# Fictional Presidents **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242 "2003-07-17T22:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/1 "2003-07-17T22:09:40Z")
Ones I was able to think of off the top of my head. Add on others. **Josiah ‘Jed’ Bartlet** - (Martin Sheen) The West Wing, TV series **Tom Beck** - (Morgan Freeman) Deep Impact, movie **Douglass Dilman** - The Man, novel **Matt Douglas** - (James Garner) My Fellow Americans, movie **Roger Durling** - Debt of Honor, novel **Walter Emerson** - (Kevin Pollak) Deterrence, movie **Jackson Evans** - (Jeff Bridges) The Contender, movie **Bob Fowler** - Sum of All Fears, novel **William Haney** - (Dan Aykroyd) My Fellow Americans, movie **Franklin Xavier Kennedy** - The Fourth K, novel **Russell O. Kramer** - (Jack Lemmon) My Fellow Americans, movie **Manfred Link** - (Bob Newhart) First Family, movie **Jordan Lyman** - (Fredric March) Seven Days in May, novel and movie **Julia Mansfield** - (Patty Duke) Hail to the Chief, TV series **James Marshall** - (Harrison Ford) Air Force One, movie **Bill Mitchell** - (Kevin Kline) Dave, movie **Merkin Muffley** - (Peter Sellers) Dr Strangelove, movie **Chet Roosevelt** - (John Ritter) Americathon, movie **Jack Ryan** - Executive Orders, novel **Andrew Sheppard** - (Michael Douglas) The American President, movie **Jack Stanton** - (John Travolta) Primary Colors, novel and movie **Samuel Arthur Tresch** - (George C. Scott) Mr President, TV series **Thomas J. Whitmore** - (Bill Pullman) Independence Day, movie One strange thing I noticed as I was composing this list, is that all of the Presidents whose last name begins with the letter A-F are, I believe, Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/2 "2003-07-17T22:13:48Z")
**Lex Luthor** , DC Comics. Keeps with the pattern. **Lisa Simpson** (near future) I think she’s a Democrat… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/3 "2003-07-17T22:27:24Z")
**J** oshua **F** rancis **K** ellogg-He was President for only a few minutes, as he was assasinated at his inauguration, in the book, Joshua, Son of None, by Nancy Freedman. In Robert Heinlein’s book Double Star, the main character, an actor, mentions having met a President Warfield. **Little Nemo** , what a great thread idea! I don’t remember having seen anything like it. I had a couple others but you had them already. Say, in The Man, when Douglas Dillman was President, who was his predecessor, the guy that died when the building collapsed. And didn’t Dillman have a mentor who was a former President himself? Ooh, just thought of another one, the President in Heinlein’s short story “Over the Rainbow” The name is never fully revealed, but the President is female and black. And Polly Bergen, the actress, played the President in an old movie, can’t remember her character’s name but Fred McMurray was the First Gentleman. She resigned when she got pregnant. And Lifetime had a movie where a woman became President after a hard fought campaign. They tried to kill her and got her husband instead. Someone know the film I mean? ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/4 "2003-07-17T22:39:19Z")
**The Chimp** , from the fictitious movie **Hail To The Chimp** , as featured on **The Simpsons**. That’s what you get for not hailing to the chimp! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/5 "2003-07-17T23:09:38Z")
> [@](#): > > And Polly Bergen, the actress, played the President in an old movie, can’t remember her character’s name but Fred McMurray was the First Gentleman. She resigned when she got pregnant. **Leslie McCloud** - Kisses for My President (1964) ---
**Author:** ![Hanofer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@Hanofer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanofer)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/6 "2003-07-18T00:14:51Z")
How could you forget **David Palmer**? (24) ---
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**Allan Richmond** - (Gene Hackman) Absolute Power, movie ---
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**Jack Neil** (Ronnie Cox) – Murder at 1600 ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/9 "2003-07-18T02:22:59Z")
David Palmer! (24) If anyone comes in here and says “President Bush,” I’m going to scream. [On preview, I see someone beat me to it. D’oh.] ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/10 "2003-07-18T05:12:06Z")
**Franklin Pierc–** ::whispers in background:: Oh, nevermind that one. **Bob Roberts** from the movie “Bob Roberts.” ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/11 "2003-07-18T10:39:00Z")
Michael Douglas in "The American President Kevin Kline in “Dave” ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/12 "2003-07-18T11:00:38Z")
**Judson C. Hammond** , played by Walter Huston in the 1933 movie, **Gabriel Over the White House** ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/13 "2003-07-18T11:53:29Z")
\*\*Zaphod Beeblebrox \*\* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/14 "2003-07-18T13:18:26Z")
**Little Nemo** , you mentioned Martin Sheen’s turn as Jeb Bartlett in The West Wing, but he also appeared in a presidential turn as Greg Stilson in the film “The Dead Zone.” (Playing rather a different character.) –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/15 "2003-07-18T13:20:29Z")
Among unnamed presidents: “Mister President” - _Deathrace 2000_ (Sandy McCallum) “President” - _Sleeper_ (uncredited) “President” - _Escape From L.A._ (Cliff Robertson) “President of the United States” - _Escape From New York_ (Donald Pleasence) ---
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As an afterthought, I should throw in: “The President” - _Superman II_ (E.G. Marshall) ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/17 "2003-07-18T14:15:18Z")
Wasn’t Mike Brady President in a straight-to-TV movie? Does President Kang count (Simpsons)? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/18 "2003-07-18T14:37:44Z")
Rock Hudson as Thomas McKenna in “World War III” ---
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President Florentina Kane, i dont know the original title of the Jeffrey Archer book, published in spanish as “la hija prodiga”, (the ¿prodigal? daughter) ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242/20 "2003-07-18T15:48:18Z")
**Lancelot R. Gilgrass** in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-presidents/189242.md?page=2)