Biography of the Last President of America

(The Honorable) Dr. Katherine Alexandra [Ah-le-san-dra] Janney, Ph.D

President of the United States of America

Katherine Janney was born on June 6, 2024, in Manchester, New Hampshire. Her parents; Patricia Janney, a Scottish-Irish special advisor at the United Nations in New York City, and Alexander Roseline, a senior Conservative Republican United States Senator from New England; were married in Philadelphia. Alexander himself the son of Maximillian Rhozenko, an immigrant refugee from 1950’s Soviet–occupied Berlin, and Roseline Saint-Claire from Paris, married in Normandy before migrating to the United States in the late 1970’s.

Katherine is the middle child of five, having two older sisters, Maryline and Claudia, as well as a pair of twin younger brothers.

In 2028, after three terms in the Senate, Alexander ran for the Presidency of the United States. This was, for the family, the final straw that broke Patricia’s heart, and she filed for divorce from Katherine’s father that same year, the custody battle forcing the Senator, the prohibitive favorite for the Republican Presidential nomination, to drop out of the electoral campaign. After finalizing the settlement in 2029, Patricia took her three daughters; Maryline, now aged 12 years old, Carolyn, age 8, and Katherine, 4, moved out to Patricia’s childhood hometown of Eugene, Oregon.

Even as a child, by the age of 8, Katherine Janney was a natural born diplomat; resolving adolescent conflicts on the school playground during class recess. After graduating, a Valedictorian, from her High School, Katherine went on to Lewis and Clark University in Portland, Oregon, receiving a BA in Political Sciences in just four years.

Now in her early twenties, she made the decision, following her older sister Carolyn, to go to Law School at Harvard. After receiving her law degree from Harvard, Carolyn Janney had founded her very own Law Firm of Janney Kirks, and Krueloe, in nearby downtown Boston.

Four grueling years later, at the age of 26, she graduated Summa Cum Latte from Harvard. After receiving a Masters Degree Constitutional Law, in 2051; excelling in the final exams, she was expediently admitted to the Massachusetts State Bar; and, more honorary than in reality, to the State Bars of Oregon and New Hampshire as well; Carolyn more than happily brought her younger sister, Katherine, on as an Associate attorney.

As an Associate with the name of the senior founding Partner, Katherine was assigned many of the firm’s affluent government clientele, took several governmental legal assignments on behalf of the firm. On one excursion, to Portland, she met and spoke with Senior Senator Josieph Kickland of Illinois, who afterwards suggested she strongly consider running for political office within for the Oregon State government. She emphatically agreed.

 A short time after she returned to Boston, Katherine’s long-time boyfriend of almost six years, William Brooks, whom she had met her first year at Harvard, received an irefusable job offer form the United Nations in Manhattan.

While working at the law firm in Boston, Katherine had steadfastly continued her educational studies. Just two years after graduating from Law School, she returned to Cambridge to receive her Doctorate in Geopolitical Sociology from Harvard University at the age of only 28 years old.

Unfortunately; at around the same time, in June of 2053, her boyfriend called from New York to confess to her that he had become romantically involved with another woman over the past year. Breaking up with him via a postcard to the UN; Katherine soon fell into a state of shock and emotional withdrawal, prompting her older sister, Carolyn, to grant her an indefinitely extended leave of absence from her duties at the Law Firm in Boston.

A few months later, however, in August of 2053, Katherine made the impromptu announcement that she would soon be moving back to Portland, Oregon. Carolyn, upon hearing of Katherine’s recovery from her withdrawal, enthusiastically granted her sister a high-ranking position to co-manage the headquarters of the law firm’s new West-coast branch, located in Portland; with Cathryn [Kassey] Krueloe, a named Partner from the Firm’s Boston office.

About that same time; Maryline Janney, now Maryline Allen, received an order from the European Union Intelligence Bureau, requesting that she and her husband move to Europe to serve in the EUIB. One of the Bureau’s strictest provisions stated that, in the interest of operational cohesion, their agents were to have no ‘dependants’. As a result: Maryline was engaged in an intense custodial quagmire, in regards to their only child, a then-6-year-old daughter named Julia Gates-Allen.

Shortly after settling in Portland, and after much careful, deliberate consideration; Katherine unexpectedly volunteered to take young Julia on as her own. This was intended to be only a temporary stopgap safeguard measure, until a more permanent legal custodial guardian could be located.

And so, Maryline Allen, who had changed her name to Marie Neveu; delivered Julia from their home in Los Angeles, through San Francisco, where the girl had been born; to her youngest sister’s new house in Portland.

For the next three years, as young Julia advanced through the grades at nearby Cedar-Laurelhurst Elementary School, Katherine began working for government clients once again. It was in this way that she once more encountered the man who had come to be her lifelong mentor: Josieph Kickland; as one of the regional government attorneys assigned to the Senator’s entourage during his touring of environmental initiatives in San Francisco. At the end of his time in California, the Senator formally invited Katherine to Washington for an all-inclusive personalized tour of the nation’s Capitol.

After sitting in on a session of Congress, debating National Security legislation; Katherine and the Senator met with Senator Theodore Matheson of Virginia and Congressman Robert Seabourne of California, as well as an old friend of Katherine’s father; Kenneth Welsh, now a Representative from Massachusetts. In the West Wing; Kickland and his guest were met in the Roosevelt Room by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Foreman, and ushered by the President’s Personal Secretary into the Oval Office for a personal meeting with then-President Jonathan Whitford.

An hour later, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial; Kickland took his protégé aside and told her that she should seriously consider running for Congress, saying that he saw her as being a Politician herself someday soon.

After having made plenty of money and a popular name for herself as a high-profile attorney for many powerful clients, both government and civilian alike; Katherine Janney tendered her resignation from the law firm of Janney, Kirks, and Krueloe in lat August of 2056, and now age 31, at the urging of her best friend from Harvard, Kristin Ludlowe, publicly announced that she would be running for the United States House of Representatives from the state of Oregon. She started campaigning in early September, and by November it was evident that she would be running all but unopposed, and would win in a runaway landslide.

Upon her arrival in the Congress; Just as he had promised her; Josieph Kickland, now the Senate Majority Leader, helped shepherd her transition into a distinct niche in the Capitol hierarchy, while, as per Kickland’s advice; remaining, for the moment, safely anonymous to the media, the American public, and those in power who could cause her trouble as a new junior Congresswoman.

Senate Majority Leader Kickland was able to shoe her into the Joint Congressional Ethics and Constitutional Affairs Committee, which he chaired. She was made Chair of the House Committees on Conservation and Environmental Protection and Science, Innovation and the Arts.

She could not remain securely in anonymity forever, though, and by her second sophomore year in the House, the public of Washington had begun to note the tall, beautiful, intimidatingly brilliant young woman gracing the Halls of the Capitol. So, too, did the attractive, intelligent twelve-year-old girl who seemed to accompany the young Oregon Representative almost everywhere she went outside the Capitol and the White House. Julia soon rapidly became a media darling. Pretty, and sharp as a whip; she could hold any camera crew in Washington enthralled for hours; That is, had her mother not eschewed press media publicity.

Katherine almost always referred to Julia, her niece, as he daughter. What had been intended to be merely a temporary arrangement had become five life-altering years. By the time Katherine moved into their new house in D.C., Julia was, in any and every real manner, permanently hers.

One of the things that drew media attention to the new Representative from Portland was the fact that Kenneth Welsh, the 60-year-old former Cabinet Secretary of State and defense, and Member of the Military Joint Chiefs of Staff, had recently stepped down from what seemed, to most, to be a very promising new career path   in the House of Representatives, to become first Campaign manager, then Congressional Chief of Staff; to a young junior Congresswoman from Oregon.

A junior Representative from the Pacific Northwest; Janney naturally sought out and began to work increasingly closely with Robert Seabourne of California, perhaps the one person in her area of the Capitol who had been through the particular motions before.

With her increased responsibilities in Congress, Katherine was not able to spend nearly as much time with her daughter as she had when she was just a lawyer in Portland. Kenneth Welsh brought in someone who could help. Rebecca Mavalently was an Air Force Major and a Captain in the Navy who had once served under Welsh. She had also, more importantly, worked closely with Katherine’s oldest sister Maryline in the Los Angeles Police Department; and was the godmother of Maryline’s only daughter, Julia. Welsh, a General in the Marine Corps, used his residual connections in the Department of National Security and Defense to put Major Mavalently into a Joint Chiefs of Staff posting at the Pentagon in Arlington. Becka became the supervisor to Janney’s adolescent niece.

By being placed, so quickly, on so many of the Congress’s most prominent and influential Committees; young Katherine Janney received the equivalent of a pass-fail crash-course in Washington power-politics; learning more about the hierarchy and threads of power in the nation’s capitol in four years than many consummate politicians do in a lifetime’s career spent in Washington. As a result, by the time her second term was over; Janney, by no intention of her own, placed herself in a more ideal position for a bid for the Presidency than the vast majority of Congressmen twice her age have done in a half-century in the Congress.

It came as little or no surprise to those who knew her well inside the Capitol, although a trouncing shock to the rest of the nation, therefore; when, in early September of her second term in the U.S. Congress; Katherine Janney, the now-34-year-old Harvard-trained Sociologist from Portland, Oregon; announced her c9andidacy for the Presidency of the United States. Two months later, in November, she had a challenger; a shrewd and cunning Conservative Senator from New Jersey named Nathan Sedwicks.

Such a crafty politician as Senator Sedwicks was not, in any noticeable way, intimidated by the young, relatively inexperienced junior Congresswoman from Oregon; though he did evidently respect the potency of her agile, yet precise, analytical mind; but was certainly significantly intimidated by her Congressional Chief of Staff, Campaign Manager, and Chief Political Director.

Kenneth Welsh was a 62-year-old man, but he was nevertheless a spitfire-ball who was renowned for his seemingly innate ability, with never nonetheless poise and composure, disassemble his opponents piece by piece in the arena national public debate or in the hallowed chambers of the Capitol in Washington. When he stepped down from his position on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and made the fateful decision to go into professional power politics, numerous publications carried his new title as “the most feared man in Washington”; a designation that would remain as true until the day when he died as it had been his first day in the House.

However, what truly made Katherine Janney a contender on the nation’s greatest stage; famously described by one past President as “the Show that Never Ends”; was her almost familial connections with men of power and influence such as Welsh, an Certainly not least of all her mentor, Senate Majority Leader Josieph Kickland; the reigning champion of Washington Capitol diplomacy.

Also, the Janney camp had a secret weapon; perhaps more potent still than even the craftiest power plays of consummate politicians such as Sedwicks; and it came in a small package. Julia Gates-Allen frequently joined her mother, and the tall and beautiful, intelligent, overtly attractive fifteen-year old young lady became a favorite a   campaign rallies, and the de facto unofficial spokesperson for her “Aunt Kate”.

So effective was this milieu of politically potent alliances, that, by her 35^th birthday, in June of 2060; Katherine Janney was virtually in a statistical neck-and neck dead-heat with the popularly prohibitive favorite for the Democratic-Republican Party’s Nomination; Republican Senator Theodore Matheson from Virginia. The running stalemate held throughout the primary season to the Democratic-Republican National Convention. By the narrowest margin in recorded history, the congregation of delegates at the DRNC selected Katherine Janney, the 35-year-old Harvard-educated former lawyer from Manchester, New Hampshire, as the next Democratic-Republican nominee for the Presidency of the United States.

Many Pundits within the party, following the protracted decision of the normally expedited nomination process, began discussing Janney’s lack of a running mate. Janney gave a rousing acceptance speech for Democratic-Republican operatives; a stirring speech for Americans of every stripe and ideology. Calling her opponent for the past year and a half to the stage, she then quite literally threw her arm around the shoulder of Republican Senator Theodore Matheson of Virginia and announced quite clearly, that he was her Vice-Presidential candidate.

This singular gesture shook the whole nation, rocking the political world to its very core, and had the additional secondary impact of effectively sealing the Presidential election for the Democratic Republicans.

By uniting their two favorite candidates; Sedwicks and Ryan Flatoff of Florida, husband of then-Speaker of the House Brittney Fasching of North Carolina; the Conservative Party mounted a strong counter-opposition.

On November 2, 2060; the American Public elected a 35-year-old woman, a former lawyer from Manchester, New Hampshire, as the 53^rd President of the United States of America. Katherine Alexandra Janney is the youngest President in the nation’s history, being elected at the age of 35 years old; Constitutionally the minimum age at which a person can be legally elected a President of the United States of America.

And the rest, as they say, is History…