List of fictional United States Presidents

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Fictional Presidents appear in film, television and print.[1]

Since the office of President of the United States is somewhat hallowed, fiction writers often choose to 'invent' a president in their stories to prevent a real one from being possibly insulted, to avoid having their stories become 'outdated' over time, for dramatic license, or to provide literary flexibility.

Presidents are listed in alphabetical order by the first letter in their last name.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  1. Unnamed presidents
  2. Real people
  3. See also
  4. External links

President William Abbott

  • President in: Advise and Consent series, by Allen Drury
  • Succeeds to presidency upon the assassination of President Harley Hudson.
  • Declines to run for reelection, leading to the election of either Orrin Knox (The Promise of Joy) or Edward M. Jason (Come Nineveh, Come Tyre)

President Barbara Adams

  • President in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986) [2]
  • Played by: Loretta Swit
  • Succeeds to presidency upon death of the previous president. Her incompetence helps cause World War Three.
  • Husband owns a weapons company that deliberately instigated the third world war to sell arms.

President David Jefferson Adams

  • President in: Shattered Union (video game, 2005)
  • The most unpopular President in US history, he was declared the winner of the 2008 Presidential election by Congress after a tie vote
  • His administration saw increased domestic terrorism in 2010, resulting in the declaration of martial law in California in 2011
  • A sham election, perpetrated by the Supreme Court disqualifying several more popular candidates, resulted in his "reelection" in 2012
  • Was killed, along with most of the federal government, when a nuclear bomb was detonated in Washington DC during the inauguration on January 20, 2013

President Adler

  • President in: Jack & Bobby
  • Controversial President during the War of Americas. Adler was criticized as a war criminal for his handling of the war and was subsequently arrested by the president of Finland during Robert McCallister's administration and charged with war crimes.

President David Alexander

  • President in: Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
  • Was vice-president and became president after the mysterious death of his predecessor. He was thrown out of office for not complying to his brother's (who was actually the Antichrist) New World order.
  • Played by:Michael Biehn

President Josh Alexander

  • President in: Act of Treason and Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn [3]
  • Party: Democratic
  • Governor of Georgia
  • Married to Jillian Rautbort Alexander
  • Running mate was Mark Ross, three term Senator from Connecticut and hawkish Director of National Intelligence
  • Ross secretly orchestrated the assassination of Jillian, in order to boost the ticket's popularity in the election
  • Ross was killed the day of the inauguration by Irene Kennedy without the knowledge of Alexander. Alexander still believes he died of a heart attack.
  • Threatened war with Iran after CIA Director Irene Kennedy was kidnapped and Iran sunk one of there own submarines and blamed it on the U.S.
  • Along with Chief of Staff Byrne, Alexander uses football analogies to describe his policies.
  • Secretary of Defense Brad England, Secretary of State Sunny Wicka, Secretary of the Treasury Mark Stevens, Attorney General Pete Webber, Chief of Staff Ted Byrne, National Security Advisor Frank Ozark, CIA Director Irene Kennedy, and CIA Deputy Director Chuck O'brien.

President Mackenzie Allen

Main article: Mackenzie Allen
  • President in: Commander-in-Chief
  • Allen, the vice-president under President Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy" Bridges, becomes the first female president in history after his death. She is 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 requests her resignation in favor of a "more appropriate" leader, she refuses.
  • Stated privately that her main political enemy is Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton.
  • Played by: Geena Davis
  • Party: Independent, formerly a moderate Republican

President Kathy Alton

President Juanita Alvarez

President Joseph Armando

  • President in: Mars by Ben Bova
  • The nation's first Hispanic president. Elected sometime in the early 21st century.
  • During his administration, NASA orchestrated the first manned mission to Mars.
  • Party: Democratic

President Ashton

President Nicholas Franklin Augustine

  • President in: Acts of Mercy by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg
  • Was a Junior Senator from California
  • Works closely with his chief domestic aide, Maxwell Harper, and Secret Service agent Christopher Justice to investigate a plot against him.
  • In the end, Augustine is revealed to have gone insane, that neither Harper nor Justice are actual people, and that all his conversations with them throughout the book have been figments of his imagination.

President Robert Baker

President William Ballard

  • President in: Tom Clancy's Politika
  • During his administration, Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin dies of a heart attack. A group of Russian freedom fighters attempt to spark a civil war within Russia in the hopes of overthrowing the government.
  • Is injured in an assassination attempt while attending Yeltsin's funeral, but survives.
  • Party: Democratic

President John Ballentine

  • President in: The Sentinel (2006 film) (and 2003 novel by Gerald Peteivich)
  • Targeted for assassination at a G8 Summit in Toronto. (film)
  • Intended to divorce his wife after his term was finished (novel)
  • Secret Service code name: Classic (film), Victory (novel)
  • Played by David Rasche
  • Party: Republican

President Ballantine

  • President in Video Game: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
  • Visits Mexico City to sign the fictional North American Joint Security Agreement (NAJSA) with the Mexican President and the Canadian Prime Minister.
  • Survives an assassination and multiple kidnapping attempts in Mexico City during a coup d'etat by Mexican soldiers opposed to NAJSA; rescued by the Ghosts Special Forces Team.

President Cliff Barnes

  • President in: Dallas, final episode Conundrum (aired May 3, 1991)
  • In an alternate universe where J.R. Ewing had never been born, Barnes attains a successful political career, eventually becoming vice-president. When the president has a stroke, Barnes attains the office and, according to "Adam," the otherworldly being who guides J.R. through this alternate world, is one of the country's greatest.
  • Played by: Ken Kercheval

President Leo Barnett

  • President in: the Wild Cards novels
  • May have had the superhuman ability to heal injuries and diseases

President Josiah Bartlet

Main article: Josiah Bartlet
  • President in: The West Wing (television)
  • Bartlet is a Roman Catholic, graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a Nobel Prize-winning economist and was governor of New Hampshire and a congressman. He is married to Dr. Abigail "Abbey" Bartlet, MD, and has three daughters. He enjoys chess, opera and Latin. Bartlet served two full terms (less four days, when he temporarily relinquished his powers due to the abduction of his daughter). Shortly before re-election, Bartlet was censured by Congress due to concealment of material facts during his first presidential election run that the public should have known, even though not required by law (namely the fact that he has a relapsing-remitting course of multiple sclerosis).
  • Qualities/attributes: Irascible yet good-humored, quite liberal, known for a fascination with useless trivia, esp. National Parks and historical trivia ("Did you know that this chair was presented to the United States as a gift from the King of Liechtenstein in gratitude for our ambassador marrying his daughter in 1871?"1)
  • Democratic
  • Played by: Martin Sheen, who has been introduced at speaking engagements before liberal audiences as "the Acting President of The United States".
  • Descendant of real-life Declaration of Independence signatory Josiah Bartlett.

President Buster Baxter

  • In one episode, Arthur Imagines Buster President, after he kept a grudge with Binky Barnes.
  • Played by Daniel Brochu

President Andy Bates

  • President in Deadlands: Hell on Earth roleplaying game.
  • 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.

President Tom Beck

  • President in: Deep Impact
  • During his administration, much of the Eastern Seaboard was devastated by a comet impact in the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Is the nation's first African-American president.
  • Played by: Morgan Freeman

President Raymond Becker

  • President in: The Day After Tomorrow (film, 2004)
  • Caricature of Dick Cheney
  • Played by: Kenneth Welsh
  • Former vice president, succeeds to presidency upon death of President Blake, who failed to escape from Washington, DC to the south.

President Bennett

  • President in: Clear and Present Danger (movie only - the book's president is not named)
  • Orders a covert war against Colombian drug lords but was exposed by Jack Ryan.
  • Commonly thought to be named only in the closing credits of the movie, a sharp sense of hearing detects a mention of the name in the movie.(Not mentioned in any Tom Clancy book.)
  • Played by: Donald Moffat
  • Party: Unnamed, based on book, most likely Republican

President Richard Benson

  • President in: Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
  • Played by: R. Lee Ermey

President Thomas "Tug" Benson

President Charles Berquist

President Anna Bester

  • President in John Shirley's Eclipse Trilogy
  • Also called "the American Margaret Thatcher", Bester is in office during a Third world war with Russia.
  • Towards the end of the war, Bester's administration suffers a major political scandal, when it is revealed that she had collaborated with the Second Alliance Security Corporation, a front organization for a global neo-fascist conspiracy.
  • Party: Most likely Republican

President Hosea Blackford

  • President in: American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold by Harry Turtledove
  • From the State of Dakota (in Harry Turtledove's "Southern Victory" series timeline, the present-day states of North and South Dakota never came into existence, and their combined territory instead comprised the single state of Dakota), Blackford is inspired by Lincoln as a young man, and begins a political career, becoming a Socialist and serving as congressman from Dakota. Runs for vice president in 1920 under Upton Sinclair. Defeats Calvin Coolidge for the presidency in 1928 by a narrow margin.
  • Blackford is unable to prevent the Great Depression in 1929. A war with Japan erupts, and the Japanese attack Los Angeles during a campaign rally. Blackford is soundly defeated by Coolidge in 1932.

President Blake

President George Blush

  • President in: America 2014: An Orwellian Tale (novel)
  • Fourth-term President

President John Blutarsky

  • President in: Where Are They Now? A Delta Alumni Update
  • In this follow up to Animal House, the character Bluto has risen from his former position of Senator.
  • Played by: John Belushi

President Robert L. Booth

Main article: President Robert L. Booth
  • President in: Judge Dredd in 2000 AD comic
  • Booth was the last President of the United States.
  • He triggered the Third World War in 2070. He was deposed and sentenced to 100 years.

President David Bowers

President Mike Brady

  • President in: The Brady Bunch in the White House (TV movie, 2003)
  • Native of California with no political experience, Vice President Brady assumed the presidency after the resignation of President Lawrence Randolph. Brady then chose his wife Carol to be his vice president. Brady has six children from two marriages.
  • Played by: Gary Cole

President Breyer

President Bricker

President Teddy Bridges

Main article: Teddy Bridges
  • President in: Commander-in-Chief (TV series)
  • Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Bridges was the governor of California and vice-president before becoming president. His vice-president was Mackenzie Allen, who became the first female president after he dies.
  • On his deathbed after brain surgery, he asks Allen to step aside in favor of a "more appropriate" successor. He later dies.
  • Played by: Will Lyman
  • Party: Republican

President-elect Phil Bristol

  • President in: Protect and Defend by Eric L. Harry (No relation to the book by Richard North Patterson)
  • Bristol was the governor of California who won the presidency but was assassinated by anarchists at the Willard Hotel prior to his inauguration. He was succeeded by Gordon Davis.
  • Party: Republican

President Wyndom Brody

President Jack Cahill

President Gary Callahan

President Camacho

  • President in Idiocracy
  • President in the year 2505 — Formerly a professional wrestler and porn star. His presidency is plagued with rampant famine and dust storms, and later, the collapse of the Brawndo company.
  • His middle name is "Mountain Dew"
  • Played by Terry Crews

President James (Jim) Carlisle

  • President in: Guarding Tess (movie, Columbia/Tristar Studios; 1994)
  • Former governor and U.S. senator from Ohio who was elected to the White House in the late 1980s. He died in office and had a funeral at the National Cathedral. His wife Tess was kidnapped and later rescued by a secret service agent.
  • Played by: George Gomes (seen only in archive footage that Mrs. Carlisle is watching.)

President Carlson

President James Cassidy

President John Trelawney Cassidy

  • President in: Promises to Keep, novel by George Bernau
  • Elected 35th President of the United States in November 1960, and serves until an assassination attempt in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963, spends the remainder of his term recovering from gunshot wounds to the head and throat.
  • Does not run for re-election in 1964, and his Vice-President, Ransom W. Gardner assumes the post.
  • Following misadventure in Vietnam, Cassidy challenges Gardner for the 1968 Democratic nomination and is elected the 37th President of the United States.

President Samuel Adams Castilla

  • President in the Covert-One series of thriller novels written by several authors based on unpublished material from Robert Ludlum
  • Castilla is from Mew Mexico.
  • Early in his presidency, Castilla authorized the creation of a top-secret US agency named Covert-One.

President Dave Chappelle

Main article: Dave Chappelle
  • President in: Chappelle's Show, episode #110
  • In the "real" version of Deep Impact, Chappelle reveals that America has the cure for AIDS, has mastered cloning, and has made contact with aliens, who then take him to safety on their spaceship.
  • Unfortunately, President Chappelle went missing during his third term and was subsequently replaced by Vice President Charlie Murphy.

President Dick Cheney

  • President in: Death of a President
  • Succeeded President George W. Bush who was assassinated on October 19, 2007 following an economic speech in Chicago, IL where an anti-war rally was being held.
  • Uses the possible al-Qaeda connection of the suspect to push his own agenda. He calls for "PATRIOT Act III", giving the F.B.I., police, and other government agencies increased investigative powers on U.S. citizens and others.

President David Coffey

President Monroe "Eagle" Cole

  • President in: Welcome to Mooseport
  • Native of Mooseport, Maine, Cole served two terms as president and attempted to run for mayor of Mooseport after his presidency. Was the first President to divorce from his wife while in office.
  • Played by: Gene Hackman
  • Party: Democratic

President Alex Coleman

  • President in: .hack
  • Succeeded President Jim Stonecold who resigned after the "Pluto's Kiss" incident.
  • Announced the "Network Peace Proclamation" to the world on December 14, 2007, exactly three years after the "Pluto's Kiss" incident destroyed the modern internet.

President Samuel Conrad

  • President in Act of War and Edge of Battle
  • Declared war against global terrorism after a nuclear attack in Houston and attempted nuke in San Francisco.
  • Survived terrorist attack and invasion of White House

President Hamilton Conroy

  • President in Coyote by Allen Steele
  • Conroy is purportedly a descendant of Alexander Hamilton and is the President of the 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
  • A former Congressman from Alabama, he was instrumental in getting Operation Starflight, the first manned deep-space mission to colonize 47 Ursae Majoris, up and running
  • Party: Liberty Party, an ultraright-wing neoconservative party

President Joseph Copeland

President Cord

  • President in: Stealth Bomber (1990) novel by Barnaby Williams.
  • Believing that Cord's defense policy would be beneficial to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the Soviets manipulated a presidential election to have Cord elected (he would have lost otherwise). Their plot is exposed when Iran tries to start World War Three.

President John J. Cormack

President Guy "Whitey" Corngood

President William A. Cozzano

President Calvin Craig

President Stanley Craig

President Hugh Crane

Mary Alice "Muffy" Crosswire

  • President in the intro of the Arthur episode "The Election". She is being sworn in as President before Arthur Read calls out to Muffy. He was later dragged away by Binky Barnes, as a secret service agent.
  • Played by: Melissa Altro

President Andrew Y. Culpepper

  • President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • Briefly referenced in the novel Moonfall.
  • First African-American president and the oldest elected president (78).
  • Was elected to office in 2008. Was re-elected in 2012.
  • Opened his presidential library in 2019.
  • Died in his sleep in 2021 at the age of 91.
  • Party: Democratic

President Johnny Cyclops

  • President in: Whoops Apocalypse (television, 1982)
  • Qualities/attributes: A former screen actor, recently lobotomized. Hated at home and desperate to regain popularity. With other world leaders, starts World War III and resulting nuclear holocaust. Often depicted as being a puppet controlled by his security advisor, the Deacon. Possibly based on Ronald Reagan, as he is a Republican and he has a bad relationship with his son.
  • Played by: Barry Morse
  • Party: Republican

President Jack D'Amici

  • President in the novels of Jim DeFelice

President James Dale

President Paul Davenport

  • President in: First Kid
  • President Davenport is married to Linda Davenport and has one thirteen-year old son, Luke.
  • Played by: James Naughton

President Gordon Davis

  • President in Protect and Defend by Eric L. Harry (No relation to the book by Richard North Patterson)
  • Davis was an African-American Senator from Maryland prior to his nomination as Governor Phil Bristol's running-mate. Davis was wounded in the assassination of President-elect Bristol and Davis was later sworn in in his hospital room. President Davis presided over a war between China and U.N. forces over control of Siberia.
  • Party: Republican

President Browning Dayton

  • President at the end of: The Zero Factor, a 1980 novel by William Oscar Johnson
  • Dayton is the Vice-President to Augustus Alvin York, a Republican nominated in Chicago as the candidate for president when the convention for the 1980 election is hopelessly deadlocked with Ronald Reagan and other nominees. After dozens of ballots, York is a compromise/sacrificial nomination.
  • To everyone's surprise, York wins the 1980 election, but then becomes rather obsessed with the "Zero Factor" for presidents. All presidents elected in a year ending in Zero since 1840 have died in office. York fears he will be next in 1980.
  • After multiple attempts on his life, York begins to suffer severe stress, and finally finds the freedom from the Zero Factor by resigning office and turning the Presidency over to Browning Dayton, who assumes the office of President of the United States.
  • Party: Republican

President Hamilton "Ham" Delbacher

  • President in the Allen Drury novels The Hill of Summer and The Roads of Earth.
  • Sitting Vice-President, on the verge of being asked to leave the coming year's ticket, who succeeds to the Presidency after his unnamed predecessor dies on the Fourth of July.
  • Despite enormous personal criticism at home and abroad, defies plans by Yuri Serapin, the dictator of the Soviet Union, to undermine the west.
  • Survives an assassination attempt by a false KGB defector inside the White House.
  • Presides over the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but is disappointed when the People's Republic of China begins assimilating Soviet Asian territory, including Siberia.
  • Political party: Unknown

President Tom Dering

  • President in Justin Richards' novels: Doctor Who: Option Lock and Doctor Who: Millennium Shock
  • Dering's running mate was Jack Michaels; Dering defeated Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential election.

President Deutscher

President Devlin

President Devonian

President Douglass Dilman

President Trick E. Dixon

  • President in Our Gang (novel) by Philip Roth
  • Satire of Richard Nixon, inspired by Nixon's statement about his opposition to abortion based on his belief in "the sanctity of human life," while, at the same time, he had escalated bombing campaigns in Vietnam to include Cambodia.

President Joe Doakes

President-elect Tom Dobbs

  • President in: Man of the Year
  • A talk show host elected president but turns it down when he discovers that his victory was due to fraud
  • Political party: Independent
  • Played by: Robin Williams

President John Doe A.K.A. Tempus

President Victor von Doom

Main article: Victor von Doom
  • President in issues 29-33 of the now-cancelled Doom 2099 comic book, and other Marvel 2099 titles.
  • Dictator of the fictional country Latveria, Doom arrives in the year 2099 from sometime in our near future via unknown means. Seeing the damage being done to the world by American mega-corporations, Doom invades America and installs himself as President by "right of revolution."
  • Although never completely resolved in the comic book, it is assumed that the title character is, in fact, Victor von Doom and not one of a number of Doom impersonators that have appeared in the present-day comics timeline.

President Douchebag

President Matt Douglas

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Former governor of Indiana, Douglas ran against Senator Russell P. Kramer of Ohio and lost, but defeated incumbent President Kramer four years later in a landslide. Douglas was later defeated by Kramer's vice-president, William Haney. Douglas later ran again for office as an independent alongside Kramer. He had a reputation as a womanizer and was married to Katherine Douglas.
  • Played by: James Garner
  • Party: Independent, formerly Democratic

President Douglas

President Michael Dugan

President Sam Dunne

President Charles Carter Durant

President Roger Durling

Main article: Roger Durling
  • President in Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor
  • Former Governor of California, he succeeds to the presidency after his predecessor (Fowler) resigns.
  • Served in Viet Nam with the 82nd Airborne Division.
  • Appoints Jack Ryan his Vice President, then killed along with most of Congress in a terrorist attack on The Capitol.
  • Party: Unnamed, most likely Democrat

President Sarah Susan Eckert

  • President in: J.M. Dillard's novelization of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
  • A scene deleted from the film shows Sulu and Chekov near Mount Rushmore, on which a fifth face, that of an African-American woman, can be seen.
  • Dillard's novelization refers to Eckert as "the first black Northam president."

President Walter Emerson

  • President in: Deterrence
  • Played by: Kevin Pollak
  • After the elected vice president resigned, he was confirmed with minority support of the electorate. The President died of natural causes, elevating Emerson.
  • Initially seeking his party's nomination in the next primary, he drops out after ordering a nuclear strike on Baghdad after Iraqi President Uday Hussein has the Republican Guard invade Kuwait.

President Sven Ericson

  • President in the novel Full Disclosure by William Safire.
  • President Ericson is blinded during the assassination of the leader of the USSR. It is learned that the then-candidate had been suffered temporary blindness during his campaign, and it had been decided not to announce (disclose) this. The novel follows attempts to remove the president from office. Ericson is divorced, has an active sex life, and loves the White House meatloaf.

President Jackson Evans

  • President in: The Contender
  • A former senator who attended West Point and enjoys cigars and shark steak sandwiches. Evans was a two-term Democratic president who sought to replace his deceased vice president with Senator Laine Hanson (D-Ohio) to succeed him.
  • Was set upon stumping the White House kitchen staff before leaving office with outrageous food requests, ultimately succeeding when they said they were out of Munster cheese, for his grilled cheese sandwich.
  • Played by: Jeff Bridges
  • Party: Democratic

President John Fields

President Mallard Fillmore

President Finesterre

President Gerald Fitzhugh

President Maddie Fitzpatrick

President Fletcher J. Fletcher

  • President in: A Planet for the President (2004 novel by Alistair Beaton)
  • Fletcher is president during a period of massive global climate change. During administration, a category 5 hurricane destroys the entire city of New Orleans, killing thousands. Fletcher drinks alcohol and is a devout Christian who hates liberals and has a gay son. He appears to be a thinly disguised take on George W. Bush.
  • To solve the global environmental crisis, the Fletcher administration unleashes a massive biological pandemic, saving only the United States; in the end, the virus kills all humans on the planet except President Fletcher.
  • Party: Possibly Republican. Possibly Democratic. Possibly Reform.

President Emily Forrester

President James Foster

  • President in: Chasing Liberty
  • Foster is married to Michelle Foster and has one daughter, Anna.
  • Popular second-term president with a 63% approval rating.
  • Played by: Mark Harmon

President William Foster

President Jonathan Robert "Bob" Fowler

President Clementine Searcy Fox

  • President in: First Hubby, a novel by Roy Blount, Jr.
  • First female president

President D. Nolan Fraser

President Ferris F. Fremont

President Max Frost (Max Jacob Flatow Jr)

  • President in Wild in the Streets
  • Played by Christopher Jones
  • Popular rock star, gets minimum age for President reduced to 20 (or so) and voting age to 14, by spiking congress's water with LSD.
  • Wins presidency and interrs all "oldsters" in concentration camps

President Truman Theodore Fruitty

President Fuller

President FXJKHR

  • President in: Futurama
  • Was 60th President (of either Earth or the U.S.)
  • Details of Presidency are unknown though a monument depicts him sitting atop a throne of skulls.

Acting President Hal Gardner

Main article: Hal Gardner
  • Acting President in: 24 (2007-2009)
  • After Charles Logan is arrested in fifth-season finale of 24, Gardner would be next in line of succession
  • Played by: Ray Wise
  • Presidency never shown on screen
  • Party: Republican

President Ransom W. Gardner

  • President in Promises to Keep, novel by George Bernau
  • Elected Vice President under John Trelawney Cassidy, he assumed the acting presidency following an assassination attempt on President Cassidy in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963.
  • He is elected as the 36th President of the United States in November 1964.
  • Following misadventure in Vietnam, he is challenged for the Democratic nomination by the now-recovered President Cassidy in 1968 and leaves office in January 1969.

President Garner

President Thomas Edison (Shy) Garland

  • President in: Father's Day, novel by John Calvin Batchelor
  • Former astronaut, former senator from Texas, nicknamed Shy and a nephew of LBJ.
  • Elected vice president under Theodore G. Jay in 2000, assumes the reins of power as acting president, as per the 25th Amendment, after Jay goes on a leave of absence due to a deep depression. Garland was much more popular than President Jay and attempted to have Jay ruled unfit by Congress and the Cabinet when Jay tries to reassume the presidency. He also orchestrated a military coup to assassinate Jay if the attempt to have Jay declared unfit fails. Codenamed "Father's Day"?
  • Party: Democratic

President Johnny Gentle

  • President in: Infinite Jest, novel by David Foster Wallace
  • Has an obsessive-compulsive phobia of contamination; founder of the "Clean U.S. Party"
  • A former "famous crooner", he wins the presidency on a promise to make America a cleaner place. As part of his solution he makes a large portion of New England (the "Concavity") into a toxic waste dump and forcibly gives this territory to Canada.

President Joseph Galbrain

  • President in: XIII (comic)
  • Comes after William B. Sheridan
  • Comes before Walter "Wally" Sheridan

President Mays Gilliam

  • President in: Head of State
  • An alderman from Washington D.C., Gilliam was chosen by his party to replace the deceased presidential nominee. Gilliam narrowly defeats a sitting vice-president becoming America's first Black President.
  • Played by: Chris Rock

President Lancelot R. Gilligrass

President Graham

President Dewey Haik

  • President in the Fascist Corps running the United States in Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here.
  • Served as Commissioner of the Northeastern Province under President Buzz Windrip, then Secretary of War and High Marshal of the Minute Men.
  • Collaborated in the coup d'etat that removed Windrip and installed Lee Stanton as President. Shortly afterwards, Haik lead the assassination of Stanton and his own installation as President.
  • Particularly brutal and repressive, Haik's rule made citizens "long for the liberal days of President Windrip".
  • Later in Haik's administration, a major revolt developed against his rule, with significant defection of military forces. The final fate of this revolt and President Haik remain unknown as of the novel's end.

President Jeremy Haines

  • President in: The President's Plane Is Missing and its sequel Air Force One is Haunted by Robert Serling.
  • Is forced by circumstances to remain in hiding after the crash of Air Force One to complete diplomatic talks with the Premier of the Soviet Union.
  • Later claims to have seen the ghost of Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the new Air Force One.
  • Widower
  • Party: Republican
  • Played by: Tod Andrews in the film based on the novel

President Charles Halsey

  • President in: The Outer Limits episode "Trial by Fire"
  • Shortly after being sworn in, President Halsey is faced with first contact with an armada of alien ships. As the planet arms nuclear weapons, Halsey attempts to communicate with the ships but is unsuccessful.
  • Halsey is married to Elizabeth Halsey, has children and is considered a peace-loving liberal surrounded by hawkish military leaders; President Halsey and advisors are later killed by the aliens.
  • Played by: Robert Foxworth

President Wesley Hamlin

  • President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • Briefly referenced in the novel Moonfall.
  • Was governor of Illinois who won the presidential election of 2000.
  • Is a distant relative of former Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.
  • Narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 2003 by the father of a victim of a convicted killer he pardoned as governor. President Hamlin was left paralyzed from the waist down after his assassination attempt. Vice President Dan Sullivan and Secretary of State Bernie Phillips convince him not to resign.
  • Re-elected in 2004.
  • Opened his presidential library in 2011.
  • Moved back to his home town in Illinois after leaving office.
  • Party: Republican

President Judson C. "Judd" ("Major") Hammond

President William "Bill" Haney

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Haney served as vice president under President Russell P. Kramer before defeating incumbent President Matt Douglas. Later forced to resign.
  • Played by: Dan Aykroyd
  • Republican

President Baxter Harris

  • President in: Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4
  • Bumbling president who has to cope with alien invasions (in both movies).
  • First name "Baxter" revealed in the 4th film of the franchise.
  • Played by: Leslie Nielsen

President John Henry Harris

  • President in Allan Folsom's novel The Machiavelli Covenant (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, January 2007 ISBN 0-765-31305-7 ISBN 978-0-765-31305-8)
  • Back cover copy says Harris is "on the run -- from his murderous Cabinet."

President Harris

President William Harrison

  • President in: The President by Parker Hudson
  • Harrison is an extreme liberal president, who becomes a Christian while in office.

President Spencer Harvey

  • Presidency mentioned in: Jack & Bobby
  • Notes: Resigned due to a corporate scandal

President Charles Haskell

  • President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • Becomes the youngest vice president in history in the presidential election of 2020 at the age of 35.
  • President Henry Kolladner's vice president.
  • Becomes the nation's youngest president at 39 after President Kolladner is killed in a Marine One crash.
  • Holds the nation together after hundreds of pieces of moonrock fall to Earth after a violent impact between a comet and the moon.
  • Wins re-election in 2024.
  • Relocates the nation's capital back to Philadelphia after Washington, D.C. is destroyed by a tsunami.
  • Party: Democratic

President Henry Hayes

Main article: Henry Hayes

President Jonathan Hayes

President Robert Hayes

  • President in Transfer of Power and subsequent novels by Vince Flynn
  • Party: Democratic
  • Develops Parkinsons Disease, so is unable to seek re-election
  • Once held in secure bunker for many days during a terrorist attack on the White House causing his unpopular VP Sherman Baxter to take control. Hayes resumed control some days after.

President Helman

  • Presidency mentioned in: Jack & Bobby
  • Helman was the first African-American president and visited Africa after the plague of 2018.

President Stephen Decatur Henderson

  • President in Mr. President, 1962 Broadway musical by Irving Berlin
  • Henderson loses his bid for re-election.
  • Played by Robert Ryan

President Dave Hepler

  • President in The Dave Hepler Saga, a series of alternative history novels.
  • Dave Hepler becomes the 44th President of the United States after the Bush Administration's embarrassing debacle in "The War on Terror", tips the political scale back in the favor of the Democrats. Dave promises the American people a new Golden Age in his campaign and leads his country bravely during the numerous wars it becomes involved in, including the Canadian War and World War III.

President Zach Herney

President Art Hockstader

President Paul Hollister

President Wendell Holmes

President David Hoope

Main article: List of Death Note characters
  • President in the manga and anime series Death Note
  • Elected in 2008 (whether it is his first or second term is unstated)
  • Is blackmailed by the rogue detective Mello with the threat of using the Death Note to force him to launch a nuclear strike, dies of an apparent suicide in the Oval Office in 2009.
  • Authorizes the creation of the SPK (Special Provisions for Kira) task force to pursue the international mass-murderer Kira and secure the Death Note.

President Courtney Hoover

President Jonathan Vincent Horne

President Robert Hovelmann

President Eve Hubbard

  • One of the many presidents in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy
  • Star of the movie "Gentleman Prefer Clones", President Hubbard reformed criminal code, ending victimless crimes. She encouraged space migration, life extension, extensive automation of industry and other scientific research projects (see also SMI²LE).
  • Party: Libertarian Immortalist ("No more death and taxes!")

President Hudson

  • President in: Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
  • Ordered the bombing of Damascus
  • According to rumours very influenced by astrology in his decisions, especially advices given by astrologer Gail Andrews
  • Has recently passed away in the beginning of the novel

President Harley M. Hudson

  • President in: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
  • Former governor of Michigan (Delaware in the movie) who becomes Vice-President.
  • Succeeds to presidency upon death of unnamed predecessor
  • In the book's sequel, A Shade of Difference, Hudson becomes a nation hero for standing up to threats by the Soviets at a Geneva conference, and is dubbed "Fearless Peerless" by the press.
  • Possibly modeled on President Harry Truman
  • Assassinated in a later volume of the Advise and Consent series
  • Played in the movie version by: Lew Ayres

President Huffman

  • President in: Destroy All Humans
  • Assassinated by Crypto, who later takes his place desguised as Huffman

President Mark Hunt

  • Elected president in Larry Burkett's The Illuminati
  • Assassinated by "The Society" for not being a puppet, succeeded by Kathy Alton
  • Party: Democratic

President Phillip Jackson

  • President of The Road to President Series, game series ran by Ken Kerns aka Mike Adams.
  • Defeated President Long by winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. United the Republican party after their collapse in the prior election under a scandal plagued plaigerist candidate.
  • Former Republican Governor of Florida.
  • First African American president in the series.

President Robby Jackson

Main article: Robby Jackson (Tom Clancy)
  • Was President just prior to The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
  • Was Vice President under Jack Ryan, and became the first black President when Jack resigned for the purpose of allowing him to be the first black President. Jackson was later assassinated by a man dubbed "the last of the Klan" by the media.

President Edward M. Jason

  • President in: Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, by Allen Drury
  • Early in his administration, the United States government is overthrown by a Soviet conspiracy, due in large part to President Jason's naivete and incompetence.
  • Commits suicide when the consequences of his actions become clear.

President James Johnson

  • President in: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
  • The 44th President, preceded by President George Sears (Solidus Snake). After Sears "resigned" in 2005, Johnson became the President, and was re-elected in 2008; Johnson claims the election was a farce. He claims he is a puppet of The Patriots, a secret group that controls the United States, and which decides the elections. During the Big Shell takeover in 2009, Johnson was assassinated by Revolver Ocelot as part his unwilling involvement in the S3 Plan.

President Maria Juarez

President Charles Foster Kane

  • President in: Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman.
  • In this alternate history novel, Kane is Theodore Roosevelt's running mate in 1912. They are elected but Roosevelt is assassinated before the inauguration and Kane becomes President. Kane's policies cause great unrest and he is overthrown by a left-wing revolution.
  • Party: Republican

President Florentyna Kane

  • President in: The Prodigal Daughter and Shall We Tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer
  • Shall We Tell the President was first written before Archer devised the Florentyna Kane character, and the president was originally Ted Kennedy. In a later revision of this work, Archer replaced Kennedy with his presidential candidate from The Prodigal Daughter.
  • Kane (nee Rosnovski) becomes the first woman President at the end of the book, after the former incumbent dies of a heart attack while jogging.
  • Party: Democratic

President Kang

President Ed Kealty

Main article: Ed Kealty
  • President in: The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
  • Ed Kealty took over the presidency after President Robby Jackson was assassinated. Kealty previously failed to secure the president when he tried to say he never officially resigned after the events of Debt of Honor's final pages.
  • Party: Most likely Democrat

President John Keeler

Main article: John Keeler
  • President in: 24 (2005-2006)
  • Played by: Geoffrey Pierson
  • Keeler was elected after President David Palmer withdrew from the race. As part of a day of unprecedented terrorist strikes, Air Force One is shot down, critically injuring Keeler and killing dozens of others including the President's son, Kevin; Vice President Charles Logan assumes the presidency. His fate was never revealed, though Logan was still the president 18 months later, likely indicating that Keeler either was killed, or still remained physically unable to hold the office.
  • Party: Republican.

President Tim Kegan

  • President in: Winter Kills, both book by Richard Condon and movie
  • Assassinated president that is never fully seen during one flashback scene in movie. No credit was given to the arm.

President Keith

President Kellogg

  • President in Man of the Year
  • Incumbent Democratic candidate up for re-election
  • Won second term in re-election after Tom Dobbs declined the presidency

President Joshua Kellogg

  • President in: Joshua, Son of None, by Nancy Freedman
  • Cloned from tissue taken from President John F. Kennedy shortly after his assassination, and deliberately raised so as to mimic President Kennedy's early life, in hopes of "re-creating" the original.
  • Assassinated immediately after being sworn in as president

President Kendrick

President Francis Xavier Kennedy

  • President in: Mario Puzo's The Fourth K
  • Nephew of John F. Kennedy, served one term in the Senate. His first act as President is to donate his $40 million fortune to relieve the national debt.
  • During his administration, the Pope is executed, his daughter kidnapped, and a bomb detonated in Manhattan. In retaliation, President Kennedy destroys the capital city of Dach in the fictional Arabian country of Sherbin. Kennedy is later re-elected due to an assassination attempt on his life.

President Clark Kent

Main article: Superman
  • President in: Action Comics Annual #3 (1991)
  • In a possible future, Pete Ross is running for President with Kent as his campaign manager. When an assassination attempt results in Ross being injured and Kent's secret identity being revealed, Ross insists Superman take his place as the Democratic nominee.
  • President Kent is responsible for a series of satellites broadcasting solar power to Earth. He also worked towards multilateral disarmament, and the coalition of all superhero teams into the World Peace League.
  • This future was observed by the time traveller Waverider, but negated soon afterwards.
  • Party: Democratic

President Donald Kilbourne

  • President in: Larry Burkett's The Illuminati
  • Discredited for mishandling of west-coast earthquake/tsunami disaster and withdrew from election (replaced as candidate by Mark Hunt, who won)
  • Party: Democratic

President Kerry Francis Kilcannon

  • President in: Richard North Patterson's novels Protect and Defend and Balance of Power, candidate in No Safe Place.
  • Kilcannon is a Democrat from New Jersey and was elected in 2000 at age 42 after defeating incumbent Vice-President Dick Mason for Democratic nomination. President Kilcannon appointed Caroline Masters as the first female Chief Justice of the United States.
  • Kilcannon was a two term Senator and succeeded his older brother James, who was assassinated while running for President in 1988. Kilcannon's vice President was Ellen Penn, formerly Senator from California and is married in second marriage to Lara (nee Costello) a former television news reporter.
  • Party: Democratic

President Tom Kimball

President Robert Kinsey

Main article: Robert Kinsey
  • President in: Stargate SG-1 TV-series
  • A senator from Indiana, Kinsey was vice president under President Henry Hayes. Kinsey became president in two separate alternate timelines. He is tied to a group called the Trust, a cabal of international businessmen who are trying to obtain alien technologies for commercial purposes, largely by using Kinsey's power and influence in the U.S. government. At the end of Season 7, President Hayes forces him into retirement.
  • Played by: Ronny Cox
  • Party: Unknown. The character incorporates elements normally attributed to both the Democratic (opposition to Defense spending, distrust of the military) and Republican (religious fundamentalism, isolationism) parties. The ambiguity is probably deliberate, in order not to alienate viewers of either political belief.

President Hugh Tiberius Kissling

  • President in: USGS Fourth Reset
  • Former governor of the Midwest, defeated President John Mannion and later ordered successful airstrike against North Korean nuclear weapons silos.
  • Party: Republican

President Benjamin Knight

  • President in: The Lucky Ones by Doris Mortman
  • Party: Democratic

President Orrin Knox

President Henry Kolladner

  • President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • The nation's second African-American president.
  • Elected president in 2020.
  • During his term, he discovers he has colon cancer but refuses to inform the public, though he strongly believes that if he is re-elected in 2024, he will not live to complete his second term.
  • During his administration, a comet by the name of Tomiko smashes into the moon, completely destroying it. Hours later, thousands of moonrocks fall to Earth creating massive tsunamis, earthquakes, and wildfires world-wide. He escapes on Marine One after a tsunami strikes Washington D.C. but the helicopter crashes after being struck by lightning, killing him, his wife Emily, and some members of his cabinet.
  • Succeeded by Vice President Charles Haskell.
  • Party: Democratic

President Russell P. Kramer

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Born in Ohio, Kramer was a congressman and a senator and attempted to run for re-election as president but failed; according to Kramer, eighty million people voted against him. Famous for line "Our dreams are like our children." Later ran again for office as an independent with former President Matt Douglas.
  • Played by: Jack Lemmon
  • Independent, formerly Republican

President Hank Landry

President Langley

  • President in: "Bookworm, Run" (short story, Vernor Vinge, 1965; anthologized in The Complete Stories of Vernor Vinge, 2001)

President Eve Carol Larsen

  • President in: Quantico by Greg Bear
  • Served as Governor of Wisconsin before being elected President of the United States.
  • Her administration had to deal with a series of planned bio-terrorist attacks on Rome, Jerusalem, and Mecca, orchestrated by rogue FBI agent Lawrence Winter.
  • Party: Democratic

President (Helen) Lasker

  • President in: Contact (novel, Carl Sagan, 1985)
  • A two-term (1993-2001) female President who deals with the ramifications of alien contact. In the film adaptation (Contact, 1997, dir: Robert Zemeckis), she was replaced by real-life President Bill Clinton, from authentic and slightly "doctored" archive footage of press conferences, meetings and TV appearances edited in such a way as to present fictional events. (Name "Helen" appears only in a Beta Version of the screenplay).

President Owen Lassiter

  • President in: The West Wing (television)
  • Mentioned only in one episode, Lassiter is a native of California, has a presidential library, was married and is presently deceased. Possibly resembles Ronald Reagan.
  • In his Oval Office, President Lassiter had jars of sand and soil from land wherever American soldiers died. In the twilight of his life, he wrote an essay titled "The Need for an American Empire" to President Bartlet calling for opposition of Islamic fundamentalism.
  • Toby Ziegler blames Lassiter for "anointing the regimes that haunt us today"
  • Party: Republican

President Lenny Leonard

President Limbaugh

  • President in: the novel Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
  • Presumably right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh.
  • Wallace's novel is set in the near future (relative to its 1996 publication); Limbaugh is referred to as "recently assassinated."

President Lindberg

  • President in: The Fifth Element
  • President of the United Federated Territories.
  • 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).
  • Played by: Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.

President Manfred Link

President Abraham Linkidd

President Lockwood

President Charles Logan

  • President in: 24 (2006-2007)
  • Played by: Gregory Itzin
  • Cabinet unanimously invoked the 25th Amendment after President Keeler is hospitalized following an attack on Air Force One. This is the second time the amendment has been invoked in the series, but the previous vote was strongly divided and was not executed legally.
  • Eighteen months after being sworn in, he is still President (Keeler's fate is unknown) and signs a strategic defense treaty with the Russian President. Logan views this as the crowning achievement of his time in office, though the day is marred by the assassination of former President David Palmer and the threat of European terrorists releasing nerve gas on U.S. soil. He reinstates former CTU agent Jack Bauer to active duty after Bauer exposes Logan's chief of staff Walt Cummings' involvement in both. It is later revealed that Logan was one of the principal instigators of the day's events.
  • Logan would eventually be exposed by Jack Bauer and his wife Martha Logan. He was arrested by the Secret Service once evidence incriminating Logan was presented to the Attorney General. It is believed he will resign in exchange for clemency, in order to spare the United States the spectacle of having a President on trial for murder and treason.
  • Party: Republican

President Eugene Lorio

  • President in: Jack & Bobby
  • Played by: Paul Sorvino
  • His son died while serving in the War of the Americas.
  • Elected as a Democrat in 2036, he says in a 2049 interview (as part of a documentary in the series' flash-forward) that he knew, going into the final debate of the 2040 campaign, that he would lose to either Republican candidate Dennis Morganthal or independent candidate Robert McCallister. This indicates he was an unpopular President, but the show never revealed why.
  • Party: Democratic

President Furbish Lousewart

President Alexander Joseph Luthor

  • President in the DC Universe
  • Impeached for the use of the illegal supersteroid Venom, the theft and use of an Apokyliptian Battle Suit, and the attempted murder of Superman and Batman. Succeeded by Vice-President Pete Ross
  • Party: Tomorrow Party

President Jordan Lyman

President Timothy Garde Macauley

  • President in: From the Files of the Time Rangers, a mosaic novel by Richard Bowes
  • Called "The Once and Future President," Macauley is a central character in the novel.
  • The scion of an immensely wealthy mother and an Irish politician father, Macauley is the favorite of various of the gods who twice manage to get him elected president.

President John Mackenzie

President Henry Talbot MacNeil

  • President in: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  • Voyage ran for four seasons, from 1964-1968, but was set in the then-future years between 1973-1980. President MacNeil was elected in 1972 and evidently won re-election in 1976. His character appeared in at least a half-dozen episodes of the series, all in its first and second seasons. By all accounts he was extremely popular president domestically, and was extremely effective internationally. In one episode, it is stated that "Only MacNeil was able to prevent World War III when the peace talks broke down in 1973, and again last year." In addition to being president, he was on a first name basis with Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart) and the two of them regularly played poker.
  • President MacNeil has a rather inexplicable cameo appearance in the first episode of Lost In Space, which was set in the then-future year of 1997, despite the fact that there was no way he could still have been eligible for office at that time.
  • Played by: Ford Rainey

President James MacPherson

  • Party: Republican (States he is a Republican in the book The Last Jihad)

President Malone

President Man

  • President in the 2001-2002 Tv series show Invader Zim.
  • The leader of the USA who hails from President Land, President Man deals with important issues such as Moofy the girly ranger getting stuck in Zim's lawn and the return of Santa. His decisions have been known to be influenced by offerings of chocolate covered ninja star cookies. He was quick to give up all of his power to Santa upon his return.
  • He is voiced by Jeffrey Jones

President Adair T. Manning

President Manning

  • President in The Book of Fate
  • Someone attempted to assassinate him, however one of his aides was killed and another had his face disfigured.

President Julia Mansfield

President Bradford March

  • President in: The Power, a novel by Colin Forbes
  • Former Senator of a southern state

President Vincent Margolin

  • President in: Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt© novels Deep Six, Cyclops, Treasure, Dragon, and Sahara
  • Originally the Vice President, Margolin became President in August 1989 by succession the end of Deep Six following the abduction and brainwashing of his predecessor by a Vietnamese criminal organization in the pay of the Soviet Union, and remained in office until 1996.
  • Former Senator from Montana.

President James Marshall

  • President in: Air Force One
  • Qualities/attributes: A family man who loves his wife Grace and daughter Alice. He is also a decorated Vietnam veteran and a Medal of Honor winner.
  • Promotes an interventionist line on foreign policy and a strong stance against terrorism.
  • Personally responsible for retaking Air Force One after the plane was hijacked by Russian nationalists.
  • Party or other political beliefs unspecified.
  • First-term President, up for re-election later on in the year that the film in set in
  • Home State: Iowa. The novel of the film states he was the Former Governor of Iowa. The film also states he served a Congressman.
  • Played by: Harrison Ford

President Thomas Marshall

  • President in "Protect and Defend" by Eric L. Harry (No relation to the book by Richard North Patterson)
  • President Marshall ignored warnings of a Chinese attack on Siberia and Taiwan. He was later defeated by Governor Phil Bristol of California. Marshall was poisoned prior to Bristol's inauguration.
  • Party: Democratic

President Kevin Martindale

  • President in Shadows Of Steele by Dale Brown
  • Continues as president for several other Brown novels
  • Former two term vice president
  • Former Secretary of Defense
  • Former US Senator from Texas
  • Defeated for reelection by Thomas Thorne of Virginia
  • Reelected four years later (during the novel Plan Of Attack). Becomes the only president since Grover Cleveland to hold two nonconsecutive terms.
  • During both elections, Martindale had female running mates
  • Party Affiliation: Republican

President Richard Martinez

President Whitney Irving Mason

  • President in: USGovSim 6th Reset
  • Elected: 2016
  • Party: Democrat
  • State: North Carolina

President Ted Matthews

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Matthews became President after President William Haney resigned. Later went to prison.
  • Played by: John Heard
  • Party: Republican

President William "Bill" Matthews

President Max

  • President in: Sam & Max Season One
  • A hyperkinetic rabbity thing that becomes President by defeating the animated statue of Abe Lincoln.
  • This happens in the fourth episode of the season, and becomes an injoke for the rest of the season.

President Maxwell

President Robert "Bobby" McCallister

  • President in: Jack & Bobby
  • Born in Hart, Missouri, McCallister was a minister and later a congressman and governor of Missouri before being elected the 51st president in 2040.
  • During his administration much of Chicago is destroyed by a nuclear bomb.
  • Independent, having lost the Republican nomination

President Leslie McCloud

Richard Rick McLaughlin

  • President in: USGovSim 5th Reset
  • Party affiliation Republican
  • Elected: 2012
  • Opponent: Senator Thomos Peters

President Thomas McKenna

President McKenna

President McNeil

  • President in: Futurama
  • Killed by Lrr of the Planet Omicron Persei 8

President Philip Riley Mead

  • President in: Deus Ex
  • Extremely unpopular president, said in a newspaper article to have a 35% approval rating

President William Menen

  • President in Dagger by William Mason
  • Target of a complex assassination plot, developed by the Soviets and led by his chief of staff and Vice-President.

President Harrison Miller

President Fillmard Millmore

President Richard Mills

  • President in: Prison Break
  • A progressive President described as being well into his second term. He apparently chose Caroline Reynolds as his Vice-President because she was a woman. However he later tells her he will not support her in her own bid to seek nomination because he feels her ambition outweighs her integrity. She arranges his assassination soon after by having him poisoned, and is immediately sworn in as President.
  • Played by: Daniel J. Travanti

President Mimeo

President William Harrison "Bill" Mitchell/Dave Kovic

  • President and Presidential decoy in: Dave
  • Real President's qualities: Philandering heel, unpopular with voters, secretly estranged from the First Lady. Suffered a stroke and later dies.
  • President Dave's qualities: Personable, loving and strongly pro-job growth. Reestablishes Mitchell's popularity with voters. Fakes death and later runs for Washington, D.C. City Council as Dave Kovic.
  • An alumnus of Yale Law School.
  • Party: Mitchell is possibly a Republican while Kovic is possibly a Democrat
  • Both played by: Kevin Kline

President Horace C. Mitchell

President Richard (Rich) E. Mogul

  • President in: Justice Squad
  • Took office after defeating George W. Bush in 2004 election.
  • Ousted by the Justice Squad after invading a parallel dimension with super-powered soldiers.

Acting President Henry Moncas

  • Very briefly the acting president in: Frederik Pohl's Jem (1979).
  • Speaker of the House when president and vice president are killed in 21st century nuclear war.

President Richard Monckton

President Maxwell Monroe

President Judson Moon

  • President in the The Kid Who Became President by Dan Gutman
  • Prevented aggressive South American nation of Cantania from invading neighboring Boruguay, one of the world's biggest oil producers.
  • Youngest president in U.S. history at age thirteen.
  • Served 2001-2002, then resigned in favor of Vice President June Syers, who became the first African-American and female president.
  • Party Affiliation: Lemonade (fictional party)

President Mordecai

  • President in 2010: Odyssey Two
  • Only mentioned in passing by character Heywood Floyd
  • In the movie of 2010, the President is drawn as the likeness of Arthur C. Clarke on a magazine cover.

President Rachel Moreno

  • President in: Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President (novel), by Mark Dunlea
  • A nurse, single mother, and advocate for universal health care and global fair trade prior to her candidacy
  • Moreno is elected Vice-President during a disputed election in 2000 when Green Electors vote for the Democratic candidate in exchange for his acceptance of Moreno as his running mate; she ascends to the Presidency after the elected President dies of a drug interaction in August 2001.
  • Party: Green

Arthur Morgan

  • President in: the John Grisham book The Broker.
  • He is said to be the most unpopular president in American history, having almost ignited World War Three. In his reelection campaign, Morgan lost every state and D.C. except Alaska for a count of 535-3. He was from Delaware, but at the start of the book plans to retire in Alaska and on his way out pardons D.C. lobbyist Joel Backman, leading to the events of the book.

President Arthur Morose

  • President in: By Dawn's Early Light
  • Was elected in the 1996 election.
  • Miraculously survives the destruction of Washington, D.C. after domestic terrorists impersonating Russian radicals detonate a small nuclear device.
  • Is thought to be dead along with most of his cabinet and the vice president. The Secretary of State, (played by Darren McGavin) on his way back from a summit in France, declares himself as the acting president. The president attempts to contact the Secretary of State after the S.O.S. approves the launch of a nuclear missile to Moscow.
  • President Morose is found hours later by a military convoy and cancels the attack on Russia, narrowly avoiding a nuclear war.
  • Played by Martin Landau in movie.
  • Party: Democratic

President Thomas D. Moss

President Merkin Muffley

  • President in: Dr. Strangelove
  • Qualities/attributes: A balding middle-aged man with glasses, President Muffley is perhaps the only character in the movie who seems to have a 'down to earth' attitude towards an escalating nuclear crisis. However, his indecisiveness and desire to hear all sides and options ad nauseam renders him largely ineffective. Modeled after Adlai Stevenson.
  • During his administration the Soviet Doomsday Device detonates, destroying most life on planet.
  • See Merkin
  • Quote: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
  • Party: (most possibly) Democratic
  • Played by: Peter Sellers (One of three roles he plays in the film.)

President Gary Nance

  • President in: Dave
  • Succeeds to presidency upon death of President William Mitchell. Nance has honorable ethics and morals, is cleared in a scandal involving bank fraud.
  • Played by: Ben Kingsley
  • Party: Uncertain

President Jack Neil

  • President in: Murder at 1600
  • Family is framed for murder in retaliation for making military decisions his national security advisor doesn't like. The president has a sexual reputation and has one son.
  • Played by: Ronny Cox

President Nelson

President D. Wire Newman

  • President in: The West Wing (television)
  • Played by: James Cromwell
  • Newman was the last Democrat to be President before the election of Josiah Bartlet (see above).
  • One-term President
  • Spent his Administration propping up the House of Saud to ensure the flow of oil (similar to the Carter Doctrine)
  • Appeared alongside Bartlet at Lassiter's funeral
  • Party: Democratic

President Nguyen

  • President in 2054 in Joe Haldeman's science fiction novel Old Twentieth (2005).

President LaMonte Nielson

  • President in Orson Scott Card's Empire, possibly set in 2008
  • Was Speaker of the House when President and Vice President were killed by a left-wing terrorist group.
  • Led the United States in the Second American Civil War.
  • Chose not to run for his own term, instead opting to re-enter Congress.
  • Party: Republican

President Howard Johnson Nissen

  • President in Give Me Liberty/Martha Washington Goes to War comic book series, set in 2014.
  • The former Secretary of Agriculture, he becomes President when President Rexall, the Vice President, and most of the cabinet are assassinated in an explosion.

President Richard Nixon (1983)

President Winston Noble

  • President in: Fahrenheit 451
  • Described as extremely charismatic and charming and "one of the nicest-looking men who ever became president."
  • President Noble defeated his homely and disheveled opponent, Hubert Hoag, in a landslide. Unlike Hoag, Noble doesn't pick his nose while on television.

President James Norcross

President "Chuck" Norris

  • President in Andrew Cartmel novel: "Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Warhead"
  • Elected president in 2004 (defeating Bruce Springsteen) this extremely right-wing politician ended immigration to the United States, and presided over the establishment of Local Development laws which prevented the unemployed from leaving their local area to find work.
  • He wasn't President by 2008. Either resigned, assassinated or impeached since Arthur Coleman Winters was President by June 2008.

President Noxin

President A. Thorton Osgood III

President Nathaniel James Page

  • President in: Real Politics (online game) (2004-2008)
  • Former Senate Majority Leader, elected President after George W. Bush declined to run again. He shocked everyone when he nominated a Democrat as his running mate during the 2004 campaign.
  • Played by: Real Politics game admins
  • Party: Republican

President David Palmer

  • President in: 24 (2001-2005) (although on the show he served 3 1/2 years of a full four-year term)
  • The first African American President, Palmer is a native of Maryland and served as a lawyer, member of the House of Representatives and senator before running for president. He attended Georgetown University and the University of Maryland and has two children, Keith and Nicole Palmer. Palmer cancelled his re-election campaign after his ex-wife was murdered.
  • After President Keeler's incapacitation, Vice President Charles Logan was unable to serve as acting president, and Palmer was secretly made Logan's proxy. Palmer was later assassinated by a sniper's bullet while working on his memoirs at his brother's penthouse apartment in Los Angeles.
  • Played by: Dennis Haysbert
  • Party: Democratic

President Wayne Palmer

  • President in: 24 (2009-2013)
  • The brother of David Palmer, for whom he served as chief of staff and campaign manager.
  • Injured severely in an assassination attempt and Vice President Noah Daniels becomes Acting President
  • However at the next election he has been replaced by Allison Taylor.
  • Played by: D.B. Woodside
  • Party: Unknown. (Presumably Democratic - see above)

President Eldon Parker

  • President in: The Oasis Project, a 1981 novel by David Stuart Arthur
  • Once elected, states that he will only serve one term, but secretly funds weapon program to create high-tech 2nd generation shuttles and weapons in order to eliminate population centres world wide and create a new Pax-Americana.
  • Party: Not mentioned

President David Payne

  • President in: The Interim
  • Served eight years with high approval ratings
  • Clashed with President-Elect Candor over policies regarding a free Taiwan
  • Party: Republican

President Riley Peacham

  • President in: Boomsday, a 2007 novel by Christopher Buckley
  • Suffered low popularity, but was re-elected to a second term
  • Party: Not mentioned

President Nathan Petrelli

  • President in: Heroes
  • In the future, Nathan is shown as President of the dystopian American state.
  • His true identity was shown to be that of Sylar, the serial killer, who has presumably killed Nathan and used Candice Wilmer's power of illusion casting to take on Nathan's appearance.
  • Party: Unknown

President Warren H. Pierce

Pinky

President Katherine Powers

Acting President Jim Prescott

  • Acting president in 24 (2003)
  • Prescott was Vice-President under President David Palmer and manipulated the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but only served a few hours before the presidency was restored to Palmer.
  • A preview for an upcoming 24 video game implies that Prescott served as President following an assassination attempt on Palmer (the game is set between seasons 2 and 3)
  • Played by: Alan Dale
  • Party: Democratic

President Jack "Kill the Commies" Preston

President Reginald J. Priest

President Lawrence Ivor Randolph

President Arthur Timothy Read

  • In the Arthur television series, Arthur often imagines himself as President.
  • In the Episode Arthur's Lucky Pencil, he signs into law a bill that mandates every student be served two pieces of Boston Cream Pie, at lunch.
  • Played by: Michael Yarmush in that episode.

President Erwin Rexall

  • President in Give Me Liberty/Martha Washington Goes to War comic book series, set in 2014. Rexall repeals the 22nd Amendment to gain a third term.
  • He, Vice President Cargo, and most of his cabinet are assassinated in an explosion. Succeeded by Secretary of Agriculture Howard Johnson Nissen.

President Caroline Reynolds

Main article: Caroline Reynolds
  • President in Prison Break
  • As Vice-President, she collaborated with an organization known as "the Company" to fake the death of her brother Terrence Steadman and frame Lincoln Burrows for the murder. When her presidential campaign began to falter and the Company turned against her, she had President Mills assassinated and was immediately sworn in as President.
  • Played by Patricia Wettig

President George Richmond

  • President in: My Date with the President's Daughter
  • President Richmond is married to Carol Richmond and has one teenage daughter, Hallie. While running for reelection, President Richmond was once mistakenly arrested by the police and spent one night in jail.
  • Played by: Dabney Coleman

President Alan Richmond

  • President in: Absolute Power (1996 book) and Absolute Power (1997 film)
  • Is an aloof, womanizing man who is cheating with his good friend's wife. After the sex became rough, she attacked him with a letter opener followed by the Secret Service killing her. He and his chief of staff attempt to cover up the murder, however, a cat burglar witnesses the entire skirmish.
  • Attempts, at all costs, to kill the man whom possesses the letter opener with his blood on it.
  • Book: A young lawyer later uncovers the scandal and goes public with it. President Richmond is later either impeached or resigns and is incarcerated. Later becomes the only American president to be tried for murder and executed.
  • Movie: Burglar gives the letter opener to President Richmond's "good friend", who assassinates the Richmond with it. Death represented publicly as a suicde.
  • Played by: Gene Hackman in the film.

President Eleanor Richmond

President Prez Rickard

President Elise Rochelle

  • President in: Coyote (novel) by Allen Steele
  • Was elected President-for-Life of the United Republic of America by Congress
  • 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 Montréal
  • As the URA was later absorbed by the socialist Western Hemisphere Union after her suicide, she was essentially the final President of the United States of America
  • Party: Liberty Party

President Steve Rogers (Captain America)

  • President in: What If, vol. II #28 (Marvel Comics)
  • Party: New Populist Party

Also:

  • President in the "The Last Avengers Story" book by Marvel Comics (non-canon fiction)

President "Steve Rogers"

President John Romero

  • President in Deadlands: Hell on Earth roleplaying game.
  • Former movie director and anti-Confederate propagandist. 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.
  • Romero was elected in 2070, impeached in 2078.

President Romulus

President Chet Roosevelt

  • President in: Americathon
  • Somehow becomes president at the age of 30.
  • Prior to the Roosevelt administration, the U.S. government suffers bankruptcy, a few years later the nation holds a telethon to pay off its debts and deficit.
  • Relocates the nation's capital from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, California.
  • Falls in love with a Vietnamese pop star and resigns the presidency to marry her. The two later leave to Vietnam.
  • Played by: John Ritter

President Pete Ross

Main article: Pete Ross
  • Ross was a former Senator from Kansas, succeeded President Lex Luthor after Luthor's impeachment, and refused to run for re-election.
  • Party: Tomorrow Party

President Paul Roudebush

President Oliver Russell

President Jack Rutledge

  • President in: the novels of Brad Thor
  • Kidnapped by Swiss terrorist group known as The Lions. Has a finger cut off by the group as proof of his kidnapping. Later returned safely to the White House.
  • Widower and father of a teenage (later college age daughter), who is injured in an avalanche during his kidnapping, and injured again several books later during an attack on NYC bridges and tunnel.
  • Two term president, reelected sometime between the novels Blowback and Takedown
  • Party: Republican

President John Patrick "Jack" Ryan

Main article: Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy)
  • President in numerous novels by Tom Clancy.
  • Ryan is married and has four children.
  • Jack Ryan assumed the presidency after the death of the president and most of Congress after a terrorist attack on The Capitol. The Ryan Administration tries to significantly alter Washington politics by cutting through bureaucracy and political infighting, in part by encouraging "regular people" to run for Congress, who will serve their terms and return home, rather than professional, lifelong politicians whom he refers to as "a permanent ruling class".
  • In foreign policy, the Ryan Administration fights two wars; the Second Persian Gulf War with the newly created United Islamic Republic, a union of Iraq and Iran, and the Russo-Chinese War, fought over Siberian oil. Not long before the latter war, Ryan had successfully pushed for an expansion of NATO to include the Russian Federation, in a futile attempt to deter a Chinese attack.
  • Pronounces the "Ryan Doctrine"; this states that anyone who attacks American citizens anywhere in the world, no matter who he may be, will be held accountable by the United States. This is consistent with Ryan's belief that "the safety and security of our citizens is ultimately my country's only vital interest." The doctrine can be seen as a reaction to the rise of terrorist attacks on American citizens, including by the state organs of countries like Iran (or, in the book, the UIR).
  • Party: Independent. The Ryan Administration espouses many conservative, traditionally Republican beliefs, but Ryan is said to support candidates from both parties. Ultimately, the integrity and loyalty of politicians matters far more to Jack Ryan than their party affiliation.

President Elaine Sallinger

  • Presidency mentioned in the Red Dwarf novel Better Than Life
  • Described as "perhaps the greatest American President of all time"
  • Appears only as the fifth carving on Mount Rushmore

President Newton Sanders

  • President in Mark Lawson's novel: "Idlewild (book)",
  • In a universe in which President John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt on his life, and went on to be re-elected in 1964, Newton Sanders won the 1992 Presidential election running as a third party candidate - defeating President George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
  • He was assassinated via a "baby bomb" (an infant wrapped in Semtex and detonated) by Yusaf Yusaf (a.k.a "Anderson Kempinski Fraser"), and as he did not have a Vice-President, was succeeded by the Speaker of the House.

President Matt Santos

  • President in The West Wing (television series)
  • A former mayor and three-term congressman from Houston, Texas, Santos is 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.
  • Surging late after winning the California primary, Santos was deadlocked with the frontrunner, Vice President Bob Russell at the 2006 Democratic National Convention. 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. Santos narrowly defeated Senator Arnold Vinick of California by a count of 272 to 266 electoral votes.
  • In the West Wing canon, Santos is the first Hispanic-American president.
  • Played by: Jimmy Smits
  • Party: Democratic

President Marc Solomon Schultz

  • President in: 'Best President Ever'
  • Had 100% approval rating
  • Party: Democratic Party

President Arnold Schwarzenegger

President Adam Scott

President Nehemiah Scudder

President George Sears

  • President in Metal Gear Solid (unnamed in the game. Name given in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty).
  • The 43rd president, Sears was elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. He is actually Solidus Snake, the third "Snake" brother (preceded by Solid Snake and Liquid Snake). In the sequel Metal Gear Solid 2, he is revealed to be a former member of The Patriots (a secret group that controls the United States) and was the mastermind behind the Shadow Moses island incident in 2005 (the fictional events of Metal Gear Solid). He acted without permission from the Patriots and was forced to "resign". Sears was succeeded by President James Johnson by the time of Metal Gear Solid 2.
  • Quote: "Damn the Patriots!"

President William Lyons Selby

  • President in The Outer Limits episode The Hundred Days of the Dragon.
  • Played by: Sidney Blackmer
  • Vice President: Theodore Pearson
  • Selby was assassinated before election and was replaced by a look-a-like agent from an unnamed Asian government. The Vice-Presendent arrested the agent when the plot was discovered.
  • Party: Not mentioned

President Julian September

  • In JLA #18 (05/1998), September altered present history to become President of the United States. The JLA destroyed his Engine of Chance, which only altered history further.

President Alexander Shackleton

  • President In: USGovSim 5th reset
  • Elected In: 2008
  • Party: Democratic
  • Vice President: Karen Devereaux, and Jaxon Liberio
  • Opponent: Jackson Watkiss
  • Former governor of the Potomac Valley
  • Virginia Resident
  • Assassinated, succeeded by Jaxon Liberio

President James Kavanaugh Shea

President Shears"

President Andrew Shepherd

President Walter "Wally" Sheridan

  • President in: XIII (comic)
  • Brother of anterior president William B. Sheridan
  • These two powerful politicians and brothers are a comic version of John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy. In the book, Wally is the mastermind behind the XIII conspiracy, which began with the assassination of his brother (a nod to the JFK murder), and would have culminated in the establishment of a dictatorship in the United States.

President Alexander George Sherman

  • President in: The Genesis Machine, a 1978 novel by James P. Hogan
  • Sherman is president in a near future where a western alliance is under pressure from, and losing territory in a domino-effect to an African-Asian axis. A theoretical scientist creates a new mathematical model of the universe, and in doing so, creates an untraceable weapon that can restore the balance of world power.

Instead of using the weapon to give superiority to the west, while President Sherman stands by in shock, the scientist destroys all weapons of mass destruction worldwide, and thus sets the stage for an enforced world peace.

  • Party: Not mentioned

President Bubba Shrub

President Gordon Shumway

  • President in: ALF – "Hail to the Chief" episode
  • In a dream sequence, Kate dreams Alf is elected president, solves all the country's problems, and gets his face on Mount Rushmore.

President Lisa Simpson

President Marge Simpson

  • President in: The Simpsons – "The Last Temptation of Homer" episode
  • Native of Springfield.
  • Marge Simpson would have been president had she not married Homer; her presidency is shown in a vision to Homer by his guardian angel. She seems to have high approval ratings.

President Signoff

President Harman Smith

  • President in: Killer7 (video game)
  • It is the "young" Harman that was President, and not the Harman character you play in the video game. His face is present on a wall of Presidents in one of the missions.

President Robert "Bud" Smith

President Sparrow

President Springhead

President James Stanford

  • President in: XXX: State of the Union
  • Played by: Peter Strauss
  • His Secretary of Defense George Deckert leads an unsuccessful military coup to assassinate him and seize power. After Deckert's demise, Stanford gives the Medal of Honor to those that saved him while quoting Tupac Shakur: "Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal."
  • Party: Possibly Democratic

President Arch Stanton

President Jack Stanton

President Richard Starkey

President Joseph Staton

President Diane Steen

President Jim Stevens

  • President in: Term Limits by Vince Flynn
  • Party: Most likely Democratic
  • Very corrupt
  • His Administration disaffected anti-government special forces veterans

President David Stevens

President Tom Steward

  • President in: Hitman: Blood Money
  • Party: Republican.
  • Notes: Pro-cloning president, targeted by "The Franchise" who wanted to maintain their own covert cloning programme. Was to be assassinated in the White House by Mark Parchezzi III before Agent 47's intervention.

President Greg Stillson

  • President in: The Dead Zone
  • Third party Christian conservative whose presidency and role in starting a nuclear Armageddon is foreseen by a psychic.
  • Played by: Martin Sheen

President Jim Stonecold

  • President in: .hack
  • 44th President of the United States
  • Resigns from office in January 2006 after the "Pluto's Kiss" computer virus brings about the collapse of the modern internet and nearly causes a nuclear catastrophe by activating the United States' nuclear defence and automated counter-strike systems on December 24th, 2005.

President Patrick J. Sullivan

Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain

President June Syers

President Allison Taylor

Mr. Thompson

  • President in: Atlas Shrugged
  • Never actually referred to as President, only as Head of State, but the office is implied from context. Thompson presides over a series of socialist reforms and attempts to compromise with John Galt, but Galt is not willing to do so.

President Thomas Nathaniel Thorn

  • President in several novels by Dale Brown
  • Elected in 2000. First third party candidate to win since Lincoln.
  • Notable for his "Fortress America" policy, in which he withdraws all troops deployed overseas and refuses to deploy troops unless America's interests are directly threatened.
  • Also notable for strict adherence to the Constitution, e.g. ignores inauguration ceremony at Congress and doesn't appoint a National Security Advisor.
  • Doesn't stand for re-election after a Russian nuclear attack on America.
  • Party Affiliation: Jeffersonian (fictional third party)

President Zachary Thornton

President Averell Torrent

  • President in: Empire, by Orson Scott Card
  • Elected near the end of the book to replace President Nielson
  • In an interview before the election Torrent is asked if he will run for the Republicans, which he has recently served as National Security Advisor but he responds in saying he will only run for the presidency if elected in primaries by both parties (i.e., the Democrats and Republicans) which he eventually is.
  • I attributed throughout the book at being a moderate, with no real polarized political stance
  • Formerly a professor at Princeton University

President Veronica Townshend

  • President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • Briefly referenced in the novel Moonfall.
  • A former economics professor from the University of Oregon and a junior senator from Oregon who served as Secretary of Education under the Hamlin administration.
  • First female president who won the election of 2016 following the presidency of Andrew Culpepper.
  • During her administration, the space shuttle Atlantis II was marooned in space after deflecting off of the Earth's atmosphere and went careening towards the sun. The astronauts on-board remained in contact with NASA until their oxygen supply was fully depleted.
  • Chose not to run in the 2020 election, saying that it was "Not worth it." Her vice president was nominated but lost the election to Henry Kolladner.
  • Returned to her home state of Oregon after leaving office.
  • Opened her presidential library in 2022.
  • Party: Republican

President Mary Rose Tremane

  • President in Deadlands: Hell on Earth role playing game.
  • Elected in 2078 on a platform of peaceful negotiation with the Confederate States of America.
  • "Disappeared" while traveling on Air Force One over the Rocky Mountains on January 1st, 2081.

President Samuel Arthur Tresch

President Thomas Nelson Tucker

President Rexford Tugwell

President Turner

  • President in: Ekipa, Polish political drama
  • Frequently mentioned in one episode "Dalej idziesz sam", during a crisis with nuclear testing in Belarus. Although he wasn't seen, his voice was hear when he spoke to Polish Prime Minister via phone

President Madeline Turner

  • President in:The Edge of Honorand Power Curve by Richard Herman

President Nigel Uno

President Margaret Valentine

President Hallux Valgus

  • President in: Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner
  • The 82nd President of the United States, Valgus had the distinction of being the first U.S. president who had no gastrointestinal tract, having to survive via symbiotic bacteria in his torso which transformed airborne toxins into carbohydrates and protein. He also wore a spandex unitard.

President Josephine Vannebuker-Brown

  • President in: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
  • Low-ranking Cabinet member who is the highest survivor in the chain of succession after a nuclear war.

President Philip Nolan Voight

  • President in: Marvel Comics's New Universe
  • Voight was elected in 1988 after telepathically influencing voters. He had the paranormal ability to mimic and outdo any other paranormal ability.
  • Vice-president was Michael Dukakis

Acting President Glen Allen Walken

  • President in: The West Wing (TV series)
  • Played by: John Goodman
  • Born in Liberty, Missouri, Walken is a Vietnam veteran, is possibly married, has a dog named Bess and is "one prime rib dinner away from sudden cardiac arrest."
  • Walken was Speaker of the House and became acting President on May 8, 2003 during a national emergency involving Zoey Bartlet (the position of Vice President had just been left vacant). President Bartlet invokes the 25th Amendment and temporarily resigns and assumes the presidency again on May 11, 2003.
  • He attempted to gain his party's nomination for the presidency in 2006; despite winning the Iowa caucus, Walken lost the nomination to Senator Arnold Vinick of California.
  • An opponent to the Bartlet administration, Walken is a Republican.

President Preston Walker

  • President in the comic book series Drafted, written by Mark Powers and published by Devil's Due.

President Dale Cooper Wallace

President Garner Ward

President Graveney Westwood

  • President in: Spy High
  • He was the key supporter of the Guardian Star as part of the American Earth Protection Initiative. (The Paranoia Plot)
  • Opposed by several peace organisations and a Capitol Hill politician Senator Al Nathanson. (The Paranoia Plot)
  • He was the victim of a failed assassination attempt by the Judson Siblings (Angel Blue)
  • In office 2064 -

President Westwood

  • President in: Stealth Fighter
  • President Westwood orders a covert war against Nicaraguan drug lords and mercenaries.
  • Played by: Ernie Hudson

President George White

  • President in: The Kid Who Ran For President
  • Served from: 1996-2001
  • Created by: Dan Gutman
  • Party Affiliation: Republican

President Thomas J. Whitmore

  • President in: Independence Day
  • Whitmore fought in Operation Desert Storm as a fighter pilot. He is married to Marilyn Whitmore and has one daughter, Patricia. As president, he was criticized by political pundits in Washington for his inexperience in politics as well as his youth. The Orange County Register named President Whitmore one of the sexiest men of the year on July 2, the day the aliens arrived on Earth.
  • Before the alien invasion, Whitmore's approval rating slipped below forty percent.
  • Whitmore personally led surviving Earth resistance military forces into battle against alien invasion/occupation forces after the death of his wife.
  • Presumably Republican
  • Played by: Bill Pullman

President Widmark

  • President in: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • Widmark is confined, either temporarily or permanently, to a specially made hospital bed due to an undisclosed back ailment. In early versions of the script, he is confined there due to mental instability. His advisors include General Catburd of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense McKinley, Senator Cunningham, and National Security Advisor Smirnoff.
  • Declares war on the Soviet Union by signing the "Short Form" of the Declaration of War, under pressure from the Black Lectroids. Presumably rescinds the declaration after Dr. Buckaroo Banzai defeats the Red Lectroids, ending the confrontation.
  • Quote: "Buckaroo, I don't know what to say...Lectroids? Planet 10? Nuclear extortion? A girl named John?"
  • Played by: Ronald Lacey

President Joseph Wilson

President Michael Wilson

  • President in Metal Wolf Chaos (video game, 2004)
  • In the near future, Michael Wilson, the 47th President of the United States, needs to use the giant mech, "Metal Wolf", in order to free America from the evil coup d'etat forces of Vice-President Richard Hawk.
  • Quote: "Nothing is pointless! And that's because... I'm the President of these great United States of America!"

President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip

President Hugo Allen Winkler

  • President in: The Tercentenary Incident by Isaac Asimov
  • 57th president. He was assassinated on 4 July 2076 and replaced with a robot impostor who continued to run the country undetected.

President John P. Wintergreen

  • President in: Of Thee I Sing by George and Ira Gershwin
  • Runs for president on a platform of "Love is sweeping the country." Publicizes his campaign by promising to marry the winner of a beauty contest, but instead falls in love with and marries a secretary, Mary Turner.

President Arthur Coleman Winters

  • President in: Episode "The Sound of Drums" on BBC's Doctor Who
  • Designated as UN representative during first contact with the Toclafane. He is assassinated by the Toclafane on orders of fictional British Prime Minister Harold Saxon, who was actually a character called "the Master."
  • Played by: Colin Stinton

President John Winthrop

President Kenneth Yamaoka

  • President in: Eagle (manga) by Kaiji Kawaguchi
  • Yamaoka is the 43rd President and is the first Asian-American president (third generation Japanese-American). He previously served in the military in Japan and in the Vietnam war and was the Democratic senator from New York. Yamaoka is married to wife Patricia with son Alex, daughter Rachel and an illegitimate son, Takashi Jo.
  • Party: Democratic
President Anton York
  • President in a Gold Key Star Trek comic #9, "The Legacy of Lazarus"
  • Mentioned to be the 45th president.
  • A possible homage to the "Anton York, Immortal" stories by Earl and Otto Binder.

President Augustus Alvin York

  • President in: The Zero Factor, a 1980 novel by William Oscar Johnson
  • York is nominated in Chicago as the Republican candidate for president when the convention for the 1980 election is hopelessly deadlocked with Ronald Reagan and other nominees. After dozens of ballots, York is a compromise/sacrificial nomination.
  • To everyone's surprise, York wins the 1980 election, but then becomes rather obsessed with the "Zero Factor" for presidents. All presidents elected in a year ending in Zero since 1840 have died in office. York fears he will be next in 1980.
  • After multiple attempts on his life, York begins to suffer severe stress, and finally finds the freedom from the Zero Factor by resigning office and turning the Presidency over to his former Vice-President, Browning Dayton.
  • Party: Republican

Unnamed President in: Advise and Consent

Unnamed President in: Amazing Grace and Chuck

Unnamed President in: "Area 7" by Matthew Reilly

  • Previous Governor of Large Southwestern State (probably Texas)
  • Has satellite emitter secretly attached to his heart (if his heart stops beating, massive plasma bombs will explode all around the North of America)
  • Televised assault on President (referred to as the "Prez" by Mother) by Ceasar Russel during attempted reformation of America to pre-Civil War state
  • Accompanies Shane Schofield around the complex and into space
  • Awards participants in the battle classified medals at the end of the book

Unnamed President in: The Rock

Unnamed President in: Armageddon

  • Makes a speech before the astronauts set off to destroy the asteroid.
  • Approved a premature detonation of NASA's nuclear warhead to deflect the asteroid after the drilling of the asteroid proceeds badly; the astronauts stopped the detonation and were able to finish the mission.
  • Played by: Stanley Anderson

Unnamed President in: Atomic Train

  • During administration, Denver was devastated by a Russian nuclear weapon concealed with hazardous chemicals and toxic waste on board a runaway freight train that has suffered from brake failure.
  • Played by: Edward Herrmann

Unnamed President in: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

  • Is threatened by Dr. Evil (Mike Myers); he must pay a ransom of $100 billion or a laser erected on the moon will destroy Earth
  • Briefly considers blowing up the moon in response, asking his advisors "Would you really miss it?"
  • Played by Tim Robbins
  • Takes place in 1969

Unnamed President in: "The Awakening", adapted from Howard Fast's "The General Zapped an Angel," on Masters of Science Fiction (ABC, 2007)

Unnamed President "Bobby" (no last name given) in: Being There

Unnamed President in: Canadian Bacon

  • An uninspiring president suffering from low popularity, he and his advisors started a fake cold war with Canada to rally American citizens and boost his approval ratings.
  • Played by: Alan Alda

Unnamed President in: City Beneath the Sea

Unnamed President in: Dreamscape

Unnamed President in: Earthworm Jim

  • A parody: Jim had gotten a chance to "meet the President" for his heroic deeds. Upon meeting him he exclaims "Hey! You're not the president!" The President responds "I'm one of those generic Presidents they put into TV shows to stop them from getting dated." Psy-Crow later crashed into the White House and made the same observation, receiving the same response from the President.

Unnamed President in: Escape from L.A.

  • Christian fundamentalist president who changes the Constitution to become president-for-life.
  • Played by: Cliff Robertson

Unnamed President in: Escape from New York

  • Crashlands in the Maximum Security prison of New York, and has to be rescued.
  • Played by: Donald Pleasence

Unnamed President in: Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Unnamed President in: Fail-Safe

Unnamed President in The Fifth Horseman, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, 1980.

  • Compelled to negotiate with Muammar Qaddafi over a nuclear weapon Qaddafi has hidden in New York City.
  • Depicted as having attributes of both Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, the two real-world candidates for U.S. President the year the novel was written.

President "Harold" (no last name given) in: Guarding Tess (movie, Columbia/Tristar Studios; 1994)

  • Vice president under James Carlisle, another fictional chief executive, he succeeded to the presidency upon Carlisle's death in office sometime in the 1980s. He was still in power as of 1992. He is likely a native of Texas.
  • Quote: "Or next time, you'll be guardin' my dog, do you hear me son?"
  • Played by: Hugh Wilson

Unnamed President in: The Holy Land

  • Fundamentalist and entirely corrupt, considers alien "pagans" an abomination.

Unnamed President (USSS codename "Wrangler") in: The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger

Unnamed Presidents in: The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Unnamed President (Secret Service codename "Traveler") in: In the Line of Fire

Unnamed President in: Love Actually

Unnamed President in: the Mr. Show episode "The Cry of a Hungry Baby"

Unnamed President in: Pandora's Clock

  • During administration, Quantum Airlines flight 66 carries 247 passengers and one man infected with a doomsday virus from Frankfurt, Germany to New York, New York. The plane is unable to land and rogue elements within the government plans to shoot the it down.
  • Played by: Edward Herrmann

Unnamed President in: The Pelican Brief

  • A first term president, his re-election prospects are jeopardized by an attempted cover-up regarding two Supreme Court justices' assassinations.
  • Played by: Robert Culp

Unnamed President in: Perfect Dark

  • Was the victim of an assassination attempt aboard Air Force 1 by advisor Trent Easton and the Blonde Men, after repeatedly refusing to loan the science vessel Pelagic II to the Datadyne corporation. The attempt failed when he was rescued by Joanna Dark and the alien Elvis.
  • Was President during the human race's first contact with extra-terrestrials, namely the peaceful Maians and warlike Skedar.
  • According to an in-game biography, was unfairly portrayed as "easily led" by political commentators.

Unnamed President in: Shadow Conspiracy

  • His Vice President Saxon is trying to kill him and take his place.
  • Played by: Sam Waterston

Unnamed President in: The Second Civil War (TV movie, 1997, dir: Joe Dante)

Unnamed President "Prexy" in: The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, 1972.

  • Genial idiot president in Brunner's dystopian SF novel.

Unnamed President in: Slapstick of Another Kind

  • Played by: Jim Backus
  • In the Kurt Vonnegut novel Slapstick on which the film is based, the President is named Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain. In the film Swain and the Unnamed President are separate characters.

Unnamed President in Species II

Unnamed President in the Spidey Super Stories short, "Spidey vs. the Funny Bunny," aired as part of the PBS children's television series, "The Electric Company."

  • Played by Melanie Henderson. Some sources indicate that Melanie may have been the first female African American actress to portray an American president on television.
  • The plot had a mischievous woman dressing in a rabbit costume and damaging Easter baskets by sitting on them. Spidey eventually foils the villain's plans to disrupt the annual White House Easter Egg roll.

Unnamed President in: Spock's World by Diane Duane.

  • By the early 23rd century, the office of President of the United States is merely a ceremonial post on the United Earth. Vulcan Ambassador Sarek makes the president laugh when he delivers a speech at a state dinner in a "flawless Texas accent."

Unnamed President in: Stargate SG-1

  • The President was never onscreen, but an impostor played by Roger Allford appeared at the end of "Divide and Conquer".
  • The President of the United States was mostly unnamed throughout the series; not until season 7 was there a named President (Henry Hayes). Nevertheless, the idea of Robert Kinsey becoming President was a constant annoyance to Stargate Command during the tenure of Hayes' unnamed predecessor. This predecessor presumably started the Stargate Program, and signed Earth's first interstellar treaty, a pact with the Tok'ra.

Unnamed President in: Superman II

  • Forced to capitulate to the Kryptonian villains General Zod, Ursa and Non, who had been imprisoned in the Phantom Zone before they escaped. Restored to power after Superman defeats the Kryptonians.
  • Played by: E.G. Marshall

Unnamed "American President" in The Tomorrow People

  • Uses nuclear weapons to get involved in an intergalactic battle, distrusts the super-powered children and their secretive alien connections
  • Played by: John F. Parker

Unnamed President in Transformers (2007)

Unnamed President in Transmetropolitan

  • Notes: Nicknamed "The Beast", loses election to Gary Callahan

Unnamed President in The Unit

  • Sends the Unit to an unnamed Asian country to authenticate a pro-American rebel leaders request for support of a coup.
  • Played by: William H. Macy. First seen in episode 25, "The Broom Cupboard".

Unnamed President in Wag the Dog (1997)

  • Starts a fake war with Albania as a campaign distraction from a sex scandal before election time. He was running against Senator John Neal (Craig T. Nelson).
  • Played by: Michael Belson

Unnamed President in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

  • Responds to Magneto's acts of terrorism by ordering that a newly-developed mutant cure be incorporated into weapons.
  • Played by: Josef Sommer
  • In the novelization of the movie by Chris Claremont, the president is named Dave Cockrum, after the artist who worked on the series in the late 1970s.

Unnamed President in You Only Live Twice (1967)

  • Deals with the disappearances of U.S. and Soviet spacecrafts by SPECTRE, in hopes of starting a war. Places U.S. military on high alert, only to rescind the order after James Bond destroys the enemy spacecraft.
  • Played by: Alexander Knox

Unnamed President in The Island (2005)

  • Tom Everett as the President of America and his insurance policy in the movie.
  • Played by: Tom Everett

Unnamed President in National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

1President Bartlet's comments are meant to make him sound erudite, but frequently misfire – in the example cited, for instance, there has never been a king of Liechtenstein (it is a principality, ruled by a prince); the Prince in 1871 was Johannes II, who was unmarried, and had no daughter; and the United States has no ambassador to Liechtenstein (the Ambassador to Switzerland serves Liechtenstein's needs). It is unclear if this is an "intentional" error (intended to show that Bartlet is sometimes mistaken) or an unintentional error on the part of the writers of The West Wing. These "goofs" could be a deliberate policy on the part of the writers, however, to subtly reinforce that the action is not taking place in the "real" U.S., but in a parallel version of it. Bartlet has been shown to occasionally make up things. For example, he cites extremely detailed budget figures off-hand in a meeting, and when asked by Chief of Staff Leo McGarry later Bartlet proclaims in a shocked voice, "I was right?"

The following is a list of real or historical people who have been portrayed as President of the United States in fiction, although they did not hold the office in real life. This is done either as an alternate history scenario, or occasionally for humorous purposes.

David Rice Atchison takes office when both Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore are killed in a carriage accident in the story "How the South Preserved the Union" by Ralph Roberts in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. In the story, New England secedes, then attempts to overthrow the Washington government. In the end, Atchison orders all slaves freed and armed, and the "Civil War" fails.

James G. Blaine is elected President in 1880 in the alternate history novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove. He is the only Republican President in that timeline except for Lincoln. Blaine gets the United States into a second war with the Confederate States.

Chastity Bono mentioned in The Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future" and was president sometime before Lisa Simpson.

William Jennings Bryan was elected in 1896 over William McKinley in the story "Plowshare" by Martha Soukup in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. He ends the Spanish-American War by granting full independence to Cuba, the Phillipines, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, and in 1915, prepares to oppose President Theodore Roosevelt's plan to take the US into World War I.

Jeb Bush was president from 2001-2005 in: From the Files of the Time Rangers, a mosaic novel by Richard Bowes. Presumably this is a fictionalized version of the actual son and brother of the historical presidents George Bush. Briefly mentioned several times in the novel, Jeb Bush has gotten into office as a result of election fraud engineered by his family in Texas. He is defeated by the fictional "Once and Future President" Timothy Garde Macauley.

  • In the independent feature film, "Duck," he is said to be the president of the United States, but is never seen, only referenced by way of the policies that his administration and Republicans in tow have enacted.

Aaron Burr becomes President by manipulating events in the 1800 election in the story "The War of '07" by Jayge Carr in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. He keeps promising to step down after one more term. Eventually, he becomes President for life, and dies leaving the office as an inheritance to his children and grandchildren.

Dick Cheney becomes President after the assassination of George W. Bush, in the 2007 British film by Gabriel Range Death of a President.

Chelsea Clinton

  • Is the President of the United States by 2049 on Zenon: Girl of the 21st century. She is never actually seen on screen. Chelsea would be 69 years old by the year this movie takes place.
  • Is the President of the United States in 2021 in the comic book series Liberality for all.

Hillary Clinton

  • shown as the current president in an episode of Sliders.
  • described in John Birmingham's Axis of Time novels as being an "uncompromising" president; served two terms and was matyred by a suicide bomber. A George Bush-class aircraft carrier was named for her.
  • Portrayed as 46th president in the British comic 2000 AD (in the 1995 story Maniac 6). Ross Perot is her Secretary of State and Colin Powell her chief of staff.

George Clooney is former president when Zack and Cody Martin go in a time when everything changes from the original life. Who was depicted on the quarter in the alternate universe.

James M. Cox is elected President in 1920 after Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke in the story "A Fireside Chat" by Jack Nimersheim in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. In 1921, Cox is assassinated by an anti-League of Nations activist, leaving his Vice President, Franklin D. Roosevelt the new President.

Davy Crockett is elected in 1828 over Andrew Jackson in the story "Chickasaw Slave" by Judith Moffett in the Anthology Alternate Presidents.

Mario Cuomo is portrayed in the British comic 2000 AD (in the 1993 story Maniac 5) as vice president to President Al Gore, and succeeds to the presidency when Gore is killed by aliens during the Fourth World War. Cuomo is pressured by his advisers into taking drastic measures to win the war, against his better judgment, and shoots himself in remorse. His successor is seen but not named.

Thomas Dewey is the subject of two stories in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. In "No Other Choice" by Barbara Delaplace, Dewey defeats a seriously ill Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, and eventually decides to drop the Atomic Bomb on Tokyo rather than Hiroshima. "The More Things Change..." by Glen E. Cox tells the story of the 1948 election in reverse, with underdog Dewey eventually defeating the early overwhelming favorite, incumbent Harry S. Truman.

Stephen A. Douglas is elected in 1860 in the story "Lincoln's Charge" by Bill Fawcett in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. The Civil War occurs as in our time, and failed candidate Abraham Lincoln accepts a commission as a Union General.

Michael Dukakis wins in 1988 in the story "Dukakis and the Aliens" by Robert Sheckley in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. Dukakis is eventually revealed as an enemy alien, and "friendly" aliens have to adjust the timeline to ensure that George Bush is elected instead.

Thomas Alva Edison is elected President in 1908 in the novel And Having Writ by Donald R. Bensen. In this book, the aliens whose ship crashed in the Tunguska event instead land safely. They create an effective hearing aid for Edison and cure the infirmities of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the son of Czar Nicholas II. Edison is nominated by the Republicans over William Howard Taft and elected by a technology-enthused public. After pursuing the aliens and their companion, H.G. Wells, across Europe, he briefly tries to imprison them in order to obtain more of their secrets, but later relents. President Edison chooses not to run in 1912.

Harrison Ford

  • portrayed as the president in an episode in VIP
  • referred to as a former president in the film Scary Movie 3 when current president Baxter Harris "[wonders] what President Ford would have done," and then glances at Ford's portrait. Though this may not actually imply that Harrison Ford has served as the President himself, but rather to spoof his portrayal of a fictitious President in the 1997 film Air Force One.

Michael J. Fox is mentioned as a former president in the 1989 videogame Mean Streets. (In real life, Fox is ineligible for the Presidency, as he is not a native-born citizen.)

Al Franken was president in Why Not Me?, a satirical novel. Franken was elected in 2000, running on eliminating ATM fees. He was the first Jewish President and won in a landslide. Franken's running mate was Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, making the Franken-Lieberman ticket the first all-Jewish ticket since Reconstruction. As president, Franken suffered from severe depression and mood swings; he attacked Nelson Mandela and appointed Sandy Koufax as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. President Franken resigned after 144 days in office on June 10, 2001. In his resignation speech, he said: "It is my fondest wish that, in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster."

Benjamin Franklin

  • Listed as a former President in the Doctor Who audio play Seasons of Fear. It is unclear whether this refers to him being President in the original Doctor Who time line or one of the fictional ones implied by the time corruption depicted in this story.
  • Selected as the first President over George Washington in the story "The Father of His Country" by Jody Lynn Nye in the Anthology Alternate Presidents.

President Albert Gallatin assumed office after the successful 1794 Whiskey Rebellion led to the overthrow and execution of George Washington in the book The Probability Broach. Gallatin reformed the system of government, severely limiting its powers, and his legacy eventually led to the formation of the North American Confederacy (In real life, Gallatin, who was Secretary of the Treasury for Thomas Jefferson, was ineligible to be President due to his birth in Switzerland).

Danny Giffen won the 2010 elections of the United States in the home-made religion "Danism" by author of the same name. He also appears as President in the short, amuter movie "Public Suicide" directed by Harrison Davis.

Barry Goldwater won the 1964 election in the story "Fellow Americans" by Eileen Gunn in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. The story also features Richard Nixon as a TV host and Robert Kennedy as the Governor of New York City.

Al Gore

  • shown as the current president in an alternate reality in The One (2001) as well as in the comic book Hero Squared X-Tra Sized Special.
  • In The One, he is seen briefly in a news broadcast in an alternate universe.
  • The One was produced before the outcome of the 2000 Presidential Election was known. In keeping with the film's alternate-universe concept, the filmmakers used stock footage of Al Gore and George W. Bush to create a pair of similar mockup news broadcasts of each candidate as President. The eventual winner's version would be inserted into a scene in "our" universe, while the other would be shown in an alternate universe.
  • was allowed to sit at the desk of the Oval Office on the set of The West Wing in a skit from Saturday Night Live making fun of the television show and depicting Gore, who had just lost the U.S. presidential election 2000, as overly eager to act the role of president on his visit to the television set.
  • The opening sketch of a 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live showed him addressing the nation, describing how his reversal of global warming led to encroaching glaciers, offering to bail out the oil companies because oil prices had dropped dramatically due to the popularity of alternative fuels, California had left the Union to become the nation of "Mexifornia," Major League Baseball Commissioner George W. Bush was doing his best to crack down on the use of steroids, Afghanistan was an extremely popular Spring Break destination, and a Six Flags theme park had been opened in Tehran
  • The television series seaQuest DSV implies that Gore had become President sometime before 2032, as the show's namesake vessel was stationed at the nonexistent Fort Gore.
  • Is mentioned as the president in the webcomic The Spiders, focusing on an alternative American invasion of Afghanistan.
  • Mentioned as President in the episode "Meet the Quagmires" of Family Guy when Peter Griffin is allowed by Death to go back in time and ends up marrying Molly Ringwald instead of Lois Pewterschmidt thus allowing Glen Quagmire to marry her instead. Al Gore is President and enacts liberal policies beneficial to the country and has found and strangled Osama bin Laden on the set of MADtv. Brian Griffin uses this as an argument to prevent Peter from returning to the past to set things the way they were, but Peter insists on correcting the past.

President Harriman, mentioned in The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein, is presumably W. Averell Harriman. In reading an almanac from our universe, it's noted that Dwight D. Eisenhower served one of his terms in office (meaning he either served from 1949-1957 or 1957 - 1965).

Paris Hilton

J. Edgar Hoover

  • portrayed as President in the Red Dwarf episode "Tikka to Ride". When the Red Dwarf crew inadvertently prevented the assassination of John F. Kennedy, he was impeached in a sex scandal (with a mistress shared with Mafia boss Sam Giancana) in 1964. Hoover was forced to run for President by the Mafia, who blackmailed him with evidence that he was a cross-dresser. In return for unrestricted Mafia cocaine trafficking, Hoover allowed the Soviet Union to set up a nuclear base in Cuba, resulting in widespread panic, the abandonment of major American cities, the increasing likelihood of nuclear conflict and, in all likelihood, a Soviet victory in the Space Race due to a demoralized America. Hoover's presidency was erased when Kennedy assassinates himself in Dallas, 1963, restoring the timeline.
  • In the Sliders episode "Time Again and World," the group lands on a parallel Earth where America exists in a state of martial law. After the assassination of JFK, Hoover became president for more than 20 years (a lifelong term), implemented martial law and amended the Constitution, excising most of the Bill of Rights. In tribute to Hoover, all police officers wear skirts instead of pants. In that alternate dimension, the prison on Alcatraz Island is a fully-functioning penitentiary where the most dangerous political prisoners are kept, including civil-rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy as well as loud, out-spoken comedian Sam Kinison.
  • was President in one of many alternate realities mentioned in Richard Bowes' From the Files of the Time Rangers (a mosaic novel by Richard Bowes). He is briefly mentioned as being President in the 1940s; how he became president or what happens to him is not revealed in the novel.

Cordell Hull became President upon the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Harry Turtledove alternate history novel Worldwar: Striking the Balance. Henry Wallace had been killed in a nuclear strike prior to Roosevelt's death.

Lee Iacocca - The movie World Gone Wild (1988) is set in 2087 where civilization collapsed after a nuclear war. In one scene of the movie, a character is looking at pre-war relects and finds a copy of Iacocca's autobiography. He mentions that Iacocca had been a great President.

Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson is the President in the "main" US timeline in the book The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith. In the book itself, he's only referred to as "President Jackson"; his identity is confirmed in the later sequel The Gallatin Divergence.

President Duane Johnson, who in reality is a staff member of the anime convention Otakon, appears in various fandub parodies.

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was president in Fatherland, a novel by Robert Harris later made into a HBO movie. In the novel, Nazi Germany won World War II resulting in a far different world by April 1964. With tensions easing between the world's two major superpowers, a 75-year-old Adolf Hitler welcomes President Kennedy (elected in 1960) to a Berlin summit in the interest of fostering detente. Kennedy was believed by one of the main characters to be a shoo-in for re-election until the truth of the death camps is uncovered on the day of the summit. President Kennedy was played by Jan Kohout in the movie.

President Robert Kennedy (in one of the episodes What If?, program of Discovery Channel) won Democratic nomination in 1968 with Rev. Martin Luther King as his running mate. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the general election, but was shot to death in September 1969.

President Ted Kennedy

Martin Luther King (in one of the episodes What If?, program of Discovery Channel) was Vice President under Robert Kennedy and succeeded him in September 1969. Major of his initiatives are detente and continue program of Great Society (but under a new name). He was assassinated in 1971. He was succeeded by Vice President McGovern.

President Charles M. La Follette is a Socialist who is sworn in as president in 1942 after incumbent Al Smith is killed by Confederate bombers in the novel Settling Accounts: Return Engagement.

Robert M. La Follette won the 1924 election in the story "Fighting Bob" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch in the Anthology Alternate Presidents.

Fiorello H. LaGuardia was elected president in 1951 in the 1939 Robert A. Heinlein novel For Us, the Living.

Rush Limbaugh portrays himself as President in The 1/2 Hour News Hour. Ann Coulter serves as his vice president.

President Charles Lindbergh appeared in The Plot Against America, an alternate history novel by Philip Roth.

  • Defeats President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 election by playing upon the public's fears of going to war. Once in office, cancels defense-related agreements with the Allies, and signs non-aggression treaties with Hitler and with imperial Japan, which he justifies on the grounds that they will keep America out of war, and that the Axis are doing the world a favor by fighting and destroying communism in the Soviet Union and China. At home, he implements several programs designed to marginalize the Jewish community in the U.S.
  • He serves until 1942 when Vice President Burton K. Wheeler succeeds him.
  • At the end of the novel, it is revealed that Lindbergh was in the employ of the Nazis the entire time; years earlier, German agents had kidnapped Lindbergh's only son (see Lindbergh kidnapping) and used him as a hostage ever since to force Lindbergh to obey them. The treachery is discovered, Roosevelt is re-elected to the White House, and the U.S. enters the war on the Allied side.
  • Party: Republican.

Belva Ann Lockwood defeated Benjamin Harrison in 1888 in the story "Love Our Lockwood" by Janet Kagan in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. She inspired both male and female suffragettes, and was the one to serve between the split terms of Grover Cleveland.

Huey Long defeats Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 in the story "Kingfish" by Barry N. Malzberg in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. He invites Adolf Hitler to visit America, and allows him to be assassinated via a bomb.

President Alfred Mahan

George Marshall is the President in 1962 in "Thor Meets Captain America" a 1987 novelette by David Brin.

President George McGovern

  • (in one of the episodes What If?, program of Discovery Channel) was appointed Vice President after Martin Luther King took office from his assassinated predecessor Robert Kennedy. After King was shot too, McGovern became president in 1971.
  • He was also the subject of the novel President McGovern's First Term by Nicholas Max (1973).
  • In the anthology Alternate Presidents, two stories deal with McGovern winning the 1972 election. In "Suppose They Gave a Peace..." by Susan Shwartz, McGovern wins when the youth vote turns out for him in droves, and is then blamed for the debacle that occurs when he swiftly withdraws US troops from South Vietnam. In "Paper Trail" by Brian Thomsen, the tide turns for McGovern after reporter Carl Bernstein, investigating a break-in at the Watergate complex, is killed in a hit-and-run accident which is very qucikly linked to G. Gordon Liddy.
  • Though not actually specified, in the show Fairly Odd Parents, many refer to him as President McGovern who was elected in 1972. (when McGovern originally ran for president)

President McNamara -- presumably Robert S. NcNamara -- is president in Thomas M. Disch's 1968 science fiction novel, Camp Concentration.

Walter Mondale manages to defeat Ronald Reagan in 1984 in the story "Huddled Masses" by Lawrence Person in the Anthology Alternate Presidents.

President Ralph Nader played by Jimmy Fallon appeared in the Saturday Night Live skit A Glimpse of Our Possible Future III in 2000. Flying pigs and shivering devils featured.

Oliver North

President Patton, mentioned in The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein, is presumably General George S. Patton. In reading an almanac from our universe, it's noted that Dwight D. Eisenhower served one of his terms in office (meaning he either served from 1949-1957 or 1957 - 1965).

President Keanu Reeves is mentioned in the Only Fools and Horses episode Heroes and Villains, although it turns out only to be a part of Rodney's nightmare. (In real life, Reeves is ineligible for the Presidency, as he is not a native-born citizen.)

President Thomas Reed is mentioned as being president in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series.

President Richard Russell Junior is mentioned as being president in Warlords of Utopia by Lance Parkin. The Dixiecrat President is shown as having kept the US out of World War II.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

(In real life, Schwarzenegger is ineligible for the Presidency, as he is not a native-born citizen.)

Horatio Seymour -- Democratic governor of New York in our reality -- succeeds Lincoln as president in Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South after the United States of America loses the civil war.

Upton Sinclair was elected in 1920 as the first Socialist president after defeating President Theodore Roosevelt in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 saga. He was later succeeded by Calvin Coolidge, who was succeeded by Herbert Hoover, who lost re-election in 1936 to Al Smith.

Al Smith is elected president in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Victorious Opposition in 1936 after defeating Herbert Hoover. He is the nation's third Socialist President and was later killed in an air raid on Philadelphia, the capital of the United States; Vice-President Charles M. La Follette was later sworn in as president.

President Bruce Springsteen appears in Jim Mortimore's novel: "Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Eternity Weeps" President Springsteen defeated President Tom Dering in the 2000 presidential election after retiring from the music business. President Springsteen ordered a nuclear attack on Turkey and the Moon in an attempt to stop the spread of an alien terraforming virus known as "Agent Yellow".

Harold Stassen was president in Colonization: Second Contact by Harry Turtledove. Set in the mid 1960's, re-elected Vice President easily. However, after Earl Warren commits suicide, he succeeds him.

Howard Stern is shown as the current president in Sliders episode 21, "The Young and the Relentless."

Adlai Stevenson is elected in 1952 after Dwight D. Eisenhower makes the mistake of accepting Joseph McCarthy as his running mate in the story "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson" by David Gerrold in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. As the title implies, Stevenson is impeached, and happily resigns.

Samuel J. Tilden is featured in two stories in the anthology Alternate Presidents. In "Patriot's Dream" by Tappan King, Tilden wins after a series of nightmares help convert him from a low-key corporate lawyer to a crusading reformer. In "I Shall Have a Flight to Glory" by Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Tilden, still bruised by his loss to Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, adopts similar tactics against James Garfield in 1880. Tilden was also a one-term President (1877-1881) in How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove.

Donald Trump was mentioned as being president before Lisa Simpson in the year 2030. Trump was a very bad president and bankrupted the American economy, causing a crisis for Lisa when she took over. He was also mentioned in the "Bart to the Future" episode of The Simpsons

President Arthur H. Vandenberg was president from 1941 to 1945 in the 1939 Robert A. Heinlein novel For Us, the Living.

Jesse Ventura

George Wallace

Earl Warren was president in Colonization: Second Contact by Harry Turtledove. Set in the mid 1960's, he is very popular and wins re-election easily. However, after ordering the nuclear destruction of Indianapolis to appease the Lizards after they learned the US had attacked their colony fleet in Earth orbit, Warren commits suicide and is succeed by vice president Harold Stassen.

Burton K. Wheeler succeeds Charles Lindbergh as president in 1942 in The Plot Against America, an alternate history novel by Philip Roth. Wheeler was also mentioned as having been elected President in The Divide, a 1980 novel by William Overgard - in this book, Wheeler's isolationist policies led to an Axis victory in World War II and the occupation of the United States.

Oprah Winfrey

Victoria Woodhull is elected President after an amendment restricts Ulysses S. Grant to one term in the story "We are Not Amused" by Laura Resnick in the Anthology Alternate Presidents. In the story, Queen Victoria corresponds with the new female president, approvingly at first, but less so as her "libertine" ideas on social mores and customs take hold in the Empire.

Some fictional works give lists of alternate Presidents with no further comment:

  1. ^ (2003) The West Wing: The American Presidency As Television Drama. ISBN 081563031X. 
  2. ^ Whoops Apocalypse. IMDB. Retrieved on 2007-12-02. “Loretta Swit ... President Barbara Adams”
  3. ^ Flynn, Vince (2006). Act of Treason. ISBN 0743270371. “The motorcade of presidential candidate Josh Alexander had been hit by a car bomb. ... They turned out in record numbers on election day, and Josh Alexander and Mark Ross were swept into office by a landslide. ...” 

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