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Lists of fictional presidents of the United States
A–B C–D E–F
G–H I–J K–M
N–R S–T U–Z
Fictional presidencies of
historical figures
A–B C–D E–G
H–J K–L M–O
P–R S–U V–Z

The following is a list of fictional United States presidents, K through M.

K

President David Arnold Dieter "Dad" Kampferhaufe

  • President in Death of a Politician, a 1978 Book by Richard Condon
  • Former World War Two general.
  • Vice President was Walter Bodmor Slurrie.
  • Party: Republican

President Charles Foster Kane

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 (née 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 Roberto Katze

Main article: List of Toaru Majutsu no Index characters

President Rufus Kane

  • President in the 1930s radio show The Life of Mary Marlin
  • Asks Iowa Senator Mary Marlin to marry him.

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 presidency when he tried to say he never officially resigned after the events of Debt of Honor's final pages.
  • Party: Probably Democrat

President-Elect Elizabeth Keane

President John Keeler

Main article: John Keeler
  • 45th President in: 24
  • Played by: Geoffrey Pierson
  • 2006
  • 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 becomes Acting President. His fate was never revealed, though Logan was President (no longer Acting) 18 months later, likely indicating that Keeler either was killed or still remained physically unable to hold the office.
  • Previously served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, Minnesota Secretary of State, and in the U.S. Army Reserve
  • 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 Francis Kellogg

  • President in: Joshua Son of None, by Nancy Freedman
  • Cloned from tissue taken from an unnamed President (strongly implied to be John F. Kennedy) shortly after his 1963 assassination, and deliberately raised so as to mimic President Kennedy's early life, in hopes of "re-creating" the original through similar formative experiences.
  • Assassinated immediately after being sworn in as president.
  • Cells taken from his body in order to make yet another clone.

President Kempers

  • President in: Quarantine (2000)
  • It is mentioned that he has an extremely high approval rating
  • President when terrorists unleash a deadly genetically modified virus on the world
  • Gives the order to shoot down a passenger jet loaded with potentially sick children after it violates quarantine, but then rescinds it moments before the strike.

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 Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr

  • President in Fatherland by Robert Harris.
  • Father of real President John F. Kennedy.

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 Rose Sweeney Keogh

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 (née Costello) a former television news reporter.
  • Party: Democratic

President Tom Kimball

President Paul Kincaid

  • President in: Hostages (TV series)
  • Married to First Lady Mary Kincaid.
  • Raped a news reporter when he was campaigning for congress in 1978, and subsequently tried to pay her off.
  • Later attempted to have his resulting illegitimate daughter, Nina, killed, as to not risk the rape story becoming public.
  • Suffers from a minor heart condition which he is due to have surgery for at the start of the series.
  • Becomes target for assassination by multiple people with different agendas throughout the series. Rogue FBI agent Duncan Carlisle wants him killed so his bone marrow can be harvested and used in an experimental cancer treatment to save his wife, the president's illegitimate daughter. To kill him, Carlisle attempts to blackmail the president's surgeon, Dr. Ellen Sanders, into sabotaging the operation. Colonel Thomas Blair, the corrupt Director of the National Security Agency, also wants the president killed, but for the reason that he refuses to support a new mass surveillance program, but his successor would.
  • Survives an assassination attempt during a visit to New York to address the United Nations.
  • Survives the eventual surgery performed on him by Dr. Sanders, but she removes a sample of bone marrow removed in the process so that Nina can be saved.
  • Details of the rape, attempted cover-up and attempted murder orchestrated by Kincaid are revealed to the First Lady by Carlisle and Dr. Sanders, who subsequently informs her husband that she intends to go public with them.
  • Portrayed by James Naughton

President Roderick Kinnison

  • In the space opera the Lensman series by E.E. Smith, in Volume Two of the series, the 1950 book First Lensman, one of the protagonists, Roderick Kinnison (a member of the Galactic Patrol), wins election as President of North America on the "Cosmocratic Party" ticket against the corrupt Witherspoon, who ran on the "Nationalist Party" ticket. North America still uses the electoral college system. The President of North America has a five-year term. North America is a republic composed of the former nations of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Its constituent states are the former provinces of Canada, states of the United States, and states of Mexico. (This would make a total of 91 states, assuming the Canadian territories had not yet become states by that time.) The novel takes place several hundred years in the future after Earth has recovered from the late 20th century World War III.[1][2]

President Zachary King

  • President in Kingdom Come by Elliot S. Magin
  • Two Term president of the United States.

President 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 stereotypically attributed to both the Democrats (opposition to Defense spending, distrust of the military) and Republicans (religious fundamentalism, isolationism). The ambiguity is probably deliberate, in order not to alienate viewers of either political belief.

President Thomas Adam "Tom" Kirkman

President Benjamin Knight

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

President George W. Knox

  • President in GURPS Alternate Earths.
  • Elected in 1980, President Knox was the first African American president.
  • President in a world where the Confederate States of America survived the Civil War.
  • Party: Republican.

President Orrin Knox

  • President in: The Promise of Joy by Allen Drury
  • Early in his presidency, a limited nuclear war breaks out between the U.S.S.R. and the People's Republic of China. President Knox is called on to mediate the conflict.

President Henry Kolladner

  • President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • The nation's second African-American president.
  • Elected president in 2020.
  • Succeeded by Vice President Charles Haskell.
  • Party: Democratic

President David Kovic

  • President in: movie Dave (1993), played by Kevin Kline
  • Was a stand-in for the ailing real President William Harrison Mitchell.

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
  • Party: Independent, formerly Republican

President Douglas (Doug) Krassner

  • President in The Backup Asset (2015), The Ghost Pattern (2015), and Operation Sunset (2014) novels by Leslie Wolfe
  • Party: Republican
  • He succeeds President John Mason amidst Cold War II

President Hayward Kretz

  • President in Drew Pearson's novels The Senator (1968) and The President (1970).

L

President Charles W. La Follette

President Aaron Lake

President Gordon James Landers

  • President in the 1980 novel "A More Perfect Union" by Robert Stapp
  • Former Governor of Illinois.
  • In an alternate timeline where Lincoln did not oppose the Secession of the Southern States, President Landers sends State Department Agent Cordell Vance to assassinate the Confederate President to prevent the C.S.A. from starting a nuclear war.

President Hank Landry

President Elizabeth Lanford

Booker T. Langford

  • President in: Down to a Sunless Sea, a novel by David Graham.
  • First African-American president, has to consider whether or not to let five Southern majority African-American states secede from the United States.
  • Presides over USA devastated by collapse of the dollar, near end of American domestic oil production, and the severe curtailment of oil imports to the United States
  • Calls for peace and time to prove that the United States did not produce the nuclear weapons Israel used to attack Syria, Jordan and Egypt, after Tel Aviv's water supply was contaminated with BW agents.
  • Either killed or out of contact during the surprise Sino-Soviet nuclear attack on America and replaced by James McCracken, acting President, who, from an undisclosed location (probably a bunker, Raven's Rock, Mount Weather, or the like) launches the retaliatory strikes against the USSR and mainland China.

President Langley

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

Sally Langston

  • President in: Scandal
  • Assumed office under 25th Amendment after assassination attempt on Fitzgerald Grant left him in critical condition.

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 was a native of California, has a presidential library, was married and is 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 Paul James Latimer

President Jason Law

  • President in the novel Rubicon One, a 1980s novel by Dennis Jones.
  • Orders U.S. Naval Aircraft to intercept an Israeli Air Force strike to prevent World War III.

President Joe Lawton

President Lenny Leonard

President Howard Lewis

  • President in Salt, a 2010 motion picture.
  • President Lewis eulogised his deceased Vice President Maxwell Oates when the Russian President Medveyev was the victim of an assassination attempt by Evelyn Salt, a supposed Russian sleeper agent
  • With the US accused of killing Medveyev and threatened attacks, Lewis was evacuated to his bunker where another Russian sleeper, Ted Winter, the CIA's Russian section chief assassinated his senior staff and hijacked the US nuclear arsenal
  • Salt stopped Winter from starting a nuclear war and was taken to hospital for his wounds, later recovering
  • In an alternate ending to the film, Lewis is instead killed in the bunker by Winter and his replacement, Speaker of the House Joseph Stephens is hinted to be another sleeper agent.
  • Played by Hunt Block

President Liedermann

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 in: First Family
  • Served as Mayor, Congressmen, and Senator from Minnesota before being elected President by a slim margin after the accidental deaths of his opponents.
  • His wife was considered to be a drunk.
  • The First Daughter was alleged to be a nymphomaniac.
  • His administration consisted of Vice President Shockley, Presidential Assistant Feebleman, and Press Secretary Bunthorne.
  • Played by: Bob Newhart

President Abraham Linkidd

President Walter Nathaniel Livingston

  • President in the book Arc Light by Eric L. Harry (1994)
  • From New York
  • President during the Russian invasion of China. When Russia plans to use tactical nuclear weapons to end the war, the Russians inform the U.S. to prevent an accident nuclear exchange.
  • Is impeached for warning the Chinese which caused the strike against the U.S., and not gaining a commitment from the Russian for the removal of their nuclear weapons.
  • Removed from office, and replaced with Vice President Paul Steven Constanzo.
  • Party: Democratic

President Bradford Gregory Lockridge

  • President in the 1971 novel Power Play by Tim Culver.
  • Was a Congressman, and later Senator from Pennsylvania.
  • Was President in the mid-1960s, served one term and failed to get re-elected.
  • Went insane, and his attempt to defect to China was stopped by his family who convinced his he was in China.

President Bedford Forrest Lockwood

  • President in the novels The Better Angels (1979) and Shelley's Heart (1995) by Charles McCarry
  • Was from Kentucky, and served from 1993–1997 (The Better Angels) or 2001–2005 (Shelley's Heart).
  • Defeated President Franklin Douglass Mallory, and ran against him four years later.
  • Impeached for his ordering the assassination of King Ibn Awad, an Arab monarch who was about to hand over two nuclear weapons to the terrorist group Eye of Gaza.
  • Resigned after learning his chief of staff Julian Hubbard had his intelligence agent half brother Horace manipulate the computer returns giving Lockwood the election.
  • Party: Democratic

President John Lockwood

  • President in: Wrong Is Right
  • Played by: George Grizzard
  • His Vice President is Mrs. Ford (Rosalind Cash), an African-American woman.
  • Sarcastically nicknamed "Honest John" by his rival, Franklin Mallory (Leslie Nielsen)

President Charles Logan

  • 46th President in: 24
  • Played by: Gregory Itzin
  • 2006–2008
  • Served as Vice President until 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.
  • After Bauer exposes his role in the conspiracy, he is arrested by his Secret Service and quietly forced to resign from office in order to prevent the country from suffering from his actions
  • He was later stabbed by his ex-wife, Martha Logan (played by Jean Smart), rupturing one of his main arteries. He clinically flat-lined, but was revived and survived the attack. He later went on to advise President Allison Taylor and attempted suicide, but survived with substantial brain damage.
  • Previously served as a United States Senator from California, Lieutenant Governor of California, and a Member of the California State Assembly
  • 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 in: Seven Days in May
  • President Lyman was unpopular and controversial due to Republican opposition to a controversial arms control treaty with the Soviet Union, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff go as far as making a meticulously planned attempt at a coup d'etat. Lyman, in the beginning depicted as rather mediocre and uncertain of himself, grows in the course of the book to exhibit the leadership needed for such an unprecedented crisis, and manages not only to foil the coup but also neatly defuse the crisis without leaving a traumatic imprint. Lyman is mentioned as being from Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Played by: Fredric March
  • Party: Democratic

President Lyman

  • President in the 2008 Movie Nothing but the Truth
  • Survived assassination attempt, and ordered a retaliatory strike against Venezuela.
  • Played by Scott Williamson

President Jeffrey Lynch

M

President Douglas MacArthur

  • President in: Resistance: A Hole in the Sky
  • 35th President of the United States.
  • Commander of the United States Armed Forces during the Chimeran War.
  • Became Acting President of the United States following the death of President Harvey McCullen during the Chimera's invasion of the U.S. in 1953.
  • Killed in action against the Chimera in Phoenix, Arizona in 1953.
  • Succeeded by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Thomas Voss.

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 Hairy Ass Macgee

  • President in: Dilbert, the second season of the TV show (Episode 17th)
  • Was elected by popular vote via Internet.
  • Fell from the Air Force One at an altitude of 30,000 feet over a garbage truck and did not suffer any injuries.

Acting President Natalie Maccabee

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 years 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

President Franklin Douglass Mallory

  • President in the Charles McCarry novels The Better Angels and Shelley's Heart, and the movie Wrong is Right.
  • Born in New York, he was a Senator from Massachusetts who defeated an unpopular liberal President, and was defeated narrowly four years later by Bedford Forrest Lockwood.
  • Sent a manned mission to Ganymede, started a fusion energy program, attempted to bring Western Canada into the U.S., and appointed five Supreme Court Justices.
  • Married to his wife Marilyn for thirty years until her death during his first year as President. They started an egg-based fast food chain together.
  • His lover and chief aide after his wife's death was Susan Grant, who was murdered when his political enemies found out she was pregnant with his child.
  • Wins re-election against Lockwood after a disputed election that was nearly stolen from him by agents of the intelligence services controlled by the White House Chief of Staff's brother.
  • Played by Leslie Nielsen in the movie Wrong is Right.

President Tiffany Malloy

  • President of the United States in Unhappily Ever After
  • Former U.S. Senator from California.
  • Future version of herself refused call from idiot brother on an episode of the show.
  • Played by Nikki Cox

President Malone

President Man

  • President in the 2001–2002 TV series 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 Manheim

  • President in the Pet Shop of Horror Manga story Dual
  • Was President during the Second World War.
  • Died in office.

President McKenna

  • President in: 'X2'
  • Was attacked by a brainwashed Nightcrawler, who was nearly killed by the President's guards.
  • Played by: Cotter Smith

President Adair T. Manning

President Richard Manning

  • President in the 1985 movie The Imagemaker.
  • A fake recording of his corruption is used by a political insider to advance his career.

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 Korean criminal organization drawing pay from (but not loyal to) the Soviet Union, and remained in office until 1996.
  • Former Senator from Montana.

President Olivia Marsdin

  • President in: Supergirl
  • Played by: Lynda Carter
  • Earth-38 president as of 2016, she believes in tolerance for aliens from other planets, and signed a bill giving them amnesty and a path to citizenship.

President James Marshall

  • President in: Air Force One
  • Qualities/attributes: Popular president and a family man who loves his wife Grace and daughter Alice. He is also a decorated Vietnam veteran and a Medal of Honor winner, speaks reasonably fluent Russian and possesses a smile that is described (in the novelisation of the film by Max Allen Collins) as "the most valuable weapon in his public relations arsenal" (p. 11).
  • Promotes an interventionist line on foreign policy and a strong stance against terrorism (met with political opposition from the opposition Speaker of the House, Franklin Danforth, in the novel).
  • Personally responsible for retaking Air Force One after the plane was hijacked by Russian nationalists.
  • First-term President, up for re-election later on in the year that the film is set in. In the third year of his presidency (novel).
  • Home State: Iowa. Two-term former Governor of Iowa (in the novel). The film also states that his first campaign was for the U.S. House.
  • Graduated from University of Iowa in the early 1970s (novel), may also have attended the University of Notre Dame.
  • Senior Staff and Cabinet: Vice President Kathryn Bennett (former congresswoman and trial attorney from New Jersey), Chief of Staff Lloyd Shepherd (an old friend from U of I), National Security Advisor Jack Doherty, Secretary of Defense Walter Dean, Deputy NSA Thomas Lee, Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Northwood, Air Force General Greeley (who Marshall served under in Vietnam)
  • Played by: Harrison Ford
  • Party: Republican (novel). Described in the novel as "a moderate-Republican version of Bill Clinton, minus the womanizing reputation, and without a hint of personal or professional scandal" (p. 99–100).

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 Elias Martinez

  • President in The Event
  • First African American and Cuban American president.
  • Born to a Cuban mother and African American father in Miami, Florida.
  • Attended Yale University.
  • Selects Raymond Jarvis, a Republican as his Vice President, creating the first bi-partisan administration in recent history.
  • Is informed anonymously of the detention of 97 slow-ageing, humanoid extraterrestrials in Alaska, who were captured in 1945. Despite protest from various members of his cabinet, he eventually comes to an agreement with their leader to have them released and given asylum.
  • Poisoned in an assassination attempt by his Vice President, who is in association with a militant group of the extraterrestrials who were not captured, and have since assimilated into American society. He later survived and had Jarvis removed from office.
  • Married to Christina Martinez, who is later revealed to be one of the extraterrestrials who was not captured in the 1945.
  • Party: Democrat
  • Played by Blair Underwood

President Richard Martinez

President John Mason

  • President in Devil's Move (2014) novel by Leslie Wolfe
  • It is the election year, the last year of his term

President Master

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, Sam & Max: Season Two
  • A hyperkinetic rabbity thing that becomes President by defeating the animated statue of Abe Lincoln.
  • Manages to keep the presidency despite many allegations of war crimes, and selling the United States to Canada.
  • This happens in the fourth episode of the season, and becomes an in-joke for the rest of the season, and keeping it at least through the first episode of season two.

President Robert 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 Charles McBride

  • President in Scimitar SL-2 by Patrick Robinson.
  • Interested only in his domestic agenda, he ignored evidence of a terrorist plot that threatened to cause a massive tidal wave.
  • Was from Vermont.
  • Party: Democratic

President Andrew McAlister

  • President in: Shadowrun role-playing game
  • Elected President in 2028
  • Defeated three-term incumbent William Jarman
  • 47th US President
  • Also the last US President; Became the first President of the combined United Canadian American States (UCAS) on its formation in 2030. The (former) Prime Minister of Canada (Harold Frazier) became the first Vice President of the UCAS.

President Leslie Harrison McCloud

Acting President Elizabeth McCord

  • President in Madam Secretary
  • Secretary of State.
  • First woman to hold the powers of President.
  • Assumes the powers of the presidency briefly when contact is lost with Air Force One, which was carrying President Dalton and the Speaker of the House; the Vice President is undergoing emergency surgery, and the President pro tempore of the Senate is senile after a series of strokes and believes that the President is still Ronald Reagan.
  • Relinquishes the power when Air Force One touches down again.
  • Played by: Téa Leoni

President Harvey McCullen

  • President in: Resistance 2
  • 34th President of the United States
  • President from 1951–1953.
  • Former Vice President of the United States.
  • Succeeded President Noah Grace to office following Grace's assassination for his betrayal of humanity to the alien Chimera in the Chimeran War; restored democratic rule of law to the United States with the end of Grace's totalitarian regime.
  • Led the United States during the Chimeran invasion of the country in 1953.
  • Killed along with his entire cabinet by the Chimera in Denver, Colorado on May 28, 1953 during the country's final fall to the alien onslaught.
  • Succeeded by General Douglas MacArthur.
  • Party: Republican.

President Thomas Kyle McKenna

President George McKenna

President James W. McNaughton

  • President in: "Executive Clemency" by Gardner Dozois and Jack Haldeman
  • Issued the "One Life" ultimatum.
  • Launched strikes on Mexico and Panama at the request of the Indonesian government. World War III followed.
  • Survived crash of Air Force One in northeast US. Rescued and taken to Northview, Vermont, where he resides, following the dissolution of the USA.

President McNeil

  • President in: Futurama
  • Killed by Lrr of the Planet Omicron Persei 8 in 3000.

President Philip Riley Mead

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

President Dan Melrose

  • President in the 2014 Lifetime Network series The Lottery
  • Vice President who became President when Thomas Westwood was assassinated.
  • Played by Steven Culp

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 John Merwin

  • President in The Best Man, a play and movie written by Gore Vidal
  • The Governor of a western state, he attended the party convention whose winner would almost certainly become the next President of the United States. He received the nomination when former Secretary of State William Russell threw his support behind him in order to prevent Senator Joe Cantwell from receiving it.

President Selina Catherine Meyer

  • President in Veep (Season 3–5)
  • Born Selina Catherine Eaton.
  • Married, and later divorced Andrew Meyer, the father of her daughter, Catherine.
  • Former Senator from Maryland who lost in her party's presidential primary to Stuart Hughes, and then became Hughes' running mate and eventual Vice President.
  • Initially sidelined in the Hughes Administration, Meyer gained more influence after successfully campaigning during the 2014 midterm elections and ended up announcing her candidacy for President in 2016 after President Hughes elected not to run again due to a spy scandal that threatened impeachment.
  • After President Hughes resigned to care for his mentally ill wife, Meyer is inaugurated as the first female President, and appoints Senator Andrew Doyle as her Vice President.
  • Narrowly wins her party's nomination in the 2016 Presidential Election, and selects Senator Tom James as her running mate to replace Doyle.
  • Experiences a tied election after she and her competitor Senator Bill O'Brien both receive 269 electoral college votes in the 2016 Presidential Election.
  • Again experiences a tie when the United States House of Representatives also fails to reach a majority verdict on selecting who should become President.
  • After the tie in the House, the Senate must vote to appoint a Vice President from the two presidential nominees running mates (James and Montez) as per the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • The Senate vote also results in a tie, which is broken by incumbent Vice President Andrew Doyle in his capacity as President of the Senate. Doyle selects Laura Montez, O'Briens running mate and a member of the opposing party, as revenge against Selina Meyer for rescinding her offer to make him Secretary of State if she won the election.
  • As the office of president is vacant due to the tied House vote, and the House announces that a second vote to determine the President will not be cast, now Vice President Laura Montez immediately ascends to the presidency, replacing Meyer.
  • Party: Not mentioned (but implied by the blue color identifying the states she wins in the election as Democrat).
  • Played by: Julia Louis-Dreyfuss

President Jeffrey Michener

  • President in The Last Ship (Season 2–3)
  • Native of Evanston, Illinois.
  • The former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Barack Obama, he was in charge of establishing a safe zone in Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida during the initial outbreak of the Red Flu. However, he organised for his son to be transported to the stadium from an infected location in Ann Arbor, Michigan, causing a mass outbreak of the virus in the southern United States. His son and wife later died, but he was forced to kill his daughters to spare their suffering after they became infected with the Red Flu.
  • Naturally immune to the Red Flu, he was taken in and brainwashed into becoming a puppet of Sean Ramsay, leader of the quasi-fascist 'Immunes', who plan to murder all survivors who are not naturally immune. He was later rescued from the 'Immunes' by United States Navy sailors from the USS Nathan James, and as the only surviving member of the presidential line of succession assumed the role of President after his rescue.
  • Attempts to commit suicide due to the guilt of mercy killing his family, but later recovers and supports the Nathan James in their mission to spread the cure and defeat the 'Immunes'.
  • Declares St. Louis, Missouri the new capital of the United States after he is officially sworn in as president in the season 2 finale and establishes the Old St. Louis Courthouse as the new White House.
  • Appointed Howard Oliver, the former Mayor of St. Louis, as his Vice President, Alex Rivera as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Tom Chandler as Chief of Naval Operations, Allison Shaw as Chief of Staff, and Kara Green as Deputy Chief of Staff.
  • His policies during the post-plague reconstruction of the United States, which included; the rationing of food, the restriction on cash withdrawals from banks, and restriction of land ownership rights, were criticised by regional leaders across the country.
  • Apparently commits suicide after AMT reporter Jacob Barnes revealed his complicity in the Doak Campbell Stadium outbreak and is succeeded by Vice President Howard Oliver.
  • It is later revealed that his "suicide" was actually an assassination, carried out by Secret Service agents loyal to Chief of Staff Allison Shaw and the regional leaders, who seek to disband the United States federal government. The purpose of this would be to elevate Vice President Howard Oliver to power, and as Oliver (unlike Michener) still had surviving family and friends, he could be easier blackmailed into becoming a puppet for their cause.
  • Played by: Mark Moses

President Hunnis Millbank

  • President in Virtual Light by William Gibson
  • African-American female president, elected for two terms. Her Public Relations campaign was managed by Harwood Levine

President Phil Miller

  • President in: The Last Man on Earth
  • The only seven people known to be left on Earth decided to vote, most believing Phil Tandy Miller should no longer be president, and five voted for Miller.
  • Played by: Boris Kodjoe

President Phil Tandy Miller

  • President in: The Last Man on Earth
  • The only two people known to be left on Earth decided to vote, and both voted for Miller; succeeded by Phil Miller after second vote.
  • Played by: Will Forte

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
  • Party: Mitchell is possibly a Republican while Kovic is possibly a Democrat
  • Notorious philanderer, First Lady Ellen Mitchell can barely stand the sight of him.
  • Suffers a massive stroke during a sexual liaison with his secretary, his Chief of Staff Bob Alexander engineers a plot to seize power, using Kovic to masquerade as Mitchell, discrediting Vice-President Gary Nance and replacing him with Alexander.
  • Kovic fires Alexander, who reveals the First Liberty scandal which he masterminded, naming Mitchell and Nance as the ringleaders. Kovic confesses Mitchell's involvement in the scandal to a joint session of Congress, then presents evidence that disgraces Alexander and proves Nance's innocence, then feigns a second stroke to escape the public eye.
  • Mitchell dies months after his stroke (never regaining consciousness), is buried in Arlington National Cemetery (his reputation repaired by Kovic's actions), and is succeeded by Nance.
  • Both played by: Kevin Kline

President Horace C. Mitchell

Presidents Harris Moffatt I, II and III

  • A three-generation dynasty of presidents in Vilcabamba by Harry Turtledove.
  • Harris Moffatt I tried to oppose the invasion of Earth by the alien Krolp, as part of which he effected union with Canada and became also its Prime Minister. With the Krolp proving overwhelmingly strong, Moffatt I had to flee Washington, D.C. and remained President and Prime Minister of a rump U.S. and Canada centered on the Rocky Mountains and the Wasatch Range with the capital at Grand Junction, Colorado.
  • His son, Harris Moffatt II, negotiated a peace treaty with North American Krolp Governor Flargar that allowed the rump U.S./Canada to exist for the next fifty years. He was killed by a drunken renegade Krolp.
  • The grandson, Harris Moffatt III, was faced with a demand of the Krolp to conduct strip mining for silver and a small amount of gold miles below the surface of northeastern Utah, which would most likely render the rump U.S. and Canada uninhabitable. He embarked on a foredoomed rebellion which the Krolp crushed with in three days, dissolving the rump U.S. and embarking on their strip mining anyway. Harris Moffatt III and his wife Jessica attempt to flee to rump Canada after the uprising is crushed. However, 20 minutes later, they ate captured and are then forced into exile in the Krolp's North American capital of St. Louis, Missouri.

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 Laura Priscilla Montez

  • President in Veep (Season 6 onward)
  • Second female President.
  • Born just outside Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Former United States Senator from New Mexico.
  • Married to Alejandro Montez, and by taking his surname falsely attempts to present herself as Hispanic to further her political career.
  • Chosen by Senator Bill O'Brien of Arizona as his running mate in the 2016 Presidential Election.
  • After a tie in the electoral college during the election, and a subsequent tie in the House of Representatives vote to determine who becomes president out of the two Presidential nominees (Meyer and O'Brien), the Senate must vote to appoint a Vice President from the two nominees running mates (James and Montez) as per the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • The Senate vote also results in a tie, which is broken by incumbent Vice President Andrew Doyle in his capacity as President of the Senate. Doyle selects Montez, a member of the opposing party, as revenge against Selina Meyer for rescinding her offer to make him Secretary of State if she won the election. As the office of president is vacant due to the tied House vote, now Vice President Montez immediately ascends to the presidency, replacing President Selina Meyer.
  • Party: Not mentioned (but implied to be Republican).
  • Played by: Andrea Savage

President Judson Moon

  • President in The Kid Who Became President by Dan Gutman
  • Prevented aggressive South American nation of Cantania from invading neighboring Boraguay, 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 William Alan Moore

  • President in: Big Game
  • Born on June 30, 1951 in California.
  • Survived an assassination attempt prior to the events of the film, which left his lead Secret Service bodyguard with bullet shrapnel lodged near his heart.
  • Faces criticism from both parties, who refer to him as a "Lame Duck President".
  • Is evacuated from Air Force One before it is shot down over Finland en route to a pre-G8 summit in Helsinki.
  • Later hunted by his traitorous lead Secret Service agent and freelance terrorists through the Finnish wilderness.
  • Aided by a 13-year-old hunter named Oskari, who discovers the crashed escape pod.
  • Later revealed that the shooting down of Air Force One and his attempted murder was orchestrated by the Vice President and members of the CIA to inspire a new War on Terror.
  • Played by: Samuel L. Jackson

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 Morgan the Fifth (no first name given)

  • President in: The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
  • Appointed President of the United States by the Board of Magnates in 2012, democracy having long before been replaced by an oligarchy of the most rich. In 2013 The Scarlet Plague of the title caused the total breakdown of civilization including the end of his presidency.

President 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 Edward Morgan

  • President in the novel The Amendment.
  • In the near future, a constitutional amendment is passed banning abortions.
  • A radical pro-choice activist kidnaps First Lady Mary Morgan in exchange for funds to allow those wishing abortions to travel to Sweden.

President Arthur Morose

  • President in: By Dawn's Early Light
  • Was elected president in 1996.
  • 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 William Brent Morrow

  • President in V: The East Coast, a novel based on the mini-series.
  • Former B-17 Pilot during World War II.
  • Welcomes Alien Visitors, but eventually taken "into protective custody" by them when Martial Law is declared in response to stated terrorist attacks.
  • Resists brainwashing and is rescued by the Resistance.

President Elbridge Mosely

  • President in Winter Kills by Richard Condon
  • Was Vice President when President Tim Kegan was assassinated

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 II.
  • 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 Ed Murphy

  • President in the 1980s role-playing game "The Price of Freedom"
  • Cuts back on defense spending in his first years in office.
  • Surrenders to the Soviet Union when they demonstrate a working Anti-Ballistic Missile system.
  • Remains in office as part of a "caretaker" government.

President Mandy

References

  1. ^ Ellik, Ron and Evans, Bill (Illustrations by Bjo Trimble). The Universes of E.E. Smith Chicago: Advent Publishers, 1966. Page 138.
  2. ^ Smith, E.E. First Lensman. Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1950. Chapter 13 "Candidate Kinnison", pages 182–200 and chapter 20 "The Election", pages 292–302.
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