List of fictional United States Presidents G-M

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List of fictional
United States Presidents
A – F
G – M
N – T
U – Z

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

Contents

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Acting President Hal Gardner

Main article: Hal Gardner
  • Acting President in: 24 (2007-2009)
  • After Charles Logan is arrested in fifth-season finale of 24, Gardner would be next in line of succession
  • Played by: Ray Wise
  • Presidency never shown on screen
  • Party: Republican

President Ransom W. Gardner

  • President in Promises to Keep, novel by George Bernau
  • Elected Vice President under John Trelawney Cassidy, he assumed the acting presidency following an assassination attempt on President Cassidy in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963.
  • He is elected as the 36th President of the United States in November 1964.
  • Following misadventure in Vietnam, he is challenged for the Democratic nomination by the now-recovered President Cassidy in 1968 and leaves office in January 1969.

President Garner

President Thomas Edison (Shy) Garland

  • President in: Father's Day, novel by John Calvin Batchelor
  • Former astronaut, former senator from Texas, nicknamed Shy and a nephew of LBJ.
  • Elected vice president under Theodore G. Jay in 2000, assumes the reins of power as acting president, as per the 25th Amendment, after Jay goes on a leave of absence due to a deep depression. Garland was much more popular than President Jay and attempted to have Jay ruled unfit by Congress and the Cabinet when Jay tries to reassume the presidency. He also orchestrated a military coup to assassinate Jay if the attempt to have Jay declared unfit fails. Codenamed "Father's Day"?
  • Party: Democratic

President Johnny Gentle

  • President in: Infinite Jest, novel by David Foster Wallace
  • Has an obsessive-compulsive phobia of contamination; founder of the "Clean U.S. Party"
  • A former "famous crooner", he wins the presidency on a promise to make America a cleaner place. As part of his solution he makes a large portion of New England (the "Concavity") into a toxic waste dump and forcibly gives this territory to Canada.

President Joseph Galbrain

  • President in: XIII (comic)
  • Comes after William B. Sheridan
  • Comes before Walter "Wally" Sheridan

President Mays Gilliam

  • President in: Head of State
  • An alderman from Washington D.C., Gilliam was chosen by his party to replace the deceased presidential nominee. Gilliam narrowly defeats a sitting vice-president becoming America's first Black President.
  • Played by: Chris Rock

President Lancelot R. Gilligrass

President Harold Goosie

President Al Gore

President Graham

  • President in: Resident Evil 4
  • Daughter, Ashley Graham, kidnapped by the Spanish Cult Los Illuminados in 2004.
  • Never shown during the course of the game, though he was the one to send Leon S. Kennedy to rescue his daughter.
  • Unknown political orientation, though in-game references to terrorism suggest that he might be similar to President George W. Bush in regards to foreign affairs.
  • First name not mentioned.

President Stewie Griffin

  • President in Family Guy episode Lois Kills Stewie.
  • Caricature of George Washington
  • Takes over the United States after he Infiltrates the CIA and is confronted with Stan Smith from American Dad!.
  • Declares the law that you must throw apples at Peter Griffin.
  • Outlaws the making of strait-to-video sequels to animated Disney films.
  • Declares the law that all milk for human consumption must come from Hilary Swank's breasts.
  • He is then assassinated by Peter Griffin.
  • Political Party: Unknown

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President Dewey Haik

  • President in the Fascist Corps running the United States in Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here.
  • Served as Commissioner of the Northeastern Province under President Buzz Windrip, then Secretary of War and High Marshal of the Minute Men.
  • Collaborated in the coup d'état that removed Windrip and installed Lee Stanton as President. Shortly afterwards, Haik lead the assassination of Stanton and his own installation as President.
  • Particularly brutal and repressive, Haik's rule made citizens "long for the liberal days of President Windrip".
  • Later in Haik's administration, a major revolt developed against his rule, with significant defection of military forces. The final fate of this revolt and President Haik remain unknown as of the novel's end.

President Jeremy Haines

  • President in: The President's Plane Is Missing and its sequel Air Force One is Haunted by Robert Serling.
  • Is forced by circumstances to remain in hiding after the crash of Air Force One to complete diplomatic talks with the Premier of the Soviet Union.
  • Later claims to have seen the ghost of Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the new Air Force One.
  • Widower
  • Party: Republican
  • Played by: Tod Andrews in the film based on the novel

President Charles Halsey

  • President in: The Outer Limits episode "Trial by Fire"
  • Shortly after being sworn in, President Halsey is faced with first contact with an armada of alien ships. As the planet arms nuclear weapons, Halsey attempts to communicate with the ships but is unsuccessful.
  • Halsey is married to Elizabeth Halsey, has children and is considered a peace-loving liberal surrounded by hawkish military leaders; President Halsey and advisors are later killed by the aliens.
  • Played by: Robert Foxworth

President Wesley Hamlin

  • President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • Briefly referenced in the novel Moonfall.
  • Was governor of Illinois who won the presidential election of 2000.
  • Is a distant relative of former Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.
  • Narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 2003 by the father of a victim of a convicted killer he pardoned as governor. President Hamlin was left paralyzed from the waist down after his assassination attempt. Vice President Dan Sullivan and Secretary of State Bernie Phillips convince him not to resign.
  • Re-elected in 2004.
  • Opened his presidential library in 2011.
  • Moved back to his home town in Illinois after leaving office.
  • Party: Republican

President Judson C. "Judd" ("Major") Hammond

President William "Bill" Haney

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Haney served as vice president under President Russell P. Kramer before defeating incumbent President Matt Douglas. Later forced to resign.
  • Played by: Dan Aykroyd
  • Republican

President Harris

  • President in: Welcome to the Ark
  • Notes: Different from the two Harrises below.

President Baxter Harris

President John Henry Harris

  • President in Allan Folsom's novel The Machiavelli Covenant (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, January 2007 ISBN 0-765-31305-7 ISBN 978-0-765-31305-8)
  • Back cover copy says Harris is "on the run ... from his murderous Cabinet."

President Andrew Harrison

President William Harrison

  • President in: The President by Parker Hudson
  • Harrison is an extreme liberal president, who becomes a Christian while in office.

President Spencer Harvey

President Charles Haskell

  • President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • Becomes the youngest vice president in history in the presidential election of 2020 at the age of 35.
  • President Henry Kolladner's vice president.
  • Becomes the nation's youngest president at 39 after President Kolladner is killed in a Marine One crash.
  • Holds the nation together after hundreds of pieces of moon rock fall to Earth after a violent impact between a comet and the moon.
  • Wins re-election in 2024.
  • Relocates the nation's capital back to Philadelphia after Washington, D.C. is destroyed by a tsunami.
  • Party: Democratic

President Arne Eino Haugen

  • President in: "The General's President" by John Dalmas
  • Born April 23, 1924
  • First-Generation American with Finnish and Norwegian parents, Haugen was a businessman and an outdoorsman. He was appointed Vice-President by the sitting President, who then resigned.
  • He was talked into the job by his friend, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Thomas Cromwell, who was President Donnelly's first choice but did not want the job. Ironically, Cromwell agreed to serve as Haugen's VP temporarily.
  • Thanks to a declaration of emergency, Haugen had unprecedented powers, but he used them mainly to begin retsoring people's confidence in the government and the economy.
  • Was the target of unsuccessful smear campaigns and assassination attempts by a cabal of high-placed government and industrialist interests known as the Holist Council.
  • After Soviet energy weapon attacks that triggered huge quakes in California and Seattle, Haugen orders a retaliatory assassination of the Soviet Premier and Politburo via the same sort of weapon.
  • Resigned soon after being shot.
  • After his wife Lois was diagnosed with Lymphatic Cancer and he with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the Haugens decide to go out together. The book ends with his letter to Cromwell detailing their already undertaken (and presumably successful) to row across a lake until they either expire or reach the other side.

President Henry Hayes

Main article: Henry Hayes

President Jonathan Hayes

President Robert Hayes

  • President in Transfer of Power and subsequent novels by Vince Flynn
  • Party: Democratic
  • Develops Parkinson's Disease, so is unable to seek re-election
  • Once held in secure bunker for many days during a terrorist attack on the White House causing his unpopular VP Sherman Baxter to take control. Hayes resumed control some days after.

President Helman

President Stephen Decatur Henderson

  • President in Mr. President, 1962 Broadway musical by Irving Berlin
  • Henderson loses his bid for re-election.
  • Played by Robert Ryan

President Dave Hepler

  • President in The Dave Hepler Saga, a series of alternative history novels.
  • Dave Hepler becomes the 44th President of the United States after the Bush Administration's embarrassing debacle in "The War on Terror", tips the political scale back in the favor of the Democrats. Dave promises the American people a new Golden Age in his campaign and leads his country bravely during the numerous wars it becomes involved in, including the Canadian War and World War III.

President Zach Herney

President Art Hockstader

President Paul Hollister

President Wendell Holmes

President David Hoope

Main article: List of Death Note characters
  • President in the manga and anime series Death Note
  • Elected in 2008 (whether it is his first or second term is unstated)
  • Is blackmailed by the rogue detective Mello with the threat of using the Death Note to force him to launch a nuclear strike, dies of an apparent suicide in the Oval Office in 2009.
  • Authorizes the creation of the SPK (Special Provisions for Kira) task force to pursue the international mass-murderer Kira and secure the Death Note.

President Courtney Hoover

President Jonathan Vincent Horne

President Robert Hovelmann

President Eve Hubbard

  • One of the many presidents in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy
  • Star of the movie "Gentleman Prefer Clones", President Hubbard reformed criminal code, ending victimless crimes. She encouraged space migration, life extension, extensive automation of industry and other scientific research projects (see also SMI²LE).
  • Party: Libertarian Immortalist ("No more death and taxes!")

President Hudson

  • President in: Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
  • Ordered the bombing of Damascus
  • According to rumours very influenced by astrology in his decisions, especially advices given by astrologer Gail Andrews
  • Has "recently passed away" in the beginning of the novel

President Harley M. Hudson

  • President in: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
  • Former governor of Michigan (Delaware in the movie) who is elected Vice-President.
  • Succeeds to presidency upon death of unnamed predecessor
  • In the book's sequel, A Shade of Difference, Hudson becomes a nation hero for standing up to threats by the Soviets at a conference in Geneva, and is dubbed "Fearless Peerless" by the press.
  • Possibly modeled on President Harry Truman
  • Assassinated in a later volume of the Advise and Consent series
  • Played in the movie version by: Lew Ayres

President Huffman

President Mark Hunt

  • Elected president in Larry Burkett's The Illuminati
  • Assassinated by "The Society" for not being a puppet, succeeded by Kathy Alton
  • Party: Democratic

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President Phillip Jackson

  • President of The Road to President Series, game series ran by Ken Kerns aka Mike Adams.
  • Defeated President Long by winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. United the Republican party after their collapse in the prior election under a scandal plagued plaigerist candidate.
  • Former Republican Governor of Florida.
  • First African American president in the series.

President Robby Jackson

Main article: Robby Jackson (Tom Clancy)
  • Was President just prior to The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
  • Was Vice President under Jack Ryan, and became the first black President when Jack resigned for the purpose of allowing him to be the first black President. Jackson was later assassinated by a man dubbed "the last of the Klan" by the media.

President Edward M. Jason

  • President in: Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, by Allen Drury
  • Early in his administration, the United States government is overthrown by a Soviet conspiracy, due in large part to President Jason's naivete and incompetence.
  • Commits suicide when the consequences of his actions become clear.

President James Johnson

  • President in: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
  • The 44th President, preceded by President George Sears (Solidus Snake). After Sears "resigned" in 2005, Johnson became the President, and was re-elected in 2008; Johnson claims the election was a farce. He claims he is a puppet of The Patriots, a secret group that controls the United States, and which decides the elections. During the Big Shell takeover in 2009, Johnson was assassinated by Revolver Ocelot as part his unwilling involvement in the S3 Plan.

President Maria Juarez

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President Charles Foster Kane

  • President in: Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman.
  • In this alternate history novel, Kane is Theodore Roosevelt's running mate in 1912. They are elected but Roosevelt is assassinated before the inauguration and Kane becomes President. Kane's policies cause great unrest and he is overthrown by a left-wing revolution.
  • Party: Republican

President Florentyna Kane

  • President in: The Prodigal Daughter and Shall We Tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer
  • Shall We Tell the President was first written before Archer devised the Florentyna Kane character, and the president was originally Ted Kennedy. In a later revision of this work, Archer replaced Kennedy with his presidential candidate from The Prodigal Daughter.
  • Kane (nee Rosnovski) becomes the first woman President at the end of the book, after the former incumbent dies of a heart attack while jogging.
  • Party: Democratic

President Kang

President Ed Kealty

Main article: Ed Kealty
  • President in: The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy
  • Ed Kealty took over the presidency after President Robby Jackson was assassinated. Kealty previously failed to secure the president when he tried to say he never officially resigned after the events of Debt of Honor's final pages.
  • Party: Most likely Democrat

President John Keeler

Main article: John Keeler
  • President in: 24 (2005-2006)
  • Played by: Geoffrey Pierson
  • Keeler was elected after President David Palmer withdrew from the race. As part of a day of unprecedented terrorist strikes, Air Force One is shot down, critically injuring Keeler and killing dozens of others including the President's son, Kevin; Vice President Charles Logan assumes the presidency. His fate was never revealed, though Logan was still the president 18 months later, likely indicating that Keeler either was killed, or still remained physically unable to hold the office.
  • Party: Republican.

President Tim Kegan

  • President in: Winter Kills, both book by Richard Condon and movie
  • Assassinated president that is never fully seen during one flashback scene in movie. No credit was given to the arm.

President Keith

President Kellogg

  • President in Man of the Year
  • Incumbent Democratic candidate up for re-election
  • Won second term in re-election after Tom Dobbs declined the presidency

President Joshua Kellogg

  • President in: Joshua, Son of None, by Nancy Freedman
  • Cloned from tissue taken from President John F. Kennedy shortly after his assassination, and deliberately raised so as to mimic President Kennedy's early life, in hopes of "re-creating" the original.
  • Assassinated immediately after being sworn in as president

President Kendrick

President Francis Xavier Kennedy

  • President in: Mario Puzo's The Fourth K
  • Nephew of John F. Kennedy, served one term in the Senate. His first act as President is to donate his $40 million fortune to relieve the national debt.
  • During his administration, the Pope is executed, his daughter kidnapped, and a bomb detonated in Manhattan. In retaliation, President Kennedy destroys the capital city of Dach in the fictional Arabian country of Sherbin. Kennedy is later re-elected due to an assassination attempt on his life.

President Clark Kent

Main article: Superman
  • President in: Action Comics Annual #3 (1991)
  • In a possible future, Pete Ross is running for President with Kent as his campaign manager. When an assassination attempt results in Ross being injured and Kent's secret identity being revealed, Ross insists Superman take his place as the Democratic nominee.
  • President Kent is responsible for a series of satellites broadcasting solar power to Earth. He also worked towards multilateral disarmament, and the coalition of all superhero teams into the World Peace League.
  • This future was observed by the time traveller Waverider, but negated soon afterwards.
  • Party: Democratic

President Donald Kilbourne

  • President in: Larry Burkett's The Illuminati
  • Discredited for mishandling of west-coast earthquake/tsunami disaster and withdrew from election (replaced as candidate by Mark Hunt, who won)
  • Party: Democratic

President Kerry Francis Kilcannon

  • President in: Richard North Patterson's novels Protect and Defend and Balance of Power, candidate in No Safe Place.
  • Kilcannon is a Democrat from New Jersey and was elected in 2000 at age 42 after defeating incumbent Vice-President Dick Mason for Democratic nomination. President Kilcannon appointed Caroline Masters as the first female Chief Justice of the United States.
  • Kilcannon was a two term Senator and succeeded his older brother James, who was assassinated while running for President in 1988. Kilcannon's vice President was Ellen Penn, formerly Senator from California and is married in second marriage to Lara (nee Costello) a former television news reporter.
  • Party: Democratic

President Tom Kimball

President Robert Kinsey

Main article: Robert Kinsey
  • President in: Stargate SG-1 TV-series
  • A senator from Indiana, Kinsey was vice president under President Henry Hayes. Kinsey became president in two separate alternate timelines. He is tied to a group called the Trust, a cabal of international businessmen who are trying to obtain alien technologies for commercial purposes, largely by using Kinsey's power and influence in the U.S. government. At the end of Season 7, President Hayes forces him into retirement.
  • Played by: Ronny Cox
  • Party: Unknown. The character incorporates elements normally attributed to both the Democratic (opposition to Defense spending, distrust of the military) and Republican (religious fundamentalism, isolationism) parties. The ambiguity is probably deliberate, in order not to alienate viewers of either political belief.

President Hugh Tiberius Kissling

  • President in: USGS Fourth Reset
  • Former governor of the Midwest, defeated President John Mannion and later ordered successful airstrike against North Korean nuclear weapons silos.
  • Party: Republican

President Benjamin Knight

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

President Orrin Knox

President Henry Kolladner

  • President in: Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
  • The nation's second African-American president.
  • Elected president in 2020.
  • During his term, he discovers he has colon cancer but refuses to inform the public, though he strongly believes that if he is re-elected in 2024, he will not live to complete his second term.
  • During his administration, a comet by the name of Tomiko smashes into the moon, completely destroying it. Hours later, thousands of moonrocks fall to Earth creating massive tsunamis, earthquakes, and wildfires world-wide. He escapes on Marine One after a tsunami strikes Washington D.C. but the helicopter crashes after being struck by lightning, killing him, his wife Emily, and some members of his cabinet.
  • Succeeded by Vice President Charles Haskell.
  • Party: Democratic

President Russell P. Kramer

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Born in Ohio, Kramer was a congressman and a senator and attempted to run for re-election as president but failed; according to Kramer, eighty million people voted against him. Famous for line "Our dreams are like our children." Later ran again for office as an independent with former President Matt Douglas.
  • Played by: Jack Lemmon
  • Independent, formerly Republican

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President Aaron Lake

President Hank Landry

President Langley

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

President Eve Carol Larsen

  • President in: Quantico by Greg Bear
  • Served as Governor of Wisconsin before being elected President of the United States.
  • Her administration had to deal with a series of planned bio-terrorist attacks on Rome, Jerusalem, and Mecca, orchestrated by rogue FBI agent Lawrence Winter.
  • Party: Democratic

President (Helen) Lasker

  • President in: Contact (novel, Carl Sagan, 1985)
  • A two-term (1993-2001) female President who deals with the ramifications of alien contact. In the film adaptation (Contact, 1997, dir: Robert Zemeckis), she was replaced by real-life President Bill Clinton, from authentic and slightly "doctored" archive footage of press conferences, meetings and TV appearances edited in such a way as to present fictional events. (Name "Helen" appears only in a Beta Version of the screenplay).

President Owen Lassiter

  • President in: The West Wing (television)
  • Mentioned only in one episode, Lassiter is a native of California, has a presidential library, was married and is presently deceased. Possibly resembles Ronald Reagan.
  • In his Oval Office, President Lassiter had jars of sand and soil from land wherever American soldiers died. In the twilight of his life, he wrote an essay titled "The Need for an American Empire" to President Bartlet calling for opposition of Islamic fundamentalism.
  • Toby Ziegler blames Lassiter for "anointing the regimes that haunt us today"
  • Party: Republican

President Lenny Leonard

President Limbaugh

  • President in: the novel Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
  • Presumably right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh.
  • Wallace's novel is set in the near future (relative to its 1996 publication); Limbaugh is referred to as "recently assassinated."

President Lindberg

  • President in: The Fifth Element
  • President of the United Federated Territories.
  • In the year 2263, Earth was threatened with destruction by the Ultimate Evil. After foolishly ordering a battleship to fire on the Evil (which destroyed the ship with all hands on board), Lindberg ordered Major Korben Dallas to find the five elements that would destroy the Evil (which he was able to do seconds before Earth would have been destroyed).
  • Played by: Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.

President Manfred Link

President Abraham Linkidd

President Lockwood

President Charles Logan

  • President in: 24 (2006-2007)
  • Played by: Gregory Itzin
  • Cabinet unanimously invoked the 25th Amendment after President Keeler is hospitalized following an attack on Air Force One. This is the second time the amendment has been invoked in the series, but the previous vote was strongly divided and was not executed legally.
  • Eighteen months after being sworn in, he is still President (Keeler's fate is unknown) and signs a strategic defense treaty with the Russian President. Logan views this as the crowning achievement of his time in office, though the day is marred by the assassination of former President David Palmer and the threat of European terrorists releasing nerve gas on U.S. soil. He reinstates former CTU agent Jack Bauer to active duty after Bauer exposes Logan's chief of staff Walt Cummings' involvement in both. It is later revealed that Logan was one of the principal instigators of the day's events.
  • Logan would eventually be exposed by Jack Bauer and his wife Martha Logan. He was arrested by the Secret Service once evidence incriminating Logan was presented to the Attorney General. He resigned in exchange for clemency, in order to spare the United States the spectacle of having a President on trial for murder and treason.
  • During season six, he aided Jack Bauer in locating a terrorist named Gredenko, claiming to be a changed man.
  • He was later stabbed by his wife, Martha Logan (played by Jean Smart), rupturing one of his main arteries. His fate is unknown.
  • Party: Republican

President Eugene Lorio

  • President in: Jack & Bobby
  • Played by: Paul Sorvino
  • His son died while serving in the War of the Americas.
  • Elected as a Democrat in 2036, he says in a 2049 interview (as part of a documentary in the series' flash-forward) that he knew, going into the final debate of the 2040 campaign, that he would lose to either Republican candidate Dennis Morganthal or independent candidate Robert McCallister. This indicates he was an unpopular President, but the show never revealed why.
  • Party: Democratic

President Furbish Lousewart

President Alexander Joseph Luthor

  • President in the DC Universe
  • Impeached for the use of the illegal supersteroid Venom, the theft and use of an Apokyliptian Battle Suit, and the attempted murder of Superman and Batman. Succeeded by Vice-President Pete Ross
  • Party: Tomorrow Party

President Jordan Lyman

  • President in: Seven Days in May
  • President Lyman was unpopular and controversial due to Republican opposition to a controversial arms control treaty with the Soviet Union, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff go as far as making a meticulously-planned attempt at a coup d'etat. Lyman, in the beginning depicted as rather mediocre and uncertain of himself, grows in the course of the book to exhibit the leadership needed for such an unprecedented crisis, and manages not only to foil the coup but also neatly defuse the crisis without leaving a traumatic imprint. Lyman is mentioned as being from Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Played by: Fredric March
  • Party: Democratic

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President Timothy Garde Macauley

  • President in: From the Files of the Time Rangers, a mosaic novel by Richard Bowes
  • Called "The Once and Future President", Macauley is a central character in the novel.
  • The scion of an immensely wealthy mother and an Irish politician father, Macauley is the favorite of various of the gods who twice manage to get him elected president.

President John Mackenzie

President Henry Talbot MacNeil

  • President in: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  • Voyage ran for four seasons, from 1964-1968, but was set in the then-future years between 1973-1980. President MacNeil was elected in 1972 and evidently won re-election in 1976. His character appeared in at least a half-dozen episodes of the series, all in its first and second seasons. By all accounts he was extremely popular president domestically, and was extremely effective internationally. In one episode, it is stated that "Only MacNeil was able to prevent World War III when the peace talks broke down in 1973, and again last year." In addition to being president, he was on a first name basis with Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart) and the two of them regularly played poker.
  • President MacNeil has a rather inexplicable cameo appearance in the first episode of Lost In Space, which was set in the then-future year of 1997, despite the fact that there was no way he could still have been eligible for office at that time.
  • Played by: Ford Rainey

President James MacPherson

  • Party: Republican (States he is a Republican in the book The Last Jihad)

President Malone

President Man

  • President in the 2001-2002 Tv series show Invader Zim.
  • The leader of the USA who hails from President Land, President Man deals with important issues such as Moofy the girly ranger getting stuck in Zim's lawn and the return of Santa. His decisions have been known to be influenced by offerings of chocolate covered ninja star cookies. He was quick to give up all of his power to Santa upon his return.
  • He is voiced by Jeffrey Jones

President Adair T. Manning

President Manning

  • President in The Book of Fate
  • Someone attempted to assassinate him, however one of his aides was killed and another had his face disfigured.

President Julia Mansfield

President Bradford March

  • President in: The Power, a novel by Colin Forbes
  • Former Senator of a southern state

President Vincent Margolin

  • President in: Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt© novels Deep Six, Cyclops, Treasure, Dragon, and Sahara
  • Originally the Vice President, Margolin became President in August 1989 by succession the end of Deep Six following the abduction and brainwashing of his predecessor by a Vietnamese criminal organization in the pay of the Soviet Union, and remained in office until 1996.
  • Former Senator from Montana.

President James Marshall

  • President in: Air Force One
  • Qualities/attributes: A family man who loves his wife Grace and daughter Alice. He is also a decorated Vietnam veteran and a Medal of Honor winner.
  • Promotes an interventionist line on foreign policy and a strong stance against terrorism.
  • Personally responsible for retaking Air Force One after the plane was hijacked by Russian nationalists.
  • Party or other political beliefs unspecified.
  • First-term President, up for re-election later on in the year that the film is set in
  • Home State: Iowa. The novel of the film states he was the Former Governor of Iowa. The film also states he served a Congressman.
  • Played by: Harrison Ford
  • Republican (according to the novel by Max Alan Collins)

President Thomas Marshall

  • President in "Protect and Defend" by Eric L. Harry (No relation to the book by Richard North Patterson)
  • President Marshall ignored warnings of a Chinese attack on Siberia and Taiwan. He was later defeated by Governor Phil Bristol of California. Marshall was poisoned prior to Bristol's inauguration.
  • Party: Democratic

President Kevin Martindale

  • President in Shadows Of Steele by Dale Brown
  • Continues as president for several other Brown novels
  • Former two term vice president
  • Former Secretary of Defense
  • Former US Senator from Texas
  • Defeated for reelection by Thomas Thorne of Virginia
  • Reelected four years later (during the novel Plan Of Attack). Becomes the only president since Grover Cleveland to hold two nonconsecutive terms.
  • During both elections, Martindale had female running mates
  • Party Affiliation: Republican

President Richard Martinez

President Whitney Irving Mason

  • President in: USGovSim 6th Reset
  • Elected: 2016
  • Party: Democrat
  • State: North Carolina

President Ted Matthews

  • President in: My Fellow Americans
  • Matthews became President after President William Haney resigned. Later went to prison.
  • Played by: John Heard
  • Party: Republican

President William "Bill" Matthews

President Max

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

President Maxwell

President Robert "Bobby" McCallister

  • President in: Jack & Bobby
  • Born in Hart, Missouri, McCallister was a minister and later a congressman and governor of Missouri before being elected the 51st president in 2040.
  • During his administration much of Chicago is destroyed by a nuclear bomb.
  • Independent, having lost the Republican nomination

President Leslie McCloud

  • President in: Kisses for My President
  • First female President, later resigns due to pregnancy.
  • Played by: Polly Bergen

Richard Rick McLaughlin

  • President in: USGovSim 5th Reset
  • Party affiliation Republican
  • Elected: 2012
  • Opponent: Senator Thomas Peters

President Thomas McKenna

President McKenna

President McNeil

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

President Philip Riley Mead

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

President William Menen

  • President in Dagger by William Mason
  • Target of a complex assassination plot, developed by the Soviets and led by his chief of staff and Vice-President.

President Harrison Miller

  • President in: Nano (book) by John Robert Marlow

President Fillmard Millmore

President Richard Mills

  • President in: Prison Break
  • A progressive President described as being well into his second term. He apparently chose Caroline Reynolds as his Vice-President because she was a woman. However he later tells her he will not support her in her own bid to seek nomination because he feels her ambition outweighs her integrity. She arranges his assassination soon after by having him poisoned, and is immediately sworn in as President.
  • Played by: Daniel J. Travanti

President Mimeo

President William Harrison "Bill" Mitchell/Dave Kovic

  • President and Presidential decoy in: Dave
  • Real President's qualities: Philandering heel, unpopular with voters, secretly estranged from the First Lady. Suffered a stroke and later dies.
  • President Dave's qualities: Personable, loving and strongly pro-job growth. Reestablishes Mitchell's popularity with voters. Fakes death and later runs for Washington, D.C. City Council as Dave Kovic.
  • An alumnus of Yale Law School.
  • Party: Mitchell is possibly a Republican while Kovic is possibly a Democrat
  • Both played by: Kevin Kline

President Horace C. Mitchell

President Richard (Rich) E. Mogul

  • President in: Justice Squad
  • Took office after defeating George W. Bush in 2004 election.
  • Ousted by the Justice Squad after invading a parallel dimension with super-powered soldiers.

Acting President Henry Moncas

  • Very briefly the acting president in: Frederik Pohl's Jem (1979).
  • Speaker of the House when president and vice president are killed in 21st century nuclear war.

President Richard Monckton

  • President in: Washington: Behind Closed Doors, a novel and miniseries written by John Ehrlichman.
  • Played by: Jason Robards
  • Thinly-disguised characterizarion of Richard Nixon, based on Ehrlchman's time working in Nixon's administration. He's portrayed as devious, a grasper of power and a bit paranoid.

President Maxwell Monroe

President Judson Moon

  • President in the The Kid Who Became President by Dan Gutman
  • Prevented aggressive South American nation of Cantania from invading neighboring Boruguay, one of the world's biggest oil producers.
  • Youngest president in U.S. history at age thirteen.
  • Served 2001-2002, then resigned in favor of Vice President June Syers, who became the first African-American and female president.
  • Party Affiliation: Lemonade (fictional party)

President Mordecai

  • President in 2010: Odyssey Two
  • Only mentioned in passing by character Heywood Floyd
  • In the movie of 2010, the President is drawn as the likeness of Arthur C. Clarke on a magazine cover.

President Rachel Moreno

  • President in: Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President (novel), by Mark Dunlea
  • A nurse, single mother, and advocate for universal health care and global fair trade prior to her candidacy
  • Moreno is elected Vice-President during a disputed election in 2000 when Green Electors vote for the Democratic candidate in exchange for his acceptance of Moreno as his running mate; she ascends to the Presidency after the elected President dies of a drug interaction in August 2001.
  • Party: Green

Arthur Morgan

  • President in: the John Grisham book The Broker.
  • He is said to be the most unpopular president in American history, having almost ignited World War Three. In his reelection campaign, Morgan lost every state and D.C. except Alaska for a count of 535-3. He was from Delaware, but at the start of the book plans to retire in Alaska and on his way out pardons D.C. lobbyist Joel Backman, leading to the events of the book.

President Arthur Morose

  • President in: By Dawn's Early Light
  • Was elected in the 1996 election.
  • Miraculously survives the destruction of Washington, D.C. after domestic terrorists impersonating Russian radicals detonate a small nuclear device.
  • Is thought to be dead along with most of his cabinet and the vice president. The Secretary of State, (played by Darren McGavin) on his way back from a summit in France, declares himself as the acting president. The president attempts to contact the Secretary of State after the S.O.S. approves the launch of a nuclear missile to Moscow.
  • President Morose is found hours later by a military convoy and cancels the attack on Russia, narrowly avoiding a nuclear war.
  • Played by Martin Landau in movie.
  • Party: Democratic

President Thomas D. Moss

President Merkin Muffley

  • President in: Dr. Strangelove
  • Qualities/attributes: A balding middle-aged man with glasses, President Muffley is perhaps the only character in the movie who seems to have a 'down to earth' attitude towards an escalating nuclear crisis. However, his indecisiveness and desire to hear all sides and options ad nauseam renders him largely ineffective. Modeled after Adlai Stevenson.
  • During his administration the Soviet Doomsday Device detonates, destroying most life on planet.
  • See Merkin
  • Quote: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
  • Party: (most possibly) Democratic
  • Played by: Peter Sellers (One of three roles he plays in the film.