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Presidential Succession on New Earth (brief overview):[]

William Clinton

  • president who became unpopular during "No Man's Land", ending circa Feb 2000
  • succeeded by Lex Luthor

Alexander Luthor

  • elected before "Imperiex" storyline, based on unpopularity of the "NML" president.
  • impeached, and succeeded by his VP Pete Ross

Pete Ross

  • briefly served as President following Luthor's impeachment but quickly resigned, succeeded by Jonathan Horne.

Jonathan Horne

Martin Suarez (D)

Barack Obama (D)

  • elected and sworn in, some time before "Reign of Doomsday", and
  • still president at the beginning of NEW 52 universe.


THIS LEAVES OUT

Henry Knight (actually Gonzo the Mechanical Bastard)

So:
Was he pre-Luthor?

  • Hard to accept because Luthor was Pre-Infinite Crisis.

Was he post-Luthor and pre-Horne?

  • Can't rule it out with the published evidence. I think.

Was he post-Horne and pre-Suarez?

  • Same deal, no published evidence against it. I think.
    Stoop Davy Dave (talk) 12:59, March 19, 2016 (UTC)
What makes most sense, of course, is: they completely forgot about him. --Tupka217 13:19, March 19, 2016 (UTC)
Seemingly so, yet they never got around to retconning him out of existence. Therefore, his participation in Post-Infinite-Crisis New Earth continuity is a matter of record. Or so it seems. And IF that's so, then it ought to be accounted for in the timeline of New Earth ... er ... um, somewhere. Stoop Davy Dave (talk) 14:20, March 19, 2016 (UTC)
See also Template_talk:President_of_the_United_States for more President discrepancies. --Tupka217 14:29, March 19, 2016 (UTC)
Arg. It helps to remember that all of these presidential transitions and impeachments and electoral campaigns took place during Courtney Whitmore's sophomore year in high school. So it probably takes a pretzel-shaped timeline to account for them all. Arg. Never mind. . Stoop Davy Dave (talk) 14:48, March 19, 2016 (UTC)
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