List of fictional presidents of the United States (E–F)

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, E through F.

E

President Emmett Earnshaw

• President in: Irving Wallace's The Pigeon Drop.
• Serves one term and decides not to run for re-election.

President Matthew Easton

• President in Sunflower by Marilyn Sharpe.
• Wife is Elizabeth, and daughter is named Anna (Secret Service code name "Sunflower").
• Anna is kidnapped during his term.

President Sarah Susan Eckert

• President in: J.M. Dillard's novelization of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• A scene deleted from the film shows Hikaru Sulu and Pavel Chekov near Mount Rushmore, on which a fifth face, that of an African-American woman, can be seen.
• Dillard's novelization refers to Eckert as "the first black Northam president." Her face being added to the mountain clearly implies that posterity regards her as being on a par with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

President Thomas Eckhart

• President in: Agent X
• Party affiliation unknown
• Played by: John Shea

President John Henry Eden

• President in: Fallout 3
• Leader of the Enclave, the last remnant of the US government after a worldwide nuclear apocalypse, after President Dick Richardson is killed. Like Richardson, he is never actually elected; however, he promises true elections and a brighter future for the wastelands of America in a radio broadcast.
• President John Henry Eden is not actually a human being, and is in fact an AI based on the ZAX supercomputer.

President Edwards

• President in: The Lords Day by Michael Dobbs
• First woman elected to the office.
• Third member of her family to have occupied the White House.
• Her son William-Henry Harrison Edwards, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, is in attendance of the State Opening of Parliament when it is attacked by terrorists.

President Russell Eigenblick

• President in: Little, Big
• A charismatic despot
• The reincarnation of Frederick Barbarossa

President Ellis

• President in: The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer by Carol Hill
• In office in the mid-1980s.
• 87 years old, 6'2" with dyed brown hair.
• Nicknamed "Daddy Ice" due to his apathetic crisis responses and fondness for naps.
• Implied to be Republican.
• Encounters issues including bizarre global weather, severe environmental problems, the disappearance of a Mars-bound astronaut, and ten thousand Native Americans vanishing from Cononga County, Texas, and reappearing in the Pentagon basement.

President Andrew Ellis

• President in: Tom Clancy's The Division 2
• Former Speaker of the House and third in line for the Presidency.
• Assumed power after the deaths of the two previous Presidents during the Green Poison crisis depicted in Tom Clancy's The Division.
• Secretly associated with and propped up by a mysterious cabal that runs the Black Tusk Special Unit, a paramilitary group that invades Washington, DC.
• Following his rescue from a Hyena gang by agents of the Division, Ellis betrays what's left of the pre-pandemic government by handing over a broad-spectrum antiviral to Black Tusk.

President Matthew Ellis

• President in: Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Is quoted as welcoming Captain America back to the world at Cap's Smithsonian Institution exhibit.
• Abducted by AIM president Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) in an elaborate scheme to execute him for his collaborator, Vice President Rodriguez (Miguel Ferrer), to become the new President while Killian continues to profit through customized terrorism. However, Killian's plans are thwarted by Tony Stark, while Col. James Rhodes takes President Ellis to safety.
• Targeted for assassination by HYDRA via Insight helicarrier air strike based on Arnim Zola's algorithm that determined his future actions would run counter to HYDRA's agenda.
• Announcing to the world and recap the events of New York, London, Sokovia and the recent rise of the Inhumans, authorized the formation of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit, which was instructed to contain potential threats caused by people with superpowers.
• Later agreed to provide support for S.H.I.E.L.D. to come out of the shadows and be reestablished, on condition that Phil Coulson step down as Director.
• Played by: William Sadler

President Walter Emerson

• President in: Deterrence
• Played by: Kevin Pollak
• After the elected vice president resigned, he was confirmed with minority support of the electorate. The President died of natural causes, elevating Emerson.
• Administration officials include; National Security Advisor Gayle Redford, Chief of Staff Marshall Thompson, Secretary of Defense Don Hancock, Secretary of State Deborah Cleft and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Frank Lancaster.
• Initially seeking his party's nomination in the next primary, having selected Senate President pro tempore Theodore Slater of Wyoming as his Vice Presidential nominee, he drops out after ordering a nuclear strike on Baghdad after Iraqi President Uday Hussein has the Republican Guard invade Kuwait.

President Sven Ericson

• President in the novel Full Disclosure by William Safire
• President Ericson is blinded during the assassination of the leader of the USSR. It is learned that the then-candidate had suffered temporary blindness during his campaign, and it was decided not to disclose this. The novel follows attempts to remove the president from office.
• Divorced, has an active sex life, and loves the White House meatloaf.

President Jackson Evans

• President in: The Contender
• A former senator who attended West Point and enjoys cigars and shark steak sandwiches. Evans was a two-term Democratic president who sought to replace his deceased vice president, Troy Ellerd, with Senator Laine Hanson (D-Ohio) to succeed him.
• Was set upon stumping the White House kitchen staff before leaving office with outrageous food requests, ultimately succeeding when they said they were out of Munster cheese, for his grilled cheese sandwich.
• Played by: Jeff Bridges
• Party: Democratic

President J. R. Ewing

• President in the novel Back in the USSA by Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne
• Ewing becomes President of the Confederation of Independent North American States in 1992, following the collapse of the Communist regime of the United Socialist States of America. He is still President in 1998, although severely weakened (both politically and physically) following a 1996 assassination attempt. It is mentioned that him being president is the only thing preventing the secession of Texas. A number of military officers including Colin Powell and Nick Fury are said to scheme to overthrow him in a coup.

F

President Simon Faircliffe

• President in The President's Man, a 1982 novel by Nicholas Guild.
• Former U.S. Senator.
• Secretly assassinated by his CIA Director when it is discovered he is a traitor.

President Harold Farkley

• President in No Way To Treat A First Lady by Christopher Buckley
• Was Vice President to President Kenneth MacMann.

President Fellwick

• President in the TV Movie Atomic Train
• Played by Edward Herrmann

President Julian Felsenburgh

• President in Lord of the World, 1907 dystopian science fiction novel by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson.
• In the early Twenty First Century Senator Julian Felsenburgh travels widely in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East, with the declared aim of bringing peace and unifying the world. He manages to avert at the very last moment a seemingly inevitable devastating war between the European Confederation and the Sino-Japanese Eastern Empire, for which he gets much praise. Going into the Muslim World he is hailed as the Mahdi. Eventually Felsenburgh becomes President of both the US and of a United Europe, and his rule accepted by all countries of the world - being granted "a position hitherto undreamed of in democracy", i.e. "a House of Government in every capital in the world, a final veto lasting three years on every motion submitted to him, and a legal power granted to every motion he submits on three consecutive years". Felsenburgh them embarks on militant Atheism and a savage persecution of all religious people, in particular of Catholics. In London, Atheist mobs perpetrate large-scale pogroms of Catholics, killing them out of hand whenever found, while the police - on Felsenburgh's instructions - stands aside. The same is repeated in numerous other places. Commanding a fleet of "volors" (dirigibles), Felsenburgh orders the firebombing and complete destruction of the city of Rome, in order to extirpate the Catholic Church. Felsenburgh is revealed to be the Antichrist, and he orders every person in the world to choose between denying the existence of God or instant death. Then Felsenburgh personally oversees the firebombing of Nazareth, where the last remaining Catholics have gathered to elect a new Pope - but God who definitely does exist intervenes and brings about the end of the world.

President T.C. Fenton

• President in The Man, a 1972 TV movie based on the book by Irving Wallace.
• Killed along with the Speaker of the House in a building collapse in Germany.
• When invalid Vice President Noah Calvin (Lew Ayres) declines the office due to health reasons, President Fenton is replaced by the President Pro Tem of the US Senate, Senator Douglass Dilman of New Hampshire (James Earl Jones).
• President Fenton was from Arizona, and his widow was in Phoenix at the time of the accident.

President Charlotte Field

• President in: Long Shot
• First female President, elected to office in 2020.
• Born and raised in Washington, D.C.
• Previously served as United States Secretary of State under President Chambers, being the youngest person appointed to the office.
• Married to First Gentleman Fred Field (né Flarsky), a speechwriter and former journalist she began seeing romantically during her tenure with the State Department.
• Championed the Global Rehabilitation Initiative, a radical environmentalist policy to which she was able to convince many countries to join as signatories.
• Played by: Charlize Theron
• Political Party: Democratic

President Robert Fielding

• President in: Command & Conquer
• During his time in office, he spearheads the Global Defense Initiative and the White House comes under attack from the Brotherhood of Nod.

President John Fields

• President in: Executive Power
• Played by: William Atherton

President Mallard Fillmore

• President of the United Species of America in Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew.
• A duck, Fillmore's name is a play on Millard Fillmore. No relation to the similarly named Mallard Fillmore comic strip.

President Finesterre

• Former president referenced in the book Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley.
• Assassinated around the time of the Kennedy assassination.
• Uncle of Senator Finesterre, who is engaged in a sex scandal.
• Grandfather of Vermont Senator Ortolan K. Finesterre, the other Senator Finesterre's nephew, and the former Governor of Vermont.

President Fisher

• President in the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption 2.
• Served as president some time before the setting of the game.
• Only appears on the Prominent Americans Cigarette Card Set.
• Political party: Unknown

President Gerald Fitzhugh

• United States President in the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, End of State political spin-off by Neesa Hart, and the film Left Behind: World at War
• Played by: Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Fitzhugh became a figurehead and lame duck after his powers were removed by Global Community Grand Potentate and Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. He then secretly controlled anti-Carpathia militia and revolted against the world ruler, initiating World War III. He was ultimately killed in retaliatory strikes by the G.C.
• Party: Probably Democrat

President John V. Fitz-Kenneth

• President in the story "The Singular Events Which Occurred In The Hovel On The Alley Off Of Eye Street" by Avram Davidson (1964)
• Monarchial President of an alternate history United States in which magic works - and is controlled by ruthless CEO's of multinational corporations.
• Rough analogue of John F. Kennedy, being crowned in this timeline's Washington, D.C. on January 1961.

President Maddie Fitzpatrick

• In an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, she is imagined as the President of the United States, after her campaign was funded by the crook Hot Peppers Delio.
• One of her campaign managers was Zack Martin, who later is jealous when she kisses someone other than him.
• Played By: Ashley Tisdale

President Julia Bliss Flaherty

• President in Neal Stephensons 2015 sci-fi novel Seveneves, mostly referred to as "JBF"
• forty-two years old, youngest president ever inaugurated
• studied economics in Berkeley, then worked at an advisory company and later in at Google, where she becomes a millionaire
• married to a film producer, who she met at a dinner party in Malibu
• failed at becoming a senator to California, was pregnant on election day, later gave birth to a child with down syndrome
• she grabbed attention in numerous talkshows and was considered by both Republicans and Democrats as a potential vice president due to her moderate, bi-partisan political views
• ascends to presidency after the current president had to resign only ten months after election because of a scandal
• one year in office, president Flaherty is faced with the task of saving some parts of humanity, after the moon explodes into seven pieces and is threatening to destroy earth completely
• In violetten of an international accord, that all world Leaders shall stay on earth, when the apocalypse comes, Julia saves herself by feeling to the ISS aboard a Boeing X-37, along with her science advisor Pete Starling
• she's marginalized by the passengers of the ark at first, she attempts to reassert her former power and persuades a large number of cloud ark inhabitants to abandon the ISS
• Disaster and internal dissent lead to the death of many members of her faction and she is overtrown in her role as leader
• JBF remains as one of the seven last surviving women of humankind, the "seven eves", which genetically modified descendants will repopulate earth 5000 years later
• the descendants of her new race in particular are Mode attuned to and adapt at social and psychological manipulation

President Fletcher J. Fletcher

• President in: A Planet for the President (2004 novel by Alistair Beaton)
• Fletcher is president during a period of massive global climate change. During administration, a category 5 hurricane destroys the entire city of New Orleans, killing thousands. Fletcher drinks alcohol and is a devout Christian who hates liberals and has a gay son. He appears to be a thinly disguised take on George W. Bush.
• To solve the global environmental crisis, the Fletcher administration unleashes a massive biological pandemic, saving only the United States; in the end, the virus kills all humans on the planet except President Fletcher.
• Party: Possibly Republican; possibly Democratic; possibly Reform

President Harrison Ford

• President in: Scary Movie 3
• Appears as only a portrait of actor Harrison Ford as a former US President in the White House; the current president says, "I wonder what President Ford would have done?" This is a reference to Ford's role as President James Marshall in the 1997 film 'Air Force One.

President Ford

• President in: Frisky Dingo
• A scheming, greedy, border-line insane, elderly man, he usurped the presidency from President Taqu'il, by poisoning the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tem of the Senate, and shooting down Air Force One with a rocket launcher, while the President, Vice Cabinet, and the Cabinet were on board, making him resident via succession as Secretary of Homeland Security.
• Voiced by Mr. Ford, who is the next door neighbor to the show's production company, 7030 Productions.

President Robert Fogerty

• President in: National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, a 1982 film
• Played by Fred Willard

President Herbert Forrest

• President in: Superman Annual #3 (vol. 2) [DC Comics 1991]
• A former Senator who uses the nuclear destruction of Metropolis as an issue to win the Presidency.
• Sparked by the death of Lois Lane and all his friends, Superman begins to remove all nuclear weapons from Earth.
• President Forrest asks Batman to stop Superman after he causes the death of US sailors while disarming a nuclear missile submarine.
• Party: Republican

President Emily Forrester

• President in: Killing Time: A Novel of the Future (2000 novel by Caleb Carr)

President James Foster

• President in: Chasing Liberty
• Foster is married to Michelle Foster and has one daughter, Anna.
• Popular second-term president with a 63% approval rating.
• Played by: Mark Harmon

President William Foster

• President in: TV movie The Enemy Within
• Played by: Sam Waterston

President Jonathan Robert "Bob" Fowler

• President in: The Sum of All Fears
• Former governor of Ohio and when president, the city of Denver (Baltimore in the film version) was destroyed by a nuclear device.
• Party - Democratic (unnamed in novel, but most likely Democrat)
• (in the novel) Ordered a nuclear strike on Iran during the crisis, but was countermanded by CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan and later resigned. In the sequel, Debt of Honor, he has been replaced by his vice president Roger Durling.
• Played by: James Cromwell

President Clementine Searcy Fox

• President in: First Hubby, a novel by Roy Blount, Jr.
• First female president

President-Elect MacArthur Foyle

• President-Elect in The People's Choice by Jeff Greenfield.
• Dies from a blood clot after breaking his leg in a horse riding accident before taking office.
• Party: Republican.

President Frankenstein

• President in: Death Race 2000, a 1975 film
• Former contestant in a road race that scored points on running over people.
• Only three-time winner of the Continental Road Race, only survivor of the 20th Anniversary Continental Road Race run in the year 2000.
• Became President when he ran over the dictatorial Mr. President, who had been in office since the World Crash of 1979.
• Played by David Carradine

President Benjamin Franklin

• President on Children's Hospital, Season 3 Episode 14
• Mentioned in a Newsreaders segment on Children's Hospital to have been shot in the head after leaving office.

President Harriet Franklin

• President in: the disaster movie Airline Disaster (2010)
• She has to decide between family and the safety of the people in the cities below, when she learns the plane her brother is piloting has been skyjacked.

President Hunter Franklin

• President on BET's Tyler Perry's The Oval
• 46th President of the United States since January 20, 2025
• Previously served as Governor of Pennsylvania from January 20, 2015 to January 17, 2023
• Previously served as Mayor of Pittsburgh
• Graduated from Virginia Tech University
• Married to Victoria Franklin, an African American
• Father of two children: Jason and Gayle Franklin
• Political Party Affiliation: Unknown
• Portrayed by Ed Quinn

President Hugh Frankling

• President in the book The Whole Truth by John Ehrlichman
• Refused to resign after a scandal.

President D. Nolan Fraser

• Elected President in 2000 in the book The Venus Belt by L. Neil Smith.
• The Mayor of Denver, his platform was to restore the personal liberties seen in Smith's first book in the series, The Probability Broach.
• Party: Propertarian (a stand-in for the real-life Libertarian Party).

President Edgar Frazier

• President in the novel Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, Jr..
• Served after President Kennedy, and elected in 1968.
• During his term the Soviet Union invaded Iran. This led to the Iranian War between the US and the Soviets, and the division of Iran between a Communist North and a Free South.
• Lost the 1972 election to Ohio Governor Jordan Lyman largely because of the outcome of the Iranian War.
• Party: Republican

President Ferris F. Fremont

• President in: Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
• Based loosely upon Richard Nixon, Fremont is a paranoid who turns the US into a Stalinesque police state to crush a nonexistent conspiracy. "F" being the sixth letter of the alphabet, his initials spell out 666.

President Max Frost (Max Jacob Flatow Jr)

• President in: Wild in the Streets
• Played by Christopher Jones
• Popular rock star, gets minimum age for President reduced to 20 (or so) and voting age to 14, by spiking congress's water with LSD.
• Wins presidency and interns all "oldsters" in concentration camps

President Truman Theodore Fruitty

• President in: Mr. Show with Bob and David
• Played by: Jay Johnston
• The eleventy-twelfth President.
• Causes a major scandal by farting.

President Fuller

• President in: Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy
• One of many presidents in this series.
• Resigned from office after he found the irrelevancy of his position.
• Based on Buckminster Fuller

President Funny Valentine

• President in: "Steel Ball Run" by Hirohiko Araki
• 23rd president in an alternate timeline version of the United States
• Seeks to gather the corpse pieces of Jesus Christ in order to advance the interests of the United States

President FXJKHR

• President in: Futurama
• He is the 60th President (of either Earth or the United States)
• Details of his Presidency are unknown, although a monument (which is based on the Lincoln Memorial) depicts him sitting atop a throne of skulls and eating a human.

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