Owen Hernandez

**Owen Javier Hernandez** (born October 7, 2069), is an American politician and attorney who served as the 59th President of the United States from 2109 to 2117. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second Hispanic president in American history. He previously served as the Governor of Oregon from 2101 to 2109, and the Lieutenant Governor of Oregon from 2097 to 2101, serving under former governor Francesca Petty.

Hernandez was born in Lake Oswego, Oregon a suburb of Portland. His parents were both lawyers and graduates of Columbia University. Hernandez, was the third-born child, with one older sister by 6 years, an older brother by 3 years, and a younger sister by 2 years. Hernandez graduated from Lake Oswego High School in 2086, and applied to the University of Oregon as his undergraduate school, and went to Columbia Law School, which he graduated in only 2 years. After graduating he became a criminal lawyer and served in Portland City Council. In 2092 he ran for mayor of Portland and won. He made the city much more bike-friendly and put in place a ban on any non-reusable plastic in the city. He served for one term as Mayor, before Oregon Governor, Frankie Petty, asked him to be her running mate for her reelection, as her former Lieutenant Governor had resigned due to his wife dying, and his father's mental illness.

Hernandez accepted the offer, and after Governor Petty won her gubernatorial election campaign, and Hernandez became Oregon's Lieutenant Governor. Hernandez advised Governor Petty and had a major influence on the statewide ban of non-reusable plastics. Once the Oregon Gubernatorial Election, Hernandez announced his Gubernatorial Campaign and swept the Democratic Primaries in with 82% of the vote, he chose State Senator David Wyerson, of the 7th District as his running mate. In the general election ran against the Mayor of Grants Pass, he won the election with a comfortable 5% lead.

Hernandez was sworn in as the Governor of Oregon on February 2, 2101. As governor, Hernandez focused his budgets on Education and Environmental Programs. Under him Oregon's unemployment rate fell to 1.9%, he also opened programmed to help disadvantaged neighborhoods in the entire state of Oregon

Hernandez ran for reelection in 2004, and won against his opponent, Businessman Johnny Parks, with another wide margin of 10%, in his second term he continued his programs to help low-income families in Oregon, he received some criticism as opponents claimed he focused to much on the Willamette Valley and was ignoring rural families and towns. In response, Hernandez opened the Oregonian Rural Advisory Program, which was focused on helping rural programs and redirected $400 Million into helping improve public schools in the Rural Areas of Oregon

On April 7, 2107, Hernandez announced his bid for president and quickly gained a following within the western states of Oregon, Washington, and California. He used a stance of stability and tranquility as well as a proposed, a Nationwide Ban on non-reusable plastics. He gained a following and became the frontrunner for the Democratic Party, and at the 2108 Democratic National Convention in Portland, Oregon he announced his running mate to be Rhode Island Senator, Andrea Farrukh.

On November 6, 2108, Hernandez ran against the Republican Nominee, Patrick Grasley, A senator from Utah, and won the 2108 Presidential Election by a wide margin. President-Elect Hernandez was inaugurated on the steps of the capitol building on January 20, 2109

In his first 100 days, Hernandez, passed many historical bills, including the Transgender Student Protection Act, requiring schools all over the country to require teachers to learn and accept transgender students’ pronouns and new names. He was a frontrunner in a trade organization, between the US, Canada, Japan, and Korea, known as JUSCKA (Japan-United States-Canada-Korea Agreement).

However, in early January of 2110, scandal followed the Hernandez Administration, as it was discovered that Secretary of Defense, George Hawstin was smuggling weapons out of the US and illegally giving them to Turkey and Iran. However, he was forced to resign and replaced with Secretary of the Navy, Philip Irson in March, with a 93-9 vote.

In November of 2110, during the Midterm Elections, the Republicans retook the senate. This was a large blunder in Hernandez's presidency

In December of 2110, Hernandez passed a massive Cigarette Tax, raising the price of Cigarettes by 4,500%. However, by January of 2111, when the new Republicans were elected, Hernandez's agenda was stopped in it's tracks.

On August 5, 2111, at 9:31 AM (EST) a bomb went off in the American Embassy in Madrid, Spain, killing the American Ambassador to Spain, and 12 Others. Immediately, Secretary of State Jennifer Romeros was sent to the Spanish Consulate in Barcelona, as the city of Madrid was declared unsafe. Only 2 1/2 Hours After the bomb in Madrid exploded. A bomb exploded in the Spanish Embassy in Washington D.C., however Juan Torres, the Spanish Ambassador, had already been moved out of the Embassy, and into the State Department Headquarters. Secretary of Homeland Security, Joseph Huang issued an order to evacuate all Spanish, Portuguese, Andorran, and Moroccan Consulates and Embassies and move the staffs to either their houses or another secure location. At 2:12 PM, a bomb exploded at the Consulate General of Portugal in Boston. At 4:15 PM, a bomb went off in the American Embassy in Lisbon, partially destroying the structure, however it had already been evacuated 2 Hours Earlier.((FILLER/UNFINSIHED)) The Next Day, on August 6, 2111, 47 Men were arrested in Madrid and charged with the deaths of 45 People, in Lisbon, Boston, Madrid, and Washington D.C.

On August 29, 2111. Supreme Court Justice Joshua Alfaro resigned. On September 1, Hernandez issued a statement saying that the Chief US Circuit Judge of the Ninth District, Olivia Cortez