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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, TV: Spearhead from Space)
John Adams was one of the Founding Fathers who served as president. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) Also regarded as a Founding Father, 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 Martin Van Buren, who was in office during the 1840 election. (PROSE: System Shock)
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) until his assassination on 4 April 1865 (AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight) Ulysses S. Grant (COMIC: Backtime, PROSE: Blood and Hope)
18XX 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 President William McKinley be assassinated. (PROSE: Byzantium!)
- "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)
- NOTE: It is possible the author meant Franklin D. Roosevelt.
President Woodrow Wilson authorised the invasion of Haiti in 1915. (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)
-1945: 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)
- 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)
- DOCTOR: Does President Eisenhower know about this plan? (TV: 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)
- 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)
- CLIVE: November the 22nd, 1963. The assassination of President Kennedy. (TV: 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)
- ‘President Johnson would besmirch the Klan’s name with wild accusations based on speculation.' (PROSE: Salvation)
- " It is understood that President Johnson used the ‘hotline’ to call Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev." (PROSE: 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 / Day of the Moon)
- NIXON: Good evening, my fellow Americans... (COMIC: 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)
- '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)
- 39. 1979: Jimmy Carter
- 'I think you'll find, Doctor: I said, 'that Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer.' (PROSE: 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)
- 40. 1981: Ronald Reagan
- "On 30 March 1981, Ronald Reagan lay bleeding outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC." (PROSE: The Assassin's Story)
- At this point, the numbering of presidents starts to conflict with the real world.
- "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."
- NOTE: The list from Interference - Book One omits President Carrol. (PROSE: Rennigan's Record)
- 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)
- '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)
- 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)
- "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)
- "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)
- NOTE: Conflicts with years given for Bill Clinton.
- "...who together made a bigger hullabaloo than Springsteen did even before he was elected President."
- 'Who in their right minds elects a rock-star president of a major world government, anyway?' (PROSE: Eternity Weeps)
- "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)
- 2006: Unnamed
- 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)
- NOTE: This president would be Arthur C. Winters if he were elected in 2004.
- 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
- NOTE: While not explicitly outlined, Winter's Vice President would ascend to the presidency after his death.
- 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)
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- OBAMA-MASTER: I'm President. President of the United States. Look at me! Ooo, financial solution. Deleted. Ha ha!
- c. 201X: Felix Mather
- "The Doctor racked his brains. ‘Ah yes. 1989. I stole your space shuttle.’"
- "Malady looked at the Doctor. He must have been about ten at the time." (PROSE: Trading Futures)
- c. 2017: Matt Nelson
- NOTE: Assassinated at his inauguration. (PROSE: Head of State)
- c. 2017: "Lola Denison"
- NOTE: Vice President of Matt Nelson. Accended to the presidency after his assassination. (PROSE: Head of State)
- 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)
- NOTE: It would stand to reason that this 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)
- 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)
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Several American presidents were known to the Doctor and his 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) James Buchanan, (PROSE: Blood and Hope) George H. W. Bush, (PROSE: Interference - Book One) Carrol, (PROSE: Rennigan's Record) Jimmy Carter, (PROSE: Option Lock et al.) Calvin Coolidge, (PROSE: Blood Harvest) Grover Cleveland, (PROSE: Peacemaker) Bill Clinton, (TV: Rosa et al.) Lola Denison who was sworn in following the assassination of Matt Nelson, (PROSE: Head of State) Tom Dering, (PROSE: Option Lock et al.) Dwight D. Eisenhower, (TV: Dreamland et al.) Gerald Ford, (PROSE: The Assassin's Story) Herbert Hoover, (TV: Daleks in Manhattan et al.) Andrew Jackson, (PROSE: System Shock) Thomas Jefferson, (AUDIO: Urgent Calls) Lyndon B. Johnson, (TV: Spearhead from Space) John F. Kennedy, (TV: Rose et al.) and Abraham Lincoln. (TV: The Chase et al.) The Saxon Master effectively became president when he turned Barack Obama into a copy of himself. (TV: The End of Time)
Further presidents included Felix Mather, (PROSE: Trading Futures) William McKinley, (PROSE: Byzantium!) Richard Nixon, (TV: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon et al.) Matt Nelson who was assassinated before his inauguration, (PROSE: Head of State) Norris, (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead et al.) the aforementioned Barack Obama, (TV: The End of Time et al.) Ronald Reagan, (PROSE: Option Lock et al.) Franklin D. Roosevelt, (PROSE: Endgame) Theodore Roosevelt, (TV: Spearhead from Space) Bruce Springsteen, (PROSE: Eternity Weeps et al.) Harry S. Truman, (PROSE: Endgame) Donald Trump, (TV: Arachnids in the UK) an unnamed president in 2017, (TV: The Pyramid at the End of the World) Martin Van Buren, (PROSE: System Shock) George Washington, (TV: Spearhead from Space) Arthur Winters (TV: 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)
- ↑ The synopsis places this novel in 1929 but that is not stated in the text and would deviate from the real world regarding Coolidge.