List of fictional United States Presidents (A–B)

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

The following is a list of fictional United States presidents, A through B.

A

President William Abbott

President in: Advise and Consent series, by Allen Drury
Is the 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 (The Promise of Joy) or Edward M. Jason (Come Nineveh, Come Tyre).

President Howard T. Ackerman

President in: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (video game, 2008)
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 (video game, 2005)
Takes place in early 2009.

President Barbara Jacqueline Adams

President in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986)^[1]
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

B

President Talcott Quincy Bailey

President in: 34 East by Alfred Coppel.
Is a 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 Bill Baker

President in: the novel Invasion by Eric L. Harry
A 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 US Army.
Presumably based on Ronald Reagan.
Party: Republican

President Robert Baker

President in: The Peacekeeper (film, 1997)
Played by: Roy Scheider

President Charles Baker

President in: Nightrise, a novel by Anthony Horowitz (2007)
He is an agent of Nightrise Corporation, the titular antagonistic force. He plans to destroy the current civilization, with the help of the Old Ones, and aims to rule the new civilization with humanity as his slaves.
He is elected in a scandalous campaign backed by Nightrise itself.
He is very Republican, whereas his rival, John Trelawney, is Democratic.
Charles Baker successfully becomes President, and reigns for ten years in the Apocalypse, but is eventually imprisoned when the Old Ones are overthrown.

President Samuel Baker

President in: Favorite Son a novel by Steve Sohmer (1988); also the NBC miniseries (played by James Whitmore); also in the novel Patriots, the 1990 sequel to Favorite Son
A 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.
Is injured in an assassination attempt while attending Yeltsin's funeral, but survives.
Party: Democratic

President John Ballentine

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

President James Ballantine

President in: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (video game, 2006)
Visits Mexico City to sign the fictional North American Joint Security Agreement (NAJSA) with the Mexican President and the Canadian Prime Minister.
Survives an assassination and multiple kidnapping attempts in Mexico City during a coup d'état by Mexican soldiers opposed to NAJSA; rescued by the Ghosts Special Forces Team.

President Cliff Barnes

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

President Harry Barnes

President in: 24 Declassified novels
43rd President; 2001-2005
Republican
Lost to David Palmer in the 2004 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

Main article: Josiah Bartlet

President in: The West Wing (television series, 1999–2006)
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
- Democratic
- descendant of real-life Declaration of Independence signatory Josiah Bartlett
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 (film, 2006)
US 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 (and later Vice President), 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: Deadlands: Hell on Earth roleplaying game.
Known as "A-Bomb Andy" for his pro-nuclear war stance against the Confederacy.
Elected as Vice President in 2078, took office in 2081 when Mary Rose Tremane disappeared (in Air Force One).
Died on September 23, 2081, when Washington, D.C. was hit with a nuclear missile.

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
A 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.
Was subsequently defeated in a landslide by candidate Gary Callahan.

President David Beccerra

President in: Tom Clancy's EndWar (video game, 2008–2009)
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 US and Europe engage in an arms race.
World War III occurs between the US, Russia, and Europe.

President Tom Beck

President in: Deep Impact (film, 1998)
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.
Is the nation's first African-American president.
Played by: Morgan Freeman

President Raymond Becker

President in: The Day After Tomorrow (film, 2004)
Caricature of Dick Cheney
Played by: Kenneth Welsh
Former vice president, succeeds to presidency upon death of President 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 US economy.
Much of the US is devastated by the onset of a new Ice Age that freezes most of the Northern Hemisphere.
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 Edward Bennett

President in: Clear and Present Danger (film, 1994) (movie only - the book's president is not named)
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 (not mentioned in any Tom Clancy book).
Played by: Donald Moffat
Party: unnamed, but based on the book, most likely Republican

President Richard Benson

President in: Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (film, 1999)
Played by: R. Lee Ermey

President Thomas "Tug" Benson

President in: Hot Shots! Part Deux (film, 1993)
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.
Was a 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 US President (2005–2009)
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.^[3]

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 American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold by Harry Turtledove (2002)
First appears in the first novel How Few Remain.
From the State of Dakota (in Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory series timeline, the present-day states of North and South Dakota never came into existence, and their combined territory instead comprised the single state of Dakota), Blackford is inspired by 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 (the same date as he does in reality) 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 (comic book series, 2013– )
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 (film, 2004)
Caricature of George W. Bush
The US is devastated by a new ice age brought about by environmental instability.
Orders the mass evacuation of the south of the US 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 (novel)
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 (novel)
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 Donal Blythe

President in : House of Cards (Television Series, 2016)
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
Orders a nuclear attack on Pakistan during his impeachment.
Assassinated after a failed attempt to remove him from office by the Military.

President Andrew Boone

President in: Swing Vote (film, 2008)
Incumbent in the middle of re-election
Played by Kelsey Grammer
Party: Republican

President Robert L. Booth

Main article: President Robert L. Booth

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

President Borman

President in: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, episode "AKA Superman" (1997)
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: Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Call of Duty: Strike Team
Former Speaker of the House
Bears a resemblance to former United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton^[4]
Party: Democratic

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 nation 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 (TV movie, 2003)
Native of California with no political experience, Vice President Brady assumed the presidency after the resignation of President Lawrence Randolph. Brady then chose his wife Carol to be his vice president. Brady has six children (three of his own, and three stepdaughters from Carol Brady's previous marriage).
Played by: Gary Cole

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 Breckinridge

President in: Megiddo: Omega Code 2 (film, 1999)
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.
The 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 (Scandal rocked White House, mispronounces words, former alcoholic), Bill Clinton (Scandals, cheats on wife with intern), and Lyndon B. Johnson (appearance, love of cigars)
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

Main article: 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.
Was a 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 (No relation to the book by Richard North Patterson)
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.
Is 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 (the Democrats did not have a South Carolina primary at the time)^[5]

President Roy Bromwell

President in: Rival Schools: United By Fate
Shown in Roy's ending in the game, as a flash forward set 20 years after the events of the game (where Roy is only in high school).
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 (1954)
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 (film, 2000)
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 John Robert Burgess

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

President Hugo Burlap

President in: the 1986 film Whoops Apocalypse.
A 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 (video game, 2004)
He is one of the five VIPeeps (Very Important Peeps) 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

References

↑ "Whoops Apocalypse". IMDB. Retrieved 2007-12-02. Loretta Swit ... President Barbara Adams
↑ Flynn, Vince (2006). Act of Treason. ISBN 0-7432-7037-1. The motorcade of presidential candidate Josh Alexander had been hit by a car bomb. ... They turned out in record numbers on election day, and Josh Alexander and Mark Ross were swept into office by a landslide. ...
↑ President Bill by William L. Brown
↑ "David Petraeus stars in new Call of Duty: Blacks Ops II". The Daily Telegraph. November 14, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
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