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".
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“We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Possibly there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your psychiatry, Mr. Garth.”
—Garrett Fort (1900–1945)