List of fictional Vice Presidents of the United States
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Clayton M. Abernathy
- Vice President in Eye in the Sky by Fun Publications.[1]
- This character is the evil mirror-universe counterpart of the heroic G.I. Joe character Hawk.
Charles Ackerman
- Vice President in Shadow Call by Peter Sellick
- A power hungry, sly and ruthless politician, Ackerman entered politics in the 1960s as a Nebraska State Legislator before serving two terms in the US Senate. Ran for President as a Democrat in 1992 but failed to win the nomination following a victory in Iowa and lost to California Senator David Ames, who went on to win the Presidency
- Confirmed as Secretary of the Interior in the Ames Administration but he harbored ambitions for the Oval Office. He engineered the resignation of Vice President Stuart Hammond in early 1995 by leaking a sex scandal and used blackmail to ensure he was nominated and confirmed as the new Vice President. To do so, he used drug addicted and mentally unstable White House aide Roger Kellner as the man to enact the blackmail.
- During his Vice Presidential tenure, Ackerman plotted with a consortium of businessmen and politicians unhappy with President Ames' policies to assassinate the President in the run up to the 1996 presidential election, thus ensuring the newly sworn in President Ackerman could win re-election on a sympathy vote. However, Kellner, angered at Ackerman's refusal to promote him and blatant disregard for him, stabbed Ackerman to death in a drug fuelled rage on April 11, 1996 before committing suicide, thus ensuring that the plot was foiled.
- President Ames nominated Maryland Governor Charlene Douglas to replace Ackerman and went on to win re-election resoundingly, despite the plot against him.
- Party: Democrat
Barbara Adams
- Whoops Apocalypse (1986 film)
- Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, directed by Tom Bussmann, played by Loretta Swit.
- Succeeds to presidency upon death of President Hugo Burlap.
Mackenzie Allen
- Commander in Chief (television series 2005)
- Created by American director Rod Lurie, played by Geena Davis
- Political independent chosen by President Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy" Bridges as his running mate.
- The first female vice president and, upon Bridges' death, the first female president.
- Home State: Connecticut
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Eric Baker (designate)
- The West Wing
- Played by: Ed O'Neill.
- Home State: Pennsylvania
- Political Party: Democratic
- Governor of Pennsylvania
- Chose not to run in the 2006 presidential election because of family reasons. However, Former White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry suspects it is because he does not want to run against Republican Arnold Vinick.
- Despite earlier statement, he announced presidential candidacy during the Democratic National Convention and almost won the Democratic nomination. However, Democratic rival and Vice-President Bob Russell revealed to the press that Baker's wife, Dorothy "Dottie" Baker, suffers from Clinical Depression, something which Baker did not disclose to voters.
- Lost Democratic Nomination for President to Texas congressman, Matt Santos.
- When Santos' Vice-President elect, Leo McGarry, dies of a massive heart attack on election night. Santos decides to give the Vice-Presidency to Baker under the terms of the twenty-fifth amendment.
Sherman Baxter
- Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn
- Temporary President when President Hayes is trapped in a bunker during an assault on the White House
- Chief of Staff Dallas King, close friend of Attorney General Marge Tutwiler
- Forced not to run as Vice President at the next election after Hayes is saved, due to his unpopularity
- Criticized by Secret Service Director Alex Tracy
- Home State: California
- Political Party: Democratic
Raymond Becker
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004 film)
- Written by Roland Emmerich and Jeffrey Nachmanoff, directed by Roland Emmerich, played by Kenneth Welsh.
- Succeeds to presidency upon death of the president, Becker does not believe information about the coming global warming-inspired crisis.
Kathryn Bennett
- Air Force One (1997 film)
- Written by Andrew W. Marlowe, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, played by Glenn Close.
- Former Congresswoman from New Jersey and trial attorney (according to the novel by Max Alan Collins)
- A female vice president, Bennett is loyal to President James Marshall throughout the Air Force One hijacking crisis. The cabinet unanimously encourages invoking Section 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution because the president is in enemy hands (thus having severely compromised judgement).
- Bennett refused to sign the Cabinet document which would remove the President, showing her loyalty to Marshall.
- Bennett was not on the plane, but commanded operations from the White House Situation Room, alongside Secretary of Defense Walter Dean and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Northwood.
Daniel Bird
- Fallout 2
- Vice President under Dick Richardson, who is President in the 23rd century following World War III.
- He has difficulty spelling
- Is a reference to Dan Quayle
Hosea Blackford
- American Empire: Blood and Iron, part of the Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove
- Served as Vice President from 1921 to 1929 under President Upton Sinclair
- Elected the 30th president in 1928, narrowly defeating Democratic candidate Calvin Coolidge, only to be defeated in a landslide by Coolidge and his running mate Herbert Hoover in 1932.
- Home State: Dakota (Note, 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)
- Political Party: Socialist
- Dies in 1937.
Donald Blythe
- House of Cards Season Three
- Tapped as President Francis Underwood's Vice President after Underwood became President.
- Underwood selected Blythe due to the recent death of his wife to Alzheimers. Underwood also selected him to not cause him trouble in Congress.
- Used to convince a Supreme Court Justice not to retire due to his recent Alzheimers diagnosis.
- Underwood and Blythe have a hard history due to Underwood undermining Blythe's education bill.
- Underwood and Blythe were locked together in the US Capitol during an Anthrax incident in Season Two.
- Former member of the US House of Representatives.
- Democrat from New Hampshire.
- Wife Margery worked at the Smithsonian before leaving due to her Alzheimers.
- Portrayed by Reed Birney
Spaulding Burke
- Hitman: Blood Money
- Died in a suspicious car crash
- Replaced as Vice President by Daniel Morris
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Cargo
- Vice President in Give Me Liberty
- Vice President to Erwin Rexall, Cargo, along with Rexall and most of the Cabinet, are assassinated by a terrorist bombing.
Karen Carmichael
- Vice President in Jack & Bobby; played by Tess Harper
- Former Vice President under former President Robert McCallister.
- Resigns early in the second term, possibly due to an affair with the president, a married man.
Tim Cassidy
- Vice President in: Promises to Keep, a novel by George Bernau
- Cassidy is a roman à clef representation of Robert F. Kennedy. Cassidy is Attorney General in an alternate history in which his brother, President John T. Cassidy, survives a November 1963 assassination attempt.
- Cassidy, seriously wounded, allows Gardner to assume the presidency and run for re-election in 1964, on the condition that he name Tim Cassidy as vice president, against the threat of directly supporting Tim for president.
- Vice President Cassidy insists on being flown over the battlefield to see for himself how the Vietnam war is progressing, over strenuous protest of the military command. He is killed when the helicopter carrying him is shot down.
Joyce Clemente
- Vice President in FlashForward; played by Barbara Williams
- Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee before being named as vice president
- In her vision, saw herself as President in April 2010.
Fred Collier
- Political Animals
- Prior to entering politics, Collier served for three decades with the CIA and eventually became the agency's director. He was selected as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate by Senator Paul Garcetti as Collier had influence over the party's conservative wing, whose votes Garcetti needed
- Upon taking office, Collier fought a power battle with Secretary of State Elaine Barrish whom he resented for having more influence in government than he did.
- In late 2010, Collier blackmailed Republican Congressman Sean Reeves into backing an administration bill after he procured evidence of Reeve's closeted homosexuality and affair with Barrish's son, T.J Hammond, which indirectly led to T.J attempting suicide and led to T.J's father, former President Bud Hammond punching Collier in the Oval Office upon learning of Collier's blackmail.
- Collier looked set to be dropped as Vice President by Garcetti after he learned of the blackmail, but Garcetti died when Air Force One crashed due to a technical fault in mid-2011, leaving Collier as the new President
- Party: Democratic
- Played by: Dylan Baker
James Colligan
- Vice President in The Intirn (novel)
- Plots to assassinate outgoing President Payne and the new administration on Inauguration Day, therefore making off with the national treasury and initiating nuclear warfare with China
- Arrested in Honolulu by Admiral Jack Farrago; loses vice presidency after George Granger is sworn in
- Sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on accounts of treason and a threat to national security
- Political Party: Republican
- The 1/2 Hour News Hour
- Coulter portrays herself
- Served as Vice President to Rush Limbaugh
Arthur Crandall
- Vice President in: The First Family
- Played by: Tom Arnold
Thomas M. Cromwell
- Vice President in: The General's President by John Dalmas
- Formerly Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Nicknamed "Jumper"
- Does not want the job, but feels compelled to serve after getting Arne Haugen named President.
- Steps down in favor of Rudolfo Valenzuela
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Noah Daniels
- 24 (television series, 2001)
- Played by Powers Boothe
- Vice President under President Wayne Palmer.
- Party: Democratic (presumed)
- The hard-line Daniels and the moderate Palmer disagree greatly on national security, and the two clash throughout the day. This culminates in Palmer asking for Daniels' resignation. Before Daniels can tender it, however, Palmer suddenly collapses into a coma from injuries sustained in an attack earlier in the day. Daniels then leads the country through the remainder of the day.
James Denning
- American Hero
- First African American Vice President of the United States.
- Vice President for five years under President Aaron Sims.
- Was chosen by the President to succeed Nathan Ramirez as Vice President because of a scandal that caused Ramirez to resign. Ramirez had only been able to serve three years.
- Won a second and full term as Vice President along with Sims.
- Ran for President Sims' last year in office and became the nominee, however lost to Indiana Governor Paul Davenport in the general election. Ran again four years later and won against President Davenport.
- Party: Republican
Hamilton "Ham" Delbacher
- Novels The Hill of Summer and The Roads of the Earth by Allen Drury.
- Former Pennsylvania Congressman and Senator.
- Hawkish Vice President to an unnamed dovish President, he is on the verge of being left off the next year's reelection ticket when the President dies on the Fourth of July.
Jarrod Delport
- Novels The American Hero and The Word of Hate by Josh Durling.
- Former New York Senator (2028–2036)
- Is Dean Bartlett's Vice President, he failed to win the 2036 Democratic Nomination, but Bartlett chose him as his running mate.
- Wins the Democratic Nomination in 2040, going on to win the Presidency in a landslide.
- First foreign-born US Vice President and President, he also speaks at the United Nations and calls for action against "a dictator bitch" called Mario Herrario, the fictional President of Colombia, President Herrario and Vice President Delport have a fist fight.
- Is acting President when Bartlett suffers a heart attack in 2037.
Dumont
- Term Limits by Vince Flynn
- Mentioned once by corrupt President Jim Stevens during a press conference. Stevens mentioned Dumont was heading up a program to cut waste spending. It is noted that during the ensuing conflicts that he is not mentioned nor involved, hinting he may not be an active member of the administration.
Roger Durling
- The Sum of All Fears, Debt of Honor
- Former governor of California, he ascends to the presidency after his predecessor (J Robert Fowler) resigns.
Gordon Dylan
- Murder at 1600
- Vice President who almost ascends to the presidency, when the President (Jack Neil) plans to resign.
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Troy Ellerd
- The Contender
- Vice President to Democratic President Jackson Evans. Ellerd dies before the start of the film, and is eventually replaced with Senator Laine Billings Hanson, D-Ohio.
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Ford
- Wrong Is Right (1982 film)
- Played by Rosalind Cash
- An African American woman and Vice President under President Lockwood (George Grizzard)
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Edward Fredrico "Ed" Garcia
- American Hero by Josh Gurling
- Is President Jarrod Delport's running mate and eventual Vice President.
- Was Governor of New Mexico, first Hispanic Vice President.
- President Delport calls him "Eddie Feddie".
- Described as "a lovable big robust man, that you may confuse with a giant teddy bear"
- Democrat
Hal Gardner
- played by Ray Wise
- 24, (television series, 2001)
- Was appointed Vice President at some point after Charles Logan assumed the Presidency following President John Keeler's incapacitation.
- During a crisis in which European terrorist Vladimir Bierko threatened to release nerve gas in several heavily populated targets in Los Angeles, Gardner suggested the President increase military presence in the area, to the extent of effectively implementing martial law.
- Gardner was suspected by Jack Bauer of being behind a conspiracy which allowed Bierko to gain access to the nerve gas. It was later learned that Gardner was innocent and President Logan himself was responsible. After Logan's involvement was revealed, it was expected that he would resign and Gardner would assume the presidency.
- Republican
Jim Gardner
- Commander in Chief (TV series)
- Is the Chief of Staff of Independent President Mackenzie Allen, and eventual Vice President.
- He would become the first African-American Vice President.
Ransom W. Gardner
- Vice President in: Promises to Keep, a novel by George Bernau
- Gardner is a roman à clef representation of Lyndon B. Johnson. Gardner is Vice President in an alternate history in which President John T. Cassidy survives a November 1963 assassination attempt.
- Cassidy, seriously wounded, allows Gardner to assume the presidency and run for re-election in 1964, on the condition that Gardner name his brother, Attorney General Tim Cassidy as vice president. After he recovers, John Cassidy runs for and wins the 1964 election as Senator from New York.
- After Tim Cassidy is killed in Vietnam, Sen. John Cassidy challenges and defeats Gardner for the 1968 Democratic nomination, surviving a second assassination attempt.
Vince Gianelli
- Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel (1962 novel)
- Served under President Jordan Lyman, who was the target of a military coup.
- First Italian American Vice President, the plotters convince him to visit his grandfather's hometown in Italy to ensure he is out of the country when they strike.
- Democrat
Mitch Gilliam
- Head of State
- A former bail bondsman. Brother to President Mays Gilliam.
- Played by: Bernie Mac
George Granger
- Vice President in The Interim (novel)
- Secretary of Defense under President Payne
- Injured in the Chinese assault on the White House
- Assassinates treasonous attorney general Alexander Edwards on the Inaugural Platform
- Sworn in as vice president on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
- Political Party: Democratic
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Alvin Hammond
- Vice President in White House Down.
- Hammond was killed when Air Force One was hit and destroyed by the terrorist group, led by Stenz.
- Played by Michael Murphy (actor)
Vice President Haley
- Vice President in Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
- Serves under Thomas E. Dewey after he defeated Harry S. Truman in the 1948 Presidential Election.
- Both he and Dewey resign from their positions after Nazi Germany invades the East Coast of the United States in 1953. This results in Speaker of the House James Edward Stevenson (a pro-Nazi supporter to become president).
William "Bill" Haney
- My Fellow Americans
- Vice president under President Russell P. Kramer before defeating incumbent President Matt Douglas. Later forced to resign.
- Played by: Dan Aykroyd
- Party: Republican
Laine Billings Hanson
- The Contender
- Played by Joan Allen
- An atheist Democratic senator from Ohio. She is chosen to be Vice President after Troy Ellerd, the Vice President of two-term Democratic President Jackson Evans, dies. Her nomination is contested due a scandal involving a possible orgy she performed in while in college.
Arne Eino Haugen
- Vice President in: The General's President by John Dalmas
- Thanks to unprecedented emergency powers, he is appointed Vice President by the sitting President Donnelly, who immediately resigns.
- Total term of office as VP: Less than one minute.
Richard Hawk
- Vice President in Metal Wolf Chaos
- Launches a coup d'état to turn America into his military dictatorship, and is opposed by President Michael Wilson
Mitchell Hayworth
- 24, (television series, 2001)
- Vice President to President Allison Taylor during Day 7. He was asked by his assistant, as well as Larry Moss and Renee Walker, whether or not they should enter the White House and save President Taylor.
- Assumed the Presidency after Taylor resigned in the 24 novel Deadline.
- Succeeded by James Heller between Deadline & Live Another Day
- Party: Republican
- Played by Cameron Daddo
Preston Holmes
- Vice President in: The Oasis Project, a 1981 novel by David Stuart Arthur
- Once President Eldon Parker is elected, he 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 world wide and create a new Pax-Americana.
- In a final attempt to stop the launch of the first-strike attack, Holmes is shot and killed by Parker's guards in the presidential bunker.
- Party: Not mentioned
- The West Wing (television series, 1999)
- Created and written by Aaron Sorkin, played by Tim Matheson.
- Hoynes attended Southern Methodist University, speaks fluent French, was a lawyer and former senator from Texas. He served in the Senate for about eight years. He opposed New Hampshire governor Josiah Bartlet in the 1998 Democratic primary. During the 1998 Democratic National Convention in Miami, Bartlet convinced Hoynes to be his running mate; Hoynes delivered the South except Texas.
- Hoynes resigned after a sex scandal in 2003, wrote his own autobiography called Full Disclosure, and attempted to gain his party's nomination for the presidency in 2006. His political career ended after failing to win the nomination, due to another sex scandal and the loss of most of his delegates to Governor Eric Baker at the 2006 Democratic National Convention.
- Centrist Democrat
- Home State: Texas
Steven Humes
- Appears in the Tom Clancy novel Politika.
- A very strict and straightforward elderly vice president serving under President Bill Ballard.
- Becomes acting president after President Ballard is injured in an assassination attempt.
- Party: Democratic
Mitchell Hundred
- Appears in the comic book Ex Machina.
- Previously served as mayor of New York City.
- As world's only superhero, interceded on 9/11 and stopped United Flight 175 from crashing into the World Trade Center, but considered himself a failure because he was too late to stop American Airlines Flight 11.
- A civil engineer, granted superpowers with the intent that he act as vanguard for invaders from a parallel Earth.
- Served under John McCain.
- Party: Republican
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Robert (Robby) Jackson
- The Bear and the Dragon (2000 novel, written by Tom Clancy)
- First African American Vice President of the United States.
- Personal friend of President Jack Ryan.
- Home State: Alabama
- Chosen as Vice President following Ryan's succession to the Presidency.
- His assassination by a former Ku Klux Klan member is briefly mentioned in 'The Teeth of the Tiger'
Lee Alexander James
- Vice President in: Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg
- Was Vice President under President William Harvard Oaks, and became the President after Oaks was assassinated by his aide in NORAD. James was formerly the Secretary of Homeland Security.
- Party: Probably Republican
Raymond Jarvis
- The Event (television series, 2010)
- Played by: Bill Smitrovich
- Party: Probably Republican; the first opposition party running mate in modern times
- Critically injured from assassination attempt after word leaked of his role in an attempt to kill President Elias Martinez, succeeded to presidency when his second attempt succeeded to the point of requiring the provisions of the 25th Amendment
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- Vice President to Roger Durling in Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy
- Resigns due to a sex scandal and is replaced by Jack Ryan
- When Durling and most of the rest of the government is killed, Kealty has an ally steal his resignation from the Secretary of State's desk. Kealty then claims he never formally resigned and attempts to have himself named President instead.
- Home State: Massachusetts
Warren Keaton
- Commander in Chief (television series, 2005)
- Created by American director Rod Lurie, played by Peter Coyote
- Ran for Vice President on the Democratic ticket against Teddy Bridges and Mackenzie Allen two years prior to being appointed to the office by President Allen.
- Resigned as Vice President after several months on the job following his wife's diagnosis with ovarian cancer.
Walter Kelly
- The Enemy Within (1994 film and loosely based on the novel Seven Days in May)
- Serves under President Bill Foster.
- An elderly and corrupt politician, he takes part in a scandal orchestrated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense to remove President Foster by using fake military exercises to cause an international incident.
- After a young colonel discovers the scandal, Vice President Kelly, along with the other two involved, are removed from their positions and are most likely incarcerated for treason.
- Stargate SG-1 (television series)
- Played by Ronny Cox
- Indiana Senator Robert Kinsey becomes Vice President in the Season Seven episode "Inauguration" but was forced to resign in "Lost City, Part 2".
- Also held the Presidency in alternate timelines ("2010", "Moebius")
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Charles W. La Follette
- American Empire: The Victorious Opposition & Settling Accounts: Return Engagement by Harry Turtledove
- Vice President from 1937 to 1942 under President Al Smith.
- Succeeds to the Presidency in 1942 when President Smith is killed in a Confederate air raid on the U.S capital of Philadelphia.
- Party: Socialist
- It was initially assumed that this La Follette was the historical Charles M. La Follette. However, his middle initial was revealed to be W. in Settling Accounts: In at the Death
Sally Langston
- Scandal (television series, 2012)
- Vice President under President Fitzgerald Grant.
- Prior to her service as Vice President, she was a Senator from Alabama affiliated to the Tea Party who narrowly lost the Republican nomination to then California Governor Fitzgerald Grant
- Assumed the presidency under 25th amendment when President Grant is shot and left incapacitated. She later returned to her Vice Presidential role after Grant recovered from his injuries.
- Party: Republican
- Played By: Kate Burton
- 24, (television series, 2001)
- Vice President to President John Keeler who assumes the presidency by invoking the 25th amendment when President Keeler is incapacitated after Air Force One is shot down
- Long-time friend to former Palmer chief-of-staff, Mike Novick.
- Was unable to handle the pressures of the presidency after Keeler's incapacitation, and secretly handed over the government to former President David Palmer.
- Party: Republican
- Played by Gregory Itzin
- In the comic Superman: War of the Worlds
- Becomes Vice President under President John Nance Garner in 1938 following the Martian invasion.
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Natalie Maccabee
- Agent X, television series, 2014
- Played by Sharon Stone
Frederick James Madigan
- The President's Plane is Missing by Robert J. Serling
- Was a compromise candidate for the Vice-Presidency when the two main candidates deadlocked.
- Becomes acting President when Air Force One vanishes.
- Almost launches a nuclear attack against Red China.
John Mallory
- Left Behind: World at War (2005 film)
- Played by Charles Martin Smith
- Vice President under President Gerald Fitzhugh
- Assassinated by Nicolae Carpathia, Global Community Potentate and Antichrist, to prevent him from revealing Carpathia's plans to attack the United States of North America.
Julia Mansfield
- Hail to the Chief, television series, 1985
- Played by Academy Award-winning actress Patty Duke
- Was elected Vice President of the United States; subsequently succeeded to the Presidency
Vincent "Vince" Margolin
- Deep Six (novel by Clive Cussler)
- Has been kidnapped from Eagle (Presidential yacht) with the President, Speaker of the House Alan Moran, and President pro tempore of the Senate Marcus Latimer by the Soviets and Bougainville shipping company
- Was rescued about end of the novel
- Became President after impeachment of his predecessor, who was brainwashed by the Soviets
Martha
- Prez (comics)
- Vice President under President Prez Rickard
- No last name given.
Jim Matthews
- House of Cards
- Played by Dan Ziskie
- A former Governor of Pennsylvania, Matthews was selected as the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee, California Senator Garrett Walker, in the 2012 election
- After the pair were elected, Matthews found himself sidelined in the Walker Administration which led to him becoming increasingly frustrated
- He was later manipulated by Congressman Frank Underwood into running for his old post as Governor in the special election to fill the rest of his term, he then resigned the vice presidency when he won, which was Underwood's plan as he wanted the post of Vice President for himself.
- Overall, his tenure as Vice President lasted less than a year into the Walker Administration.
Ted Matthews
- My Fellow Americans (1995 film)
- Played by John Heard
- Assumes Presidency after current President resigns
- Is arrested after nine months in office
Jillian McCallister
- Vice President in John Gurling novels
- Vice President under Jarrod Delport
- Succeeded Edward Garcia when he was killed in a plane crash
- Was Senator from West Virginia, married to Mark Spencer and has two daughters, Jenny and Sandra.
- Succeeds President Delport when his second term ends in 2044, she becomes the nominee and wins the election beating Arthur Davidson.
- First female Vice President and later President
- Party: Democratic
- Terms: 2039-2044 (Vice President) 2044-2048 (President)
Leo McGarry (elect)
- The West Wing (television series)
- Played by John Spencer
- Former Labor Secretary and White House Chief of Staff.
- Running mate of Congressman Matt Santos. Dies of a heart attack on Election Day hours before the polls close on the West Coast. Santos wins the election and McGarry posthumously becomes Vice President-Elect.
- Home State: Illinois, born in Massachusetts
Dan Melrose
- Vice President in The Lottery (TV series)
- He made a deal with Darius Hayes to assassinate President Thomas Westwood.
- After President Westwood's death, Melrose becomes the new President, and allows Darius Hayes to control the embryos and the lottery winners.
- Played by Steven Culp.
Howard Merck
- Protocol (1984 film)
- Played by James Staley
- A very young and, at times, naive Vice President.
- Veep (2012 HBO Comedy TV Series)
- Played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Tara Meyers
- It's Classified, a 2011 novel by Nicolle Wallace
- A mentally ill vice president, based on candidate Sarah Palin.[2]
Geoff Mitchell
- Air Force One is Haunted by Robert J. Serling
- Former Congressman from Arizona
- Known for wearing jeans and bolo ties.
- Party: Republican
Rachel Moreno
- Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President (novel), by Mark Dunlea
- The Green candidate for Vice President in the 2000 general election. She is elected when Green Electors solve a dispute by voting for the Democratic candidate for President in exchange for his acceptance of Moreno as his Vice President.
- Becomes President after the President dies in August 2001.
Daniel Morris
- Appears in the level Amendment XXV in the video game Hitman: Blood Money.
- Is assassinated by Agent 47 because he was attempting to kill the President so that he could become President.
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Gary Nance
- Dave (1993 film)
- Vice-President to Bill Mitchell
- Regarded as a "boy scout" by White House Chief of Staff Bob Alexander, who plots to have him removed from office by implicating him in a financial scandal so he can succeed to the Presidency himself.
- Cleared by Presidential impostor Dave Kovic, Nance succeeds to presidency upon the death of President Mitchell.
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William Harvard Oaks
- The Last Jihad, The Last Days, The Ezekiel Option, The Copper Scroll, and Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg,
- Governor of Virginia, 1978–1982
- US Senator, 1983–2009
- 47th. Vice President of the United States, 2009–2016
- 45th President of the United States, 2016 (Assassinated)
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Perley Pell
- It Can't Happen Here (1935 novel) by Sinclair Lewis
- A hack politician who serves as Vice President for fascist President Buzz Windrip
Frito Pendejo
- Idiocracy (film)
- A public defender called upon to defend a man named Not Sure in court, Frito gains access to the White House when Not Sure is appointed Secretary of the Interior in the year 2505. When Frito and Not Sure help solve the national dust bowl crisis and the economic travails caused by the collapse of the Brawndo sports drink conglomerate, they are given the popularity to be voted to succeed the outgoing administration of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
- Played by: Dax Shepard
Graham Perkins
- Fire, a novel by Alan Rodgers
- After the incumbent President announces he is preparing to initiate Armageddon, Perkins is pulled from his limousine and lynched.
- When a virus that brings the dead back to life spreads across the globe, it infects Perkins' corpse. With Perkins still hanging, he revives and dies several times before finally being rescued by the members of the same cult the President (now permanently dead after being assassinated via explosion and fire) belonged to.
- He manages to escape them and makes his way to the lab where the virus began. In the end, he returns to Washington to assume office.
Jim Prescott
- 24, (television series, 2001), 24: The Game (video game, 2006)
- Vice president to David Palmer. Temporarily became Acting President when David Palmer was removed during season 2 of 24. When Palmer was reluctant to take action against three Middle Eastern nations who were implicated in a terrorist plot by an audio recording, the 25th Amendment was invoked and Prescott became President. It should be noted that no letters were sent to Congress and Prescott counted on public opinion to retroactively endorse this action. The recording was later found to be false and Prescott relinquished the presidency back to Palmer and again became vice president. Palmer forgave Prescott and the Cabinet members who had sided against him and did not accept their offer of resignation.
- Following an attempt on Palmer's life, Prescott once again became Acting President while Palmer recovered from his injuries. Prescott himself would survive an assassination attempt orchestrated by the same individuals who had targeted Palmer.
- Party: Democratic
- Played by: Alan Dale
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Frank Ramirez
- Mathematicians in Love
- Described as "an unpleasant character dogged by rumors of graft and personal violence."
Nathan Ramirez
- American Hero
- 47th Vice President of the United States.
- Vice President for Aaron Sims, and first VP for the Sims administration.
- Sworn in as Vice President in 2009 after he and Sims won the election with 75% of the vote.
- Resigned his third year in office due to a scandal that plagued him from the years he served as a Senator. It involved an illegal wiring of money out of the First Liberty Savings and Loans to fund his reelection.
- James Denning, a one-term Junior Senator out of California took over as Vice President and went on to be reelected with the President.
- Nathan Ramirez was a two-term senior senator of North Carolina from 2000–2008 and a three-term congressman from 1994-2000.
- Party: Independent Republican
- Prison Break
- Written by Paul Scheuring, played by Patricia Wettig.
- Served as Vice President under President Richard Mills. He apparently chose her because she was a woman though he disapproved of her excessive ambition.
- Collaborated with "The Company" to fake the death of her brother, Terrence Steadman, and frame Lincoln Burrows for his murder.
- When the Company turns against her and President Mills refuses to support her bid for the presidency, she arranges his assassination, thereby becoming President.
Donald Reyes
- Vice President in: The Genesis Machine, a 1978 novel by James P. Hogan
- Reyes is Vice President in a near future where a western alliance is under pressure from and losing territory in a domino-effect to an African-Asian axis. A theoretical scientist creates a new mathematical model of the universe, and in doing so, creates an untraceable weapon that can restore the balance of world power.
- Instead of using the weapon to give superiority to the west, while President George Sherman stands by in shock, the scientist destroys all foreign weapons of mass destruction worldwide. Since Sherman does not counter-launch western missiles, Reyes takes command and launches a full strike.
- When the scientist uses his weapon to destroy all western missiles, Sherman takes back the Presidency in time for an enforced world wide peace.
- Party: Not mentioned
Charlie Rodriguez
- Vice President in Olympus Has Fallen
- He was taken hostage by a North Korean Terrorist group, led by Kang Yeonsak.
- He was executed by Kang Yeonsak.
- Played by Phil Austin
Vice President Rodriguez
- Vice President in: Iron Man 3
- Played by: Miguel Ferrer
- In hopes of helping his crippled daughter, Vice President Rodriguez collaborates with AIM president Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) in an elaborate scheme to have President Ellis (William Sadler) executed by The Mandarin for him to become the new President while Killian continues to profit through customized terrorism. When Killian's plans are thwarted by Tony Stark and Col. James Rhodes, Rodriguez is arrested.
Mark Ross (elect)
- Act of Treason by Vince Flynn
- Three-term senator from Connecticut and hawkish Director of National Intelligence
- Paired with Presidential nominee Governor Josh Alexander of Georgia
- Corrupt and power-driven, arranged the assassination of Alexander's unfaithful wife to guarantee an election win
- Party: Democratic
- DC Comics Universe
- Running mate of Lex Luthor for the Tomorrow Party
- Becomes President following Luthor's impeachment
- The West Wing
- Written by Carol Flint and Debora Cahn, played by Gary Cole.
- Served eight years as Colorado member of the House of Representatives, regarded as a political lightweight, succeeds John Hoynes.
- Unanimously confirmed by Congress, under the 25th amendment.
- Sought nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate, losing to Texas Representative Matt Santos.
- Home State: Colorado
Jack Ryan (acting)
- Debt of Honor (1994 novel, written by Tom Clancy)
- Deputy CIA Director under President Bennett
- National Security Advisor under President Durling
- Less than 10 minutes after being confirmed as vice-president, President Durling and nearly the entire Cabinet and Congress are wiped out by a terrorist who crashes a 747 into the Capitol building.
- Party: Independent
- Home State: Maryland
S
Calvin Samson
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
- Vice President under President Patricia Caldwell
- In reality was a terrorist double agent who took an active role in the Third Echelon conspiracy aiming to assassinate the President so that he could assume power.
- Shot by rogue agent Sam Fisher and left for the authorities.
- Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels
- Former Head of NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency).
- Vice President to President Ward when the Vice President suddenly died in office.
Bud Sauer
- Phi Kappa Sigma's West Wing: Frat Life
- Vice President to Alfred Victor DuPont
- Party: Conservative Republican
- Scudwise Gamgi - Shredder Extraordinaire
Paul Saxon
- Shadow Conspiracy (1997 film)
- Plotted to kill President Manchester and take his place, but was accidentally killed during the assassination attempt.
- Played by: Ben Gazzara
- The Simpsons "Future-Drama" episode
- A native of Springfield, Delroy becomes Vice President at an unspecified future date.
- Is invited to attend the funeral of the Sultan of Brunei.
Greg Stillson
- Vice President in The Dead Zone, based on the novel by Stephen King
- Seen in a vision by Johnny Smith as succeeding to the White House and causing Armageddon.
- The series ended before Stillson sought White House.
- Played by Sean Patrick Flanery
- Also portrayed in the movie version by Martin Sheen, although he remained an unsuccessful Senate Candidate.
Strock
- Vice President in: The General's President by John Dalmas
- Served as Vice President to President Donnelly.
- Forced by Donnelly to resign after a scandal.
Dan Sullivan
- Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
- Is briefly mentioned in the novel as almost succeeding to the presidency after President Wes Hamlin nearly resigns following an assassination attempt that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
- Convinced President Hamlin not to resign.
- Former senator from Georgia.
- Party: Republican
June Syers
- The Kid Who Ran For President (1996 children's book by Dan Gutman)
- Vice president under Judson Moon, who was the youngest American president at age thirteen.
- Elected on the "Moon and June" ticket in 2000.
- Became the first African American and female president after President Moon resigned in 2002.
- Glee
- Vice president under Jeb Bush
- Running mate of Bush in his 2020 re-election campaign.
- Party: Republican
- US Secret Service code name: Pocahontas
T
Adam Taft
- The Greatest American Hero (television series 1981)
- Created by Stephen J. Cannell
- Appeared in pilot episode in plot to overthrow current, unnamed President.
Alexander Throttlebottom
- Of Thee I Sing, a musical by George and Ira Gershwin
- When President Wintergreen, who has promised to marry beauty-contest winner Diana Devereaux, is unable to do so (because he is already married), Vice President Throttlebottom marries her instead, in his vice-presidential role of carrying out the president's duties when the president is unable to.
Elvira Tibbs
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
- Vice president under President Lancelot R. Gilligrass. She is 89 years old and was the president's nanny when he was a baby.
Burt Trainor
- Vice President in: Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg
- Vice president under President Lee Alexander James. Formerly Secretary of Defense until President William Harvard Oaks is assassinated, and James becomes president. He was VP at the time of the Biblical Rapture, and it is unknown whether he was left behind or not.
- Party: Probably Republican
U
- House of Cards
- Vice president under President Garrett Allan Walker. Formerly the Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives.
- Party: Democrat
V
Rudolfo Valenzuela
- Vice President in: The General's President by John Dalmas
- Parents are Cuban Refugees who fled to Puerto Rico
- Formerly Secretary of State
- Replaced Vice President Thomas Cromwell
- Ascends to the Presidency when President Arne Haugen retires.
Stewart Bulloch (Bully) Vandercleve
- Vice President in the 1988 novel The Body Politic by Victor Gold and Lynne Cheney
- Described at "the ultimate WASP" and "the richest politician in America"
- Dies while making love to a television news reporter.
W
Marianne Weisner
- Vice President in: The General's President by John Dalmas
- Formerly US Ambassador to the United Nations
- Appointed Vice-President by newly inaugurated President Valenzuela
William Walden
- Vice President in the TV series Homeland
- A former Director of the CIA, was very militaristic and wanted to sell bombs to Israel to drop on Iranian nuclear sites.
- Ran for President and wanted war hero Congressman Nicholas Brody to be his running mate.
- Assassinated by Al-Qaeda terrorists with the help of Brody.
Unnamed
Exit Wounds (2001 film)
- Written by John Westermann, Ed Horowitz and Richard D'Ovidio, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, played by Christopher Lawford.
- After a speech in Detroit, Michigan, militants try to kill him and Det. Orin Boyd saves his life.
Gabriel Over the White House (1933 film)
- Written by T.F. Tweed, Carey Wilson, and Bertram Bloch; directed by Gregory La Cava, played by Spencer Charters.
- Uncredited in the film.
Independence Day (1996 film)
- Written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, directed by Roland Emmerich.
- Upon word of an impending alien attack, the Vice President and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are relocated to a NORAD base. They are presumed killed when the base is later destroyed by the aliens.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 film)
- Written by Lewis R. Foster and Sidney Buchman, directed by Frank Capra, played by Harry Carey.
- Presides over the Senate filibuster.
Unknown Name
Theodore Roosevelt's Vice President (Southern Victory)
In the Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove, the identity of Theodore Roosevelt's Vice President is one of Turtledove's most glaring inconsistencies. In the course of the series, Turtledove provided this individual two names, Kennan and Walter McKenna. Kenna was introduced as he is sworn in for his second term in 1917 in Great War: Breakthroughs. However, Vice President Walter McKenna, an "amiable non-entity who was almost as fat as Congress man William Howard Taft" appears in American Empire: Blood and Iron.
Real-life
- Vice President in the short story "The Father of His Country" by Jody Lynn Nye, in the anthology Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick.
- Serves as vice president under Benjamin Franklin.
Aaron Burr Alston
- Vice President in "The War of '07" by Jayge Carr, in the anthology Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick.
- Serves as vice president under his grandfather Aaron Burr
- Serves as vice president until September 14, 1836, when his grandfather died and became the fourth President of the United States.
- It should be noted that in real history, Aaron Burr Alston died on June 30, 1812 at the age of 10 due to a fever. Therefore, his grandfather outlived him by more than 24 years.
- Vice President in a second version of Shall We Tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer
- Under President Florentyna Kane.
- Vice President in a first version of Shall We Tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer
- Under President Ted Kennedy.
- Vice President in the short story "Patriots Dream" by Tappan Wright King in the anthology Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick.
- Serves as Vice President under Winfield Scott Hancock, who was elected president in 1884. The ticket is reelected in 1888.
- Vice President in the short story "Demarche to Iran" by Alexis A. Gilliland in the anthology Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick.
- Vice President under Gerald Ford.
- Vice President in the "Itchy and Scratchy Movie" at the beginning of "The Simpsons Movie".
- Elected Vice President in 2008 with Itchy as President.
- Vice President in the short story "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night" by Jack L. Chalker in the anthology Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick.
- Serves as Vice President under Millard Fillmore.
- Nephew of seventh U.S. President Andrew Jackson.
- Vice President in the short story "We Are Not Amused" by Laura Resnick in the anthology Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick.
- Serves as Vice President under Victoria Woodhull on the Equal Rights Party when the ticket is elected in 1872.
- He is the first African American to hold the office of Vice President.
- Vice President in the short story Joe Steele by Harry Turtledove.
- Elected Vice President under Joe Steele in 1932.
- Serves as Vice President for 20 years with the Steele-Garner ticket being elected for six terms from 1932 to 1952.
- He becomes the 33rd President of the United States after Joe Steele dies on March 5, 1953. The 84 year old Garner, however, is overthrown and executed shortly after entering office by J. Edgar Hoover, who then becomes the 34th president.
- In the short story "Kingfish" by Barry N. Malzberg in the anthology Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick, Garner becomes Huey Long's running mate in the 1936 election, on which the ticket defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Vice President in "The War of '07" by Jayge Carr in the anthology Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick.
- Served as Vice President under Aaron Burr from at least 1807 to 1812. He had previously served as the Secretary of War.
- Hamilton was Burr's second Vice President. His first was Edmund Randolph.
- American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold, by Harry Turtledove, part of the Southern Victory Series.
- Serves as Vice President of Hosea Blackford from 1929 to 1933.
- Political Party: Socialist.
- The Blackford-Johnson ticket would lose its bid for re-election in 1932 in a landslide against the Democratic candidate Calvin Coolidge and his running mate Herbert Hoover.
- Voyage, by Stephen Baxter
- Is Jimmy Carter's Vice President in the 1976 election, winning over Walter Mondale at the convention due to lobbying by John F. Kennedy, who in Baxter's novel was crippled but not killed in 1963. As in real life, Kennedy splits with Carter to unsuccessfully challenge him in the 1980 primaries, causing Carter in turn to lose to Reagan-Bush in the general election.
- Due to Kennedy's influence when compared to Mondale in real life, the Carter Administration is more supportive of NASA's manned spaceflight program than it was in reality.
- "Fade to White", by Catherynne M. Valente
- Serves as Vice President under President Joe McCarthy
- He serves in the aftermath of a nuclear war which has devastated much of the world.
- "The War of '07", by Jayge Carr, in the anthology Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick.
- Serves as Vice President of Aaron Burr in 1812.
- Colonization: Down to Earth and Colonization: Aftershocks by Harry Turtledove, part of the Worldwar series.
- Serves as Vice President of Earl Warren from 1961 to 1965.
- Ascends to the Presidency upon Warren's suicide in 1965 after the Race destroys Indianapolis, Indiana with a nuclear bomb.
- K is for Killing by Daniel Easterman.
- He is elected as Vice President to Charles Lindbergh in the 1932 election, and becomes President in 1940 after planning an assassination of Lindbergh and his wife to prevent him from discovering a secret nuclear weapon collaboration plan with Nazi Germany. Shortly after becoming President, Stephenson is murdered by his own wife, and is succeeded by Speaker of the House Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Kennedy blames Stephenson's murder on German agents and uses it as a pretext to sever all ties with Germany.
Harry S Truman
- Settling Accounts: In at the Death by Harry Turtledove, part of the Southern Victory Series.
- Elected Vice President on the Democratic ticket with President Thomas E. Dewey in 1944.
- Is the incumbent Vice President at the series end.
- The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove.
- Elected Vice President on the Democratic ticket with Horatio Seymour in 1864 after the Confederate States win the Second American Revolution.
- In The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
- Is elected Vice President of Charles Lindbergh in the 1940 election. He becomes President in 1942 after Lindbergh's assassination.
See also
- Fiction regarding United States presidential succession
- List of fictional United States Presidents
- List of fictional United States presidential candidates
References
- ↑ S. Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak (2008). Eye in the Sky. Illustrator Tom Whalen. Fun Publications.
- ↑ Suddath, Claire (2011-10-05). "Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace". TIME. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
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