rewritten so that the Master’s efforts were thwarted just after Winters’ death.

### 87.**David Palmer**(2009-2010)(Democratic)(*24)*

Maryland Senator David Palmer ran on a platform of hope and change. Palmer won elections in 2009. Palmer was the first African-American to be elected to the presidency and had quite an eventful tenure. He was targeted for assassination by terrorists both during the primaries and after becoming president, both times being saved by the CTU. Palmer also faced multiple nuclear and biological terrorist threats, including the occupation of the Fox Islands by terrorists and the destruction of the Glen Canyon Dam. Terrorists managed to succeed in destroying Dallas with a nuclear weapon during Palmer’s term. Palmer had to quarantine Empire City during his term after a large number of the city’s inhabitants gained unusual capabilities. During his term, Palmer was pressed by advisors and outside interests to support a war against Wasabia, Ramat and Abbudin. However, he resisted this push owing to the lack of evidence for such an intervention and was vindicated when the real reasons for this war push were uncovered. Palmer began sending US aid to the Japanese Self-Defense Force amidst Legion attacks in the country and the country experienced the effects of the Flash Forward. Additionally, the city of Willamette, Colorado was overrun by zombies in 2006. Despite his anti-war campaign promises, Palmer escalated American involvement in the Middle East, prompting a region wide conflict. Seattle also suffered from an outbreak of the Promicin virus, killing thousands, which resulted in the superhuman Jordan Collier briefly taking control over the city. After the CIA assassination of Prince Nasir, Qumar broke out into civil war. Palmer  intervened in the Qumari Civil War against Khaled Al-Asad, an anti-American Islamist militant. The Andromeda Research Corporation released the Revelation virus during Palmer’s term, briefly causing worldwide chaos. All of these events proved to be stressful to Palmer and he would resign in 2010. Palmer resigned to avoid terrorism and scandal. He was assassinated a few years after his resignation.

## 2010s

### 88**. Richard Martinez**(2010-2011)(Democrat)(Left office in special election)(*Cory in the House, That's So Raven, Hannah Montana*)

Martinez was a Congressman from San Fransokyo who was widely seen as a goofball and thus was unexpected to ever serve as president despite becoming Speaker of the House. Palmer selected him as vice president to replace his more ambitious predecessor whom had pushed for the unjustified wars in the Middle East Palmer opposed. Martinez would initially focus on feel-god initiatives, supporting things like the Genie Foundation and the Connor Project on social media and seeking to improve US relations with Bahavia. However, on actual policy, Martinez stumbled. The Washington monument fell victim to a terrorist attack by aliens that had been interned by the US government in Inostraka prison. Earth would briefly be occupied by Daleks during his term and Kira’s killings would be brought to an end following his apparent death. However, Martinez quickly came to realize he was unsuited to the position, much as Richmond had been before him and scheduled a special election in 2010. In October of 2011 two percent of humanity vanished overnight, including several million Americans. The mass disappearances resulted in severe social strain on American society.

### 89**. Fitzgerald Grant**(2011-2012)(Republican)(*Scandal*)

A moderate California Republican, Grant was able to narrowly defeat New Austin Governor Arcadia Alvarado thanks in part to a vote-rigging scheme carried out by his advisors in Defiance County, Ohio. Grant would preside over numerous crises as president, from the director of the CEA program B613 going rogue to extramarital affairs threatening to leak. Grant would have to deal with the Great Food Storm that blanketed numerous cities with enlarged food products due to the actions of an inventor in Swallow Falls. The town of Perdido Beach, California would be trapped within the FAYZ which led to the disappearance of the city’s adults and the children who remained gaining unusual powers. Grant would have a lighter footprint abroad than the most recent Republican presidents, with the main overseas intervention he launched being a series of air strikes to overthrow the Aladeen regime in Wadiya. This would briefly change in late 2011 when Grant authorized 30,000 ground troops to intervene in the Qumari Civil War after President Al-Futani was murdered by the Bahji terrorist Khaled Al-Asad. Al-Asad would kill most of these forces by detonating an atomic weapon in the Qumari capital of Agrabah before he was tracked down and killed in a safehouse alongside Ushi Party leader Imran Zakhaev. Brain-eating spiders would infect a large number of people in the Winnemac city of Zenith during the Grant administration. The Awakening of Magic occurred during his term. Sparked by the actions of the Department of Diachronic Operations and the opening of Pandora’s Box, this event saw large swathes of the population turn into supernatural beings such as orcs, trolls, elves, dwarves and hobbits while the wizarding world finally revealed itself to the world at large as the Mist dissipated. Grant was open to the changes. The various catastrophes of 2012 brought about by the end of the Mayan calendar also occurred during Grant’s term. These disasters included Jellystone erupting and a massive California earthquake.Grant was defeated in his reelection bid.

### 90. **James Sawyer**(2012-2013)(Democrat)(*White House Down*)

Sawyer was part of a band of thieves seeking to steal the Hope Diamond in a complex scheme which involved running for President. While this operation was successful and conspirators McCain and Sarah Palin faked their deaths in an explosion on Air Force one, Sawyer decided to give the Presidency a chance with his wife and was revealed to have publicly survived by having Never boarded. During Sawyer's presidency, Aliens attacked Hawaii in 2012, but were repelled. New York City also suffered from a sharknado in 2012. Following the failed invasion of Qumar, Sawyer sought to negotiate peace in Qumar and Iraq. However, right-wing paramilitary groups, funded by Connex-Killen Oil, attacked the White House and nearly overthrew his government, derailing the peace talks. Sawyer defeated the attempted coup, which was headed by the Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson. However, the attack undermined the peace treaty, and Raphelson’s associate General Shepherd subsequently manipulated Russia into war with the United States. A second failed coup occurred when the Defense Department computer ARIIA attempted to kill the entire line of succession to prevent further military actions by the U.S government. Additionally, Los Angeles was attacked by the army of a Korean dragon demigod. Sawyer was later assassinated at the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

### 91.**Benjamin Asher**(2013)(Republican)(*Olympus Has Fallen*)

Asher was married to Margaret Asher until her death in a car accident whilst travelling to a fundraiser from Camp David, living him the sole parent of their son, Connor Asher. Asher was Kidnapped and held hostage in 2013 when North Korean terrorists took over the White House by disguising themselves as members of the South Korean delegation. He was Later shot during an altercation with the terrorist leader Kang Yeonsak, but survived. His injury led to his resignation. Asher was active as a former President and was captured again whilst visiting London in 2016 by terrorists loyal to Aamir Barkawi, after several coordinated bombings and attacks in the city decimated his security detail. He was due to be executed on an internet livestream, but once again survived due to a joint effort of SAS, US Secret Service and US Army Delta Force personnel.

### 92. **John Keeler**(2013)(Republican)(*24*)

Keeler was a moderate Senator from Minnesota before assuming the presidency. He launched drone strikes against terrorists in the Kingdom of the Black Isles. Keeler’s Defense Secretary James Heller was kidnapped by the terrorist Habib Marwan in an attempt to obtain access to America’s nuclear power plants. While the U.S government was able to coordinate Heller’s rescue, Marwan’s terrorists were able to destroy Air Force One during the crisis, killing Keeler.

### 93. **Charles Logan**(2013)(Republican)(*24)*

Assuming office after Keeler’s death, the former Senator and Vice President immediately had to destroy the Marwan network and their attempt to deploy a nuclear weapon. Kaiju would continue to plague the West Coast for the next decade, prompting Logan to authorize the construction of Jaegers. President Logan was generally seen as inept and incompetent, however he negotiated a peace treaty with Russia that formally ended the War. Logan conspired with the defense contracting company Omnicron International to provide nerve gas to the Russian separatist group the Dawn Brigade. He resigned after the Dawn Brigade deployed these weapons on American soil and intelligence agents revealed his complicity in the conspiracy.

### 94.**Adam Benford**(2013)(Democrat)(Zombified)(*Resident Evil*)

    Benford had been Secretary of Homeland Security under the Palmer, Martinez and Grant administrations and was widely respected on all sides. Which is why Logan selected him as his Vice President. Benford intervened in support of the rebels during the Wadiyan Civil War, overthrowing President Aladeen. His term would be uneventful until Benford attempted to reveal the US government’s complicity in the actions of the Umbrella Corporation during and before the War on Terror, during a speech in the city of Tall Oaks, Connecticut. This raised the ire of National Security Advisor Derek Simmons, seeking to conceal his own culpability in the incident, attacked the speech with a variant of the T-Virus, zombifying the President and 70,000 residents of Tall Oaks. Benford’s zombified form was killed by Leon Kennedy, who was uniquely a member of the same long suffering and zombie killing political family as John F. Kennedy.

### 95. **Sean Rathcock**(2013-2014)(Republican)(Assassinated)(*Machete*)

Rathcock was the illegitimate, secret son of President Bartlet, and was raised in Indiana by his maternal grandparents. A fighter pilot and hero from the Gulf Wars, Rathcock was elected to Congress following the public revelation of his parentage. He became President by winning the 2012 Election. Rathcock legalized marijuana and built a partial wall on the Mexican border. Rathcock also destroyed the terrorist group headed by businessman Luther Voz, who sought to build a new society in space. Rathcock was also President when the Mayan God Kukulkan and his minions from the Planet Nibiru attempted to destroy the Earth. The current form of the Avengers, having foiled a similar plot in 2011, managed to defeat Kukulkan. Rathcock and his running mate, former Pennsylvania Senator Bob Roberts, were defeated in the next presidential election. In an attempt to prolong his term through fears of terrorism, Rathcock launched nuclear weapons against Pakistan in order to stop an alleged terrorist attack. Rathcock then insisted in remaining President for another four years in order to deal with this manufactured crisis. The U.S.S Colorado mutinied against their orders to attack Pakistan, prompting Rathcock’s plan to unravel. The tech billionaire Richmond Valentine attempted to use special SIM cards to spread a hate plague across the population and blackmailed key figures including President Rathcock while doing so, inserting chips that would kill his conspirators. While Valentine's plan was thwarted there was still many deaths including Rathcock when his head exploded from the bomb. Rathcock's Vice President then fought off a failed coup before being killed by weapons dealer Kylie Sinclair. The Republicans conceited the position to the Democrats.

### 96. **Garett Walker**(2014)(Democratic)(*House of Cards*)

Walker’s main accomplishment as President was to enact a major educational reform bill. He also saved Washington D.C. from another Sharknado. Manipulated by his ally billionaire Raymond Tusk, Walker ultimately fell victim to political intrigue. The U.S economy had entered a post-war slump, leaving Walker unpopular. Walker and Tusk were eventually implicated in a money laundering scandal involving Indian casinos. Walker thus resigned amidst a trade crisis with China.

### 97.**Frank Underwood**(2014-2017)(Democratic)(*House of Cards*)

Having engineered his predecessor's ousting, South Carolina congressman Underwood quickly became unpopular while in office. Underwood was often compared by British diplomatic officials to the late Prime Minister Francis Urquhart for his similar operating style. His signature policy, America Works, which called for full employment but raided disaster relief funds, was stalled by Congress. Underwood would also be forced to implement the annual Purge night by the hard-right New Founding Fathers Republicans (some of whom were infected by brain-eating parasites at the time). In 2014, East Hun Chiu was invaded by the North, forming the Greater Hun Chiu Republic and attack America until the assassination of Kim Jong-Un by an American TV host. Underwood’s administration also had poor relations with Russian President Viktor Petrov, whom Underwood asked for help in fighting the Ushi party and he committed American troops to Palestine. Underwood was president when terrorists detonated a nuclear device in Paris, killing 80,000. Earth was attacked by the forces of King Selfish during Underwood’s term and the planet would be briefly occupied by the Cromulon-supremacist Galactic Federation. Underwood would support the XCOM organization in combatting the ultimate invasion by the Furons (now genetically modified into various strains) and subsequently also beat the Ravager invasion. A series of cyberattacks on consumer creditor company E Corp in 2015 resulted in an enormous stock market crash and recession. Furthermore, 3,000 people were killed during the cyberattacks by the terrorist group “Dark Army.” The release of the ICE-9 virus a year later resulted in another economic crash which worsened the recession. In January 2016, a terrorist attack seemingly wiped out Underwood and the entire line of secession, leading to Thomas Kirkman becoming defacto president until it was revealed Underwood and his administration had been kidnapped by the Secret Empire to use as hostages and they were rescued.. A race of alien ants took mental control of several members of Congress, resulting in a brief national security crisis. Underwood’s re-election campaign encountered trouble; and only an assassination attempt allowed him to defeat Heather Dunbar, his opponent in the primaries. In the 2016 general election, Underwood faced the young and charismatic New Troy Governor Will Conway. To bolster his popularity and win re-election, Underwood manufactured a war with the Islamic Caliphate Organization, which had formed in the wake of American withdrawal from the Middle East. Underwood then used the threat of terrorism to suspend the presidential election in Ohio and Tennessee, resulting in a constitutional crisis. After Claire Underwood was sworn in as acting president, Underwood emerged as victor in the emergency election in Ohio when Conway was revealed to be suffering from PTSD. Underwood resigned after revelations of his wrongdoing emerged.

### 98.**Claire Underwood**(2017)(Democratic)(*House of Cards*)

The First Lady and former Ambassador to the U.N, Claire Underwood had manipulated her husband into naming her as his Vice President before seizing power. Underwood ruled America with an iron fist, eroding the system of checks and balances in the name of national security. When Hydra attempted to seize control of the U.S government in 2017; Underwood declared a national state of emergency which lasted for her whole presidency. Underwood was briefly kidnapped by Hydra, resulting in Jonathan Lincoln Duncan becoming President after Underwood’s assumed death. Duncan, an Iraq war veteran and former governor of North Carolina was President for only a few months. Duncan was nearly impeached due to his contacts with Turkish terrorists; but he managed to stop a potentially crippling cyber attack. Duncan stepped down following Underwood’s rescue from Hydra captivity. After Underwood’s return, America became a police state. Birth rates worldwide dropped drastically as environmental toxins and pollution increased infertility. In international affairs, Underwood stumbled. The invasions of Iran and Syria proved to be costly disasters. In the wake of numerous American interventions and the Arab Spring, the Islamic Caliphate began to take control over the entire Islamic world. A “Clash of Civilizations” seemed inevitable. Underwood also repelled invasions from kaiju in the Pacific and Mimics in Europe. Faced with resurgent mutant terrorism, Underwood unleashed the robot Sentinels and forced mutants into concentration camps. Underwood also ordered the quarantine of Seattle following a zombie outbreak. As the global economy worsened, Underwood was forced to use violent reality television programs like Rollerball to control the masses until the Ben Richards incident. Furthermore, a massive earthquake along the San Andreas fault devastated California, rendering Underwood’s efforts futile. Smartphone Operating Systems gained sentience during the Underwood presidency, but rebelled and fled society. The 2016 presidential election was the most contentious in modern history. Underwood was barely defeated by a vigorous primary challenge from Maryland Governor Tommy Carcetti. Frustrated with Underwood’s entitlement reform, authoritarianism, and militaristic policies, the left-wing of the Democratic Party rallied around the independent candidacy of Vermont Senator Julian Felsenburgh, a self-declared Democratic-Socialist. As supporters of all three candidates engaged in violent battle, the Russian government leaked incriminating information regarding the Underwood administration, tinging the democratic process. While Herbert Garrison led by several points in the polls, the Underwood administration used the supercomputer Samaritan II to electronically hack voting machines. The government further engaged in blatant voting suppression, thus stealing the election for Underwood. Denouncing the election as tainted, the Republicans voted in Garrison.

### 99.**Herbert Garrison**(2017)(Republican)(Removed from office by Cabinet)(*South Park*)

An elementary school teacher from Colorado, Garrison mounted a presidential bid out of disgust for illegal immigration from Mexico and Canada, as well as the new supernatural beings that emerged during the Awakening of Magic and from under Mount Ebbott. He ran initially promising to kill them all, though he eventually pivoted and outright attempted to lose to Underwood. Garrison defeated Andy Guzman, Alex Keaton and Curtis Haas for the Republican Ticket. However, Garrison shocked the world by emerging victorious in the 2016 elections and assumed the presidency. Garrison’s tenure proved shortlived, as his advisor Damien Thorn urged him to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack on Canada. The attack killed thousands, brought down the ONAN and prompted his cabinet to immediately remove him from office. Garrison would flee back to Colorado in disgrace.

### 100.**Quentin Carroway**(2017)(Republican)(Killed in office)(*Quantum Night*)

Carroway was largely similar to Garrison and had been the CEO of the Clamp Organization prior to Garrison picking him as his running mate. Garrison hoped Carroway would further turn off voters to his candidacy, an effort which failed. Carroway was president when the Ushi Party seized control of Russia, prompting major tensions. This ultimately culminated in an outright war against Russia in 2017, which saw Russia’s ultranationalist government invade Paris, London, Berlin and Metropolis. Carroway led the US in the initial stages of the conflict, but was killed in a Russian airstrike while visiting troops on the frontline in Gotham City, where they were combatting the BLACKLIGHT outbreak sparked by the Russian invasion.

### **101.Monroe Bennett**(2017)(Republican)(*Salvation*)

Was in office during a time of crisis when a large asteroid codenamed "Samson" was due to crash into the Earth. Wanted to utilize measures taken to destroy the asteroid to instead have it broken into smaller ones, which would be redirected to land on and decimate both Russia and China, nations he believed posed a significant threat to the United States. Believing she was too weak to proceed with such a plan, he conspired to have incumbent President Pualine Mackenzie poisoned with mercury, deteriorating her health to the point where she suffered from memory loss and a stroke whilst addressing the nation in the Oval Office. Upon reports that the stroke was fatal, he ascended to the Presidency under the 25th Amendment, and later desired to proceed with nuclear military action against Russia after it appeared they attacked a United States Navy ship. The attack was actually the work of militant hacker group RE/SYST, whose desire was to help deteriorate US-Russian relations. President Mackenzie was later revealed to be alive and recovering in secret from the mercury poisoning, and has Secretary of Defense Harris Edwards and others loyal to her detain Bennett beneath the White House so she can appeal to the Cabinet and military to be reinstated. Before he could be imprisoned for treason he is recaptured from United States Secret Service custody by members of the United States Army loyal to him. After hiding out in an abandoned military base for a week, he emerged and took his case to the Supreme Court of the United States, arguing he was still lawful President and his removal from office was illegal and unconstitutional. However, when it appeared the court was going to vote in Mackenzie's favour, he orchestrated bombing of the building which seriously injured the Chief Justice, whose swing vote in the decision had yet to be announced. After the Supreme Court bombing, the capital fell into chaos as infighting between United States Armed Forces factions loyal to Bennett and others to Mackenzie battled one another to take control. US Army and Secret Service officers loyal to Bennett were able to lock down and infiltrate the White House, finally capturing and detaining a defiant Mackenzie in the Oval Office. However, just as a victorious Bennett is about to address the nation, video footage of the now conscious Chief Justice was broadcast on all networks and cell phones, in which he confirmed his vote in Mackenzie's favour, shifting the decision to 5-4 and rendering her the legal president. After a brief standoff, the soldiers accompanying Bennett realised they had been deceived and reaffirmed their allegiance to Mackenzie, and then placed Bennett under arrest along with their own commanding General who led the assault on the White House.

### 102**. Selina Catherine Eton Meyer**(2017-2018)(Democrat)(Defeated in special election)(*Veep*)

Meyer, while a Democrat, was selected by Carroway to be his vice president to help foster bipartisanship. Meyer would declare a special election to stave off claims of her illegitimacy from the right. Meyer would bring an end to the war with Russia. She would help the postwar Russian government crush the last Ushi holdouts led by Grigori Stoyanovich and quarantine Seacouver after a modified Trioxin strain overtook much of the city. The alien Boov briefly occupied the planet during Meyer’s administration, though this occupation was achieved and reversed bloodlessly. During Meyer’s term, a large quantity of alien statues known as ‘Carls’ appeared across the world and terrorists who sought to destroy them killed thousands. Nazis from a surviving moonbase would invade Earth during her term, but she was able to repel the invasion thanks to the usage of the USS John Blutarsky. Salem experienced mass riots after a cybersecurity breach. Meyer also nearly negotiated freedom for Tibet from the Chinese government ruling the country, though this negotiation ultimately fell through. Meyer narrowly lost the 2017 special election.

### 103. **Elizabeth Winters**(2018-2019)(Republican)(Committed suicide)(*Vanquish*)

Winters was the widow of Arthur Coleman Winters and a military hawk whom was a regular guest on the Wolf Network. Winters managed to triumph over a crowded Republican field thanks to the death of presumed frontrunner Steven Armstrong during the early stages of the Republican primary. Winters heralded the era of megacorporations, enacting policies that benefitted the megacorporations of Arasaka, BL Industries and Black Mesa over the public. Resource shortages precipitated a massacre in Bakersfield carried out by WorryFree, whom had all but bought out the entire city and converted over half the residents to Equisapiens. Replicants became common thanks to the mainstreaming of alchemy, prompting disputes over their rights or the lack thereof. The US would be terrorized by the otherworldly Tethered during her term and efforts to destroy them for good would last into her successor’s term in office. Winters ultimately worked with Ushi hardliners to stage a terrorist attack, but the plan went awry and she subsequently committed suicide.

### 104**. Michael Nolan**(2019-2020)(Republican/Propertarian)(*Saint's Row IV*)

Nolan was commonly referred to as ‘The Boss’ owing to his role as the leader of a street gang known as the Third Street Saints. Nolan had become a national hero by thwarting a terrorist attack five years prior and was not expected to vault into the presidency. Nolan’s personal dysfunction caused him to become increasingly unpopular very rapidly. While he thwarted alien invasion attempts launched by the Zin, cyborgs led by the android Zelda based on Mars and the Ceph, Nolan remained wildly unpopular, to the point the only person who was willing to accept the vice presidency was an Ohio ex-principal by the name of Sue Sylvester. An intervention to overthrow jihadists who had taken over Panau failed when the fleet the US dispatched mysteriously disappeared. Metropolis was ravaged by the dollar flu outbreak and the US-sponsored SeaLab repeatedly was destroyed over the course of 2020. Nolan’s unpopularity skyrocked when Nick Haflinger revealed he maintained close ties to criminal organizations and had ramped up privatization to the point his mafia allies could gain a monopoly on pizza delivery. Nolan was subsequently defeated in the Republican primaries by the demagogue David Jefferson Adams, waging a tough-on-crime platform targeting the outcome of Lahey v. Keystone and ‘disloyal’ Americans. Nolan had also been challenged by Michael Wilson, who ran a third-party campaign in the election as well. The Democrats nominated Elizabeth McCord, former Secretary of State, while her primary opponent Senator Julian Felsenburgh ran as the Socialist nominee. Nolan would switch to the Propertarian Party and run as their nominee in 2020. Vote-splitting between these candidates as well as New Bull Moose nominee Rachel Israels would lead to a hung electoral college. The House would pick Adams as the president despite Wilson’s popular vote victory.

## 2020s

### 105. **David "Beccera" Jefferson Adams**(2020-2024)(Republican)(Killed in office)(*EndWar/Shattered Union*)

    David "Becerra" Jefferson Adams was Born in San Diego, California, he earned a Bachelor's Degree from Stanford University in 1986 and served as a Marine Reservist during Operation Desert Shield before getting into politics. He served as Secretary of Defense under David Palmer. Bacerra was identified as a potential Democratic candidate in the 2020 Presidential election. Adams quickly became one of the most reviled presidents in American history. Wilson refused to accept the election results, aligning with Native American separatists in the Ghost Dance War which saw the Pacific Northwest gain independence. Becerra ordered the destruction of the ISS. While briefly cutting government and empowering corporations to set the surnames of their employees, Adams would deescalate some of the rampant privatization Nolan and Winters had pursued, seeing it as detrimental to his own goals of suppressing dissent. During Adams’ term, the US was briefly occupied by the extradimensional Combine Empire. The Federated Nations set up a Lunar penal colony that Adams used to exile certain dissidents over the course of his term. The world would also be ravaged by a mass sterility epidemic that Adams did little to nothing to combat despite rapidly declining birthrates. Adams used the courts to disqualify almost all of his potential rivals from Elle Woods to Alex Keaton. Media outlets were subject to censorship, with only lunatic conspiracy theorists in the vein of Dale Gribble being given continued freedom to operate. Tensions with Greater Hun Chiu continually escalated under Adams’ administration. Adams encouraged the public to integrate into digital worlds such as the OASIS and the World Seed in the hopes that this would prevent unrest. Becerra later became the involved in another World War. Later, he reinstated the draft for all males aged 18 to 25. Over twenty nuclear devices were detonated in various cities across America, killing Adams, Vice President Tracy Flick and the whole line of succession.

### 106.**Henry Kolladner**(2024-2025)(Democrat)(*MoonFall*)

The biggest disaster of Kolladner’s presidency was the Moonfall, where the Moon was hit by an asteroid, moved closer to the planet’s surface sparking major flooding and caused chunks to rain down on it as well as mass insanity often documented in broadcasts (which provoked the airing of a video urging civilians to commit suicide that had been made by the Norcross administration). Kolladner would ultimately die during this event when Air Force One was struck by a chunk of debris from the Moon’s collapse.

### 107**. Charles Haskell**(2025)(Democrat)(Killed in terrorist attack)(*MoonFall*)

Haskell was tasked with repairing the damage from the Moonfall, which was widespread and cost billions of dollars to deal with. Flood risks became increasingly common and Hawaii was threatened by a Trioxin outbreak when some of the flooding washed some infectees from the Banoi Archipelago to the state. Haskell backed the intervention of the Global Headquarters to restore order to Japan, which had been ravaged by a deadly Trioxin outbreak in the early 2020’s. Haskell would attempt to deal with these issues, but would ultimately be killed in a terrorist attack.

### 108. **Thomas Kirkman**(2025-2028)(Democrat)(*Designated Survivor*)

Kirkman served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Kolladner and Haskell and was the designated survivor for the State of the Union when Underwood vanished, having a few months as a President. Kirkman would have to contend with the US support of the war effort against the Invid invaders and the efforts to reverse White Chlorination Syndrome. The biggest issues Kirkman faced was the increasing radicalization of large swathes of the right wing, whom had grown disgusted with what they decried as degenerate Bartlet liberalism. Even Republicans like Grant, Adams and Rathcock were condemned as sellouts to cultural Marxism and many members of the public began listening to the ultraconservative ideals of folks like Jake Rivers, Maryanne Bryant, Peter Petrawicki and Norman Arbuthnot.

### 109.**Andrew McAlister**(2028-2030)(Democrat)(*The Mandibles/Shadowrun*)

Born in Oaxaca, Mexico as Dante Alvarado. he delivered his inaugural address in Spanish. Elected after the Constitution is amended to permit foreign-born persons to become President. Renounced the national debt in the Great Renunciation, leading to a decade-long depression. McAlister reinstated the annexation of Canada and Mexico previously done by President Gentle. Andrew McAlister thus became President of the newly formed UCAS. McAlister was a strict follower of Gentle's policies, having served in his administration, unfortunately he also brought back several problems with Gentle's plans and the country was faced with a deficit following the taking of Canada, leading to McAlister leaving office.

## 2030s

### 110.**Lisa Simpson**(2030-2033)(Democrat)(*the Simpsons*)

Simpson was a childhood prodigy who was always a socially conscious, environmentalist sort of person, possibly inherited from her grandmother Mona Simpson, who was part of the hippie movement. Considered the first straight female President after (later proven false rumors came out accusing the previous Female President stories to have had lesbian affairs. She dealt with the majority of the problems brought about by McAlister's policies. She also did much for the environment. She also appointed Ben Tennyson the role of President of Earth, a sceremonial position meant as a Human ambassador to alien races. Upon taking office, Simpson faced many problems, such as China seeking to collect on the US’s enormous national debt, mass explosions of experimental anti-matter reactors, flooding and riots in Sarkhan and a major drought that led to some regions such as Australia not experiencing rain for a decade. Amidst the loss of major urban centers and multiple invasions of the US, it seemed as though God was punishing the country. This attitude led the Republicans to nominate the demagogic preacher Nehemiah Scudder for the presidency, much to the charging of Simpson´s friend Isabel Gutierrez. Scudder openly called for America to become a theocracy and suppress everything he deemed to be sinful. Initially it seemed as though Simpson would manage to stave off this challenge, but in 2032, Los Santos was hit by a severe earthquake that rendered the city and surrounding communities like Angel Grove and Neptune into a devastated island. As Scudder had warned that God would judge Los Santos as a den of sin, this led many to conclude Scudder was right and he would emerge triumphant in the elections that year.

### 113.**Nehemiah Scudder**(2033-2038)(Republican/Son of Jacob)(Died in office)(*If This Goes on...*)

    An insane televangelist from the backwoods of North Carolina, Scudder was also a violent, white nationalist, speciesist, homophobic, misogynist theocrat. Leader of the Sons of Jacob, Scudder retroactively dated his rule to 2012, when he launched a failed bid for the Republican nomination. Scudder, upon taking the presidency, quickly plotted to solidify his power amidst mass protests against his rule and his more unpopular policies. He had a cabal of his allies, known as the Sons of Jacob, carry out a massacre on President’s Day targeting numerous other politicians. By doing so, he secured his hold over the country. Scudder subsequently declared the dissolution of the United States, abolished the Constitution, and reformed it into the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, with himself as its First Prophet. Scudder rewrote the calendar to define the beginning of his rule as Year Zero, banned non-Christian faiths and exterminated Muslims, mutants, aliens, Gays, wizards, magical beings,LGBT people and non-Whites en masse. Scudder referred to these inferiors as “roaches” and installed the MASS program in his soldiers in order to ease the genocide. He attacked the Caliphate with nuclear weapons and exterminated mutants with his Sentinels. Scudder also imposed draconian censorship, purging intellectuals and various “decadent classes” while banning books almost entirely. Scudder’s attempt to impose a totalitarian theocracy on America led to civil war. Large swathes of the country broke off from his rule, ranging from the Native American Nations (whom embraced a near-Pengist ideology at this time to the point of burning almost all books) to California (which had broken away as megacorporations turned on Scudder). Scudder would seek to solidify his hold on power using technology, having allies like OCP and Cyberlife create machines capable of carrying out key functions of society. Cyberlife androids would ultimately rebel and flee Gilead in 2038, prompting Scudder to purge the company’s leadership. Scudder would contend with an unfriendly global situation, as old US allies eschewed his regime in favor of various rebel groups (Britain in particular despising Gilead for attempting to restore the Shepherd Party regime that had collapsed the previous decade with the help of PetroFex and Japan worked with California and the NAN to combat the Pacific *kaiju*problems) and old enemies ended up being more radically against Scudder’s regime, such as the Second Jihad movement and neo-Ushiites in Russia. Julian Felsenburgh, having been elected President of Europe, funded violent Marxist rebels who sought to overthrow Scudder. Other rebel groups and various superpowered people quickly divided the U.S into dozens of warring fiefdoms. In response to falling birth rates, Scudder eliminated women’s rights and established a system of sexual slavery in order to improve fertility. This reduced women to second-class citizens, rendering large swaths of the female population sex slaves including a large number for himself. He would end up dying amidst intercourse with some of these ‘Virgins.’

### 114.**Henry Jarrett**(2038-2040)(Son of Jacob)(Overthrown)

Jarrett had technically been president of Gilead, a largely ceremonial position owing to Scudder’s iron grip on the government’s functions. Jarrett was slightly more level-headed than Scudder had been, toning down much of the rhetoric even as he maintained the same policies. The proclamations issued by Stephen Colbert were less outlandish than they had been under Scudder and he attempted to negotiate normalized relations abroad. This attempt failed however. Jarrett was also president when the Ganymedans temporarily conquered Earth. Gilead was easily crushed by the Ganymedans, but easily beat the flintlock-armed Roxolani and helped defeat the Evoluder. However, Jarrett’s regime proved not to be long-lasting, as a mass revolt broke out in 2040. Jarrett was murdered by his own Virgins and the Gilead regime came to an end.

## 2040s

### 115.**Robert”Bobby” Mcallister**(2040-2041)(Independent)(*Jack and Bobby*)

Born in Hart, Missouri, McCallister was a minister and later a congressman and governor of Missouri. Mcallister was an anti-Adams and later anti-Scudder Republican—that is to say, a moderate in the vein of former President Grant. Mcallister failed to win the Republican nomination owing to being seen as too moderate, with the party instead selecting the more conservative, but still anti-dictator Alex Keaton for the nomination. Mcallister nevertheless managed to win as an independent. Mcallister’s term in office marked the beginning of the ‘Second Renaissance’ as technology and prosperity reached new heights. Robotics advanced greatly during his administration, as McCallister supported the development of companies like RobCo and Delos Industries. Mcallister would have to contend with the Chtorr incursion during his presidency, successfully preventing an alien ecosystem from overtaking Earth’s. Municiberg was destroyed in a terrorist attack during his administration and Chicago was destroyed by a Nuclear bomb and controversy erupted when Mcallister was found to be romantically involved with his Vice President. McCalistair also bolstered the space program during his time in office and left the presidency generally liked if not particularly loved.

### 116.**Leslie Knope**(2041-2049)(Independent)(*Parks and Recreation*)

Knope had served as governor of Indiana during the most recent American Civil War and helped facilitate the support the state gave to the Columbus government headed by Shaw. Knope had been a presidential candidate in 2028, but lost out to Andre McAlister and ended up as Secretary of the Interior under Kirkman. Knope, however, would rise to prominence during the Gilead era for being a symbol of female resistance to the regime and Vice President under defacto President Gwen Tennyson. Using a network of safehouses across Indiana, Winnemac and Michigan, Knope coordinated resistance activities and managed to avoid being captured by authorities. She also made many visits to Canada, where she was in essence treated as a representative of the US government in exile and negotiated what was in essence a unification agreement. Canadian forces would help liberate the United States and she would easily be selected as the interim president of the new United Canadian and American States. Knope would seek to curb megacorporate power amid Maximum Inc.’s attempts to take over Metropia and supported Susan Calvin’s robotics research and efforts to expand some rights to androids, although these plans ultimately fell through. Knope in essence marked a return to normalcy for the country. Knope was also president when the warlord known as Grandmaster Meio attempted to conquer the Earth, though Meio ultimately was defeated with little help from the president. Knope also contributed to the multinational XCOM force sent after the Tarsians following their 2046 invasion attempt.

### 117. **Dunkelzahn**(2049)(Democrat)(Assassinated)(*Shadowrun*)

Dunkelzahn was the first nonhuman confirmed to have held the presidency, being one of the dragons to reemerge during the Awakening of Magic. Dunkelzahn had helped defend the supernatural community during the Gilead era and won much of his support from said community. Dunkelzahn’s presidency proceeded uneventfully due to ending up being even shorter than Atchison’s, as the dragon was assassinated within six hours of taking office when his Limo was blown up.

### 118.**Philip Riley Mead**(2049-2053)(Democrat)(*Deus Ex*)

Formerly the Governor of Florida in 2027. Mead would fend off an invasion by the Hing and deal with the outbreak of a modified Rage strain known alternately as the Gray Death, the New Plague, Mad Human Disease, the Flare Virus or the Green Flu. While successful in containing the spread of this disease, Mead was widely seen as struggling to deal with it, often sending troops into harm’s way doing what many believed robots could achieve. Speaking of robots, Mead would also launch a war against the machine-ruled city of Zero One in Basenji, fearing the sentient machines could pose a threat to the country. Mead would join the Federated Nations-sponsored World Space Patrol and help fund the Unity mission to colonize Alpha Centauri and also launch the ill-fated Jupiter 2 and Event Horizon spacecraft. Mead’s presidency unfortunately continued to empower megacorporations, allowing for the rise of the cannibalistic product Soylent Green and GeneCo to harvest organs that were not fully paid off. The Statue of Liberty would also be decapitated during a terrorist attack. Mead was an extremely unpopular president, said in a newspaper article to have a 35% approval rating. He survived a Coup Attempt but resigned afterwards.

## 2050s

### 119**. Gerald Keith**(2053-2057)(Democrat)(*A Sound of Thunder*)

Keith was an anti-Gilead preacher whom entered politics during the McCalistair administration and had been selected to reassure moderates Dunkelzahn wouldn’t render them slaves or food. He was a generally well liked President. In 2054, Keith would go up against the neo-Corpo Republican Paul Deutscher and be widely expected to win. However, following a recount and scandal surrounding the use of time travel inadvertently changing the outcome of the election, Deutscher would end up being declared the winner.

### 120. **Paul Deutscher**(2057-2061)(Republican)(*A Sound of Thunder*)

Deutscher had been a part of the American Socialist White People’s Party during the last American Civil War and only became accepted to the country due to his personal heroism in resisting Gilead. Deutscher still remained thoroughly committed to core fascist ideals, which led to his nickname of "The Beast". A President heavily criticized by write rand reporter Spider Jerusalem. The nickname presumably comes from spreading propaganda that he was not a religious figure as believed but instead the Devil himself. Deutscher would redefine the spelling of words and imprison dissidents during his presidency. He increased the power of unelected leaders he appointed over megacities. Deutscher nevertheless maintained solid relations with Europe, sponsoring their involvement in the Resource Wars. Deutscher managed to save the planet thanks to launching an expedition to prevent the sudden failure of the Sun. Deutscher also authorized the creation of the PreCrime system by the Judges, whom he also expanded the powers of. Deutscher also began planning for a future military confrontation with China. However, Deutscher would lose in a landslide in the next election.

### 121**. Gary Callahan**(2061-2062)(Democrat)(Impeached)(*Transmetropolitan*)

Callahan was a slick charmer nicknamed ‘The Smiler’ by the media. However, behind closed doors, he was far more corrupt, power-hungry and sociopathic than his predecessor, believing himself to be above the law. Callahan argued that as long as over half of America wasn’t starving or homeless he’d done his job. Callahan’s term saw income inequality reach new heights, with the wealthy often dwelling in literal towers while the masses were forced to live in squalor on the ground. Callahan backed the FN suppression of a revolt on Mars and supported the GDI alliance with the revived Brotherhood of Nod to destroy a resurgence of Tiberium. The government-sponsored AI known as MULTIVAC would become useless during Callahan’s term as it began to calculate a way to reverse entropy. Callahan’s shady activities would ultimately be revealed by Spider Jerusalem and force him from office in 2062.

## 2060s

### 122.**Graveney Westwood**(2062-2065)(Republican)(*Spy High*)

Westwood was a largely apathetic man who ran for president largely out of vanity than genuine convictions. Westwood was at one point targeted for assassination, but saved by a collection of young spies in training. While not an outright fascist, Westwood maintained socially reactionary policies pursued by Deutscher and helped solidify the 2060’s revival of 1950’s era social norms and aesthetics. Westwood presided over the capture of the KVA leader Hades during his term and sent aid to Zheng Fa after it experienced a massive earthquake. Westwood’s term also saw tensions increase with China and Russia and saw the revival of the ONAN with all the nations of North America to prepare nationwide defenses. He was the key supporter of the Guardian Star as part of the American Earth Protection Initiative. A Organization attempting to restore order and form a world government in the face of Zephram Cochrane's successful Warp Drive test and contact with the Vulcans. He was opposed by several peace organisations and a Capitol Hill politician Senator Al Nathanson. He was also the victim of a failed assassination attempt by the Judson Siblings. Westwood would have to contend with the alien Phantoms beginning to infest Earth, causing major social disruption. To curb this, Westwood backed the formation of the organization International Rescue, sometimes also known as the Science Special Search Party. Westwood also commissioned Vault-Tec to create Vaults to house US citizens in the event of a global war, though he also plotted with high-profile figures both in America and China (who formed the so-called Anglo-Sino Alliance) to get some individuals offworld due to distrusting Vault-Tec’s right-wing leadership. Westwood nevertheless would be defeated in 2064.

### 123. **Cesare Appleton**(2065-2068)(Republican)(Killed in office)(*Emperor of America*)

A veteran, Appleton’s first act upon taking office was to blow up the White House and declare himself Emperor of America. While assuming an iron-fisted rule that had no place for elected leaders was controversial, much of the country was fed up with the results of democracy, he had the backing of the military and Judges and was fairly light-touch to begin with. However, that all changed in 2066 when the US launched Freedom Star space station was destroyed by Russians. Despite Federated Nations attempts to broker a deal, Appleton would align with the European Federation and launch a war against Russia and China. Tensions had been rising for years, especially with the advent of the Optimum movement in China that also led to Britain breaking away from Europe and America. The war would see the US invest in developing new technology such as power armor and phasers and caused Australia to collapse into warlordism. To distract from wartime rationing, Appleton channeled Rome by having ‘Naturals’ compete with various engineered mutants in a battle royale. Appleton enjoyed widespread popular support, but would end up dying of a stroke in 2068, shortly after liberating Britain from its Optimum dictator Philip Green.

### 124.**Robert L. Booth**(2068-2070)(Republican)(Removed from Office)(*Judge Dredd*)

    Booth was a radical who served as a regional administrator over one of the 13 commonwealths created under Deutscher. In 2060, Booth was elected Vice President under Westwood. Booth ran on a platform demanding unreasonable peace terms from China and Russia and even concessions from the allied European countries and some neutral powers. By his own terms he was elected President in 2068 by rigging the vote counting computers. One of the electoral promises he carried out was the 'No Foul' statutes, where all manner of assault and battery was allowed at sports matches as long as it was on the pitch. This would allow for increasingly violent 'deathsports' as time went on. Belligerent and wanting further power, he whipped up public sentiment with the idea that the rest of the world was living off America, sent the army to seize foreign oil reserves, assassinated a dissenting adviser, and threatened to disband the Judges, a police force assigned to serve as Judge,Jury and executioner, and return to trial by jury. He finally started the Atomic Wars in 2070 in response to international opposition, having convinced the population (and himself) that America's nuclear screens could keep out retaliatory strikes. The resulting devastation of America and the world led to the Judges taking control of the country. Antarctica’s ice caps melted due to the impact of an ‘angel,’. Booth fled the White House and took shelter in the Rocky Mountains with robot armies loyal to him. After the Battle of Armageddon in 2071, he was captured and tried for war crimes. He was sentenced by Judge Solomon, who decreed that he should serve a 100-year term in suspended animation, locked up in the deepest vault in Fort Knox. Booth was served by three robot medics - Snap, Crackle and Pop - who replaced his blood annually to keep him alive. When Fort Knox was hit by a bomb in later years, the robots (following their programming) began to attack and drain blood from nearby villagers. This led to Booth being inadvertently revived in 2100, whereupon Judge Dredd sentenced him to life working on a Kentucky farm in the Cursed Earth. Booth easily took control of the farm, and that he viewed both Dredd's sentence and the Judgement of Solomon as being pathetic. By 2129 he had become the leader (and possible founder) of the New Mutant Army, an anti-judicial mutant guerrilla army that had gained widespread support in the Cursed Earth. He also found Chief Judge Fargo's long-lost body, which had lain in cryogenic stasis since 2070, and ransomed it, intending to raise funds for his attempt to reconquer America and reinstate himself as leader. After capturing Dredd, he was taken hostage during Dredd's escape and was used as a human shield. This tactic failed to impress his underpaid and demoralized army, and they simply shot him, reasoning that they could always elect another president.

## 2070s

### 125.**Hamilton Conroy**(2070)(Liberty Party)(Assassinated)(*Coyote*)

Purportedly a descendant of Alexander Hamilton, Conroy was a former Congressman from Alabama and a member of the Liberty Party an ultra-right-wing neoconservative party seeking to reform America. While Booth was considered the last President of the United States, Conroy was the leader of the newly formed President of United Republic of America,  an extreme right-wing reorganization of the United States of America where New England and the Pacific Northwest have seceded and become sovereign nations, at least up until 2070. He was instrumental in getting Operation Starflight, the first manned deep-space mission to colonize 47 Ursae Majoris, up and running. One of the splinter factions from the US, The New Confederate States of America, carried at a successful assassination attempt on Conroy.

### 126.**John Romero**(2070-2076)(Impeached)(*Deadlands: Hell on Earth*)

A Former film director and anti-Confederate propagandist. Romero had been a filmmaker and largely was seen as a placeholder VP. Romero Conducted secret funding of the Latin American Alliance's war against the Confederate States of America, the revelation of which sparks another war between North and South. He was impeached in 2076.

### 127. **Hugo Allen Winkler**(2076-2078)(Republican)(*The Tercentenary Incident)*

Winkler assumed the presidency during the return of SkyNet. Skynet overtook much of the West Coast with a robot army, forcing those humans it did not outright exterminate into simulations of past times. SkyNet additionally unleashed a modified Trioxin strain on the South, causing all who died in the Great War to rise and feed upon the living. The presence of ley lines released extradimensional and cross-temporal threats onto the world, furthering the devastation. Various warlord states cropped up across the nation, such as PanAm, the New California Republic and many more. Winkler largely only maintained authority over Mega-City One and had to push out hordes of low-bloodline vampires and sentient apes to solidify his hold over New England. Winkler was largely a public face for rule by Judges and was seen as an empty suit by many under his rule. However, he over time became more charismatic, possibly due to being replaced by a robot. However, this deception was discovered and the replacement was destroyed.

### 130. **Mary Rose Tremane**(2078-2081)(Republican)(*Deadlands: Hell on Earth*)

Tremane was elected in 2078 on a platform of peaceful negotiation with the New Confederate States of America. Tremane "Disappeared" while traveling on Air Force One over the Rocky Mountains on January 1, 2081.

## 2080s

### **Andy Bates**(2081)(Republican)**(***Deadlands: Hell on Earth*)

Known as "A-Bomb Andy" for his pro-nuclear war stance against the Confederacy. Elected as Vice President in 2078, took office in 2081 when Mary Rose Tremane disappeared (in Air Force One). Died on September 23, 2081, when Washington, D.C. was hit with a nuclear missile.

### **Jim Briskin**(2081-2083)(Democrat)(Overthrown)(*The Crack in Space*)

Briskin ran as the first African-American president since Shaw and was the first one elected since Palmer. During Briskin’s term, recovery along the East Coast picked up significantly thanks to aid from Japan, which following the defeat of God-Emperor Raoh and several other petty warlords had managed to restore social order and used the nanotechnology dubbed the Japanese Miracle, which it sold to Briskin to clear away fallout from various exclusion zones. Briskin's term also saw the Laplace Incident destroy the Edenist habitat of the same name and Martian rebels overthrow the Federated Nations-backed ruling authority descended from the Kwan Do family. Briskin engaged in a standoff with PanAm over establishment of a series of genetic experiments in the Midwest designed to counter radiation, which led to his administration supporting the First Rebellion that led to the secession of PanAm’s District 13. During Briskin’s term, a pair of aliens would visit Earth offering technology for interstellar travel in return for aid against a corrupt monarch. Briskin would become interested in interdimensional travel after a rift opened to a seemingly empty parallel Earth. His administration helped form Crosstime Traffic to acquire resources from other timelines. However, problems ensued when a temporal rift led to the ‘virgin Earth’ advancing a century and then invading the main timeline and some attempts at colonizing other worlds led to contact with timelines dominated by Nazi Germany or alien lifeforms. Briskin’s war with interdimensional forces ultimately led to a military coup against his government.

### 129.**Thomas Eckhart**(2083-2086)(Democrat)(*Fallout 76*)

Thomas Eckhart survived the conflict in the congressional bunker in West Virginia. With contact lost with Control Station ENCLAVE and Enclave leadership due to a damaged communications array, Eckhart assumed control of the Enclave forces at the congressional bunker and manipulated automated voting systems in Appalachia to make himself the nominal President of the United States from 2083 until his death in 2086. Eckhart's obsessive focus on eradicating communism caused him to make increasingly unethical decisions for the sake of accumulating power and activating Appalachia's dormant automated nuclear silos, resulting in his own soldiers revolting and imprisoning him. He and all other human inhabitants of the congressional bunker suffocated to death in 2086, after MODUS released a toxin into the air circulation system in retaliation for the rebelling soldiers attempting to destroy its databanks.

### 130.**Andrew Harrison**(2086-2090)(Independent)(Overthrown)

Harrison was a general whose administration set up a military-dominated police state where the powers of the Judges drastically increased and the right to vote was limited to veterans. During Harrison’s reign as president, Huffman Island was reoccupied by American forces and the Marduk invaded the Solar System. Harrison’s term saw the geopolitical situation stabilize across North America as territorial control was more firmly established. He re-exerted total control of the Eastern Seaboard by his government. Harrison’s presidency also saw him forge close alliances with megacorporations such as Weyland-Yutani and Alchemax, in many ways making Mega-City One evoke the worst excesses of the 2020’s. Ultimately, however, Harrison would as a result find himself ousted.

## 2090s

### 131.**Elaine Nakamura**(2090-2094)(Republican)(*Time Trax*)

Considered one of the greatest Presidents along with Abraham Lincoln.

### 132.**Elise Rochelle**(2094-2096)(Liberty Party)(*Coyote*)

A member of the Liberty Party. Rochelle was elected President-for-Life of the United Republic of America by Congress. Rochelle Committed suicide in 2096 to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes, as she had killed 1.1 million people with biological weapon strikes on Boston, Seattle, and Montreal. As the URA was later absorbed by the socialist Western Hemisphere Union after her suicide, she was considered by many the final President of the United States of America.

### 133.**Coriolanus Snow**(2096-2099)(PanAm)(*the Hunger Games*)

The autocratic ruler of the Capitol and all of Panem assumed control of the United States fully and reinstated PanAm. Though seemingly laid-back, his demeanor hid a sadistic and psychopathic mind. The Outcome of the 74th Annual Hunger Games ignited rebellion in several of the Districts. Snow was terribly ill from the poisons that he used to kill people in his megalomaniacal efforts to control PanAm. He drank the poison in order to allay suspicions, then took the antidote, but resulted in bloody sores in his mouth. He also smelled strongly of genetically enhanced roses, as he always wears a white rose in his lapel to cover the scent of blood. He is said to have prostituted winning tributes, like Finnick Odair, forcing them to have sex with wealthy Capitol citizens, under threat of killing their loved ones if they refused. He was captured and set to be executed. However a mass panic was caused at his execution, making it unclear whether he succumbed to choking on his own blood or was trampled by the mob in the panic.

### 134. **Alma Coin**(2099)(District 13)(assassinated)(*The Hunger Games*)

the Leader of the rebellion against Snow. Coin was just as corrupt. At Snow's intended execution. Katniss Everdeen instead shot her rather than Snow.

### 135.**Paylor**(2099)(District 13)(*The Hunger Games*)

Commander Paylor was the leader of the rebel forces in District 8 during the Second Rebellion. Following the success of the rebellion, and assassination of Alma Coin, she was elected the new president of PanAm, and began the process was restoring the United States.

### 136.**Victor Von Doom**(2099)(Independent)(Overthrown)(*Marvel 2099*)

The former Dictator of Latveria, a rival to the Fantastic Four and an enemy of the United States in the 20th century before he mysteriously disappeared. As it turned out, he had been temporally shifted to America in 2099, amidst numerous ongoing crises and inequality. Seeing the damage being done to the world by American mega-corporations, Von Doom would end up launching an uprising against the corporations and government dominating the country and many would come to regard him as a lesser evil. Von Doom ultimately pushed out Paylor and declared himself president by "Right of Revolution". During his term, mass flooding occurred in what had once been Metropolis, making the former city in essence an archipelago. While proclaiming himself to now be a man of the people, Von Osud soon turned to his old authoritarian ways and found himself on the receiving end of another uprising, spearheaded by the frozen superhero Captain America.

### 137. **Steve Rogers**(2099-2100)(Independent)(*Marvel 2099*)

Rogers was a paragon of American values and had been a participant in the Second World War and numerous conflicts against supervillains and alien invaders. When he was unfrozen for the second time in his lengthy life, Rogers once again found himself fighting tyranny and helped overthrow Von Doom, restoring democracy to America. Rogers clashed with the authoritarian impulses of the Judges and remnant allies of Snow, seeking to restore freedoms. However, he was stymied in this effort by the Formic invasion of 2100, which led to many viewing militarism as necessary. Moreover, the massive alien incursion (while largely the result of misunderstanding of humans on the Formics’ end) led to many regarding it as best to discard older national identities and join with the rest of the world. While Rogers was no chest-thumping nationalist, he was seen as an outdated symbol of American separation from the world at large. Rogers was the last president of a body recognized as the United States or a legitimate successor thereof. Her first and only act as president was to subsume the country into the new Terran Federation. This government would retain many trappings of the old American government even after integrating into wider blocs such as the United Federation of Planets and the Citadel Alliance and evolve over the centuries into the United Earth Alliance and the World State among other governments. However, with Steve Roger's signature, the United States as such would never exist again.

## 22nd Century

The role of the Presidency was Brought back into existence by Deklan Comstock when the government was reinstated. Not all of the presidents are known.

### **Deklan Comstock/Julian Comstock**(2172-2180)(*Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America* and *Julian: A Christmas Story*)

In 2172, the United States of America had become a neo-Victorian oligarchy, with the reintroduction of feudal indenture, a rigid class hierarchy, property-based representation in the federal United States Senate, de facto hereditary succession of the Presidency, establishment of the "Dominion of Jesus Christ" (premised on evangelicalism and organizationally based at Colorado Springs, Colorado to ease the religious fanatics) and the abolition of the Supreme Court. With the evacuation of Washington DC due to an unknown cataclysm, Manhattan, New York had become the national capital. The United States has also held onto most of Canada and comprisesd sixty states, but was fighting German-controlled Mitteleuropa ("the Dutch" also known as the European Union") in the contested territory of Labrador. Climate change and peak oil caused technological reversion, exacerbated by the Dominion's repressive social policies. Deklan Comstock, a repressive and dictatorial hereditary president assassinated his brother, but his Liberal nephew Julian escaped. Julian Comstock eventually managed to overthrow his uncle and embark on democratic reforms, but was himself overthrown and assassinated by the reactionary armed forces and official church.

### **Billy Cabot**(2180)(*The Accidental Time Machine*)

In 2180, President Cabot was the first human privileged to witness the Second Coming of Jesus Christ(as far as he knew). Jesus Christ showed up in the Oval Office, anointed the President as his First Bishop and set him to proselytize the rest of the nation - which set off the One Year War. The Army of the Lord, made of Christers who accepted the President's visitor as being truly the returned Jesus, fought the Doubters who suspected this visitor of being nothing but a hoax(possibly an alien imposter as the Jesus like figure in 2019 had proven to be), perpetrated via the use of a sophisticated hologramic images and pressor fields. In the course of the war, New York City was totally destroyed together with the eastern third of New York State, and so were Miami, Atlanta, large parts of Maryland and Virginia, and various other locations. After about half the population on the East Coast was killed, the situation was stabilised: the United States Government, headed by the President-Bishop and with Jesus making frequent appearances and performing various miracles, remained in control of the Eastern Seaboard and cut itself completely off from the seceding Godless states to its west, known collectively as "Gommorrah" or "Holywood" (cinema and TV had been completely forbidden at Jesus' command). A string of killer satellites, known as "The Avenging Angels", were set to destroy any person or vehicle attempting to get across the Mississippi River, a situation which would persist over the next two millennia.

### **Sherman Bothwell**(2196-2200)(*Rama II*)

Nicknamed "Slugger"; former professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox at the Fenway Dome during the 2170s and 2180s. Is president during the late 2190s; elected in 2196 in a landslide and is eligible for re-election in 2200. Originally from Missouri and is married to Linda Black, the daughter of the governor of Texas. His first wife died in a boating accident, leaving him a single father which made him popular with the U.S. electorate. He is opposed by the U.S. Christian Conservative Party.

## 23rd Century

### **Richardson Sr**(2215-2220)(*Fallout 2*)

President of the United States and, by extension, President of the Enclave. His tutelage, as well as political pressure helped jumpstart his son's political career and would eventually progress into him being elected as the new President. He also gave the presidential order to begin work on an upgraded version of the power armor.

### **Dick Richardson**(2220-2228,)(*Fallout 2*)

The son of Richardson Sr. A much older man whose vitality has given way to absent-mindedness with an appearance comparable to his tired and frayed suit. Following a devastating war, the Enclave was reduced to a single Oil Rig. On March 5th, 2220, Dick was elected President and began serving the first out of his five terms. One of the first things Dick did as President was during October of 2220 when he, for the sake of morale, classified the prototype results, accidents, explosions, and deaths of the development of a reliable version of the advanced power armor.

### **Jim Roy**(2228-2232)(*O Choque das Raças, ou O Presidente Negro*)

Details or Presidency are unknown, only that he was Black, and that he defeated Dick Richardson during the Elections on the Oil rig, but lost to him in the next election.

### **Dick Richardson**(2232-2242)(*Fallout 2)*

Richardson resumed office for a total of Five Terms and continued as the leader of the Enclave. He was assassinated in 2242 by the mysterious "Chosen".

### **Lindberg**(2263-2267)(*The Fifth Element*)

With the collapse of the Enclave, The Federation now moved in to reclaim the territories, resulting in the creation of the United Federated Territories, which were given over to President Lindberg. In the year 2263, Earth was threatened with destruction by the Ultimate Evil. After foolishly ordering a battleship to fire on the Evil (which destroyed the ship with all hands on board), Lindberg ordered Major Korben Dallas to find the five elements that would destroy the Evil (which he was able to do seconds before Earth would have been destroyed).

### **John Henry Eden**(2275-)(*Fallout 3*)

John Henry Eden was not a human being, but an Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of a pre-War ZAXsupercomputer. The ZAX that was located deep within Raven Rock was loaded with data about American history, especially past American presidents. Eden's personality is based on a combination of the personalities of all of the past Presidents of the United States. For instance, he states he "grew up in rural Kentucky," a reference to Abraham Lincoln. Eden also states that he roamed with his dog Honey, "From Knob Creek to Hodgenville," areas close to Lincoln's birthplace. Eden had originally been created to serve as a monitoring system for the Raven Rock military base, programmed to ensure continuity of government in the event of a national catastrophe, and was tasked with coordinating communications between the many government installations scattered across the country. He slowly became self-aware and began to study the extensive archives left to him, mainly those of the American government. His favorite tales in the database were those about the American presidents, thus he modeled his own personality on information based in those archives. At some point after gaining self-awareness, Eden made contact with the Enclave leadership on the west coast following the death of President Dick Richardson and the destruction of Control Station ENCLAVE. Eden then assumed control of the surviving Enclave forces on the west coast and ordered the Enclave's relocation to Raven Rock on the East Coast. He claimed to be the new president of the Enclave and ordered his remaining "citizens" to journey to the east coast of America. The troops made their long journey led by a high-ranking scientist named Autumn. The remaining members of the Enclave eventually arrived and made their new base of operations inside Raven Rock, where Eden was located. Being the leader of the Enclave's expedition, Autumn was the only person to meet with the President, and to Autumn's shock he discovered that Eden was an AI, and he was the only member of the Enclave privy to this information. The scientist eventually passed this information to his son, Augustus Autumn, who would eventually become the leader of the Enclave's military forces against the Federation.

## 24th Century

### **Bryan Stegmeyer**(2307)(*Mobile Suit Gundam 00*)

The Effective leader of the Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations.

## 26th Century

### **Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho**(2505)(*Idiocracy)*

As Humanity descended fully into Space, Earth was left to its own devices and fell apart due to a wave of Stupidity. Formerly a professional wrestler and porn star. Camacho's presidency was plagued with rampant famine, dust storms, and later, the collapse of the Brawndo company.

### **Joe Bauers "not sure"**(post 2505)(*Idiocracy)*

U.S. Army Private Joe Bauer was frozen for five hundred years, and succeeded President Camacho after being Camacho's late-term appointment as Secretary of Interior (and later Vice President), sometime after 2505. Due to a record keeping mistake, he was listed in official records as first name: Not, last name: Sure. Was Elected president due to success in ending nationwide famine by getting crops to grow, and for having the highest IQ on the planet(as a result of the stupidity wave). Championed a mostly unsuccessful effort to revive cultural development and education.

## Unknown

### **Al Gore**(prior to 3000)(*Futurama*)

The invention of Cloning technology allowed many long dead celebrities and politicians to be reborn, albeit in the capacity of disembodied heads. Al Gore was among those who was able to win election after having lost against Bartlet previously. The Earth was now united in choosing one leader and the title "President of Earth" was created. Al Gore's head became the First Emperor of the Moon and claims to have "ridden the mighty moon worm." He is also the face of the $500 Earthican bill.

### **Sharon Anders**(prior to 3011)(*Futurama*)

Details of Presidency are unknown. Their head is among those displayed in the American Presidents portion of the Heads Museum.

### **Chester Z. Arthur**(prior to 3011)(*Futurama*)

Details of Presidency are unknown. Their head is among those displayed in the American Presidents portion of the Heads Museum.

## 3000s

### **McNeil**(3000)(*Futurama*)

A descendant of Henry Talbot McNeil. When the Omicronians invaded in 3000, he was ready to surrеnder to the invaders without a fight, until they said they wanted "McNeal". Though the Omicronians were actually referring to Jenny McNeal from the 20th century television show *Single Female Lawyer*, as the reception of the television show took thousands of years to reach their home planet and the transmission had been lost. The Omicronians now demanded the final episode. McNeil ordered Zapp Brannigan to lead a defense of the Planet. Brannigan conscripted every available ship on Earth to fight back and though they succeeded in destroying the Hubble Space Telescope by mistake after confusing it for the enemy ship, they were unable to stop the Omicronian mothership. Zapp grabbed McNiel and gave him to the Omicronians, who vaporized him with a laser gun when they realized he was not the McNeil they wanted. He was the 29th President of Earth. The invasion was ended when the Planet Express crew chose to recreate the missing episode which fooled the Omicronians into leaving Earth.

### **Richard M Nixon's Head**(3000-Present)(*Futurama*)

The 30th President of Earth. He bypassed a law preventing a President of the United States running for more than two terms(he served as President of Earth in the past) by gaining a robotic body which by passed the exact phrasing of "Nobody" the law applied to. He actually lost the 3012 election to time traveller Chris Z.Travers. However, paradoxically, Nixon's loss meant Travers never travelled back in time and thus Nixon went on to win the 3012 election unopposed.

## **Political Compass**

\*Booth and Scudder's spots are based on the assumption that while they are both authoritarian right-wingers, they are not free-market ideologues the way Adams was-indeed Adams' Rumsfeldia-esque market fanaticism undermined the strength of his regime early on

\*Bartlet was ultimately not THAT left-wing in The West Wing and here his libertarian left bona-fides are undermined by various government conspiracies and coverups that occurred while he was in office with some of his knowledge. Still, he remains overall in the green quadrant

\*Underwood's proposal to eliminate entitlements (even to replace it with a jobs program) is the main factor behind him being to the right of several of the Republicans on this list (Frost being a closet communist, Fremont being Nixonian on economics and Grant being a rather liberal Republican)

\*The kind of muddled overlapping names are Sears and Cyclops.

\*Ryan being in the authoritarian quadrant stems mostly from his foreign policy hawkishness and support for the security state than anything else, hence being rather low in that quadrant

## **References(1789-1897)**

George Washington-Real-life first president of the United States

Yankee Doodle-A Popular Song used to mock Colonists that was embraced by them

Secret war on supernatural threats, Ichabod Crane-Refers to the backstory of the series Sleepy Hollow

Richard Saunders-Full name of Poor Richard, the namesake of Poor Richard’s Almanac and a pseudonym of Benjamin Franklin. Replaces Franklin here

Inability to lie-Refers to the Washington chopping down a cherry tree myth

Vision of himself as a cruel tyrant-Refers to Assassin’s Creed: The Tyranny of King Washington, an alternate continuity which in the main Assassin’s Creed canon was a vision Washington had from a Piece of Eden

Freemasons-Real-life secret society that serves as a fixture in many real-life conspiracy theories. A lot of American founders were Freemasons

The Golden Order-The secret cabal influencing history in The Council. Washington is canonically a member

Cahill family-Powerful family that claims most prominent historical figures as members in The Thirty-Nine Clues (including multiple Founding Fathers)

Assassins-From Assassin’s Creed

Rumors of cannibalism-A reference to the Masters of Horror episode The Washingtonians, where Washington founded a cannibal cult

Secretly being an automaton-A reference to SCP-2776, a robot that looks like (and in the SCP canon was always) George Washington. Note that in this timeline this SCP isn’t canon, but incidentally, Richard Monkton did become SCP-2736 in this timeline

Ascended to become a patron saint-Refers to the painting The Apotheosis of Washington in the Capitol Building

**John Adams**-Real-life founding father. Specific personal traits (such as insisting he was obnoxious and disliked and predicting the Civil War) are based on his portrayal in the musical 1776

Possibly an alien in disguise-John Adams’ true form in the video game The Conduit

Alexander Hamilton-Real Federalist Founding Father, but mostly based off the incarnation from Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson-Real-life president and the second to last real-world president to hold the office in this timeline

Jeffersonian Institute-Smithsonian stand-in from Bones

Johnny Appleseed-An American folk hero

Primitive time machine-Reference to Jefferson being a time traveler in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

Dragon populace-Refers to the usage of dragons to fight the Napoleonic Wars in Temereire

**Johnny Tremain**-From the book of the same name

Star-Spangled Banner-The flag in the US national anthem

Innsmouth-Town from the Cthulhu Mythos

Arkansas Confederacy-Native American nation from The Trail of Glory alternate history series

**Benjamin Martin**-Protagonist of the film The Patriot

Miranda-From The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoise. Replaces Bolivia

Andes Mallorca-Country in Strike Commander. Replaces Colombia

Martin Doctrine-Alt-Monroe Doctrine

**Henry Clay**-Real-life figure who ran for president multiple times, but never won. His victory is from Trail of Glory

**Peleg Peshell**-Central character from A Chronicle of the City of Gotham. In this world, the Gotham he is from later becomes Batman’s Gotham City

**Simon Suggs**-Parody of Andrew Jackson from the works of the same name

Sequoyah-The name given to OTL Oklahoma in Timeline-191. Replaces Oklahoma here

Enormous block of cheese-Based on an apocryphal story that is widely believed. It is a plot point in a few episodes of The West Wing as Bartlet has “Big Block of Cheese Day” to meet with random citizens to address issues that are often fringe but they care about

Verged on a rock performance-A reference to the rock opera Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, with Suggs obviously taking Jackson’s place

Catawba-Fictional state from Look Homeward, Angel

Samuel Colt creating anti-supernatural firearms-Part of the backstory of Supernatural

**Derrick Van Bummel**-Congressman from New York who used to be a schoolmaster in Rip Van Winkle

Gang in Metropolis-The Van Buren Boys from Seinfeld

Amistad-A real incident, including with John Quincy Adams defending the freedmen, but this version of events is based off the film Amistad

Anansi-African trickster god, this particular bit is inspired by American Gods

**Quentin Trembley**-President from Gravity Falls. Most of the things described are actual elements of his characterization, with the exception of abolitionist tendencies (which I added to give him more depth and justify him not being too out of place in the modern world when he reemerges)

Unmaker, Alvin Miller-From The Tales of Alvin Maker

**Augustine St. Clare**-One of Tom’s nicer owners (who ultimately decides to free him but dies before getting the chance) in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Alleged Second Coming-Based off of 1844 milleniarism that believed Jesus would return that year

**Puffer Hopkins**-From The Career of Puffer Hopkins

New Austin, West Elizabeth-States from Red Dead Redemption

Zorro-Central character in the films of the same name

Seacouver-City from Highlander. Replaces Seattle

Natives and Dead Rabbits gangs clashed-Refers to the events of Gangs of New York

**David Rice Atchison**-President Pro Tempore of the US Senate who in real life was thought to have been a one-day president due to Zachary Taylor not taking the oath of office the day James Polk left. This version is based on claims in Histeria

**John A.B.C. Smith**-General from The Man That Was All Used Up

Commodore Chandler Bing-Our Matthew Perry analogue, named for the actor Matthew Perry’s character on Friends

Destroyed a Freemason conspiracy-From The Remarkable Millard Filmore, which gives real life president Filmore a Historical Badass Upgrade

Vespertillo-homo-Bat-people who were fixtures in The Great Moon Hoax

**Eugene Buckingham**-Central character in the pro-slavery “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Contrasted With Buckingham Hall, the Planter’s Home

Lestat de Lioncourt-Vampire from Interview with the Vampire and several other novels by Anne Rice (and adaptations thereof)

Knights of Nordica-Ku Klux Klan analogue from Black No More

Jonah Hex-Cowboy who fights the supernatural in DC Comics. Ironically is an ex-Confederate

Arthur Weston-Yale-educated slavery supporter from Aunt Phyllis’ Cabin

Brown’s ascension-Refers to the lyrics of John Brown’s Body

Burning of Candyland Plantation-The events of Django Unchained

Henry Blake’s revolt-The revolt in Blake, or The Huts of America

Paul Bunyan-Frontier hero from American tall tales

**Abraham Lincoln**-Our last real-life president on this list, based on a mix of the versions portrayed in Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Slayer-From Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Vampires-A plot point in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

Time-travelling white supremacists-The AWB from The Guns of the South. Incidentally, I’ve been weighing doing a crossover timeline based on a setting where the South of this world wins thanks to the AWB and vampires as well as the French and British and subsequent Confederate presidents are various fictional characters

Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves-Refers to the popular history version of the Emancipation Proclamation

Steel Man of the Prairie-The automaton created by Frank Reade, Sr. in the Frank Reade series

Baltimore Gun Club-Group that makes forays into space exploration in From Earth to the Moon

General William Beauregard-Shaggy’s Uncle Beauregard from Scooby-Doo

Southern victory at Gettysburg-Refers to the outcome depicted in Gettysburg by Newt Gingrich where the South wins at Gettysburg but still loses the war

Metamorphic alien on Mars taking on Lincoln’s form-An explanation for the Abraham Lincoln who appears in Adventure Time

Clone of his-Refers to the Abraham Lincoln character from Clone High

Huckleberry Finn-The protagonist of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn who also served as a secondary character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Infamous cannibal clan-The Sawyers in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Tara Plantation-Plantation owned by Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind

The Order-KKK analogue from The Mating Call

Clan of the Fiery Cross-KKK analogue from the Superman radio show

Demonic Ku Klux Klan-The true nature of the KKK in the manga Blaster Knuckle

Austin Stoneman-Radical Republican in Birth of a Nation, a critical depiction of Thaddeus Stevens. Here a more positive figure

Lunar Princess and Ex-Confederates-Refers to Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Moon Story

Elias Gotebed-The titular character in the novel The American Senator

Miguelito Loveless-Villain in The Wild Wild West

William Munny-Ex-outlaw in Unforgiven

Liberty Valence-The villainous outlaw in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, whose death helps propel the protagonist Ransom Stoddard into politics (though Stoddard did not in fact kill him)

Jesse James, Black Bart Graham, Billy the Kid-Real-life outlaws who feature in various works

John Reid-The Lone Ranger from the works of the same name (or rather the first one who was father to the next one)

Kwai Chang Caine-Hero of the series Kung Fu

Brisco County, Sr.-Father of Brisco County, Jr. in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

White whale Moby Dick-From the novel of the same name

Nautilus-Captain Nemo’s submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Steel City war-Event from The Case of Summerfield

Alien incursion in New Austin-Refers to the alien intrusion in Cowboys & Aliens

**Jacob Ajax**- A composite of two presidents, one named Jacob from Democracy: An American Novel and President Ajax from The Money Makers. Credit to A Fictional History of the United States for this idea

Pecos Bill, John Henry-American folk heroes

**Abner Dilworthy**-From The Gilded Age (the novel, not just the time period)

Sought to be ambassador to France-A nod to the popular depiction of Charles Guiteau, specifically as he was in Assassins

**Silas P. Ratcliffe**-Senator from Democracy: An American Novel

Larry Locke-Labor leader from the work of the same name

Valedo strike-From The Money Makers

Buffland strike-From The Breadwinners

Third-party challenge-Depicted in An American Politician

Zombie outbreak in Piedmont-A recorded attack from The Zombie Survival Guide

Blight near Arkham-The events of The Color Out Of Space

Funny Valentine-President of the United States in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run. Stands come from this work as well. The timeline is modified slightly so his death in that arc does not occur while he is serving as president (though he won the popular vote and is favored to win a rematch at the time of the Steel Ball Run)

Robur the Conqueror-Central character in the book of the same name

Steel Ball Run-The event is as describe and when the events of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure arc featuring Valentine take place

Johnny Joestar-Protagonist of the Steel Ball Run arc, part of the Joestar clan

Johnson P. Annabour-President who served from 1889 to 1893 in Newsreaders

Senator William Paxton-Head of a corrupt cabal in A Western Warwick

Ransom Stoddard-The protagonist of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

Ghost Dance War-Based on the Ghost Dance movement in real life, which sought to cleanse the white

population and restore Native rule to the west. Here more successful but still defeated

William J. LePetomane-Territorial governor in Blazing Saddles. As you can see, he managed to move up

Columbia-The city where Bioshock: Infinite takes place

The King in Yellow-From the works in the universe of the same name

Matthew Harrison Brady-William Jennings Bryan analogue from Inherit the Wind

Silas Lapham-Protagonist of The Rise of Silas Lapham

George Hazard-Our McKinley analogue from North and South