Owen Lassiter
Owen Lassiter was a fictional Republican who served two terms as President of the United States on the television show The West Wing. According to the show, he died in January 2004, some five years after leaving office. Although it has never been referred to directly on screen, it is almost certain that he was President directly before Josiah Bartlet took office on January 20, 1999. Bartlet almost certainly defeated his Vice President in the 1998 election. (We can see a picture of Owen Lassister on a banner during the fifth season epsiode "The Stormy Present").
President Lassiter's funeral was attended by President Josiah Bartlett, Former President D. Wire Newman and former Acting President Glen Allen Walken. It was revealed in the episode "The Stormy Present" that Lassiter spent the years since his term of office visiting numerous battlefields and had taken to spending much of his time in a facsimile of the Oval Office.
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