List of Fictional United States Presidential Candidates - W

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Glen Allen Walken

• Candidate in: The West Wing (2005) in the 2006 election.
• Played by: John Goodman
• Party: Republican, although professed a fondness for President Harry Truman, a Democrat who, like him, came from the western part of the State of Missouri.
• Walken was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives when Vice President John Hoynes resigned, making him next in the line of succession. Before President Bartlet could appoint a new Vice President, a family crisis forced him to temporarily step aside under the 25th Amendment, making Walken Acting President for three days. In order to accept this position, Walken had to resign his seat in Congress. As he left the Presidency, he told Bartlet that he had not decided whether to run for his old seat.
• Walken was a proponent of tax cuts and a strong military, and Bartlet's comments indicated he was a strong supporter of gun rights as well.
• Joined Bartlet and former President D. Wire Newman at the funeral of former President Owen Lassiter, who was apparently a friend and something of a role model.
• Goodman appeared as Walken in a total of three episodes, and while his character was mentioned as a candidate in the Republican primaries, he was never shown.
• During his three-day Presidency, Bartlet's staff believed that this tenure, however brief, would make Walken the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the next election. However, later episodes revealed that he lost the early primaries to Arnold Vinick.

Hal Philip Walker

• Candidate in: Nashville (1975) in the 1976 election
• Played by: Thomas Hal Phillips
• Party: The Replacement Party (third party)

Ralph Wiggum

• Candidate in: The Simpsons episode E Pluribus Wiggum.
• Played by: Nancy Cartwright
• Party: Supported by both the Democratic and Republican parties

Senator William Wiley

• Candidate in: The West Wing
• U.S. Senator from Washington
• Initially the second-place challenger to John Hoynes in the 1998 primary
• Puts on a poorer than expected showing as Josiah Bartlet becomes more competitive

Walter Winchell

• Candidate in: The Plot Against America (book, 2004)
• Winchell is a historical character in real life and a fictional candidate in 1942 for the 1944 Democratic nomination.
• Party: Democratic Party

Senator Gary H. Wright

• Candidate in: House, M.D. (episode 1–17, Role Model)
• Played by: Joe Morton
• Party: D-NJ
• Wright is running as a candidate to be the first African-American US President

Gordon Wright

• Candidate in: Marvel Universe
• United States Senator who split from his party and formed his own. Wright was secretly in league with the Red Skull. After the new Captain America stopped the Red Skull's plan to assassinate the Democrat and Republican Presidential candidates Wright was forced to resign from the Senate and drop out of the race.
• Party: Third Wing (third party)