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Wednesday, November 3 2060

WASHINGTON D.C.---Katherine Janney; the 35-year-old Harvard- Educated former attorney, and two-term Congresswoman form Portland, Oregon; has just been elected as the 53rd President of the United States of America.

Katherine Alexandra Janney was born on June 6, 2024, in Manchester, New Hampshire. She is the youngest daughter of recently retired Republican Senator Alexander Janney of New Hampshire. Katherine was raised, with her two sisters; Carolyn and Maryline, in Eugene, Oregon; from the age of eight onward, following their mother’s divorce from the Senator; which effectively torpedoed his presumptive bid for the Presidency in the election of 2034.

After graduating with a BAs in Political Science form Lewis and Clark University in nearby Portland in 2074, Janney went on to Harvard Law School, graduating summa cum latte with a Masters Degree in Constitutional law four years later.

She began work as an associate attorney at the Boston-based law firm of Janney, Kirks and Krueloe; of which her older sister Carolyn was the founding named partner. While working at the firm’s home office in Boston, Katherine nevertheless continued with her studies; earning a PhD in Geopolitical Sociology at the age of just 28.

Never married, Janney nonetheless supports a teenage child of her own; or so to speak---Her 15-year-old niece, Julia Gate-Allen; the only child of Katherine’s oldest sister, Maryline.

Almost immediately upon receiving her doctorate; Katherine left Boston for Portland, Oregon, where she took the position of senior associate at the Portland headquarters of the law firm’s new west-coast branch.

A talented orator and commanding public speaker, and a relentless and tactful litigator; Janney remained reportedly undefeated in court room trials for the full duration of her final year at the firm; as she prepared her ultimately successful Congressional bid in 2055-56.

She quickly acquired several very influential contacts; not least among which were Senate Majority Leader Josieph Kickland of Illinois; reportedly her lifelong mentor; and her Congressional Chief of Staff and chief political strategist, her old friend Kenneth Welsh; a former Cabinet Secretary of State and Defense and member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts; with a laudable service record, both in and outside of the military, having achieved the rank of General in the Marine Corps; widely honored and respected in an outside of Washington as a sharp and brilliant political mind.

Now, four years later; at the age of just 35 years old; Katherine Janney, Harvard-educated sociologist and litigator; has been voted in as the nation’s next President, by perhaps one of the widest margins in Presidential history. The American public have chosen by an almost overwhelming majority, as their new Commander-in-Chief, the youngest President in the nation’s history, and the first Bachelorette; that is, unmarried woman, ever to hold the government’s highest office.

WASHINGTON POST

Sunday, April 1, 2063

UW SCIENCE PROFESSOR TO FILL CABINET SEAT

UW-Madison Environmental Science Professor “Tapped” to Fill New Cabinet Position

WASHINGTON D.C. - White House Press Secretary Gina Everett announced last night that Doctor Jeremy Brooks, Professor of Climate Science at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, has accepted the President Katherine Janney’s nomination to fill the position on the Cabinet left open by the President’s recent creation, last weekend, of the Cabinet-level Department of the Environment, Ecology, and the Sciences.

Jeremy Franklin Brooks is forty years old, and received his PhD in Environmental Education and Scientific Literature from the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities in 2053. He has worked for the past four years as Head Professor of Oceanic and Atmospheric Climate Sciences at the Gaylord Nelson State Center for Environmental Sciences Research at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Six weeks ago, he accepted a temporary position from the President as her Science Liaison and Special Advisor.

Everett also confirmed speculations that Jeremy Brooks’ older sister, Alexia Brooks, also works in the Janney West Wing, serving as the White House Director of Foreign Policy Communications, as Alexia was standing beside Everett in the Press Briefing Room Saturday night. Though, with his new posting, Brooks will have nearly unfettered, around-the-clock access to the President herself; it is as yet unclear, from the Press Secretary’s statements, regarding as to what extent Jeremy Brooks will be working with his sister in the coming months.

NEW YORK TIMES

Sunday, July 20, 2064

FIRST BACHELORETTE POTUS NOW OFF THE MARKET

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA-- It is set to be a D.C. wedding the likes of which seldom seen this side of the beltway and Dupont Circus.

White House Communications Director Kristin Ludlowe called a press conference yesterday to announce that President Katherine Janney has become engaged to be married, to her Science Liaison, Ecology Secretary, and recently appointed White House Chief of Staff; Doctor Jeremy Brooks.

President Janney hired Brooks, then a forty-year-old Environmental Sciences Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison; as personal science Liaison to the Office of the President last February. Two months later, the White House issued an Executive Order, effectively creating a new Cabinet bureaucracy; the Department of the Environment, Ecology, and the Sciences; and Janney nominated Doctor Brooks to fill the Secretary position.

Doctor Brooks was seriously injured in the May Day hurricane in Chicago, while performing a guest lectureship at Northwestern University in the suburb of Evanston, and was treated aboard Air Force One after being rescued by the President and her Staff on their May Day tour of nearby Milwaukee. The erstwhile Professor managed, however, to repay the favor-debt, by reportedly saving the President’s life on two separate occasions; during a volcanic eruption in Mexico City, and in a tropical cyclone in New Orleans, Louisiana.

After Brooks orchestrated the White House’s celebrations of the President’s birthday in early June of last year; what followed could only be described as a whirlwind romance, as tumultuous as the weather.

Reunited after the evacuation of Washington in mid-September, the new couple toured the world aboard Air Force One throughout the autumn, fall, and into the winter of the past year; from Janney’s home of Portland, Oregon, to a New Years’ celebration in Sydney, Australia; and from a tour of San Francisco, to a Christmas holiday spent in Rome, Italy.

Returning to the White House, Janney and Brooks, with the President’s eighteen-year-old daughter Julia, seemed the embodiment of a Presidential family.

Brooks was later promoted, following the death of Chief Political Advisor Kenneth Welsh in May, to the position of White House Chief of Staff. After the death of the President’s father, former Conservative Republican Senator Alexander Janney of New Hampshire; Doctor Brooks helped Janney, working closely with the young Commander in Chief. Together, they arranged and organized what was to be the single largest gathering of world leaders in contemporary recorded history. The over two-hundred- and-fifty Heads of State which met early this month in upstate New York, under the leadership of the young President of the United States, ratified and signed the New Albany Accords, a charter for a new unified system of global government.

According to sources close to the White House; after her July Fourth ratification of the drafting, Professor Brooks routinely took the President out for Dinner at various DC restaurants.

NEW YORK TIMES/ WASHINGTON POST

Friday, January 15, 2065

FOUNDING MOTHER OF FEDERATION EXPECTING

First Couple Anticipating Birth of First Child; Daughter, Press Secretary Announces

WASHINGTON D.C. - In a special news conference on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Gina Everett officially announced yesterday that President Katherine Janney is pregnant with her first child. Janney, who orchestrated the international Conference in Rome, New York last July; and who is slated, next Sunday in Paris, France, to be sworn in by the Secretary General of the United Nations, as the first President of the new United Federated States of Earth; is a forty-year-old Harvard-educated former attorney from Manchester, New Hampshire. The youngest daughter of prominent former Conservative Senator Alexander Janney (R., NH), Katherine herself served four years in the House of Representatives (D-R., OR); before being elected as the 53rd President of the United States of America in 2060, at the age of 35.

President Janney, and her husband, and White House Chief of Staff, Jeremy Brooks; himself formerly Professor of Climate Science at the University of Wisconsin- Madison; and Cabinet Secretary of the Department of the Environment, Ecology, and the Sciences; who were married in the National Cathedral here in D.C. last September; announced early today that they had chosen a name for their first-born; a daughter, whom they plan to name Alexandria; in honor, they said, of the President’s late father, who died last June 6, on his youngest daughter’s 40th birthday.