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| Name | Actor | Title of the work of fiction | Writer | Type of fiction | Year | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eleanor Richmond | — | Interface | Neal Stephenson George Jewsbury |
novel | 1994 | [1] | |
| Douglass Dilman | James Earl Jones | The Man | Rod Serling | film | 1972 | [2] | |
| Douglass Dilman | — | The Man | Irving Wallace | novel | 1964 | ||
| — | Melanie Henderson | Spidey Super Stories (episode "Spidey Meets the Funny Bunny") |
skit | 1974-1975 | [3] | ||
| President Washington | Tunnel Vision (film) | Neal Israel Michael Mislove |
film | 1976 | [4] |
| Name | Actor | Title of the work of fiction | Writer | Type of fiction | Year | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Denning | American Hero | Republican | |||||
| Vice President Ford | Rosalind Cash | Wrong Is Right | Richard Brooks | film | 1982 | [5] | |
| Jim Gardner | Harry J. Lennix | Commander in Chief | Rod Lurie | TV series | 2006 | Republican/ Independent |
[6] |
| Robert (Robby) Jackson | — | The Bear and the Dragon | Tom Clancy | novel | 2000 | [7] | |
| June Syers | — | The Kid Who Ran For President | Dan Gutman | children's book | 1996 |
| Name | Actor | Title of the work of fiction | Writer | Type of fiction | Year | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Warren Boutwell | Billy Dee Williams | Undercover Brother | Michael McCullers John Ridley |
film | 2002 | ||
| Senator Joy | Eamonn Walker | Bonekickers (episode 02, Warriors) |
Matthew Graham Ashley Pharoah |
TV series | 2008 | ||
| Senator Gary H. Wright | Joe Morton | House, M.D. (episode 1-17, Role Model) |
Matt Witten | TV series | 2005 | Democratic |
Sources edit
- Black president in popular culture (United States)
- List of fictional United States Presidents
List of fictional Vice Presidents of the United States
DoneList of fictional United States presidential candidates DoneFiction regarding United States presidential succession Done- List of other fictional United States Presidents
- Science Fiction's Presidents Of The 21st Century
- A pop-cultural survey of black presidents
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- ^ running mate of the President-Elect, who gets shot
- ^ The Vice President is still alive but elderly and infirm; he declines to assume the Presidency upon the death of the President. The Presidency thus passes to the black President pro tem of the Senate.
- ^ Some sources indicate that Melanie may have been the first female African American actress to portray an American president on television.
- ^ A woman
- ^ based on Charles McCarry's novel The Better Angels
- ^ He accepts to run for Vice President under Mackenzie Allen, but even though it is implied that they win, that is not actually shown in the series.
- ^ Is assassinated by a former Ku Klux Klan member