Thomas R. Marshall

Thomas Riley Marshall is the 25th President of the United States of America, since 1917. Marshall originally served as Vice President to his predecessor, President William J. Bryan, but felt betrayed when his friend instead became a Laborite President instead. Marshall ran in the 1912 election, and almost beat the President in a near election, but lost. Marshall vowed he would try again in 1916. The election oversaw him pitted against Bryan's political protégé Eugene V. Debs, and Marshall won alongside his running mate, William Gibbs McAdoo.

As President, Marshall has so far overseen the end of the Great War, and has held a firm position of negotiation with Confederate President Thomas H. Ball. The two agreed to détente during and after the end of the Great War in 1919, much to the dissatisfaction of some in Marshall's party and with the Loyalists in the South.

Marshall does seek re-election in the 1920 election, but could be defeated either in the primaries or in the actual election should America decide it no longer wants a polite diplomatic approach to the South.