A comprehensive list of some of the most popular TV and movie Presidents. Who are your favorites?

Since 1999, my father has laughed and said, “If only Jed Bartlet were the real President…” in the face of political disaster. And I think most of us can identify. A very solid case could be made that The West Wing’s Commander-in-Chief, played by Martin Sheen, is America’s most beloved President… Even if he wasn’t exactly real.

So now that the election is over, and President Obama has been sworn-in for his second term, I think it’s a good time to look back at Hollywood’s most famous Presidents, and nominate the best (and worst) fictional American Commander-in-Chief*.

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*I must note here that in my many searches and conversations about this topic, I have been unable to unearth a single Asian-American portrayal of the President, and (unsurprisingly) no Arab-American/Middle Eastern-American representations of American Presidents. And of course nobody representing First Nations or Indigenous populations. On top of that, the number of females who have played the President is startlingly low. Possibly the most-watched female POTUS was acting-President Sally Langston from Scandal, but I decided to disqualify her because one could argue she wasn’t actually the President.