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History[[edit] | [edit source]]
18th century[[edit] | [edit source]]
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)
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)
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)
- ↑ The synopsis places this novel in 1929 but that is not stated in the text and would deviate from the real world regarding Coolidge.