Daniel Parker

President Parker in a suit as seen on PoseidoNet database

Daniel Parker is the sitting President of the United States of America as claimed by Chicago Federal Remnants (Chicago Enclave) in 2280 after the death of President Eden and a four year interregnum. Daniel Parker is the first President of the United States to have been born in a Vault.

## Background

### Corrupt Vault

Daniel Parker was born 45 years ago within Vault One in Chicago, Illinois. Daniel’s upbringing was a relatively weak family in comparison to some of the elites in the control Vault. Names like Daley and Madigan held more power in the Vault than any other. Daniel was assigned by the G.O.A.T. to be a Vault Lawyer. While his contemporaries made fun of him because of the nature of the job in such a corrupted Vault. He still took it with a passion and kept out of the political corruption in the Vault. When he was finished in his Vault legal training he tried fruitlessly to make the Vault a better place but to no avail. He would wait all of his life for an opportunity.

### Stranger at the door

That opportunity came in the form of a strange man who had entered the Vault. The first outsider to ever step into Vault One. Vault One had sent its overpopulation flow out but nothing had ever come back in. Not only that but we really didn’t have a choice. This outsider had an argument that was visible to the crowd in the Vault in the Overseer’s office. When things got out of hand and Vault Security wanted to remove him. He rushed over to the Vault Control panel and popped in a Holotape and began narrating the contents to us. Included was video footage of Vaults being mutilated by hideous freaks. Our fellow people! It was controversial but we knew what had to be done. A moving speech was made which moved Daniel towards this man. The light in the darkness. With the other dwellers, Daniel stormed up the stairs to the Overseers office and essentially led them to blocking the door. Forcing the Overseer to either attempt to flee or accept what was coming. The man was released and the Overseer was given a cushy job in the new regime.

### Fitting in

From then on, Daniel grew to like the Stranger and even got his name. Jeremias Klink was his name. Daniel was brought as the first Citizen to be integrated directly into the Federal Remnants of Chicago at the Great Lakes Naval Station Underwater Complex and has lived there ever since as the Human Relations representative for the integrated ‘Vaulties’ as they became called and Public Defender for the entire justice system.

### Becoming President

By 2279, the remaining government leadership had collectively decided that Elections would be held in 2280 for the office of the President of the United States. Due to the fact that continuity of government had been broken. the idea was proposed that in order to keep the honor, dignity, and legitimacy of the Presidency. They would not elect the President through conventional means. Prompting them to elect the President using Senate elections. Once this person would become a Senator because of the Continuity of Government protocols they would immediately become President due to the fact they were the only Senator left. After the primaries were held, Daniel Parker won through a massive Vault wave of support over the traditional candidates and a few nearly treasonous Independent ones.

### Being Commander-in-Chief

The first orders of his administration were to continue on the progress made by the leftover leadership. President Parker continued the projects of Fission City, Garden of Eden Creation Kits being deployed in Chicago, and finally re-establishment of a National Guard started by Jeremias Klink. President Parker committed to General Hayden Trench that he would make preparations for his personal ambition to retake the West in Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. President Parker finally authorized several other related transfers and dismissals and began his first moves against the what he referred to as U.S. Army Traitors but also more commonly referred to as the Brotherhood of Steel residing in the Midwest. He vowed to beat them out of the Midwest if he could have two terms. He also placed efforts from the suggestion of Jeremias Klink on developing the Project MK Ultra 2 which was a new variant of Lysergic acid diethylamide now called LSD².

## Personality

   Daniel Parker is a politician like most. His focus on life is keeping himself elected. However he has major concerns and priorities that worry him. He tends to stick his nose in things that aren’t really even his issues. However he is a very honest and practical man. He is likeable and has a good sense of Wisdom. He cares a lot for the people of not only the Enclaves but the Wasteland to treat them fairly. He is probably secretly more reformist than presented but knows his politics well enough to center it on the thoughts of current groups.

## Ideology

   Daniel Parker was introduced to the new American party system in Chicago by Jeremias Klink. While Daniel was in the Vault he considered himself a conservative who would have fit well into the mold of a Reagan Era Republican administration. However as he was presented the actual issues of the constituents. He chose to rally behind the Federalists because of his relationship with Jeremias as well as the fact the party was the institution that invited the Vaults into the Enclave in the first place. However his personal thoughts and feelings are surprisingly unorthodox and often times not always aligned with his party first.

## Relationships

### Jeremias Klink

   Entry #1 - Jeremias Klink

Status: Political Ally | Friend

Jeremias came to my Vault, told us what was going on in the world. He is our first contact with not only the Government but the world. His ideology is what is brought this government together. I don’t always agree with him and he’s very young but has a promising future if he could simply be more patient.

### Hayden Trench

    Entry #2 - Hayden Trench

Status: Military Advisor | Associate

Hayden is my military politics fellow introduced to me by Jeremias. He holds true in value. I understand his desire to be seperated from this venture and begin to take the fight somewhere else. However I think if Mr. Trench stayed in Chicago and learned from the Vault Residents. He could one day become President as he is a highly qualified if not also young individual with a lot of life left in him. He doesn't need to prove his worth to become President only to use what he knows and show it to win votes.