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[[George Washington]] served as President of the United States after his role as a general in the [[American War of Independence]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Revolutionaries (short story)|The Revolutionaries]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'')
== History ==
=== 18th century ===
[[File:Madame Tussauds.jpg|thumb|Wax replicas of many past U.S. Presidents, including [[George Washington]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[Lyndon Baines Johnson]], [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[Herbert Hoover]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')]]
[[George Washington]] served as President of the [[United States of America]] after being a general in the [[American War of Independence]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Revolutionaries (short story)|The Revolutionaries]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'')


[[John Adams]] was one of the [[Founding Fathers]] who served as president. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'') Also regarded as a Founding Father, [[Thomas Jefferson]] was president in 1804 when he sent a search party to find [[Mammoth|woolly mammoth]]s living in the American midwest. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')
[[John Adams]] was one of America's [[Founding Fathers]] who served as president. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'')


[[Andrew Jackson (president)|Andrew Jackson]] served as president prior to [[Martin Van Buren]], who was in office during the [[1840]] election. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[System Shock (novel)|System Shock]]'')
=== 19th century ===
Also regarded as a Founding Father, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'') [[Thomas Jefferson]] was president in [[1804]] when he sent a search party to find [[Mammoth|woolly mammoth]]s living in the American midwest. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')


[[James Buchanan]] was president in 1860 and was perceived as being friendlier to the Southern United State Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was elected that year and would serve during the [[American Civil War]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood and Hope (novel)|Blood and Hope]]'') until his assassination on [[4 April]] [[1865]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assassin in the Limelight (audio story)|Assassin in the Limelight]]'') [[Ulysses S. Grant]]  ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Backtime (comic story)|Backtime]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood and Hope (novel)|Blood and Hope]]'')  
[[Andrew Jackson (president)|Andrew Jackson]] served as president prior to to [[1840]] election, when [[Martin Van Buren]] was in office. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[System Shock (novel)|System Shock]]'')


[[19th century|18XX]] [[Chester A. Arthur]] was the twenty-first president of the United State and served in the [[19th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sommerton Fetch (short story)|The Sommerton Fetch]]'')
[[James Buchanan]] was president in [[1860]] and was perceived as being friendlier to the Southern United State than [[Abraham Lincoln]]. Lincoln was elected that year and would serve during the [[American Civil War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood and Hope (novel)|Blood and Hope]]'') [[Ulysses S. Grant]] was a [[Union Army]] General during the [[American Civil War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood and Hope (novel)|Blood and Hope]]'') In [[1863]], the [[Third Doctor]] provided Abraham Lincon with a handrawn map of the Confederate lines. Lincoln gave the map to General Grant and helped the Union Army win the [[Battle of Gettysburg]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Backtime (comic story)|Backtime]]'') President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on [[4 April]] [[1865]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assassin in the Limelight (audio story)|Assassin in the Limelight]]'')
 
During the Civil War, [[Jefferson Davis]] served as the first and only President of the [[Confederate States of America]] that succeeded from the United States of America.
 
[[Chester A. Arthur]] was the twenty-first president of the United State and served in the [[19th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sommerton Fetch (short story)|The Sommerton Fetch]]'')


[[Grover Cleveland]] was president in the [[1880s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peacemaker (novel)|Peacemaker]]'')
[[Grover Cleveland]] was president in the [[1880s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peacemaker (novel)|Peacemaker]]'')


At one point, the [[First Doctor]] watched President [[William McKinley]] be assassinated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'')
At one point, the [[First Doctor]] watched the assassination of President [[William McKinley]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'')


* 26. [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
=== 20th century ===
: "White was still the pessimist, now declaiming in a loud voice that civilisation had not been saved by Theodore Roosevelt or Winston Churchill, in fact just the opposite." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turing Test (novel)|The Turing Test]]'')
[[Theodore Roosevelt]] was a President of the United. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turing Test (novel)|The Turing Test]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')
: NOTE: It is possible the author meant Franklin D. Roosevelt.


President [[Woodrow Wilson]] authorised the invasion of [[Haiti]] in [[1915]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness (novel)|White Darkness]]'')
President [[Woodrow Wilson]] authorised the invasion of [[Haiti]] in [[1915]] to protect American citizens on the island, secure its natural resources, and to prevent the free black people of Haiti giving African Americans any "funny ideas". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness (novel)|White Darkness]]'')


[[Calvin Coolidge]] was president in the [[1920s]] and did not feel able to run for another term.<ref>The synopsis places this novel in 1929 but that is not stated in the text and would deviate from the real world regarding Coolidge.</ref>  ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Harvest (novel)|Blood Harvest]]'')
[[Calvin Coolidge]] was president in the [[1920s]] and did not feel able to run for another term.<ref>The synopsis places this novel in 1929 but that is not stated in the text and would deviate from the real world regarding Coolidge.</ref>  ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Harvest (novel)|Blood Harvest]]'')
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The [[Tenth Doctor]] noted that [[Herbert Hoover]] was the thirty-first President of the United States. His term started in [[1929]] and oversaw the begging of the [[stock market]] crash that led to the [[Great Depression]]. By [[1930]], homeless people moved into [[Hooverville]]s which were named after the president. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'')
The [[Tenth Doctor]] noted that [[Herbert Hoover]] was the thirty-first President of the United States. His term started in [[1929]] and oversaw the begging of the [[stock market]] crash that led to the [[Great Depression]]. By [[1930]], homeless people moved into [[Hooverville]]s which were named after the president. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'')


-[[1945]]: In [[1940]], President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] was keeping the United States out of [[World War II]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'') He ultimately oversaw the United States entering the war until his death in 1945. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'') Roosevelt's Vice President [[Harry S. Truman]] succeded him that year and oversaw the end of the war. Truman won the [[1948]] election against [[Thomas Dewey]] and served until at least [[1951]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'')
In [[1940]], President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] was keeping the United States out of [[World War II]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'') He ultimately oversaw the United States entering the war until his death in 1945. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'') Roosevelt's Vice President [[Harry S. Truman]] succeded him that year and oversaw the end of the war. Truman won the [[1948]] election against [[Thomas Dewey]] and served until at least [[1951]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'')
 
* 34. [[1957]]-[[1958]]: [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
: 'Didn't President Eisenhower himself give you the orders when he came to welcome EBE-1 to America?' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'')
: DOCTOR: Does President Eisenhower know about this plan? ([[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'')
: "The general had been touching down in Washington at the time of the Russian raid, and had been personally informed about it by a furious President Eisenhower." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Loving the Alien (novel)|Loving the Alien]]'')
 
* 35. c. [[1961]]-[[1963]]: [[John F. Kennedy]]
: "The Texas trip was the first time Jackie had accompanied him on a political visit anywhere within America since his election back in 1960." [Historically correct part in James Stevens' fictional opening.] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
: CLIVE: November the 22nd, 1963. The assassination of President Kennedy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
 
* 36. [[1963]]-[[1969]]: [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
: "There was no trial, and when new President Lyndon Johnson set up a tribunal to investigate the matter, the Warren Commission decided that Oswald had acted alone." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
: ‘President Johnson would besmirch the Klan’s name with wild accusations based on speculation.' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salvation (novel)|Salvation]]'')
: " It is understood that President Johnson used the ‘hotline’ to call Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revolution Man (novel)|Revolution Man]]'')
 
* 37. [[1969]]-[[1974]]: [[Richard Nixon]]
: NIXON: But I'm a President at the beginning of his time. Dare I ask. Will I be remembered? ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'' / ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')
: NIXON: Good evening, my fellow Americans... ([[COMIC]]: ''[[In With the Tide (comic story)|In With the Tide]]'')
 
* 38. [[1975]]: [[Gerald Ford]]
: "I had a vague memory of an old actor almost wresting the Republican nomination from Gerald Ford when he was up for re-election." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'')
:  'I don't imagine President Ford was just saving money. And I think New York will need bailing out more than just financially after today.' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Presence (short story)|Presence]]'')


* 39. [[1979]]: [[Jimmy Carter]]
[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] was president from at least [[1957]] to at least [[1958]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'',[[PROSE]]: ''[[Loving the Alien (novel)|Loving the Alien]]'')
: 'I think you'll find, Doctor: I said, 'that Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer.' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'')
: ‘What’s the year? 1996. Starting from the 1970s, how does it go? Let’s see. . . Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Dering, Springsteen, Norris. . . ’ ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')


* 40. [[1981]]: [[Ronald Reagan]]
[[John F. Kennedy]] was elected president in [[1960]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') He oversaw the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] in [[1962]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS (novel)|Heart of TARDIS]]'') The [[Ninth Doctor]] was present at his assassination in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] on [[22 November]] [[1963]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' et al.) He was killed by either the [[Time Lord]] [[Berenyi]] manipulating [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Untitled (DWM 171 short story)|Untitled]]'') or by [[James Stevens]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')
: "On 30 March 1981, Ronald Reagan lay bleeding outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'')


* 41. [[George H. W. Bush]]
[[File:PresidentialSeal.jpg|thumb|left|The Presidential Seal. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'')]]
: NOTE: H. W. Bush is seen with President Clinton in [[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]''.
[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] became president following Kennedy's assassination. He set up the Warren Commission which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in the assassination. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') In [[1965]], a spokesman for the [[Ku Klux Klan]] believed President Johnson would "besmirch the Klan’s name". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salvation (novel)|Salvation]]'') On [[4 January]] [[1969]], the ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that the symbol of the [[Revolution Man]] was carved into the blacktop at a US Air Force base in [[Tennessee]]. President Johnson called [[Soviet Premier]] [[Leonid Brezhnev]] who insisted they had no weapon that could have carried out this attack. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revolution Man (novel)|Revolution Man]]'')


:: ''At this point, the numbering of presidents starts to conflict with the real world.''
[[Richard Nixon]]'s presidency began in [[1969]]; he publicly oversaw the first moon landing and privately oversaw the end of [[Silent]]s occupying the Earth. When he asked about his legacy, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] stated: "They're never going to forget you". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'' / ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'')


* [[1994]]: President [[Carrol]]
[[File:WhoForPresident.jpg|thumb|The [[Second Doctor]] was once encouraged to run for president. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Martha the Mechanical Housemaid (comic story)|Martha the Mechanical Housemaid]]'')]]
: "I am a biologist in actual fact, but I was given the rank of Commander by President Carrol in the White House, only since Army personnel are permitted to take part in space flights."
Following the successful deterrence of a [[Quark]] invasion in [[1971]], the [[Second Doctor]] was advanced as a possible candidate for president in the upcoming election. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Martha the Mechanical Housemaid (comic story)|Martha the Mechanical Housemaid]]'')
: NOTE: The list from ''Interference - Book One'' omits President Carrol. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rennigan's Record (short story)|Rennigan's Record]]'')


* [[1996]]-[[1999]]: [[Bill Clinton]]
In the [[1970s]], President Nixon was involved in the [[Watergate]] scandal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dancing the Code (novel)|Dancing the Code]]'') In [[1974]], he authorized a nuclear strike on Great Britain to prevent the [[Remoraxian]]s from flooding the Earth. This order was called off when the Remoraxians fled. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[In With the Tide (comic story)|In With the Tide]]'')  
: He said, ' "The attacks were just part of President Clinton's election campaign." '
: I looked up. If his voice was bitter, his expression was tragic. 'You're quoting Masaud Barzani - 1996. The Intervention.' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps (novel)|Eternity Weeps]]'')
: 'But the Guardian is like, say, your American President, Billy: he's associated with the Federation but Guardian of a subset, in this case your solar system.' Sam could see he was enjoying his own lecture as well. 'And rather like President Clinton,' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'')
: DOCTOR: And in June 1999, Rosa receives the Congressional Medal from President Clinton, the highest award given to any civilian, recognising her as a living icon for freedom. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'')


* [[1998]]-[[1999]]: [[Tom Dering]]
At the beginning of the [[Third Doctor]]'s exile on Earth, [[Madame Tussauds]]' wax museum depicted Presidents [[George Washington]], [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[Herbert Hoover]], [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], and [[Richard Nixon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')  
: "The circular presidential seal was woven into the carpet. Tom Dering stared at a point just above the eagle's head as Angela Palmer dabbed at his forehead with her powder puff." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Option Lock (novel)|Option Lock]]'')
: "By the time he got to speak to President Dering, his sense of occasion was tempered by his anxiety about whether the battery in the satellite phone he had commandeered from the US Embassy would last." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennium Shock (novel)|Millennium Shock]]'')
: NOTE: Conflicts with years given for Bill Clinton.


* [[2003]]: [[Bruce Springsteen]]
[[Gerald Ford]] was president in [[1975]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Presence (short story)|Presence]]'')
: "...who together made a bigger hullabaloo than Springsteen did even before he was elected President."
When President Ford was up for reelection, an old actor almost received the [[Republican]] nomination instead of him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'')
: 'Who in their right minds elects a rock-star president of a major world government, anyway?' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps (novel)|Eternity Weeps]]'')


* [[2000s|200X]]: [[Chuck Norris]]
Prior to becoming president by [[1979]], [[Jimmy Carter]] was a [[peanut]] farmer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'') When the [[Eighth Doctor]] was recalling presidents from the 1970s onward, he listed Jimmy Carter, [[Ronald Reagan]], [[George H. W. Bush]], [[Bill Clinton]], [[Tom Dering]], [[Bruce Springsteen]], and [[Chuck Norris]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')
: "Looking back on it, those had been the good years. They had also been the years when President Norris launched the economic opportunity initiative."
: ‘Normally I never talk about those two subjects. But listen. Do you think the president will go to hell?’
: ‘Well, what do you think?’ said Christian. ‘Is Chuck going to hell?’ ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'')


* [[2006]]: Unnamed
An attempted assassination of President [[Ronald Reagan]] took place on [[30 March]] [[1981]] outside the [[Hilton Hotel]] in [[Washington DC]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'') [[Bernice Summerfield]] noted that even this would not make him budge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)|The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'')
: NEWS ANCHOR: The President will address the nation live from the White House, but the Secretary General has asked that people watch the skies. (''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'')
: NOTE: This president would be Arthur C. Winters if he were elected in 2004.


* [[2008]]: [[Arthur Winters|Arthur C. Winters]]
President [[George H. W. Bush]] served between Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')
: WINTERS: My name is Arthur Coleman Winters, president-elect of the United States of America, and designated representative of the United Nations.
: NOTE: Winters' claiming to be president-elect would not be possible in spring 2008 nor would a president-elect have presidential duties. This was a mistake on the part of Russell T. Davies and could be taken as a slip of the tongue from an in-universe standpoint.


* [[2008]]: Winters' Vice President
According to one account, President [[Carrol]] was in office in [[1994]]. He promoted [[Joseph Rennigan]] to Commander in the [[White House]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rennigan's Record (short story)|Rennigan's Record]]'')
: NOTE: While not explicitly outlined, Winter's Vice President would ascend to the presidency after his death.


* [[2009]]: [[Barack Obama]]
President [[Bill Clinton]] ran for reelection in [[1996]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps (novel)|Eternity Weeps]]'') According to one account, President Clinton won reelection and was president in [[1997]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'') and in [[June]] [[1999]], he awarded [[Rosa Parks]] the [[Congressional Medal]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'')
: AMN NEWS: And now, anticipation is rising as we go live to Washington. Here, on Christmas Day, the President has promised an instant and radical solution to the worldwide depression. Barack Obama will lead us all into a new age of prosperity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


:* [[2009]]: {{Simm|The Master}}
According to conflincting accounts, [[Tom Dering]] followed [[Bill Clinton]] as president ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') and was in office in [[1998]] and [[1999]]. He was looking towards running for a second term as president. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Option Lock (novel)|Option Lock]]'', ''[[Millennium Shock (novel)|Millennium Shock]]'')
:: OBAMA-MASTER: I'm President. President of the United States. Look at me! Ooo, financial solution. Deleted. Ha ha!


* c. [[2010s|201X]]: [[Felix Mather]]
=== 21st century ===
: "The Doctor racked his brains. ‘Ah yes. 1989. I stole your space shuttle.’"
President [[Bruce Springsteen]] was in office in [[2003]]. [[Bernice Summerfield]] noted that he was a rock-star before being elected president. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps (novel)|Eternity Weeps]]'')
: "Malady looked at the Doctor. He must have been about ten at the time." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'')


* c. [[2017]]: [[Matt Nelson]]
President [[Norris]] served in the early [[21st century]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'') following President Springsteen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')
: NOTE: Assassinated at his inauguration. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'')


* c. [[2017]]: [[Lolita|"Lola Denison"]]
In [[2006]], a president planned to address the nation the White House after a [[Slitheen craft]] hit [[Big Ben]]. (''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'') On [[Christmas Eve]] that year, the President demanded that he should take control of the situation regarding the approaching [[Sycorax]] ship. [[Prime Minister]] [[Harriet Jones]] insisted that "he [was] not [her] boss, and he [was] certainly not turning this into a war". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')
: NOTE: Vice President of Matt Nelson. Accended to the presidency after his assassination. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'')


* [[2017]]-[[2018]]: [[Donald Trump]]
President [[Arthur Winters|Arthur C. Winters]] was in office in [[2008]]. He was the designated representative of the [[United Nations]] for [[First Contact]] with the [[Toclafane]]. {{Simm}}, under the guise of Prime Minister Harold Saxon, ordered the Toclafane to kill him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)]]'') When the [[The Year That Never Was]] reversed back one year and one day, president Winters had just been assassinated.  
: BILL: I don't know the President. How would I know the President? I mean, I wouldn't even have voted for him. He's... orange. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'')
: NOTE: It would stand to reason that this [[President (The Pyramid at the End of the World)|unnamed president]] is Donald Trump, who is seen in TV: ''The Lie of the Land'' and mentioned in TV: ''The Doctor Falls''.
: JADE: I've heard you're only running cos you've hated Trump for decades. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arachnids in the UK (TV story)|Arachnids in the UK]]'')


* [[2049]]?: [[Courtney Woods]]
The first African American president was elected in [[2008]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'') and in [[2009]], this president was [[Barack Obama]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghosts of the Northern Line (comic story)|Ghosts of the Northern Line]]'') On [[Christmas]] that year, he proposed a radical solution to end the global recession and to enter a new era of prosperity.  During his speech, {{Simm|The Master}} utilised the [[Immortality Gate]] to transform every person on Earth into the [[Master Race]], including President Obama. This was reversed by [[Rassilon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') In [[August]] [[2016]], President Obama condemned [[Donald Trump]] as an unsuitable candidate for president. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Buccaneer (novel)|Buccaneer]]'')
: CLARA: I don't know! The President of America.
: DOCTOR: Oh, take something off his plate. He makes far too many decisions anyway.
: LUNDVIK: She.
: DOCTOR: Well, she really is something special now, isn't she? First woman on the moon, saved the Earth from itself, and, rather bizarrely, she becomes the President of the United States. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'')


According to one account, former astronaut [[Felix Mather]] served as president circa the [[2010s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'')


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According to another account, [[Matt Nelson]] was elected president in the early [[21st century]]. He was assassinated at his inauguration and was succeeded by his Vice President "[[Lolita|Lola Denison]]", the alias of a [[humanoid]] [[timeship]] named [[Lolita]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'')
Several American presidents were known to the Doctor and his [[companion|friends]]. However, information on most of these figures — even basic details such as their terms of office — was sketchy, as direct contact with American presidents was unusual. Because of the paucity of data, it was possible to list the presidents accurately only in simple alphabetic order.


Known presidents include [[Chester A. Arthur]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sommerton Fetch (short story)|The Sommerton Fetch]]'') [[James Buchanan]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood and Hope (novel)|Blood and Hope]]'') [[George H. W. Bush]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') [[Carrol]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rennigan's Record (short story)|Rennigan's Record]]'') [[Jimmy Carter]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Option Lock (novel)|Option Lock]]'' et al.) [[Calvin Coolidge]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Harvest (novel)|Blood Harvest]]'') [[Grover Cleveland]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peacemaker (novel)|Peacemaker]]'') [[Bill Clinton]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'' et al.) [[Lola Denison]] who was sworn in following the assassination of Matt Nelson, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'') [[Tom Dering]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Option Lock (novel)|Option Lock]]'' et al.) [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' et al.) [[Gerald Ford]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'') [[Herbert Hoover]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'' et al.) [[Andrew Jackson (president)|Andrew Jackson]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[System Shock (novel)|System Shock]]'') [[Thomas Jefferson]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Urgent Calls (audio story)|Urgent Calls]]'') [[Lyndon Baines Johnson|Lyndon B. Johnson]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') [[John F. Kennedy]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' et al.) and [[Abraham Lincoln]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'' et al.) {{Simm|c}} effectively became president when he turned [[Barack Obama]] into [[the Master Race|a copy of himself]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
Accrding to a different account [[Donald Trump]] was a presidential candidate in [[2016]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Buccaneer (novel)|Buccaneer]]'') and British youth considered him to be unstoppable. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What She Does Next Will Astound You (novel)|What She Does Next Will Astound You]]'') In [[2017]], [[Bill Potts]] remarked that she did not know the president and she would not have voted for him because he was "orange". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'') The [[Twelfth Doctor]] regarded [[Donald Trump]] as "inevitable". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') In [[2018]], businessman [[Jack Robertson]] claimed he had hated Trump for decades and planned to run against him in the [[2020]] election. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arachnids in the UK (TV story)|Arachnids in the UK]]'')


Further presidents included [[Felix Mather]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'') [[William McKinley]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') [[Richard Nixon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'' / ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'' et al.) [[Matt Nelson]] who was assassinated before his inauguration, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'') [[Norris]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'' et al.) the aforementioned [[Barack Obama]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' et al.) [[Ronald Reagan]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Option Lock (novel)|Option Lock]] ''et al.) [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'') [[Theodore Roosevelt]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') [[Bruce Springsteen]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps (novel)|Eternity Weeps]] ''et al.) [[Harry S. Truman]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'') [[Donald Trump]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Arachnids in the UK (TV story)|Arachnids in the UK]]'') an [[President (The Pyramid at the End of the World)|unnamed president]] in 2017, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'') [[Martin Van Buren]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[System Shock (novel)|System Shock]]'') [[George Washington]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') [[Arthur Winters]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and [[Courtney Woods]], who the [[Twelfth Doctor]] told [[Clara Oswald]] would be an American President in her future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'')
In [[2049]], the President of the United States was a woman. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] remarked that [[Courtney Woods]] "rather bizarrely" became the President of the United States in her future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'')

Latest revision as of 19:30, 1 July 2019

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

18th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

Wax replicas of many past U.S. Presidents, including George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Abraham Lincoln and Herbert Hoover. (TV: Spearhead from Space)

George Washington served as President of the United States of America after being a general in the American War of Independence. (PROSE: The Revolutionaries, TV: Spearhead from Space)

John Adams was one of America's Founding Fathers who served as president. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)

19th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

Also regarded as a Founding Father, (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) Thomas Jefferson was president in 1804 when he sent a search party to find woolly mammoths living in the American midwest. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)

Andrew Jackson served as president prior to to 1840 election, when Martin Van Buren was in office. (PROSE: System Shock)

James Buchanan was president in 1860 and was perceived as being friendlier to the Southern United State than Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was elected that year and would serve during the American Civil War. (PROSE: Blood and Hope) Ulysses S. Grant was a Union Army General during the American Civil War. (PROSE: Blood and Hope) In 1863, the Third Doctor provided Abraham Lincon with a handrawn map of the Confederate lines. Lincoln gave the map to General Grant and helped the Union Army win the Battle of Gettysburg. (COMIC: Backtime) President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on 4 April 1865. (AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight)

During the Civil War, Jefferson Davis served as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America that succeeded from the United States of America.

Chester A. Arthur was the twenty-first president of the United State and served in the 19th century. (PROSE: The Sommerton Fetch)

Grover Cleveland was president in the 1880s. (PROSE: Peacemaker)

At one point, the First Doctor watched the assassination of President William McKinley. (PROSE: Byzantium!)

20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

Theodore Roosevelt was a President of the United. (PROSE: The Turing Test, TV: Spearhead from Space)

President Woodrow Wilson authorised the invasion of Haiti in 1915 to protect American citizens on the island, secure its natural resources, and to prevent the free black people of Haiti giving African Americans any "funny ideas". (PROSE: White Darkness)

Calvin Coolidge was president in the 1920s and did not feel able to run for another term.[1] (PROSE: Blood Harvest)

The Tenth Doctor noted that Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first President of the United States. His term started in 1929 and oversaw the begging of the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression. By 1930, homeless people moved into Hoovervilles which were named after the president. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan)

In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was keeping the United States out of World War II. (PROSE: Illegal Alien) He ultimately oversaw the United States entering the war until his death in 1945. (PROSE: Endgame) Roosevelt's Vice President Harry S. Truman succeded him that year and oversaw the end of the war. Truman won the 1948 election against Thomas Dewey and served until at least 1951. (PROSE: Endgame)

Dwight D. Eisenhower was president from at least 1957 to at least 1958. (PROSE: First Frontier, TV: Dreamland,PROSE: Loving the Alien)

John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) He oversaw the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. (PROSE: Heart of TARDIS) The Ninth Doctor was present at his assassination in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963. (TV: Rose et al.) He was killed by either the Time Lord Berenyi manipulating Lee Harvey Oswald (PROSE: Untitled) or by James Stevens. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)

The Presidential Seal. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)

Lyndon B. Johnson became president following Kennedy's assassination. He set up the Warren Commission which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in the assassination. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) In 1965, a spokesman for the Ku Klux Klan believed President Johnson would "besmirch the Klan’s name". (PROSE: Salvation) On 4 January 1969, the Washington Post reported that the symbol of the Revolution Man was carved into the blacktop at a US Air Force base in Tennessee. President Johnson called Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev who insisted they had no weapon that could have carried out this attack. (PROSE: Revolution Man)

Richard Nixon's presidency began in 1969; he publicly oversaw the first moon landing and privately oversaw the end of Silents occupying the Earth. When he asked about his legacy, the Eleventh Doctor stated: "They're never going to forget you". (TV: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon)

The Second Doctor was once encouraged to run for president. (COMIC: Martha the Mechanical Housemaid)

Following the successful deterrence of a Quark invasion in 1971, the Second Doctor was advanced as a possible candidate for president in the upcoming election. (COMIC: Martha the Mechanical Housemaid)

In the 1970s, President Nixon was involved in the Watergate scandal. (PROSE: Dancing the Code) In 1974, he authorized a nuclear strike on Great Britain to prevent the Remoraxians from flooding the Earth. This order was called off when the Remoraxians fled. (COMIC: In With the Tide)

At the beginning of the Third Doctor's exile on Earth, Madame Tussauds' wax museum depicted Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. (TV: Spearhead from Space)

Gerald Ford was president in 1975. (PROSE: Presence) When President Ford was up for reelection, an old actor almost received the Republican nomination instead of him. (PROSE: The Assassin's Story)

Prior to becoming president by 1979, Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer. (PROSE: The Assassin's Story) When the Eighth Doctor was recalling presidents from the 1970s onward, he listed Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Tom Dering, Bruce Springsteen, and Chuck Norris (PROSE: Interference - Book One)

An attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan took place on 30 March 1981 outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC. (PROSE: The Assassin's Story) Bernice Summerfield noted that even this would not make him budge. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)

President George H. W. Bush served between Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. (PROSE: Interference - Book One)

According to one account, President Carrol was in office in 1994. He promoted Joseph Rennigan to Commander in the White House. (PROSE: Rennigan's Record)

President Bill Clinton ran for reelection in 1996. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps) According to one account, President Clinton won reelection and was president in 1997 (PROSE: Placebo Effect) and in June 1999, he awarded Rosa Parks the Congressional Medal. (TV: Rosa)

According to conflincting accounts, Tom Dering followed Bill Clinton as president (PROSE: Interference - Book One) and was in office in 1998 and 1999. He was looking towards running for a second term as president. (PROSE: Option Lock, Millennium Shock)

21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]

President Bruce Springsteen was in office in 2003. Bernice Summerfield noted that he was a rock-star before being elected president. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps)

President Norris served in the early 21st century (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead) following President Springsteen. (PROSE: Interference - Book One)

In 2006, a president planned to address the nation the White House after a Slitheen craft hit Big Ben. (Aliens of London) On Christmas Eve that year, the President demanded that he should take control of the situation regarding the approaching Sycorax ship. Prime Minister Harriet Jones insisted that "he [was] not [her] boss, and he [was] certainly not turning this into a war". (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

President Arthur C. Winters was in office in 2008. He was the designated representative of the United Nations for First Contact with the Toclafane. the Saxon Master, under the guise of Prime Minister Harold Saxon, ordered the Toclafane to kill him. (TV: The Sound of Drums (TV story)) When the The Year That Never Was reversed back one year and one day, president Winters had just been assassinated.

The first African American president was elected in 2008 (TV: Rosa) and in 2009, this president was Barack Obama. (COMIC: Ghosts of the Northern Line) On Christmas that year, he proposed a radical solution to end the global recession and to enter a new era of prosperity. During his speech, The Saxon Master utilised the Immortality Gate to transform every person on Earth into the Master Race, including President Obama. This was reversed by Rassilon. (TV: The End of Time) In August 2016, President Obama condemned Donald Trump as an unsuitable candidate for president. (PROSE: Buccaneer)

According to one account, former astronaut Felix Mather served as president circa the 2010s. (PROSE: Trading Futures)

According to another account, Matt Nelson was elected president in the early 21st century. He was assassinated at his inauguration and was succeeded by his Vice President "Lola Denison", the alias of a humanoid timeship named Lolita. (PROSE: Head of State)

Accrding to a different account Donald Trump was a presidential candidate in 2016 (PROSE: Buccaneer) and British youth considered him to be unstoppable. (PROSE: What She Does Next Will Astound You) In 2017, Bill Potts remarked that she did not know the president and she would not have voted for him because he was "orange". (TV: The Pyramid at the End of the World) The Twelfth Doctor regarded Donald Trump as "inevitable". (TV: The Doctor Falls) In 2018, businessman Jack Robertson claimed he had hated Trump for decades and planned to run against him in the 2020 election. (TV: Arachnids in the UK)

In 2049, the President of the United States was a woman. The Twelfth Doctor remarked that Courtney Woods "rather bizarrely" became the President of the United States in her future. (TV: Kill the Moon)

  1. ↑ The synopsis places this novel in 1929 but that is not stated in the text and would deviate from the real world regarding Coolidge.
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