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In the first season of the television show For All Mankind, set in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union reached the moon first in 1969, Ted Kennedy became the 38th president of the United States in 1972, having cancelled his trip to Chappaquiddick Island to deal with the aftermath and used congressional hearings into NASA's failings as ...
In the alternate history novel The Probability Broach as part of the North American Confederacy Series by L. Neil Smith in which the United States became a libertarian state after a successful Whiskey Rebellion and George Washington being overthrown and executed by firing squad for treason in 1794, John C. Calhoun becomes the 6th President in 1831 after James Monroe dies in office.
In the second season of the television series For All Mankind, set in an alternate timeline where Alexi Leonov being the first man on the Moon leads to an accelerated space race, Ronald Reagan was elected as the 39th President in 1976, defeating incumbent Democrat Ted Kennedy, albeit after Ohio's electoral votes were contested in the Supreme ...
Perhaps one of the most spineless presidents in TV and movie history, President Logan, as played by the late great Gregory Itzin, made the wrong decision at almost every turn during his tenure on ...
In real life, Hart ran for president in 1984 and 1988 (not 1980 and 1984), and the Monkey Business scandal happened in 1987 (not 1980). In this alternate timeline, Ronald Reagan never entered politics. In the alternate history science fiction series For All Mankind, Gary Hart is the president from 1985 to 1993, succeeding Ronald Reagan.
In the alternate history novel By Force of Arms by Billy Bennett, William Tecumseh Sherman became president. In this timeline, Stonewall Jackson survived the Battle of Chancellorsville and the Confederate States of America won the Battle of Gettysburg and the American Civil War, but six years later Sherman was elected president and the war ...
In the television series For All Mankind, set in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union being the first nation to put a man on the Moon led to an accelerated space race, George H. W. Bush served as Secretary of State during the first term of President Ellen Wilson, formerly an astronaut, NASA Administrator and US Senator from Texas. After ...
While the United States has never elected a woman president, there have been a long list of fictional female presidents in film and television. The first Madame President appeared on screen in ...