Theory:Timeline - President of the United States

This page lists Presidents of the United States in chronological the order. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

Years given for their presidency are the ones confirmed by DWU stories.

Timeline

 * 1. George Washington
 * 2. John Adams
 * 3. Thomas Jefferson
 * 15. James Buchanan
 * 16. Abraham Lincoln
 * 25. William McKinley
 * 26. Theodore Roosevelt
 * 28. Woodrow Wilson
 * 31. 1929-1930 Herbert Hoover
 * DOCTOR: Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the USA, came to power a year ago. Up till then New York was a boom town, the Roaring Twenties, and then.
 * MARTHA: The Wall Street Crash, yeah? When was that, 1929?


 * 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * 33. Harry S. Truman
 * 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * 35. John F. Kennedy
 * 36. Lyndon B. Johnson
 * 37. 1969-1974: Richard Nixon
 * NIXON: But I'm a President at the beginning of his time. Dare I ask. Will I be remembered? (TV: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon)
 * NIXON: Good evening, my fellow Americans... (COMIC: In With the Tide)


 * 38. Gerald Ford
 * 39. 1970s: Jimmy Carter
 * ‘What’s the year? 1996. Starting from the 1970s, how does it go? Let’s see. . . Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Dering, Springsteen, Norris. . . ’ (PROSE: Interference - Book One)


 * 40. Ronald Reagan
 * 41. George H. W. Bush
 * NOTE: H. W. Bush is seen with President Clinton in TV: Rosa.


 * At this point, the numbering of presidents starts to conflict with the real world.


 * c. 1994: Carrol
 * NOTE: The list from Interference - Book One forgot President Carrol.


 * 1996-1999: Bill Clinton
 * He said, ' "The attacks were just part of President Clinton's election campaign." '
 * I looked up. If his voice was bitter, his expression was tragic. 'You're quoting Masaud Barzani - 1996. The Intervention.' (PROSE: Eternity Weeps)
 * 'But the Guardian is like, say, your American President, Billy: he's associated with the Federation but Guardian of a subset, in this case your solar system.' Sam could see he was enjoying his own lecture as well. 'And rather like President Clinton,' (PROSE: Placebo Effect)
 * DOCTOR: And in June 1999, Rosa receives the Congressional Medal from President Clinton, the highest award given to any civilian, recognising her as a living icon for freedom. (TV: Rosa)


 * 1998-1999: Tom Dering


 * "By the time he got to speak to President Dering, his sense of occasion was tempered by his anxiety about whether the battery in the satellite phone he had commandeered from the US Embassy would last." (PROSE: Millennium Shock)
 * NOTE: Conflicts with years given for Bill Clinton.


 * 2003: Bruce Springsteen
 * "...who together made a bigger hullabaloo than Springsteen did even before he was elected President."
 * 'Who in their right minds elects a rock-star president of a major world government, anyway?' (PROSE: Eternity Weeps)


 * 200X: Chuck Norris
 * 2006: Unnamed (Aliens of London)
 * NEWS ANCHOR: The President will address the nation live from the White House, but the Secretary General has asked that people watch the skies.
 * NOTE: This president would be Arthur C. Winters if he were elected in 2004.


 * 2008: Arthur C. Winters
 * WINTERS: My name is Arthur Coleman Winters, president-elect of the United States of America, and designated representative of the United Nations.
 * NOTE: Winters' claiming to be president-elect would not be possible in spring 2008 nor would a president-elect have presidential duties. This was a mistake on the part of Russell T. Davies and could be taken as a slip of the tongue from an in-universe standpoint.


 * 2008: Winters' Vice President
 * NOTE: While not explicitly outlined, Winter's Vice President would ascend to the presidency after his death.


 * 2009: Barack Obama
 * AMN NEWS: And now, anticipation is rising as we go live to Washington. Here, on Christmas Day, the President has promised an instant and radical solution to the worldwide depression. Barack Obama will lead us all into a new age of prosperity.
 * 2009:
 * OBAMA-MASTER: I'm President. President of the United States. Look at me! Ooo, financial solution. Deleted. Ha ha!


 * c. 201X?: Felix Mather
 * "The Doctor racked his brains. ‘Ah yes. 1989. I stole your space shuttle.’"
 * "Malady looked at the Doctor. He must have been about ten at the time." (PROSE: Trading Futures)


 * c. 2017: Matt Nelson
 * c. 2017: "Lola Denison"
 * 2017-2018: Donald Trump
 * BILL: I don't know the President. How would I know the President? I mean, I wouldn't even have voted for him. He's... orange. (TV: The Pyramid at the End of the World)
 * NOTE: It would stand to reason that this unnamed president is Donald Trump, who is seen in TV: The Lie of the Land and mentioned in TV: The Doctor Falls.
 * JADE: I've heard you're only running cos you've hated Trump for decades. (TV: Arachnids in the UK)


 * 2049?: Courtney Woods
 * CLARA: I don't know! The President of America.
 * DOCTOR: Oh, take something off his plate. He makes far too many decisions anyway.
 * LUNDVIK: She.
 * DOCTOR: Well, she really is something special now, isn't she? First woman on the moon, saved the Earth from itself, and, rather bizarrely, she becomes the President of the United States. (TV: Kill the Moon)