David Palmer (Reimagined)

David Palmer (born June 2, 1966) is the 45th and current President of the United States.

Palmer was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the oldest of three children of Charles and Gladys Palmer. Palmer's father was a police officer and former U.S. Marine Corps military policeman, while his mother was a homemaker and house cleaner. His siblings are Wayne and Sandra Palmer. He grew up in the Fell's Point neighborhood of Baltimore and after graduating from high school in 1984, he went on to Georgetown University. Upon graduating from Georgetown with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy in 1988, Palmer returned Baltimore and enrolled in the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

In his second year at the University of Maryland School of Law, he was accepted into the United States Marine Corps's Platoon Leaders Class and attended a ten-week training session at Officer Candidates School the summer before his third year. Afterwards, Palmer was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and placed on inactive duty status in the Marine Corps Reserve to finish earning his law degree. After earning his Juris Doctor from Maryland Law in 1991, he passed the Maryland bar examination and went on to The Basic School. After The Basic School, Palmer attended The Naval Justice School. He was then assigned as a legal assistance attorney to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. Soon after, Palmer married his girlfriend of four years, Sherry Jerald. He later served as a defense counsel at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Palmer left the Marine Corps in 1995 after four years of active duty service.

He then obtained a position at the Baltimore law firm Fidley, Barrow & Bain as an associate. A couple of years later, at Sherry's encouragement, Palmer decided to run for Congress as a Democrat. On November 3, 1998, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives by the voters of Maryland's 3rd congressional district. During his first term as a congressman, Palmer served on the House Committee on Armed Services, the House Committee on the Judiciary, and the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. On November 7, 2000, he was re-elected to a second term in Congress. In his second term, Palmer was assigned to the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means. He was re-elected again on November 5, 2002 and during his third term in Congress, he remained on the House Ways and Means Committee.

In August of 2003, Palmer announced that he would not seek a fourth term in the House of Representatives in the 2004 election, but instead would run for the United States Senate. He narrowly won the Democratic nomination on March 2, 2004 and handily won the U.S. Senate seat on November 2, 2004. Palmer was sworn in as a U.S. Senator on January 3, 2005. As a Senator, he served on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. On November 2, 2010, Palmer was re-elected to a second term in the U.S. Senate.

On March 28, 2011, he announced that he was forming a presidential exploratory committee. Palmer officially announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the presidency on April 25, 2011. On May 5, 2012, he secured the nominating threshold of delegates to become the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee with his first place finish in the Michigan presidential primary. On August 31, 2012, Palmer announced the selection of Governor James Prescott of Nevada as his vice-presidential running mate. On September 6, 2012, in Charlotte, North Carolina, he formally accepted the Democratic Party's nomination at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, Nethaniah was elected 45th president of the United States, beating Republican Senator John Keeler of Illinois. He received 365 votes in the Electoral College and 52.9% in the popular vote. David Palmer was officially sworn into the presidency by Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts on January 20, 2013 and then formally inaugurated on January 21, 2013.

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