List of fictional United States Presidents (N–R)

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, N through R.

N

President Elaine Nakamura

• President in Time Trax
• By the year 2093 she is mentioned as one of the great Presidents along with Abraham Lincoln and John Shaw.

President Gary Nance

• President in: Dave
• Succeeds to presidency upon death of President William Mitchell. Nance has honorable ethics and morals, is cleared in a scandal involving bank fraud. Alan Reed, a White House staffer instrumental in clearing his name, possibly becomes either his Vice-President or Chief Of Staff.
• Left a career in shoe sales to become a city councilman, wife usually manages his campaigns.
• Played by: Ben Kingsley
• Party: Uncertain

President Napper

• President in Epitaph Road, a book by David Patneaude
• He was removed from office in a one-day impeachment because of the military's faulty intelligence on a nuclear fallout in Los Angeles.
• Vice President James Corson assumes the presidency.

President Julian Navarro

• President in: The Brink
• First Latino President.
• In office when a coup takes place in Pakistan, requiring him to utilise a low level Foreign Service officer to ascertain more information.
• Agrees to defend Israel should the radical-controlled Pakistan decide to use nuclear weapons against them.
• Quickly dismisses the efforts of Secretary of State Walter Larson's diplomatic approach to avoiding international conflict, and starts to side with the hawkish Secretary of Defense Pierce Gray, who wants to bomb Pakistani nuclear sites.
• Evacuated from the White House due to fears it may become a military target, and is taken to a secret underground bunker beneath a Neiman Marcus department store.
• Takes most of the credit for Larsons work on diffusing the conflict between Pakistan, Israel, Russia, France, Saudi Arabia, China and Iran.
• Played by: Esai Morales

President Jack Neil

• President in: Murder at 1600
• Son is framed for murder to force his resignation for making military decisions his National Security Advisor does not like. The president has a (unproven) sexual reputation and has one son, Kyle.
• Ambidextrous, writes with his right hand, but swings (playing baseball & golf) with his left. Upon revealing of his son's framing, punches out NSA Alvin Jordan with his right fist.
• Saved from assassination by NSA Jordan when Secret Service Agent Nina Chance jumps in front him, despite her being handcuffed (she survives, Neil's guards kill Jordan).
• Played by: Ronny Cox

President Nelson

• President in: Scorcher
• Played by: Rutger Hauer

President D. Wire Newman

• President in: The West Wing (television)
• Played by: James Cromwell
• Newman was the last Democrat to be President before the election of Josiah Bartlet.
• One-term President
• Spent his Administration propping up the House of Saud to ensure the flow of oil (similar to the Carter Doctrine)
• Appeared alongside Bartlet at Lassiter's funeral
• Party: Democratic

President Newton

• President in the 2004 movie Spartan starring Val Kilmer
• Daughter Laura is kidnapped by a sex slave ring who due to her dying her hair do not realize who she really is.
• Presidential advisers decided to fake her death in order to gain sympathy for his upcoming re-election campaign.

President Nguyen

• President in 2054 in Joe Haldeman's science fiction novel Old Twentieth (2005).

A woman President, first name unknown. Involved in the Immortality War (often known simply as "The War"), fought worldwide between the rich who could afford the Becker-Cendrek pills which made then immune to dying of old age, and the others who could not afford them and violently resented it. As the country was already involved in a murderous civil war in both 2048 and 2052, it is not clear by which electoral process she got to power. In 2054, President Nguyen left Washington, D.C. for a bunker in West Virginia, ahead of the city being sprayed with the Lot 92 biological agent, killing all of its twenty million impoverished inhabitants - a part of the world-wide killing of seven billion people, 97% of humanity, which left the planet in sole possession of the rich "immortals".

President LaMonte Nielson

• President in Orson Scott Card's Empire, possibly set in 2008
• Was Speaker of the House when President and Vice President were killed by a left-wing terrorist group.
• Led the United States in the Second American Civil War.
• Chose not to run for his own term, instead opting to re-enter Congress.
• Party: Republican

President Howard Johnson Nissen

• President in Give Me Liberty/Martha Washington Goes to War comic book series, set in 2014.
• The former Secretary of Agriculture, he becomes President when President Rexall, the Vice President, and most of the cabinet are assassinated in an explosion. Well-meaning but ineffective, being manipulated by the evil Colonel Moretti who eventually murders him.

President John Milhous Nixon

• President in Red Dwarf novel Last Human
• Implemented a policy to control the weather, which backfired, causing the eventual destruction of the sun.
• Sends Arnold Rimmer's son, Michael McGruder as part of a mission to colonise the Andromeda galaxy.
• Is a descendant of Richard Nixon and shares his middle name of Milhous.

President Richard Nixon (1983)

• Serving 4th term in Back to the Future Part II, after a change in history made by Biff Tannen. He announces he will run for a 5th term in 1984, and vows to end the Vietnam War by 1985.
• Serving 5th consecutive term in Alan Moore's Watchmen comic series. Constitution was changed following victory in Vietnam, which was largely thanks to Dr. Manhattan.
• Elected President of Earth in the 31st century in Futurama, his head is preserved in a jar. While campaigning, his head is mounted to Bender's body, and later to a much larger robot, though subsequent appearances show him without a body.

President Winston Noble

• President in: Fahrenheit 451
• Described as extremely charismatic and charming and "one of the nicest-looking men who ever became president."
• President Noble defeated his homely and disheveled opponent, Hubert Hoag, in a landslide. Unlike Hoag, Noble does not pick his nose while on television.

President James Norcross

• President in: Super President
• Voiced by: Paul Frees
• Had super powers

President Noxin

• One of the many presidents in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy.
• Although he appears in the novel, he is not technically a character, as he is a fictional character in a science fiction novel penned by a Harvard professor named Leary. (He is a clear parody of Richard Nixon, his name being 'Nixon' spelled backwards.)

O

Acting President Douglas Oates

• Acting President in Deep Six, novel by Clive Cussler
• Secretary of State, who assumed powers and duties of the office after the presidential yacht, the Eagle, goes missing with the President, Vice President Vincent Margolin, Speaker of the House Alan Moran and President of the Senate pro tempore Marcus Larimar on board. He orders a cover-up, with actors playing the President and Vice President while he executed power

President William Harvard Oaks

• President in Dead Heat, a novel by Joel C. Rosenberg
• Was Vice President until 2016 when assumed powers and duties of the President after the President and most of the US Government are killed in nuclear attacks on Seattle, Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, D.C. He is assassinated 2 days after taking office.
• Party: Republican

President Brian O'Brien

• President in The Protectors, a 1992 Comic Book Series.
• Former masked vigilante known as The Clock.
• Elected in 1988 as an Independent.

President Desmond Ogilvy

• President in My Gal Sunday by Mary Higgins Clark.
• A former U.S. Representative from Wyoming.
• Was Vice President to President Britland.

President Patrick O'Malley

• President in Fletcher Knebel's novel Night at Camp David (1965).
• Was Vice President to President Mark Hollenbeck.
• Was accused of corruption over the construction of a stadium named in honor of President Kennedy.
• Became President when President Hollenbeck resigned due to mental instability.

President Vincent O'Reilly

• President in the 1987 D. M. Thomas novel Summit.
• Former Movie Actor who meets with the new Soviet Leader.

President A. Thorton Osgood III

• President in: Mail to the Chief
• Played by: Randy Quaid

President Tommy Owens

• President in The Essential Man by Al Morgan (1977)
• Elected in 1980, and Re-elected in 1984.
• Has a massive stroke just before he is to take the oath of office for a second term on January 20, 1985.
• His staff organize an attempt to replace him with a lookalike, but the plan when the double becomes mentally unstable and is assassinated to cover up the truth.
• Replaced by corrupt Vice President Carl Kobin.
• Party: Democratic

P

President Sonya Paddock

• President in Dead Rising 3
• During the zombie outbreak, she is killed and turned into a zombie.

President Nathaniel James Page

• President in: Real Politics (online game) (2004–2008)
• Former Senate Majority Leader, elected President after George W. Bush declined to run again. He shocked everyone when he nominated a Democrat as his running mate during the 2004 campaign.
• Played by: Real Politics game admins
• Party: Republican

President David Palmer

• 44th President in: 24 (2005–2009; only served three-and-a-half years of a full four-year term)
• The first African American President, Palmer is a native of Maryland. He attended Georgetown University and the University of Maryland and has two children, Keith and Nicole Palmer. Palmer cancelled his re-election campaign after his ex-wife was murdered.
• After President Keeler's incapacitation, Vice President Charles Logan was unable to serve as acting president, and Palmer was secretly made Logan's proxy. Palmer was later assassinated by a sniper's bullet while working on his memoirs at his brother's penthouse apartment in Los Angeles.
• Buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia
• Previously served as a United States Senator from Maryland, a U.S. Congressman from Maryland's 4th district, and a Member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Played by: Dennis Haysbert
• Party: Democratic

President Wayne Palmer

• 48th President in: 24 (2009)
• Serves only for three-and-a-half months in 2013
• The brother of David Palmer, for whom he served as Chief of Staff and campaign manager. He was also the COO of Milliken Enterprises.
• Injured severely in an assassination attempt and Vice President Noah Daniels becomes Acting President
• Daniels succeeds him soon after and serves out the rest of Palmer's term. He then loses the election as made clear in 24: Redemption.
• Served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve
• Played by: D. B. Woodside
• Party: Democratic

President Harriet Palmer

• President in: Out of the Dark, a 2010 science fiction novel by David Weber
• Leads the U.S. government during the invasion of Earth by the extraterrestrial Shongairi. She and her cabinet are killed when the aliens destroy Washington, D.C. with an orbital strike.

President Pangwinn

• President in the Simulations Publications Inc. wargame War in the Ice
• Defeated President Bradley in the 1992 election because of the war in Antarctica.

President Jack Parker

• President in the 1970 novel The Election
• U.S. Senator from Florida running an independent campaign against Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Nelson Maynard, and Democrat Illinois Senator Jimmy Harrington.
• When none of the candidates win a majority in the Electoral College the House of Representatives elects Parker after he cuts a deal with the Governor of California for his State's support.

President Eldon Parker

• President in: The Oasis Project, a 1981 novel by David Stuart Arthur
• Once elected, states that he will only serve one term, but secretly funds weapon program to create high-tech 2nd generation shuttles and weapons in order to eliminate population centres worldwide and create a new Pax-Americana.
• Party: Not mentioned

President Pete Parkin

• President in The Prodigal Daughter by Jeffrey Archer.
• Former Vice President who agreed to serve only one term to gain the support of Senator Florentyna Kane of Illinois.
• Due to his being irresponsible and unavailable during a crisis with the Soviet Union, Vice President Florentyna Kane resolves the matter without backing down.
• President Parkin decides to use the success to seek a second term, and informs Vice President Kane she will not be on the ticket.
• Dies of a heart attack shortly thereafter.
• Party: Democratic

President David Payne

• President in: The Interim
• Served eight years with high approval ratings.
• Clashed with President-Elect Candor over policies regarding a free Taiwan.
• Party: Republican

President Ambrose Payton

• President in The Godfather's Revenge.
• Vice President to President James Shea.
• President Payton assumed the office when President Shea was assassinated in 1964.

President Constance Payton

• President in State of Affairs (TV series)
• First Female African American president.
• Served in the United States Air Force before entering politics.
• Served in the Senate before ascending to the Presidency, and joined several other senators on an official visit to Kabul, Afghanistan. However, the diplomatic convoy was attacked by terrorists during the visit and resulted in her son being killed.
• Married to First Gentleman Marshall Payton, who serves as pro bono counsel for advocacy groups.
• Played by: Alfre Woodard.

President Riley Peacham

• President in: Boomsday, a 2007 novel by Christopher Buckley
• Suffered low popularity, but was re-elected to a second term
• Party: Not mentioned

President Hunter Peale

• President in The Hell Candidate, 1980 novel by Graham Masterton.
• Senator of Colorado, possessed by the Devil to start global war, exorcised by the Pope.
• Party: Republican

President Arthur Penn

• President in: One Knight Only, a 2003 novel by Peter David (sequel to Knight Life).
• Openly admitted to being King Arthur returned; his advisor Merlin circumvented the Fourteenth Amendment by having filed citizenship papers for Arthur in 1787.

President Pérez

• Mentioned in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Rendezvous with Rama as having been President some time prior to the novel's setting (2132).
• A character in the novel does not remember whether it was Pérez or Harry S. Truman who said "The buck stops here."

President Perryman Castor (family name first)

• President in: Black Star Rising, a novel by Frederik Pohl
• Mock-elected in the late 21st century.

President Joyce Peterman

• President in Homeward Bound, part of the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove
• Elected in 2020.

President Nathan Petrelli

• President in: Heroes
• In the episode "Five Years Gone", Nathan is shown as President of a future dystopian American state. His true identity was shown to be that of Sylar, the serial killer, who has presumably killed Nathan and used Candice Wilmer's power of illusion casting to take on Nathan's appearance.
• Nathan was also the President of a future America in the episode "I Am Become Death".
• Party: Unknown

President Warren H. Pierce

• President in: Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain for the PlayStation 2.
• Bears a striking resemblance to and is based on George W. Bush.
• Republican

President Ulysses Delano Fitzgerald Milhous Pinky

• President in; Pinky and the Brain
• Known to his friends as "Ladybird"
• Played by: Rob Paulsen
• Was elected twice and was impeached
• Party: Pink Party

President Katherine Powers

• President in: Ellen Emerson White's President's Daughter Series of YA novels
• First female president
• Served as a Senator from Massachusetts prior to being elected President
• In the second book, she faced an assassination attempt, and her daughter was kidnapped in the third
• Party: Democratic

Acting President Jim Prescott

• Acting president in 2005 and again from 2005–2006 in 24 (2003)
• Prescott was Vice President under President David Palmer and manipulated the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but only served a few hours before the presidency was restored to Palmer.
• 24: The Game shows that Prescott once again served as Acting President following an assassination attempt on Palmer ("24: The Game" is set between Seasons 2 and 3)
• Played by: Alan Dale
• Party: Democratic

President Jack "Kill the Commies" Preston

• President in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986)
• Author of the book "Commie Bastards I have known."
• Presumably not a communist.
• Played by: Murray Hamilton

President Reginald J. Priest

• President in: Lexx (TV Series, 2001)
• Played by: Rolf Kanies

R

President Jeffrey Mindol Ragland

• President in Jerry van Orsdell's 1972 novel Ragland.
• Former senate aid to future President William F. Berndt, and chosen to be his Vice President.
• Becomes President when Berndt dies in office.
• Tried LSD, advocates sterilization for the poor, returns a Soviet defector to insure a summit meeting takes place.
• Threatens to blow up Air Force One with the Soviet and Chinese leaders on it during an airborne summit unless they agree to disarmament.

President Robert Rand

• President in Larry Burkett's novel The Thor Conspiracy
• erstwhile actor, chosen by "The Society"
• policies dictated by "The Society" cause some states (including Wyoming) to revolt
• assassinated (along with most of "The Society") by a South Korean who parks a van containing an atomic bomb in front of the White House (after which US capital is moved to Philadelphia)
• thinks he is in control and "Society" operative Cho serves him—but revealed to be other way around shortly before he and Cho are murdered.

President Lawrence Ivor Randolph

• President in: The Brady Bunch in the White House
• Bio: Former Congressman & Speaker of the House from South Carolina. Forced to resign.
• Term of Office: 2009–2013
• Played by: Dave Nichols

President Rathcock

• President in the 2013 movie Machete Kills
• Played by Charlie Sheen

President Carlton Rattigan

• President in Ben Wattenberg and Ervin S. Duggins' 1977 novel Against All Enemies.
• President Rattigan orders U.S. Forces to South America on a peacekeeping mission. When an American base is attacked by Rebels, Vice President Abner Hoffman challenges Rattigan for their parties nomination. Rattigan defeats Hoffman in the New Hampshire primary.

President Arthur Timothy Read

• In the Arthur television series, Arthur often imagines himself as President.
• In the Episode Arthur's Lucky Pencil, he signs into law a bill that mandates every student be served two pieces of Boston Cream Pie, at lunch.
• Played by: Michael Yarmush in that episode.

President Carl Reed

• President in Invader, a 1980 science fiction novel by David Campbell Hill and Albert Fay Hill.
• President of the United States when an alien fleet is discovered heading for Earth.
• Protested Against the Vietnam War, but authorizes the construction of a Gamma Ray Cannon to use against the Aliens.

President Erwin Rexall

• President in Give Me Liberty/Martha Washington Goes to War comic book series, set in 2014.
• Elected in 1996 (future date at the time of publication). The most popular President of all time (complete with his face on Mount Rushmore), Rexall repeals the 22nd Amendment to gain a third term.
• Vice President Cargo, and most of his cabinet are assassinated in an explosion, while Rexall himself is left incapacitated. Succeeded by Secretary of Agriculture Howard Johnson Nissen.
• Rexall eventually has his brain implanted into a robot body and is able to continue his presidency by the end of the series.

President Caroline Reynolds

• President in Prison Break
• As Vice-President, she collaborated with an organization known as "the Company" to fake the death of her brother Terrence Steadman and frame Lincoln Burrows for the murder. When her presidential campaign began to falter and the Company turned against her, she had President Mills assassinated and was immediately sworn in as President.
• Played by Patricia Wettig
• Party: presumably Republican

President Richardson

• President of the United States in the 1980 movie Virus.
• During his administration, in the then future Feb. 1982, the United States and Soviet Union both put in place the Automatic Response System (ARS), a computer system that is capable of fighting a nuclear war without human control.
• A biological weapon is stolen from a U.S. lab, and in an attempt to recover it, the virus is released in Europe resulting in a worldwide pandemic. The only survivors are in Antarctica.
• President Richardson dies at his desk from the virus shortly after informing those in Antarctica of the situation.
• The Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff activates the ARS after the President dies, and an earthquarke a few months later causing a nuclear exchange that destroys the Antarctic colony.
• Played by Glenn Ford

President Dick Richardson

• President in Fallout 2
• President of the United States in the 23rd century after World War III, although it meant nothing more than leading the surviving significant government employees onto an oil rig, west of the city San Francisco. He was killed by the main character, the Chosen One, in the fall of 2242.
• Vice President is Daniel Bird
• Played by: Jeffrey Jones

President Elizabeth Richardson

• President in the 1996 TV movie Special Report: Journey to Mars.
• Elected in 2000, and Re-elected in 2004 due to her support of the Destiny Mission to Mars.
• In July, 2005, it is learned that the Destiny Mission has been sabotaged. Due to the heroic efforts of the crew the craft lands safely on Mars, but all contact is soon lost.
• Played by Elizabeth Wilson

President Alan Richmond

• President in: Absolute Power (1996 book) and Absolute Power (1997 film)
• Is an aloof, womanizing man who is cheating with his good friend's wife. After the sex became rough, she attacked him with a letter opener followed by the Secret Service killing her. He and his chief of staff attempt to cover up the murder, however, a cat burglar witnesses the entire skirmish.
• Attempts, at all costs, to kill the man who possesses the letter opener with his blood on it.
• Book: A young lawyer later uncovers the scandal and goes public with it. President Richmond is later either impeached or resigns and is incarcerated. Later becomes the only American president to be tried for murder and executed.
• Movie: Burglar gives the letter opener to President Richmond's "good friend", who assassinates Richmond with it. Death represented publicly as a suicide.
• Played by: Gene Hackman in the film.

President Eleanor Richmond

• President in: Interface, a novel by Stephen Bury

President George Richmond

• President in: My Date with the President's Daughter
• President Richmond is married to Carol Richmond and has one teenage daughter, Hallie. While running for reelection, President Richmond was once mistakenly arrested by the police and spent one night in jail.
• Played by: Dabney Coleman

President Kyle Richmond

• President in The Squadron Supreme, a marvel Comic Book Mini-series.
• A former costumed crimefighter known as Nighthawk, he was a member of the superhero group called The Squadron Supreme.
• He left the group and entered politics, first serving as a Congressman, then a Cabinet Member, and finally as President of the United States.
• During his term an alien named Overmind secretly takes over his mind and forces President Richmond to conquer the world. As no other country had atomic bombs in this timeline it happened quickly.
• President Richmond was seen as the Dictator of the World as Overmind stayed behind the scenes.
• When Overmind was defeated President Richmond resigned from office, but when the Squadron Supreme decided to take over the world and create a Utopia he once again became Nighthawk and opposed them.
• Benjamin Franklin, Hubert Humphrey, and Nelson Rockefeller all served as President before Richmond.

President Prez Rickard

• The first teenaged president in the satirical 1970s comic book series Prez
• Created by Joe Simon.
• Revived in several DC Comics series.

President Rick Rickard

• President in the comic Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, by Frank Miller
• Is actually a hologram used as a front for Lex Luthor and Brainiac to secretly rule behind the scenes
• His advisors include Attorney-General Snark, Secretary of State Robert "Buzz" Ruger-Exxon, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Four-Star General Cornell Starbucks

President Ridgely

• President in the short story Franchise, by Isaac Asimov.
• Was elected in 1988 through "pie-in-the-sky promises and racist baloney". Was extremely disliked even 20 years later.

President Benjamin Riker

• President in Falseface by Marilyn Sharpe.
• Was killed by the world's greatest assassin who made his death look like a skiing accident.
• President Riker was killed on orders from the Speaker of the House who thought he was to weak to deal with the Soviets.

President Marshall Roberts

• President in Ikon, 1982 novel by Graham Masterton.
• Blackmailed by secretary of state Titus Alexander into cancelling nuclear reduction talks with Soviets. But really only President in name, as Russians had secretly been in charge of the United States since 1962, when Kennedy surrendered to threat of missiles on Cuba.
• Reportedly intending to be re-elected in 1984.

President Peter Arnold Robinson

• President in Michael P. Kube-McDowell's 1988 novel Alternities.
• Elected president in 1972 and reelected in 1976.
• Aware of a series of connections leading to other timelines, Robinson escalates the Cold War in an effort to regain lost status and prestige, risking nuclear war with the expectation that he and his supporters can withdraw safely to another universe should events escalate.
• Is stopped by his chief of staff after government forces in his destination timeline seize the gate, preventing easy passage.
• Party: Republican

President Elise Rochelle

• President in: Coyote (novel) by Allen Steele
• Was elected President-for-Life of the United Republic of America by Congress.
• Committed suicide in 2096 to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes, as she had killed 1.1 million people with biological weapon strikes on Boston, Seattle, and Montreal.
• As the URA was later absorbed by the socialist Western Hemisphere Union after her suicide, she was essentially the final President of the United States of America.
• Party: Liberty Party

President Steve Rogers (Captain America)

• President in: What If, vol. II #28 (Marvel Comics)
• Party: New Populist Party

Also:

• President in the "The Last Avengers Story" book by Marvel Comics (non-canon fiction)

President "Steve Rogers"

• President in Marvel 2099 titles
• The leader of a counter-revolution against Doom, "Rogers" claimed to be Captain America, but was actually a pawn of the super-villain Herod.

President John Romero

• President in Deadlands: Hell on Earth role-playing game.
• Former film director and anti-Confederate propagandist. Conducted secret funding of the Latin American Alliance's war against the Confederate States of America, the revelation of which sparks another war between North and South.
• Romero was elected in 2070, impeached in 2078.

President George Romney

• President in Resurrection Day by Brendan Dubios.
• Elected in 1964, two years after a nuclear exchange sparked by the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Re-elected in 1984.
• Party: Republican.

President Ronnie

• President in the arcade game "Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja"
• He gets kidnapped by Ninjas and it is up to Blade and Striker to save him.
• Based on the then current president Ronald Reagan in the arcade version.
• On the NES port of the game, he is based on the then current president George H.W. Bush.

President Romulus

• Former President referenced in the book Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley.

President Chet Roosevelt

• President in: Americathon
• Somehow becomes president at the age of 30.
• Prior to the Roosevelt administration, the U.S. government suffers bankruptcy, a few years later the nation holds a telethon to pay off its debts and deficit.
• Relocates the nation's capital from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, California.
• Falls in love with a Vietnamese pop star and resigns the presidency to marry her. The two later leave to Vietnam.
• Played by: John Ritter

President Pete Ross

• Ross was a former Senator from Kansas, succeeded President Lex Luthor after Luthor's impeachment, and refused to run for re-election.
• Party: Tomorrow Party

President Paul Roudebush

• President in: Vanished (novel)
• Played by: Richard Widmark

President Jim Roy

• President in the science fiction novel O Choque das Raças, ou O Presidente Negro (The Shock of the Races, or The Black President), by Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato
• Jim Roy, a black man, is elected President of the US in the year 2228.

President Oliver Russell

• President in: the novel The Best Laid Plans
• Written by: Sidney Sheldon

President Jack Rutledge

• President in: the novels of Brad Thor
• Kidnapped by Swiss terrorist group known as The Lions. Has a finger cut off by the group as proof of his kidnapping. Later returned safely to the White House.
• Widower and father of a teenage (later college age daughter), who is injured in an avalanche during his kidnapping, and injured again several books later during an attack on NYC bridges and tunnel.
• Two term president, reelected sometime between the novels Blowback and Takedown
• Party: Republican

President Virgil Rutledge

• President in the 1984 novel Hitler's Daughter by Timothy Benford.
• Defeated Vice President Elliot Benedict, and followed President William Chandler into office.
• Vice President Leona Crawford Gordon became President when President Rutledge died in the mysterious crash of Air Force One.

President John Patrick "Jack" Ryan

• President in numerous novels by Tom Clancy, previously serves as a Marine Lieutenant, CIA analyst & emissary, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, and National Security Advisor.
• Because he is the first Marine to become President and in reference to a gift by a Saudi Prince to him, his Secret Service codename is "SWORDSMAN".
• Ryan is married and has four children, younger son born shortly after his re-election.
• Jack Ryan assumed the presidency after the death of the president and most of Congress after a terrorist attack on The Capitol (ending Clancy's novel Debt of Honor). The Ryan Administration tries to significantly alter Washington politics by cutting through bureaucracy and political infighting, in part by encouraging "regular people" to run for Congress, who will serve their terms and return home, rather than professional, lifelong politicians whom he refers to as "a permanent ruling class" (throughout Executive Orders).
• Participates in the arrest of a terrorist mole in the Secret Service by helping the FBI run a sting operation in the Oval Office. The mole's fellow assassin's from Iran earlier raided the daycare center attended by Ryan's younger daughter, killing a teacher and several of little Katie's Secret Service Guards. None of the attackers survived.
• In foreign policy, the Ryan Administration fights two wars; the Second Persian Gulf War with the newly created United Islamic Republic, a union of Iraq and Iran, and the Russo-Chinese War, fought over Siberian oil (in The Bear and the Dragon). Not long before the latter war, Ryan had successfully pushed for an expansion of NATO to include the Russian Federation, in a futile attempt to deter a Chinese attack.
• Pronounces the "Ryan Doctrine"; this states that anyone who attacks American citizens anywhere in the world, no matter who he may be, will be held accountable by the United States. This is consistent with Ryan's belief that "the safety and security of our citizens is ultimately my country's only vital interest." The doctrine can be seen as a reaction to the rise of terrorist attacks on American citizens, including by the state organs of countries like Iran (or, in the book, the UIR). Iran's Ayatollah had masterminded the release of the Ebola Zaire virus in America's major cities, to neutralize the U.S. military while the UIR invades and crushes Israel. Despite this, the non-quarantined military reserves are deployed to the Middle East and thwart the invasion. Afterward, while Ryan is on camera pronouncing his doctrine, coverage flips to a palace in Iran, which is then incinerated by U.S. stealth bombs, killing the Ayatollah & his regime.
• Ryan refuses to run for a second term - a decision he regrets when the Democrat Ed Kealty is elected President and enacts policies to which Ryan strongly objects. In the next elections Ryan re-enters active politics, runs against Kealty and narrowly defeats him.
• Party: Independent / Republican. The Ryan Administration espouses many conservative, traditionally Republican beliefs, but Ryan is said to support candidates from both parties. Ultimately, the integrity and loyalty of politicians matters far more to Jack Ryan than their party affiliation. However, the reference to the GOP winning Ohio and Michigan in Locked On implies that Ryan ran on the Republican Party ticket in the 2008 presidential election against incumbent Ed Kealty. This is reflected in the presidential debates, where there is only Kealty (the Democratic candidate) and Ryan.

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