Chud Wallace

Charlemagne Godrell "Chud" Wallace or simply Chud Wallace (born October 30, 2031) is an American politician and constitutional lawyer who served as 56th President of the United States from 2085 to 2093. A member of the Conservative Party, he also served as the 56th Vice President of the United States from 2073 to 2077 under Nicholas Casadei. Wallace served in the House of Representatives from 2059 to 2073, representing Arkansas' first district. In the mid-2070s, his opposition to military intervention in Africa at the beginning of the Helium War crippled his 2076 campaign for president, resulting in his loss to California representative and Progressive Speaker of the House Mia Talerico and eventually extensive U.S. involvement in the conflict against Aegis.

He disappeared without a trace in late spring of 2077 in what was then believed as a flight to another country, but would later be revealed as a kidnapping and imprisonment in Aegis and later American bases. When he was eventually located by American forces and returned to United States in a medically-induced coma by January of 2083, he alleged upon awakening in 2084 that he had been tortured at several military bases on both sides of the war for a period of at least sixteen months before being merely imprisoned near an Aegis weapons stockpile in southeast Congo. He also alleged that his kidnapping and torture by both sides of the conflict revealed a vast conspiracy of both sides to indulge in profiteering of resources under the pretenses of war, and that this conspiracy likely reached as far up the chain of command as President Talerico herself.

Chud Wallace ran against President Aria Kendrick in the election of 2084. He won by a landslide thanks to the controversy surrounding the Talerico-Kendrick administration. Wallace served as President from 2085 to 2093. He served alongside Vice President Jaquelyn Bunter.

The Everett Report, while to date remaining unconfirmed by either military intelligence or Wallace himself, claims that between the years of 2081 to late 2083, Wallace had escaped captivity and fought alongside various guerilla factions in the Zambia, South Sudan, and the Congo against both United States and Aegis forces, in particular taking part in the Battle of Machar in June 2082. The report further claims that Wallace had not been rescued but captured by Tribunal of Liberty forces, and that the comatose state he was in upon arrival back in the States was not medically-induced, but had been induced in hopes that he would never recover and prevent him from revealing what he had seen while in captivity. The Central Intelligence Agency, which was given Tribunal of Liberty records after the institution was dissolved, has responded to this report only to state that no evidence exists in either Tribunal or CIA records to confirm such events.