Certified phresh, Wallace must be throwing up a lot more than a single spark by the end.
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Certified phresh, Wallace must be throwing up a lot more than a single spark by the end.
Hang your Hat In The Wind
35. Howard Hughes Independent Charles Hallack 1961-1965
Def. Richard M. Nixon Henry Cabot Lodge jr.
Def. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Lyndon Baines Johnson
1965-1969
35. Howard Hughes Independent Charles Hallack 1965-1971
Def. Ronald Wilson Reagan Gerald Ford
Def. Hubert Horatio Humphrey Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan Charles Percy
36. Charles Halleck 1971-1972
37. George Macgovern Democratic Sargent Shiver
Def. Charles Percy John Volpe 1972
Def/ John Tower Gerald Ford 1976
38. John Anderson Republican GEORGE H. BUSH
DEF. Edward Moore Kennedy jimmy carter
Howard hughe"s runs for president in 1960 as independent in this timeline he is married to Marie Anastasia daughter or Anastasia Romanov defeats both Republican and Democratic candidates for president. Hughes makes ties with Soviet union ending cold war there is no Vietnam shortly after winning 2nd term he dies.
2.Hubert Humphrey desperate to win in 1968 elects Rockefeller to be his running mate who leaves Republican party for democrats
35. Howard Hughes Independent Charles Hallack 1961-1965
Def. Richard M. Nixon Henry Cabot Lodge jr.
Def. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Lyndon Baines Johnson
1965-1969
35. Howard Hughes Independent Charles Hallack 1965-1971
Def. Ronald Wilson Reagan Gerald Ford
Def. Hubert Horatio Humphrey Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan Charles Percy
36. Charles Halleck 1971-1972
37. George Macgovern Democratic Sargent Shiver
Def. Charles Percy John Volpe 1972
Def/ John Tower Gerald Ford 1976
38. John Anderson Republican GEORGE H. BUSH
DEF. Edward Moore Kennedy jimmy carter
Howard hughe"s runs for president in 1960 as independent in this timeline he is married to Marie Anastasia daughter or Anastasia Romanov defeats both Republican and Democratic candidates for president. Hughes makes ties with Soviet union ending cold war there is no Vietnam shortly after winning 2nd term he dies.
2.Hubert Humphrey desperate to win in 1968 elects Rockefeller to be his running mate who leaves Republican party for democrats
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Anarcho-Occultist
Well-known member
One Nation, Under Stassen
Robert Taft/Harold Stassen 1949-1953 (Died in office)
1948: Def. Harry Truman/Alben Barkley, Strom Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright, Henry Wallace/Glen H. Taylor
1952: Def. Adlai Stevenson/John Sparkman
Harold Stassen/vacant 1953-1957
Harold Stassen/William F. Knowland 1957-1958
1956: Def. Lyndon B. Johnson/John F. Kennedy
Harold Stassen/vacant 1958-1961
Harold Stassen/J. William Fulbright 1961-1973
1960: Def. Richard Russell, Jr./Harry F. Byrd, Barry Goldwater/William F. Buckley
1964: Ran unopposed
1968: Def. Harland Sanders/Ronald Reagan, Eugene McCarthy/Mike Gravel
Harold Stassen/Robert F. Kennedy 1973-1985
1972: Def. Ronald Reagan/Bob Dole, George McGovern/Shirley Chisholm
1976: Def. Ronald Reagan/John Connally, Martin Luther King, Jr./Jerry Brown
1980: Def. Mike Gravel/Ron Paul, Jesse Helms/Jack Kemp, Lyndon LaRouche/Gus Hall
Harold Stassen/Joe Biden 1985-1997
1984: Def. Eugene McCarthy/Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown/Jesse Jackson, Trent Lott/Newt Gingrich
1988: Def. Pat Buchanan/Lenora Fulani, Jerry Brown/Jesse Jackson, Jack Kemp/Bill Weld
1992: Def. Ross Perot/Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson/Paul Wellstone, David Koch/Rick Perry
Harold Stassen/J. Robert Stassen 1997-2002 (Died in office)
1996: Def. Lee Iaccocca/Colin Powell, Mike Gravel/Lenora Fulani, Carroll Campbell/Ed Clark
2000: Election suspended
J. Robert Stassen/vacant 2002-2005
J. Robert Stassen/Mike Huckabee 2005-2013
2004: Def. Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich, Bill Weld/John Kasich, Jerry Brown/Lincoln Chafee
2008: Def. Russ Feingold/Ralph Nader, Peter Schiff/Charlie Crist
Gary Johnson/Jim DeMint 2013-
2012: Def. J. Robert Stassen/Mike Huckabee, Russ Feingold/Lawrence Lessig
2016: Def. John Eder/Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Bloomberg/Angus King, J. Robert Stassen/Harold Ford, Jr.
Taft and Stassen formed an alliance at the RNC in 1948 designed to block Dewey from getting the nomination. The Taft/Stassen ticket loses the popular vote but manages to win the electoral college. Taft accomplishes little in his term as president but manages to be reelected only to die on schedule, leaving Stassen in the White House. Stassen attempts to push for civil rights legislation, but is stymied by Democrats in Congress. He also is hurt by his support for McCarthyism (which remained viable until 1957 ITTL). In 1958, however, an incident in Europe causes World War III to break out. On the upside, the US only 'gets its hair mussed,' losing 'only' half a dozen major cities and about 20 million people, while the USSR becomes a radioactive crater. However, the devastation causes the government to repeal the 22nd Amendment quietly and have Stassen run on a new National Unity ticket to preside over rebuilding. Initially, it is just intended for the early 1960's, but as rebuilding proves to take far longer and environmental crises begin, Stassen retains enough support to win unopposed in 1964. Soon, things have calmed down enough that many begin to question why Stassen is still president, causing the Conservative Party of America and the United States Social Democratic Party to form and challenge Stassen. However, owing to the figures involved being seen as relatively extreme, Stassen continues to win. Over the next several decades, Stassen faces some close challenges (largely in the form of 'unity tickets' headed by coalitions of Conservatives and Social Democrats who agree on little besides ending Stassen's rule), but retains power. He also launches some smaller-scale wars in the 1970's and 1980's, namely in China after they invade Taiwan under radical Maoists, Iran after Islamists attempt to take over the country, South Africa after apartheid collapses messily and a few other smaller ones. Stassen also becomes increasingly personally authoritarian, passing laws restricting 'seditious activity' and cracking down on dissent (though he allows opposition parties to exist to maintain a facade of democracy). By 1996, an entire generation of Americans has known no leader but Stassen and most of the country just accept Stassen making his nephew his running mate. The suspension of the 2000 elections because of a supposed 'terror plot' earns more outrage, but Stassen cracks down ruthlessly, stifling dissent long enough for him to die and his nephew to take the reigns. J. Robert Stassen begins to shift the direction of the government towards a theocracy owing to his hardline social conservatism, but when a recession hits in 2010, his support collapses. In 2012, despite National Unity rigging, the Conservatives under the relatively moderate Gary Johnson manage to win and roll back the excesses of Stassenite rule. In 2016, the National Unity Party comes in a dismal fourth place, largely due to the fact that the ostensible presidential nominee J. Robert Stassen made few public appearances. Some believe that he in fact is dead and the reason Harold Ford, Jr. was the main figure in the NUP's campaign was due to the Stassen family's dominance coming to an end. Officially, however, J. Robert Stassen is still alive and may even be the nominee in 2020...
Robert Taft/Harold Stassen 1949-1953 (Died in office)
1948: Def. Harry Truman/Alben Barkley, Strom Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright, Henry Wallace/Glen H. Taylor
1952: Def. Adlai Stevenson/John Sparkman
Harold Stassen/vacant 1953-1957
Harold Stassen/William F. Knowland 1957-1958
1956: Def. Lyndon B. Johnson/John F. Kennedy
Harold Stassen/vacant 1958-1961
Harold Stassen/J. William Fulbright 1961-1973
1960: Def. Richard Russell, Jr./Harry F. Byrd, Barry Goldwater/William F. Buckley
1964: Ran unopposed
1968: Def. Harland Sanders/Ronald Reagan, Eugene McCarthy/Mike Gravel
Harold Stassen/Robert F. Kennedy 1973-1985
1972: Def. Ronald Reagan/Bob Dole, George McGovern/Shirley Chisholm
1976: Def. Ronald Reagan/John Connally, Martin Luther King, Jr./Jerry Brown
1980: Def. Mike Gravel/Ron Paul, Jesse Helms/Jack Kemp, Lyndon LaRouche/Gus Hall
Harold Stassen/Joe Biden 1985-1997
1984: Def. Eugene McCarthy/Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown/Jesse Jackson, Trent Lott/Newt Gingrich
1988: Def. Pat Buchanan/Lenora Fulani, Jerry Brown/Jesse Jackson, Jack Kemp/Bill Weld
1992: Def. Ross Perot/Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson/Paul Wellstone, David Koch/Rick Perry
Harold Stassen/J. Robert Stassen 1997-2002 (Died in office)
1996: Def. Lee Iaccocca/Colin Powell, Mike Gravel/Lenora Fulani, Carroll Campbell/Ed Clark
2000: Election suspended
J. Robert Stassen/vacant 2002-2005
J. Robert Stassen/Mike Huckabee 2005-2013
2004: Def. Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich, Bill Weld/John Kasich, Jerry Brown/Lincoln Chafee
2008: Def. Russ Feingold/Ralph Nader, Peter Schiff/Charlie Crist
Gary Johnson/Jim DeMint 2013-
2012: Def. J. Robert Stassen/Mike Huckabee, Russ Feingold/Lawrence Lessig
2016: Def. John Eder/Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Bloomberg/Angus King, J. Robert Stassen/Harold Ford, Jr.
Taft and Stassen formed an alliance at the RNC in 1948 designed to block Dewey from getting the nomination. The Taft/Stassen ticket loses the popular vote but manages to win the electoral college. Taft accomplishes little in his term as president but manages to be reelected only to die on schedule, leaving Stassen in the White House. Stassen attempts to push for civil rights legislation, but is stymied by Democrats in Congress. He also is hurt by his support for McCarthyism (which remained viable until 1957 ITTL). In 1958, however, an incident in Europe causes World War III to break out. On the upside, the US only 'gets its hair mussed,' losing 'only' half a dozen major cities and about 20 million people, while the USSR becomes a radioactive crater. However, the devastation causes the government to repeal the 22nd Amendment quietly and have Stassen run on a new National Unity ticket to preside over rebuilding. Initially, it is just intended for the early 1960's, but as rebuilding proves to take far longer and environmental crises begin, Stassen retains enough support to win unopposed in 1964. Soon, things have calmed down enough that many begin to question why Stassen is still president, causing the Conservative Party of America and the United States Social Democratic Party to form and challenge Stassen. However, owing to the figures involved being seen as relatively extreme, Stassen continues to win. Over the next several decades, Stassen faces some close challenges (largely in the form of 'unity tickets' headed by coalitions of Conservatives and Social Democrats who agree on little besides ending Stassen's rule), but retains power. He also launches some smaller-scale wars in the 1970's and 1980's, namely in China after they invade Taiwan under radical Maoists, Iran after Islamists attempt to take over the country, South Africa after apartheid collapses messily and a few other smaller ones. Stassen also becomes increasingly personally authoritarian, passing laws restricting 'seditious activity' and cracking down on dissent (though he allows opposition parties to exist to maintain a facade of democracy). By 1996, an entire generation of Americans has known no leader but Stassen and most of the country just accept Stassen making his nephew his running mate. The suspension of the 2000 elections because of a supposed 'terror plot' earns more outrage, but Stassen cracks down ruthlessly, stifling dissent long enough for him to die and his nephew to take the reigns. J. Robert Stassen begins to shift the direction of the government towards a theocracy owing to his hardline social conservatism, but when a recession hits in 2010, his support collapses. In 2012, despite National Unity rigging, the Conservatives under the relatively moderate Gary Johnson manage to win and roll back the excesses of Stassenite rule. In 2016, the National Unity Party comes in a dismal fourth place, largely due to the fact that the ostensible presidential nominee J. Robert Stassen made few public appearances. Some believe that he in fact is dead and the reason Harold Ford, Jr. was the main figure in the NUP's campaign was due to the Stassen family's dominance coming to an end. Officially, however, J. Robert Stassen is still alive and may even be the nominee in 2020...
Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
- Location
- Banned from the forum
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You missed a trick by not calling the list "Wallace Today, Wallace Tomorrow, Wallace Forever!", but this is some good stuff.
- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
decided to do a british version of the same idea
1916-1924: David Lloyd George (National Liberal)
1918 (United Coalition with Conservatives and NDLP) def. Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), William Adamson (Labour), H.H. Asquith (Liberal), John Dillon (Irish Nationalist)
1924-1955: Winston Churchill (United Constitutional)
1924 (Majority) def. J.R. Clynes (Labour), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), H.H. Asquith (Liberal)
1929 (New Coalition with Liberals) def. Arthur Henderson (Labour), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), David Lloyd George (Reform), Albert Inkpin (Communist)
1934 (New Coalition with Conservatives and Liberals) def. Alfred Barnes (United Front - Labour, Communists, Reform), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein)
1937 (King's Government with Reform and King's Friends) def. Stafford Cripps (United Front - Labour, Communists), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Austen Chamberlain (Parliamentary Union)
1940 Formation of War Government with Labour and Communists
1946 Expulsion of Labour and Communists from Cabinet, invitation of Parliamentary Union
1949 (Majority) def. Stafford Cripps (Labour), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein)
1954 (Majority) def. Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), John Strachey (Independent Left)
1955-1959: Rab Butler (United Constitutional majority)
1916-1924: David Lloyd George (National Liberal)
1918 (United Coalition with Conservatives and NDLP) def. Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), William Adamson (Labour), H.H. Asquith (Liberal), John Dillon (Irish Nationalist)
1924-1955: Winston Churchill (United Constitutional)
1924 (Majority) def. J.R. Clynes (Labour), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), H.H. Asquith (Liberal)
1929 (New Coalition with Liberals) def. Arthur Henderson (Labour), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), David Lloyd George (Reform), Albert Inkpin (Communist)
1934 (New Coalition with Conservatives and Liberals) def. Alfred Barnes (United Front - Labour, Communists, Reform), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein)
1937 (King's Government with Reform and King's Friends) def. Stafford Cripps (United Front - Labour, Communists), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Austen Chamberlain (Parliamentary Union)
1940 Formation of War Government with Labour and Communists
1946 Expulsion of Labour and Communists from Cabinet, invitation of Parliamentary Union
1949 (Majority) def. Stafford Cripps (Labour), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein)
1954 (Majority) def. Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), John Strachey (Independent Left)
1955-1959: Rab Butler (United Constitutional majority)
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Lists of (21st century) Presidents of the United States
42. Jan 20 1993-Jan 20 2001: Bill Clinton (Democratic)
43. Jan 20 2001-Jan 20 2008: George W. Bush (Republican)
44. Jan 20 2008-Jan 20 2016: Barack Obama (Democratic)
45. Jan 20 2016-Nov 1 2020: Donald Trump† (Republican)
46. Nov 1 2020-Jan 20 2021: Mike Pence (Republican)
47. Jan 20 2021-Jan 21 2021: Bernie Sanders† (Democratic)
48. Jan 21 2021-Jan 22 2021: Nancy Pelosi† (Democratic)
49. Jan 22 2021-Jan 23 2021: Charles E. "Chuck" Grassley† (Republican)
50. Jan 23 2021-???????????: Stephen Biegun (Republican)
42. Jan 20 1993-Jan 20 2001: Bill Clinton (Democratic)
43. Jan 20 2001-Jan 20 2008: George W. Bush (Republican)
44. Jan 20 2008-Jan 20 2016: Barack Obama (Democratic)
45. Jan 20 2016-Nov 1 2020: Donald Trump† (Republican)
46. Nov 1 2020-Jan 20 2021: Mike Pence (Republican)
47. Jan 20 2021-Jan 21 2021: Bernie Sanders† (Democratic)
48. Jan 21 2021-Jan 22 2021: Nancy Pelosi† (Democratic)
49. Jan 22 2021-Jan 23 2021: Charles E. "Chuck" Grassley† (Republican)
50. Jan 23 2021-???????????: Stephen Biegun (Republican)
- Location
- Sandford, Gloucestershire
- Pronouns
- She/They
You cant leave us hanging like that.
How does it go to Biegun? has he been moved up to sec of state by Jan next year?
As I understand it (which may not be correct) he would become caretaker SoS before Sanders appointed his cabinet, and is still in the role when everybody else dies.
The Most trusted Man In America
38. George McGovern Democratic Walter Cronkite 1973-1977
Def. Richard M. Nixon Republican Spiro Agnew
38. George McGovern Democratic Walter Cronkite 1977-1981
Def. Ronald W, Reagan Republican Gerald Ford
39. Charles Percy Republican John Tower 1981-?
Def. Mo Udall Democratic Sargent Shriver
1. , proposed that their candidate invite Cronkite to join the Democrats’ ticket. He accepted and helped defeat president Nixon I 1972 .later on it was learned Nixon had something to do with Watergate break in and Spiro Agnew invaded ax revenue service.
The draft dodgers would be pardoned four years earlier. We would have left Vietnam in 1973. Thus, every carry-over issue from the sixties would be resolved a few years earlier.
2.Charles Percy was mentioned as a GOP presidential hopeful in 1968 finally elected president in 1980 president, Percy concentrated on improving the economy and foreign relations with America's Allies
38. George McGovern Democratic Walter Cronkite 1973-1977
Def. Richard M. Nixon Republican Spiro Agnew
38. George McGovern Democratic Walter Cronkite 1977-1981
Def. Ronald W, Reagan Republican Gerald Ford
39. Charles Percy Republican John Tower 1981-?
Def. Mo Udall Democratic Sargent Shriver
1. , proposed that their candidate invite Cronkite to join the Democrats’ ticket. He accepted and helped defeat president Nixon I 1972 .later on it was learned Nixon had something to do with Watergate break in and Spiro Agnew invaded ax revenue service.
The draft dodgers would be pardoned four years earlier. We would have left Vietnam in 1973. Thus, every carry-over issue from the sixties would be resolved a few years earlier.
2.Charles Percy was mentioned as a GOP presidential hopeful in 1968 finally elected president in 1980 president, Percy concentrated on improving the economy and foreign relations with America's Allies
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- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
1955-1961: Anthony Eden (Conservative)
1955 (Majority) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1960 (Majority) def. Herbert Morrison (Labour), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)
1961-1970: Quintin Hogg (Conservative)
1965 (Majority) def. T. Dan Smith (Labour), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal), Arthur Donaldson (Scottish National)
1970-1976: T. Dan Smith (Labour)
1970 (Minority, with Liberal confidence and supply) def. Quintin Hogg (Conservative), William Weir Gilmour (Scottish National), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)
1975 (Minority, with Liberal and Unity confidence and supply) def. John Buchan (Conservative), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal), Gerry Fitt (Unity), William Weir Gilmour (Scottish National), Dewi Bebb (Plaid Cymru)
1976-1980: John Buchan (Conservative)
1976 (Minority, with ANC confidence and supply) def. Dom Mintoff (Labour), Dewi Bebb (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal), Gerry Fitt (Unity)
1980-1984: Cecil Parkinson (Conservative)
1981 (Minority, with ANC confidence and supply) def. Dom Mintoff (Labour), Cyril Smith (Liberal), Dewi Bebb (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), John Turnley (Unity)
1984-1991: Michael Heseltine (Conservative)
1985 (Minority, with Liberal, ANC and Unity confidence and supply) def. Tony Benn (Labour), Cyril Smith (Liberal), Guido de Marco (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), John Turnley (Unity)
1989 (Minority, with Ecologist and ANC confidence and supply) def. Jack Cunningham (Labour), collective (Ecology), Guido de Marco (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), John Turnley (Unity), Cyril Smith (Liberal), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist)
1991-1992: Richard Body (Conservative minority, with Ecologist and Protestant Unionist confidence and supply)
1992-2002: Ken Livingstone (Labour)
1992 (Coalition with ANC) def. Richard Body (Conservative), Colin Holt (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist), Austin Currie (Unity), collective (Ecology)
1997 (Coalition with ANC) def. Teddy Goldsmith (Blue-Green Alliance: Conservative & Ecologist), Colin Holt (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist), Austin Currie (Unity), collective (Ecology)
2002-2009: Malcolm Rifkind (Conservative)
2002 (Minority, with PUP and ANC confidence and supply) def. Ken Livingstone (Labour), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist), disputed (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Derek Wall (Ecology), Austin Currie (Unity)
2006 (Coalition with ANC) def. Xavier Portillo (Labour), Winnie Ewing (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist), Derek Wall (Ecology), Mark Durkan (Unity)
2009-2013: John Dalli (Conservative)
2011 (Coalition with ANC) def. Alan Johnson (Labour), Fergus Ewing (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Derek Wall (Ecology), Peter Robinson (Protestant Unionist), Alasdair McDonnell (Unity)
2013-2018: Sadiq Khan (Labour)
2013 (Coalition with Ecologists) def. John Dalli (Conservative), Derek Wall (Ecology), Peter Robinson (Protestant Unionist), Fergus Ewing (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Alasdair McDonnell (Unity)
2018-2022: Suzanne Evans (Conservative)
2018 (Coalition with PUP) def. Sadiq Khan (Labour), Derek Wall (Ecology), Vaughan Roberts (Protestant Unionist), Fearghal McKinney (Alliance of the Nations and Counties)
2022-2027: Pete Buttigieg (Labour)
2022 (Coalition with Ecologists and ANC) def. Suzanne Evans (Conservative), Magid Magid (Ecology), Timothy Alden (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Vaughan Roberts (Protestant Unionist)
1955 (Majority) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1960 (Majority) def. Herbert Morrison (Labour), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)
1961-1970: Quintin Hogg (Conservative)
1965 (Majority) def. T. Dan Smith (Labour), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal), Arthur Donaldson (Scottish National)
1970-1976: T. Dan Smith (Labour)
1970 (Minority, with Liberal confidence and supply) def. Quintin Hogg (Conservative), William Weir Gilmour (Scottish National), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)
1975 (Minority, with Liberal and Unity confidence and supply) def. John Buchan (Conservative), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal), Gerry Fitt (Unity), William Weir Gilmour (Scottish National), Dewi Bebb (Plaid Cymru)
1976-1980: John Buchan (Conservative)
1976 (Minority, with ANC confidence and supply) def. Dom Mintoff (Labour), Dewi Bebb (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal), Gerry Fitt (Unity)
1980-1984: Cecil Parkinson (Conservative)
1981 (Minority, with ANC confidence and supply) def. Dom Mintoff (Labour), Cyril Smith (Liberal), Dewi Bebb (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), John Turnley (Unity)
1984-1991: Michael Heseltine (Conservative)
1985 (Minority, with Liberal, ANC and Unity confidence and supply) def. Tony Benn (Labour), Cyril Smith (Liberal), Guido de Marco (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), John Turnley (Unity)
1989 (Minority, with Ecologist and ANC confidence and supply) def. Jack Cunningham (Labour), collective (Ecology), Guido de Marco (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), John Turnley (Unity), Cyril Smith (Liberal), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist)
1991-1992: Richard Body (Conservative minority, with Ecologist and Protestant Unionist confidence and supply)
1992-2002: Ken Livingstone (Labour)
1992 (Coalition with ANC) def. Richard Body (Conservative), Colin Holt (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist), Austin Currie (Unity), collective (Ecology)
1997 (Coalition with ANC) def. Teddy Goldsmith (Blue-Green Alliance: Conservative & Ecologist), Colin Holt (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist), Austin Currie (Unity), collective (Ecology)
2002-2009: Malcolm Rifkind (Conservative)
2002 (Minority, with PUP and ANC confidence and supply) def. Ken Livingstone (Labour), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist), disputed (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Derek Wall (Ecology), Austin Currie (Unity)
2006 (Coalition with ANC) def. Xavier Portillo (Labour), Winnie Ewing (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Ian Paisley (Protestant Unionist), Derek Wall (Ecology), Mark Durkan (Unity)
2009-2013: John Dalli (Conservative)
2011 (Coalition with ANC) def. Alan Johnson (Labour), Fergus Ewing (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Derek Wall (Ecology), Peter Robinson (Protestant Unionist), Alasdair McDonnell (Unity)
2013-2018: Sadiq Khan (Labour)
2013 (Coalition with Ecologists) def. John Dalli (Conservative), Derek Wall (Ecology), Peter Robinson (Protestant Unionist), Fergus Ewing (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Alasdair McDonnell (Unity)
2018-2022: Suzanne Evans (Conservative)
2018 (Coalition with PUP) def. Sadiq Khan (Labour), Derek Wall (Ecology), Vaughan Roberts (Protestant Unionist), Fearghal McKinney (Alliance of the Nations and Counties)
2022-2027: Pete Buttigieg (Labour)
2022 (Coalition with Ecologists and ANC) def. Suzanne Evans (Conservative), Magid Magid (Ecology), Timothy Alden (Alliance of the Nations and Counties), Vaughan Roberts (Protestant Unionist)
It took a while for Camelot to return.
36.
Richard Nixon Republican Charles Percy
Def. Robert Francis Kennedy (1) Democratic Terry Sanford
Def, George Wallace American Independent Curtis Lemay
2nd term
Def. George Mcgovern Democratic Wilbur miles
38.
Ronald Wilson Reagan @Republican Richard Schweiker
Def. Jimmy Carter John Heinz Walter Mondale (2)
39.
Walter Mondale Democratic john Glenn
Def. Ronald Wilson Reagan Republican Richard Schweiker
40; john Glenn Democratic (3) Alan Cranston
Def, George H. Bush Republican Howard Baker
Def, John Anderson Independent Patrick lucey
41. Paul laxalt Republican John Heinz
Def. John Glenn Democratic Alan Cranston
Def. Edward Moore Kennedy (4)Democratic Albert gore Junior
(2nd term)
Ralph Nader Independent Dan Choate
42.
Def. Dan Quayle Republican Liz Dole
Ross Perrot Independent James Stockwell
43. Orrin Hatch Republican Mitt Romney
Def. Tom Harkman Democratic Jerry Brown
44. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (6)Junior Democratic Russ Feingold
Def. Orrin Hatch Republican Mitt Romney
(1) First brother of a president to win presidential Nomination Richard Daley Makes deal with the New York senator still loses to former vice
president Richard milhouse Nixon.
(2) Defeats president Percy for nomination.
(3) Assassinated by John Hinkley
(4) second brother of the late 35th president to seek the highest office in the land.
(5) First Astronaut president
(6) Son of 35th president of the United States.2nd son of president of become leader of the free world.
36.
Richard Nixon Republican Charles Percy
Def. Robert Francis Kennedy (1) Democratic Terry Sanford
Def, George Wallace American Independent Curtis Lemay
2nd term
Def. George Mcgovern Democratic Wilbur miles
38.
Ronald Wilson Reagan @Republican Richard Schweiker
Def. Jimmy Carter John Heinz Walter Mondale (2)
39.
Walter Mondale Democratic john Glenn
Def. Ronald Wilson Reagan Republican Richard Schweiker
40; john Glenn Democratic (3) Alan Cranston
Def, George H. Bush Republican Howard Baker
Def, John Anderson Independent Patrick lucey
41. Paul laxalt Republican John Heinz
Def. John Glenn Democratic Alan Cranston
Def. Edward Moore Kennedy (4)Democratic Albert gore Junior
(2nd term)
Ralph Nader Independent Dan Choate
42.
Def. Dan Quayle Republican Liz Dole
Ross Perrot Independent James Stockwell
43. Orrin Hatch Republican Mitt Romney
Def. Tom Harkman Democratic Jerry Brown
44. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (6)Junior Democratic Russ Feingold
Def. Orrin Hatch Republican Mitt Romney
(1) First brother of a president to win presidential Nomination Richard Daley Makes deal with the New York senator still loses to former vice
president Richard milhouse Nixon.
(2) Defeats president Percy for nomination.
(3) Assassinated by John Hinkley
(4) second brother of the late 35th president to seek the highest office in the land.
(5) First Astronaut president
(6) Son of 35th president of the United States.2nd son of president of become leader of the free world.
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TheHatMan98
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This started as an attempt to get all the post-war Leader's of the Opposition into No 10, then went slightly askew...
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1940–1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1945 (Majority) def. Clem Attlee (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberals)
1950-1953: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1953-1963: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour)
1954 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (Tory), Clement Davies (Liberals)
1959 (Majority) def. Harold Macmillan (Tory), Jo Grimond (Liberals)
April-October 1963: Harold Wilson (Labour)
*Only remembered as the shortest serving PM in living memory.
1963-1966: Ted Heath I (Tory)
1966-1972: Jim Callaghan (Labour)
1966 (Coalition with Liberals) def. Ted Heath (Tory), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberals)
1970 (Coalition with Liberals) def. Ted Heath (Tory), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberals)
1972-1978: Ted Heath II (Tory)
1977 (Majority) def. Barbara Castle (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal)
1978-1981: Maragret Thatcher (Tory)
1981-1988: Michael Foot (Labour)
1985 (Majority) def. Norman Tebbit (Tory), Francis Pym (Centre Democrats), John Pardoe (Liberals)
1988-1996: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
1990 (Majority) def. Norman Tebbit (Tory), Kenneth Clarke (Centre Democrats), Alan Beith (Liberals)
1994 (Minority, with Lib/Cen Alliance confidence and supply) def. Michael Heseltine (Tory), Kenneth Clarke/Alan Beith (Centre/Liberal Alliance), Alex Salmond (UK Federal Party)
1996-1998: John Smith (Labour)
1998-2002: Michael Howard (Tory)†
*Assassinated during the election by IRA alongside Prince Charles
March-December 2002: William Hague (Tory)
*As deputy leader/PM, took charge in the immediate crisis to follow and nursed the party through the election. Chose not to stand in the leadership election to follow.
2002 (Majority/Emergency Government) def. Jack Straw (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Centre Party), Ieuan Wyn Jones (UK Federal Party), David Campbell Bannerman (Commonwealth Unity Party)
2002-2009: Ian Duncan Smith (Tory)
2007 (Majority) def. Harriet Harman (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Centre Party), David Campbell Bannerman (Commonwealth Unity Party), Alex Salmond (UK Federal Party), George Galloway (Peace and Freedom in Ulster and Palestine Co-operative), Caroline Lucas (Green Party)
2009-2010: David Cameron (Tory)
2009 (Minority, with Lib Cen, CUP and Green confidence and supply) def. Harriet Harman (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Centre Party), Nigel Farage (Commonwealth Unity Party), Alex Salmond (UK Federal Party), George Galloway (Peace and Freedom in Ulster and Palestine Co-operative), Caroline Lucas (Green Party)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Free City of Belfast
2010-2019: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2014 (Majority) def. David Cameron (Tory), Chris Huhne (Liberal Centre Party), Nigel Farage (CUP), Elin Jones (UK Federal Party), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2018 (Majority) def. Andrea Leadsom (Tory), Nigel Farage (CUP), Elin Jones (UK federal Party), Ed Davey (Liberal Centre Party), David Malone (Green)
Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Great Britain
2019-2021: Anthony Blair (Labour)
2021-20??: Ed Miliband (Labour)
2022 (Coalition with UK Fed Party and Lib Cen Party) def. Phillip Hammond (Tory), Various (Regional Unionist Parties), Ian Blackford (UK Federal Party), Ed Davey (Liberal Centre Party), Boris Johnson (Commonwealth Unity Party), David Malone (Green)
Monarch of the United Kingdom, 1945-2012
George VI: 1936-1955
Elizabeth II 1955-2006
William V: 2006-2012 *Served as Honorary President until the first Presidential election in 2015
President of the Commonwealth of Great Britain
William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor: 2012-2015 (Acting)
Alexander Boris Johnson: 2015-2020 (Tory/Commonwealth Unity Party)
James Gordon Brown: 2020-20?? (Labour)
Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations
Lord Louis Mountbatten (Great Britain): 1955-1959
Louis St. Laurent (Canada): 1959-1964
Hugh Gaitskell (Great Britain): 1964-1973†
Keith Holyoake (New Zealand): 1973-1975
John Diefenbaker (Canada): 1975-1977
Shridath Ramphal (Guyana): 1977-1985
Idi Amin (East African Commonwealth): 1985-1997
Abel Muzorewa (Zimbabwe): 1997-2001
Paul Keating (Australian): 2001-2011 *First Secretary-General elected by the Commission under the rules of the Kingston Agreement
William Hague (Great Britain): 2011-2016
Ranil Wickremesinghe (Sri Lanka): 2016-2026 *Maximum term limit of 10 years
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1940–1950: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1945 (Majority) def. Clem Attlee (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberals)
1950-1953: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1953-1963: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour)
1954 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (Tory), Clement Davies (Liberals)
1959 (Majority) def. Harold Macmillan (Tory), Jo Grimond (Liberals)
April-October 1963: Harold Wilson (Labour)
*Only remembered as the shortest serving PM in living memory.
1963-1966: Ted Heath I (Tory)
1966-1972: Jim Callaghan (Labour)
1966 (Coalition with Liberals) def. Ted Heath (Tory), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberals)
1970 (Coalition with Liberals) def. Ted Heath (Tory), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberals)
1972-1978: Ted Heath II (Tory)
1977 (Majority) def. Barbara Castle (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal)
1978-1981: Maragret Thatcher (Tory)
1981-1988: Michael Foot (Labour)
1985 (Majority) def. Norman Tebbit (Tory), Francis Pym (Centre Democrats), John Pardoe (Liberals)
1988-1996: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
1990 (Majority) def. Norman Tebbit (Tory), Kenneth Clarke (Centre Democrats), Alan Beith (Liberals)
1994 (Minority, with Lib/Cen Alliance confidence and supply) def. Michael Heseltine (Tory), Kenneth Clarke/Alan Beith (Centre/Liberal Alliance), Alex Salmond (UK Federal Party)
1996-1998: John Smith (Labour)
1998-2002: Michael Howard (Tory)†
*Assassinated during the election by IRA alongside Prince Charles
March-December 2002: William Hague (Tory)
*As deputy leader/PM, took charge in the immediate crisis to follow and nursed the party through the election. Chose not to stand in the leadership election to follow.
2002 (Majority/Emergency Government) def. Jack Straw (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Centre Party), Ieuan Wyn Jones (UK Federal Party), David Campbell Bannerman (Commonwealth Unity Party)
2002-2009: Ian Duncan Smith (Tory)
2007 (Majority) def. Harriet Harman (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Centre Party), David Campbell Bannerman (Commonwealth Unity Party), Alex Salmond (UK Federal Party), George Galloway (Peace and Freedom in Ulster and Palestine Co-operative), Caroline Lucas (Green Party)
2009-2010: David Cameron (Tory)
2009 (Minority, with Lib Cen, CUP and Green confidence and supply) def. Harriet Harman (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Centre Party), Nigel Farage (Commonwealth Unity Party), Alex Salmond (UK Federal Party), George Galloway (Peace and Freedom in Ulster and Palestine Co-operative), Caroline Lucas (Green Party)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Free City of Belfast
2010-2019: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2014 (Majority) def. David Cameron (Tory), Chris Huhne (Liberal Centre Party), Nigel Farage (CUP), Elin Jones (UK Federal Party), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2018 (Majority) def. Andrea Leadsom (Tory), Nigel Farage (CUP), Elin Jones (UK federal Party), Ed Davey (Liberal Centre Party), David Malone (Green)
Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Great Britain
2019-2021: Anthony Blair (Labour)
2021-20??: Ed Miliband (Labour)
2022 (Coalition with UK Fed Party and Lib Cen Party) def. Phillip Hammond (Tory), Various (Regional Unionist Parties), Ian Blackford (UK Federal Party), Ed Davey (Liberal Centre Party), Boris Johnson (Commonwealth Unity Party), David Malone (Green)
Monarch of the United Kingdom, 1945-2012
George VI: 1936-1955
Elizabeth II 1955-2006
William V: 2006-2012 *Served as Honorary President until the first Presidential election in 2015
President of the Commonwealth of Great Britain
William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor: 2012-2015 (Acting)
Alexander Boris Johnson: 2015-2020 (Tory/Commonwealth Unity Party)
James Gordon Brown: 2020-20?? (Labour)
Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations
Lord Louis Mountbatten (Great Britain): 1955-1959
Louis St. Laurent (Canada): 1959-1964
Hugh Gaitskell (Great Britain): 1964-1973†
Keith Holyoake (New Zealand): 1973-1975
John Diefenbaker (Canada): 1975-1977
Shridath Ramphal (Guyana): 1977-1985
Idi Amin (East African Commonwealth): 1985-1997
Abel Muzorewa (Zimbabwe): 1997-2001
Paul Keating (Australian): 2001-2011 *First Secretary-General elected by the Commission under the rules of the Kingston Agreement
William Hague (Great Britain): 2011-2016
Ranil Wickremesinghe (Sri Lanka): 2016-2026 *Maximum term limit of 10 years
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Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
- Location
- Banned from the forum
- Pronouns
- He/Him
This is very, very, on-brand for Galloway.
What happened to the Free City of Belfast?
TheHatMan98
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I always confuse Galloway for a one trick pony lol.
Basically, Cameron’s only major contribution is he tries to make peace in NI by referendum which hands over everywhere except Belfast.
But after Corbyn comes in and turns the nation into a republic, he decides to give up Belfast for good and all. Needless to say the UVF keep NI in turmoil for the foreseeable future
Anarcho-Occultist
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Al Gore/Joe Lieberman 2001 (killed in 9/11 attacks)
2000: Def. George W. Bush/Dick Cheney, Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke
Joe Lieberman/vacant 2001-2002
Joe Lieberman/John McCain 2002-2004
Joe Lieberman/John McCain 2004-2009
2004: Def. Russ Feingold/Peter Camejo, Ron Paul/Gary Johnson, Pat Buchanan/Chuck Baldwin, Ralph Nader/André Barnett
John McCain/Hillary Rodham Clinton 2009-2013
2008: Def. Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich, Mike Huckabee/Sarah Palin, Howard Dean/Barack Obama
Chuck Hagel/Jim Webb 2013-2021
2012: Def. John McCain/Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russ Feingold/John Edwards, Gary Johnson/Tom Davis
2016: Def. Barack Obama/Martin O’Malley, Hillary Rodham Clinton/Rudy Giuliani, Levi Sanders/John Eder
Gavin Newsom/Beto O’Rourke 2021-2029
2020: Def. Jim Webb/John Dennis, John Bolton/Tipper Gore
2024: Def. Bob Conley/John Kasich
Rebecca Bydlak/Jon Huntsman 2029-
2028: Def. Cynthia Nixon/Connor Lamb
2000: Def. George W. Bush/Dick Cheney, Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke
Joe Lieberman/vacant 2001-2002
Joe Lieberman/John McCain 2002-2004
Joe Lieberman/John McCain 2004-2009
2004: Def. Russ Feingold/Peter Camejo, Ron Paul/Gary Johnson, Pat Buchanan/Chuck Baldwin, Ralph Nader/André Barnett
John McCain/Hillary Rodham Clinton 2009-2013
2008: Def. Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich, Mike Huckabee/Sarah Palin, Howard Dean/Barack Obama
Chuck Hagel/Jim Webb 2013-2021
2012: Def. John McCain/Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russ Feingold/John Edwards, Gary Johnson/Tom Davis
2016: Def. Barack Obama/Martin O’Malley, Hillary Rodham Clinton/Rudy Giuliani, Levi Sanders/John Eder
Gavin Newsom/Beto O’Rourke 2021-2029
2020: Def. Jim Webb/John Dennis, John Bolton/Tipper Gore
2024: Def. Bob Conley/John Kasich
Rebecca Bydlak/Jon Huntsman 2029-
2028: Def. Cynthia Nixon/Connor Lamb
TheHatMan98
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A few additions to flesh this timeline out a little
POTUS, 1945-2021
1945-1948: Harry S. Truman/Vacant (Democratic)
1949-1953: Robert A. Taft/Earl Warren (Republican)
1948 def. Harry S. Truman/Alben W. Barkley (Democratic)
1953: Robert A. Taft†/Douglas MacArthur (Republican) *Died of cancer a few months after re-election
1952 def. Henry A. Wallace/Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1953-1957: Douglas MacArthur/Vacant (Republican)
1957-1961: Lyndon B. Johnson/John William McCormack (Democratic)
1956 def. Douglas MacArthur/William F. Knowland (Republican)
1961-1962: Lyndon B. Johnson†/John F. Kennedy (Democratic) *Assassinated by KKK for "betraying the Cause" with the 1961 Civil Rights Bill
1960 def. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr./Nelson Rockefeller (Republican), Douglas MacArthur/Strom Thurmond (Conservative Coalition)
1962-1965: John F. Kennedy/Vacant (Democratic)
1965-1969: John F. Kennedy/Ralph Yarborough (Democratic)
1964 def. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr./Cecil Underwood (Republican), Richard Russell/George Wallace (Southern Democrats)
1969-1977: Nelson Rockefeller/Barry Goldwater (Republican)
1968 def. Ralph Yarborough/Eugene McCarthy (Democratic)
1972 def. Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie (Democratic)
1977-1983: Henry "Scoop" Jackson†/Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic) *Died of a heart attack on AirForce 1
1976 def. George W. Romney/Edward Brooke (Republican), Ronald Reagan/Strom Thurmond (Conservative Coalition)
1980 def. John Anderson/Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1983-1984: Robert F. Kennedy/Jesse Jackson (Democratic)
1985-1993: Howard Baker/James L. Buckley (Republican)
1984 def. Robert F. Kennedy/Jesse Jackson (Democratic)
1988 def. Al Gore/Dick Gephardt (Democratic)
1993-2001: Ted Kennedy/Jerry Brown (Democratic)
1992 def. James L. Buckley/Bob Dole (Republican), Donald Trump/Pat Buchanan (Reform)
1996 def. Dan Quayle/Alan Keyes (Republican), Pat Buchanan/Ross Perot (Reform)
2001-2005: Jerry Brown/Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democratic)
def. 2000 Dick Cheney/Jeb Bush (Republican), Ross Perot/Pat Robinson (Reform)
2005-2009: John McCain/Colin Powell (Republican)
2004 def. Jerry Brown/Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democratic)
2009-2017: John McCain/Paul Wolfowitz (Republican)
2008 def. John Edwards/Bill Nelson (Democratic)
2012 def. Joe Biden/Carol Braun (Democratic)
2017-2021: Ben Carson/John Kasich (Republican)
2016 def. Martin O'Malley/Lincoln Chafee (Democratic)
2021-20??: Elizabeth Warren/Jim Webb (Democratic)
2020 def. Ben Carson/John Kasich (Republican)
Head of State for the USSR, 1945-1992
1945-1953: Joseph Stalin†
1953-1955: 1st Troika - Molotov/Beria/Khrushchev share power
1955–1957: Vyacheslav Molotov – Stalinist *Removed from power by Beria, Bulganin, Zhukov and Krushchev
1957-1960: 2nd Troika with Khrushchev, Bulganin and Beria *Ends when Beria has his comrades assassinated
1960–1968: Lavrentiy Beria†- Stalinist *Presumably dies in Zhukov's coup
1968–1974: Georgy Zhukov†- Moderate
1974–1980: Mikhail Suslov - Stalinist
1980-1984: Dmitry Ustinov† - Moderate
1984–1988: Andrei Gromyko - Reformer
1988-1990: Vladimir Kryuchkov - Stalinist *Removed from power, blamed for the Red Square Massacre and the inadequate response
1990-1992: Boris Shcherbina - Reformer *Officially disbands the Soviet Union
President of the Russian Federation, 1992-2021
1992-1994: Boris Shcherbina† - Nonpartisan
1994-1997: Vladimir Zhirinovsky - Nationalist *Removed from power in the 2nd Russian Civil War(1994-1997)
1997-1998: Alexander Rutskoy - Nonpartisan *Acting President in the aftermath of the Civil War
1998-2002: Boris Yeltsin - Liberal
2002-2006: Grigory Yavlinsky - Liberal
2006-2018: Sergey Mironov - Popular Front
2018-20??: Mikhail Prokhorov - Liberal
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Anarcho-Occultist
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I have decided to bring over my megacrossover timeline's alternate leaders lists, starting with presidents of the United States. This will likely be in two or three batches. This list goes from 1789 to 1960. I also have lists for Britain, Japan and Russia.
Presidents of the United States
1. George Washington (I) 1789-1797
George Washington had been a hero of the American Revolution, serving as the commander of the colonists’ army and using it quite effectively. Washington’s status as the first president of the United States was basically guaranteed following the American victory in the War of Independence. He was responsible for crossing the Delaware to launch a surprise attack on the British and helped organize a secret war on supernatural threats through the help of Ichabod Crane. When the US implemented its new constitution, Washington was supported by every member of the Founding Fathers from Richard Saunders to Thomas Jefferson and could very well have claimed the status of “King of America” and it was only due to his inability to lie and reluctance to run the country (along with a possible vision of himself as a cruel tyrant experienced thanks to a Piece of Eden) that this scenario was thankfully avoided. His administration progressed rather successfully, helping enshrine norms such as the two-term tradition that would aid the nation in upholding the principles it was founded upon. Washington also helped maintain positive relations with secret societies such as the Freemasons, the Golden Order, the Cahill family and the Assassins in order to ensure their activities would not threaten the nascent nation. While there were some unsavory aspects to Washington’s life (including the fact he owned slaves and rumors of cannibalism or secretly being an automaton), Washington himself proved to be a good leader and on the day he left office, he ascended to become a patron saint of America, helping fight any evil forces that might threaten it.
2. John Adams (Federalist) 1797-1801
A lawyer from Massachusetts and possibly an alien being in disguise, Adams was a key member of the Founding Fathers, being one of the men considered to author the Declaration of Independence despite his own insistence that he was too obnoxious and disliked to do so. He had also pushed to abolish slavery in this document, predicting the country would face civil war if it did not do so, but objections from southerners prevented this language from being included in the Declaration. Adams had also been Washington’s vice president, where he favored a stronger central government (though he had a tense relationship with fellow advocate for stronger government Alexander Hamilton). Adams’ presidency proved to be far more fraught than he had hoped, as the country faced tensions with Revolutionary France and major economic issues. Ultimately these crises would pave the way for Adams’ defeat in 1800.
3. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) 1801-1809
Jefferson had been the author of the Declaration of Independence (though he nearly failed to complete it due to his wife) and ultimately only managed to win the 1800 election with the support of his longtime rival Alexander Hamilton (whose actions would lead to his death in a duel against Vice President Aaron Burr). Jefferson favored a smaller central government and idealized the notion of agrarian democracy. Despite this, Jefferson did have the government undertake certain actions, such as endowing the Jeffersonian Institution, purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France and sending Johnny Appleseed to plant forests of apple trees in these newly acquired territories. Jefferson was also personally a brilliant man and inventor, who was able to invent the swivel chair and may have created a primitive time travel device at some point. A Francophile by nature, Jefferson nevertheless stayed neutral in the Napoleonic Wars (though he did take advantage of the end of the war seeing the world’s dragon population take a severe hit to bring the Native American tribes to the west into compliance with US rule after nearly two decades of de facto independence).
4. Johnny Tremain (Democratic-Republican) 1809-1817
Tremain had fought in the American Revolution and had been a staunch ally of Jefferson’s going back to the end of Washington’s term. Tremain would preside over the War of 1812 against the British who sought to regain control over the United States. The British would be defeated following their failure to capture the Star-Spangled Banner, an American flag linked to the hopes and dreams of the American people. However, they would burn down the White House, necessitating Tremain flee Washington DC for a time. Other towns such as Innsmouth would also be raided by the British during this war. In addition, the war would set the stage for the foundation of the Arkansas Confederacy by several Native American tribes with the help of Sam Houston. Outside of the War of 1812 and surrounding events, Tremain’s term was largely unremarkable.
5. Benjamin Martin (Democratic-Republican) 1817-1825
Martin was another veteran of the American Revolution and would preside over the end of the First Party System as the Federalists, after decades out of power, finally withered away under his administration. Martin’s most consequential action would be declaring the Martin Doctrine in response to the break away of various Latin American countries such as Mexico, Peru, Miranda, Andes Mallorca and others from rule by European powers. The Martin Doctrine, which refused to accept European intervention to restore rule over these breakaway colonies, would remain a cornerstone of American foreign policy for the next two centuries. Beyond that, Martin’s administration was also responsible for the Missouri Compromise over slavery, but generally was regarded as “the Era of Good Feelings.”
6. Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican/Whig) 1825-1829
Clay’s election to the presidency was highly controversial, made possible only through corrupt dealings with one of his rivals Peleg Peshell, whom was awarded with the position of Secretary of State for his assistance. Clay meanwhile earned the ire of his other opponents John Quincy Adams and Simon Suggs, who would form the Democratic Party to oppose Clay. Clay would seek to deflect from the controversies of his taking the presidency by waging a war against the Arkansas Confederacy in violation of treaties agreed to after they were established. Despite the controversy surrounding this act, Clay would ultimately get his way and the Native Americans would be reduced to nominal ownership of the future state of Sequoyah while Arkansas was settled by whites. Clay’s success in opening up new territory and push to implement a system of internal improvements did help his popularity, but he would still be resoundingly defeated in 1828.
7. Simon Suggs (Democratic) 1829-1837
Suggs had been a hero of the War of 1812 during the Battle of New Bourdeaux and was a populist figure who promised to implement democratic reforms. Suggs did successfully implement a doctrine of Suggsian democracy, which eliminated property requirements to vote (though the franchise remained limited to white men only). Suggs famously kept an enormous block of cheese in the white house to share with the public and at times his campaign speeches verged on a rock performance rather than a political rally. Suggs abandoned the earlier commitments of the Democrats to racial egalitarianism, removing thousands of Native Americans in the winter to Sequoyah and defending slavery. However, he would feud with his vice president John C. Calhoun when South Carolina and Catawba attempted to nullify the federal tariff. Suggs was a ruthless duelist who killed hundreds over slights. Suggs, as a man of the frontier, also continued the long-time hostility of American leaders to supernatural forces, having Samuel Colt create a pair of firearms and several bullets capable of slaying demons (one of which he kept for himself and ended up being lost to history).
8. Derrick Van Bummel (Democratic) 1837-1841
Van Bummel was a Congressman-turned Governor from New York and was a close ally of President Suggs. Van Bummel may have been in the illegitimate son of Aaron Burr and his popularity in New York gave rise to a street gang named after him in Metropolis over a century later. Van Bummel’s presidency went rather poorly thanks in large part to Suggs’ poor choices in the eight years prior and the influence of the Freemasons on his administration. He also lost popularity after John Quincy Adams successfully argued in favor of letting the slaves aboard the Amistad slave ship that had rebelled (with help from the god Anansi) go, which led to southerners like John C. Calhoun to turn on Van Bummel. Regardless of reason, Van Bummel would be consigned to obscurity and in 1840 go down in defeat.
8.5/9. Quentin Trembley (Whig) 1841 (Removed from office)
Trembley was a last-ditch choice for the Whig Party nomination (largely seen as certain to be victorious) nominated after his rivals perished during a landslide at the 1840 Whig National Convention. Trembley would trounce Van Bummel and win the presidency, but quickly earned the hostility of the rest of the government. His support for public nudity, efforts to nominate babies to the Supreme Court, the possession of self-imposed titles of nobility and belief that he could appoint Congressmen at will all led to organized attempts to impeach him from office. Even his antislavery efforts and success in a war against giant spiders (believed to have been among the forces of the evil entity known as the Unmaker which was ultimately defeated several years later by Mormon prophet Alvin Miller) couldn’t save him from attempted impeachment. However, it would ultimately never come to that as Trembley would flee the White House before being informed of the impeachment proceedings, choosing to move out west where he would found the town of Gravity Falls in Oregon before encasing himself in stasis. Some elements of the government would falsify a narrative that Trembley’s term had never existed and instead that William Henry Harrison (who had perished during the landslide at the Whig convention) had served the brief time that Trembley had but died of pneumonia as a means of staving off embarrassment to the office of the presidency.
10. Augustine St. Clare (Whig) 1841-1845
St. Clare was a Louisianan chosen to help provide regional balance and reassure southern voters that Trembley’s abolitionist leanings wouldn’t overshadow the rest of his agenda. However, upon taking office, St. Clare proved to be a thorn in the side for the Whigs. He regarded quite a bit of the Whig agenda as unconstitutional and vetoed so much legislation that his party nearly kicked him out. St. Clare, despite his status as a slaveholder, was reluctant to annex Texas (which had declared independence following the brutal massacre of American settlers at the Alamo) and held off from doing so until the end of his term. St. Clare was also president during an alleged Second Coming of Jesus Christ, though it proved to be short-lived as the returned Jesus, alongside the ascended Washington, simply helped Miller defeat the Unmaker on the frontier. In the end, St. Clare would not contest the 1844 election and the annexation of Texas would be his last act in office before handing the position off to a Democrat successor.
11. Puffer Hopkins (Democrat) 1845-1849
Known as “the Patriot of Piehouse,” Hopkins would lead the United States in the Mexican-American War following disputes over territory between the annexed Texas and Mexico. Thanks to Hopkins’ leadership, the US would go on to annex the territory that would in the future become the states of New Austin, West Elizabeth, Nevada, Utah and California, despite the efforts of the Mexican Army and local figures such as the vigilante Zorro. Hopkins would also sign a treaty with the British establishing firm borders between the US-held Oregon Territory and British Colombia, with the US gaining firm control over the city of Seacouver as part of the treaty. Hopkins’ presidency would still face hardship however, as the Natives and Dead Rabbits gangs clashed in Metropolis and new divides over slavery were revived. Hopkins would end up declining to pursue reelection.
12. David Rice Atchison (Democrat) 1849
Atchison was president for a single day in 1849 due to the fact his successor delayed taking office for a day. Reportedly he slept through the vast majority of it.
13. John A.B.C. Smith (Whig) 1849-1853
Smith was a general with a highly respected record and was admired by the country as a whole. Smith’s presidency saw the implementation of the Compromise of 1850 in an attempt to heal sectional divides and sent Commodore Chandler Bing to open up Japan to international trade. Smith also reportedly defeated a Freemason conspiracy with the help of Native Americans possessing interplanetary travel capabilities. Smith also was president when the Vespertillo-homo were discovered and managed to deal with the subsequent scare amongst the American population. When Smith left office, it was discovered that he was in fact an entirely synthetic being and much of his alleged exploits had in fact never occurred.
14. Eugene Buckingham (Democrat) 1853-1857
A plantation owner married to a Scottish woman, Buckingham was a staunch defender of slavery. He implemented the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was in charge when the infamous Dredd Scott decision was handed down, fueling increasing abolitionist sentiment. Buckingham firmly continued to defend slavery despite these facts and ultimately the disputes would come to define his presidency. He would stand aside after a single term due to these issues as party insiders favored a northerner stand for their principles. However, Buckingham would subsequently be vampirized by Lestat de Lioncourt and go on to be a government official in the Confederacy during the Civil War, as well as a key figure in the first incarnation of the Knights of Nordica before being killed by Jonah Hex in 1889.
15. Arthur Weston (Democrat) 1857-1861
Weston was a Yale-educated Senator from Pennsylvania who nevertheless was of southern roots and a strong sympathizer with the south on most political issues, including slavery. Weston’s presidency saw numerous abolitionist revolts erupt across the country, including John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry (which would ultimately lead to Brown’s death and ascension to become an Archangel of Liberty), the burning of Candyland Plantation and Henry Blake’s revolt. Weston’s attempts to curb these threats were stymied by the increasingly abolitionist views of the public at large, who began to rally behind the Republican Party. Meanwhile, Weston’s own Democratic Party would be increasingly disunified (with frontier hero Paul Bunyan launching a third-party campaign that took many votes from Weston) and in 1860, the Republicans would emerge victorious. Weston took no action to counter the dominoes of secession in the south and by the time he left office South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Columbiana had all seceded with little resistance. Weston would consequently become one of the most reviled presidents in history.
16. Abraham Lincoln (Republican) 1861-1865 (Faked death and left office)
Lincoln was a brilliant lawyer, opponent of slavery, an associate of the Watcher's Council and (like Washington) relentlessly honest. Lincoln took office against the greatest crisis to afflict the United States as the new Confederate States of America were bolstered by the secession of Virginia, North Carolina, Catawba, Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas, while Kentucky, Missouri and Sequoyah were rife with pro-Confederate sentiment. Lincoln had to contend with outside backers of southern independence, which included British individuals seeking to weaken the Union, vampires who sought to maintain slavery to ensure a ready supply of victims and time-travelling white supremacists from Draka. Lincoln however was able to make use of the Union’s manpower and industrial advantage to stymie these threats thanks to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves and deploying experimental weaponry such as the Steel Man of the Prairies and rockets created by the Unionist Baltimore Gun Club and, despite the brilliant military leadership of General William Beauregard in the CSA leading to a southern victory at Gettysburg, the United States would ultimately emerge triumphant. Lincoln planned to implement policies of racial equality in the aftermath of the war, but would be shot by disgraced actor John Wilkes Booth the day after the 13th amendment was ratified before getting the chance. While Lincoln would be saved by being turned into a vampire, he was forced to fake his death, thus passing the presidency on to his Vice President. Interestingly, a clone of Lincoln would be created in the late 20th century (alongside clones of other historical figures) and this clone would ultimately ascend to become a powerful being on the surface of Mars.
17. Huckleberry Finn (National Union) 1865-1869
Finn was a Missourian who developed anti-slavery viewpoints following his assistance in helping a slave named Jim escape captivity in the antebellum period (with some help from his friend Tom Sawyer, who went on to found an infamous cannibal clan in Texas a decade later). However, despite this, Finn was still at heart a southerner and disproportionately inclined to favor the white southerners over the freedmen. Finn was more upset by the burning of Tara Plantation by General William Sherman than by the terror inflicted on freed blacks by the Order, the Clan of the Fiery Cross, the Knights of Nordica, the demonic Ku Klux Klan or any of the other myriad of white supremacist groups emerging post-Civil War. Finn would face challenges from Radical Republicans in Congress led by Austin Stoneman for his lenience on the southern states and narrowly avoided impeachment for mismanaging Reconstruction. However, Finn would consequently be blocked from winning in 1868. Beyond Reconstruction, Finn supported the Baltimore Gun Club’s efforts to launch a lunar expedition, though he backed off following contact being established with the Lunar Princess and several ex-Confederates on the celestial body.
18. Elias Gotebed (Republican) 1869-1877
Gotebed was a more mainstream Republican and was respected for his foreign policy chops (as he had made a formal visit to Britain just before being elected). Gotebed was more concerned with implementing Reconstruction than Finn had been, but his efforts to crush the white supremacists were made more difficult by the emergence of the first generation of modern supervillains in the west such as Miguelito Loveless. This period would also see the rise of outlaws in the western frontier of the United States of less nefarious sorts in the forms of William Munny, Liberty Valence, Jesse James, Black Bart Graham and Billy the Kid. They would be stymied by near-vigilante lawmen such as John Reid, Kwai Chang Caine and Brisco County, Sr. Gotebed would be criticized for purchasing Alaska from Russia, though he would be vindicated by history. American shipping would be terrorized by the white whale Moby Dick and Captain Nemo’s submarine known as the Nautilus. The Steel City War on Oregon and the first recorded alien incursion into New Austin occurred under Gotebed’s presidency. Gotebed’s administration also saw the economy enter a recession in 1873, which would contribute to Republican misfortune in 1876.
19. Jacob Ajax (Republican) 1877-1881
“Old Granite” Ajax was a general during the Civil War and by all accounts one of the best on the Union side. Ajax nevertheless quickly earned a reputation for corruption following the election 1876, where he won despite losing the popular vote due to vote rigging in West Virginia and ended Reconstruction in order to ensure the Democrats would not continue to complain about it. Ajax’s administration thus began with a reputation for corruption and Ajax would quickly be sidelined in the 1880 election. Ajax’s presidency also saw the rise of various American folk heroes such as Pecos Bill and John Henry to prominence, though Ajax himself could obviously not take credit for it.
20. Abner Dilworthy (Republican) 1881 (Assassinated)
A Kansas Republican, Dilworthy had been a backer of equal rights for African-Americans but withdrew it owing to political convenience. Dilworthy additionally faced charges of corruption related to his purchase of land in Tennessee. Dilworthy would ultimately be assassinated by the husband of one of his mistresses both due to the affair and because the assassin sought to be ambassador to France and was denied.
21. Silas P. Ratcliffe (Republican) 1881-1885
A Senator from Iowa, Ratcliffe was a conservative Republican largely inclined to favor business interests. Labor unrest would become a key issue during his administration, with multiple strikes erupting across the nation. Some, such as the one headed by Larry Locke and the Valedo strike in West Virginia, would end in success while others such as the Buffland strike in Winnemac would go poorly. Ratcliffe’s corruption and opposition to labor rights helped provoke a challenge from the “Mugwump” wing of the Republicans who favored these reforms. This third party challenge led to a hung electoral college that was decided in favor of the Democrats for the first time in decades. Ratcliffe’s presidency also saw a zombie outbreak wipe out the town of Piedmont and a major blight affect crops grown in the area around Arkham.
22. Funny Valentine (Democrat) 1885-1889
The first Democrat elected in a quarter of a century, Valentine was in possession of a power known as a Stand that enabled him to summon versions of himself from alternate dimensions. Valentine would help fend off raids by Robur the Conqueror and his flying machines and launched the Jump supersoldier program, the first of its kind in world history. Valentine additionally implemented civil service reform and practiced a classically liberal economic program. His reforms earned him great popularity with the public, but unfortunately for him failed to prevent defeat in the electoral college even as he won the popular vote. Valentine, after leaving office, earned enormous popularity thanks to his successor’s corruption and went on to commission the Steel Ball Run in a bid to reassemble the body of Jesus Christ (which had been scattered across the continent by the Unmaker when Jesus showed up in 1844). Valentine would ultimately be killed during this event by Johnny Joestar.
23. Johnson P. Annabour (Republican) 1889-1893
President Annabour was a complete nonentity entirely beholden to a cabal of business interests led by Senator William Paxton and consequently raised tariffs to benefit this cabal. His unpopularity would only increase following the temporary takeover of the western United States by Native Americans thanks to the Ghost Dance ritual and he consequently presided over the Wounded Knee Massacre, which killed numerous Lakota. For these reasons, Senators Charles Canterbury and Ransom Stoddard would form the “Stay at Home” movement in 1892, citing disgust at the Annabour administration’s corruption, cruelty and incompetence. Annabour consequently would go down in defeat in 1892.
24. William J. LePetomane (Democrat) 1893-1897
Valentine had been expected to be renominated in 1892 before his death threw the Democratic field wide open. LePetomane had been governor of New Austin back when it was a territory and ran promising to curb corruption that had permeated during Annabour’s term. He thus implemented key civil service reforms to deal with the corruption of the Annabour years. LePetomane's relatively progressive positions on race (he had appointed the first black sheriff in the US, albeit due to the manipulations of the criminal mastermind Hedley Lamarr) caused some friction with southerners in his party, but largely failed to materielize in a concrete form during his administration. LePetomane would additionally create the floating city of Columbia at the World’s Fair of 1894 to the awe of much of the world. However, LePetomane’s administration would soon face many problems. The economy tanked in 1893, sparking an enormous recession which his fiscal conservative policies failed to address. Performances of The King in Yellow, which had been banned in Europe, spread to America and First Amendment protections did not prevent the resulting unrest. LePetomane would be defeated at the 1896 convention by Matthew Harrison Brady, a more populist, agrarian Democrat. LePetomane would endorse a third-party ticket headed by Silas Lapham and Brady would go on to lose the 1896 election to George Hazard.
25. George Hazard (Republican) 1897-1901 (Assassinated)
Hazard was the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected to the presidency. A supporter of imperialism, Hazard would wage the Spanish-American War which saw the US easily triumph, occupying Tropico, Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. This conflict helped solidify America’s status as a major world power. However, with this nevertheless came drawbacks. Black nationalists launched two uprisings during Hazard’s presidency, once led by Henry Belgrave and once in the form of the AMQUO. China would also invade the American West Coast during his tenure, though they would be repelled. Hazard’s gains from Spain also provoked the 1901 invasion of the northeast by Imperial Germany, though this invasion too would be repelled. By far the most threatening invasion to occur under Hazard’s presidency was the Mollusc invasion, which hit the US less hard then some other nations, but nevertheless proved devastating. Most of the Molluscs on US soil would nevertheless be defeated thanks to the efforts of local heroes such as Janos Bartok. The floating city of Columbia would secede from the United States during Hazard’s term. Hazard would win reelection on the backs of his many triumphs, but shortly after defeating the German invasion, he was assassinated by a Polish anarchist.
26. John Norton (Republican) 1901-1909
Norton had been a man of the frontier and a man of action, having participated in numerous exploits under the pseudonym Heeza Liar prior to becoming Hazard’s running mate and subsequently president. Norton was a strong progressive and an opponent of big business interests and the trusts they built to perpetuate them. Norton’s presidency has been credited with breaking up monopolies, such as in oil where he broke up John Hackensacker’s Standard Oil company into the competing ones of DinoCo, Xero Gas, Roxxon, Ewing Oil and McGuckin Petroleum. Norton also implemented wage, workplace safety and environmental standards and ushered in the era of national parks across the nation. Norton was also a supporter of civil rights initiatives, something which some thought contributed to the rise of attacks on the US by Columbia. Norton also launched anti-crime initiatives to target anarchist networks such as KAOS and the Guild of Calamitous Intent. However, Norton’s foreign policy was imperialist and treated the Martin Doctrine as a blank check to intervene in Val Verde, San Sombrero or Anchuria. Norton also backed the expedition to launch a counter-invasion of Mars headed by American scientist Thomas Hattison, which devastated much of the native Martian population including the Barsoomians and Sorns. Norton considered launching a bid for a third term in 1908, but was convinced to hand the presidency off to an alternative successor.
27. David Israels (Republican) 1909-1913
Israels was the first Jewish-American to hold the presidency and thus was widely distrusted (largely baselessly) by much of the country. Israels was a progressive like Norton, being opposed to big business interests and favoring social reform (his vice president William Rydell was a staunch advocate for public education, to the point of serving as the namesake of numerous schools across the United States). Israels was less interested in conflict than most other presidents and was reluctant to support military buildup. This caused him major political damage when the War in the Air broke out, as the US quickly was dragged into the conflict thanks to Germany, China and Japan launching strikes on the country. Israels would play a key role in brokering the ceasefire agreement that brought the conflict to (what was hoped to be) a close. Israels however would find himself targeted at home, as Charles Foster Kane’s media empire attacked Israels as a cowardly appeaser and spread rumors that provoked Congress to launch impeachment hearings. Israels would survive the impeachment attempt, but the controversy led to former President Norton running as a third-party candidate in 1912, taking numerous votes that flipped the election to the Democrats. Israels would disappear the day he left office and reemerge almost exactly 98 years later, where he would briefly consider running for president again before discovering the megacorporation known as Fulsom Foods was seeking to manipulate him for his own ends. Israels also was responsible for utilizing Cavorite to launch the earliest American space exploration efforts.
28. Wilson Winthrop (Democrat) 1913-1920 (Died in office)
Winthrop had been a professor at Miskatonic University prior to entering politics and brought a bookish, academic vibe to the presidency upon taking office. Winthrop would be president when the First World War broke out in Europe, pitting the Clanker Central Powers of Ruritania-Zubrowka, Germany, the Ottoman Empire and Meccannia against the Darwinist Entente of Russia, France, Britain and Japan. Winthrop initially kept the US out of the war, in part at the behest of now-Secretary of State Matthew Brady, seeking to focus on more domestic reforms and countering issues in Mexico stemming from the actions of El Guapo. However, various factors (including offers by Germany to help Mexico retake the Southwest and the sinking of the Veritania) would ultimately push Winthrop to involve the US in the conflict. As Russia exited amidst communist revolution, US forces helped turn the tide in the Entente’s favor. Winthrop drew up the plans for the League of Nations, but suffered a major political blow when the US Senate rejected membership in the organization. Demoralized and facing increasingly ill health, Winthrop suffered from severe mental issues that left him bedridden and led to rumors his wife was really running the country (though this still does not explain Winthrop’s decision to legalize euthanasia in his final year in office). Winthrop’s health ultimately gave out completely just months before the end of his term.
29. Nathan Whipple (Democrat) 1920-1921
Whipple’s term as president was overall rather unremarkable (aside from a brief attempted invasion attempt by a mercenary army led by the deposed Kaiser of Germany, seeking a last-minute return to the throne of Germany). He was a lame duck almost from the beginning, not even being on the doomed 1920 Democrat ticket for November. His nativist, racist rhetoric alienated many northern Democrats and southerners still found him uncouth, preferring the passionate, but collected voice of Jake Featherston. Whipple is mostly remembered for his post-presidential life, where he helped form the fascist National Revolutionary Army, ran unsuccessfully for president in 1932 amidst the Great Depression and ultimately helped bring about the Corpo regime of the late 1930’s.
30. Rufus Kane (Republican) 1921-1923 (Died in office)
Kane won the White House promising a ‘Return to Normalcy’ and largely delivered on that promise. Kane kept the US out of the League of Nations and disconnected from foreign affairs. He become notorious for his unfaithfulness to his wife, at one point propositioning the Senate’s lone woman. Kane’s presidency was also rather close to big business interests and he largely sought to allow them a free hand in activities in a sharp break from his progressive predecessors. His administration was also rife with corruption, much of which was revealed in the documents known as the Sunday Papers. However, Kane at no point was directly implicated in such things and exited office not through impeachment but thanks to losing a bought with pneumonia.
31. Harold Goosie (Republican) 1923-1925
Goosie was a rather shy, quiet, unassuming sort whom had been picked as Kane’s running mate to shore up regional balance. Goosie’s presidency was heavily characterized by racial issues, following the advent of the Crookman Process capable of turning African-Americans Caucasian. Despite his party’s usual history regarding race relations, Goosie joined with the Democrats in working to ban the process (even as he continued to denounce the equally-opposed Knights of Nordica as brutes). Goosie was also president when the entity known as Cthulhu temporarily woke up and while it was quickly defeated by a fishing vessel, Goosie suffered terrifying nightmares for months and years afterwards. Goosie’s nightmares tormented him so much he shocked his party by refusing to run for reelection in 1924.
32. John P. Wintergreen (Republican) 1925-1929
Wintergreen was the exact opposite of Goosie in personality (though not so much in policy), being an extroverted, energetic figure who used flash to make up for mediocre policy credentials (a move some have credited to the advice of Wintergreen’s friend Billy Flynn, who used a similar approach to get clients acquitted of murder on numerous occasions). Wintergreen ran promising to marry the winner of a beauty pageant and his decision to go back on this promise provoked a diplomatic row with France. Wintergreen also placed tariffs on Switzerland, which sparked the brief ‘Fletcher War’ that ended bloodlessly and destroyed the town of Innsmouth following incursions by Deep Ones. Moureau sapiens in America would also gain increased prominence as entertainers in America, most notably Charles Dingo’s Michael Mysz shorts. Wintergreen’s presidency ran into some problems when it was discovered a group of New Jersey Republicans were involved in bootlegging activities under the leadership of Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson and Meyer Wolfsheim. Wintergreen himself was never implicated, but the ties between him and Thompson’s criminal empire led to the Republicans booting him from the ticket in 1928.
33. Judd Hammond (Republican) 1929-1933
Hammond was largely seen as a tolerable figure by the country as a whole, whom was largely not looking for someone to rock the boat. However, early in his administration, the economy tanked, sparking the beginning of the Great Depression. Hammond’s reluctance to rock the boat bordered on callous indifference to the suffering of working people and Hammond thus experienced severe unpopularity. Shantytowns known as Hammondvilles cropped up across the country and Hammond turned away veterans demanding bonuses with the help of General Harry Howell. The US would also briefly be attacked by the Treen natives of Mercury during Hammond’s term. Hammond would, late in his presidency, experience an about-face which saw him crack down on the criminal empires of Nick Diamond, Snake Eyes Johnson and Tony Camonte and implement some attempts to relieve unemployment (mainly with job programs such as the Hammond Dam). However, largely this was too little too late and despite Hammond attempting to proclaim himself dictator, he would die just in time for his duly elected successor to take the presidency.
34. Peter J. Varney (Democrat) 1933-1937
Varney had not initially been a politician, but rather a snake-oil salesman by trade whom was hired to stand-in for the aristocratic, uncharismatic Theodore K. Blair. Varney proved to be more popular than Blair and ultimately admitted to the whole ruse while Blair found himself exiled to the Arctic. Varney would survive initial attempts by Blair to regain power and solidified his popularity with a series of programs to relieve unemployment known as the New Deal (after being encouraged by a young orphan named Annie Warbucks). Varney’s New Deal policies did provide some relief to the public and were widely popular. However, Varney would run into a number of snags over the course of his term. The gargantuan ape known as Kong rampaged through Metropolis in 1933, killing dozens and costing millions in property damage. The first individual to use the name Superman briefly used his powers to take over the entire planet, before being defeated by the adventure-hero Clark Savage. Varney was also troubled by the rise of fascism abroad in the form of Adenoid Hynkel’s Germany and Benzino Napaloni’s Italy. While he could not intervene directly, Varney had agents such as James Christopher and Henry Jones, Jr. undertake activities to prevent German acquisition of dangerous artifacts. The popular Louisiana Governor Willie Stark, aided by the radio host Bishop Prang and Charles Foster Kane’s media empire, attacked the president as not doing enough to help the public and, after Stark’s 1935 assassination, he was often suspected of being the perpetrator. Nevertheless, Varney presumed his popularity remained strong enough that he could withstand any challenges, but was caught off-guard by Buzz Windrip’s entrance into the Democratic primary. Varney narrowly was renominated, but Windrip would seize control of many state Democratic Parties, including almost the entirety of the South and Midwest (including his home state of Winnemac). Windrip would ultimately defeat both Varney and Republican Walt Trowbridge in 1936.
35. Buzz Windrip (Democrat/National Revolutionary/Corpo) 1937-1938 (Overthrown)
Windrip, after his victory, swiftly went to work shifting the US into a dictatorship, dividing the nation into ‘corpos’ administered by his cronies and whipping up the public into a nationalist, xenophobic furor. Windrip won as the nominee of several state Democratic Parties as well as that of the National Revolutionary Party founded by ex-President Whipple, which Windrip reformed into the Corpo Party. Windrip’s totalitarian policies ultimately provoked the rise of a resistance movement dubbed the New Underground. Led by Walt Trowbridge, Stanley Craig and Philip Dru, this resistance movement was the most powerful in the western United States. Windrip’s grip on power would completely unravel in 1938, as the Depression intensified, allies fled the country and Windrip was overthrown by his Secretary of State Lee Saranson. Saranson’s coup helped prompt more unrest and even a planned invasion of Mexico failed to rally support. General Dewey Haik overthrew Saranson and killed Trowbridge, but this only fueled a mass uprising that saw Dru and his allies seize most of the Western US in one fell swoop before the rest of the country finally was liberated. Subsequent historians elected not to count Saranson and Haik’s presidencies as legitimate owing to their status as the result of illegitimate processes to assume that role.
36. Stanley Craig (Independent) 1938-1941
A Republican, Craig had been one of the key figures in the New Underground and got the presidency as the result of Dru declining to assume the role citing his advanced age. Craig instead appointed Dru, a Democrat, as his vice president. Craig, as president, successfully averted a resurgence of fascism by staging his own disappearance and defeated a colony of superhumans founded in the South Pacific. He also defeated a race of sentient newts that threatened to overthrow humanity. Craig was also president amidst the beginning of World War II, as German Fuhrer Adenoid Hynkel invaded Arztotska and subsequently conquered much of continental Europe. Craig chose to stay neutral in the war, but towards the end of his term began funding weapons shipments to Britain. Craig additionally had to contend with incursions by Namor’s Kingdom of Atlantis, which were repelled by the first Human Torch and other vigilantes such as Lobster Johnson. Craig subsequently formed an alliance with a different Atlantean kingdom, which had an American named Milo Thatch as its current king, to help prevent further attacks by Namor’s forces.
37. Stephen Wayne (Democrat) 1941-1944 (Died in office)
Wayne had been Secretary of State under Varney and returned to that role under Craig before running for president. Wayne defeated the isolationist fascist-sympathizing aviator Ted Scott in the general election of 1940 and continued to funnel aid to Britain and, after Operation Barbarossa, the USSR. Wayne nevertheless kept the US officially neutral until 1941, when Japanese attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Wayne thus led the US into the Second World War. Despite Germany’s alliance with dark wizards led by Gellert Grindelwald, the HYDRA organization of Johann Schmidt and technological developments launched by Dieter Vogel and Wilhelm Strasse (which enabled the creation of cloned dinosaurs, werewolf women in the SS, the Trioxin virus and a legion of Nazi vampires), Wayne’s America continued to boldly fight on. Wayne helped form the world’s first superteam, in the form of the Justice Society of America. This time consisted of Diana Prince, Steve Rogers, Jim Hammond, Namor, Bucky Barnes, Flash Gordon, Billy Batson and Atomic Robo and played a key role in defeating some of the more unusual Nazi forces. Wayne also created the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense to help counter Nazi occultism. Wayne’s leadership would bring the Allies to the brink of victory, but ultimately Wayne himself would not see the final victory, dying a few months before the end of 1944.
38. Mike Thingmaker (Democrat/Communist) 1944-1946 (Impeached)
Thingmaker was a woodsman from New England and a hardcore left-wing figure. Thingmaker would bring the Second World War to a triumphant conclusion after Germany’s surrender and nuking Japan twice. Thingmaker would lead the US into the early years of the Cold War, which is where he ran into trouble. Thingmaker was, privately, a communist and favored implementing communism in the United States. He was happy to defer to the USSR’s leader Josef Besstrashny and support the IngSoc regime of Rab Whitlow in Britain. Thingmaker allowed the Arkadins to smuggle the secrets of nuclear technology to the USSR and his socialist policies provoked a free market revolt headed by Dagny Taggart, John Galt and Andrew Ryan. This revolt caused a postwar economic recession and coupled with revelations of his treason, Thingmaker was swiftly impeached just before the Republicans swept into Congress.
39. Art Hockstader (Democrat) 1946-1949
Hockstader was a far more mild-mannered figure than Thingmaker and far closer to the postwar consensus in terms of politics. Hockstader prosecuted the Arkadins for treason, rescinded orders to hand the American occupation sector of Germany to the Soviets (in part done due to trouble caused by the ‘Werewolf’ insurgency headed by Strasse and Ilsa Schneider). Hockstader backed Harold Wharton’s coup against Whitlow, restoring democracy to Britain and ultimately creating NATO to serve as a bulwark against communism in Europe. Hockstader also exiled the multinational SCP Foundation from the US over their refusal to hand over artifacts to SHIELD or the BPRD. Hockstader also formed the Central Enquiries Agency, led by Philip Allen, to counter communist espionage. Hockstader was also president when the Galileo space expedition discovered a Nazi base on the Moon and contributed to the United World Organization effort to destroy the base. Hockstader was also president when numerous alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Austin and he would store the spacecraft in various clandestine sites across America such as Zone 91, Area 51, Area 52 and Warehouse 13. Hockstader would however run into trouble regarding China, as Chairman Peng Tsing-Tse’s People’s Republic of China pushed the US-allied Republic to the island of Zheng Fa. Civil rights issues would end up dragging down Hockstader’s administration, as pushes to gain better treatment for African-Americans and Moureau sapiens (increasingly known as Toons) caused a backlash that led to southern Senator Jake Featherston running as a third-party candidate in 1948. Coupled with the surprise run by ex-president Thingmaker (who blamed his impeachment on a capitalist conspiracy), Hockstader would be defeated and even a last-minute threat to nuke Municiberg failed to salvage his chances.
40. Jefferson Smith (Republican) 1949-1957
A former Boy Scout leader, Smith had served as Senator from Montana from 1939 to 1941, when he resigned his position to assist in the war effort. Smith achieved a great deal of success on the front, becoming a decorated veteran. Smith would, upon returning home after the war, run once more for his old seat in 1946, winning it in a landslide. He subsequently won the presidential nomination over Grant Matthews in 1948 and easily triumphed over Hockstader. Smith would lead the US into the Hun Chiu War after North Hun Chiu invaded the South. The conflict ultimately lasted for a fairly short time frame, ending in a long-lasting stalemate. Smith was also president during numerous alien encounters. America was visited by the Citadel Council ambassador known as Klaatu in 1953. First contact was made with the Kanamits in 1954, which ended badly after it was discovered they sought to consume humans. At this point, SHIELD drove the Kanamits off-Earth by force thanks in part to the weapons designed by the ex-Nazi scientist Merkwurdgliebe and British scientist Bernard Quartermass. The US would also be invaded in this time frame by the Molluscs once again, the pod people and the Furons. Smith would form the Syndicate of the Men in Black and Majestic-12 to deal with these repeated alien incursions (dubbed Blue Rose cases), which also included attacks by the Blob, the arrival of the Iron Giant and an incursion by the hedonistic Transylvanians. Giant monsters also became increasingly common during the Smith years, as the US was attacked by the Rhedosaurus, giant ants, colossal human beings and enlarged species ranging from rabbits to Gila monsters. Some of these monsters would be contained in secret facilities and be used to fend off an alien invasion decades later. Other countries would also be attacked by giant creatures such as Gojira in Japan or Gorgo in Britain. The more publicly visible controversy of Smith’s administration was over anti-communism, namely Johnny Iselin’s investigations of communist subversion that blacklisted many prominent figures. Smith was critical of Iselin, but his preferred successor as president Archie Hall selected Iselin as his running mate. Iselin would be assassinated by his stepson Raymond Shaw and subsequently be found to be a Soviet agent, which led to the defeat of Hall in 1956.
41. Merkin Muffley (Democrat) 1957-1959 (Died in office)
Muffley was often derided as an egghead and would have almost certainly lost were it not for the scandals around Iselin. Muffley played a critical role in defusing the 1957 Suez crisis and the next year’s Doomsday crisis. Muffley also had to contend with continued giant monster attacks and alien incursions, ranging from overt raids by the Zagons to the raising of undead ghouls by the Hive in an attempt to destroy the Earth. Muffley benefitted from an increasing collecting of costumed, superpowered vigilantes appearing across the US ranging from Doctor Manhattan to Jay Garrick. These individuals helped reduce the overall damage caused by these numerous incursions and increased confidence of the American public. Economic prosperity under Muffley was enormous, enabling the rise of consumer goods ranging from Hudsucker Industries’ hula hoop to Buzz Lightyear action figures. Muffley also sent the first American into space without the use of Cavorite (the last Cavorite-using expedition being an ill-fated Mars expedition in the early 1950’s that left Valentine Michael Smith stranded). However, Muffley would go out on a low note, after his nominee for Secretary of State Robert Leffingwall was discovered to be an ex-member of the Communist Party. Muffley would suffer a fatal stroke after Leffingwall was voted down by the Senate.
42. Harley Hudson (Democrat) 1959-1961
Hudson served as a caretaker president for the remainder of Muffley’s term. His tenure was largely uneventful, with more people paying attention to the brutal Bates murders than Hudson’s policies. Hudson did not pursue reelection.
Presidents of the United States
1. George Washington (I) 1789-1797
George Washington had been a hero of the American Revolution, serving as the commander of the colonists’ army and using it quite effectively. Washington’s status as the first president of the United States was basically guaranteed following the American victory in the War of Independence. He was responsible for crossing the Delaware to launch a surprise attack on the British and helped organize a secret war on supernatural threats through the help of Ichabod Crane. When the US implemented its new constitution, Washington was supported by every member of the Founding Fathers from Richard Saunders to Thomas Jefferson and could very well have claimed the status of “King of America” and it was only due to his inability to lie and reluctance to run the country (along with a possible vision of himself as a cruel tyrant experienced thanks to a Piece of Eden) that this scenario was thankfully avoided. His administration progressed rather successfully, helping enshrine norms such as the two-term tradition that would aid the nation in upholding the principles it was founded upon. Washington also helped maintain positive relations with secret societies such as the Freemasons, the Golden Order, the Cahill family and the Assassins in order to ensure their activities would not threaten the nascent nation. While there were some unsavory aspects to Washington’s life (including the fact he owned slaves and rumors of cannibalism or secretly being an automaton), Washington himself proved to be a good leader and on the day he left office, he ascended to become a patron saint of America, helping fight any evil forces that might threaten it.
2. John Adams (Federalist) 1797-1801
A lawyer from Massachusetts and possibly an alien being in disguise, Adams was a key member of the Founding Fathers, being one of the men considered to author the Declaration of Independence despite his own insistence that he was too obnoxious and disliked to do so. He had also pushed to abolish slavery in this document, predicting the country would face civil war if it did not do so, but objections from southerners prevented this language from being included in the Declaration. Adams had also been Washington’s vice president, where he favored a stronger central government (though he had a tense relationship with fellow advocate for stronger government Alexander Hamilton). Adams’ presidency proved to be far more fraught than he had hoped, as the country faced tensions with Revolutionary France and major economic issues. Ultimately these crises would pave the way for Adams’ defeat in 1800.
3. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) 1801-1809
Jefferson had been the author of the Declaration of Independence (though he nearly failed to complete it due to his wife) and ultimately only managed to win the 1800 election with the support of his longtime rival Alexander Hamilton (whose actions would lead to his death in a duel against Vice President Aaron Burr). Jefferson favored a smaller central government and idealized the notion of agrarian democracy. Despite this, Jefferson did have the government undertake certain actions, such as endowing the Jeffersonian Institution, purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France and sending Johnny Appleseed to plant forests of apple trees in these newly acquired territories. Jefferson was also personally a brilliant man and inventor, who was able to invent the swivel chair and may have created a primitive time travel device at some point. A Francophile by nature, Jefferson nevertheless stayed neutral in the Napoleonic Wars (though he did take advantage of the end of the war seeing the world’s dragon population take a severe hit to bring the Native American tribes to the west into compliance with US rule after nearly two decades of de facto independence).
4. Johnny Tremain (Democratic-Republican) 1809-1817
Tremain had fought in the American Revolution and had been a staunch ally of Jefferson’s going back to the end of Washington’s term. Tremain would preside over the War of 1812 against the British who sought to regain control over the United States. The British would be defeated following their failure to capture the Star-Spangled Banner, an American flag linked to the hopes and dreams of the American people. However, they would burn down the White House, necessitating Tremain flee Washington DC for a time. Other towns such as Innsmouth would also be raided by the British during this war. In addition, the war would set the stage for the foundation of the Arkansas Confederacy by several Native American tribes with the help of Sam Houston. Outside of the War of 1812 and surrounding events, Tremain’s term was largely unremarkable.
5. Benjamin Martin (Democratic-Republican) 1817-1825
Martin was another veteran of the American Revolution and would preside over the end of the First Party System as the Federalists, after decades out of power, finally withered away under his administration. Martin’s most consequential action would be declaring the Martin Doctrine in response to the break away of various Latin American countries such as Mexico, Peru, Miranda, Andes Mallorca and others from rule by European powers. The Martin Doctrine, which refused to accept European intervention to restore rule over these breakaway colonies, would remain a cornerstone of American foreign policy for the next two centuries. Beyond that, Martin’s administration was also responsible for the Missouri Compromise over slavery, but generally was regarded as “the Era of Good Feelings.”
6. Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican/Whig) 1825-1829
Clay’s election to the presidency was highly controversial, made possible only through corrupt dealings with one of his rivals Peleg Peshell, whom was awarded with the position of Secretary of State for his assistance. Clay meanwhile earned the ire of his other opponents John Quincy Adams and Simon Suggs, who would form the Democratic Party to oppose Clay. Clay would seek to deflect from the controversies of his taking the presidency by waging a war against the Arkansas Confederacy in violation of treaties agreed to after they were established. Despite the controversy surrounding this act, Clay would ultimately get his way and the Native Americans would be reduced to nominal ownership of the future state of Sequoyah while Arkansas was settled by whites. Clay’s success in opening up new territory and push to implement a system of internal improvements did help his popularity, but he would still be resoundingly defeated in 1828.
7. Simon Suggs (Democratic) 1829-1837
Suggs had been a hero of the War of 1812 during the Battle of New Bourdeaux and was a populist figure who promised to implement democratic reforms. Suggs did successfully implement a doctrine of Suggsian democracy, which eliminated property requirements to vote (though the franchise remained limited to white men only). Suggs famously kept an enormous block of cheese in the white house to share with the public and at times his campaign speeches verged on a rock performance rather than a political rally. Suggs abandoned the earlier commitments of the Democrats to racial egalitarianism, removing thousands of Native Americans in the winter to Sequoyah and defending slavery. However, he would feud with his vice president John C. Calhoun when South Carolina and Catawba attempted to nullify the federal tariff. Suggs was a ruthless duelist who killed hundreds over slights. Suggs, as a man of the frontier, also continued the long-time hostility of American leaders to supernatural forces, having Samuel Colt create a pair of firearms and several bullets capable of slaying demons (one of which he kept for himself and ended up being lost to history).
8. Derrick Van Bummel (Democratic) 1837-1841
Van Bummel was a Congressman-turned Governor from New York and was a close ally of President Suggs. Van Bummel may have been in the illegitimate son of Aaron Burr and his popularity in New York gave rise to a street gang named after him in Metropolis over a century later. Van Bummel’s presidency went rather poorly thanks in large part to Suggs’ poor choices in the eight years prior and the influence of the Freemasons on his administration. He also lost popularity after John Quincy Adams successfully argued in favor of letting the slaves aboard the Amistad slave ship that had rebelled (with help from the god Anansi) go, which led to southerners like John C. Calhoun to turn on Van Bummel. Regardless of reason, Van Bummel would be consigned to obscurity and in 1840 go down in defeat.
8.5/9. Quentin Trembley (Whig) 1841 (Removed from office)
Trembley was a last-ditch choice for the Whig Party nomination (largely seen as certain to be victorious) nominated after his rivals perished during a landslide at the 1840 Whig National Convention. Trembley would trounce Van Bummel and win the presidency, but quickly earned the hostility of the rest of the government. His support for public nudity, efforts to nominate babies to the Supreme Court, the possession of self-imposed titles of nobility and belief that he could appoint Congressmen at will all led to organized attempts to impeach him from office. Even his antislavery efforts and success in a war against giant spiders (believed to have been among the forces of the evil entity known as the Unmaker which was ultimately defeated several years later by Mormon prophet Alvin Miller) couldn’t save him from attempted impeachment. However, it would ultimately never come to that as Trembley would flee the White House before being informed of the impeachment proceedings, choosing to move out west where he would found the town of Gravity Falls in Oregon before encasing himself in stasis. Some elements of the government would falsify a narrative that Trembley’s term had never existed and instead that William Henry Harrison (who had perished during the landslide at the Whig convention) had served the brief time that Trembley had but died of pneumonia as a means of staving off embarrassment to the office of the presidency.
10. Augustine St. Clare (Whig) 1841-1845
St. Clare was a Louisianan chosen to help provide regional balance and reassure southern voters that Trembley’s abolitionist leanings wouldn’t overshadow the rest of his agenda. However, upon taking office, St. Clare proved to be a thorn in the side for the Whigs. He regarded quite a bit of the Whig agenda as unconstitutional and vetoed so much legislation that his party nearly kicked him out. St. Clare, despite his status as a slaveholder, was reluctant to annex Texas (which had declared independence following the brutal massacre of American settlers at the Alamo) and held off from doing so until the end of his term. St. Clare was also president during an alleged Second Coming of Jesus Christ, though it proved to be short-lived as the returned Jesus, alongside the ascended Washington, simply helped Miller defeat the Unmaker on the frontier. In the end, St. Clare would not contest the 1844 election and the annexation of Texas would be his last act in office before handing the position off to a Democrat successor.
11. Puffer Hopkins (Democrat) 1845-1849
Known as “the Patriot of Piehouse,” Hopkins would lead the United States in the Mexican-American War following disputes over territory between the annexed Texas and Mexico. Thanks to Hopkins’ leadership, the US would go on to annex the territory that would in the future become the states of New Austin, West Elizabeth, Nevada, Utah and California, despite the efforts of the Mexican Army and local figures such as the vigilante Zorro. Hopkins would also sign a treaty with the British establishing firm borders between the US-held Oregon Territory and British Colombia, with the US gaining firm control over the city of Seacouver as part of the treaty. Hopkins’ presidency would still face hardship however, as the Natives and Dead Rabbits gangs clashed in Metropolis and new divides over slavery were revived. Hopkins would end up declining to pursue reelection.
12. David Rice Atchison (Democrat) 1849
Atchison was president for a single day in 1849 due to the fact his successor delayed taking office for a day. Reportedly he slept through the vast majority of it.
13. John A.B.C. Smith (Whig) 1849-1853
Smith was a general with a highly respected record and was admired by the country as a whole. Smith’s presidency saw the implementation of the Compromise of 1850 in an attempt to heal sectional divides and sent Commodore Chandler Bing to open up Japan to international trade. Smith also reportedly defeated a Freemason conspiracy with the help of Native Americans possessing interplanetary travel capabilities. Smith also was president when the Vespertillo-homo were discovered and managed to deal with the subsequent scare amongst the American population. When Smith left office, it was discovered that he was in fact an entirely synthetic being and much of his alleged exploits had in fact never occurred.
14. Eugene Buckingham (Democrat) 1853-1857
A plantation owner married to a Scottish woman, Buckingham was a staunch defender of slavery. He implemented the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was in charge when the infamous Dredd Scott decision was handed down, fueling increasing abolitionist sentiment. Buckingham firmly continued to defend slavery despite these facts and ultimately the disputes would come to define his presidency. He would stand aside after a single term due to these issues as party insiders favored a northerner stand for their principles. However, Buckingham would subsequently be vampirized by Lestat de Lioncourt and go on to be a government official in the Confederacy during the Civil War, as well as a key figure in the first incarnation of the Knights of Nordica before being killed by Jonah Hex in 1889.
15. Arthur Weston (Democrat) 1857-1861
Weston was a Yale-educated Senator from Pennsylvania who nevertheless was of southern roots and a strong sympathizer with the south on most political issues, including slavery. Weston’s presidency saw numerous abolitionist revolts erupt across the country, including John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry (which would ultimately lead to Brown’s death and ascension to become an Archangel of Liberty), the burning of Candyland Plantation and Henry Blake’s revolt. Weston’s attempts to curb these threats were stymied by the increasingly abolitionist views of the public at large, who began to rally behind the Republican Party. Meanwhile, Weston’s own Democratic Party would be increasingly disunified (with frontier hero Paul Bunyan launching a third-party campaign that took many votes from Weston) and in 1860, the Republicans would emerge victorious. Weston took no action to counter the dominoes of secession in the south and by the time he left office South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Columbiana had all seceded with little resistance. Weston would consequently become one of the most reviled presidents in history.
16. Abraham Lincoln (Republican) 1861-1865 (Faked death and left office)
Lincoln was a brilliant lawyer, opponent of slavery, an associate of the Watcher's Council and (like Washington) relentlessly honest. Lincoln took office against the greatest crisis to afflict the United States as the new Confederate States of America were bolstered by the secession of Virginia, North Carolina, Catawba, Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas, while Kentucky, Missouri and Sequoyah were rife with pro-Confederate sentiment. Lincoln had to contend with outside backers of southern independence, which included British individuals seeking to weaken the Union, vampires who sought to maintain slavery to ensure a ready supply of victims and time-travelling white supremacists from Draka. Lincoln however was able to make use of the Union’s manpower and industrial advantage to stymie these threats thanks to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves and deploying experimental weaponry such as the Steel Man of the Prairies and rockets created by the Unionist Baltimore Gun Club and, despite the brilliant military leadership of General William Beauregard in the CSA leading to a southern victory at Gettysburg, the United States would ultimately emerge triumphant. Lincoln planned to implement policies of racial equality in the aftermath of the war, but would be shot by disgraced actor John Wilkes Booth the day after the 13th amendment was ratified before getting the chance. While Lincoln would be saved by being turned into a vampire, he was forced to fake his death, thus passing the presidency on to his Vice President. Interestingly, a clone of Lincoln would be created in the late 20th century (alongside clones of other historical figures) and this clone would ultimately ascend to become a powerful being on the surface of Mars.
17. Huckleberry Finn (National Union) 1865-1869
Finn was a Missourian who developed anti-slavery viewpoints following his assistance in helping a slave named Jim escape captivity in the antebellum period (with some help from his friend Tom Sawyer, who went on to found an infamous cannibal clan in Texas a decade later). However, despite this, Finn was still at heart a southerner and disproportionately inclined to favor the white southerners over the freedmen. Finn was more upset by the burning of Tara Plantation by General William Sherman than by the terror inflicted on freed blacks by the Order, the Clan of the Fiery Cross, the Knights of Nordica, the demonic Ku Klux Klan or any of the other myriad of white supremacist groups emerging post-Civil War. Finn would face challenges from Radical Republicans in Congress led by Austin Stoneman for his lenience on the southern states and narrowly avoided impeachment for mismanaging Reconstruction. However, Finn would consequently be blocked from winning in 1868. Beyond Reconstruction, Finn supported the Baltimore Gun Club’s efforts to launch a lunar expedition, though he backed off following contact being established with the Lunar Princess and several ex-Confederates on the celestial body.
18. Elias Gotebed (Republican) 1869-1877
Gotebed was a more mainstream Republican and was respected for his foreign policy chops (as he had made a formal visit to Britain just before being elected). Gotebed was more concerned with implementing Reconstruction than Finn had been, but his efforts to crush the white supremacists were made more difficult by the emergence of the first generation of modern supervillains in the west such as Miguelito Loveless. This period would also see the rise of outlaws in the western frontier of the United States of less nefarious sorts in the forms of William Munny, Liberty Valence, Jesse James, Black Bart Graham and Billy the Kid. They would be stymied by near-vigilante lawmen such as John Reid, Kwai Chang Caine and Brisco County, Sr. Gotebed would be criticized for purchasing Alaska from Russia, though he would be vindicated by history. American shipping would be terrorized by the white whale Moby Dick and Captain Nemo’s submarine known as the Nautilus. The Steel City War on Oregon and the first recorded alien incursion into New Austin occurred under Gotebed’s presidency. Gotebed’s administration also saw the economy enter a recession in 1873, which would contribute to Republican misfortune in 1876.
19. Jacob Ajax (Republican) 1877-1881
“Old Granite” Ajax was a general during the Civil War and by all accounts one of the best on the Union side. Ajax nevertheless quickly earned a reputation for corruption following the election 1876, where he won despite losing the popular vote due to vote rigging in West Virginia and ended Reconstruction in order to ensure the Democrats would not continue to complain about it. Ajax’s administration thus began with a reputation for corruption and Ajax would quickly be sidelined in the 1880 election. Ajax’s presidency also saw the rise of various American folk heroes such as Pecos Bill and John Henry to prominence, though Ajax himself could obviously not take credit for it.
20. Abner Dilworthy (Republican) 1881 (Assassinated)
A Kansas Republican, Dilworthy had been a backer of equal rights for African-Americans but withdrew it owing to political convenience. Dilworthy additionally faced charges of corruption related to his purchase of land in Tennessee. Dilworthy would ultimately be assassinated by the husband of one of his mistresses both due to the affair and because the assassin sought to be ambassador to France and was denied.
21. Silas P. Ratcliffe (Republican) 1881-1885
A Senator from Iowa, Ratcliffe was a conservative Republican largely inclined to favor business interests. Labor unrest would become a key issue during his administration, with multiple strikes erupting across the nation. Some, such as the one headed by Larry Locke and the Valedo strike in West Virginia, would end in success while others such as the Buffland strike in Winnemac would go poorly. Ratcliffe’s corruption and opposition to labor rights helped provoke a challenge from the “Mugwump” wing of the Republicans who favored these reforms. This third party challenge led to a hung electoral college that was decided in favor of the Democrats for the first time in decades. Ratcliffe’s presidency also saw a zombie outbreak wipe out the town of Piedmont and a major blight affect crops grown in the area around Arkham.
22. Funny Valentine (Democrat) 1885-1889
The first Democrat elected in a quarter of a century, Valentine was in possession of a power known as a Stand that enabled him to summon versions of himself from alternate dimensions. Valentine would help fend off raids by Robur the Conqueror and his flying machines and launched the Jump supersoldier program, the first of its kind in world history. Valentine additionally implemented civil service reform and practiced a classically liberal economic program. His reforms earned him great popularity with the public, but unfortunately for him failed to prevent defeat in the electoral college even as he won the popular vote. Valentine, after leaving office, earned enormous popularity thanks to his successor’s corruption and went on to commission the Steel Ball Run in a bid to reassemble the body of Jesus Christ (which had been scattered across the continent by the Unmaker when Jesus showed up in 1844). Valentine would ultimately be killed during this event by Johnny Joestar.
23. Johnson P. Annabour (Republican) 1889-1893
President Annabour was a complete nonentity entirely beholden to a cabal of business interests led by Senator William Paxton and consequently raised tariffs to benefit this cabal. His unpopularity would only increase following the temporary takeover of the western United States by Native Americans thanks to the Ghost Dance ritual and he consequently presided over the Wounded Knee Massacre, which killed numerous Lakota. For these reasons, Senators Charles Canterbury and Ransom Stoddard would form the “Stay at Home” movement in 1892, citing disgust at the Annabour administration’s corruption, cruelty and incompetence. Annabour consequently would go down in defeat in 1892.
24. William J. LePetomane (Democrat) 1893-1897
Valentine had been expected to be renominated in 1892 before his death threw the Democratic field wide open. LePetomane had been governor of New Austin back when it was a territory and ran promising to curb corruption that had permeated during Annabour’s term. He thus implemented key civil service reforms to deal with the corruption of the Annabour years. LePetomane's relatively progressive positions on race (he had appointed the first black sheriff in the US, albeit due to the manipulations of the criminal mastermind Hedley Lamarr) caused some friction with southerners in his party, but largely failed to materielize in a concrete form during his administration. LePetomane would additionally create the floating city of Columbia at the World’s Fair of 1894 to the awe of much of the world. However, LePetomane’s administration would soon face many problems. The economy tanked in 1893, sparking an enormous recession which his fiscal conservative policies failed to address. Performances of The King in Yellow, which had been banned in Europe, spread to America and First Amendment protections did not prevent the resulting unrest. LePetomane would be defeated at the 1896 convention by Matthew Harrison Brady, a more populist, agrarian Democrat. LePetomane would endorse a third-party ticket headed by Silas Lapham and Brady would go on to lose the 1896 election to George Hazard.
25. George Hazard (Republican) 1897-1901 (Assassinated)
Hazard was the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected to the presidency. A supporter of imperialism, Hazard would wage the Spanish-American War which saw the US easily triumph, occupying Tropico, Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. This conflict helped solidify America’s status as a major world power. However, with this nevertheless came drawbacks. Black nationalists launched two uprisings during Hazard’s presidency, once led by Henry Belgrave and once in the form of the AMQUO. China would also invade the American West Coast during his tenure, though they would be repelled. Hazard’s gains from Spain also provoked the 1901 invasion of the northeast by Imperial Germany, though this invasion too would be repelled. By far the most threatening invasion to occur under Hazard’s presidency was the Mollusc invasion, which hit the US less hard then some other nations, but nevertheless proved devastating. Most of the Molluscs on US soil would nevertheless be defeated thanks to the efforts of local heroes such as Janos Bartok. The floating city of Columbia would secede from the United States during Hazard’s term. Hazard would win reelection on the backs of his many triumphs, but shortly after defeating the German invasion, he was assassinated by a Polish anarchist.
26. John Norton (Republican) 1901-1909
Norton had been a man of the frontier and a man of action, having participated in numerous exploits under the pseudonym Heeza Liar prior to becoming Hazard’s running mate and subsequently president. Norton was a strong progressive and an opponent of big business interests and the trusts they built to perpetuate them. Norton’s presidency has been credited with breaking up monopolies, such as in oil where he broke up John Hackensacker’s Standard Oil company into the competing ones of DinoCo, Xero Gas, Roxxon, Ewing Oil and McGuckin Petroleum. Norton also implemented wage, workplace safety and environmental standards and ushered in the era of national parks across the nation. Norton was also a supporter of civil rights initiatives, something which some thought contributed to the rise of attacks on the US by Columbia. Norton also launched anti-crime initiatives to target anarchist networks such as KAOS and the Guild of Calamitous Intent. However, Norton’s foreign policy was imperialist and treated the Martin Doctrine as a blank check to intervene in Val Verde, San Sombrero or Anchuria. Norton also backed the expedition to launch a counter-invasion of Mars headed by American scientist Thomas Hattison, which devastated much of the native Martian population including the Barsoomians and Sorns. Norton considered launching a bid for a third term in 1908, but was convinced to hand the presidency off to an alternative successor.
27. David Israels (Republican) 1909-1913
Israels was the first Jewish-American to hold the presidency and thus was widely distrusted (largely baselessly) by much of the country. Israels was a progressive like Norton, being opposed to big business interests and favoring social reform (his vice president William Rydell was a staunch advocate for public education, to the point of serving as the namesake of numerous schools across the United States). Israels was less interested in conflict than most other presidents and was reluctant to support military buildup. This caused him major political damage when the War in the Air broke out, as the US quickly was dragged into the conflict thanks to Germany, China and Japan launching strikes on the country. Israels would play a key role in brokering the ceasefire agreement that brought the conflict to (what was hoped to be) a close. Israels however would find himself targeted at home, as Charles Foster Kane’s media empire attacked Israels as a cowardly appeaser and spread rumors that provoked Congress to launch impeachment hearings. Israels would survive the impeachment attempt, but the controversy led to former President Norton running as a third-party candidate in 1912, taking numerous votes that flipped the election to the Democrats. Israels would disappear the day he left office and reemerge almost exactly 98 years later, where he would briefly consider running for president again before discovering the megacorporation known as Fulsom Foods was seeking to manipulate him for his own ends. Israels also was responsible for utilizing Cavorite to launch the earliest American space exploration efforts.
28. Wilson Winthrop (Democrat) 1913-1920 (Died in office)
Winthrop had been a professor at Miskatonic University prior to entering politics and brought a bookish, academic vibe to the presidency upon taking office. Winthrop would be president when the First World War broke out in Europe, pitting the Clanker Central Powers of Ruritania-Zubrowka, Germany, the Ottoman Empire and Meccannia against the Darwinist Entente of Russia, France, Britain and Japan. Winthrop initially kept the US out of the war, in part at the behest of now-Secretary of State Matthew Brady, seeking to focus on more domestic reforms and countering issues in Mexico stemming from the actions of El Guapo. However, various factors (including offers by Germany to help Mexico retake the Southwest and the sinking of the Veritania) would ultimately push Winthrop to involve the US in the conflict. As Russia exited amidst communist revolution, US forces helped turn the tide in the Entente’s favor. Winthrop drew up the plans for the League of Nations, but suffered a major political blow when the US Senate rejected membership in the organization. Demoralized and facing increasingly ill health, Winthrop suffered from severe mental issues that left him bedridden and led to rumors his wife was really running the country (though this still does not explain Winthrop’s decision to legalize euthanasia in his final year in office). Winthrop’s health ultimately gave out completely just months before the end of his term.
29. Nathan Whipple (Democrat) 1920-1921
Whipple’s term as president was overall rather unremarkable (aside from a brief attempted invasion attempt by a mercenary army led by the deposed Kaiser of Germany, seeking a last-minute return to the throne of Germany). He was a lame duck almost from the beginning, not even being on the doomed 1920 Democrat ticket for November. His nativist, racist rhetoric alienated many northern Democrats and southerners still found him uncouth, preferring the passionate, but collected voice of Jake Featherston. Whipple is mostly remembered for his post-presidential life, where he helped form the fascist National Revolutionary Army, ran unsuccessfully for president in 1932 amidst the Great Depression and ultimately helped bring about the Corpo regime of the late 1930’s.
30. Rufus Kane (Republican) 1921-1923 (Died in office)
Kane won the White House promising a ‘Return to Normalcy’ and largely delivered on that promise. Kane kept the US out of the League of Nations and disconnected from foreign affairs. He become notorious for his unfaithfulness to his wife, at one point propositioning the Senate’s lone woman. Kane’s presidency was also rather close to big business interests and he largely sought to allow them a free hand in activities in a sharp break from his progressive predecessors. His administration was also rife with corruption, much of which was revealed in the documents known as the Sunday Papers. However, Kane at no point was directly implicated in such things and exited office not through impeachment but thanks to losing a bought with pneumonia.
31. Harold Goosie (Republican) 1923-1925
Goosie was a rather shy, quiet, unassuming sort whom had been picked as Kane’s running mate to shore up regional balance. Goosie’s presidency was heavily characterized by racial issues, following the advent of the Crookman Process capable of turning African-Americans Caucasian. Despite his party’s usual history regarding race relations, Goosie joined with the Democrats in working to ban the process (even as he continued to denounce the equally-opposed Knights of Nordica as brutes). Goosie was also president when the entity known as Cthulhu temporarily woke up and while it was quickly defeated by a fishing vessel, Goosie suffered terrifying nightmares for months and years afterwards. Goosie’s nightmares tormented him so much he shocked his party by refusing to run for reelection in 1924.
32. John P. Wintergreen (Republican) 1925-1929
Wintergreen was the exact opposite of Goosie in personality (though not so much in policy), being an extroverted, energetic figure who used flash to make up for mediocre policy credentials (a move some have credited to the advice of Wintergreen’s friend Billy Flynn, who used a similar approach to get clients acquitted of murder on numerous occasions). Wintergreen ran promising to marry the winner of a beauty pageant and his decision to go back on this promise provoked a diplomatic row with France. Wintergreen also placed tariffs on Switzerland, which sparked the brief ‘Fletcher War’ that ended bloodlessly and destroyed the town of Innsmouth following incursions by Deep Ones. Moureau sapiens in America would also gain increased prominence as entertainers in America, most notably Charles Dingo’s Michael Mysz shorts. Wintergreen’s presidency ran into some problems when it was discovered a group of New Jersey Republicans were involved in bootlegging activities under the leadership of Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson and Meyer Wolfsheim. Wintergreen himself was never implicated, but the ties between him and Thompson’s criminal empire led to the Republicans booting him from the ticket in 1928.
33. Judd Hammond (Republican) 1929-1933
Hammond was largely seen as a tolerable figure by the country as a whole, whom was largely not looking for someone to rock the boat. However, early in his administration, the economy tanked, sparking the beginning of the Great Depression. Hammond’s reluctance to rock the boat bordered on callous indifference to the suffering of working people and Hammond thus experienced severe unpopularity. Shantytowns known as Hammondvilles cropped up across the country and Hammond turned away veterans demanding bonuses with the help of General Harry Howell. The US would also briefly be attacked by the Treen natives of Mercury during Hammond’s term. Hammond would, late in his presidency, experience an about-face which saw him crack down on the criminal empires of Nick Diamond, Snake Eyes Johnson and Tony Camonte and implement some attempts to relieve unemployment (mainly with job programs such as the Hammond Dam). However, largely this was too little too late and despite Hammond attempting to proclaim himself dictator, he would die just in time for his duly elected successor to take the presidency.
34. Peter J. Varney (Democrat) 1933-1937
Varney had not initially been a politician, but rather a snake-oil salesman by trade whom was hired to stand-in for the aristocratic, uncharismatic Theodore K. Blair. Varney proved to be more popular than Blair and ultimately admitted to the whole ruse while Blair found himself exiled to the Arctic. Varney would survive initial attempts by Blair to regain power and solidified his popularity with a series of programs to relieve unemployment known as the New Deal (after being encouraged by a young orphan named Annie Warbucks). Varney’s New Deal policies did provide some relief to the public and were widely popular. However, Varney would run into a number of snags over the course of his term. The gargantuan ape known as Kong rampaged through Metropolis in 1933, killing dozens and costing millions in property damage. The first individual to use the name Superman briefly used his powers to take over the entire planet, before being defeated by the adventure-hero Clark Savage. Varney was also troubled by the rise of fascism abroad in the form of Adenoid Hynkel’s Germany and Benzino Napaloni’s Italy. While he could not intervene directly, Varney had agents such as James Christopher and Henry Jones, Jr. undertake activities to prevent German acquisition of dangerous artifacts. The popular Louisiana Governor Willie Stark, aided by the radio host Bishop Prang and Charles Foster Kane’s media empire, attacked the president as not doing enough to help the public and, after Stark’s 1935 assassination, he was often suspected of being the perpetrator. Nevertheless, Varney presumed his popularity remained strong enough that he could withstand any challenges, but was caught off-guard by Buzz Windrip’s entrance into the Democratic primary. Varney narrowly was renominated, but Windrip would seize control of many state Democratic Parties, including almost the entirety of the South and Midwest (including his home state of Winnemac). Windrip would ultimately defeat both Varney and Republican Walt Trowbridge in 1936.
35. Buzz Windrip (Democrat/National Revolutionary/Corpo) 1937-1938 (Overthrown)
Windrip, after his victory, swiftly went to work shifting the US into a dictatorship, dividing the nation into ‘corpos’ administered by his cronies and whipping up the public into a nationalist, xenophobic furor. Windrip won as the nominee of several state Democratic Parties as well as that of the National Revolutionary Party founded by ex-President Whipple, which Windrip reformed into the Corpo Party. Windrip’s totalitarian policies ultimately provoked the rise of a resistance movement dubbed the New Underground. Led by Walt Trowbridge, Stanley Craig and Philip Dru, this resistance movement was the most powerful in the western United States. Windrip’s grip on power would completely unravel in 1938, as the Depression intensified, allies fled the country and Windrip was overthrown by his Secretary of State Lee Saranson. Saranson’s coup helped prompt more unrest and even a planned invasion of Mexico failed to rally support. General Dewey Haik overthrew Saranson and killed Trowbridge, but this only fueled a mass uprising that saw Dru and his allies seize most of the Western US in one fell swoop before the rest of the country finally was liberated. Subsequent historians elected not to count Saranson and Haik’s presidencies as legitimate owing to their status as the result of illegitimate processes to assume that role.
36. Stanley Craig (Independent) 1938-1941
A Republican, Craig had been one of the key figures in the New Underground and got the presidency as the result of Dru declining to assume the role citing his advanced age. Craig instead appointed Dru, a Democrat, as his vice president. Craig, as president, successfully averted a resurgence of fascism by staging his own disappearance and defeated a colony of superhumans founded in the South Pacific. He also defeated a race of sentient newts that threatened to overthrow humanity. Craig was also president amidst the beginning of World War II, as German Fuhrer Adenoid Hynkel invaded Arztotska and subsequently conquered much of continental Europe. Craig chose to stay neutral in the war, but towards the end of his term began funding weapons shipments to Britain. Craig additionally had to contend with incursions by Namor’s Kingdom of Atlantis, which were repelled by the first Human Torch and other vigilantes such as Lobster Johnson. Craig subsequently formed an alliance with a different Atlantean kingdom, which had an American named Milo Thatch as its current king, to help prevent further attacks by Namor’s forces.
37. Stephen Wayne (Democrat) 1941-1944 (Died in office)
Wayne had been Secretary of State under Varney and returned to that role under Craig before running for president. Wayne defeated the isolationist fascist-sympathizing aviator Ted Scott in the general election of 1940 and continued to funnel aid to Britain and, after Operation Barbarossa, the USSR. Wayne nevertheless kept the US officially neutral until 1941, when Japanese attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Wayne thus led the US into the Second World War. Despite Germany’s alliance with dark wizards led by Gellert Grindelwald, the HYDRA organization of Johann Schmidt and technological developments launched by Dieter Vogel and Wilhelm Strasse (which enabled the creation of cloned dinosaurs, werewolf women in the SS, the Trioxin virus and a legion of Nazi vampires), Wayne’s America continued to boldly fight on. Wayne helped form the world’s first superteam, in the form of the Justice Society of America. This time consisted of Diana Prince, Steve Rogers, Jim Hammond, Namor, Bucky Barnes, Flash Gordon, Billy Batson and Atomic Robo and played a key role in defeating some of the more unusual Nazi forces. Wayne also created the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense to help counter Nazi occultism. Wayne’s leadership would bring the Allies to the brink of victory, but ultimately Wayne himself would not see the final victory, dying a few months before the end of 1944.
38. Mike Thingmaker (Democrat/Communist) 1944-1946 (Impeached)
Thingmaker was a woodsman from New England and a hardcore left-wing figure. Thingmaker would bring the Second World War to a triumphant conclusion after Germany’s surrender and nuking Japan twice. Thingmaker would lead the US into the early years of the Cold War, which is where he ran into trouble. Thingmaker was, privately, a communist and favored implementing communism in the United States. He was happy to defer to the USSR’s leader Josef Besstrashny and support the IngSoc regime of Rab Whitlow in Britain. Thingmaker allowed the Arkadins to smuggle the secrets of nuclear technology to the USSR and his socialist policies provoked a free market revolt headed by Dagny Taggart, John Galt and Andrew Ryan. This revolt caused a postwar economic recession and coupled with revelations of his treason, Thingmaker was swiftly impeached just before the Republicans swept into Congress.
39. Art Hockstader (Democrat) 1946-1949
Hockstader was a far more mild-mannered figure than Thingmaker and far closer to the postwar consensus in terms of politics. Hockstader prosecuted the Arkadins for treason, rescinded orders to hand the American occupation sector of Germany to the Soviets (in part done due to trouble caused by the ‘Werewolf’ insurgency headed by Strasse and Ilsa Schneider). Hockstader backed Harold Wharton’s coup against Whitlow, restoring democracy to Britain and ultimately creating NATO to serve as a bulwark against communism in Europe. Hockstader also exiled the multinational SCP Foundation from the US over their refusal to hand over artifacts to SHIELD or the BPRD. Hockstader also formed the Central Enquiries Agency, led by Philip Allen, to counter communist espionage. Hockstader was also president when the Galileo space expedition discovered a Nazi base on the Moon and contributed to the United World Organization effort to destroy the base. Hockstader was also president when numerous alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Austin and he would store the spacecraft in various clandestine sites across America such as Zone 91, Area 51, Area 52 and Warehouse 13. Hockstader would however run into trouble regarding China, as Chairman Peng Tsing-Tse’s People’s Republic of China pushed the US-allied Republic to the island of Zheng Fa. Civil rights issues would end up dragging down Hockstader’s administration, as pushes to gain better treatment for African-Americans and Moureau sapiens (increasingly known as Toons) caused a backlash that led to southern Senator Jake Featherston running as a third-party candidate in 1948. Coupled with the surprise run by ex-president Thingmaker (who blamed his impeachment on a capitalist conspiracy), Hockstader would be defeated and even a last-minute threat to nuke Municiberg failed to salvage his chances.
40. Jefferson Smith (Republican) 1949-1957
A former Boy Scout leader, Smith had served as Senator from Montana from 1939 to 1941, when he resigned his position to assist in the war effort. Smith achieved a great deal of success on the front, becoming a decorated veteran. Smith would, upon returning home after the war, run once more for his old seat in 1946, winning it in a landslide. He subsequently won the presidential nomination over Grant Matthews in 1948 and easily triumphed over Hockstader. Smith would lead the US into the Hun Chiu War after North Hun Chiu invaded the South. The conflict ultimately lasted for a fairly short time frame, ending in a long-lasting stalemate. Smith was also president during numerous alien encounters. America was visited by the Citadel Council ambassador known as Klaatu in 1953. First contact was made with the Kanamits in 1954, which ended badly after it was discovered they sought to consume humans. At this point, SHIELD drove the Kanamits off-Earth by force thanks in part to the weapons designed by the ex-Nazi scientist Merkwurdgliebe and British scientist Bernard Quartermass. The US would also be invaded in this time frame by the Molluscs once again, the pod people and the Furons. Smith would form the Syndicate of the Men in Black and Majestic-12 to deal with these repeated alien incursions (dubbed Blue Rose cases), which also included attacks by the Blob, the arrival of the Iron Giant and an incursion by the hedonistic Transylvanians. Giant monsters also became increasingly common during the Smith years, as the US was attacked by the Rhedosaurus, giant ants, colossal human beings and enlarged species ranging from rabbits to Gila monsters. Some of these monsters would be contained in secret facilities and be used to fend off an alien invasion decades later. Other countries would also be attacked by giant creatures such as Gojira in Japan or Gorgo in Britain. The more publicly visible controversy of Smith’s administration was over anti-communism, namely Johnny Iselin’s investigations of communist subversion that blacklisted many prominent figures. Smith was critical of Iselin, but his preferred successor as president Archie Hall selected Iselin as his running mate. Iselin would be assassinated by his stepson Raymond Shaw and subsequently be found to be a Soviet agent, which led to the defeat of Hall in 1956.
41. Merkin Muffley (Democrat) 1957-1959 (Died in office)
Muffley was often derided as an egghead and would have almost certainly lost were it not for the scandals around Iselin. Muffley played a critical role in defusing the 1957 Suez crisis and the next year’s Doomsday crisis. Muffley also had to contend with continued giant monster attacks and alien incursions, ranging from overt raids by the Zagons to the raising of undead ghouls by the Hive in an attempt to destroy the Earth. Muffley benefitted from an increasing collecting of costumed, superpowered vigilantes appearing across the US ranging from Doctor Manhattan to Jay Garrick. These individuals helped reduce the overall damage caused by these numerous incursions and increased confidence of the American public. Economic prosperity under Muffley was enormous, enabling the rise of consumer goods ranging from Hudsucker Industries’ hula hoop to Buzz Lightyear action figures. Muffley also sent the first American into space without the use of Cavorite (the last Cavorite-using expedition being an ill-fated Mars expedition in the early 1950’s that left Valentine Michael Smith stranded). However, Muffley would go out on a low note, after his nominee for Secretary of State Robert Leffingwall was discovered to be an ex-member of the Communist Party. Muffley would suffer a fatal stroke after Leffingwall was voted down by the Senate.
42. Harley Hudson (Democrat) 1959-1961
Hudson served as a caretaker president for the remainder of Muffley’s term. His tenure was largely uneventful, with more people paying attention to the brutal Bates murders than Hudson’s policies. Hudson did not pursue reelection.
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43. Timothy F. Kegan (Democrat) 1961-1963 (Assassinated)
Kegan was a young, photogenic president who along with his wife Liz charmed America. Kegan would be the most vocal supporter of civil rights to hold the White House thus far, meeting with civil rights leaders like John Calvin Sykes and Franklin Peabody. Kegan would also contend with crises such as the Triffid invasion of 1961 (spurred in part by a craze for disguised Triffids spurred by a florist named Seymour Krelborne) and the Tropican Missile Crisis (sparked by the failure of the Bay of Llamas invasion to depose the totalitarian El Presidente Alejandro Costa ruling the island nation). Kegan managed to adroitly handle both crises and sponsored the creation of the Justice League of America following the emergence of Superman during the Triffid invasion. Kegan was widely popular, but his presidency would be tragically cut short when he was shot by an ex-Marine named Johnny Shellburn in Philadelphia. However, subsequent evaluation of the evidence has indicated Shellburn was a patsy, with the real culprit being unknown, but possibly being ex-Special Forces agent Alex Mason or the vigilante Edward Blake and it is believed that there was a plot to kill the young president potentially involving the FBR, the CEA, Vito Corleone’s mafia, Tropican exiles, the SCP Foundation, the Syndicate, time travelers or even Kegan’s own father.
44. John Pierrepont Finch (Republican) 1963-1965
Finch was a personal friend of Kegan’s despite being a Republican and had been selected to be vice president by Kegan after his first vice president Arthur Fenstamaker resigned to return to his old job as governor of Texas. Finch used the political capital from Kegan’s assassination to push through civil rights legislation, seeking to end discrimination against nonwhites and Moureau sapiens. Finch would also welcome the formation of a new superteam known as the Fantastic Four to prominence, utilizing members to foment unrest in Victor Von Osud’s Latveria. Finch would also have to contend with the rise of international criminal organizations, most notably SPECTRE and THRUSH. The town of Bodega Bay was overrun by a collection of highly aggressive birds during his time in office and several towns in Nebraska were overtaken by a cult centered on a figure known as He Who Walks Between the Rows. Facing heavy stress and not truly at home with either party, Finch declined to pursue reelection. In retirement, Finch would become an early investor in computer technology and his son Harold would become one of the major tech billionaires.
45. Leslie McCloud (Democrat) 1965 (Resigned)
The first female president of the United States was elected in a landslide over the archconservative Republican Brigham Anderson. During McCloud’s presidency, the Luna rocket expedition made formal first contact with the Selenites on the Moon’s surface. McCloud also began sending aid to the anticommunist forces in Sarkhan, precipitating US involvement in the Sarkhan War. McCloud’s term in office would be cut short when she discovered she was pregnant. McCloud consequently decided to resign to focus on her role as a mother and wife, to the chagrin of many American feminists. McCloud’s presidency proved so unpopular with women’s rights activists many subsequent female politicians preferred to campaign as ‘the first female president’ as a means of discrediting McCloud.
46. James Norcross (Democrat) 1965-1969
Norcross would be president amidst many of the great crises of the 1960’s. The planet Earth was nearly devoured by the entity known as Galactus, whom was only prevented from consuming the world thanks to the efforts of the Fantastic Four. The phenomena of mutants (also known as homo novis, homo superior and the tomorrow people) increased in prominence under Norcross. Norcross himself acquired superpowers thanks to a cosmic storm and at times fought crime as the vigilante ‘Super President.” Norcross would use his powers to bring an end to the first modern zombie outbreak following the breach in containment of Trioxin in Keystone. However, Norcross would face issues far beyond those simply involving superhumans. The escalation of the war in Sarkhan proved unpopular as reports of events in the region ranging from Doctor Manhattan destroying entire villages suspected of hosting Sarkhanese communist rebels to Colonel Sebastian Kurtz setting up a personal fiefdom in the region. Counterculture antiwar movements gained a great deal of traction during Norcross’ term. Hostility to Norcross only increased following revelations of his ties to The Phone Company, a multinational communications conglomerate that sought to implant chips in the brains of every human being on Earth. While the scheme was thwarted and Norcross lacked knowledge of their plans, his unpopularity remained high and he was forced to stand aside in 1968 in favor of Johnny Fergus.
47. Max Frost (Republican) 1969 (Removed from office)
A musician and countercultural icon, Frost (born Max Flatow) ran for president on the back of a push to lower the voting age to 14. Frost’s followers successfully forced this change to come about and additionally got the threshold for the presidency lowered to 15 as well. Frost consequently embarked on a presidential bid, gaining the Republican nomination thanks to party insiders assuming he could keep his followers on a tight leash. However, Frost upon winning showed his true ‘hippie fascist’ colors, interning ‘squares’ via his suede-denim secret police and withdrawing all troops from overseas. Frost’s actions ultimately backfired on him, as the Syndicate (which had concealed its existence from the radical young president) launched a coup against Frost, ousting him from power. With the usage of neuralyzer technology, the Syndicate essentially undid Frost’s presidency, convincing the public the real president was Frost’s running mate.
48. Ferris F. Fremont (Republican) 1969-1974 (Resigned)
Fremont was an ambitious, amoral man whom had been given the vice presidential nomination with the expectation he would check Frost’s more radical ambitions. Upon assuming the presidency, Fremont showed himself to be as authoritarian as his predecessor, simply from the right instead of the left. Fremont was infamously racist and sought to spread drugs in the black community with the goal of reducing their fertility rates and beginning the ‘War on Drugs’ to crack down on minority communities. His actions marked the beginning of the ‘Southern Strategy’ that would ultimately remake the GOP into a conservative party that would dominate the south. Fremont additionally had no patience for student protests or other dissent against him, interning opponents on his enemies list and drastically escalating the Sarkhan War. His interning of prominent figures such as Hawthorne Abdensen and Kilgore Trout helped provoke the creation of the nebulous ‘Volunteer Fire Department’ network among intellectuals targeted by his regime which would actually outlast Fremont’s term. Fremont’s presidency saw the launch of a number of secret projects such as MKUltra, Project Firestarter and the NIMH experiments, all of which had far-reaching consequences. Fremont also plotted with the CEA to seize oil reserves in the Middle East and landed Mike AR Samson on the Moon. However, Fremont’s regime would ultimately unravel in 1974, when report of a break-in at the Watergate Hotel was called in by future businessman Forrest Gump. The wiretapper Harry Caul was arrested for this action and claimed he had been ordered to do so by CEA Director Bill Martin. Subsequently, leaks by two teenage girls to the Washington Herald’s Mark Forman and a failed assassination attempt by the aforementioned Edward Blake revealed Fremont had carried out the break-in with the goal of securing dominance in the White House. Fremont consequently would be forced to resign the office of the presidency in disgrace (though his revived head over a thousand years later would manage to mount a successful return to politics). Fremont may also have been responsible for a pact between the Syndicate and Furons that led to the former collaborating with the latter’s invasion attempts in later years, though this has been disputed.
49. Lancelot Gilligrass (Republican) 1974-1975 (Left office due to special election)
Gilligrass had been chosen as vice president owing to the belief that his weak, vacillating nature would ensure he remain subordinate to Fremont. Gilligrass would withdraw troops from Sarkhan and pardon Fremont for his crimes. Gilligrass, not truly wanting the presidency, would declare a special election in 1974. During the remainder of his term, Gilligrass defeated the Vermicious Knids and helped combat the Dinosaur Empire. Gilligrass also stepped up US intelligence operations, recruiting the likes of Steve Austin and Johnny Quest and establishing the Impossible Missions Force before being replaced.
50. Prez Rickard (Independent) 1975-1977
Rickard holds the record for the youngest president of the United States, being only a teenager upon taking office. Rickard nevertheless had an extremely busy term, pursuing gun control and environmental initiatives and establishing the Nelson Institute for Marine Research. Rickard also averted an attempted terrorist attack on the 1976 Super Bowl. However, despite these positive events and high personal popularity, Rickard struggled to deal with other issues. The town of Jerusalem’s Lot was overrun by vampires and had to be destroyed by the BPRD. The US was targeted by a collection of oil-producing states including Wasabia, Qumran, Qumar and Asran for an embargo over support for the state of Israel. Inflation also set in and the country’s mood remained somber in the aftermath of the failure in Sarkhan. Crime increased drastically, with Precinct 13 in Los Santos nearly being taken over by the Street Thunder gang and the Sawyer family murders infamously occurring in Texas. Rickard consequently would lose the 1976 election.
51. Charles Palantine (Democrat) 1977-1978 (Killed in office)
Palantine easily won the presidency over the exhausted Rickard and the disgraced Republicans. During Palantine’s term, the US experienced the Devil’s Tower incursion by thankfully non-hostile aliens and was attacked by a race of sentient, murderous tomatoes. Additional serial killings would occur across America during his term, including the Myers murders in Haddonfield, murders by a cannibal clan in Nevada (which would ultimately be destroyed by the first Hulk David Banner) and the Russell commune murders all taking place. Palantine nevertheless remained fairly popular, but would ultimately be killed in a friendly fire incident when a rogue general seized missile silos in Montana and attempted to force the release of classified documents surrounding the Sarkhan War.
52. Douglass Dilman (Democrat) 1978-1981
Thanks to the vice president declining to assume the presidency due to poor health and the Speaker of the House dying in an accident concurrently with Palantine’s demise, Dilman became president. Dilman was the nation’s first African-American president and found himself caught between racists hostile to him because of that alone (membership in groups like the American Socialist White People’s Party and Knights of Nordica soared during his term) and liberals who thought some of his policies (such as extraditing a black man to Draka to face punishment for a crime) as betrayals of his people. Dilman would face a coup attempt for seeking to negotiate arms reductions treaties with the Soviets, though this coup failed and the treaty negotiated by Secretary of State Bruce Gold would go into effect. Dilman was also president during a backlash to superhumans sparked by the homo novis teenager Carrie White massacring high school tormentors at a prom. This event, dubbed the Black Prom massacre, led to the passage of the Keene Act severely restricting superhumans’ activities and limiting the rights of metahumans. Dilman opposed the legislation, but his veto attempts were overruled. Dilman’s term saw numerous animal attacks also occur, such as the Megalodon attacks off Amity Island, the killer bee incursion in Texas and attacks by a mutated grizzly in Maine. Miskatonic University’s campus was destroyed when a nuclear strike on the Cthulhu spawn Cthylla was launched and several areas of the Midwest would fall victim to a mass Trioxin outbreak before the military cleared the infected out. Labor disputes heated up following the murder of Johnny Kovak of the Federation of Interstate Truckers. The worst point in Dilman’s administration was the Asranian Hostage Crisis. In the aftermath of a civil war over dynastic succession, the weakened Shah of Asran was overthrown by Islamic radicals who took the US embassy’s staff hostage. Despite Dilman’s best efforts, the hostages remained trapped until past election day and coupled with the bad economy, Dilman was defeated in a landslide.
53. Augustus Alvin York (Republican) 1981 (Resigned)
York had been a compromise pick between the establishment Republican leadership and the conservative grassroots. York was briefly the target of a kidnapping plot carried out during a summit in Canada, though this attempt failed. However, coupled with assassination threats, York became very paranoid about falling victim to the ‘Zero Factor’ that claimed the lives of every president from 1840 onwards (at least based on what he knew at the time). York ultimately chose to resign from office.
54. Johnathan Cyclops (Republican) 1981-1988 (Killed in office)
Cyclops was a hardcore conservative in the vein of Senator Anderson and British Prime Minister Joan Carpenter. Cyclops pursued a policy of military buildup, privatization, deregulation and spending cuts that were credited for an economic boom. His policies led to the growth of corporations such as Ghostbusters LTD, the Foundation for Law and Government, and the Paranormal Termination Consortium, all of which contributed to the public welfare by dealing with threats both supernatural and mundane. On the other hand, his policies also allowed for the spread of the addictive foodstuff known as the Stuff, provoked the ScrumLabs kaiju incident, may have caused the Louisville Trioxin outbreak and perpetuated income inequality. Cyclops’ America faced major threats from drug cartels such as the one headed by Tony Montana, terrorist groups like COBRA, MAD, the disarmament supporting group that ended up destroying Charleston and the West German group that took over Nakatomi Plaza and supervillains such as Doctor Impossible. The country also saw increased numbers of supernatural murders, most notably the Springwood dream killings and the Crystal Lake murders. Cyclops was also president during the Crisis on Infinite Earths and the British superhero Miracleman’s attempt to take over the planet (which was ultimately defeated by Superman and Doctor Manhattan). During his term, the Visitors attempted an invasion, but Cyclops managed to repel it when the true nature of the invasion was revealed by John Nada. To stave off further alien threats, Cyclops allied with the more benevolent races known as the Autobots and Dinosaucers. Cyclops also had to contend with Metropolis getting attacked by Gozer, an amphitre that fostered a cult believing it to be the god Quetzalcoatl and cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, as well as the rise of the criminal organization known as the Foot Clan. The Hawkins incursions also all occurred under Cyclops’ watch and prompted the president to invite the SCP Foundation to resume operations in America. Cyclops’ foreign policies proved to be more controversial. His decision to create a Quark bomb on the advice of his advisor ‘the Deacon’ nearly provoked a global war and his support for British control of the Cascara Islands was polarizing. The Red October crisis brought the US and USSR to the brink of war before both sides backed down. However, his hardline anti-communist rhetoric led to a very bad place. His hardline positions led to a coup headed by General Vladimir Soshkin, who after an American boxer humiliated the Soviets by triumphing in a Moscow match, sought to prepare to awaken Cthulhu in the event of a war with America. Cyclops had Colonel Oliver Southern put in charge of contingencies should that scenario occur, but conflict would erupt early when Cyclops joked of beginning bombing in five minutes. Soshkin would awaken Cthulhu to begin the Third World War, but following the entity’s defeat at the hands of the kaiju Gojira and Gamera launched an earlier plan known as Operation Red Dawn from Soviet-aligned states in Tropico and Mexico. Cyclops would be killed in a Soviet bombing raid on Washington in the early stages of the Third World War.
55. Sam Baker (Republican) 1988-1989
Baker was a moderate Republican who was seen as an able foreign policy hand. Baker led the US through the bulk of the Third World War, helping repel the Soviet invasion of America and sending aid to Europe as Soviet forces advanced west. Baker also backed the protests that brought the British government of Gerald O’Brien, a Soviet sympathizer, down and installed pro-American Jim Hacker in 10 Downing Street, bolstering the war effort. Soviet nuclear strikes would devastate Missouri, parts of England and China during the war, but ultimately the usage of nuclear weapons would be spread thin, in part thanks to the flight of the ‘Old Dog’ airplane and the usage of the Silver Tower defensive system. Ultimately, Soshkin would be removed by Moscow mayor Sergei Karpov, who launched peace negotiations amidst the collapse of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. Baker would run for reelection, but be defeated in the primaries by Robert Kelly, running on the basis that Baker’s suspension of the Keene Act during World War III was a threat to the public. Kelly would go on to achieve victory over Jack Tanner and Stephen Wendell.
56. Robert Kelly (Republican) 1989-1991 (Resigned due to stress)
Kelly had made a name for himself as an anti-mutant hawk who distrusted homo novis. However, shortly before taking office, his perspective shifted after he was rescued from being kidnapped by future Genoshan president Erik Lensherr by the mutant students of Charles Xavier. Kelly consequently came to appreciate the value of heroic metahumans, rolling back the Keene Act and establishing government support for the Xavier Institute, Whateley Academy, Sky High and other institutions to train future superteams. Kelly’s policies have been credited with the emergence of groups like the Powerpuff Girls, the Seven Guns, the Umbrella Academy and the Teen Titans during the 1990’s. On the domestic front, Kelly was president during the first attempted school massacre at Westerberg High School and during the Vice City animal mask murders. Kelly also formally concluded World War III by signing a peace treaty with the USSR. Kelly however would have to contend with new threats. Khan Noonien Singh’s India had taken advantage of China’s collapse to annex the country and begin planning military expansion. Saleh Takridi’s Basenji invaded the smaller US ally of Qumran, sparking the Gulf War. The biggest crisis of Kelly’s term was the Denver nuclear incident of 1991, which killed 75,000 people. Kelly, stressed by his failure to avert the catastrophe, would resign the presidency in the aftermath of this event.
57. James Marshall (Republican) 1991-1992 (Killed in office)
Marshall was a veteran and generally seen as a no-nonsense president. During Marshall’s presidency, the US began to intervene in the conflict known as the Eugenics Wars. Marshall sent military aid to the nations of Matobo and Zamunda as Karl Vorster’s neo-Domination regime in Draka sought to expand and also sent aid to Vietmahl and Sarkhan to stave off takeover by the Great Khanate. Marshall also used direct force to deal with Augment warlords in Ardistan, which ultimately provoked a vengeful attempt to hijack Air Force One that Marshall personally dealt with. Marshall would also lead the US into a war with Japan, which had aligned itself with the Khanate and embraced radical ideas such as sending teenagers into deathmatches to curb delinquency. The US emerged victorious, but a vengeful Japanese soldier would kill Marshall and much of Congress in a retaliatory attack.
58. Jack Ryan (Independent/Republican) 1992-1993
Ryan was a former CEA agent and the son of the Galtist businessman Andrew Ryan, whose underwater city of Rapture had laid much of the groundwork for the technology used to create the Augments. Despite his own bizarre origins, Ryan showed strong leadership during his time in office. He defeated the Khanate-aligned United Islamic Republic formed by the takeover of Basenji by Asran even amidst attempted biological warfare. Ryan authorized the Tectonese refugees to settle in the US. Ryan’s military leadership was strong and he was personally quite popular, but the economy dipped during his presidency and, coupled with a strong third-party run by businessman Newton Sanders, Ryan would be defeated in his bid for reelection (during which he was technically an independent, but de facto the nominee of the Republican Party).
59. Bud Hammond (Democrat) 1993-1995 (Resigned)
Hammond had been governor of North Carolina and was a distant relative of former president Hammond as well as InGen CEO John Hammond. During Hammond’s term, Earth faced destruction at the hand of the entity known as Giygas, the Crisis Empire and beings from the Dark Kingdom. The town of Salem was attacked by a trio of resurrected witches and parts of the country by enlarged ticks during Hammond’s term. Hammond himself was somewhat lecherous and had extramarital affairs with an environmental activist and an underage girl, the latter of which prompted him to start a war in Borduria amidst the ongoing Eugenics Wars. Hammond was also responsible for sending a special forces team to the Yucatan Peninsula to prevent the awakening of a sleeping Mayan god after being warned about it by a Jjaro hologram. Hammond alienated much of the left via his triangulation and centrism and was often supportive of business interests. One ally of Hammond, the businessman Victor Mattiece, had two Supreme Court justices assassinated to protect his business interests. Hammond had allies in other controversial companies as well ranging from the Rossum Corporation to Aperture Science. Ultimately, Hammond would be forced to resign as a result of his numerous scandals, though in his post-presidency he would gain more popularity and in hindsight was viewed quite favorably.
60. Thomas Whitmore (Democrat) 1995-1996 (Resigned)
Whitmore was a Gulf War veteran and entered the presidency unpopular due to the cloud of Hammond hanging over him. However, Whitmore would prove capable of rising to the occasion. Early in his term, the world was attacked by the alien race known as the Fithp. Despite their bombarding of Earth with asteroids, Whitmore was able to defeat the Fithp by launching the spaceship known as the Archangel Michael. Whitmore would also bring an end to the Eugenics Wars as Khan Noonien Singh’s regime fully collapsed. During Whitmore’s term, an alien-human hybrid escaped containment in Los Santos and Whitmore’s allies in the government failed to secure the escaped specimen. Whitmore would become most noteworthy for his leadership during the 1996 Harvester invasion, where he personally flew in the combat mission that destroyed the Harvester mothership. Postwar, Whitmore presided over the opening of the Stargate, began supporting the Global Defense Initiative following the rise of the Brotherhood of Nod and sponsored the creation of the Power Rangers inspired by Japan’s Sentai Corps. However, in August of 1996, Whitmore experienced a severe seizure that his doctors initially though killed him. While he survived, Whitmore ended up resigning due to this event.
61. Florentyna Kane (Democrat) 1996-1997
Kane had been about to be dropped from the presidential ticket when Whitmore resigned, but managed to salvage her chance to be the nominee when Whitmore stood aside. Kane presided over the national reconstruction efforts following the Harvester invasion. During Kane’s term, meteors hit Maple Valley and Houston, causing widespread damage. Kane had to contend with the Machine Empire’s invasion of Earth, the supervillain Hank Scorpio temporarily occupying the East Coast and feuds between the FBR and the Syndicate. Kane would pressure Draka into accepted the Prawn refugees that arrived on Earth during her term. Kane also was the target of an assassination attempt thwarted by Black Light, but Kane experienced severe paranoia afterwards and attempted to arrest several members of Congress she believed were involved in the attempt. This move proved widely unpopular and bolstered the Republican candidacy of William Cozzanno who would ultimately defeat Kane.
62. Eleanor Richmond (Republican) 1997-1998 (Left office due to special election)
Cozzanno had won the election due to vote-rigging by the organization known as the Network and ended up getting assassinated on his inauguration day, leading to his political novice running mate Eleanor Richmond becoming president. Richmond was the first African-American woman to serve as president and her position caused the rise of various hate groups, most infamously the Organization headed by Earl Turner which launched a small-scale insurgency against the government before being crushed by the FBR. The biggest crisis of Richmond’s term would occur when rogue general Frank Hummel took over Alcatraz, demanding $100 million to release hostages and not launch missiles at San Fransokyo. While the crisis would be resolved, Richmond felt extremely uncomfortable dealing with the crisis and decided to hold a special election rather than continue to serve as president.
63. Kenneth Yamaoka (Democrat) 1998 (Resigned)
Yamaoka was a dark horse candidate who ended up becoming the first Asian-American commander-in-chief. During Yamaoka’s term, the island of Nantucket and all its inhabitants disappeared, to be replaced by the island as it was in the Bronze Age. Due to this event, Yamaoka sponsored the creation of the Fringe Division. Yamaoka was also forced to destroy Raccoon City following the T-virus outbreak caused by the Umbrella Corporation. Yamaoka was a staunch opponent of hate groups, but this ironically led to his undoing when it was discovered he had been backing various hate groups covertly to increase their profiles and give himself the capital to push back against them. Yamaoka consequently resigned the presidency.
64. Josiah Bartlet (Democrat) 1998-2005
Bartlet had been the runner-up in 1997’s Democratic primary and been picked by Yamaoka to unify the party. Bartlet would contend with a number of issues, most notably the September 11th terrorist attack on the Wynand Towers. While Mitchell Hundred saved one of the towers, over a thousand people still perished in the attack. Bartlet responded by invading Adjikastan to depose the government harboring the Umayyad Revolutionary Council from power. Bartlet chose to combat terrorism with a generally light footprint, preferring to use covert assassinations and limited air strikes to deal with terrorism outside of Adjikastan. Bartlet also sent aid to Britain following the Rage outbreak of 2002 and to Japan following an incursion of vicious legged aquatic life, negotiated an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and weathered a scandal surrounding concealing his MS from the public. Bartlet also advanced America’s space program, launching the Discovery One expedition to Jupiter and setting up a base on the Moon’s surface. He also sought to push back against the Shiawise Supreme Court decision granting multinational corporations extraterritoriality, though this effort failed to succeed by the time he left office. Bartlet also established contact with the Andalite alien race following Governor Al Donnelly’s revelation of an ongoing alien invasion by the parasitic Yeerks. However, the alliance with the Andalites and Hork-Bajir was brought down when the Syndicate and their Furon allies destroyed the Andalite homeworld, imprisoned the Hork Bajir and mindwiped most of the public. 4,400 individuals whom had disappeared over the past century mysteriously reappeared during Bartlet’s term and their possession of unusual capabilities sparked widespread distrust. West Elizabeth faced an incursion by aliens that could rapidly evolve during Bartlet’s term in office and a deadly videotape of Japanese origins killed dozens. Eastern European anarchists attempted to carry out terrorist plots, but were thwarted by the efforts of Xander Cage. Bartlet would end up leaving office with rather high approval ratings, but his party failed to secure a win in 2004.
65. George Sears (Republican) 2005 (Resigned)
Sears was a key figure in the neoconservative cabal known as the Patriots, an organization closely aligned with the ancient Templar Order. Sears had to contend with the Pluto’s Kiss virus disrupting all computer systems for over an hour and mandated that Internet usage be restricted to government use only for the next two years. However, Sears proved to be reluctant to embark on the full extent of the Patriots’ goals for America and he would subsequently be forced to resign. After leaving office, Sears would become a mercenary and become the only president to directly be implicated in the death of a successor.
66. John Blutarsky (Republican) 2005-2007 (Assassinated)
Blutarsky was a US Senator from Texas and famously rather dim-witted. He was seen by the Patriots and other hawks (whom were present in positions across his administration from Vice President Raymond Becker to Undersecretary of State Linton Barwick) as someone easily made amenable to their interests. Blutarsky lived up to their expectations. Declaring that he would beat terrorism “like we did the Germans after they bombed Pearl Harbor,” Blutarsky launched military interventions in Qumar, Basenji, Ardistan, Genosha and Hermajistan. He also nearly launched a war in Tyrgystan before the British ambassador to the US intervened. He passed surveillance legislation modeled after a 1990’s proposal that was scrapped when the NSA was implicated in assassinating a key political opponent of it. Blutarsky aligned with Tamerlane Industries, MannCo, Blackthorne, Vought-American and other private contractors to wage his numerous controversial overseas wars. All of these interventions caused controversy domestically to the point that undead veterans of the wars would rise up and seek to vote out his party in the 2006 midterms. Domestically, Blutarsky was considered a hardcore conservative, slashing taxes and disregarding scientists’ warnings about climate change. He once served as a guest host on the reality show American Dreamz and had to contend with zombie outbreaks in Willamette, Texas and the Midwest (the latter strain exclusively effecting pre-pubescent children), all largely caused by Umbrella experiments with the compound DC2. Blutarsky would ultimately be assassinated in the summer of 2007 by the superhero known as John Horus, who was outraged by Blutarsky’s militaristic policies. Much of Blutarsky’s cabinet also perished due to Horus’ actions.
67. Fletcher J. Fletcher (Republican) 2007 (Assassinated)
After Blutarsky’s death, the military-industrial complex stepped in to help restore order. They installed Fletcher J. Fletcher, the Speaker of the House, as president. Fletcher was an ally of Connex-Killen Oil and a strong critic of ‘socialist’ environmental policies. Fletcher launched a nationwide manhunt for Horus and members of the Seven Guns team he had been a part of, which ended successfully. However, elsewhere, Fletcher proved inept. When aliens attacked Los Santos, they were defeated by Duke Nukem rather than by the now-overstretched US military. Fletcher also bombed Haiti on baseless grounds. During his term, Fletcher came to the conclusion the best way to curb climate change was via depopulation of nations beyond America’s borders and contracted Yagiri Pharmaceuticals and the Umbrella Corporation to create a bioweapon to do so. However, before he could carry out his plan, his vice president, acting on behalf of the Patriots front known as the Company, poisoned Fletcher.
68. Caroline Reynolds (Republican) 2007-2008 (Resigned)
Reynolds was an ally of the Patriots through the Company front organization and was a ruthless near-sociopath whom had previously been the governor of Catawba. During her term, Stark Industries would end its relationship with the US military, instead fixating on supporting CEO Tony Stark’s activities as the superhero Iron Man and developing civilian technology. Metropolis was terrorized by a giant monster that had to be carpet-bombed to be destroyed. Reynolds helped the British government of Harriet Jones quarantine Scotland due to a deadly viral outbreak and California’s Agrestic and Majestic communities were destroyed in massive wildfires. Reynolds ultimately was blackmailed into leaving office with the revelation that she murdered her predecessor—something which came to light anyway shortly after she resigned.
69. Arthur Coleman Winters (Republican) 2008 (Killed in office)
Winters was a longtime ally of Blutarsky’s and helped bring about the latter’s conversion to Evangelical Christianity after a hedonistic youth. Winters’ presidency started off significantly with the revelation of the existence of vampires following the creation of synthetic TruBlood. Winters would be a critic of these vampire communities, seeing them as unholy and allying with Senator Nathan Petrelli in his efforts to impose mandatory vampire registration. Winters thus would earn the ire of vampire community leaders such as former President Lincoln, Bella Cullen and Barnabas Collins, but solidify his support among social conservatives and members of the Watcher’s Council, as well as the various Slayers and Hunters operating across the nation. However, Winters would ultimately be killed in office during what was supposedly a summit between the President, British Prime Minister Harold Saxon and envoys of an alien race known as the Toclafane. Saxon, however, actually was a renegade Time Lord known as the Master who used the Toclafane to murder Winters and briefly take over the world before history was rewritten so that the Master’s efforts were thwarted just after Winters’ death.
70. James Johnson (Republican) 2008 (Assassinated)
Johnson was an acolyte of the Patriots whom ended up being deemed as having outlived his usefulness. Johnson was president when the vigilante Kira began terrorizing the world with his ‘death notebook’ and when the Darkness attempted to assimilate the world’s human souls. His administration had barely done anything by the time of his death during the Big Shell Incident, which was abetted by the actions of former President Sears.
71. Johnny Gentle (Republican) 2008-2009
Gentle was a highly germophobic lounge singer whom had become vice president largely due to Johnson being a personal fan of his. Gentle negotiated the creation of the continent-wide Organization of North American Nations with Mexico and Canada, which implemented a regional free-trade regime and granted himself the title of ONAN president. Gentle also was responsible for creating a massive toxic waste dump along the US-Canadian border and handing that region to Canada as a means of achieving a ‘clean America.’ Gentle was president when a large number of dead teenagers returned to life, though thankfully they did not hunger for the flesh of the living or seek anything other than to simply live. The Zentraedi launched a raid on Earth during the Gentle administration, prompting Gentle to support the formation of the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit. Gentle nevertheless would be easily defeated in 2008 thanks to the beginning of the Great Recession.
72. David Palmer (Democrat) 2009-2010 (Resigned)
Palmer was the first African-American to be elected to the presidency and had quite an eventful tenure. He was targeted for assassination by terrorists both during the primaries and after becoming president, both times being saved by the CTU. Terrorists managed to succeed in destroying Dallas with a nuclear weapon during Palmer’s term. Palmer had to quarantine Empire City during his term after a large number of the city’s inhabitants gained unusual capabilities. During his term, Palmer was pressed by advisors and outside interests to support a war against Wasabia, Ramat and Abbudin. However, he resisted this push owing to the lack of evidence for such an intervention and was vindicated when the real reasons for this war push were uncovered. Palmer began sending US aid to the Japanese Self-Defense Force amidst Legion attacks in the country and the country experienced the effects of the Flash Forward. The Andromeda Research Corporation released the Revelation virus during Palmer’s term, briefly causing worldwide chaos. All of these events proved to be stressful to Palmer and he would resign in 2010.
73. Richard Martinez (Democrat) 2010-2011 (Left office in special election)
Martinez was a Congressman from San Fransokyo who was widely seen as a goofball and thus was unexpected to ever serve as president despite becoming Speaker of the House. Palmer selected him as vice president to replace his more ambitious predecessor whom had pushed for the unjustified wars in the Middle East Palmer opposed. Martinez would initially focus on feel-good initiatives, supporting things like the Genie Foundation and the Connor Project on social media and seeking to improve US relations with Bahavia. However, on actual policy, Martinez stumbled. The Washington monument fell victim to a terrorist attack by aliens that had been interned by the US government in Inostraka prison. Earth would briefly be occupied by Daleks during his term and Kira’s killings would be brought to an end following his apparent death. However, Martinez quickly came to realize he was unsuited to the position, much as Richmond had been before him and scheduled a special election in 2010.
74. Fitzgerald Grant (Republican) 2011-2013
A moderate California Republican, Grant was able to narrowly defeat New Austin Governor Arcadia Alvarado thanks in part to a vote-rigging scheme carried out by his advisors in Defiance County, Ohio. Grant would preside over numerous crises as president, from the director of the CEA program B613 going rogue to extramarital affairs threatening to leak. Grant would have to deal with the Great Food Storm that blanketed numerous cities with enlarged food products due to the actions of an inventor in Swallow Falls. The town of Perdido Beach, California would be trapped within the FAYZ which led to the disappearance of the city’s adults and the children who remained gaining unusual powers. This was not the only incident of superpowers being relevant in Grant’s administration, as SHIELD launched the Avengers initiative during his term and the team managed to defeat an invasion of Chitauri aliens in Metropolis in 2012. Grant would have a lighter footprint abroad than the most recent Republican presidents, with the main overseas intervention he launched being a series of air strikes to overthrow the Aladeen regime in Wadiya. This would briefly change in late 2011 when Grant authorized 30,000 ground troops to intervene in the Qumari Civil War after President Al-Futani was murdered by the Bahji terrorist Khaled Al-Asad. Al-Asad would kill most of these forces by detonating an atomic weapon in the Qumari capital of Agrabah before he was tracked down and killed in a safehouse alongside Ushi Party leader Imran Zakhaev. Brain-eating spiders would infect a large number of people in the Winnemac city of Zenith during the Grant administration. The various catastrophes of 2012 brought about by the end of the Mayan calendar also occurred during Grant’s term. These disasters included Jellystone erupting and a massive California earthquake. However, much of the damage was averted by the subsequent Awakening of Magic. Sparked by the actions of the Department of Diachronic Operations and the opening of Pandora’s Box, this event saw large swathes of the population turn into supernatural beings such as orcs, trolls, elves, dwarves and hobbits while the wizarding world finally revealed itself to the world at large as the Mist dissipated. Grant was open to the changes, but they occurred too late in his term for him to have an impact as he was defeated in his reelection bid.
75. Adam Benford (Democrat) 2013 (Zombified)
Benford had been Secretary of Homeland Security under the Palmer, Martinez and Grant administrations and was widely respected on all sides. His term would be uneventful until Benford attempted to reveal the US government’s complicity in the actions of the Umbrella Corporation during and before the War on Terror. This raised the ire of National Security Advisor Albert Wesker, whom infected Benford and other residents of the town of Tall Oaks where he intended to reveal what occurred. Benford’s zombified form was killed by Leon Kennedy.
76. James Sawyer (Democrat) 2013-2014 (Resigned)
Sawyer had been a candidate in 2012 running on a platform of hope and change. Sawyer sought to integrate the supernatural community that had emerged post-Awakening into society as a whole, seeking to pressure groups like the BPRD, SCP Foundation and UNIT to be more lenient towards supernatural beings. Sawyer dealt with two attempts to overthrow him, one carried out by North Hun Chiu (which shortly after reunified with the South to form the Greater Hun Chiu Republic) and once by the Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson, though both attempts failed to succeed. Increasing swathes of the US population suffered from drug addiction as Jesse Pinkman’s Blue Sky meth and Teresa Mendoza’s Substance D swept across the country. Draka experienced increasing instability, as the AWB kidnapped American scientists seeking to build a time machine and prawn riots necessitated the sale of Tetravaal robots to the country by Sawyer. Texas suffered a widespread fungal disease outbreak during Sawyer’s term, though it thankfully would be contained. Sawyer’s administration would ultimately unravel in 2014, when Sawyer’s ally, billionaire Raymond Tusk, implicated Sawyer in a Chinese money-laundering scandal Tusk was falling victim to. Sawyer was subsequently forced to resign.
77. Frank Underwood (Democrat) 2014-2017
The former South Carolina Congressman had played a key role in orchestrating Sawyer’s ouster. A ruthless operator, Underwood was often compared by British diplomatic officials to the late Prime Minister Francis Urquhart for his similar operating style. Underwood chose to posture against Russian President Viktor Petrov rather than assist him in dealing with the ultranationalist Ushi Party threatening to overthrow his government. He launched his signature program, America Works, by raiding disaster relief funds. Underwood was president when terrorists detonated a nuclear device in Paris, killing 80,000. Underwood would have to contend with an economic crash precipitated both by the money laundering scandal and hackers taking down E Corp. Underwood would support the XCOM organization in combatting the ultimate invasion by the Furons (now genetically modified into various strains) and subsequently also beat the Ravager invasion. Underwood would also be forced to implement the annual Purge night by the hard-right New Founding Fathers Republicans (some of whom were infected by brain-eating parasites at the time). Earth was attacked by the forces of King Selfish during Underwood’s term and the planet would be briefly occupied by the apartheid-esque Galactic Federation. Underwood would additionally wage a war on the Islamic Caliphate Organization in his final year in office. However, his personal failings and unpopularity failed to be salvaged by trickery in the 2016 election and he would go down in defeat.
78. Herbert Garrison (Republican) 2017 (Removed from office by Cabinet)
An elementary school teacher from Colorado, Garrison mounted a presidential bid out of disgust for illegal immigration from Mexico and Canada, as well as the new supernatural beings that emerged during the Awakening of Magic and from under Mount Ebbott not too far from his hometown of South Park. He ran initially promising to kill them all, though he eventually pivoted and outright attempted to lose to Underwood. However, Garrison shocked (and horrified) the world by emerging victorious and assumed the presidency. Garrison’s tenure proved shortlived, as his advisor Damien Thorn urged him to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack on Canada. The attack killed thousands, brought down the ONAN and prompted his cabinet to immediately remove him from office. Garrison would flee back to Colorado in disgrace.
79. Quentin Carroway (Republican) 2017 (Killed in office)
Carroway was largely similar to Garrison and had been the CEO of the Clamp Organization prior to Garrison picking him as his running mate. Garrison hoped Carroway would further turn off voters to his candidacy, an effort which failed. Carroway was president when the Ushi Party seized control of Russia, prompting major tensions. This ultimately culminated in an outright war against Russia in 2017, which saw Russia’s ultranationalist government invade Paris, London, Berlin and Metropolis. Carroway led the US in the initial stages of the conflict, but was killed in a Russian airstrike while visiting troops on the frontline in Gotham City, where they were combatting the BLACKLIGHT outbreak sparked by the Russian invasion.
80. Andy Guzman (Republican) 2017-2018 (Resigned)
A young Senator from Columbiana, Guzman had been widely favored to be among the top tier of Republican challengers to Underwood alongside the likes of Alex Keaton and Curtis Haas. However, Guzman would be overpowered in the primaries by Garrison’s fiery rhetoric and thus lost the primaries. He nevertheless, despite severe misgivings and his friend Gil John Biggs heading the third-party ticket challenging Garrison from the center-right, would endorse Garrison and be rewarded by becoming the appointee for Secretary of State. Guzman soon was promoted to vice president thanks to Carroway’s ascension to the presidency. Guzman would bring an end to the war with Russia and filled his cabinet with a mix of Democrats and Republicans, seeking to earn a reputation as a reasonable moderate. Despite this, he briefly made Gotham City into a penal colony as a result of the damage caused by the BLACKLIGHT outbreak. He would briefly be stranded in said colony before being rescued. He would help the postwar Russian government crush the last Ushi holdouts led by Grigori Stoyanovich and quarantine Seacouver after a modified Trioxin strain overtook much of the city. The alien Boov briefly occupied the planet during Guzman’s administration, though this occupation was achieved and reversed bloodlessly. Guzman was initially very popular, but his administration was ultimately brought down after he was revealed to be carrying on multiple simultaneous extramarital affairs. Guzman subsequently resigned the presidency and would retire to the suburban town of Riverdale.
81. Selina Meyer (Democrat) 2018-2019 (Defeated in special election)
Meyer, while a Democrat, was selected by Guzman to be his vice president to help foster bipartisanship. While a member of the Democratic Party, Meyer held a number of conservative views on specific issues which earned her criticism from other Democrats as well as Republicans. She would declare a special election for 2018 to stave off claims of her illegitimacy from both sides as a result. During Meyer’s term, a large number of alien statues known as ‘Carls’ appeared across the world and terrorists who sought to destroy them killed thousands. Nazis from a surviving moonbase would invade Earth during her term, but she was able to repel the invasion thanks to the usage of the USS John Blutarsky. Half the world population was temporarily killed by the alien warlord Thanos and Salem experienced mass riots after a cybersecurity breach. Meyer also nearly negotiated freedom for Tibet from the Chinese government ruling the country, though this negotiation ultimately fell through. Meyer narrowly lost the 2018 special election.
82. Elizabeth Winters (Republican) 2019 (Committed suicide)
Winters was the widow of Arthur Coleman Winters and a military hawk who was a regular guest on the Wolf Network. Winters managed to triumph over a crowded Republican field thanks to the death of presumed frontrunner Steven Armstrong during the early stages of the Republican primary. Winters heralded the era of megacorporations, enacting policies that benefitted the megacorporations of Arasaka, BL Industries and Black Mesa over the public. Resource shortages precipitated a massacre in Bakersfield carried out by WorryFree, who had all but bought out the entire city and converted over half the residents to Equisapiens. Replicants became common thanks to the mainstreaming of alchemy, prompting disputes over their rights or the lack thereof. The US would be terrorized by the otherworldly Tethered during her term and efforts to destroy them for good would last into her successor’s term in office. Winters ultimately worked with Ushi hardliners to stage a terrorist attack, but the plan went awry and she subsequently committed suicide.
83. Michael Nolan (Republican/Propertarian) 2019-2021
Nolan was commonly referred to as ‘The Boss’ owing to his role as the leader of a street gang known as the Third Street Saints. Nolan had become a national hero by thwarting a terrorist attack five years prior and was not expected to vault into the presidency. Nolan’s personal dysfunction caused him to become increasingly unpopular very rapidly. While he thwarted alien invasion attempts launched by the Zin, cyborgs led by the android Zelda based on Mars and the Ceph, Nolan remained wildly unpopular, to the point the only person who was willing to accept the vice presidency was an Ohio ex-principal by the name of Sue Sylvester. The Great Plains would be terrorized by the entity nicknamed ‘Brightburn’ early in his tenure before he was dispatched by XCOM, the Avengers and the SCP Foundation via Harvester technology. An intervention to overthrow jihadists who had taken over Panau failed when the fleet the US dispatched mysteriously disappeared. Metropolis was ravaged by the dollar flu outbreak and the US-sponsored SeaLab repeatedly was destroyed over the course of 2020. The tech billionaire Richmond Valentine attempted to use special SIM cards to spread a hate plague across the population and blackmailed key figures including President Nolan while doing so. Nolan’s unpopularity skyrocked when Nick Haflinger revealed he maintained close ties to criminal organizations and had ramped up privatization to the point his mafia allies could gain a monopoly on pizza delivery. Nolan was subsequently defeated in the Republican primaries by the demagogue David Jefferson Adams, waging a tough-on-crime platform targeting the outcome of Lahey v. Keystone and ‘disloyal’ Americans. Nolan had also been challenged by Michael Wilson, who ran a third-party campaign in the election as well. The Democrats nominated Elizabeth McCord, former Secretary of State, while her primary opponent Senator Julian Felsenburgh ran as the Socialist nominee with the support of other minor left-wing parties. Nolan would switch to the Propertarian Party and run as their nominee in 2020. Vote-splitting between these candidates as well as New Bull Moose nominee Rachel Israels would lead to a hung electoral college. The House would pick Adams as the president despite Wilson’s popular vote victory.
84. David Jefferson Adams (Republican) 2021-2025 (Killed in office)
Adams quickly became one of the most reviled presidents in American history. Wilson refused to accept the election results, aligning with Native American separatists in the Ghost Dance War which saw the Pacific Northwest gain independence. While briefly cutting government and empowering corporations to set the surnames of their employees, Adams would deescalate some of the rampant privatization Nolan and Winters had pursued, seeing it as detrimental to his own goals of suppressing dissent. During Adams’ term, the US was briefly occupied by the extradimensional Combine Empire. The Federated Nations set up a Lunar penal colony that Adams used to exile certain dissidents over the course of his term. The world would also be ravaged by a mass sterility epidemic that Adams did little to nothing to combat despite rapidly declining birthrates. Adams used the courts to disqualify almost all of his potential rivals from Elle Woods to Alex Keaton. Media outlets were subject to censorship, with only lunatic conspiracy theorists in the vein of Dale Gribble being given continued freedom to operate. Tensions with Greater Hun Chiu continually escalated under Adams’ administration and Adams nuked the artificial island of Hong Sha Dao built by the GHCR-aligned Chinese government in 2024 as a show of force. Adams encouraged the public to integrate into digital worlds such as the OASIS and the World Seed in the hopes that this would prevent unrest. Ultimately Adams was easily reelected thanks to the lack of opposition, but on inauguration day 2025, over twenty nuclear devices were detonated in various cities across America, killing Adams, Vice President Tracy Flick and the whole line of succession.
85. John Shaw (Independent) 2025-2027 (Assassinated)
Shaw had served as Secretary of State to Hammond, Whitmore and Kane in the 1990’s, but had been retired for many years. He was selected as the leader of the interim US government as a consensus pick owing to his generally apolitical nature on domestic policy. When Shaw took the reigns, America was in chaos. Shaw’s Columbus government was one of six governments claiming legitimacy amidst the collapse of the central US government. The European Union, under the leadership of Felsenburgh, had occupied the ruins of Washington and Alaska by Russians who refused to withdraw after their homeland was nuked by Hun Chiu while the western Allied States of America’s decision to bomb Hun Chiu and Asran led to Hun Chiu launching an invasion of the West Coast. The US was attacked by hacked drones along with China by Raul Menendez, with the goal of delaying organization in pushing back against all these threats. Large swathes of the country were overtaken by the Project at Eden’s Gate, the Christian Marines Corps and other cults and fanatical groups. Shaw, in order to restore order, accepted the proposal of Metropolis Mayor Norman Osborne to suspend major civil liberties, launching the ‘street judge’ system and cryogenically freezing criminals found guilty by these judges. Thanks to Shaw’s leadership, most of the eastern US was quickly reunified and, when the Allied States and Hun Chiu attempted to invade Texas, Texas aligned with Shaw’s government. By the end of his term, Shaw had pushed out Hun Chiu, collapsing their sphere of influence. However, Shaw would be assassinated by the aged mercenary Anton Chigurh at the behest of the Allied States’ rump government.
86. Sean Rathcock (Independent) 2027-2029
Rathcock was an anti-Adams Republican and a veteran of the Blutarsky era’s wars. Rathcock would thwart an attempt by an Allied States-aligned billionaire named Luther Voz to spark worldwide nuclear war. Rathcock also legalized marijuana and helped sponsor the First Hundred’s mission to Mars. He provided amnesty to illegal immigrants willing to assist in mopping up the remnant warlord factions from the Third American Civil War. He also would legalize human augmentation after anti-augmentation terrorists were blamed for a widespread software virus. Rathcock’s administration helped sponsor rebuilding efforts for the cities destroyed on Inauguration Day with the help of the Scarlet Witch and helped spread the antidote to the sterility plague created by Martha Jones and Robert Chase. Earth was visited by a spaceship shaped like an icosahedral from another universe during Rathcock’s term and Nevada astronauts training for a later Mars mission were threatened by the Radical-6 virus. Rathcock declined to run for reelection.
87. Lisa Simpson (Democrat) 2029 (Killed in office)
Simpson was a childhood prodigy who was always a socially conscious, environmentalist sort of person. Upon taking office, Simpson faced many problems, such as China seeking to collect on the US’s enormous national debt, mass explosions of experimental anti-matter reactors, flooding and riots in Sarkhan and a major drought that led to some regions such as Australia not experiencing rain for a decade. Simpson was president when America’s mutant population was wiped out following the deaths of Charles Xavier and Logan Howlett and the flight of most of the nation’s mutant children into Canada. The biggest disaster of Simpson’s presidency was the Moonfall, where the Moon was hit by an asteroid, moved closer to the planet’s surface sparking major flooding and caused chunks to rain down on it as well as mass insanity often documented in broadcasts (which provoked the airing of a video urging civilians to commit suicide that had been made by the Norcross administration). Simpson would ultimately die during this event when Air Force One was struck by a chunk of debris from the Moon’s collapse.
88. Charles Haskell (Democrat) 2029-2030 (Killed in terrorist attack)
Haskell was tasked with repairing the damage from the Moonfall, which was widespread and cost billions of dollars to deal with. Flood risks became increasingly common and Hawaii was threatened by a Trioxin outbreak when some of the flooding washed some infectees from the Banoi Archipelago to the state. Haskell backed the intervention of the Global Headquarters to restore order to Japan, which had been ravaged by a deadly Trioxin outbreak in the early 2020’s. Haskell would attempt to deal with these issues, but would ultimately be killed in a terrorist attack during his first State of the Union address that also claimed the lives of most of the line of succession.
89. Thomas Kirkman (Democrat) 2030-2033
Kirkman served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Simpson and Haskell and was the designated survivor for the State of the Union. Kirkman would have to contend with the fallout from the attack, which included attempts by Michigan’s governor to suppress civil liberties and restoring the composition of Congress. These weren’t the only issues Kirkman would have to tackled. He had the US support the war effort against the Invid invaders and the efforts to reverse White Chlorination Syndrome. The biggest issues Kirkman faced was the increasing radicalization of large swathes of the right wing, whom had grown disgusted with what they decried as degenerate Bartlet liberalism. Even Republicans like Grant, Adams and Rathcock were condemned as sellouts to cultural Marxism and many members of the public began listening to the ultraconservative ideals of folks like Jake Rivers, Maryanne Bryant, Peter Petrawicki and Norman Arbuthnot. Amidst the loss of major urban centers and multiple invasions of the US, it seemed as though God was punishing the country. This attitude led the Republicans to nominate the demagogic preacher Nehemiah Scudder for the presidency. Scudder openly called for America to become a theocracy and suppress everything he deemed to be sinful. Initially it seemed as though Kirkman would manage to stave off this challenge, but in 2032, Los Santos was hit by a severe earthquake that rendered the city and surrounding communities like Angel Grove and Neptune into a devastated island. As Scudder had warned that God would judge Los Santos as a den of sin, this led many to conclude Scudder was right and he would emerge triumphant in the elections that year.
90. Nehemiah Scudder (Republican/Son of Jacob) 2033-2038 (Died in office)
Scudder, upon taking the presidency, quickly plotted to solidify his power amidst mass protests against his rule and his more unpopular policies. He had a cabal of his allies, known as the Sons of Jacob, carry out a massacre on President’s Day targeting numerous other politicians. By doing so, he secured his hold over the country. Scudder subsequently declared the dissolution of the United States and reformed it into the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, with himself as its First Prophet. Scudder rewrote the calendar to define the beginning of his rule as Year Zero, banned non-Christian faiths and exterminated mutants, aliens, wizards, magical beings and LGBT people en masse. Large swathes of the country broke off from his rule, ranging from the Native American Nations (whom embraced a near-Pengist ideology at this time to the point of burning almost all books) to California (which had broken away as megacorporations turned on Scudder). Scudder would seek to solidify his hold on power using technology, having allies like OCP and Cyberlife create machines capable of carrying out key functions of society. Cyberlife androids would ultimately rebel and flee Gilead in 2038, prompting Scudder to purge the company’s leadership. Scudder would contend with an unfriendly global situation, as old US allies eschewed his regime in favor of various rebel groups (Britain in particular despising Gilead for attempting to restore the Shepherd Party regime that had collapsed the previous decade with the help of PetroFex and Japan worked with California and the NAN to combat the Pacific kaiju problems) and old enemies ended up being more radically against Scudder’s regime, such as the Second Jihad movement and neo-Ushiites in Russia. Scudder also reduced women to second-class citizens, rendering large swaths of the female population sex slaves including a large number for himself. He would end up dying amidst intercourse with some of these ‘Virgins.’
91. Henry Jarrett (Son of Jacob) 2038-2040 (Overthrown)
Jarrett had technically been president of Gilead, a largely ceremonial position owing to Scudder’s iron grip on the government’s functions. Jarrett was slightly more level-headed than Scudder had been, toning down much of the rhetoric even as he maintained the same policies. The proclamations issued by Stephen Colbert were less outlandish than they had been under Scudder and he attempted to negotiate normalized relations abroad. This attempt failed however. Jarrett was also president when the Ganymedans temporarily conquered Earth. Gilead was easily crushed by the Ganymedans, but easily beat the flintlock-armed Roxolani and helped defeat the Evoluder. However, Jarrett’s regime proved not to be long-lasting, as a mass revolt broke out in 2040. Jarrett was murdered by his own Virgins and the Gilead regime came to an end.
92. Leslie Knope (Independent) 2040-2041
Knope had served as governor of Indiana during the Third American Civil War and helped facilitate the support the state gave to the Columbus government headed by Shaw. Knope had been a presidential candidate in 2028, but lost out to Simpson and ended up as Secretary of the Interior under Kirkman. Knope, however, would rise to prominence during the Gilead era for being a symbol of female resistance to the regime. Using a network of safehouses across Indiana, Winnemac and Michigan, Knope coordinated resistance activities and managed to avoid being captured by authorities. She also made many visits to Canada, where she was in essence treated as a representative of the US government in exile and negotiated what was in essence a unification agreement. Canadian forces would help liberate the United States and she would easily be selected as the interim president of the new United Canadian and American States. Knope would seek to curb megacorporate power amid Maximum Inc.’s attempts to take over Metropia and supported Susan Calvin’s robotics research and efforts to expand some rights to androids, although these plans ultimately fell through. Knope in essence marked a return to normalcy for the country and left office after not contesting the 2040 election.
93. Robert McCalistair (Independent) 2041-2049
McCalistair was an anti-Adams and later anti-Scudder Republican—that is to say, a moderate in the vein of former President Grant. McCalistair failed to win the Republican nomination owing to being seen as too moderate, with the party instead selecting the more conservative, but still anti-dictator Alex Keaton for the nomination. McCalistair nevertheless managed to win as an independent. McCalistair’s term in office marked the beginning of the ‘Second Renaissance’ as technology and prosperity reached new heights. Robotics advanced greatly during his administration, as McCalistair supported the development of companies like RobCo and Delos Industries. McCalistair would have to contend with the Chtorr incursion during his presidency, successfully preventing an alien ecosystem from overtaking Earth’s. Municiberg was destroyed in a terrorist attack during his administration and controversy erupted when McCalistair was found to be romantically involved with his Vice President. McCalistair was also president when the warlord known as Grandmaster Meio attempted to conquer the Earth, though Meio ultimately was defeated with little help from the president. McCalistair also contributed to the multinational XCOM force sent after the Tarsians following their 2046 invasion attempt. McCalistair also bolstered the space program during his time in office and left the presidency generally liked if not particularly loved.
94. Dunkelzahn (Democrat) 2049 (Assassinated)
Dunkelzahn was the first nonhuman confirmed to have held the presidency, being one of the dragons to reemerge during the Awakening of Magic. Dunkelzahn had helped defend the supernatural community during the Gilead era and won much of his support from said community. Dunkelzahn’s presidency proceeded uneventfully due to ending up being even shorter than Atchison’s, as the dragon was assassinated within six hours of taking office.
95. Gerald Keith (Democrat) 2049-2053
Keith was an anti-Gilead preacher whom entered politics during the McCalistair administration and had been selected to reassure moderates Dunkelzahn wouldn’t render them slaves or food. Keith would fend off an invasion by the Hing and deal with the outbreak of a modified Rage strain known alternately as the Gray Death, the New Plague, Mad Human Disease, the Flare Virus or the Green Flu. While successful in containing the spread of this disease, Keith was widely seen as struggling to deal with it, often sending troops into harm’s way doing what many believed robots could achieve. Speaking of robots, Keith would also launch a war against the machine-ruled city of Zero One in Basenji, fearing the sentient machines could pose a threat to the country. Keith would join the Federated Nations-sponsored World Space Patrol and help fund the Unity mission to colonize Alpha Centauri and also launch the ill-fated Jupiter 2 and Event Horizon spacecraft. Keith’s presidency unfortunately continued to empower megacorporations, allowing for the rise of the cannibalistic product Soylent Green and GeneCo to harvest organs that were not fully paid off. The Statue of Liberty would also be decapitated during a terrorist attack. In 2052, Keith would go up against the neo-Corpo Republican Paul Deutscher and be widely expected to win. However, following a recount and scandal surrounding the Federated Nations due to the revelation of it being manipulated by secret societies such as the Illuminati, Deutscher would end up being declared the winner.
96. Paul Deutscher (Republican) 2053-2057
Deutscher had been a part of the American Socialist White People’s Party during the Third American Civil War and only became accepted to the country due to his personal heroism in resisting Gilead. Deutscher still remained thoroughly committed to core fascist ideals. Deutscher would redefine the spelling of words and imprison dissidents during his presidency. He increased the power of unelected leaders he appointed over megacities. Deutscher nevertheless maintained solid relations with Europe, sponsoring their involvement in the Resource Wars. Deutscher managed to save the planet thanks to launching an expedition to prevent the sudden failure of the Sun. Deutscher also authorized the creation of the PreCrime system by the Judges, whom he also expanded the powers of. Deutscher also began planning for a future military confrontation with China, creating the SkyNet artificial intelligence system. However, Deutscher would decline to seek a second term due to ill health, which allowed for a crooked, but less evil, candidate to take the Republican Party into 2057.
97. Graveney Westwood (Republican) 2057-2061
Westwood was a largely apathetic man who ran for president largely out of vanity than genuine convictions. Westwood’s ambivalence to the struggles of working-class Americans led to him being nicknamed ‘The Beast,’ though he argued that as long as over half of America wasn’t starving or homeless he’d done his job. Westwood was at one point targeted for assassination, but saved by a collection of young spies in training. While not an outright fascist, Westwood maintained socially reactionary policies pursued by Deutscher and helped solidify the 2050’s revival of 1950’s era social norms and aesthetics. Westwood presided over the capture of the KVA leader Hades during his term and sent aid to Zheng Fa after it experienced a massive earthquake. Westwood’s term also saw tensions increase with China and Russia and saw the revival of the ONAN with all the nations of North America to prepare nationwide defenses. Despite his accomplishments, he was defeated in 2060.
98. Gary Callahan (Democrat) 2061-2062 (Impeached)
Callahan was a slick charmer nicknamed ‘The Smiler’ by the media. However, behind closed doors, he was far more corrupt, power-hungry and sociopathic than his predecessor, believing himself to be above the law. Callahan’s term saw income inequality reach new heights, with the wealthy often dwelling in literal towers while the masses were forced to live in squalor on the ground. Callahan backed the FN suppression of a revolt on Mars and supported the GDI alliance with the revived Brotherhood of Nod to destroy a resurgence of Tiberium. The government-sponsored AI known as MULTIVAC would become useless during Callahan’s term as it began to calculate a way to reverse entropy, making the country rely more on SkyNet. Callahan’s shady activities would ultimately be revealed by Spider Jerusalem and force him from office in 2062.
99. John Romero (Democrat) 2062-2065
Romero had been a filmmaker and largely was seen as a placeholder VP. Upon taking the presidency, Romero would have to contend with the alien Phantoms beginning to infest Earth, causing major social disruption. To curb this, Romero backed the formation of the organization International Rescue, sometimes also known as the Science Special Search Party. Romero also commissioned Vault-Tec to create Vaults to house US citizens in the event of a global war, though he also plotted with high-profile figures both in America and China to get some individuals offworld due to distrusting Vault-Tec’s right-wing leadership. Romero nevertheless would be defeated in 2064.
100. Cesare Appleton (Republican) 2065-2071 (Killed in office)
A veteran, Appleton’s first act upon taking office was to blow up the White House and declare himself Emperor of America. While assuming an iron-fisted rule that had no place for elected leaders was controversial, much of the country was fed up with the results of democracy, he had the backing of the military and Judges and was fairly light-touch to begin with. However, that all changed in 2066 when the US launched Freedom Star space station was destroyed by Russians. Despite Federated Nations attempts to broker a deal, Appleton would align with the European Federation and launch a war against Russia and China. Tensions had been rising for years, especially with the advent of the Optimum movement in China that also led to Britain breaking away from Europe and America. The war would see the US invest in developing new technology such as power armor and phasers and caused Australia to collapse into warlordism. To distract from wartime rationing, Appleton channeled Rome by having ‘Naturals’ compete with various engineered mutants in a battle royale. Appleton enjoyed widespread popular support, but would end up dying of a stroke in 2071, shortly after liberating Britain from its Optimum dictator Philip Green.
101. James Dale (Republican) 2071-2076 (Killed in office)
Dale was a mild-mannered, inoffensive career politician whom had been selected due to not being seen as a potential challenger of Appleton’s rule. Dale continued to prosecute the war effort against China and began gaining ground against Russia and China. Additionally, Dale was president when the Tri-Optimum Citadel space station was wiped out, weakening a major neutral power. He sent naval forces to occupy Huffman Island alongside its allies after a conflict in the region and began fighting against rogue war machines known as the Gears that were emerging from Zero One, supporting the formation of Overwatch afterwards to deal with the problem. The US moonbase was also damaged following a failed test of the Tandem Mirror Drive in 2075, an incident which ultimately provoked the next year’s Lunar Revolution. However, Dale would not live to see this revolution occur, as in 2076 he would perish along with many other political leaders in the US and Europe during an invasion by the ‘bigbrain’ Martians that had evolved from mutated Barsoomians and sought revenge for the invasion of the 20th century.
102. Taffy Dale (Independent) 2076-2077
The president’s daughter, Dale assumed the presidency amidst a major crisis for the country. While the bigbrains were defeated, the Lunar Revolution greatly slowed down the country’s rebuilding effort. The US Supreme Court, the only branch of government to survive the bigbrain invasion, was taken hostage by a terrorist using a cold fusion device capable of destroying the Eastern Seaboard, though this outcome was avoided. Dale controversially cracked down on protestors in Canada, Opium and Aztlan (formerly Mexico), which even many Americans felt was disproportionate. Dale would ultimately not be allowed to pursue reelection, despite China coming to the negotiation table during her term. Instead, vote hacking efforts led to the triumph of a president who would usher in catastrophe.
103. Robert L. Booth (Republican) 2077 (Removed from office)
Booth was a radical who served as a regional administrator over one of the 13 commonwealths created under Deutscher. Booth ran on a platform demanding unreasonable peace terms from China and Russia and even concessions from the allied European countries and some neutral powers. It is unclear how serious Booth was to begin with, but close to the deadline he imposed for acceptance of his terms, Tokyo in the neutral nation of Japan was destroyed by the godlike Akira. Both sides in the Great War blamed each other and ultimately SkyNet convinced Booth to launch a preemptive strike. Booth’s decision would spark a worldwide nuclear war that devastated the planet, ushering in the Cursed Earth period. In the immediate aftermath, as millions died, Antarctica’s ice caps melted due to the impact of an ‘angel,’ and the Judges seized control of the remnants of the megacities, Booth fled to a secret bunker and was arrested and sentenced to cryosleep for his crimes.
104. Hugo Allen Winkler (Republican) 2077-2081
Winkler assumed the presidency as the US faced its greatest crisis in history. SkyNet overtook much of the West Coast with a robot army, forcing those humans it did not outright exterminate into simulations of past times. SkyNet additionally unleashed a modified Trioxin strain on the South, causing all who died in the Great War to rise and feed upon the living. The presence of ley lines released extradimensional and cross-temporal threats onto the world, furthering the devastation. Various warlord states cropped up across the nation, such as PanAm, the New California Republic and many more. Winkler largely only maintained authority over Mega-City One and had to push out hordes of low-bloodline vampires and sentient apes to solidify his hold over New England. Winkler was largely a public face for rule by Judges and was seen as an empty suit by many under his rule. However, he over time became more charismatic, possibly due to being replaced by a robot. However, Winkler would lose in 2080.
105. Jim Briskin (Democrat) 2081-2088 (Overthrown)
Briskin ran as the first African-American president since Shaw and was the first one elected since Palmer. During Briskin’s term, recovery along the East Coast picked up significantly thanks to aid from Japan, which following the defeat of God-Emperor Raoh and several other petty warlords had managed to restore social order and created the nanotechnology dubbed the Japanese Miracle, which it sold to Briskin to clear away fallout from various exclusion zones. In return, Briskin provided assistance to the Japan-based SEELE organization in combatting the deadly ‘Angels’ that emerged following the Great War. Briskin also provided covert support to resistance movements in Norsefire-ruled Britain, though this ultimately backfired when the government’s collapse caused Britain to be overrun by genetically engineered predators. His term also saw the Laplace Incident destroy the Edenist habitat of the same name and Martian rebels overthrow the Federated Nations-backed ruling authority descended from the Kwan Do family, setting up the Mars Congressional Republic. Briskin engaged in a standoff with PanAm over establishment of a series of genetic experiments in the Midwest designed to counter radiation, which led to his administration supporting the First Rebellion that led to the secession of PanAm’s District 13. During Briskin’s term, a pair of aliens would visit Earth offering technology for interstellar travel in return for aid against a corrupt monarch. Briskin declined the direct offer, but the blueprints they provided ultimately paved the way for Zefram Cochrane’s experiments. Briskin would become interested in interdimensional travel after a rift opened to a seemingly empty parallel Earth. His administration helped form Crosstime Traffic to acquire resources from other timelines. However, problems ensued when a temporal rift led to the ‘virgin Earth’ advancing a century and then invading the main timeline and some attempts at colonizing other worlds led to contact with timelines dominated by Nazi Germany or alien lifeforms. Briskin’s war with interdimensional forces ultimately led to a military coup against his government.
106. Andrew Harrison (Independent) 2088-2099 (Overthrown)
Harrison was a general whose administration set up a military-dominated police state where the powers of the Judges drastically increased and the right to vote was limited to veterans. During Harrison’s reign as president, Huffman Island was reoccupied by American forces and the Marduk invaded the Solar System. Harrison’s term saw the geopolitical situation stabilize across North America as territorial control was more firmly established. He re-exerted total control of the Eastern Seaboard by his government. Harrison’s presidency also saw him forge close alliances with megacorporations such as Weyland-Yutani and Alchemax, in many ways making Mega-City One evoke the worst excesses of the 2020’s. Ultimately, however, Harrison would as a result find himself ousted, though he maintains the status of longest-serving president even to this day.
107. Victor Von Osud (Independent) 2099 (Overthrown)
Von Osud had been the infamous dictator of Latveria, a rival to the Fantastic Four and an enemy of the United States in the 20th century before he mysteriously disappeared in the 1990’s. As it turned out, he had been temporally shifted to America in 2099, amidst numerous ongoing crises and inequality. Von Osud would end up launching an uprising against the corporations and government dominating the country and many would come to regard him as a lesser evil. Von Osud ultimately pushed out Harrison and declared himself president. During his term, mass flooding occurred in what had once been Metropolis, making the former city in essence an archipelago. While proclaiming himself to now be a man of the people, Von Osud soon turned to his old authoritarian ways and found himself on the receiving end of another uprising, spearheaded by the frozen superhero Captain America.
108. Steve Rogers (Independent) 2099-2101
Rogers was a paragon of American values and had been a participant in the Second World War and numerous early 21st century conflicts against supervillains and alien invaders. He had, after defeating Thanos, traveled back in time to the 1940’s to reconnect with the woman he loved, but ended up being frozen again in the 1950’s. When he was unfrozen for the second time in his lengthy life, Rogers once again found himself fighting tyranny and helped overthrow Von Osud, restoring democracy to America. Rogers clashed with the authoritarian impulses of the Judges and remnant allies of Harrison, seeking to restore freedoms. However, he was stymied in this effort by the Formic invasion of 2100, which led to many viewing militarism as necessary. Moreover, the massive alien incursion (while largely the result of misunderstanding of humans on the Formics’ end) led to many regarding it as best to discard older national identities and join with the rest of the world. While Rogers was no chest-thumping nationalist, he was seen as an outdated symbol of American separation from the world at large and thus lost his reelection bid. After his defeat, he was returned to the 1950’s to live out his life in peace.
109. Jenny Templeton (Unity) 2101 (Folded US into unified Earth government)
Templeton was the last president of a body recognized as the United States or a legitimate successor thereof. Her first and only act as president was to subsume the country into the new Terran Federation. This government would retain many trappings of the old American government even after integrating into wider blocs such as the United Federation of Planets and the Citadel Alliance and evolve over the centuries into the United Earth Alliance and the World State among other governments. Further on various factions of humanity would be governed by the likes of the Dominion of Mua'dib or the Imperium of Man or the Trantorian Empire or the Star Kingdom of Manticore or the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. However, with Templeton’s signature, the United States as such would never exist again.
43. Timothy F. Kegan (Democrat) 1961-1963 (Assassinated)
Kegan was a young, photogenic president who along with his wife Liz charmed America. Kegan would be the most vocal supporter of civil rights to hold the White House thus far, meeting with civil rights leaders like John Calvin Sykes and Franklin Peabody. Kegan would also contend with crises such as the Triffid invasion of 1961 (spurred in part by a craze for disguised Triffids spurred by a florist named Seymour Krelborne) and the Tropican Missile Crisis (sparked by the failure of the Bay of Llamas invasion to depose the totalitarian El Presidente Alejandro Costa ruling the island nation). Kegan managed to adroitly handle both crises and sponsored the creation of the Justice League of America following the emergence of Superman during the Triffid invasion. Kegan was widely popular, but his presidency would be tragically cut short when he was shot by an ex-Marine named Johnny Shellburn in Philadelphia. However, subsequent evaluation of the evidence has indicated Shellburn was a patsy, with the real culprit being unknown, but possibly being ex-Special Forces agent Alex Mason or the vigilante Edward Blake and it is believed that there was a plot to kill the young president potentially involving the FBR, the CEA, Vito Corleone’s mafia, Tropican exiles, the SCP Foundation, the Syndicate, time travelers or even Kegan’s own father.
44. John Pierrepont Finch (Republican) 1963-1965
Finch was a personal friend of Kegan’s despite being a Republican and had been selected to be vice president by Kegan after his first vice president Arthur Fenstamaker resigned to return to his old job as governor of Texas. Finch used the political capital from Kegan’s assassination to push through civil rights legislation, seeking to end discrimination against nonwhites and Moureau sapiens. Finch would also welcome the formation of a new superteam known as the Fantastic Four to prominence, utilizing members to foment unrest in Victor Von Osud’s Latveria. Finch would also have to contend with the rise of international criminal organizations, most notably SPECTRE and THRUSH. The town of Bodega Bay was overrun by a collection of highly aggressive birds during his time in office and several towns in Nebraska were overtaken by a cult centered on a figure known as He Who Walks Between the Rows. Facing heavy stress and not truly at home with either party, Finch declined to pursue reelection. In retirement, Finch would become an early investor in computer technology and his son Harold would become one of the major tech billionaires.
45. Leslie McCloud (Democrat) 1965 (Resigned)
The first female president of the United States was elected in a landslide over the archconservative Republican Brigham Anderson. During McCloud’s presidency, the Luna rocket expedition made formal first contact with the Selenites on the Moon’s surface. McCloud also began sending aid to the anticommunist forces in Sarkhan, precipitating US involvement in the Sarkhan War. McCloud’s term in office would be cut short when she discovered she was pregnant. McCloud consequently decided to resign to focus on her role as a mother and wife, to the chagrin of many American feminists. McCloud’s presidency proved so unpopular with women’s rights activists many subsequent female politicians preferred to campaign as ‘the first female president’ as a means of discrediting McCloud.
46. James Norcross (Democrat) 1965-1969
Norcross would be president amidst many of the great crises of the 1960’s. The planet Earth was nearly devoured by the entity known as Galactus, whom was only prevented from consuming the world thanks to the efforts of the Fantastic Four. The phenomena of mutants (also known as homo novis, homo superior and the tomorrow people) increased in prominence under Norcross. Norcross himself acquired superpowers thanks to a cosmic storm and at times fought crime as the vigilante ‘Super President.” Norcross would use his powers to bring an end to the first modern zombie outbreak following the breach in containment of Trioxin in Keystone. However, Norcross would face issues far beyond those simply involving superhumans. The escalation of the war in Sarkhan proved unpopular as reports of events in the region ranging from Doctor Manhattan destroying entire villages suspected of hosting Sarkhanese communist rebels to Colonel Sebastian Kurtz setting up a personal fiefdom in the region. Counterculture antiwar movements gained a great deal of traction during Norcross’ term. Hostility to Norcross only increased following revelations of his ties to The Phone Company, a multinational communications conglomerate that sought to implant chips in the brains of every human being on Earth. While the scheme was thwarted and Norcross lacked knowledge of their plans, his unpopularity remained high and he was forced to stand aside in 1968 in favor of Johnny Fergus.
47. Max Frost (Republican) 1969 (Removed from office)
A musician and countercultural icon, Frost (born Max Flatow) ran for president on the back of a push to lower the voting age to 14. Frost’s followers successfully forced this change to come about and additionally got the threshold for the presidency lowered to 15 as well. Frost consequently embarked on a presidential bid, gaining the Republican nomination thanks to party insiders assuming he could keep his followers on a tight leash. However, Frost upon winning showed his true ‘hippie fascist’ colors, interning ‘squares’ via his suede-denim secret police and withdrawing all troops from overseas. Frost’s actions ultimately backfired on him, as the Syndicate (which had concealed its existence from the radical young president) launched a coup against Frost, ousting him from power. With the usage of neuralyzer technology, the Syndicate essentially undid Frost’s presidency, convincing the public the real president was Frost’s running mate.
48. Ferris F. Fremont (Republican) 1969-1974 (Resigned)
Fremont was an ambitious, amoral man whom had been given the vice presidential nomination with the expectation he would check Frost’s more radical ambitions. Upon assuming the presidency, Fremont showed himself to be as authoritarian as his predecessor, simply from the right instead of the left. Fremont was infamously racist and sought to spread drugs in the black community with the goal of reducing their fertility rates and beginning the ‘War on Drugs’ to crack down on minority communities. His actions marked the beginning of the ‘Southern Strategy’ that would ultimately remake the GOP into a conservative party that would dominate the south. Fremont additionally had no patience for student protests or other dissent against him, interning opponents on his enemies list and drastically escalating the Sarkhan War. His interning of prominent figures such as Hawthorne Abdensen and Kilgore Trout helped provoke the creation of the nebulous ‘Volunteer Fire Department’ network among intellectuals targeted by his regime which would actually outlast Fremont’s term. Fremont’s presidency saw the launch of a number of secret projects such as MKUltra, Project Firestarter and the NIMH experiments, all of which had far-reaching consequences. Fremont also plotted with the CEA to seize oil reserves in the Middle East and landed Mike AR Samson on the Moon. However, Fremont’s regime would ultimately unravel in 1974, when report of a break-in at the Watergate Hotel was called in by future businessman Forrest Gump. The wiretapper Harry Caul was arrested for this action and claimed he had been ordered to do so by CEA Director Bill Martin. Subsequently, leaks by two teenage girls to the Washington Herald’s Mark Forman and a failed assassination attempt by the aforementioned Edward Blake revealed Fremont had carried out the break-in with the goal of securing dominance in the White House. Fremont consequently would be forced to resign the office of the presidency in disgrace (though his revived head over a thousand years later would manage to mount a successful return to politics). Fremont may also have been responsible for a pact between the Syndicate and Furons that led to the former collaborating with the latter’s invasion attempts in later years, though this has been disputed.
49. Lancelot Gilligrass (Republican) 1974-1975 (Left office due to special election)
Gilligrass had been chosen as vice president owing to the belief that his weak, vacillating nature would ensure he remain subordinate to Fremont. Gilligrass would withdraw troops from Sarkhan and pardon Fremont for his crimes. Gilligrass, not truly wanting the presidency, would declare a special election in 1974. During the remainder of his term, Gilligrass defeated the Vermicious Knids and helped combat the Dinosaur Empire. Gilligrass also stepped up US intelligence operations, recruiting the likes of Steve Austin and Johnny Quest and establishing the Impossible Missions Force before being replaced.
50. Prez Rickard (Independent) 1975-1977
Rickard holds the record for the youngest president of the United States, being only a teenager upon taking office. Rickard nevertheless had an extremely busy term, pursuing gun control and environmental initiatives and establishing the Nelson Institute for Marine Research. Rickard also averted an attempted terrorist attack on the 1976 Super Bowl. However, despite these positive events and high personal popularity, Rickard struggled to deal with other issues. The town of Jerusalem’s Lot was overrun by vampires and had to be destroyed by the BPRD. The US was targeted by a collection of oil-producing states including Wasabia, Qumran, Qumar and Asran for an embargo over support for the state of Israel. Inflation also set in and the country’s mood remained somber in the aftermath of the failure in Sarkhan. Crime increased drastically, with Precinct 13 in Los Santos nearly being taken over by the Street Thunder gang and the Sawyer family murders infamously occurring in Texas. Rickard consequently would lose the 1976 election.
51. Charles Palantine (Democrat) 1977-1978 (Killed in office)
Palantine easily won the presidency over the exhausted Rickard and the disgraced Republicans. During Palantine’s term, the US experienced the Devil’s Tower incursion by thankfully non-hostile aliens and was attacked by a race of sentient, murderous tomatoes. Additional serial killings would occur across America during his term, including the Myers murders in Haddonfield, murders by a cannibal clan in Nevada (which would ultimately be destroyed by the first Hulk David Banner) and the Russell commune murders all taking place. Palantine nevertheless remained fairly popular, but would ultimately be killed in a friendly fire incident when a rogue general seized missile silos in Montana and attempted to force the release of classified documents surrounding the Sarkhan War.
52. Douglass Dilman (Democrat) 1978-1981
Thanks to the vice president declining to assume the presidency due to poor health and the Speaker of the House dying in an accident concurrently with Palantine’s demise, Dilman became president. Dilman was the nation’s first African-American president and found himself caught between racists hostile to him because of that alone (membership in groups like the American Socialist White People’s Party and Knights of Nordica soared during his term) and liberals who thought some of his policies (such as extraditing a black man to Draka to face punishment for a crime) as betrayals of his people. Dilman would face a coup attempt for seeking to negotiate arms reductions treaties with the Soviets, though this coup failed and the treaty negotiated by Secretary of State Bruce Gold would go into effect. Dilman was also president during a backlash to superhumans sparked by the homo novis teenager Carrie White massacring high school tormentors at a prom. This event, dubbed the Black Prom massacre, led to the passage of the Keene Act severely restricting superhumans’ activities and limiting the rights of metahumans. Dilman opposed the legislation, but his veto attempts were overruled. Dilman’s term saw numerous animal attacks also occur, such as the Megalodon attacks off Amity Island, the killer bee incursion in Texas and attacks by a mutated grizzly in Maine. Miskatonic University’s campus was destroyed when a nuclear strike on the Cthulhu spawn Cthylla was launched and several areas of the Midwest would fall victim to a mass Trioxin outbreak before the military cleared the infected out. Labor disputes heated up following the murder of Johnny Kovak of the Federation of Interstate Truckers. The worst point in Dilman’s administration was the Asranian Hostage Crisis. In the aftermath of a civil war over dynastic succession, the weakened Shah of Asran was overthrown by Islamic radicals who took the US embassy’s staff hostage. Despite Dilman’s best efforts, the hostages remained trapped until past election day and coupled with the bad economy, Dilman was defeated in a landslide.
53. Augustus Alvin York (Republican) 1981 (Resigned)
York had been a compromise pick between the establishment Republican leadership and the conservative grassroots. York was briefly the target of a kidnapping plot carried out during a summit in Canada, though this attempt failed. However, coupled with assassination threats, York became very paranoid about falling victim to the ‘Zero Factor’ that claimed the lives of every president from 1840 onwards (at least based on what he knew at the time). York ultimately chose to resign from office.
54. Johnathan Cyclops (Republican) 1981-1988 (Killed in office)
Cyclops was a hardcore conservative in the vein of Senator Anderson and British Prime Minister Joan Carpenter. Cyclops pursued a policy of military buildup, privatization, deregulation and spending cuts that were credited for an economic boom. His policies led to the growth of corporations such as Ghostbusters LTD, the Foundation for Law and Government, and the Paranormal Termination Consortium, all of which contributed to the public welfare by dealing with threats both supernatural and mundane. On the other hand, his policies also allowed for the spread of the addictive foodstuff known as the Stuff, provoked the ScrumLabs kaiju incident, may have caused the Louisville Trioxin outbreak and perpetuated income inequality. Cyclops’ America faced major threats from drug cartels such as the one headed by Tony Montana, terrorist groups like COBRA, MAD, the disarmament supporting group that ended up destroying Charleston and the West German group that took over Nakatomi Plaza and supervillains such as Doctor Impossible. The country also saw increased numbers of supernatural murders, most notably the Springwood dream killings and the Crystal Lake murders. Cyclops was also president during the Crisis on Infinite Earths and the British superhero Miracleman’s attempt to take over the planet (which was ultimately defeated by Superman and Doctor Manhattan). During his term, the Visitors attempted an invasion, but Cyclops managed to repel it when the true nature of the invasion was revealed by John Nada. To stave off further alien threats, Cyclops allied with the more benevolent races known as the Autobots and Dinosaucers. Cyclops also had to contend with Metropolis getting attacked by Gozer, an amphitre that fostered a cult believing it to be the god Quetzalcoatl and cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, as well as the rise of the criminal organization known as the Foot Clan. The Hawkins incursions also all occurred under Cyclops’ watch and prompted the president to invite the SCP Foundation to resume operations in America. Cyclops’ foreign policies proved to be more controversial. His decision to create a Quark bomb on the advice of his advisor ‘the Deacon’ nearly provoked a global war and his support for British control of the Cascara Islands was polarizing. The Red October crisis brought the US and USSR to the brink of war before both sides backed down. However, his hardline anti-communist rhetoric led to a very bad place. His hardline positions led to a coup headed by General Vladimir Soshkin, who after an American boxer humiliated the Soviets by triumphing in a Moscow match, sought to prepare to awaken Cthulhu in the event of a war with America. Cyclops had Colonel Oliver Southern put in charge of contingencies should that scenario occur, but conflict would erupt early when Cyclops joked of beginning bombing in five minutes. Soshkin would awaken Cthulhu to begin the Third World War, but following the entity’s defeat at the hands of the kaiju Gojira and Gamera launched an earlier plan known as Operation Red Dawn from Soviet-aligned states in Tropico and Mexico. Cyclops would be killed in a Soviet bombing raid on Washington in the early stages of the Third World War.
55. Sam Baker (Republican) 1988-1989
Baker was a moderate Republican who was seen as an able foreign policy hand. Baker led the US through the bulk of the Third World War, helping repel the Soviet invasion of America and sending aid to Europe as Soviet forces advanced west. Baker also backed the protests that brought the British government of Gerald O’Brien, a Soviet sympathizer, down and installed pro-American Jim Hacker in 10 Downing Street, bolstering the war effort. Soviet nuclear strikes would devastate Missouri, parts of England and China during the war, but ultimately the usage of nuclear weapons would be spread thin, in part thanks to the flight of the ‘Old Dog’ airplane and the usage of the Silver Tower defensive system. Ultimately, Soshkin would be removed by Moscow mayor Sergei Karpov, who launched peace negotiations amidst the collapse of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. Baker would run for reelection, but be defeated in the primaries by Robert Kelly, running on the basis that Baker’s suspension of the Keene Act during World War III was a threat to the public. Kelly would go on to achieve victory over Jack Tanner and Stephen Wendell.
56. Robert Kelly (Republican) 1989-1991 (Resigned due to stress)
Kelly had made a name for himself as an anti-mutant hawk who distrusted homo novis. However, shortly before taking office, his perspective shifted after he was rescued from being kidnapped by future Genoshan president Erik Lensherr by the mutant students of Charles Xavier. Kelly consequently came to appreciate the value of heroic metahumans, rolling back the Keene Act and establishing government support for the Xavier Institute, Whateley Academy, Sky High and other institutions to train future superteams. Kelly’s policies have been credited with the emergence of groups like the Powerpuff Girls, the Seven Guns, the Umbrella Academy and the Teen Titans during the 1990’s. On the domestic front, Kelly was president during the first attempted school massacre at Westerberg High School and during the Vice City animal mask murders. Kelly also formally concluded World War III by signing a peace treaty with the USSR. Kelly however would have to contend with new threats. Khan Noonien Singh’s India had taken advantage of China’s collapse to annex the country and begin planning military expansion. Saleh Takridi’s Basenji invaded the smaller US ally of Qumran, sparking the Gulf War. The biggest crisis of Kelly’s term was the Denver nuclear incident of 1991, which killed 75,000 people. Kelly, stressed by his failure to avert the catastrophe, would resign the presidency in the aftermath of this event.
57. James Marshall (Republican) 1991-1992 (Killed in office)
Marshall was a veteran and generally seen as a no-nonsense president. During Marshall’s presidency, the US began to intervene in the conflict known as the Eugenics Wars. Marshall sent military aid to the nations of Matobo and Zamunda as Karl Vorster’s neo-Domination regime in Draka sought to expand and also sent aid to Vietmahl and Sarkhan to stave off takeover by the Great Khanate. Marshall also used direct force to deal with Augment warlords in Ardistan, which ultimately provoked a vengeful attempt to hijack Air Force One that Marshall personally dealt with. Marshall would also lead the US into a war with Japan, which had aligned itself with the Khanate and embraced radical ideas such as sending teenagers into deathmatches to curb delinquency. The US emerged victorious, but a vengeful Japanese soldier would kill Marshall and much of Congress in a retaliatory attack.
58. Jack Ryan (Independent/Republican) 1992-1993
Ryan was a former CEA agent and the son of the Galtist businessman Andrew Ryan, whose underwater city of Rapture had laid much of the groundwork for the technology used to create the Augments. Despite his own bizarre origins, Ryan showed strong leadership during his time in office. He defeated the Khanate-aligned United Islamic Republic formed by the takeover of Basenji by Asran even amidst attempted biological warfare. Ryan authorized the Tectonese refugees to settle in the US. Ryan’s military leadership was strong and he was personally quite popular, but the economy dipped during his presidency and, coupled with a strong third-party run by businessman Newton Sanders, Ryan would be defeated in his bid for reelection (during which he was technically an independent, but de facto the nominee of the Republican Party).
59. Bud Hammond (Democrat) 1993-1995 (Resigned)
Hammond had been governor of North Carolina and was a distant relative of former president Hammond as well as InGen CEO John Hammond. During Hammond’s term, Earth faced destruction at the hand of the entity known as Giygas, the Crisis Empire and beings from the Dark Kingdom. The town of Salem was attacked by a trio of resurrected witches and parts of the country by enlarged ticks during Hammond’s term. Hammond himself was somewhat lecherous and had extramarital affairs with an environmental activist and an underage girl, the latter of which prompted him to start a war in Borduria amidst the ongoing Eugenics Wars. Hammond was also responsible for sending a special forces team to the Yucatan Peninsula to prevent the awakening of a sleeping Mayan god after being warned about it by a Jjaro hologram. Hammond alienated much of the left via his triangulation and centrism and was often supportive of business interests. One ally of Hammond, the businessman Victor Mattiece, had two Supreme Court justices assassinated to protect his business interests. Hammond had allies in other controversial companies as well ranging from the Rossum Corporation to Aperture Science. Ultimately, Hammond would be forced to resign as a result of his numerous scandals, though in his post-presidency he would gain more popularity and in hindsight was viewed quite favorably.
60. Thomas Whitmore (Democrat) 1995-1996 (Resigned)
Whitmore was a Gulf War veteran and entered the presidency unpopular due to the cloud of Hammond hanging over him. However, Whitmore would prove capable of rising to the occasion. Early in his term, the world was attacked by the alien race known as the Fithp. Despite their bombarding of Earth with asteroids, Whitmore was able to defeat the Fithp by launching the spaceship known as the Archangel Michael. Whitmore would also bring an end to the Eugenics Wars as Khan Noonien Singh’s regime fully collapsed. During Whitmore’s term, an alien-human hybrid escaped containment in Los Santos and Whitmore’s allies in the government failed to secure the escaped specimen. Whitmore would become most noteworthy for his leadership during the 1996 Harvester invasion, where he personally flew in the combat mission that destroyed the Harvester mothership. Postwar, Whitmore presided over the opening of the Stargate, began supporting the Global Defense Initiative following the rise of the Brotherhood of Nod and sponsored the creation of the Power Rangers inspired by Japan’s Sentai Corps. However, in August of 1996, Whitmore experienced a severe seizure that his doctors initially though killed him. While he survived, Whitmore ended up resigning due to this event.
61. Florentyna Kane (Democrat) 1996-1997
Kane had been about to be dropped from the presidential ticket when Whitmore resigned, but managed to salvage her chance to be the nominee when Whitmore stood aside. Kane presided over the national reconstruction efforts following the Harvester invasion. During Kane’s term, meteors hit Maple Valley and Houston, causing widespread damage. Kane had to contend with the Machine Empire’s invasion of Earth, the supervillain Hank Scorpio temporarily occupying the East Coast and feuds between the FBR and the Syndicate. Kane would pressure Draka into accepted the Prawn refugees that arrived on Earth during her term. Kane also was the target of an assassination attempt thwarted by Black Light, but Kane experienced severe paranoia afterwards and attempted to arrest several members of Congress she believed were involved in the attempt. This move proved widely unpopular and bolstered the Republican candidacy of William Cozzanno who would ultimately defeat Kane.
62. Eleanor Richmond (Republican) 1997-1998 (Left office due to special election)
Cozzanno had won the election due to vote-rigging by the organization known as the Network and ended up getting assassinated on his inauguration day, leading to his political novice running mate Eleanor Richmond becoming president. Richmond was the first African-American woman to serve as president and her position caused the rise of various hate groups, most infamously the Organization headed by Earl Turner which launched a small-scale insurgency against the government before being crushed by the FBR. The biggest crisis of Richmond’s term would occur when rogue general Frank Hummel took over Alcatraz, demanding $100 million to release hostages and not launch missiles at San Fransokyo. While the crisis would be resolved, Richmond felt extremely uncomfortable dealing with the crisis and decided to hold a special election rather than continue to serve as president.
63. Kenneth Yamaoka (Democrat) 1998 (Resigned)
Yamaoka was a dark horse candidate who ended up becoming the first Asian-American commander-in-chief. During Yamaoka’s term, the island of Nantucket and all its inhabitants disappeared, to be replaced by the island as it was in the Bronze Age. Due to this event, Yamaoka sponsored the creation of the Fringe Division. Yamaoka was also forced to destroy Raccoon City following the T-virus outbreak caused by the Umbrella Corporation. Yamaoka was a staunch opponent of hate groups, but this ironically led to his undoing when it was discovered he had been backing various hate groups covertly to increase their profiles and give himself the capital to push back against them. Yamaoka consequently resigned the presidency.
64. Josiah Bartlet (Democrat) 1998-2005
Bartlet had been the runner-up in 1997’s Democratic primary and been picked by Yamaoka to unify the party. Bartlet would contend with a number of issues, most notably the September 11th terrorist attack on the Wynand Towers. While Mitchell Hundred saved one of the towers, over a thousand people still perished in the attack. Bartlet responded by invading Adjikastan to depose the government harboring the Umayyad Revolutionary Council from power. Bartlet chose to combat terrorism with a generally light footprint, preferring to use covert assassinations and limited air strikes to deal with terrorism outside of Adjikastan. Bartlet also sent aid to Britain following the Rage outbreak of 2002 and to Japan following an incursion of vicious legged aquatic life, negotiated an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and weathered a scandal surrounding concealing his MS from the public. Bartlet also advanced America’s space program, launching the Discovery One expedition to Jupiter and setting up a base on the Moon’s surface. He also sought to push back against the Shiawise Supreme Court decision granting multinational corporations extraterritoriality, though this effort failed to succeed by the time he left office. Bartlet also established contact with the Andalite alien race following Governor Al Donnelly’s revelation of an ongoing alien invasion by the parasitic Yeerks. However, the alliance with the Andalites and Hork-Bajir was brought down when the Syndicate and their Furon allies destroyed the Andalite homeworld, imprisoned the Hork Bajir and mindwiped most of the public. 4,400 individuals whom had disappeared over the past century mysteriously reappeared during Bartlet’s term and their possession of unusual capabilities sparked widespread distrust. West Elizabeth faced an incursion by aliens that could rapidly evolve during Bartlet’s term in office and a deadly videotape of Japanese origins killed dozens. Eastern European anarchists attempted to carry out terrorist plots, but were thwarted by the efforts of Xander Cage. Bartlet would end up leaving office with rather high approval ratings, but his party failed to secure a win in 2004.
65. George Sears (Republican) 2005 (Resigned)
Sears was a key figure in the neoconservative cabal known as the Patriots, an organization closely aligned with the ancient Templar Order. Sears had to contend with the Pluto’s Kiss virus disrupting all computer systems for over an hour and mandated that Internet usage be restricted to government use only for the next two years. However, Sears proved to be reluctant to embark on the full extent of the Patriots’ goals for America and he would subsequently be forced to resign. After leaving office, Sears would become a mercenary and become the only president to directly be implicated in the death of a successor.
66. John Blutarsky (Republican) 2005-2007 (Assassinated)
Blutarsky was a US Senator from Texas and famously rather dim-witted. He was seen by the Patriots and other hawks (whom were present in positions across his administration from Vice President Raymond Becker to Undersecretary of State Linton Barwick) as someone easily made amenable to their interests. Blutarsky lived up to their expectations. Declaring that he would beat terrorism “like we did the Germans after they bombed Pearl Harbor,” Blutarsky launched military interventions in Qumar, Basenji, Ardistan, Genosha and Hermajistan. He also nearly launched a war in Tyrgystan before the British ambassador to the US intervened. He passed surveillance legislation modeled after a 1990’s proposal that was scrapped when the NSA was implicated in assassinating a key political opponent of it. Blutarsky aligned with Tamerlane Industries, MannCo, Blackthorne, Vought-American and other private contractors to wage his numerous controversial overseas wars. All of these interventions caused controversy domestically to the point that undead veterans of the wars would rise up and seek to vote out his party in the 2006 midterms. Domestically, Blutarsky was considered a hardcore conservative, slashing taxes and disregarding scientists’ warnings about climate change. He once served as a guest host on the reality show American Dreamz and had to contend with zombie outbreaks in Willamette, Texas and the Midwest (the latter strain exclusively effecting pre-pubescent children), all largely caused by Umbrella experiments with the compound DC2. Blutarsky would ultimately be assassinated in the summer of 2007 by the superhero known as John Horus, who was outraged by Blutarsky’s militaristic policies. Much of Blutarsky’s cabinet also perished due to Horus’ actions.
67. Fletcher J. Fletcher (Republican) 2007 (Assassinated)
After Blutarsky’s death, the military-industrial complex stepped in to help restore order. They installed Fletcher J. Fletcher, the Speaker of the House, as president. Fletcher was an ally of Connex-Killen Oil and a strong critic of ‘socialist’ environmental policies. Fletcher launched a nationwide manhunt for Horus and members of the Seven Guns team he had been a part of, which ended successfully. However, elsewhere, Fletcher proved inept. When aliens attacked Los Santos, they were defeated by Duke Nukem rather than by the now-overstretched US military. Fletcher also bombed Haiti on baseless grounds. During his term, Fletcher came to the conclusion the best way to curb climate change was via depopulation of nations beyond America’s borders and contracted Yagiri Pharmaceuticals and the Umbrella Corporation to create a bioweapon to do so. However, before he could carry out his plan, his vice president, acting on behalf of the Patriots front known as the Company, poisoned Fletcher.
68. Caroline Reynolds (Republican) 2007-2008 (Resigned)
Reynolds was an ally of the Patriots through the Company front organization and was a ruthless near-sociopath whom had previously been the governor of Catawba. During her term, Stark Industries would end its relationship with the US military, instead fixating on supporting CEO Tony Stark’s activities as the superhero Iron Man and developing civilian technology. Metropolis was terrorized by a giant monster that had to be carpet-bombed to be destroyed. Reynolds helped the British government of Harriet Jones quarantine Scotland due to a deadly viral outbreak and California’s Agrestic and Majestic communities were destroyed in massive wildfires. Reynolds ultimately was blackmailed into leaving office with the revelation that she murdered her predecessor—something which came to light anyway shortly after she resigned.
69. Arthur Coleman Winters (Republican) 2008 (Killed in office)
Winters was a longtime ally of Blutarsky’s and helped bring about the latter’s conversion to Evangelical Christianity after a hedonistic youth. Winters’ presidency started off significantly with the revelation of the existence of vampires following the creation of synthetic TruBlood. Winters would be a critic of these vampire communities, seeing them as unholy and allying with Senator Nathan Petrelli in his efforts to impose mandatory vampire registration. Winters thus would earn the ire of vampire community leaders such as former President Lincoln, Bella Cullen and Barnabas Collins, but solidify his support among social conservatives and members of the Watcher’s Council, as well as the various Slayers and Hunters operating across the nation. However, Winters would ultimately be killed in office during what was supposedly a summit between the President, British Prime Minister Harold Saxon and envoys of an alien race known as the Toclafane. Saxon, however, actually was a renegade Time Lord known as the Master who used the Toclafane to murder Winters and briefly take over the world before history was rewritten so that the Master’s efforts were thwarted just after Winters’ death.
70. James Johnson (Republican) 2008 (Assassinated)
Johnson was an acolyte of the Patriots whom ended up being deemed as having outlived his usefulness. Johnson was president when the vigilante Kira began terrorizing the world with his ‘death notebook’ and when the Darkness attempted to assimilate the world’s human souls. His administration had barely done anything by the time of his death during the Big Shell Incident, which was abetted by the actions of former President Sears.
71. Johnny Gentle (Republican) 2008-2009
Gentle was a highly germophobic lounge singer whom had become vice president largely due to Johnson being a personal fan of his. Gentle negotiated the creation of the continent-wide Organization of North American Nations with Mexico and Canada, which implemented a regional free-trade regime and granted himself the title of ONAN president. Gentle also was responsible for creating a massive toxic waste dump along the US-Canadian border and handing that region to Canada as a means of achieving a ‘clean America.’ Gentle was president when a large number of dead teenagers returned to life, though thankfully they did not hunger for the flesh of the living or seek anything other than to simply live. The Zentraedi launched a raid on Earth during the Gentle administration, prompting Gentle to support the formation of the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit. Gentle nevertheless would be easily defeated in 2008 thanks to the beginning of the Great Recession.
72. David Palmer (Democrat) 2009-2010 (Resigned)
Palmer was the first African-American to be elected to the presidency and had quite an eventful tenure. He was targeted for assassination by terrorists both during the primaries and after becoming president, both times being saved by the CTU. Terrorists managed to succeed in destroying Dallas with a nuclear weapon during Palmer’s term. Palmer had to quarantine Empire City during his term after a large number of the city’s inhabitants gained unusual capabilities. During his term, Palmer was pressed by advisors and outside interests to support a war against Wasabia, Ramat and Abbudin. However, he resisted this push owing to the lack of evidence for such an intervention and was vindicated when the real reasons for this war push were uncovered. Palmer began sending US aid to the Japanese Self-Defense Force amidst Legion attacks in the country and the country experienced the effects of the Flash Forward. The Andromeda Research Corporation released the Revelation virus during Palmer’s term, briefly causing worldwide chaos. All of these events proved to be stressful to Palmer and he would resign in 2010.
73. Richard Martinez (Democrat) 2010-2011 (Left office in special election)
Martinez was a Congressman from San Fransokyo who was widely seen as a goofball and thus was unexpected to ever serve as president despite becoming Speaker of the House. Palmer selected him as vice president to replace his more ambitious predecessor whom had pushed for the unjustified wars in the Middle East Palmer opposed. Martinez would initially focus on feel-good initiatives, supporting things like the Genie Foundation and the Connor Project on social media and seeking to improve US relations with Bahavia. However, on actual policy, Martinez stumbled. The Washington monument fell victim to a terrorist attack by aliens that had been interned by the US government in Inostraka prison. Earth would briefly be occupied by Daleks during his term and Kira’s killings would be brought to an end following his apparent death. However, Martinez quickly came to realize he was unsuited to the position, much as Richmond had been before him and scheduled a special election in 2010.
74. Fitzgerald Grant (Republican) 2011-2013
A moderate California Republican, Grant was able to narrowly defeat New Austin Governor Arcadia Alvarado thanks in part to a vote-rigging scheme carried out by his advisors in Defiance County, Ohio. Grant would preside over numerous crises as president, from the director of the CEA program B613 going rogue to extramarital affairs threatening to leak. Grant would have to deal with the Great Food Storm that blanketed numerous cities with enlarged food products due to the actions of an inventor in Swallow Falls. The town of Perdido Beach, California would be trapped within the FAYZ which led to the disappearance of the city’s adults and the children who remained gaining unusual powers. This was not the only incident of superpowers being relevant in Grant’s administration, as SHIELD launched the Avengers initiative during his term and the team managed to defeat an invasion of Chitauri aliens in Metropolis in 2012. Grant would have a lighter footprint abroad than the most recent Republican presidents, with the main overseas intervention he launched being a series of air strikes to overthrow the Aladeen regime in Wadiya. This would briefly change in late 2011 when Grant authorized 30,000 ground troops to intervene in the Qumari Civil War after President Al-Futani was murdered by the Bahji terrorist Khaled Al-Asad. Al-Asad would kill most of these forces by detonating an atomic weapon in the Qumari capital of Agrabah before he was tracked down and killed in a safehouse alongside Ushi Party leader Imran Zakhaev. Brain-eating spiders would infect a large number of people in the Winnemac city of Zenith during the Grant administration. The various catastrophes of 2012 brought about by the end of the Mayan calendar also occurred during Grant’s term. These disasters included Jellystone erupting and a massive California earthquake. However, much of the damage was averted by the subsequent Awakening of Magic. Sparked by the actions of the Department of Diachronic Operations and the opening of Pandora’s Box, this event saw large swathes of the population turn into supernatural beings such as orcs, trolls, elves, dwarves and hobbits while the wizarding world finally revealed itself to the world at large as the Mist dissipated. Grant was open to the changes, but they occurred too late in his term for him to have an impact as he was defeated in his reelection bid.
75. Adam Benford (Democrat) 2013 (Zombified)
Benford had been Secretary of Homeland Security under the Palmer, Martinez and Grant administrations and was widely respected on all sides. His term would be uneventful until Benford attempted to reveal the US government’s complicity in the actions of the Umbrella Corporation during and before the War on Terror. This raised the ire of National Security Advisor Albert Wesker, whom infected Benford and other residents of the town of Tall Oaks where he intended to reveal what occurred. Benford’s zombified form was killed by Leon Kennedy.
76. James Sawyer (Democrat) 2013-2014 (Resigned)
Sawyer had been a candidate in 2012 running on a platform of hope and change. Sawyer sought to integrate the supernatural community that had emerged post-Awakening into society as a whole, seeking to pressure groups like the BPRD, SCP Foundation and UNIT to be more lenient towards supernatural beings. Sawyer dealt with two attempts to overthrow him, one carried out by North Hun Chiu (which shortly after reunified with the South to form the Greater Hun Chiu Republic) and once by the Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson, though both attempts failed to succeed. Increasing swathes of the US population suffered from drug addiction as Jesse Pinkman’s Blue Sky meth and Teresa Mendoza’s Substance D swept across the country. Draka experienced increasing instability, as the AWB kidnapped American scientists seeking to build a time machine and prawn riots necessitated the sale of Tetravaal robots to the country by Sawyer. Texas suffered a widespread fungal disease outbreak during Sawyer’s term, though it thankfully would be contained. Sawyer’s administration would ultimately unravel in 2014, when Sawyer’s ally, billionaire Raymond Tusk, implicated Sawyer in a Chinese money-laundering scandal Tusk was falling victim to. Sawyer was subsequently forced to resign.
77. Frank Underwood (Democrat) 2014-2017
The former South Carolina Congressman had played a key role in orchestrating Sawyer’s ouster. A ruthless operator, Underwood was often compared by British diplomatic officials to the late Prime Minister Francis Urquhart for his similar operating style. Underwood chose to posture against Russian President Viktor Petrov rather than assist him in dealing with the ultranationalist Ushi Party threatening to overthrow his government. He launched his signature program, America Works, by raiding disaster relief funds. Underwood was president when terrorists detonated a nuclear device in Paris, killing 80,000. Underwood would have to contend with an economic crash precipitated both by the money laundering scandal and hackers taking down E Corp. Underwood would support the XCOM organization in combatting the ultimate invasion by the Furons (now genetically modified into various strains) and subsequently also beat the Ravager invasion. Underwood would also be forced to implement the annual Purge night by the hard-right New Founding Fathers Republicans (some of whom were infected by brain-eating parasites at the time). Earth was attacked by the forces of King Selfish during Underwood’s term and the planet would be briefly occupied by the apartheid-esque Galactic Federation. Underwood would additionally wage a war on the Islamic Caliphate Organization in his final year in office. However, his personal failings and unpopularity failed to be salvaged by trickery in the 2016 election and he would go down in defeat.
78. Herbert Garrison (Republican) 2017 (Removed from office by Cabinet)
An elementary school teacher from Colorado, Garrison mounted a presidential bid out of disgust for illegal immigration from Mexico and Canada, as well as the new supernatural beings that emerged during the Awakening of Magic and from under Mount Ebbott not too far from his hometown of South Park. He ran initially promising to kill them all, though he eventually pivoted and outright attempted to lose to Underwood. However, Garrison shocked (and horrified) the world by emerging victorious and assumed the presidency. Garrison’s tenure proved shortlived, as his advisor Damien Thorn urged him to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack on Canada. The attack killed thousands, brought down the ONAN and prompted his cabinet to immediately remove him from office. Garrison would flee back to Colorado in disgrace.
79. Quentin Carroway (Republican) 2017 (Killed in office)
Carroway was largely similar to Garrison and had been the CEO of the Clamp Organization prior to Garrison picking him as his running mate. Garrison hoped Carroway would further turn off voters to his candidacy, an effort which failed. Carroway was president when the Ushi Party seized control of Russia, prompting major tensions. This ultimately culminated in an outright war against Russia in 2017, which saw Russia’s ultranationalist government invade Paris, London, Berlin and Metropolis. Carroway led the US in the initial stages of the conflict, but was killed in a Russian airstrike while visiting troops on the frontline in Gotham City, where they were combatting the BLACKLIGHT outbreak sparked by the Russian invasion.
80. Andy Guzman (Republican) 2017-2018 (Resigned)
A young Senator from Columbiana, Guzman had been widely favored to be among the top tier of Republican challengers to Underwood alongside the likes of Alex Keaton and Curtis Haas. However, Guzman would be overpowered in the primaries by Garrison’s fiery rhetoric and thus lost the primaries. He nevertheless, despite severe misgivings and his friend Gil John Biggs heading the third-party ticket challenging Garrison from the center-right, would endorse Garrison and be rewarded by becoming the appointee for Secretary of State. Guzman soon was promoted to vice president thanks to Carroway’s ascension to the presidency. Guzman would bring an end to the war with Russia and filled his cabinet with a mix of Democrats and Republicans, seeking to earn a reputation as a reasonable moderate. Despite this, he briefly made Gotham City into a penal colony as a result of the damage caused by the BLACKLIGHT outbreak. He would briefly be stranded in said colony before being rescued. He would help the postwar Russian government crush the last Ushi holdouts led by Grigori Stoyanovich and quarantine Seacouver after a modified Trioxin strain overtook much of the city. The alien Boov briefly occupied the planet during Guzman’s administration, though this occupation was achieved and reversed bloodlessly. Guzman was initially very popular, but his administration was ultimately brought down after he was revealed to be carrying on multiple simultaneous extramarital affairs. Guzman subsequently resigned the presidency and would retire to the suburban town of Riverdale.
81. Selina Meyer (Democrat) 2018-2019 (Defeated in special election)
Meyer, while a Democrat, was selected by Guzman to be his vice president to help foster bipartisanship. While a member of the Democratic Party, Meyer held a number of conservative views on specific issues which earned her criticism from other Democrats as well as Republicans. She would declare a special election for 2018 to stave off claims of her illegitimacy from both sides as a result. During Meyer’s term, a large number of alien statues known as ‘Carls’ appeared across the world and terrorists who sought to destroy them killed thousands. Nazis from a surviving moonbase would invade Earth during her term, but she was able to repel the invasion thanks to the usage of the USS John Blutarsky. Half the world population was temporarily killed by the alien warlord Thanos and Salem experienced mass riots after a cybersecurity breach. Meyer also nearly negotiated freedom for Tibet from the Chinese government ruling the country, though this negotiation ultimately fell through. Meyer narrowly lost the 2018 special election.
82. Elizabeth Winters (Republican) 2019 (Committed suicide)
Winters was the widow of Arthur Coleman Winters and a military hawk who was a regular guest on the Wolf Network. Winters managed to triumph over a crowded Republican field thanks to the death of presumed frontrunner Steven Armstrong during the early stages of the Republican primary. Winters heralded the era of megacorporations, enacting policies that benefitted the megacorporations of Arasaka, BL Industries and Black Mesa over the public. Resource shortages precipitated a massacre in Bakersfield carried out by WorryFree, who had all but bought out the entire city and converted over half the residents to Equisapiens. Replicants became common thanks to the mainstreaming of alchemy, prompting disputes over their rights or the lack thereof. The US would be terrorized by the otherworldly Tethered during her term and efforts to destroy them for good would last into her successor’s term in office. Winters ultimately worked with Ushi hardliners to stage a terrorist attack, but the plan went awry and she subsequently committed suicide.
83. Michael Nolan (Republican/Propertarian) 2019-2021
Nolan was commonly referred to as ‘The Boss’ owing to his role as the leader of a street gang known as the Third Street Saints. Nolan had become a national hero by thwarting a terrorist attack five years prior and was not expected to vault into the presidency. Nolan’s personal dysfunction caused him to become increasingly unpopular very rapidly. While he thwarted alien invasion attempts launched by the Zin, cyborgs led by the android Zelda based on Mars and the Ceph, Nolan remained wildly unpopular, to the point the only person who was willing to accept the vice presidency was an Ohio ex-principal by the name of Sue Sylvester. The Great Plains would be terrorized by the entity nicknamed ‘Brightburn’ early in his tenure before he was dispatched by XCOM, the Avengers and the SCP Foundation via Harvester technology. An intervention to overthrow jihadists who had taken over Panau failed when the fleet the US dispatched mysteriously disappeared. Metropolis was ravaged by the dollar flu outbreak and the US-sponsored SeaLab repeatedly was destroyed over the course of 2020. The tech billionaire Richmond Valentine attempted to use special SIM cards to spread a hate plague across the population and blackmailed key figures including President Nolan while doing so. Nolan’s unpopularity skyrocked when Nick Haflinger revealed he maintained close ties to criminal organizations and had ramped up privatization to the point his mafia allies could gain a monopoly on pizza delivery. Nolan was subsequently defeated in the Republican primaries by the demagogue David Jefferson Adams, waging a tough-on-crime platform targeting the outcome of Lahey v. Keystone and ‘disloyal’ Americans. Nolan had also been challenged by Michael Wilson, who ran a third-party campaign in the election as well. The Democrats nominated Elizabeth McCord, former Secretary of State, while her primary opponent Senator Julian Felsenburgh ran as the Socialist nominee with the support of other minor left-wing parties. Nolan would switch to the Propertarian Party and run as their nominee in 2020. Vote-splitting between these candidates as well as New Bull Moose nominee Rachel Israels would lead to a hung electoral college. The House would pick Adams as the president despite Wilson’s popular vote victory.
84. David Jefferson Adams (Republican) 2021-2025 (Killed in office)
Adams quickly became one of the most reviled presidents in American history. Wilson refused to accept the election results, aligning with Native American separatists in the Ghost Dance War which saw the Pacific Northwest gain independence. While briefly cutting government and empowering corporations to set the surnames of their employees, Adams would deescalate some of the rampant privatization Nolan and Winters had pursued, seeing it as detrimental to his own goals of suppressing dissent. During Adams’ term, the US was briefly occupied by the extradimensional Combine Empire. The Federated Nations set up a Lunar penal colony that Adams used to exile certain dissidents over the course of his term. The world would also be ravaged by a mass sterility epidemic that Adams did little to nothing to combat despite rapidly declining birthrates. Adams used the courts to disqualify almost all of his potential rivals from Elle Woods to Alex Keaton. Media outlets were subject to censorship, with only lunatic conspiracy theorists in the vein of Dale Gribble being given continued freedom to operate. Tensions with Greater Hun Chiu continually escalated under Adams’ administration and Adams nuked the artificial island of Hong Sha Dao built by the GHCR-aligned Chinese government in 2024 as a show of force. Adams encouraged the public to integrate into digital worlds such as the OASIS and the World Seed in the hopes that this would prevent unrest. Ultimately Adams was easily reelected thanks to the lack of opposition, but on inauguration day 2025, over twenty nuclear devices were detonated in various cities across America, killing Adams, Vice President Tracy Flick and the whole line of succession.
85. John Shaw (Independent) 2025-2027 (Assassinated)
Shaw had served as Secretary of State to Hammond, Whitmore and Kane in the 1990’s, but had been retired for many years. He was selected as the leader of the interim US government as a consensus pick owing to his generally apolitical nature on domestic policy. When Shaw took the reigns, America was in chaos. Shaw’s Columbus government was one of six governments claiming legitimacy amidst the collapse of the central US government. The European Union, under the leadership of Felsenburgh, had occupied the ruins of Washington and Alaska by Russians who refused to withdraw after their homeland was nuked by Hun Chiu while the western Allied States of America’s decision to bomb Hun Chiu and Asran led to Hun Chiu launching an invasion of the West Coast. The US was attacked by hacked drones along with China by Raul Menendez, with the goal of delaying organization in pushing back against all these threats. Large swathes of the country were overtaken by the Project at Eden’s Gate, the Christian Marines Corps and other cults and fanatical groups. Shaw, in order to restore order, accepted the proposal of Metropolis Mayor Norman Osborne to suspend major civil liberties, launching the ‘street judge’ system and cryogenically freezing criminals found guilty by these judges. Thanks to Shaw’s leadership, most of the eastern US was quickly reunified and, when the Allied States and Hun Chiu attempted to invade Texas, Texas aligned with Shaw’s government. By the end of his term, Shaw had pushed out Hun Chiu, collapsing their sphere of influence. However, Shaw would be assassinated by the aged mercenary Anton Chigurh at the behest of the Allied States’ rump government.
86. Sean Rathcock (Independent) 2027-2029
Rathcock was an anti-Adams Republican and a veteran of the Blutarsky era’s wars. Rathcock would thwart an attempt by an Allied States-aligned billionaire named Luther Voz to spark worldwide nuclear war. Rathcock also legalized marijuana and helped sponsor the First Hundred’s mission to Mars. He provided amnesty to illegal immigrants willing to assist in mopping up the remnant warlord factions from the Third American Civil War. He also would legalize human augmentation after anti-augmentation terrorists were blamed for a widespread software virus. Rathcock’s administration helped sponsor rebuilding efforts for the cities destroyed on Inauguration Day with the help of the Scarlet Witch and helped spread the antidote to the sterility plague created by Martha Jones and Robert Chase. Earth was visited by a spaceship shaped like an icosahedral from another universe during Rathcock’s term and Nevada astronauts training for a later Mars mission were threatened by the Radical-6 virus. Rathcock declined to run for reelection.
87. Lisa Simpson (Democrat) 2029 (Killed in office)
Simpson was a childhood prodigy who was always a socially conscious, environmentalist sort of person. Upon taking office, Simpson faced many problems, such as China seeking to collect on the US’s enormous national debt, mass explosions of experimental anti-matter reactors, flooding and riots in Sarkhan and a major drought that led to some regions such as Australia not experiencing rain for a decade. Simpson was president when America’s mutant population was wiped out following the deaths of Charles Xavier and Logan Howlett and the flight of most of the nation’s mutant children into Canada. The biggest disaster of Simpson’s presidency was the Moonfall, where the Moon was hit by an asteroid, moved closer to the planet’s surface sparking major flooding and caused chunks to rain down on it as well as mass insanity often documented in broadcasts (which provoked the airing of a video urging civilians to commit suicide that had been made by the Norcross administration). Simpson would ultimately die during this event when Air Force One was struck by a chunk of debris from the Moon’s collapse.
88. Charles Haskell (Democrat) 2029-2030 (Killed in terrorist attack)
Haskell was tasked with repairing the damage from the Moonfall, which was widespread and cost billions of dollars to deal with. Flood risks became increasingly common and Hawaii was threatened by a Trioxin outbreak when some of the flooding washed some infectees from the Banoi Archipelago to the state. Haskell backed the intervention of the Global Headquarters to restore order to Japan, which had been ravaged by a deadly Trioxin outbreak in the early 2020’s. Haskell would attempt to deal with these issues, but would ultimately be killed in a terrorist attack during his first State of the Union address that also claimed the lives of most of the line of succession.
89. Thomas Kirkman (Democrat) 2030-2033
Kirkman served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Simpson and Haskell and was the designated survivor for the State of the Union. Kirkman would have to contend with the fallout from the attack, which included attempts by Michigan’s governor to suppress civil liberties and restoring the composition of Congress. These weren’t the only issues Kirkman would have to tackled. He had the US support the war effort against the Invid invaders and the efforts to reverse White Chlorination Syndrome. The biggest issues Kirkman faced was the increasing radicalization of large swathes of the right wing, whom had grown disgusted with what they decried as degenerate Bartlet liberalism. Even Republicans like Grant, Adams and Rathcock were condemned as sellouts to cultural Marxism and many members of the public began listening to the ultraconservative ideals of folks like Jake Rivers, Maryanne Bryant, Peter Petrawicki and Norman Arbuthnot. Amidst the loss of major urban centers and multiple invasions of the US, it seemed as though God was punishing the country. This attitude led the Republicans to nominate the demagogic preacher Nehemiah Scudder for the presidency. Scudder openly called for America to become a theocracy and suppress everything he deemed to be sinful. Initially it seemed as though Kirkman would manage to stave off this challenge, but in 2032, Los Santos was hit by a severe earthquake that rendered the city and surrounding communities like Angel Grove and Neptune into a devastated island. As Scudder had warned that God would judge Los Santos as a den of sin, this led many to conclude Scudder was right and he would emerge triumphant in the elections that year.
90. Nehemiah Scudder (Republican/Son of Jacob) 2033-2038 (Died in office)
Scudder, upon taking the presidency, quickly plotted to solidify his power amidst mass protests against his rule and his more unpopular policies. He had a cabal of his allies, known as the Sons of Jacob, carry out a massacre on President’s Day targeting numerous other politicians. By doing so, he secured his hold over the country. Scudder subsequently declared the dissolution of the United States and reformed it into the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, with himself as its First Prophet. Scudder rewrote the calendar to define the beginning of his rule as Year Zero, banned non-Christian faiths and exterminated mutants, aliens, wizards, magical beings and LGBT people en masse. Large swathes of the country broke off from his rule, ranging from the Native American Nations (whom embraced a near-Pengist ideology at this time to the point of burning almost all books) to California (which had broken away as megacorporations turned on Scudder). Scudder would seek to solidify his hold on power using technology, having allies like OCP and Cyberlife create machines capable of carrying out key functions of society. Cyberlife androids would ultimately rebel and flee Gilead in 2038, prompting Scudder to purge the company’s leadership. Scudder would contend with an unfriendly global situation, as old US allies eschewed his regime in favor of various rebel groups (Britain in particular despising Gilead for attempting to restore the Shepherd Party regime that had collapsed the previous decade with the help of PetroFex and Japan worked with California and the NAN to combat the Pacific kaiju problems) and old enemies ended up being more radically against Scudder’s regime, such as the Second Jihad movement and neo-Ushiites in Russia. Scudder also reduced women to second-class citizens, rendering large swaths of the female population sex slaves including a large number for himself. He would end up dying amidst intercourse with some of these ‘Virgins.’
91. Henry Jarrett (Son of Jacob) 2038-2040 (Overthrown)
Jarrett had technically been president of Gilead, a largely ceremonial position owing to Scudder’s iron grip on the government’s functions. Jarrett was slightly more level-headed than Scudder had been, toning down much of the rhetoric even as he maintained the same policies. The proclamations issued by Stephen Colbert were less outlandish than they had been under Scudder and he attempted to negotiate normalized relations abroad. This attempt failed however. Jarrett was also president when the Ganymedans temporarily conquered Earth. Gilead was easily crushed by the Ganymedans, but easily beat the flintlock-armed Roxolani and helped defeat the Evoluder. However, Jarrett’s regime proved not to be long-lasting, as a mass revolt broke out in 2040. Jarrett was murdered by his own Virgins and the Gilead regime came to an end.
92. Leslie Knope (Independent) 2040-2041
Knope had served as governor of Indiana during the Third American Civil War and helped facilitate the support the state gave to the Columbus government headed by Shaw. Knope had been a presidential candidate in 2028, but lost out to Simpson and ended up as Secretary of the Interior under Kirkman. Knope, however, would rise to prominence during the Gilead era for being a symbol of female resistance to the regime. Using a network of safehouses across Indiana, Winnemac and Michigan, Knope coordinated resistance activities and managed to avoid being captured by authorities. She also made many visits to Canada, where she was in essence treated as a representative of the US government in exile and negotiated what was in essence a unification agreement. Canadian forces would help liberate the United States and she would easily be selected as the interim president of the new United Canadian and American States. Knope would seek to curb megacorporate power amid Maximum Inc.’s attempts to take over Metropia and supported Susan Calvin’s robotics research and efforts to expand some rights to androids, although these plans ultimately fell through. Knope in essence marked a return to normalcy for the country and left office after not contesting the 2040 election.
93. Robert McCalistair (Independent) 2041-2049
McCalistair was an anti-Adams and later anti-Scudder Republican—that is to say, a moderate in the vein of former President Grant. McCalistair failed to win the Republican nomination owing to being seen as too moderate, with the party instead selecting the more conservative, but still anti-dictator Alex Keaton for the nomination. McCalistair nevertheless managed to win as an independent. McCalistair’s term in office marked the beginning of the ‘Second Renaissance’ as technology and prosperity reached new heights. Robotics advanced greatly during his administration, as McCalistair supported the development of companies like RobCo and Delos Industries. McCalistair would have to contend with the Chtorr incursion during his presidency, successfully preventing an alien ecosystem from overtaking Earth’s. Municiberg was destroyed in a terrorist attack during his administration and controversy erupted when McCalistair was found to be romantically involved with his Vice President. McCalistair was also president when the warlord known as Grandmaster Meio attempted to conquer the Earth, though Meio ultimately was defeated with little help from the president. McCalistair also contributed to the multinational XCOM force sent after the Tarsians following their 2046 invasion attempt. McCalistair also bolstered the space program during his time in office and left the presidency generally liked if not particularly loved.
94. Dunkelzahn (Democrat) 2049 (Assassinated)
Dunkelzahn was the first nonhuman confirmed to have held the presidency, being one of the dragons to reemerge during the Awakening of Magic. Dunkelzahn had helped defend the supernatural community during the Gilead era and won much of his support from said community. Dunkelzahn’s presidency proceeded uneventfully due to ending up being even shorter than Atchison’s, as the dragon was assassinated within six hours of taking office.
95. Gerald Keith (Democrat) 2049-2053
Keith was an anti-Gilead preacher whom entered politics during the McCalistair administration and had been selected to reassure moderates Dunkelzahn wouldn’t render them slaves or food. Keith would fend off an invasion by the Hing and deal with the outbreak of a modified Rage strain known alternately as the Gray Death, the New Plague, Mad Human Disease, the Flare Virus or the Green Flu. While successful in containing the spread of this disease, Keith was widely seen as struggling to deal with it, often sending troops into harm’s way doing what many believed robots could achieve. Speaking of robots, Keith would also launch a war against the machine-ruled city of Zero One in Basenji, fearing the sentient machines could pose a threat to the country. Keith would join the Federated Nations-sponsored World Space Patrol and help fund the Unity mission to colonize Alpha Centauri and also launch the ill-fated Jupiter 2 and Event Horizon spacecraft. Keith’s presidency unfortunately continued to empower megacorporations, allowing for the rise of the cannibalistic product Soylent Green and GeneCo to harvest organs that were not fully paid off. The Statue of Liberty would also be decapitated during a terrorist attack. In 2052, Keith would go up against the neo-Corpo Republican Paul Deutscher and be widely expected to win. However, following a recount and scandal surrounding the Federated Nations due to the revelation of it being manipulated by secret societies such as the Illuminati, Deutscher would end up being declared the winner.
96. Paul Deutscher (Republican) 2053-2057
Deutscher had been a part of the American Socialist White People’s Party during the Third American Civil War and only became accepted to the country due to his personal heroism in resisting Gilead. Deutscher still remained thoroughly committed to core fascist ideals. Deutscher would redefine the spelling of words and imprison dissidents during his presidency. He increased the power of unelected leaders he appointed over megacities. Deutscher nevertheless maintained solid relations with Europe, sponsoring their involvement in the Resource Wars. Deutscher managed to save the planet thanks to launching an expedition to prevent the sudden failure of the Sun. Deutscher also authorized the creation of the PreCrime system by the Judges, whom he also expanded the powers of. Deutscher also began planning for a future military confrontation with China, creating the SkyNet artificial intelligence system. However, Deutscher would decline to seek a second term due to ill health, which allowed for a crooked, but less evil, candidate to take the Republican Party into 2057.
97. Graveney Westwood (Republican) 2057-2061
Westwood was a largely apathetic man who ran for president largely out of vanity than genuine convictions. Westwood’s ambivalence to the struggles of working-class Americans led to him being nicknamed ‘The Beast,’ though he argued that as long as over half of America wasn’t starving or homeless he’d done his job. Westwood was at one point targeted for assassination, but saved by a collection of young spies in training. While not an outright fascist, Westwood maintained socially reactionary policies pursued by Deutscher and helped solidify the 2050’s revival of 1950’s era social norms and aesthetics. Westwood presided over the capture of the KVA leader Hades during his term and sent aid to Zheng Fa after it experienced a massive earthquake. Westwood’s term also saw tensions increase with China and Russia and saw the revival of the ONAN with all the nations of North America to prepare nationwide defenses. Despite his accomplishments, he was defeated in 2060.
98. Gary Callahan (Democrat) 2061-2062 (Impeached)
Callahan was a slick charmer nicknamed ‘The Smiler’ by the media. However, behind closed doors, he was far more corrupt, power-hungry and sociopathic than his predecessor, believing himself to be above the law. Callahan’s term saw income inequality reach new heights, with the wealthy often dwelling in literal towers while the masses were forced to live in squalor on the ground. Callahan backed the FN suppression of a revolt on Mars and supported the GDI alliance with the revived Brotherhood of Nod to destroy a resurgence of Tiberium. The government-sponsored AI known as MULTIVAC would become useless during Callahan’s term as it began to calculate a way to reverse entropy, making the country rely more on SkyNet. Callahan’s shady activities would ultimately be revealed by Spider Jerusalem and force him from office in 2062.
99. John Romero (Democrat) 2062-2065
Romero had been a filmmaker and largely was seen as a placeholder VP. Upon taking the presidency, Romero would have to contend with the alien Phantoms beginning to infest Earth, causing major social disruption. To curb this, Romero backed the formation of the organization International Rescue, sometimes also known as the Science Special Search Party. Romero also commissioned Vault-Tec to create Vaults to house US citizens in the event of a global war, though he also plotted with high-profile figures both in America and China to get some individuals offworld due to distrusting Vault-Tec’s right-wing leadership. Romero nevertheless would be defeated in 2064.
100. Cesare Appleton (Republican) 2065-2071 (Killed in office)
A veteran, Appleton’s first act upon taking office was to blow up the White House and declare himself Emperor of America. While assuming an iron-fisted rule that had no place for elected leaders was controversial, much of the country was fed up with the results of democracy, he had the backing of the military and Judges and was fairly light-touch to begin with. However, that all changed in 2066 when the US launched Freedom Star space station was destroyed by Russians. Despite Federated Nations attempts to broker a deal, Appleton would align with the European Federation and launch a war against Russia and China. Tensions had been rising for years, especially with the advent of the Optimum movement in China that also led to Britain breaking away from Europe and America. The war would see the US invest in developing new technology such as power armor and phasers and caused Australia to collapse into warlordism. To distract from wartime rationing, Appleton channeled Rome by having ‘Naturals’ compete with various engineered mutants in a battle royale. Appleton enjoyed widespread popular support, but would end up dying of a stroke in 2071, shortly after liberating Britain from its Optimum dictator Philip Green.
101. James Dale (Republican) 2071-2076 (Killed in office)
Dale was a mild-mannered, inoffensive career politician whom had been selected due to not being seen as a potential challenger of Appleton’s rule. Dale continued to prosecute the war effort against China and began gaining ground against Russia and China. Additionally, Dale was president when the Tri-Optimum Citadel space station was wiped out, weakening a major neutral power. He sent naval forces to occupy Huffman Island alongside its allies after a conflict in the region and began fighting against rogue war machines known as the Gears that were emerging from Zero One, supporting the formation of Overwatch afterwards to deal with the problem. The US moonbase was also damaged following a failed test of the Tandem Mirror Drive in 2075, an incident which ultimately provoked the next year’s Lunar Revolution. However, Dale would not live to see this revolution occur, as in 2076 he would perish along with many other political leaders in the US and Europe during an invasion by the ‘bigbrain’ Martians that had evolved from mutated Barsoomians and sought revenge for the invasion of the 20th century.
102. Taffy Dale (Independent) 2076-2077
The president’s daughter, Dale assumed the presidency amidst a major crisis for the country. While the bigbrains were defeated, the Lunar Revolution greatly slowed down the country’s rebuilding effort. The US Supreme Court, the only branch of government to survive the bigbrain invasion, was taken hostage by a terrorist using a cold fusion device capable of destroying the Eastern Seaboard, though this outcome was avoided. Dale controversially cracked down on protestors in Canada, Opium and Aztlan (formerly Mexico), which even many Americans felt was disproportionate. Dale would ultimately not be allowed to pursue reelection, despite China coming to the negotiation table during her term. Instead, vote hacking efforts led to the triumph of a president who would usher in catastrophe.
103. Robert L. Booth (Republican) 2077 (Removed from office)
Booth was a radical who served as a regional administrator over one of the 13 commonwealths created under Deutscher. Booth ran on a platform demanding unreasonable peace terms from China and Russia and even concessions from the allied European countries and some neutral powers. It is unclear how serious Booth was to begin with, but close to the deadline he imposed for acceptance of his terms, Tokyo in the neutral nation of Japan was destroyed by the godlike Akira. Both sides in the Great War blamed each other and ultimately SkyNet convinced Booth to launch a preemptive strike. Booth’s decision would spark a worldwide nuclear war that devastated the planet, ushering in the Cursed Earth period. In the immediate aftermath, as millions died, Antarctica’s ice caps melted due to the impact of an ‘angel,’ and the Judges seized control of the remnants of the megacities, Booth fled to a secret bunker and was arrested and sentenced to cryosleep for his crimes.
104. Hugo Allen Winkler (Republican) 2077-2081
Winkler assumed the presidency as the US faced its greatest crisis in history. SkyNet overtook much of the West Coast with a robot army, forcing those humans it did not outright exterminate into simulations of past times. SkyNet additionally unleashed a modified Trioxin strain on the South, causing all who died in the Great War to rise and feed upon the living. The presence of ley lines released extradimensional and cross-temporal threats onto the world, furthering the devastation. Various warlord states cropped up across the nation, such as PanAm, the New California Republic and many more. Winkler largely only maintained authority over Mega-City One and had to push out hordes of low-bloodline vampires and sentient apes to solidify his hold over New England. Winkler was largely a public face for rule by Judges and was seen as an empty suit by many under his rule. However, he over time became more charismatic, possibly due to being replaced by a robot. However, Winkler would lose in 2080.
105. Jim Briskin (Democrat) 2081-2088 (Overthrown)
Briskin ran as the first African-American president since Shaw and was the first one elected since Palmer. During Briskin’s term, recovery along the East Coast picked up significantly thanks to aid from Japan, which following the defeat of God-Emperor Raoh and several other petty warlords had managed to restore social order and created the nanotechnology dubbed the Japanese Miracle, which it sold to Briskin to clear away fallout from various exclusion zones. In return, Briskin provided assistance to the Japan-based SEELE organization in combatting the deadly ‘Angels’ that emerged following the Great War. Briskin also provided covert support to resistance movements in Norsefire-ruled Britain, though this ultimately backfired when the government’s collapse caused Britain to be overrun by genetically engineered predators. His term also saw the Laplace Incident destroy the Edenist habitat of the same name and Martian rebels overthrow the Federated Nations-backed ruling authority descended from the Kwan Do family, setting up the Mars Congressional Republic. Briskin engaged in a standoff with PanAm over establishment of a series of genetic experiments in the Midwest designed to counter radiation, which led to his administration supporting the First Rebellion that led to the secession of PanAm’s District 13. During Briskin’s term, a pair of aliens would visit Earth offering technology for interstellar travel in return for aid against a corrupt monarch. Briskin declined the direct offer, but the blueprints they provided ultimately paved the way for Zefram Cochrane’s experiments. Briskin would become interested in interdimensional travel after a rift opened to a seemingly empty parallel Earth. His administration helped form Crosstime Traffic to acquire resources from other timelines. However, problems ensued when a temporal rift led to the ‘virgin Earth’ advancing a century and then invading the main timeline and some attempts at colonizing other worlds led to contact with timelines dominated by Nazi Germany or alien lifeforms. Briskin’s war with interdimensional forces ultimately led to a military coup against his government.
106. Andrew Harrison (Independent) 2088-2099 (Overthrown)
Harrison was a general whose administration set up a military-dominated police state where the powers of the Judges drastically increased and the right to vote was limited to veterans. During Harrison’s reign as president, Huffman Island was reoccupied by American forces and the Marduk invaded the Solar System. Harrison’s term saw the geopolitical situation stabilize across North America as territorial control was more firmly established. He re-exerted total control of the Eastern Seaboard by his government. Harrison’s presidency also saw him forge close alliances with megacorporations such as Weyland-Yutani and Alchemax, in many ways making Mega-City One evoke the worst excesses of the 2020’s. Ultimately, however, Harrison would as a result find himself ousted, though he maintains the status of longest-serving president even to this day.
107. Victor Von Osud (Independent) 2099 (Overthrown)
Von Osud had been the infamous dictator of Latveria, a rival to the Fantastic Four and an enemy of the United States in the 20th century before he mysteriously disappeared in the 1990’s. As it turned out, he had been temporally shifted to America in 2099, amidst numerous ongoing crises and inequality. Von Osud would end up launching an uprising against the corporations and government dominating the country and many would come to regard him as a lesser evil. Von Osud ultimately pushed out Harrison and declared himself president. During his term, mass flooding occurred in what had once been Metropolis, making the former city in essence an archipelago. While proclaiming himself to now be a man of the people, Von Osud soon turned to his old authoritarian ways and found himself on the receiving end of another uprising, spearheaded by the frozen superhero Captain America.
108. Steve Rogers (Independent) 2099-2101
Rogers was a paragon of American values and had been a participant in the Second World War and numerous early 21st century conflicts against supervillains and alien invaders. He had, after defeating Thanos, traveled back in time to the 1940’s to reconnect with the woman he loved, but ended up being frozen again in the 1950’s. When he was unfrozen for the second time in his lengthy life, Rogers once again found himself fighting tyranny and helped overthrow Von Osud, restoring democracy to America. Rogers clashed with the authoritarian impulses of the Judges and remnant allies of Harrison, seeking to restore freedoms. However, he was stymied in this effort by the Formic invasion of 2100, which led to many viewing militarism as necessary. Moreover, the massive alien incursion (while largely the result of misunderstanding of humans on the Formics’ end) led to many regarding it as best to discard older national identities and join with the rest of the world. While Rogers was no chest-thumping nationalist, he was seen as an outdated symbol of American separation from the world at large and thus lost his reelection bid. After his defeat, he was returned to the 1950’s to live out his life in peace.
109. Jenny Templeton (Unity) 2101 (Folded US into unified Earth government)
Templeton was the last president of a body recognized as the United States or a legitimate successor thereof. Her first and only act as president was to subsume the country into the new Terran Federation. This government would retain many trappings of the old American government even after integrating into wider blocs such as the United Federation of Planets and the Citadel Alliance and evolve over the centuries into the United Earth Alliance and the World State among other governments. Further on various factions of humanity would be governed by the likes of the Dominion of Mua'dib or the Imperium of Man or the Trantorian Empire or the Star Kingdom of Manticore or the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. However, with Templeton’s signature, the United States as such would never exist again.
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Part 4: Masters of the North
The Kings of the Swedes, Wends and Goths, Their Majesties, by the Grace of God (House of Palatinate-Vasa — 1654-1943)
1654-1660: Charles X Gustav
1660-1697: Charles XI
1697-1735: Charles XII [1]
1735-1761: Charles XIII [2]
1761-1777: Charles XIV [3]
1777-1794: John IV [4]
1794-1816: Charles XV [5]
1816-1855: John V [6]
1855-1888: Eric XV [7]
1888-1908: John VI [8]
1908-1927: John VII [9]
1927-1943: Gustav III [10]
Royal Consorts of the Kingdom of Sweden (1654-1943 — by birthright style)
1654-1660: Lady Hedwig Eleonora of Sleswick and Holsatia (House of Holsatia-Gottorph)
1680-1693: Princess Ulrica Eleonora of Denmark (House of Oldenburg)
1700-1735: Princess Amelia of England (House of Orange)
1739-1760: Princess Carolina of Hanover (House of Guelph)
1777-1794: Princess Dorothea of Brandenburg (House of Hohenzollern)
1794-1810: Lady Eleonora of Sleswick and Holsatia (House of Holsatia-Gottorph)
1816-1850: Princess Louisa of Hanover (House of Guelph)
1855-1868: Princess Anna of Denmark (House of Oldenburg)
1872-1888: Birgitta Malvaniemius (morgantic marriage)
1890-1908: Princess Catherine of Roumania (House of Guelph)
1919-1927: Princess Elizabeth of England (House of Orange)
The Queen of the Commonwealth of Sweden and Finland, Her Majesty, by the Grace of God (House of Palatinate-Vasa — 1943-1946)
1943-1946: Margaret II [11]
Chairmen of the Transitional National Council of Sweden (1946-1949)
1946-1949: Karl Gustav Leijonhufvud (Coalition for the Preservation of the Swedish Nation) [12]
Chairmen and Chairwomen of the Committee of Secrets of the Republic of Sweden (1949-present)
1949-1960: Karl Gustav Leijonhufvud (Coalition for the Preservation of the Swedish Nation)
1960-1975: Rasmus Svensson (Coalition Party) [13]
1975-1987: Johan Holmgren (Coalition Party) [14]
1987-1995: Lukas Petersson (Coalition Party) [15]
1995-2007: Katharina Strömberg (Coalition Party) [16]
2007-2015: Harald Sandarnius (Coalition Party) [17]
2015-0000: August Lindquist (Coalition Party)
[1] Charles XII was one of the great generals of his generation, a bold and decisive commander who wielded the army his father left him to secure and expand Swedish influence across the Baltic and, indeed, across Europe. In the War of the Spanish Succession, he led the coalition armies to victory after victory against France and its allies, securing Sweden’s place in the ranks of the great powers of Europe, and cowing all its rivals, though he is remembered with hatred in the Russias for the Fire of Muscovy (1703), when the city burned just as the Swedish occupation of the city began.
Charles spent more than half of his reign away on campaign as, after the Spanish Succession, Sweden found itself at war to defend its Baltic holdings several times. Even when he was in Sweden, he was often deep in the counsel of his grandmother and once regent, Hedwig Eleonora, and, following her death in 1716, his sister, Hedwig Sophia, the widowed Duchess of Sleswick and Holsatia, who dominated her brother’s domestic policy to the point that Charles was referred to as her puppet by her rivals in the court of Stockholm.
[2] Charles XIII was a leader of men much in the vein of his father, though not so gifted at the art of war. He led his father’s armies into battle as he declined in his old age; he, most notably, was on campaign in England as part of the War of the English Succession when his father died and he came to the throne.
Unlike his father, Charles showed an interest in domestic affairs, expressed in his constant contention with the Swedish estates, particularly the nobility, over his institution of rational reforms into the Swedish governing apparatus. Charles’ domestic focus led him to make concessions to Sweden’s rivals rather than allow rivalries to lead to wars, which angered many more bellicose Swedes, though the policy made him much more popular among the lesser estates of the realm.
[3] Charles XIV came to the throne following his father’s sudden death in 1761. He wished to be a king in the vein of his grandfather, but was not nearly the military genius Charles XII had been. He alienated Swedish allies, and provoked Swedish rivals, involving Sweden in several unnecessary wars, squandering much of the surplus which his father had left him. Also unlike his grandfather, while he was uninterested in marriage, he nevertheless left a trail of bastards across the Baltic, and gave incredibly generous pensions to his paramours, further weakening the realm’s finances.
Charles XIV’s misrule and warmongering put the king at odds with the nobility, the lesser estates, and even his own family. Even so, it was a shock to the entire realm when the king was murdered — not a political assassination by an angered noble, nor an unsavory coup d’etat by an ambitious brother, but by Conrad von Grumbach, the sixth son of a minor Imperial prince, whose wife, Maria zu Sayn, the king had seduced and taken as a lover (though some modern scholars have questioned this account, and give more credence to Conrad’s accusation that Charles had raped Maria against her will, discounting Maria’s testimony as having been given under duress).
[4] Conspiracy theories of King John IV’s involvement in his brother’s murder were rubbished by both contemporaries and modern historians; nevertheless, some thought him ambitious enough to do it, and accusations dogged him for his entire reign due to the suspicious circumstances of King Charles’ death. Nevertheless, John got going quickly, withdrawing from his brother’s bellicose stances and attempting to repair Sweden’s relationships with its allies, such as England. Though King John was a less likable and personable man than his brother, his serious and studious nature was seen as a positive boon for a kingdom wracked by the many problems which lay in the late 18th century.
John was seen by many as a cruelly strict king, who strong-armed the Swedish Riksdag into levying high taxes across the realm, but, unlike his brother, tended to spend taxation on practical projects — he cut off most of the pensions his brother had granted, and instead redirected financing to the building of a new system of modernized toll roads that stretched across the entire kingdom, as well as bridges, including in very remote regions in the northern reaches of Sweden. He also began a project of building paved roads not only in Stockholm, but in the surrounding area, even into regions in its hinterland considered fairly remote from the capital. His investments in the basics of infrastructure laid the foundation for the rapid expansion of the Swedish economy in the following century.
[5] Charles XV was a man after his father’s heart, who was genuinely fascinated by modern techniques to build engineering and infrastructure, and had been a loud supporter of his father’s policies throughout. He was instantly more popular than his father for going along with the Riksdag in reducing taxes across the board, but the increase in production and tax collection efficiency which Sweden had already seen - in great part due to John IV’s infrastructure investment - meant that Sweden’s coffers continued to see an enormous rate of growth regardless; though Sweden would never be as productive as other great powers of the day, it was improving year on year.
However, despite King Charles’ enthusiasm for domestic development, his reign would be consumed by bloody war against all comers, first with Denmark, then the Russians, and then the long, deadly Great German War that ripped across Europe for the latter part of King Charles’ reign. Sweden’s surplus was stretched to its breaking point and beyond to defend its empire, but it was for naught — Sweden lost most of its lands in the Holy Roman Empire, and was forced to cede most of its Baltic empire on the far side of the sea to the ascendant Poland-Lithuania. Charles became immensely unpopular, being the first king to lose so much territory since its independence from Denmark. Charles agreed the humiliating treaty withdrawing Sweden from the war effort, angering the remaining allies, just before his death.
[6] John V came to the throne under the pall of his father’s defeat; he had virulently opposed his father’s concessions when the king had made them but, on taking the Crown, he took in Sweden’s entire position, and determined not to reenter the devastating war, a widely unpopular decision in his kingdom. King John was a military officer by inclination, but he saw Sweden as exhausted, and unready to play a part in any serious conflict for a long time, and so, he determined to consolidate the realm himself. Using the new peace, John offered places for many skilled Germans, Poles and others displaced by the ongoing war on the continent to attract them to Stockholm.
John was a practical king by all accounts, and sought to rebuild Sweden's place in the world by doubling down on its efforts to stay ahead of its opponents through industrial might. He poured royal finances into expansion of the mines, more so than ever before, and offering new and greater incentives - in the same vein, but doubly so, as his royal ancestors - for Germans leaving the war-torn Empire to expand domestic production, most notably in Abo, Amaliasborg, Gothenburg and Karlskrona. Despite his early unpopularity, over the nearly forty years of King John’s reign, Sweden prospered greatly, becoming one of the heartlands of industrialization in Europe. John was never averse to war, but, despite being a military man, Sweden fought only two relatively brief major wars during his reign, both against Denmark.
[7] Eric XV is remembered mainly for his name and his scandals, superficially echoing his name; with two older brothers, he was not expected to take the Crown, and so had formed a relationship with the witty Birgitta Malvaniemius, the daughter of a Finnish member of the Riksdag's Fourth Estate. When he suddenly became heir to the throne, he was forced to take on his brother's now lapsed engagement to Princess Anna of Denmark, in a story told and retold, to varying degrees of accuracy, by sixpence literature and fanciful Descanso kineme alike. While Birgitta would never be allowed to take the style of Queen of Sweden - as some of these works of fiction would have it - following Queen Anna's death, she did finally marry King Eric, and their children were legitimized and formally admitted into the circles of the royal family. And, being Finnish instead of Danish, she was obviously far more popular with the hoi polloi of Stockholm than her predecessor.
Much less remembered is the leading role which King Eric played in trying to maintain Sweden's lead in industrialization, including the construction of Sweden's first railroads by the Royal Swedish Rail Company, as well as the crucial role he played in the Third Russian Civil War, putting Sweden's ancient rival, Poland-Lithuania, on the backfoot in the Baltic for generations, revenging Charles XV's losses on the Commonwealth. Though not a gifted tactician or strategist, King Eric was a master of logistics, and was very successful in exploiting Poland-Lithuania's poor infrastructure and inefficient, though not altogether lacking, industrial development to Sweden's advantage.
[8] John VI is remembered for being a backward monarch. Unlike his predecessors, John VI - who had a poor relationship with his father - was a die-hard traditionalist, believing firmly in what he knew as traditional Swedish values. King John wielded both the power of the Crown’s property and his authority over the Church of Sweden to try to influence Sweden toward his false perception of a more traditional, more powerful Sweden of older days. Though he did not go so far as some monarchs, in trying to reverse industrialization itself, he did go very far in trying to see its effects neutralized and reversed, and to slow the process itself. Unlike his father, John had a cordial relationship with much of the Riksdag, wherein traditionalist elements successfully suppressed the democratic tendencies which were then starting to overcome the more historical conservative forces in England, France and other European powers.
The Riksdag drove much of King John’s administration, which was notably and particularly hostile to Sweden’s non-Swedish speaking subjects, as well as to other forces of liberal change, including even the most conservative forms of zenobianism. King John and his government also had an antagonistic relationship both with the Estate of Burghers - the branch most invested in industrialization - and with the urban populations of major industrial centers and cities, particularly the population of Stockholm who were no longer used to womanizing monarchs, and were uncharacteristically sympathetic his Roumanian consort. However, he is most remembered for his cruel response to the Amaliasborg Universal Stoppage in 1908, just before his death.
[9] John VII came to the throne very soon in the aftermath of his father’s cruel response to the Amaliasborg Universal Stoppage, which had provoked uprisings in Amaliasborg’s hinterland, universal stoppages across urban centers throughout Finland and wild stoppages on the Swedish mainland. Playing on his disagreements with his father, John brought the alliances to heel by dissolving the Riksdag irregularly and personally negotiating with them, and issuing decrees instituting new worker protections. These decrees angered all four estates, and, upon new elections, King John dissolved the Riksdag once again within weeks of its gathering. John would not call another Riksdag until 1920, ruling the country as a dictator. And, despite facing many assassination attempts, the king’s iron fist upon Sweden’s upper sorts brought the country back to order following his father’s weak and arbitrary rule.
King John also saw off an opportunistic invasion by Poland-Lithuania, which attempted to seize Amaliasborg and its hinterland; John was helped by the final disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire leading into a general European war that saw Poland-Lithuania fighting unexpectedly on several fronts. Even once King John called the Riksdag back, he ruled in a more autocratic fashion than any monarch of his blood in centuries. While he is remembered well by labor alliances, and with at least some fondness by those who still yearn to see a free Sweden, he was despised by the Swedish establishment throughout his reign.
[10] The reign of Gustav III should be more properly called his regency; the death of his father in a carriage accident, a shock after so many failed attempts to kill him deliberately, when the Crown Prince was only three years old left the reins of state in the hands of a Regency Council, at first dominated by Queen Catherine, the new king’s grandmother, who saw off an attempt by the Riksdag to take control of administration, as well as an attempted palace coup backed by other members of the House of Vasa. After Queen Catherine’s death, the king’s mother, Queen Elizabeth, became head of the Regency Council, but she came to constant loggerheads with Crown Princess Christina of Denmark; as a member of the House of Vasa, Christina had much natural support to her own position opposing Queen Elizabeth, but, given her marriage ties, many others were naturally suspicious of her motives.
The deaths of Christian XI of Denmark and King Frederick William II of Brandenburg in short succession triggered the Great Baltic War in 1935. Sweden, as a party to the Treaty of Edinburgh, joined the war alongside Denmark and England according to its obligations when Poland-Lithuania abrogated the treaty and disputed the succession of King Frederick to Brandenburg’s throne. However, years of bitter dispute, of disorganization and resentment within the Regency Council and for the Regency Council outside of it hamstrung Sweden, and Poland-Lithuania had learned its lessons from before — all too well. Most parties expected Sweden’s contribution to the war to be ineffective.
They did not expect the Polish-Lithuanian flag to rise over Stockholm within two years. Gustav III, twelve years old, fled the country for Denmark with his mother; he would never return, dying in exile in England in 1980.
[11] Princess Margaret of Sweden, the oldest child of John VII, was proclaimed Princess Regent at the age of 17 at the beginning of 1938 by the Committee of Secrets, under the influence of Swedish statesmen who had surrendered to Poland. For the next five years, as the Great Baltic War continued, and not in Sweden’s allies’ favor, Margaret “reigned” in name only though, officially, she concluded a peace with the Commonwealth that February, acceding to Polish suzerainty over Sweden. She was treated with all the dignity of her position, but given no actual power in governance. In 1943, when the final treaty ending the war forced Gustav to abdicate his throne, she was proclaimed the first Queen regnant in Sweden in nearly three centuries.
She was widely resented as sovereign by the people, even though she found herself completely at the mercy of the Committee of Secrets, now filled with men friendly with Poland-Lithuania. The most she managed was to see off two attempts to marry her to Polish magnates, as well as an attempt to marry her to Christopher II, the newly crowned Polish-backed King of Norway. Even some institutions of Swedish society - such as the Church of Sweden - balked at Margaret’s attempts to execute her royal prerogatives, even when insisted on by the government.
Margaret’s memory is much better remembered today, certainly among Swedish exiles, due to her actions following the Fifth Defenestration of Prague, when she dissolved the Riksdag and declared war on Poland-Lithuania, bringing Swedish loyalists into the general revolt against Commonwealth dominion over eastern Europe in 1946. Sweden quickly descended into civil war. Ultimately, Margaret’s reign was brought to a close when Polish reprisals came down upon the kingdom, and the last monarch of Sweden was killed in an artillery strike while rallying loyalists to defend Stockholm from the Polish-Lithuanian reprisal.
[12] Karl Gustav Leijonhufvud was the scion of an ancient noble Swedish family, and member of the Riksdag in the Estate of Nobility for much of the reigns of the last monarchs of Sweden. Leijonhufvud was, by nature, a peace-seeker, and he allowed his inclinations to corrupt him such that he became one of the most reliable Polish-Lithuanian allies in Margaret II's Council of State. Leijonhufvud successfully fled Stockholm when Margaret II gave the order to arrest him, becoming the face of the Polish-Lithuanian backed Coalition for the Preservation of the Swedish Nation, formed largely from the pro-Polish element in the Cap Party. When Margaret II was killed during the Polish-Lithuanian reconquest of Stockholm, Leijonhufvud was forced to form a republican government to replace the monarchy -- with Queen Margaret dead, and all the remaining Vasas safely away in England, there was no even remotely legitimate successor to the kingdom's crown. Leijonhufvud proclaimed himself Chairman of the Transitional National Council shortly before Christmas 1946, which over the next three years created the Ordinance of Reconciliation of the Republic of Sweden, which formed the constitutional basis of the new state.
The Ordinance of Reconciliation - though created almost exclusively by Swedish statesmen and members of the pre-civil war Riksdag - was derided by many Swedes as a foreign-imposed innovation; the Bishop of Abo proclaimed it "the ultimate exercise in kowtowing to the Sejm," and called on his congregants to resist it. Or, as he was known to the republican government, the former bishop -- as the Ordinance had abolished episcopacy in the Church of Sweden, instituting a presbyterian system of government, due to the Church's explicit participation in Queen Margaret's attempt to seize back control of the Swedish state. The Bishops' War, as it became known, would tear Sweden apart for the rest of Leijonhufvud's rule, now as Chairman of the Committee of Secrets, now Sweden's elusive executive council of state. Citizens across the new republic violently resisted the implementation of the new church governance, especially in rural areas, in Finland and Scania.
Leijonhufvud hardened his position, and refused to compromise even as his benefactors abroad and his supporters in Stockholm began to question his position; he cracked down on Sweden's nonjuring priests, who refused to swear loyalty to the republic or acknowledge the proclamations of the General Assembly of the Church Leijonhufvud gathered in Stockholm every year. In 1958, Finnish episcopalians bombed a thanksgiving service at the Great Church in Stockholm, killing fourteen members of the Riksdag and nearly killing the Chairman himself, leading to further crackdowns across the Finnish counties; this in turn provoked universal work stoppages in Abo, Amaliasborg, Karlskrona and Gothenburg. In 1960, as the stoppages stretched into their ninth month, Leijonhufvud was forced to resign the chairmanship of the Committee of Secrets by a cabal of his advisors, with the support of the Polish-Lithuanian ambassador. He died under suspicious circumstances in 1963.
[13] Rasmus Svensson was a reluctant republican among reluctant republicans, who nevertheless had become a member of Leijonhufvud's inner circle from the late 1940s, and had held several powerful appointments to ministries under his government. In 1960, upon becoming Chairman of the Committee of Secrets, Svensson opened a dialogue with those bishops who had - officially - given up their titles and sworn to uphold the republic, who nevertheless were still acting as the public mouthpieces of the radical episcopalian faction. The following year, in 1961, he cajoled the General Assembly of the Church into self-dissolution, and the Church "independently" restored episcopacy, and restored both the juring and nonjuring priests and bishops to their previous offices. Svensson further capitulated to other demands, including the restoration of the Finnish and other minority languages for use in Church services and government business in their respective regions, and the recognition of the major labour alliances by the state. By the time his first full term as leader of the Committee of Secrets and the Coalition Party ended, he had restored some peace to Sweden.
Nevertheless, Svensson's period of government was plagued with unrest, and monarchist militias continued a terror campaign in Finland into the 1970s. Despite the recognition of the labour alliances, Svensson found himself constantly at loggerheads both with major captains of industry and the labour alliances, and more than once resorted to the use of the Swedish Army to smash both alliance activists and industry enforcers alike. Svensson voluntarily stepped down in 1975, after ruling the country for three full terms of his own, in addition to the lion's share of Leijonhufvud's final term in office.
[14] Johan Holmgren came to the chairmanship with Svensson's blessing. He was a relatively young man - only forty-one years old upon taking the position - and was thus the republic's first leader not to have been directly involved in its formation (though he had fought in the civil war as an adolescent). Holmgren continued the Svensson-established status quo, charting a course seeking to keep things as they were. He was helped by the general economic boom time of the late 1970s and early 1980s across Europe, which saw increasing trade links with the Federation of the Rhine and the rest of the unified currency area in western Europe. Holmgren took the new financial windfall of trade and plunged the new money into Democratic-style social programs, ceding control of the new poor relief and health insurance schemes to the bishops of the Church of Sweden - further bringing the Church into the fold of the republic.
Holmgren "encouraged" both industry and alliance leaders to come to conclusions reasonable to the Coalition Party, and the good times enabled him to achieve a wholly new and unbelievable accomplishment: being a popular Chairman of Sweden. Holmgren retired at the end of his third term as Chairman, and remains a popular figure in the Riksdag and the streets of Stockholm to this day, and he remains a member of the Coalition Party's Policy Commission.
[15] Lukas Petersson had the poor fortune to take power just ahead of the economic downturn of the late 1980s. However, Petersson - Holmgren's handpicked successor - had no intention of rocking the boat, and his insistence on staying the course of Holmgren's policies, though perhaps not the most economically sustainable or effective position, secured him in place as the powerful interests throughout the Swedish state were much happier to keep things as they were rather than risk changes that might destabilize the Holmgren consensus. Nonetheless, the Swedish government had to spend more and more money that wasn't there to maintain the consensus, and the republic fell deeply into debt to interests in foreign powers.
This debt crisis made Petersson's position in the Riksdag increasingly untenable; when his second term drew to a close, his old mentor turned on him, and Petersson was forced out in place of a far more radically-inclined Coalition Party minister. Petersson retired to his country estate, where he died peacefully in 2009.
[16] Katharina Strömberg was a convinced radical in a government and a Party filled with democrats, and as such - especially given the boys' club atmosphere of Stockholm politics - she was never expected to be elected into the Committee of Secrets, much less a few years later take office as its Chairwoman. Strömberg proved instantly unpopular with the general public by the enactment of self-denial policies as the Global War took hold over Europe; however, her policy of refusing Poland-Lithuania's increasingly loud demands for war support also gained her many accolades among the more anti-Polish elements in the party. Gambling that the Commonwealth, beset by war with the Federation, France and England in Europe, and China overseas, was in no position to strike at her vassals to the north, she proclaimed the republic's neutrality. Though she "permitted" several units of the Swedish military "volunteers" to serve in Polish-Lithuanian uniform throughout the war, Cracovia would never forgive her for this betrayal. Nevertheless, her neutrality was definitely biased, and she infuriated western interests by repudiating the debt that the Swedish government owed to French, English and Italian banks, while continuing to pay interest to Poland-Lithuania, Batavia and New Spain.
Strömberg's relationship with Cracovia remained sour for the rest of her time in office, but she was elected for three full terms as Chairwoman, and the clearly Polish lean of Sweden's neutrality was enough to prevent a genuine backlash. Strömberg used the war situation to justify cutting back significantly on the social services which the Coalition Party had previously provided, and her policy of self-denial kept her reception by the general, non-voting public and by the alliances cold. Strömberg retired from the Riksdag at the end of her time in office, and now lives a quiet life in her country estate outside Lund.
[17] Harald Sandarnius was Strömberg's handpicked successor, and continued all of her domestic policies to the letter; though he did not enact any new, further self-denial measures, he continued to enforce the ones which Strömberg had put into place. In 2009, he renounced the repudiation of debt to the west, and began to pay back certain banks according to his own Device of Repayment, which unilaterally restructured the republic's debt. Though this was certainly not what the western powers had wanted, it was more than the total non-repayment which had been promised before by Strömberg. Sandarnius hewed much more closely to Cracovia's line in foreign policy than his predecessor did, and rebuilt the bridges which she had burnt with the Commonwealth.
Sandarnius was never popular in his own right in either the Riksdag or the Committee of Secrets, which led him to agree to retire at the end of only his second term, in return for his own chosen successor's election. However, August Lindquist led an internal revolt within the Coalition Party, which went back on the deal and elected Lindquist to succeed him instead of his intended heir. Sandarnius was forced off the party's Policy Commission, and was forced to retire to his country estate outside Amaliasborg, as the democrats took back control of the Coalition Party's apparatus of power.
Part 4: Masters of the North
The Kings of the Swedes, Wends and Goths, Their Majesties, by the Grace of God (House of Palatinate-Vasa — 1654-1943)
1654-1660: Charles X Gustav
1660-1697: Charles XI
1697-1735: Charles XII [1]
1735-1761: Charles XIII [2]
1761-1777: Charles XIV [3]
1777-1794: John IV [4]
1794-1816: Charles XV [5]
1816-1855: John V [6]
1855-1888: Eric XV [7]
1888-1908: John VI [8]
1908-1927: John VII [9]
1927-1943: Gustav III [10]
Royal Consorts of the Kingdom of Sweden (1654-1943 — by birthright style)
1654-1660: Lady Hedwig Eleonora of Sleswick and Holsatia (House of Holsatia-Gottorph)
1680-1693: Princess Ulrica Eleonora of Denmark (House of Oldenburg)
1700-1735: Princess Amelia of England (House of Orange)
1739-1760: Princess Carolina of Hanover (House of Guelph)
1777-1794: Princess Dorothea of Brandenburg (House of Hohenzollern)
1794-1810: Lady Eleonora of Sleswick and Holsatia (House of Holsatia-Gottorph)
1816-1850: Princess Louisa of Hanover (House of Guelph)
1855-1868: Princess Anna of Denmark (House of Oldenburg)
1872-1888: Birgitta Malvaniemius (morgantic marriage)
1890-1908: Princess Catherine of Roumania (House of Guelph)
1919-1927: Princess Elizabeth of England (House of Orange)
The Queen of the Commonwealth of Sweden and Finland, Her Majesty, by the Grace of God (House of Palatinate-Vasa — 1943-1946)
1943-1946: Margaret II [11]
Chairmen of the Transitional National Council of Sweden (1946-1949)
1946-1949: Karl Gustav Leijonhufvud (Coalition for the Preservation of the Swedish Nation) [12]
Chairmen and Chairwomen of the Committee of Secrets of the Republic of Sweden (1949-present)
1949-1960: Karl Gustav Leijonhufvud (Coalition for the Preservation of the Swedish Nation)
1960-1975: Rasmus Svensson (Coalition Party) [13]
1975-1987: Johan Holmgren (Coalition Party) [14]
1987-1995: Lukas Petersson (Coalition Party) [15]
1995-2007: Katharina Strömberg (Coalition Party) [16]
2007-2015: Harald Sandarnius (Coalition Party) [17]
2015-0000: August Lindquist (Coalition Party)
[1] Charles XII was one of the great generals of his generation, a bold and decisive commander who wielded the army his father left him to secure and expand Swedish influence across the Baltic and, indeed, across Europe. In the War of the Spanish Succession, he led the coalition armies to victory after victory against France and its allies, securing Sweden’s place in the ranks of the great powers of Europe, and cowing all its rivals, though he is remembered with hatred in the Russias for the Fire of Muscovy (1703), when the city burned just as the Swedish occupation of the city began.
Charles spent more than half of his reign away on campaign as, after the Spanish Succession, Sweden found itself at war to defend its Baltic holdings several times. Even when he was in Sweden, he was often deep in the counsel of his grandmother and once regent, Hedwig Eleonora, and, following her death in 1716, his sister, Hedwig Sophia, the widowed Duchess of Sleswick and Holsatia, who dominated her brother’s domestic policy to the point that Charles was referred to as her puppet by her rivals in the court of Stockholm.
[2] Charles XIII was a leader of men much in the vein of his father, though not so gifted at the art of war. He led his father’s armies into battle as he declined in his old age; he, most notably, was on campaign in England as part of the War of the English Succession when his father died and he came to the throne.
Unlike his father, Charles showed an interest in domestic affairs, expressed in his constant contention with the Swedish estates, particularly the nobility, over his institution of rational reforms into the Swedish governing apparatus. Charles’ domestic focus led him to make concessions to Sweden’s rivals rather than allow rivalries to lead to wars, which angered many more bellicose Swedes, though the policy made him much more popular among the lesser estates of the realm.
[3] Charles XIV came to the throne following his father’s sudden death in 1761. He wished to be a king in the vein of his grandfather, but was not nearly the military genius Charles XII had been. He alienated Swedish allies, and provoked Swedish rivals, involving Sweden in several unnecessary wars, squandering much of the surplus which his father had left him. Also unlike his grandfather, while he was uninterested in marriage, he nevertheless left a trail of bastards across the Baltic, and gave incredibly generous pensions to his paramours, further weakening the realm’s finances.
Charles XIV’s misrule and warmongering put the king at odds with the nobility, the lesser estates, and even his own family. Even so, it was a shock to the entire realm when the king was murdered — not a political assassination by an angered noble, nor an unsavory coup d’etat by an ambitious brother, but by Conrad von Grumbach, the sixth son of a minor Imperial prince, whose wife, Maria zu Sayn, the king had seduced and taken as a lover (though some modern scholars have questioned this account, and give more credence to Conrad’s accusation that Charles had raped Maria against her will, discounting Maria’s testimony as having been given under duress).
[4] Conspiracy theories of King John IV’s involvement in his brother’s murder were rubbished by both contemporaries and modern historians; nevertheless, some thought him ambitious enough to do it, and accusations dogged him for his entire reign due to the suspicious circumstances of King Charles’ death. Nevertheless, John got going quickly, withdrawing from his brother’s bellicose stances and attempting to repair Sweden’s relationships with its allies, such as England. Though King John was a less likable and personable man than his brother, his serious and studious nature was seen as a positive boon for a kingdom wracked by the many problems which lay in the late 18th century.
John was seen by many as a cruelly strict king, who strong-armed the Swedish Riksdag into levying high taxes across the realm, but, unlike his brother, tended to spend taxation on practical projects — he cut off most of the pensions his brother had granted, and instead redirected financing to the building of a new system of modernized toll roads that stretched across the entire kingdom, as well as bridges, including in very remote regions in the northern reaches of Sweden. He also began a project of building paved roads not only in Stockholm, but in the surrounding area, even into regions in its hinterland considered fairly remote from the capital. His investments in the basics of infrastructure laid the foundation for the rapid expansion of the Swedish economy in the following century.
[5] Charles XV was a man after his father’s heart, who was genuinely fascinated by modern techniques to build engineering and infrastructure, and had been a loud supporter of his father’s policies throughout. He was instantly more popular than his father for going along with the Riksdag in reducing taxes across the board, but the increase in production and tax collection efficiency which Sweden had already seen - in great part due to John IV’s infrastructure investment - meant that Sweden’s coffers continued to see an enormous rate of growth regardless; though Sweden would never be as productive as other great powers of the day, it was improving year on year.
However, despite King Charles’ enthusiasm for domestic development, his reign would be consumed by bloody war against all comers, first with Denmark, then the Russians, and then the long, deadly Great German War that ripped across Europe for the latter part of King Charles’ reign. Sweden’s surplus was stretched to its breaking point and beyond to defend its empire, but it was for naught — Sweden lost most of its lands in the Holy Roman Empire, and was forced to cede most of its Baltic empire on the far side of the sea to the ascendant Poland-Lithuania. Charles became immensely unpopular, being the first king to lose so much territory since its independence from Denmark. Charles agreed the humiliating treaty withdrawing Sweden from the war effort, angering the remaining allies, just before his death.
[6] John V came to the throne under the pall of his father’s defeat; he had virulently opposed his father’s concessions when the king had made them but, on taking the Crown, he took in Sweden’s entire position, and determined not to reenter the devastating war, a widely unpopular decision in his kingdom. King John was a military officer by inclination, but he saw Sweden as exhausted, and unready to play a part in any serious conflict for a long time, and so, he determined to consolidate the realm himself. Using the new peace, John offered places for many skilled Germans, Poles and others displaced by the ongoing war on the continent to attract them to Stockholm.
John was a practical king by all accounts, and sought to rebuild Sweden's place in the world by doubling down on its efforts to stay ahead of its opponents through industrial might. He poured royal finances into expansion of the mines, more so than ever before, and offering new and greater incentives - in the same vein, but doubly so, as his royal ancestors - for Germans leaving the war-torn Empire to expand domestic production, most notably in Abo, Amaliasborg, Gothenburg and Karlskrona. Despite his early unpopularity, over the nearly forty years of King John’s reign, Sweden prospered greatly, becoming one of the heartlands of industrialization in Europe. John was never averse to war, but, despite being a military man, Sweden fought only two relatively brief major wars during his reign, both against Denmark.
[7] Eric XV is remembered mainly for his name and his scandals, superficially echoing his name; with two older brothers, he was not expected to take the Crown, and so had formed a relationship with the witty Birgitta Malvaniemius, the daughter of a Finnish member of the Riksdag's Fourth Estate. When he suddenly became heir to the throne, he was forced to take on his brother's now lapsed engagement to Princess Anna of Denmark, in a story told and retold, to varying degrees of accuracy, by sixpence literature and fanciful Descanso kineme alike. While Birgitta would never be allowed to take the style of Queen of Sweden - as some of these works of fiction would have it - following Queen Anna's death, she did finally marry King Eric, and their children were legitimized and formally admitted into the circles of the royal family. And, being Finnish instead of Danish, she was obviously far more popular with the hoi polloi of Stockholm than her predecessor.
Much less remembered is the leading role which King Eric played in trying to maintain Sweden's lead in industrialization, including the construction of Sweden's first railroads by the Royal Swedish Rail Company, as well as the crucial role he played in the Third Russian Civil War, putting Sweden's ancient rival, Poland-Lithuania, on the backfoot in the Baltic for generations, revenging Charles XV's losses on the Commonwealth. Though not a gifted tactician or strategist, King Eric was a master of logistics, and was very successful in exploiting Poland-Lithuania's poor infrastructure and inefficient, though not altogether lacking, industrial development to Sweden's advantage.
[8] John VI is remembered for being a backward monarch. Unlike his predecessors, John VI - who had a poor relationship with his father - was a die-hard traditionalist, believing firmly in what he knew as traditional Swedish values. King John wielded both the power of the Crown’s property and his authority over the Church of Sweden to try to influence Sweden toward his false perception of a more traditional, more powerful Sweden of older days. Though he did not go so far as some monarchs, in trying to reverse industrialization itself, he did go very far in trying to see its effects neutralized and reversed, and to slow the process itself. Unlike his father, John had a cordial relationship with much of the Riksdag, wherein traditionalist elements successfully suppressed the democratic tendencies which were then starting to overcome the more historical conservative forces in England, France and other European powers.
The Riksdag drove much of King John’s administration, which was notably and particularly hostile to Sweden’s non-Swedish speaking subjects, as well as to other forces of liberal change, including even the most conservative forms of zenobianism. King John and his government also had an antagonistic relationship both with the Estate of Burghers - the branch most invested in industrialization - and with the urban populations of major industrial centers and cities, particularly the population of Stockholm who were no longer used to womanizing monarchs, and were uncharacteristically sympathetic his Roumanian consort. However, he is most remembered for his cruel response to the Amaliasborg Universal Stoppage in 1908, just before his death.
[9] John VII came to the throne very soon in the aftermath of his father’s cruel response to the Amaliasborg Universal Stoppage, which had provoked uprisings in Amaliasborg’s hinterland, universal stoppages across urban centers throughout Finland and wild stoppages on the Swedish mainland. Playing on his disagreements with his father, John brought the alliances to heel by dissolving the Riksdag irregularly and personally negotiating with them, and issuing decrees instituting new worker protections. These decrees angered all four estates, and, upon new elections, King John dissolved the Riksdag once again within weeks of its gathering. John would not call another Riksdag until 1920, ruling the country as a dictator. And, despite facing many assassination attempts, the king’s iron fist upon Sweden’s upper sorts brought the country back to order following his father’s weak and arbitrary rule.
King John also saw off an opportunistic invasion by Poland-Lithuania, which attempted to seize Amaliasborg and its hinterland; John was helped by the final disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire leading into a general European war that saw Poland-Lithuania fighting unexpectedly on several fronts. Even once King John called the Riksdag back, he ruled in a more autocratic fashion than any monarch of his blood in centuries. While he is remembered well by labor alliances, and with at least some fondness by those who still yearn to see a free Sweden, he was despised by the Swedish establishment throughout his reign.
[10] The reign of Gustav III should be more properly called his regency; the death of his father in a carriage accident, a shock after so many failed attempts to kill him deliberately, when the Crown Prince was only three years old left the reins of state in the hands of a Regency Council, at first dominated by Queen Catherine, the new king’s grandmother, who saw off an attempt by the Riksdag to take control of administration, as well as an attempted palace coup backed by other members of the House of Vasa. After Queen Catherine’s death, the king’s mother, Queen Elizabeth, became head of the Regency Council, but she came to constant loggerheads with Crown Princess Christina of Denmark; as a member of the House of Vasa, Christina had much natural support to her own position opposing Queen Elizabeth, but, given her marriage ties, many others were naturally suspicious of her motives.
The deaths of Christian XI of Denmark and King Frederick William II of Brandenburg in short succession triggered the Great Baltic War in 1935. Sweden, as a party to the Treaty of Edinburgh, joined the war alongside Denmark and England according to its obligations when Poland-Lithuania abrogated the treaty and disputed the succession of King Frederick to Brandenburg’s throne. However, years of bitter dispute, of disorganization and resentment within the Regency Council and for the Regency Council outside of it hamstrung Sweden, and Poland-Lithuania had learned its lessons from before — all too well. Most parties expected Sweden’s contribution to the war to be ineffective.
They did not expect the Polish-Lithuanian flag to rise over Stockholm within two years. Gustav III, twelve years old, fled the country for Denmark with his mother; he would never return, dying in exile in England in 1980.
[11] Princess Margaret of Sweden, the oldest child of John VII, was proclaimed Princess Regent at the age of 17 at the beginning of 1938 by the Committee of Secrets, under the influence of Swedish statesmen who had surrendered to Poland. For the next five years, as the Great Baltic War continued, and not in Sweden’s allies’ favor, Margaret “reigned” in name only though, officially, she concluded a peace with the Commonwealth that February, acceding to Polish suzerainty over Sweden. She was treated with all the dignity of her position, but given no actual power in governance. In 1943, when the final treaty ending the war forced Gustav to abdicate his throne, she was proclaimed the first Queen regnant in Sweden in nearly three centuries.
She was widely resented as sovereign by the people, even though she found herself completely at the mercy of the Committee of Secrets, now filled with men friendly with Poland-Lithuania. The most she managed was to see off two attempts to marry her to Polish magnates, as well as an attempt to marry her to Christopher II, the newly crowned Polish-backed King of Norway. Even some institutions of Swedish society - such as the Church of Sweden - balked at Margaret’s attempts to execute her royal prerogatives, even when insisted on by the government.
Margaret’s memory is much better remembered today, certainly among Swedish exiles, due to her actions following the Fifth Defenestration of Prague, when she dissolved the Riksdag and declared war on Poland-Lithuania, bringing Swedish loyalists into the general revolt against Commonwealth dominion over eastern Europe in 1946. Sweden quickly descended into civil war. Ultimately, Margaret’s reign was brought to a close when Polish reprisals came down upon the kingdom, and the last monarch of Sweden was killed in an artillery strike while rallying loyalists to defend Stockholm from the Polish-Lithuanian reprisal.
[12] Karl Gustav Leijonhufvud was the scion of an ancient noble Swedish family, and member of the Riksdag in the Estate of Nobility for much of the reigns of the last monarchs of Sweden. Leijonhufvud was, by nature, a peace-seeker, and he allowed his inclinations to corrupt him such that he became one of the most reliable Polish-Lithuanian allies in Margaret II's Council of State. Leijonhufvud successfully fled Stockholm when Margaret II gave the order to arrest him, becoming the face of the Polish-Lithuanian backed Coalition for the Preservation of the Swedish Nation, formed largely from the pro-Polish element in the Cap Party. When Margaret II was killed during the Polish-Lithuanian reconquest of Stockholm, Leijonhufvud was forced to form a republican government to replace the monarchy -- with Queen Margaret dead, and all the remaining Vasas safely away in England, there was no even remotely legitimate successor to the kingdom's crown. Leijonhufvud proclaimed himself Chairman of the Transitional National Council shortly before Christmas 1946, which over the next three years created the Ordinance of Reconciliation of the Republic of Sweden, which formed the constitutional basis of the new state.
The Ordinance of Reconciliation - though created almost exclusively by Swedish statesmen and members of the pre-civil war Riksdag - was derided by many Swedes as a foreign-imposed innovation; the Bishop of Abo proclaimed it "the ultimate exercise in kowtowing to the Sejm," and called on his congregants to resist it. Or, as he was known to the republican government, the former bishop -- as the Ordinance had abolished episcopacy in the Church of Sweden, instituting a presbyterian system of government, due to the Church's explicit participation in Queen Margaret's attempt to seize back control of the Swedish state. The Bishops' War, as it became known, would tear Sweden apart for the rest of Leijonhufvud's rule, now as Chairman of the Committee of Secrets, now Sweden's elusive executive council of state. Citizens across the new republic violently resisted the implementation of the new church governance, especially in rural areas, in Finland and Scania.
Leijonhufvud hardened his position, and refused to compromise even as his benefactors abroad and his supporters in Stockholm began to question his position; he cracked down on Sweden's nonjuring priests, who refused to swear loyalty to the republic or acknowledge the proclamations of the General Assembly of the Church Leijonhufvud gathered in Stockholm every year. In 1958, Finnish episcopalians bombed a thanksgiving service at the Great Church in Stockholm, killing fourteen members of the Riksdag and nearly killing the Chairman himself, leading to further crackdowns across the Finnish counties; this in turn provoked universal work stoppages in Abo, Amaliasborg, Karlskrona and Gothenburg. In 1960, as the stoppages stretched into their ninth month, Leijonhufvud was forced to resign the chairmanship of the Committee of Secrets by a cabal of his advisors, with the support of the Polish-Lithuanian ambassador. He died under suspicious circumstances in 1963.
[13] Rasmus Svensson was a reluctant republican among reluctant republicans, who nevertheless had become a member of Leijonhufvud's inner circle from the late 1940s, and had held several powerful appointments to ministries under his government. In 1960, upon becoming Chairman of the Committee of Secrets, Svensson opened a dialogue with those bishops who had - officially - given up their titles and sworn to uphold the republic, who nevertheless were still acting as the public mouthpieces of the radical episcopalian faction. The following year, in 1961, he cajoled the General Assembly of the Church into self-dissolution, and the Church "independently" restored episcopacy, and restored both the juring and nonjuring priests and bishops to their previous offices. Svensson further capitulated to other demands, including the restoration of the Finnish and other minority languages for use in Church services and government business in their respective regions, and the recognition of the major labour alliances by the state. By the time his first full term as leader of the Committee of Secrets and the Coalition Party ended, he had restored some peace to Sweden.
Nevertheless, Svensson's period of government was plagued with unrest, and monarchist militias continued a terror campaign in Finland into the 1970s. Despite the recognition of the labour alliances, Svensson found himself constantly at loggerheads both with major captains of industry and the labour alliances, and more than once resorted to the use of the Swedish Army to smash both alliance activists and industry enforcers alike. Svensson voluntarily stepped down in 1975, after ruling the country for three full terms of his own, in addition to the lion's share of Leijonhufvud's final term in office.
[14] Johan Holmgren came to the chairmanship with Svensson's blessing. He was a relatively young man - only forty-one years old upon taking the position - and was thus the republic's first leader not to have been directly involved in its formation (though he had fought in the civil war as an adolescent). Holmgren continued the Svensson-established status quo, charting a course seeking to keep things as they were. He was helped by the general economic boom time of the late 1970s and early 1980s across Europe, which saw increasing trade links with the Federation of the Rhine and the rest of the unified currency area in western Europe. Holmgren took the new financial windfall of trade and plunged the new money into Democratic-style social programs, ceding control of the new poor relief and health insurance schemes to the bishops of the Church of Sweden - further bringing the Church into the fold of the republic.
Holmgren "encouraged" both industry and alliance leaders to come to conclusions reasonable to the Coalition Party, and the good times enabled him to achieve a wholly new and unbelievable accomplishment: being a popular Chairman of Sweden. Holmgren retired at the end of his third term as Chairman, and remains a popular figure in the Riksdag and the streets of Stockholm to this day, and he remains a member of the Coalition Party's Policy Commission.
[15] Lukas Petersson had the poor fortune to take power just ahead of the economic downturn of the late 1980s. However, Petersson - Holmgren's handpicked successor - had no intention of rocking the boat, and his insistence on staying the course of Holmgren's policies, though perhaps not the most economically sustainable or effective position, secured him in place as the powerful interests throughout the Swedish state were much happier to keep things as they were rather than risk changes that might destabilize the Holmgren consensus. Nonetheless, the Swedish government had to spend more and more money that wasn't there to maintain the consensus, and the republic fell deeply into debt to interests in foreign powers.
This debt crisis made Petersson's position in the Riksdag increasingly untenable; when his second term drew to a close, his old mentor turned on him, and Petersson was forced out in place of a far more radically-inclined Coalition Party minister. Petersson retired to his country estate, where he died peacefully in 2009.
[16] Katharina Strömberg was a convinced radical in a government and a Party filled with democrats, and as such - especially given the boys' club atmosphere of Stockholm politics - she was never expected to be elected into the Committee of Secrets, much less a few years later take office as its Chairwoman. Strömberg proved instantly unpopular with the general public by the enactment of self-denial policies as the Global War took hold over Europe; however, her policy of refusing Poland-Lithuania's increasingly loud demands for war support also gained her many accolades among the more anti-Polish elements in the party. Gambling that the Commonwealth, beset by war with the Federation, France and England in Europe, and China overseas, was in no position to strike at her vassals to the north, she proclaimed the republic's neutrality. Though she "permitted" several units of the Swedish military "volunteers" to serve in Polish-Lithuanian uniform throughout the war, Cracovia would never forgive her for this betrayal. Nevertheless, her neutrality was definitely biased, and she infuriated western interests by repudiating the debt that the Swedish government owed to French, English and Italian banks, while continuing to pay interest to Poland-Lithuania, Batavia and New Spain.
Strömberg's relationship with Cracovia remained sour for the rest of her time in office, but she was elected for three full terms as Chairwoman, and the clearly Polish lean of Sweden's neutrality was enough to prevent a genuine backlash. Strömberg used the war situation to justify cutting back significantly on the social services which the Coalition Party had previously provided, and her policy of self-denial kept her reception by the general, non-voting public and by the alliances cold. Strömberg retired from the Riksdag at the end of her time in office, and now lives a quiet life in her country estate outside Lund.
[17] Harald Sandarnius was Strömberg's handpicked successor, and continued all of her domestic policies to the letter; though he did not enact any new, further self-denial measures, he continued to enforce the ones which Strömberg had put into place. In 2009, he renounced the repudiation of debt to the west, and began to pay back certain banks according to his own Device of Repayment, which unilaterally restructured the republic's debt. Though this was certainly not what the western powers had wanted, it was more than the total non-repayment which had been promised before by Strömberg. Sandarnius hewed much more closely to Cracovia's line in foreign policy than his predecessor did, and rebuilt the bridges which she had burnt with the Commonwealth.
Sandarnius was never popular in his own right in either the Riksdag or the Committee of Secrets, which led him to agree to retire at the end of only his second term, in return for his own chosen successor's election. However, August Lindquist led an internal revolt within the Coalition Party, which went back on the deal and elected Lindquist to succeed him instead of his intended heir. Sandarnius was forced off the party's Policy Commission, and was forced to retire to his country estate outside Amaliasborg, as the democrats took back control of the Coalition Party's apparatus of power.
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If you want to see what this looks like currently, I made a map of the 2013 elections with Ciclavex's guidance re the party system.