The protagonist of a majority of Tom Clancy's novels. Graduated from Boston College, went on to become a marine, during which time he suffered a near-fatal and crippling accident in a helicopter crash. Was a consultant for CIA for a time, then became a professor in history at Anapolis. Went on to various positions of state, eventually ending up as president as a result of a cataclysmic destruction of the convened House of Representatives, the President, and the Cabinet.