James Heller (Reimagined)

James William Heller (born September 5, 1966) is the 46th and current President of the United States.

Heller was born in Albany, New York, to Joseph and Katherine Heller (née Devane). His father was the owner of a taxicab company. Heller graduated from Albany High School in 1984 and then went on to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, he enlisted in the United States Army as an officer candidate. Upon completing basic combat training, Heller went on to Officer Candidate School. While attending OCS, he decided to become an air defense artillery. Upon receiving his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, Heller went to the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School. After completing the Air Defense Artillery Officer Basic Course, he was assigned to the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Bliss in Texas as a launcher platoon leader in 1st Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery. Heller later served as a fire control platoon leader. In August of 1990, he was deployed to Saudi Arabia as part of Operation Desert Shied. In 1991, Heller took part in Operation Desert Storm as a battery executive officer.

He left the U.S. Army in 1992 and enrolled in Harvard Business School. Shortly after receiving his Master of Business Administration in 1994, Heller obtained a position a management consultant with Ballard Technology, a Dallas-based professional services firm, and moved to Denton, Texas with his fiancée, Alicia Lewis. A little while later, he and Alicia were married. On March 15, 1996, Heller and Alicia's daughter, Audrey, was born. A few months later, he was promoted to senior consultant. In 1998, Heller left Ballard Technology and co-founded Applied Aviation Company, an aviation consulting company. He took the role of President of the company. With his wife's encouragement, in October of 2001, Heller decided to run for Congress. He won the Republican primary on March 12, 2002 and then was elected to the United States House of Representatives by the voters of Texas's 26th congressional district on November 5, 2002. Heller was sworn as a congressman on January 3, 2003 and was assigned to sit on the House Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on Small Business.

He was reelected to a second term on November 2, 2004 and to a third term on November 7, 2006. Upon being sworn in for his third term, Heller left the Committee on Small Business and instead was assigned to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. After being reelected to a four term on November 4, 2008 and sworn in on January 3, 2009, he was assigned to sit on the House Committee on Appropriations. While simultaneously serving as a congressman, Heller served as the director of The President's Economic Stabilization Program and as chairman of the United States Commission to Assess National Security Policy. He later sat on the United States Ballistic Missile Threat Committee. On December 1, 2009, Heller's wife Alicia died of uterine cancer. One week later, he announced that he had made the decision to not seek a fifth term in Congress. On January 4, 2011, Heller sold his shares of Applied Aviation Company to his business partners. A week later, the president of Ballard Technology offered him position of chief financial officer of the firm. Heller accepted the job offer and took up the job a month later.

On November 4, 2011, the board of directors of Anderson Aerospace Corporation, a Washington, D.C.-based leading aviation and aerospace and defense professional services company, offered him the position of president and chief executive officer of the company. Heller resigned from his role as CFO of Ballard Technology and was officially voted into the role of president and CEO of Anderson Aerospace Corporation by the company's board of directors on January 1, 2012. On June 21, 2014, he married Susan Williams. Seven months later, Heller legalled adopted Susan's son Richard. On June 16, 2015, he announced that he was running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. presidency. Heller resigned from Anderson Aerospace Corporation the next day. Initially considered a long-shot candidate, he began to surge in the polls couple of weeks before the 2016 Iowa caucus. After coming in a very close second in Iowa, Heller went on to win both the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries and the Nevada caucus. Winning the majority of states on both the March 1 Super Tuesday and the March 15 Super Tuesday, he accumulated a commanding lead in the delegate count.

On May 3, Heller became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party after his victory in Indiana and the withdrawal of his last competitors, former Attorney General Alberta Green and Governor of Florida Mitchell Hayworth, from the race. On May 26, he secured his 1,238th delegate, achieving a majority of the available delegates. On July 16, Heller announced the selection of Alberta Green as his vice-presidential running mate. On July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio, he formally accepted the Republican Party's nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention. On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Heller was elected 46th president of the United States, beating incumbent President Noah Daniels. He received 356 votes in the Electoral College and 53.9% in the popular vote. Heller was inaugurated and sworn into the presidency by Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts on January 20, 2017.

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*A version of this character appeared on the television series 24.