C. L. Jeeves

Secretary of the Treasury, 2064 to present

C. L. Jeeves was a relatively average politician from Montana before his death at the hands of Sonic Heely and his later posthumous position as Treasurer. Jeeves's first foray into national politics was as a minor foreign policy advisor to the Wabbit Administration. He later served as Montana's sole US House representative for decades. In that time he was also named speaker pro tempore for then Speaker Courage Lynn. After his death, he became a campaign consultant and policy advisor. He is currently Secretary of the Treasury for the Sonic Heely Administration.

**Political Career in Life**

For much of his Congressional career Jeeves remained obscure. He was elected under the first Bull Moose Party, then under the New Democratic Party coalition. Jeeves worked primarily on domestic policy, writing and enacting legislation to protect Americans in mostly minor ways. He ended subsidies on all food items found to be carcinogenic by the World Health Organization in favor of instead applying those subsidies to fresh produce. He pushed for and enacted legislation criminalizing child battery as physical and sexual assault. Towards the end of his career he authored and enacted a bill to address the Listeria Brain Pathogen pandemic, and safeguard against possible future zombie apocalypse.

**Death**

C. L. Jeeves answered a challenge to a consensual duel to the death with then Senator Sonic Heely Gang. Jeeves lost the duel. Had he not made that fatal slip, historians speculate he might have gone on living.

**Afterlife**

Jeeves took his violent death as a mandatory retirement from politics. In the days afterward he became a ghost, and only occasionally let his will be known to the living. Later he enacted a curse on his killer's family line, including the late Prince Ares Countryball I, at his and Heely's wedding. The so-called Curse of Jeeves is thought by some theorists to have played a role in the Prince's untimely death. Some time later the Ghost of Jeeves served as an advisor to Theodore Roosevelt's presidential campaign on the new Bull Moose ticket in 2060, and Sonic Heely's Libertarian Socialist campaign in 2064. During this period, he did not rule out a return to politics should he be needed.

**Sonic Administration**

Jeeves joined Sonic Heely's LSP primary presidential bid as among his first campaign advisors. The ghost of the former representative had already established common ground with his killer on fiscal responsibility, and helped shape economic policy during the campaign. Jeeves's role as strategist and advisor also extended to other areas, and he helped to work on proposals for the Library of Congress and Supreme Court empowerment, as well as general campaign strategy. Jeeves was a proponent of an approach focused on canvassing and organization. Sonic won an overwhelming primary victory over party favorite Binky, crediting Jeeves as a top advisor during the 2064 LSP convention. The campaign went on to dominate the general election, and Jeeves was nominated as Treasurer. In that role, Jeeves has taken initiative in rebuilding a more balanced economy.

**Name Controversy**

It has never been clear what the C and L in Jeeves' name stand for. He had credited them to mean "Charles Lawrence" and "Cyrus Lawrence" at different occasions. Some historians speculate that his name actually is jut a humorous spelling of Ciel, a character from the Japanese Victorian Era demon butler media franchise.

**Personal Life**

He is dead.