World Government in Fiction - President of Earth

President of Earth is a fictional concept or character who is the ruler of the planet Earth. Examples include the following:

• In DC Comics, superhero Bart Allen had a presidential grandfather President Thawne; Jacques Foccart, the second Invisible Kid, went on to serve as President of Earth.
• A poem "The President of Earth" by Author David Kennedy (b1959) in a book with the same title,
• An occupation in many Star Trek story lines including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• A fictional character in a fictional universe in The Adventures of Captain Proton holoprogram on USS Voyager's holodeck
• Gerry Anderson's 1960s puppet shows, via their TV Century 21 comic and episodes of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, featured a World President as head of a unified World Government.
• In the 1968 film Barbarella, Barbarella is sent out by the President of Earth.
• In Futurama, based in the 31st century, the position of President of Earth is held by Richard Nixon's Head, preceded by "Earth President McNeal".
• In Doctor Who, several future timelines - most notably the 26th century's Earth Empire - have a President of Earth; in the first such story, Frontier in Space, the President's world government is specifically based on the United States government.
• In Babylon 5: In the Beginning, the president of Earth orders all available ships to form a line around the planet in a vain attempt to stave off the final Minbari obliteration of the human race. This, the Battle of the Line, is the final battle of the war.
• In The New Twilight Zone episode Lost and Found and the Phyllis Eisenstein 1978 short story of the same title upon which it was based, a woman named Jenny Templeton (Akosua Busia) will someday be elected the first president of Earth, presumably in the 21st century and will eventually be called "The Great Peacemaker".