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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 'dated' over time, for dramatic license, or to provide literary flexibility.

Presidents are listed in alphabetical order by the first letter in their last name. Template:CompactTOC2

Unnamed presidents - Real people - See also - External links

A

President Barbara Adams

  • President in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986)
  • Played by: Loretta Swit
  • Succeeds to presidency upon death of President Jack "Kill the Commies" Preston

B

President Robert Baker

President Cliff Barnes

  • President in: Dallas, final episode Conundrum (aired May 3, 1991)
  • In an alternate universe in which 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 Josiah Bartlet

  • President in: The West Wing (television)
  • Democrat
  • Bartlet is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and previously served as governor of New Hampshire and as a congressman. He is married to Abigail "Abbey" Bartlet and has three daughters. Bears uncanny resemblance to Edmund Muskie. Also likes chess and guacamole.
  • Qualities/attributes: Irascible yet good-humored, quite liberal. Known for a fascination with trivia, esp. 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)
  • Played by: Martin Sheen

President Tom Beck

President Raymond Becker

  • President in: The Day After Tomorrow (film, 2004)
  • Played by: Kenneth Welsh
  • Vice president; succeeds to presidency upon death of President Blake
  • Refused to believe Dr. Hall's (Dennis Quaid) theory that Earth was on brink of a new Ice Age

President Bennett

President Richard Benson

President Thomas "Tug" Benson

President Blake

President Chasity Bono

President Mike Brady

  • President in: The Brady Bunch in the White House (TV movie, 2003)
  • Native of California with no political experience, Brady assumed the presidency after resignation of President Lawrence Randolph. Wife Carol became vice president. Has six children from marriage.
  • Played by: Gary Cole

C

President Gary Callahan

President Carlson

President James Cassidy

President Monroe "Eagle" Cole

  • 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.
  • President in: Welcome to Mooseport
  • Played by: Gene Hackman

President John J. Cormack

President Calvin Craig

President Culpepper

President Johnny Cyclops

  • President in: Whoops Apocalypse (television, 1982)
  • Qualities/attributes: A former screen actor, recently lobotomised. Hated at home and desperate to regain popularity. With other world leaders, starts World War III and resulting nuclear holocaust.
  • Played by: Barry Morse

D

President Rufus Daggett

President James Dale

  • President in: Mars Attacks!
  • During re-election campaign, Earth makes contact with aliens. President Dale was killed by these aliens shortly after contact.
  • Played by: Jack Nicholson

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 Tom Dering

  • President in Justin Richards' novels: Doctor Who: Option Lock and Doctor Who: Millennium Shock
  • Defeated Bill Clinton in the Presidential race of 1996. His Vice-President was Jack Michaels.

President Douglass Dilman

President Matt Douglas

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Former governor of Indiana, defeated incumbent President Russell P. Kramer. Later ran again for office as an independent alongside former President Russell P. Kramer.
  • Played by: James Garner
  • Democrat

President Charles Carter Durant

President Dugan

President Roger Durling

  • President in Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor
  • Former governor of California, he succeeds to the presidency after his predeccesor resigns.
  • Killed in a Japanese terrorist attack on the The Capitol.

E

President Walter Emerson

President Jackson Evans

F

President John Fields

President Mallard Fillmore

President James Foster

President William Foster

President Robert "Bob" Fowler

President Truman Theodore Fruitty

G

President Mays Gilliam

H

President Jeremy Haines

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

President William 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.
  • Republican
  • Played by: Dan Aykroyd

President Harris

President Spencer Harvey

President Henry Hayes

  • President in Stargate: SG-1
  • Played by: William Devane
  • Comments: Vice-President was Robert Kinsey, who had ties to the rogue element of the N.I.D.

President Jonathan Hayes

President Helman

President Stephen Decatur Henderson

President Paul Hollister

President J. Edgar Hoover

  • 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 in 1964 and succeeded by Hoover. Being blackmailed by the Mafia (who had evidence he was a cross-dresser) Hoover allowed the U.S.S.R to set up an nuclear base in Cuba, leading to the widespread desertion of American cities.

President Harley M. Hudson

J

President James Johnson

  • President in: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
  • The 44th President, preceded by President George Sears aka 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 events of Metal Gear Solid 2 in 2009, Johnson was assassinated in order to prevent Solidus Snake from accessing the nuclear weapons on Arsenal Gear; Johnson's vital signs were the "launch codes".

K

President Florentyna Kane

President Kang

President John Keeler

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 Francis Xavier Kennedy

  • President in: Mario Puzo's The Fourth K
  • Nephew of John F. Kennedy
  • Before becoming POTUS, he had 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.
  • Reelected due to an assassination attempt on his life.

President John F. Kennedy Jr.

President Joseph Kennedy

President Kerry Francis Kilcannon

  • President in: Richard North Patterson's novels Protect and Defend and Balance of Power, candidate in No Safe Place.
  • Democrat from New Jersey, elected in 2000 at age 42. Defeated incumbent Vice-President Dick Mason for Democratic nomination.
  • Appointed Caroline Masters first female Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Previously a two term Senator. Older brother James was predecessor in the Senate. James Kilcannon was assassinated while running for President in 1988.
  • Vice President was Ellen Penn, formerly Senator from California.
  • Wife is Lara (nee Costello) a former television news reporter.

President Tom Kimball

President Robert Kinsey

President Russell P. Kramer

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Born in Ohio, was a senator, attempted to run for re-election as president but failed. Famous for line "Our dreams are like our children." Later ran again for office as an independent alongside former President Matt Douglas.
  • Played by: Jack Lemmon
  • Republican

L

President Owen Lassiter

  • President in: The West Wing (television)
  • Mentioned only in one episode, native of California, has a presidential library, was married and is presently deceased.
  • 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, advocating opposition to Islamic fundamentalism.
  • Josiah Bartlett's Republican predecessor
  • Served two terms

President Lenny Leonard

  • President in: The Simpsons-The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
  • Leonard was once an employee at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in Springfield. He was seen at Homer Simpson's funeral.
  • Homer: "Marge, whatever happens, promise me you won't vote for Lenny."

President Lindberg

President Charles Lindbergh

President Manfred Link

President Lockwood

President Eugene Lorio

President Lex Luthor

President Jordan Lyman

M

President Mackenzie

President James Marshall

President Ted Matthews

President William "Bill" Matthews

President Maxwell

President Robert "Bobby" McCallister

  • President in: Jack & Bobby
  • Born in Hart, Missouri, McCallister was a minister and later a congressman and governor before being elected the 51st president in 2040.
  • Independent, having lost the Republican nomination

President Leslie McCloud

President Thomas McKenna

President McKenna

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.
  • A Yale alumnus.
  • Dave is possibly a Democrat; Mitchell is possibly a Republican.
  • Both played by: Kevin Kline

President Horace C. Mitchell

President Maxwell Monroe

President Rachel Moreno

  • President in: Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President (novel), by Mark Dunlea
  • Green
  • 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.

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 out hear all sides and options ad nauseum renders him largely ineffective.
  • During administration, Soviet doomsday device detonates, destroying most life on planet.
  • Quote: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
  • Played by: Peter Sellers

President Fillmard Millmore

N

President Gary Nance

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

President Jack Neil

  • President in: Murder at 1600
  • Framed for murder in retaliation for making military decisions his Secretary of State doesn't like. Has a sexual reputation but appears indecisive.
  • Played by: Ronny Cox

President D. W. Newman

  • President in: The West Wing (television)
  • Played by: James Cromwell
  • Serving only one term, Newman was the last Democrat to be President before the election of Josiah Bartlett (see above). Appeared alongside Bartlet at the funeral of former president Owen Lassiter in 2003.

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 "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.

O

President A. Thorton Osgood II

P

President David Palmer

President Jack "Kill the Commies" Preston

R

President Lawrence Ivor Randolph

President 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 Allen Richmond

  • President in: Absolute Power (1997 film)
  • Officially, he committed suicide in office. Unofficially, he was killed by a man whose wife he had earlier murdered.
  • Played by: Gene Hackman

President Eleanor Richmond

President Prez Rickard

President Steve Rogers

President Chet Roosevelt

President Pete Ross

President Paul Roudebush

President John Patrick "Jack" Ryan

  • President in numerous novels by Tom Clancy. Ryan served in the United States Marine Corps, taught at the United States Naval Academy, worked in the CIA and became National Security Advisor under President Roger Durling. Jack Ryan later became vice president after the vice president resigned due to a sex scandal. 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 The Capitol. The Ryan administration expands NATO and fights a war with the People's Republic of China after the Chinese invade Russia.

S

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"
  • 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 due to not having a Vice-President, was succeded by the Speaker of the House.

President Adam Scott

President George Sears

President Andrew Shepherd

President Bubba Shrub

President Lisa Simpson

President Robert "Bud" Smith

President Springhead

President Bruce Springsteen

  • President in Jim Mortimore's novel: "Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Eternity Weeps"
  • Defeated President Tom Dering in the election of 2000, after retiring from the music business. Perhaps his most famous act as President was ordering a nuclear attack on Turkey and the Moon in an attempt to stop the spread of the alien terraforming virus known as "Agent Yellow".

President Arch Stanton

President Jack Stanton

President Richard Starkey

President Diane Steen

President David Stevens

President Patrick J. Sullivan

T

Mr. Thompson

  • President in: Atlas Shrugged
  • Never actually referred to as President, only as Head of State, but the office is implied from context.
  • Presides over a series of socialist reforms.
  • Attempts to compromise with John Galt, but does not make a sufficient offer.

President Samuel Arthur Tresch

President Thomas Nelson Tucker

V

President Margaret Valentine

W

Acting President Glen Allen Walken

  • President in: The West Wing (television)
  • Played by: John Goodman
  • Born in Liberty, Missouri, Walken has a dog named Bess and is "one prime rib dinner away from sudden cardiac arrest."
  • Walken was Speaker of the House and becomes acting President on May 8, 2003 during a national emergency involving Zoey Bartlet. President Bartlet invokes the 25th Amendment and temporarily resigns and assumes the presidency again on May 11, 2003.
  • An opponent to the Bartlet administration, Walken is a Republican.

President Westwood

Acting President Burton K. Wheeler

President Thomas J. Whitmore

  • President in: Independence Day
  • Whitmore fought in the first Gulf War as a fighter pilot. He is married to Margaret 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.
  • Whitmore personally led surviving Earth military forces into battle against the invading aliens after death of wife.
  • 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 Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip

Y

President Kenneth Yamaoka

  • President in: Eagle (manga) by Kaiji Kawaguchi
  • First Asian-American president (third generation Japanese-American)
  • 43rd president of the U.S.
  • Formerly Democratic senator from New York
  • Wife Patricia, son Alex, daughter Rachel (also has an illegitimate son, Takashi Jo)


Unnamed presidents

President "Russ" (no last name given) in: Advise and Consent

Unnamed President in: Amazing Grace and Chuck

Unnamed President in Transmetropolitan

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

Unnamed President in: Armageddon (movie) and The Rock

  • During administration, much of the planet was devastated by asteroid strikes and approves the air strike against Alcatraz.
  • Played by: Stanley Anderson

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

Unnamed President in: Canadian Bacon

  • An uninspiring president suffering from low popularity, he started a fake war with Canada as a campaign distraction.
  • Played by: Alan Alda

Unnamed President in: Dreamscape

Unnamed President in: Escape from New York

Unnamed President in: Fail-Safe

  • Averts all-out nuclear war with Russia over an accidental bombing.
  • During administration, New York City was devastated by a nuclear weapon.
  • Played by: Henry Fonda (1964 version) and Richard Dreyfuss (2000 version)

Unnamed President in: The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Unnamed President in: Love Actually

Unnamed President in: The Pelican Brief

Unnamed President in: Superman II

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: Wag the Dog (1997)

  • Starts a fake war with Albania as a campaign distraction from a sex scandal before election time.
  • Played by: Michael Belson

Notes

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.

Real people

Occasionally real people are listed as president even though they'd never held office. This is used most often for dramatic effect or humor.

President Hillary Clinton is shown as current president in an episode of Sliders

President Al Franken was president in Why Not Me?, a political satire. Franken was elected president in 2000 on a platform of eliminating ATM fees. Franken was the first Jewish president and easily won all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As president, Franken suffered from severe depression and mood swings. He killed Saddam Hussein, 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."

President Al Gore is 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 1.

President Arnold Schwarzenegger is mentioned as a prior commander in chief in Demolition Man

President Jesse Ventura is shown fighting for re-election against Henry Kissinger in Killroy and Tina

President 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 mentioned in Bart to the Future.

See also

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