List of fictional United States Presidents (U–Z)

Lists of fictional presidents of the United States
A–B	C–D	E–F
G–H	I–J	K–M
N–R	S–T	U–Z
Unnamed fictional presidents
Fictional presidencies of historical figures
A–B	C–D	E–G
H–J	K–L	M–O
P–R	S–U	V–Z
Candidates
Vice presidents

The following is a list of fictional United States presidents, U through Z.

U

President Francis J. "Frank" Underwood, starting from Chapter 26.

• President in House of Cards
• Played by: Kevin Spacey
• At the start of the series, he is the Democratic Majority Whip in the United States House of Representatives. In season 2, he is the newly appointed Vice President of the United States. By the end of season 2, he has manipulated his way to becoming President of the United States.
• Congressman from South Carolina's 5th congressional district (1991-2013)
• House Majority Whip (2005–2013)
• Vice President (2013–2014), appointed by President Garret Walker after the incumbent Vice President resigned.
• Implicated President Walker in a money laundering scheme orchestrated by billionaire Raymond Tusk and a Chinese businessman to stack Congress in favor of the Democrats.
• Swore in as the 46th President after Walker resigned to avoid impeachment.
• Appeared on the September 3, 2014 episode of The Colbert Report, where he implied he would murder Stephen Colbert right to his face^[1]
• Incapacitated due to assassination attempt in Chapter 43; declares himself fit and is reinstated in Chapter 45
• Political Party: Democrat

President Matthew Underwood

• President in The Guest of Honor, a 1989 novel by Irving Wallace

President Nigel Uno

• President in: Codename: Kids Next Door – "Operation: W.H.I.T.E.-H.O.U.S.E." episode
• Played by: Benjamin Diskin

V

President Gloria Valdez

• President in Chain of Command, a 1999 movie.
• Vice President to President Jack Cahill, becomes President when he is shot and killed in a struggle over the nuclear football.
• Forces China to back down during a nuclear exchange.
• Played by María Conchita Alonso

President Funny Valentine

• President in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VII: Steel Ball Run
• Wanted to use Jesus Christ's body parts to secure the safety and prosperity of his country.
• Had the ability to play mandolin with his feet, and also pull objects and people from other dimensions.

President Margaret Valentine

• President in: Y: The Last Man
• When a plague kills all males, Secretary of Agriculture Valentine is the highest survivor on the chain of succession.
• Based on Ann Veneman

President Rudolfo Valenzuela

• President in: The General's President by John Dalmas
• Parents emigrated from Cuba to Puerto Rico
• Dean of International Relations at the University of Miami
• Appointed Secretary of State by President Arne Haugen, later named Vice President.
• Becomes President upon Haugen's resignation, becoming both the first black and Hispanic President.

President Hallux Valgus

• President in: Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner
• The 82nd President of the United States, Valgus had the distinction of being the first U.S. president with no gastrointestinal tract, having to survive via symbiotic bacteria in his torso which transformed airborne toxins into carbohydrates and protein. He wore a spandex unitard at all times.

President Josephine Vannebuker-Brown

• President in: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
• Served as Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
• She is the highest survivor in the chain of succession after a nuclear war.

President Peter J. "Doc" Varney

• President in the 1932 film The Phantom President
• Banker Theodore K. Blair runs for President but lacks personal charisma. The Party finds lookalike Carnival Barker Peter J. "Doc" Varney who campaigns in Blair's place.
• When Blair's fiancee Felicia Hammond prefers Varney, he plans to have Varney kidnapped and taken to a remote island in the Arctic. Felicia, however, fools the kidnappers and Blair is kidnapped instead.
• Varney is convinced by Felicia to run under his own name for President and Wins.
• Blair/Varney are played by George M. Cohan in a rare film appearance.

President Villers

• President in the short story Franchise, by Isaac Asimov.
• Was a president as of fall 2008.

President Philip Nolan Voigt

• President in: Marvel Comics's New Universe
• Voigt was elected in 1988 after telepathically influencing voters. He had the paranormal ability to mimic and outdo any other paranormal ability.
• Vice-president was Michael Dukakis

President Thomas Voss

• President in: Resistance: A Hole in the Sky
• President in 1953.
• 36th President of the United States.
• Former Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
• Succeeded President Douglas MacArthur to office following the General's death in the Chimeran War; led remnants of the United States following the aftermath of the alien invasion.
• Status unknown as of the war's end in 1957.

W

President "The Wacko"

• President in World War Z
• Was a rising, outspoken political star before the Great Panic.
• Is appointed as Vice-President of the United States after "The Big Guy" is sworn in.
• Becomes President after "The Big Guy" dies during the days after the United States has gone on the offensive against 200 million zombies.
• Currently lives in semi-retirement in Vermont.
• Implied to be former Governor Howard Dean.

President Andrew Wadsworth

• President in The R Document, written by Irving Wallace.
• Vernon T. Tynan, the Hoover-esque Director of the FBI, plans to order Wadsworth assassinated in order to take power, hoping that Wadsworth's Vice President, Frank Loomis, will be less resistant to Tynan's theft of political power.
• Party: not specified.

President Jefferson Lee Wainwright

• President in A War of Shadows by Jack Chalker
• Imposes Martial Law after multiple outbreaks of a plague cause a variety of brain dysfunctions.
• Part of a conspiracy to seize power and impose elitist values
• After being found out by an FBI investigator, agrees to end the emergency and retire.

Acting President Glen Allen Walken

• President in: The West Wing (TV series)
• Played by: John Goodman
• Born in Liberty, Missouri, Walken is a Vietnam veteran, is possibly married, has a dog named Bess and is "one prime rib dinner away from sudden cardiac arrest."
• Walken was Speaker of the House and became acting President during a national emergency involving Zoey Bartlet (the position of Vice President had just been left vacant). President Bartlet invokes the 25th Amendment and temporarily resigns and assumes the presidency again a few days later.
• He attempted to gain his party's nomination for the presidency later; despite winning the Iowa caucus, Walken lost the nomination to Senator Arnold Vinick of California.
• An opponent to the Bartlet administration, Walken is a Republican.

President Garrett Walker

• President in: House of Cards (TV series)
• Played by: Michel Gill
• A former corporate CEO and Governor of Colorado, Walker was the Democratic party presidential nominee in the 2012 US presidential election with Pennsylvania Governor Jim Matthews as his vice presidential running mate. The pair were elected with 70 million votes and as such, Walker became the 45th President of the United States.
• Walker had initially promised to appoint House Majority Whip Francis Underwood as Secretary of State but reneged on his promise on the advice of his mentor, billionaire businessman Raymond Tusk.
• As such, Underwood contrived a plot to bring down Walker and replace him as President while presenting himself as a key ally of the President. During his machinations, Underwood passed an education reform act for the administration and set up alcoholic Congressman Peter Russo as the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania Governor to replace Matthews and then sabotaged him in order to persuade the disgruntled Matthews to resign as Vice President and run for his old post.
• Again, on advice from Tusk, Walker nominated Underwood as Vice President to assist in a looming trade war with the Chinese. After being confirmed, Underwood aided his administration in passing entitlement reform and preventing a government shutdown but earned Walker's wrath after sabotaging negotiations with the Chinese and covering up Tusk and his business partner Feng's money laundering and contributing money to political campaigns.
• Once news of the money laundering leaked, Walker became incredibly unpopular and despite not knowing of the scheme, Underwood manipulated it to look as if he did while also smearing him by manipulating Walker into admitting marriage counselling where he was prescribed drugs, casting doubts upon his ability to lead.
• After Tusk decided to lie to a congressional committee and say Walker knew of the money laundering, impeachment proceedings were brought against him and therefore Walker resigned the Presidency on October 28, 2014, making Underwood the new President.

President Albert Baker Warren

• President in the TV series Timecop, "The Stalker" episode (1997).
• 44th President of the United States, elected in 2004.
• Mother was 1960s movie star Rita Lake who married a U.S. Senator, and was the target of a time travelling stalker.

President Warrick

• Female President in John Ringo's novel The Last Centurion
• Democrat, elected by 48.2% of the popular vote in the 2016 elections.
• Became mentally unhinged during multiple crisis faced by her administration, all worsened by her fatally flawed executive decisions.
• Replaced by President Carson (Republican) in a landslide during the intensely contested 2020 election.

President Dean Cooper Wallace

• President in: Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels Flood Tide and Atlantis Found
• In office from 2000 to 2005. In Flood Tide it is revealed he has certain less-than-ethical connections to Chinese interests.

President Garner Ward

• President in: Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels Trojan Odyssey and Black Wind.
• Described as resembling Theodore Roosevelt in appearance and manner. President Ward asked Admiral Sandecker to take the Vice Presidency after his original Vice President was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

President Ward

• President in Dead End Drive In, a 1988 Australian movie.
• Mentioned in a television broadcast.

President Adam Warner

• Was a former U.S. Senator from New York, and before that a New York City District Attorney.
• Wife Mary Beth Warner attempted to murder his mistress by running her over before the election.

President Jeff Warnock

• A Democrat and 56th President of the United States in the year 2079 in the film Lockout, portrayed by Peter Hudson.

President Washington

• An African American woman who served as President from 1981 to 1985 in the movie Tunnelvision (1975).
• She served between George Wallace and David Eisenhower.

President Stephen Wayne

• President in First Lady, a 1937 Film.
• Secretary of State who gains the Presidency through the efforts of his wife Lucy Chase Wayne (Kay Francis), granddaughter of President Andrew Chase.
• Played by Preston Foster

President Graveney Westwood

• President in: Spy High.
• He was the key supporter of the Guardian Star as part of the American Earth Protection Initiative. (The Paranoia Plot).
• Opposed by several peace organisations and a Capitol Hill politician Senator Al Nathanson. (The Paranoia Plot).
• He was the victim of a failed assassination attempt by the Judson Siblings (Angel Blue)
• In office 2064 -.

President Thomas Westwood

• President in: The Lottery (TV series)
• Thomas Westwood accidentally caused the event, known as the "Global Fertility Crisis", which caused all women on Earth to stop having babies, when he tries to prevent global human overpopulation.
• Thomas Westwood became the President, in order to fix his mistake and save mankind.
• Thomas Westwood is assassinated by Darius Hayes, in order to control the embryos and the lottery winners.
• Played by: Yul Vazquez

President Westwood

• President in: Stealth Fighter
• President Westwood orders a covert war against Nicaraguan drug lords and mercenaries.
• Played by: Ernie Hudson

President John Lawrence Wheeler

• President in the movie Virus (1996).
• Played by Stephen Markle.

President Warren G. Wheeler

• President in the books Air Force One is Down and the Hostage Tower by Alistair Maclean
• During his Presidency his Mother is taken hostage at the Eiffel Tower and Air Force One is stolen.

President Wheeler

• President in: The General's President by John Dalmas
• Elected at some time after Ronald Reagan.
• Signed a treaty with the Soviet Union regarding the use of Scalar Resonance weapons.
• Former professional football player.
• Died in office of a coronary.

President Whitcomb

• President in the 1966 Mission: Impossible episode "Operation Rogash"
• Mentioned in a radio broadcast in an attempt to make someone think it was 1969.

President George White

• President in: The Kid Who Ran For President
• Served from: 1997–2001
• Created by: Dan Gutman
• Party Affiliation: Republican

President White (no first name given)

• President in Warday
• Served from 1988–1993 (and possibly longer)
• Created by: Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
• Party Affiliation: Unknown
• Was Undersecretary of the Treasury until October 28, 1988 when the US was devastated in a nuclear exchange with the Soviets. Had been vacationing at Key Largo when the war broke out, and was the highest Federal officer to both survive and agree to serve as President. Since there was no possibility of holding elections, never got a popular mandate and considered himself as "a caretaker". Was located (at least up to 1993 when the book's plot takes place) at part of the Federal Complex in Los Angeles. Though in name recognized as President of the United States, in practice had little power as California, undamaged by the war, cut itself off from the devastated other parts of the US, regarded refugees from there as "illegal immigrants" and treated them harshly, and acted as a de facto sovereign state (even to establishing de facto embassies of surviving foreign countries in Sacramento). It was left to President White and the remnants of the Federal Government to conduct surveys on the country's devastated situation and hatch various plan for re-unification with little chance to implement them.

President Whitman

• President on DAG, a 2000 NBC television series.
• Wife is Suzanne, daughter is Camille.
• Went to Havard, lost the women's vote, and head of his Secret Service detail once jumped the wrong way during an assassination attempt.
• Played by David Rasche

President Thomas J. Whitmore

• President in: Independence Day
• Served 1992-2000
• Whitmore fought in Operation Desert Storm as a fighter pilot. He is married to Marilyn Whitmore and has one daughter, Patricia. As president, he was criticized by political pundits in Washington for his inexperience in politics as well as his youth. The Orange County Register named President Whitmore one of the sexiest men of the year on July 2, 1996, the day the aliens arrived on Earth.
• Before the alien invasion, Whitmore's approval rating slipped below forty percent.
• Whitmore personally led surviving Earth resistance military forces into battle against alien invasion/occupation forces on July 4, 1996 after the death of his wife on July 3, 1996. This made him the first US commander-in-chief to lead troops in combat since James Madison took command of a rearguard artillery battery to cover the retreat of the US Army during the British attack on Washington, D.C. in the War of 1812.
• Fired his Secretary of Defense in Area 51.
• Had communication with a captured alien through ESP, thereby realizing their true intentions of invading Earth to consume its natural resources after killing all of mankind. This knowledge brings him to consent to using nuclear weapons over American soil in order to destroy the aliens, resulting in the destruction of Houston, Texas.
• Succeeded by William Grey, his head of US Space Command.
• Died 2016 manually detonating cold fusion bombs inside an alien queen's ship outside of Area 51.
• Party Affiliation: Democrat (mentioned in novel)
• Played by: Bill Pullman

President Widmark

• President in: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Widmark is confined, either temporarily or permanently, to a specially made hospital bed due to an undisclosed back ailment. In early versions of the script, he is confined there due to mental instability. His advisors include General Catburd of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense McKinley, Senator Cunningham, and National Security Advisor Smirnoff.
• Declares war on the Soviet Union by signing the "Short Form" of the Declaration of War, under pressure from the Black Lectroids. Presumably rescinds the declaration after Dr. Buckaroo Banzai defeats the Red Lectroids, ending the confrontation.
• Quote: "Buckaroo, I don't know what to say...Lectroids? Planet 10? Nuclear extortion? A girl named John?"
• Played by: Ronald Lacey

President Alice Wiliston

• President in C.L. Moore's Greater Than Gods (1939)
• In one of the story's alternate futures, she is part of a string of female Presidents in the 23rd and 24th Centuries, all sworn to abolish war.
• Especially known for a memorable public confrontation with Dr. Philips, the country's most prominent scientist, who opposed the increasing tendency to a non-mechanized rural civilization, fostered by the President, and especially her cabinet's rejection of the work of a promising young scientist. The President's answer was broadcast worldwide on telenews: "That 'brilliant work', as you call it, was a device that might have led to war! Do you think we want it? Remember the promise that the first woman president made the world, Dr. Philips! As long as we sit in the White House there will be no need for war!" President Wiliston's position was approved of by women leaders in other countries, such as Queen Elizabeth II of Britain and Queen Juliana VII of the Netherlands. Later women Presidents continued in her footsteps, culminating with making Earth a garden world with humanity living in a low-tech civilization and cultivating spirituality.

President Laurence Williams

• President in The Nomination, a 1970 novel.
• Tries to prevent Vice President Harley Dann from getting the presidential nomination.

President Matthew Williams

• President in Escape from the Planet of the Apes.
• President in 1973 when intelligent talking apes arrived in a formerly lost American space craft.
• Played by William Windom
• Name from the fan produced Presidential Commission's Briefing Dossier.

President Abigail Wilson

• President in Harold Coyle's novel The Ten Thousand
• Former Governor of Colorado.

President Joseph Wilson

• President in: Out of Courage 2: Out for Vengeance
• Played by: Gregory Lehane

President Michael Wilson

• President in Metal Wolf Chaos (video game, 2004)
• In the near future, Michael Wilson, the 47th President of the United States, needs to use the giant mech, "Metal Wolf", in order to free America from the evil coup d'état forces of Vice-President Richard Hawk.
• Quote: "Nothing is pointless! And that's because... I'm the President of these great United States of America!"

President Slade Wilson

• President in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, a 2010 animated movie.
• Former War Hero, Widower, with one daughter named Rose.
• President in a world dominated by the super-powered Criminal Syndicate of America, an organization responsible for the death of The First Lady.
• An alternate version of the super-villain known as Terminator.

President Thomas Wilson

• President in: 2012
• 45th President of the United States.
• Served from 2009 to 2012.
• First African American President
• During his administration, the world is devastated by a global cataclysm that threatens humanity with extinction in the year 2012.
• Despite being offered evacuation to the global arcs saving remaining humans, Wilson decided to stay behind in Washington, D.C. and sheltered refugees in the White House. Earthquakes and ash clouds hit DC before a tsunami hit the city, causing the USS John F. Kennedy to hit the White House, destroying it and killing everyone inside, including President Wilson.
• Succeeded by his Chief of Staff, Carl Anheuser who appoints himself "Acting Commander in Chief" as Anheuser is the most senior survivor of the cataclysm.
• Married a woman named Dorothy, who died prior to his Presidency and a had a daughter named Laura who became a doctor.
• Played by: Danny Glover

President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip

• President in: It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis
• Fascist Senator who wins the 1936 Presidential election.
• Ousted by Secretary of State Lee Sarason, who was the behind-the-scenes powerbroker for Windrip even before Windrip became a Senator.

President Hugo Allen Winkler

• President in: The Tercentenary Incident by Isaac Asimov
• He was the 57th president.
• He was assassinated on July 4, 2076 and replaced with a robot impostor who continued to run the country undetected.

President John P. Wintergreen

• President in: Of Thee I Sing and Let 'Em Eat Cake by George and Ira Gershwin
• Runs for president on a platform of "Love is sweeping the country." Publicizes his campaign by promising to marry the winner of a beauty contest, but instead falls in love with and marries a secretary, Mary Turner. This causes an international incident with France.
• Defeated for reelection by John P. Tweedledee in Let 'Em Eat Cake.
• Overthrows the government on July 4, proclaiming a dictatorship of the proletariat and later overthrown in a coup by the US Army after failing to deliver on his promises to them.
• Spared a death by guillotining when his wife helps incite the Army to turn on its leader.

President Elect Arthur Coleman Winters

• President in: the 2007 episode "The Sound of Drums" of the BBC's Doctor Who
• Designated as UN representative during first contact with the Toclafane. He is assassinated by the Toclafane on orders of fictional British Prime Minister Harold Saxon, who is actually the Time Lord known as "the Master".
• Played by: Colin Stinton

President Winthrop

• President in "The Repairer of Reputations" by Robert W. Chambers
• Administration ends in 1920; he legalizes suicide chambers.

President John Winthrop

• President (elected 1970) in the 1939 Robert A. Heinlein novel For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs.

Y

President Kenneth Yamaoka

• President in: Eagle (manga) by Kaiji Kawaguchi
• Yamaoka is the 43rd President and is the first Asian-American president (third generation Japanese-American). He previously served in the military in Japan and in the Vietnam War and was the Democratic senator from New York. Yamaoka is married to Patricia with son Alex, daughter Rachel and an illegitimate son, Takashi Jo.
• Party: Democratic

President Yancy

• President in The Nomination.

President Anton York

• President in a Gold Key Star Trek comic #9, "The Legacy of Lazarus"
• He served as the 45th president in the 21st Century.
• A possible homage to the "Anton York, Immortal" stories by Earl and Otto Binder.

President Augustus Alvin York

• President in: The Zero Factor, a 1980 novel by William Oscar Johnson
• York is nominated in Chicago as the Republican candidate for president when the convention for the 1980 election is hopelessly deadlocked with Ronald Reagan and other nominees. After dozens of ballots, York is a compromise/sacrificial nomination.
• To everyone's surprise, York wins the 1980 election, but then becomes rather obsessed with the "Zero Factor" for presidents. All presidents elected in a year ending in Zero since 1840 have died in office. York fears he will be next in 1980.
• After multiple attempts on his life, York begins to suffer severe stress, and finally finds the freedom from the Zero Factor by resigning office and turning the Presidency over to his former Vice-President, Browning Dayton.
• Party: Republican

President Young

• President in Space: Above and Beyond episode "Eyes".
• Assassinated by a silicate, an artificial life form, in 2051.

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