List of fictional presidents of the United States (A–B)

A

President Truman Abbott

• President in the 1983 novel The Vegas Legacy by Ovid Demaris.
• Running for a second term when he arrives in Las Vegas for his party's convention.
• Challenged for re-nomination by former Governor Hamilton Foote.
• Cuts a deal with mobsters to take corrupt Nevada Senator Randolph Godwin as a running mate.

  President William Abbott

• President in: Advise and Consent series, by Allen Drury
• Speaker of the House and a Representative from Colorado.
• Succeeds to presidency upon the assassination of President Harley Hudson.
• Declines to run for reelection, leading to the election of either Orrin Knox or Edward M. Jason.

  President George Abnego

• President in the 1947 short story "Null-P" by William Tenn.
• Was elected for being a ridiculously average guy. Served numerous terms with no solid opposition after the second election.
• His direct descendants continued to be elected as presidents of USA, then became Presidents of the World in a few generations.

  President Howard T. Ackerman

• President in:
• President in an alternate history where the United States faces both the Soviet Union and Japanese Empire in a futuristic World War.
• Played by: J. K. Simmons

  President John Ackerman

• President in: Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit
• Takes place in early 2009.

  President Alan Adams

• President in: Shadowrun role-playing game
• Served 2049–2053
• Democrat
• Defeated incumbent Carl Preston in 2048 Election
• 4th UCAS President | 50th US President
• President throughout the First Edition of the Shadowrun RPG
• Succeeded by VP Thomas Steel in 2053 after President Adams dies the day after his second inauguration.

  President Barbara Jacqueline Adams

• President in: Whoops Apocalypse
• Played by: Loretta Swit
• Succeeds to presidency upon death of the previous president. Her incompetence helps cause World War Three.
• Husband owns a weapons company that deliberately instigates the third world war in order to sell arms.

  President David Jefferson Adams

• President in: Shattered Union
• Most unpopular President in US history, he is declared the winner of the 2008 election by Congress after a tie vote
• His administration sees increased domestic terrorism in 2010, resulting in the declaration of martial law in California in 2011
• A sham election, perpetrated by the United States Supreme Court disqualifying several more popular candidates, results in his "reelection" in 2012.
• Is killed, along with most of the federal government, when a nuclear bomb is detonated in Washington, D. C. during the inauguration on January 20, 2013.
• His death directly leads to the fragmentation of the United States and the start of the Second American Civil War.

  President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Adams

• President in the 1992 novel Lucky Bastard by Charles McCarry
• Born in 1944.
• Believes himself to be the illegitimate son of John F. Kennedy
• Recruited by the KGB in college.
• Wife is Morgan Adams.

  President Joshua T. Adams

• President in:
• Investigated a crashed intact alien spacecraft in the ocean on July 5, 1996
• Commanding general of Earth Space Defense
• Sworn in as President after his predecessor Elizabeth Lanford was killed by aliens along with the entirety of the United States presidential line of succession at Cheyenne Mountain Complex in 2016
• Has a wife named Janine
• Played by: William Fichtner

  President Sam Adams

• President in: The Insider by Jack Nesbit.
• Former U.S. Representative and Senator.
• Appointed Vice President by President Will Simpson after the assassination of his first Vice President.
• After he is elected President it is discovered by his Chief of Staff that he was behind the death of the Vice President.

  President Adler

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

  President P.J. Aimes

• President in: The Summit
• Conservative who attends a summit in Canada discussing an international tax and an anti-terrorism measure during his last year in office.
• Is willing to support the tax in exchange for support on the anti-terrorism measure, but withdraws his support when terrorists demand the tax be passed.
• Serves two terms.
• Party: Republican.
• Played by Christopher Plummer

  President James "Jimmy" Alderdice

• President in: E Pluribus Bang, a 1970 novel by David Lippincott.
• Former governor of California, Alderdice's campaign slogan is "Law and Order, and Like it!"
• Devout Christian Scientist, he refuses medical treatment for a cold he catches while being sworn into office, and dies five days later.
• Succeeded by Vice President George Ramsey Kirk.

  President David Alexander

• President in:
• Vice president and became president after the mysterious death of his predecessor. He is thrown out of office for not complying with his brother's New World order.
• Played by: Michael Biehn

  President Josh Alexander

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

  President Mackenzie Allen

• President in: Commander in Chief
• Allen, the vice president under President Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy" Bridges, becomes the first female president in history after his death. She is married and has three children. Prior to becoming president, Allen was a prosecutor and congresswoman from Connecticut.
• When the dying Bridges and the Republican Party leadership requests her resignation in favor of a "more appropriate" leader, she refuses.
• Stated privately that her main political enemy is Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton.
• Played by: Geena Davis
• Party: Independent, formerly a moderate Republican

  President Kathy Alton

• President in: The Illuminati by Larry Burkett
• Widow of Mars expedition commander, Colonel Lee Alton. Dies in office of electrocution, as a result of a hairdryer in her bathtub.
• Party: Democratic

  President Dante Alvarado

• President in ''The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
• Born in Oaxaca, Mexico and elected in 2028, he delivers his inaugural address in Spanish.
• Elected after the Constitution is amended to permit foreign-born persons to become President.
• Renounces the national debt in the Great Renunciation, leading to a decade-long depression.
• Democrat.

  President Alvarez

• President in Shooter
• First Hispanic president.
• Previously served in the United States Marine Corps, receiving training at Parris Island.
• Becomes aware of a secretive cabal known as "Atlas" operating within his government, led by Undersecretaryof Agriculture Red Bama Sr. The group murders his Chief of Staff Andrew Gold, framing it to appear as a drunk driving accident.
• He is later pressured into nominating Judge Raymond Brooks to the Supreme Court, which would allow Atlas to have a swing vote on the court for decades in the future. However, once Brooks commits suicide after being kidnapped by Bob Lee Swagger, President Alvarez refuses to cooperate with the cabal any further.
• Unable to trust the majority of people in his administration, he enlists the help of FBI Special Agent Nadine Memphis and staffer Harris Downey to help bring down Atlas.
• Played by: Benito Martinez.

  President Juanita Alvarez

• President in: Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
• President of the U.S. in December 2037; leaves office some time before 2042.

  President Rose Ambrose

• President in: a National Lampoon article in the 1980s
• Promiscuous young woman, she became Vice President under President O'Looney, and then President after causing him to have a fatal heart attack during sex.
• Tired of the Presidency, President Ambrose asked her aide to assassinate her. Wendy could not go through with it, but former First Lady to President O'Looney, along with many others carried out the assassination. President Ambrose is shot over 1,500 times, but it is reported that a lone gunman was responsible.

  President Esker Scott Anderson

• President in: The Company by John Ehrlichman, adapted as TV miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors.
• Anderson is a roman à clef representation of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
• Former Senator from Oregon, elected Vice President with President William Arthur Curry.
• Becomes President when Curry is killed in crash of Air Force One.
• Serves eighteen months of President Curry's term, plus one full term of his own.
• Declines to run for a second term due to an illness.
• Party: Democratic
• Played by Andy Griffith

  President Johnson P. Annarbor

• President in Newsreaders
• Served from 1889 to 1893.
• Completely Forgotten by History.
• First President to be elected despite losing both the popular and electoral vote.
• Party: Republican

  President Caesare Appleton

• President in: Emperor of America by Richard Condon
• Party: Royalty Party
• His name is a reference to Julius Caesar, his career mirrors that of Napoleon Bonaparte, and he satirizes Ronald Reagan
• Appleton is a colonel in the United States Army who defeats an attempted Sandinista invasion of Western Europe. The Royalty Party and National Rifle Association destroy Washington, D.C. with a nuclear bomb on March 18, 1990, with Appleton declaring himself President shortly after. He eventually becomes Caesare I, Emperor of America.

  President Joseph Armando

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

  President-Elect Robert Arthur

• Elected President at the end of Manchurian Candidate
• Running mate Raymond Shaw was a mind-controlled puppet of multinational corporation Manchurian Global
• Wins against Vice President Nelson.
• Targeted by Manchurian Global to ensure they have a man in the White House.
• Raymond Shaw and his mother Elanor Prentiss-Shaw is killed in New York by Ben Marco.
• FBI cover up Marco's involvement and put the blame on Manchurian Global.
• Party: Unnamed. Implied Democratic

  President Chester Z. Arthur

• President in: Futurama
• Served as either President of the U.S. or Earth prior to the year 3000.
• Only seen in the episode "All the Presidents' Heads"
• By 3011, his head has been preserved inside a head in a jar at the New New York Head Museum.
• He has an immense brown unibrow.
• Parody of Chester A. Arthur, who also resides at the Head Museum.

  President Benjamin Asher

• President in: Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen.
• Married to Margaret Asher until her death in a car accident whilst travelling to a fundraiser from Camp David. He is now the sole parent of their son, Connor Asher.
• Kidnapped and held hostage in 2013 when North Korean terrorists take over the White House by disguising themselves as members of the South Korean delegation. Later shot during an altercation with the terrorist leader Kang Yeonsak, but survived.
• Captured again whilst visiting London in 2016 by terrorists loyal to Aamir Barkawi, after several coordinated bombings and attacks in the city decimated his security detail.
• Was due to be executed on an internet livestream, but once again survived due to a joint effort of SAS, US Secret Service and US Army Delta Force personnel.
• Secret Service codename: "Southpaw"
• Political Party: Not mentioned, but implied to be Republican.
• Played by: Aaron Eckhart

  President Henry Ashton

• President in: Vantage Point
• Secret Service codename: "Eagle"
• The President's body double is shot during an assassination attempt in Salamanca, Spain, where he is attending a global summit on global terrorism. The actual President is kidnapped but rescued by Secret Service Agent Thomas Barnes.
• Party: Unknown
• Played by: William Hurt

  President "The Astro-nut"

• President in: Swan Song, a 1987 novel by Robert McCammon
• A former astronaut and senator.
• Married, with one son.
• Is persuaded into taking a foreign policy stance which causes World War III by his military advisors.
• Is left guilt-ridden by the nuclear destruction.
• Survives the destruction of his plane over Virginia, and spends the next seven years as a hermit inside a West Virginia coal mine.
• Meets and cares for at least one refugee over the next seven years, while suffering from mental and/or physical trauma that cause him to believe that he is God, fallen from the heavens, and entrusted with the duty of using the nuclear football salvaged from his plane to scourge the world in the event that "evil" triumphs in the war's aftermath.
• Is murdered by the novels antagonist after arming his missiles, in a failed attempt to make sure they will still launch if he changes his mind.

  President Richard Tucker Attenborough

• President in: Shelley's Heart, a 1995 novel by Charles McCarry
• Speaker of the House, he becomes President after the resignation of impeached President Bedford Forrest Lockwood.
• Next in line of succession due to the death of Vice President Williston Graves.
• His efforts resolve a Constitutional Crisis due to an election stolen by computer fraud.
• Leaves office under the provisions of the 25th Amendment as soon as Vice President Sam Clark is confirmed by the Congress due to ill health.
• Party: Democratic

  President Nicholas Franklin Augustine

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

  B

President Talcott Quincy Bailey

• President in: 34 East by Alfred Coppel.
• Wealthy New Englander who served as a U.S. Senator.
• As Vice President Bailey was on his way to a summit meeting with the Soviet Deputy Premier in the Sinai Desert when his convoy was ambushed and he was captured by Terrorists.
• While he is being taken prisoner Air Force One crashes due to the pilot having a sudden heart attack and the President is mortally wounded.
• President Bailey is rescued just before a nuclear war was about to be launched.

  President Phil Baker

• President in: Supergirl
• Former vice president, succeeded to presidency on the resignation of Olivia Marsdin.
• Lex Luthor took out Marsdin's original running mate so Senator Baker could take their place.
• In secret collusion with Luthor, Baker works to persecute aliens living in America, eventually putting Ben Lockwood in charge of all alien affairs and deputizing Lockwood's "Children of Liberty" hate group.
• Arrested after his association with Luthor is exposed.
• Played by Bruce Boxleitner

  President Bill Baker

• President in: the novel Invasion by Eric L. Harry
• Former B-movie actor, he led the United States when it was invaded by China. Shortly before the invasion he orders the conscription of all 18-24-year-old Americans, male and female.
• Has an estranged daughter, Stephie, a soldier who was drafted into the U.S. Army.
• Presumably based on Ronald Reagan.
• Party: Republican

  President Robert Baker

• President in: The Peacekeeper
• Speaks with a southern accent.
• Former Chief of Staff of the United States Army
• Running for re-election.
• Played by: Roy Scheider

  President Samuel Baker

• President in: Favorite Son a novel by Steve Sohmer ; also the NBC miniseries ; also in the novel Patriots, the 1990 sequel to Favorite Son
• Former U.S. Senator from Virginia.
• Elected in 1984.
• President Baker attempts to drop Vice President Daniel Eastman in favor of Texas Senator Terry Fallon as his running mate in 1988.
• In 1991 is faced with a military coup d'état by a group of fanatical Vietnam veterans who are upset that President Baker pledges to sign a nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union.

  President William Ballard

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

  President John Ballentine

• President in: The Sentinel
• Targeted for assassination at a G8 Summit in Toronto
• Intended to divorce his wife after his term was finished
• Secret Service code name: Classic, Victory
• Played by David Rasche
• Party: Republican

  President James Ballantine

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

  President [Cliff Barnes]

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

  President Harry Barnes

• President in: 24 Declassified novels
• 43rd President; 1997-2001
• Republican
• Lost to David Palmer in the 2000 presidential election.

  President Leo Barnett

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

  President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet

• President in: The West Wing
• Bartlet is a
• * Roman Catholic
• * Graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the London School of Economics
• * Nobel Laureate for Economics
• * Former Economics Professor at Dartmouth College
• * Former Congressman for three terms, and former Governor of New Hampshire for two terms
• * Democrat
• * Descendant of real-life Declaration of Independence signatory Josiah Bartlett
• Has relapsing and remitting M.S.
• Played by: Martin Sheen, who has been introduced at speaking engagements before audiences as "the Acting President of The United States".

  President Joe Bauers (aka Not Sure)

• President in: Idiocracy
• U.S. Army Private Joe Bauer was frozen for five hundred years, and succeeded President Camacho after being Camacho's late-term appointment as Secretary of Interior, sometime after 2505. Due to a record keeping mistake, was listed in official records as first name Not, last name Sure.
• Elected president due to success in ending nationwide famine by getting crops to grow, and for having the highest IQ on the planet.
• Championed a mostly unsuccessful effort to revive cultural development and education.
• Played by Luke Wilson.

  President [Buster Baxter]

• President in: Arthur
• In one episode, Arthur imagines Buster President, after he keeps a grudge with Binky Barnes.
• Played by Daniel Brochu

  President Andy Bates

• President in: roleplaying game.
• Known as "A-Bomb Andy" for his pro-nuclear war stance against the Confederacy.
• Elected as Vice President in 2078, took office in 2081 when Mary Rose Tremane disappeared.
• Died on September 23, 2081, when Washington, D.C. was hit with a nuclear missile.

  Acting President Fowler Beal

• President in: 34 East, a novel by Alfred Coppel.
• Was Speaker of the House when the President was killed in the crash of Air Force One.
• Became acting President when Vice President Talcott Quincy Bailey was taken hostage by Arab Terrorist in the Sinai.
• At the behest of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Stuart Ainsworth, nearly launched a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.

  President "The Beast"

• President: at the start of Transmetropolitan
• Brutish amoral man, though not a complete monster, which later comes to light.
• Dubbed "The Beast" by Spider Jerusalem, who despises him, in an editorial.
• Subsequently, defeated in a landslide by candidate Gary Callahan.

  President David Beccerra

• President in: Tom Clancy's EndWar
• First Hispanic US President
• During his presidency, the US launches the Freedom Star Military Space Station amid global protests.
• A nuclear war between Iran and Saudi Arabia claims the lives of 20 million people.
• The European Union reorganizes into the European Federation.
• A global energy crisis causes oil prices to hit $800 a barrel, prompting Russia to remilitarize in order to protect its remaining resources.
• The U.S. and Europe engage in an arms race.
• World War III occurs between the U.S., Russia, and Europe.

  President Tom Beck

• President in: Deep Impact
• During his administration, much of the Eastern Seaboard was devastated by a comet impact in the Atlantic Ocean that causes a megatsunami.
• He leads his country during the crisis and personally leads the reconstruction efforts after the second comet is destroyed.
• Nation's first African-American president.
• Played by: Morgan Freeman

  President Anthony Berg-Hoffman

• President in: Who is The Boss Here?
• Suspected of having murdered his secretary, Susan Fowls, who had threatened to reveal their affair
• On the eve of his impeachment proceedings in Congress, the world is convulsed by ecological crisis and New York City is destroyed by tidal waves
• Considered a hero for leading the nation out of the crisis, all charges dropped and elected to a second term by an overwhelming majority

  President Raymond Becker

• President in: The Day After Tomorrow
• Caricature of Dick Cheney
• Played by: Kenneth Welsh
• Former vice president, succeeds to presidency upon death of President Richard Blake, who failed to escape from Washington, D.C. to the south.
• Opposed the evacuation of the United States in the wake of an ensuing environmental disaster out of fear for the U.S. economy.
• Much of the U.S. is devastated by the onset of a new Ice Age that freezes most of the Northern Hemisphere.
• Leads the government-in-exile in Mexico.
• During his first address to the nation, he orders a nationwide search-and-rescue effort after the storms dissipate.

  President Andrew Bee

• President in: Brian Garfield's 1972 novel Line of Succession.
• Former Congressman and Senator from California
• Chosen by Vice President Elect Dexter Ethridge to be his Vice President should kidnapped President Elect Clifford Fairlie not be rescued.
• Took office after Ethridge died from wounds received in terrorist bombing of US Senate, and Fairlie died during an attempted rescue mission.
• Party: Republican

  President-elect Cyrus Rutherford Beene

• President-elect in Scandal Season 6
• First openly gay President-elect.
• Former White House Chief of Staff to President Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III.
• After he is fired from the White House he switches sides, managing the presidential campaign of Francisco Vargas, the Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania.
• Selected as Vice Presidential nominee by Vargas after he wins the Democratic primaries.
• Becomes Vice President-elect after Vargas wins the 2016 Presidential Election.
• Elevated to the role of President-elect mere hours later, after Francisco Vargas is assassinated during his victory speech in Fairmount Park on election night. Uncertainty after the election led to the Electoral College results being contested into Congress, with Republican nominee Mellie Grant ending up as President-elect instead, replacing Beene.
• After the covert assassination of Vice President Luna Vargas on Inauguration Day, Beene was nominated as her replacement but served only briefly until he too was forced to resign for trying to usurp power from Presiden Grant.
• Married to Michael Ambruso.
• Previously married to White House Press Secretary James Novak, until his death.
• Played by: Jeff Perry
• Party: Democratic on paper, Republican in terms of ideology.

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• President in: Clear and Present Danger
• Orders a covert war against Colombian drug lords but is exposed by Jack Ryan.
• Commonly thought to be named only in the closing credits of the movie, but a sharp sense of hearing detects a mention of the name in the movie.
• Played by: Donald Moffat
• Party: unnamed, but based on the book, most likely Republican

  President Jonathan Bennett

• President in Hellbent and Out of the Dark, the third and fourth novels of the Orphan X series, by Gregg Hurwitz
• Served during the 1990s as US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and then as US Secretary of Defense before being late elected President.
• Had been in office for five years as of 'Out of the Dark', facing a tough set of midterm elections and increasing Congressional scrutiny about the aggressive extent of his foreign and defense policy. Bennett's relations with Vice President Victoria Donahue-Carr were also deteriorating.
• As Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during the 1990s, Bennett sanctioned numerous off the books special operations using the Orphan Program, a secret US government initiative that trained teenage orphans to become highly skilled assassins.
• Over two decades later, during his Presidency, Bennett supported the rise of Charles Van Sciver, a ruthless and highly skilled Orphan, to become the Orphan Program Director. Bennett ordered the assassinations of all Orphan operatives not loyal to Van Sciver, as a way of covering up his own role in sanctioning operations during his time as Under Secretary of Defense.
• Of particular worry to Bennett was an operation he ordered in 1997, involving the assassination of the Serbian Foreign Minister, who had been plotting to assassinate Slobodan Milosevic with the covert support of the then US President. Bennett went against orders at the behest of allies in the arms and defense industries so they could profit from Milosevic's resulting warmongering and NATO intervention.
• Van Sciver, under Bennett's orders, began eliminating former Orphans but failed to kill Evan Smoak, known as Orphan X, who had been the one to carry out the assassination of the Serbian Foreign Minister. Van Sciver was killed by Smoak, who then threatened Bennett that he would assassinate him.
• In response, Bennett assembled a team led by his close ally and Orphan A, Judd Holt, to eliminate Smoak. He also marshalled the Secret Service against Smoak, although not telling them why Smoak was trying to assassinate him.
• Over the course of his vendetta, Smoak killed Bennett's White House Deputy Chief of Staff Doug Wetzel, who had been also complicit in the assassinations, as well as staging a mortar attack on Bennett's motorcade. Smoak followed by killing Holt and the criminals he had assembled.
• The numerous attempts on his life drove Bennett into intense paranoia about how Smoak would kill him, with Smoak planting poison in the lens of Bennett's glasses. The poison slowly filtered into Bennett's skin and was accelerated by numerous foods in Bennett's diet, causing him to have a fatal heart attack in the Oval Office. Smoak then released evidence of Bennett's crimes to ruin his legacy after his death.

  President Monroe Bennett

• President in: Salvation
• Served as Vice President under President Pauline Mackenzie.
• Was in office during a time of crisis when a large asteroid codenamed "Samson" was due to crash into the Earth. Wanted to utilize measures taken to destroy the asteroid to instead have it broken into smaller ones, which would be redirected to land on and decimate both Russia and China, nations he believed posed a significant threat to the United States.
• Believing she was too weak to proceed with such a plan, he conspired to have incumbent President Pauline Mackenzie poisoned with mercury, deteriorating her health to the point where she suffered from memory loss and a stroke whilst addressing the nation in the Oval Office.
• Upon reports that the stroke was fatal, he ascended to the Presidency under the 25th Amendment, and later desired to proceed with nuclear military action against Russia after it appeared they attacked a United States Navy ship. The attack was actually the work of militant hacker group RE/SYST, whose desire was to help deteriorate US-Russian relations.
• President Mackenzie is later revealed to be alive and recovering in secret from the mercury poisoning, and has Secretary of Defense Harris Edwards and others loyal to her detain Bennett beneath the White House so she can appeal to the Cabinet and the military to be reinstated.
• Before he can be imprisoned for treason he is recaptured from United States Secret Service custody by members of the United States Army loyal to him. After hiding out in an abandoned military base for a week, he emerges and takes his case to the Supreme Court of the United States, arguing he is still lawful President and his removal from office was illegal and unconstitutional. However, when it appears the court is going to vote in Mackenzie's favour, he orchestrates bombing of the building which seriously injures the Chief Justice, whose swing vote in the decision had yet to be announced.
• After the Supreme Court bombing, the capital falls into chaos as infighting between United States Armed Forces factions loyal to Bennett and others to Mackenzie battle one another to take control. US Army and Secret Service officers loyal to Bennett are able to lock down and infiltrate the White House, finally capturing and detaining a defiant Mackenzie in the Oval Office.
• However, just as a victorious Bennett is about to address the nation, video footage of the now conscious Chief Justice is broadcast on all networks and cell phones, in which he confirms his vote in Mackenzie's favour, shifting the decision to 5-4 and rendering her the legal president. After a brief standoff, the soldiers accompanying Bennett realise they have been deceived and reaffirm their allegiance to Mackenzie, and then place Bennett under arrest along with their own commanding General who led the assault on the White House.
• Played by: Sasha Roiz

  President Richard Benson

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

  President Thomas "Tug" Benson

• President in: Hot Shots! Part Deux
• Former navy admiral
• Re-election campaign slogan is "Tug Benson, The Simple Solution!"
• Played by: Lloyd Bridges

  President Joseph Emerson Benton

• President in: Ultimatum, a book by Matthew Glass.
• Elected in 2032 as the 48th President
• Main character in the novel, must face an inevitable mass relocation of inhabitants of coastal and semi-arid locations as global warming encroaches upon them, while trying to negotiate a deal with the Chinese government on emissions cutbacks.
• Party: Democratic

  President William F. Berndt

• President in: Jerry van Orsdell's 1972 novel Ragland.
• Former U.S. Senator.
• Dies in office from a massive heart attack.

  President Matthew Bernstein

• President in: 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America, by Albert Brooks
• First Jewish President
• Former Speaker of the House
• President when massive earthquake hits Los Angeles
• Divorces wife while in office
• Party: Democratic

  President Charles Berquist

• President in: The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum

  President Berzowski (first name not given)

• President in: For Us, The Living by Robert Heinlein; only casually mentioned
• Is President in 2001

  President Anna Bester

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

  President Philip Bester

• President in: Shadowrun role-playing game
• 44th U.S. President
• Defeated incumbent Martin Hunt in the 2004 election.
• Defeated by Jesse Garrety in the 2008 election.

  President "The Big Guy"

• President in: World War Z
• First Black American president, of Jamaican descent
• President of a bipartisan administration based in the new American capital of Honolulu.
• Succeeded his predecessor who died of catatonic shock after the ill-fated Battle of Yonkers
• After a period of relative stability in the new world, he decides to take the United States back on the offensive against 200 million zombies
• Dies in office, is replaced by Vice President "The Wacko"

  President Bill

• An ordinary man from Takoma Park, MD who wins a lottery to become president in President Bill, A Graphic Epic by cartoonist William L. Brown.

  President R. Tanner Bivens

• President in: Land of the Dead 2
• Not much is known about him, only that he is king of the jungle.

  President [Hosea Blackford]

• President in: the Southern Victory novel by Harry Turtledove
• First appears in the first novel How Few Remain.
• From the State of Dakota, Blackford is inspired by Abraham Lincoln as a young man, and begins a political career, becoming a Socialist and serving as congressman from Dakota.
• Runs for vice president in 1920 under Upton Sinclair and the ticket wins over Democratic incumbent Theodore Roosevelt, who was running for a third term. The ticket is reelected in 1924.
• Defeats Calvin Coolidge for the presidency in 1928 by a narrow margin.
• Blackford is unable to prevent the Great Depression in 1929. A war with Japan erupts in 1932, and the Japanese attack Los Angeles during a campaign rally. Blackford is defeated by Coolidge in a landslide in the 1932 election. However, Coolidge dies on January 5, 1933 of a heart attack less than a month before he would take office. This results in Coolidge's running mate Herbert Hoover to become the 31st president on February 1.
• Dies in 1937.

  President Stephen Henry Blades

• President in: Letter 44
• 44th President of the United States.
• Learns upon taking office that NASA discovered alien artifact in asteroid belt seven years earlier, and that a secret manned mission has been sent out to investigate it.
• First Lady: Isobel; son: Mark.

  President Richard Blake

• President in: The Day After Tomorrow
• Caricature of George W. Bush
• The U.S. is devastated by a new ice age brought about by environmental instability.
• Orders the mass evacuation of the south of the U.S. into Mexico, after cancelling all debt to Mexico in order for the Mexican Government to agree to house the surviving US and Canadian citizens.
• Refuses to leave the White House during the snowstorm, instead still trying to get surviving people evacuated. Leaves eventually after being persuaded to evacuate to the refugee camps in Mexico.
• Dies of hypothermia after Marine One crashes due to its wings freezing, and is succeeded by Vice President Becker.
• Played by: Perry King

  President Robert Blair

• President in: Saint
• Survives an assassination attempt by Johnny Drake under the identity Carl Saint.
• Is President in 2033, 23 years after the Raison Crisis.

  President George Blush

• President in: America 2014: An Orwellian Tale
• Fourth-term President
• Likely a parody of George W. Bush, a real-life American president.

  President John Blutarsky

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

  President Donald Blythe

• President in: House of Cards
• Acting President after attempted assassination of President Frank Underwood
• Signs Presidential Incapacitation Certificate in Chapter 43; Underwood declares himself fit and is reinstated in Chapter 45
• Democrat

  President Bolton

• President in: ABC's 2013 miniseries Last Resort
• Is under impeachment proceedings by Congress when he orders a nuclear attack on Pakistan.
• When members of the United States Navy aboard the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Colorado refuse to carry out the order, they are branded as traitors by his administration, who attempts to have them killed by another submarine, the USS Illinois. President Bolton then has other US forces launch the attack on Pakistan.
• Is almost removed from office when members of the United States government, United States Armed Forces and United States Secret Service meet in secret to organize and plot a coup d'etat.
• The coup later fails when the lead conspirator, Speaker of the House of Representatives Conrad Buell, confesses to the machinations live on C-SPAN before committing suicide in the chamber.
• Is later assassinated by lobbyist Kylie Sinclair.

  President Allison Bonner

• President in Steve Pieczenk's 1992 Book Maximum Vigilance.
• Former Vice President to President Donald Westview.
• Becomes President after Westview resigns after a mental breakdown.

  President Andrew Boone

• President in: Swing Vote
• Incumbent in the middle of re-election
• Played by Kelsey Grammer
• Party: Republican

  President Robert L. Booth

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

  President Borman

• President in: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, episode "AKA Superman"
• Former President who put the Annihilator Satellite in orbit, but Congress cancelled funding before it could be activated.
• Defeated for re-election by President Garner.

  President Marion Bosworth

• President in: ' and '
• Former Speaker of the House
• Bears a resemblance to former United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
• Party: Democratic

  President Sherman Bothwell

• President in Rama II, by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee.
• Nicknamed "Slugger"; former professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox at the Fenway Dome during the 2170s and 2180s.
• Is president during the late 2190s; elected in 2196 in a landslide and is eligible for re-election in 2200.
• Originally from Missouri and is married to Linda Black, the daughter of the governor of Texas. His first wife died in a boating accident, leaving him a single father which made him popular with the U.S. electorate.
• He is opposed by the U.S. Christian Conservative Party.

  President [Marge Bouvier]

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

  President David Bowers

• President in: the Splinter Cell series of video games
• Lead the U.S. during the Georgian Information Crisis in Georgia and a rebellion in Indonesia; defended South Korea during an American-Japanese conspiracy that aimed to start World War III.
• Survives a failed nuclear attack on Nashville, Tennessee by American terrorists.
• Republican

  President Andrew Bradford

• President in: The Second Lady, a novel by Irving Wallace
• Set during the depths of the Cold War, First Lady Billie Bradford, is kidnapped by the KGB and replaced with a Soviet agent who has been surgically altered and specially trained to temporarily take her place in the international spotlight – and in the President's bed. Through her, the USSR hopes to discover an American secret that could tip the balance of global power in favor of the Soviet Union.
• Party: Democratic

  President Bradley

• President in: the Simulations Publications Inc. board game War in the Ice
• In 1991 war breaks out between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in Antarctica.
• Defeated for re-election in 1992 largely because of the war.

  President Mike Brady

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

  President Daniel Brand

• President in Amerika, an ABC TV Mini-Series.
• Elected in 1988 over Senator Christopher Winthrop and Congressman Devin Milford.
• President of the United States after the U.S. was crippled by a surprise Soviet EMP Attack, and agreed to disarmament.
• Party: Democratic

  President Daniel Brandenburg

• President in: Michael P. Kube-McDowell's 1988 novel Alternities.
• Wins election in 1976 by defeating Republican incumbent Roland Maxwell and Democratic Party nominee Mike Mansfield.
• As president, Brandenburg personally oversees response to an incursion by people from an alternate timeline.
• Party: National

  President Branford

• President in: Jack & Bobby
• Attempted to bring the War of the Americas to an end.

  President Susan Brayden

• President in: DC's Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, and Arrow
• On Earth-1 became president after Dominators killed previous president in 2016.
• Played by: Lucia Walters.

  President Breckinridge

• President in:
• Former Secretary of State to President Richard Benson, and President David Alexander.
• Declares himself President when President Alexander is framed for his father's murder.

  President Henry Brendan

• President in: Falseface, by Marilyn Sharpe.
• Vice President to President Benjamin Riker, who is killed in a skiing accident which turns out to have been an assassination.
• President Brendan is targeted for assassination at a Shuttle Launch but is saved by a pair of spies.

  President Howard Brewster

• President in: Brian Garfield's 1972 novel Line of Succession.
• Defeated for re-election by Clifford Fairlie.
• When Fairlie is abducted on a goodwill mission in Spain, and Fairlie's Vice President-Elect is killed as a result of a terrorist bombing of the Senate, Brewster attempts to remain in office.
• Line of succession is restored by Vice President Elect Dexter Ethridge's decision to choose Congressman Andrew Bee as his Vice President should Fairlie not be rescued.
• Party: Democratic

  President Breyer

• President in: television show The Venture Bros.
• Exemplifies the worst qualities of George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Lyndon B. Johnson
• Played by Dana Snyder

  President Bricker

• President in: The Man in the High Castle, a book by Philip K. Dick
• Succeeds Franklin D. Roosevelt as president
• Unable to revive economy during the Great Depression
• Is an isolationist
• Possibly connected to John W. Bricker

  President Teddy Bridges

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

  President Hawley Briggs

• President in: The Red President by Martin Gross.
• Former U.S. Air Force General and Senator from Arkansas.
• Appointed Vice President by President Jed Hankins.
• Became President when President Hankins was assassinated by his Pro-Soviet Chief of Staff.
• Forced the Soviets to back down during a crisis shortly afterwards.
• Party: Democratic

  President Bristol

• President in: the novel I, Martha Adams, by Pauline Glen Winslow.
• Former left wing U.S. Senator.
• Vice President during a Soviet nuclear attack that destroys U.S. Strategic Forces.
• Becomes President after the U.S. surrender and the resignation of President Carmody.

  President-elect Phil Bristol

• President in Protect and Defend by Eric L. Harry
• Bristol is the governor of California who won the presidency but iss assassinated by anarchists at the Willard Hotel prior to his inauguration. He is succeeded by Gordon Davis.
• Party: Republican

  President Henry Parker Britland III

• President in My Gal Sunday by Mary Higgins Clark.
• Former U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
• Elected President at the age of thirty five, and serves two terms.
• After he leaves office, marries a reporter turned U.S. Representative.

  President Wyndom Brody

• President in The Outer Limits episode "Decompression"
• A senator, Brody wins the New Hampshire primary and is flying to South Carolina for the primary where he was approached by a visitor from the future calling for Brody to save himself by jumping from his aircraft.
• In an alternate universe, President Brody become a selfish tyrant. He is killed when he jumps from his aircraft over Columbia, South Carolina.
• Played by: Bruce Boxleitner
• Possibly Republican

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• President in:
• Shown in Roy's ending in the game, as a flash forward set 20 years after the events of the game.
• Roy's high school classmate Tiffany is shown in the sequence as the First Lady.

  President John Broward

• President in: the 2000 Twilight role-playing game.
• Former Governor of Arkansas who appointed himself to the U.S. Senate, and was elected President by that body.
• World War Three breaks out in 1995, and on Thanksgiving Day 1997 nuclear strikes take place in the U.S. The President and those in line of succession are killed in the exchange.
• President Broward takes office after congress regroups after the attack, but the U.S. military does not recognize the legality.

  President Abraham Brown

• President in: The Music Master of Babylon by Edgar Pangborn
• In 2020, successfully guides the country through the terrible experience of a Second Civil War, in the course of which nuclear weapons are used and large parts of New York City destroyed. Lives to a great old age in retirement, long enough to see the world devastated in "The Final War" of 2070. In the aftermath, Brown's hometown of Newburgh, New York becomes the center of a short-lived "North American Soviet", whose members arrest the old ex-president and torture him to death. After the fall of that regime, the dead President is revered by survivors as "a martyr who gave his life for the people". Gradually, with few records left from before the worldwide destruction, Brown's memory is conflated with that of Jesus Christ as well as Abraham Lincoln and the Biblical Abraham, to create the divine figure of "Abraham" whose worship is the basis of "The Holy Murkan Church" in Pangborn's later novel Davy.

  President Paul Buckingham

• President in Deterrence
• Vice President Buchanan resigns during his term.
• Warns China against military action in 2007.
• Dies in office in October 2007, succeeded by appointed Vice President Walter Emerson.
• Played by: James Handy in the opening credits.

  President Porter Brunreich

• President in the Timeline Wars series by John Barnes.
• Porter Brunreich, an exceptionally intelligent and gifted ten years old girl, had to accompany her mother and flee her native Pittsburgh in order to escape her abusive and violent father. Mother and daughter boarded a plane to Seattle, which seemed far enough. However, the abusive father was in fact the least of her troubles. A war was going on across millions of Alternate History timelines. A very vicious slave society, originating in a timeline where Carthage won the Second Punic War, was seeking to conquer all other timelines and make everybody literally their slaves - and among many others, they had their eye on our world. They knew that thirty years hence, Porter Brunreich was destined to become President of the United State and present a serious obstacle to their plans. Therefore, these self-styled "Masters" instructed terrorists under their control to stage a hostage crisis at Seattle Airport and kill a passenger named Porter Brunreich. The future President survived due to the self-sacrifice of her mother, who let herself be killed instead. Porter Brunreich was deeply traumatized and guilt-ridden after seeing her mother killed, and for some months she lived a wild life on city streets. Fortunately, she was eventually adopted by Mark Strang, an agent of the Timeliners opposing the "Masters", and got warmth and love from him and his family as well as being closely watched by the pair Robie and Paula, among the best of professional bodyguards in North America. Soon, she exhibited an enormous musical talent, including the unique ability to play exceedingly well many different musical instruments. Still a teenager, she became a world class musician, touring various countries to packed halls and critical acclaim. However, the attempts on her life continued. In Oslo, she herself killed two assailants with a gun she always carried. At her next scheduled performance, in Weimar, the German anti-terrorist unit massed in force; however, the assailants from the future showed their hand, using weapons with enormous firepower and decimating the German troops. Brunreich and her companions were nearly killed - but were able to escape into time, finding themselves in the crucial moment of ancient Roman history, when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and started his march to seize power in Rome. Being partly Caesar's prisoner and partly his guest as he marched to fight his rival Pompey, Porter Brunreich fascinated Caesar by learning quickly to play the Roman lyre and performing modern musical pieces on it. However, it turned out that Caesar had the unpleasant habit of having sex with young women, without seeking or caring about their consent. When he tried to do it to his visitor from the future, she screamed and shouted, and her faithful bodyguard Paula drew a gun and killed Caesar - several years before Brutus and Cassius were due to do it on the Ides of March. With great difficulty, Porter Brunreich and her companions were extracted from the Roman past and brought back to late 20th Century Europe, where she resumed her routine of giving brilliant musical performances and dodging assassins. By now, she already knew that she was destined to become President - and an important one who would be long remembered. In fact, visitors from the future treated her as a major historical character, of equal or greater importance to Julius Caesar. Though for herself she would have preferred to just continue her musical career, she carefully prepared her entry into politics. Once duly elected, she undertook the vitally important task she knew awaited her - to inform the world at large of the war raging across the timelines. The world could not afford to remain disunited, divided into various countries acting at cross purposes. Unless the peoples of the world were willing to become slaves - and specifically, the slaves of particularly cruel and sadistic slave masters - they had to unite and cooperate with other timelines fighting the same menace; it was a situation similar to the time when humanity had to face the threat of Nazi Germany, but this time on an incomparably vaster scale. It was an incredible message for the peoples of the world, and it has to be delivered with great conviction to be believed. President Porter Brunreich managed it brilliantly, thus amply earning her place in history.

  President John Robert Burgess

• President in: The Talbott Agreement, a 1968 novel by Richard M. Garvin and Edmond G. Addeo.
• Widower and former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
• In 1969 planned with Russia to invade China in 1972.

  President Cecily Burke

• President in The First 2018 TV Series
• From the Midwestern United States.
• Presumably elected in 2032, and is stated to have lost Missouri during the election.
• In office in 2033 during the disastrous maiden voyage of Providence I, a planned mission to Mars, which explodes due to rocket malfunction.
• Attempts to remain neutral during the legislative debate to fund the Providence II mission, as the Providence Program was started in her predecessors administration.
• Is hounded by her opponents for wasteful spending towards NASA and private space company Vista during their lengthy preparations for the Providence II mission, threatening to have the Speaker of the House table a bill to freeze funding should they not speed up the process.
• After repairs to the Mars Ascent Vehicle fail, President Burke informs both NASA and Vista CEO Laz Ingram she will not be supporting the Providence II mission. However, the mission goes ahead when all the astronauts on the mission legally acknowledge the increased risks.
• Played by: Jeannie Berlin

  President Rachel Burke

• President in An Acceptable Loss
• Previously served as Vice President of the United States, in which she helped develop the "Total Victory" strategy to fight the War on Terror.
• Encouraged and oversaw a catastrophic nuclear strike on the city of Homs, Syria known as Plan 712. The attack wiped out over 100,000 people, but succeeded in killing the leaders of multiple international terrorist groups, as well as a rogue scientist from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who were meeting in the city to discuss strategy.
• Attempts to silence her former national security advisor Dr. Elizabeth Lamm from leaking controversial details of the approval of the operation by offering her the position of United States Secretary of State, but is rebuffed.
• Despite refusing to have Lamm assassinated, her White House Chief of Staff takes matters into his own hands and has Lamm killed by a parcel bomb, much to Burkes chagrin.
• Played by: Jamie Lee Curtis
• Political Party: Unknown

  President Hugo Burlap

• President in: the 1986 film Whoops Apocalypse.
• Former circus clown from Cleveland, Ohio.
• Dies in office after a reporter hits him in the stomach at President Burlap's request to show how fit he is.
• Leaves big shoes to fill.

  President Burns

• President in: The Outer Limits episode "Trial by Fire".

  President Clint Bushton

• President in: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
• He is one of the five VIPeeps in the game.
• Name derived from the surnames of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

  President Butler

• President in: Ward Moore's novel Bring the Jubilee.
• President of the United States after its defeat in the Civil War.
• Term of office was in the 1870s.
• Most likely Benjamin Franklin Butler