Robby Jackson (Tom Clancy)

45^th President of the United States (Tom Clancy)
Robert Jefferson Jackson
In office 2000 – 2001
Vice President	Ed Kealty
Preceded by	Jack Ryan
Succeeded by	Ed Kealty

Born	September 19, 1944(1944-09-19) Alabama, US
Died	December 6, 2001 (aged 57) Birmingham, Alabama
Political party	Independent

Robert (Robby) Jefferson Jackson, Vice Admiral, USN (Ret.) is a fictional character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels. He met Jack Ryan while both were teaching at the United States Naval Academy (he was recovering from an injury that had him grounded), and the two became good friends. In the novel Patriot Games Robby helps Ryan eliminate the rogue Ulster Liberation Army terrorists that attack Jack's house. He next appears in The Hunt for Red October as an F-14 Tomcat pilot with VF-41 "The Black Aces" aboard the USS John F. Kennedy. During this, a Yak-38 Forger from the Kiev sends an AA-2 Atoll missile up Jackson's tailpipe, severely wounding his RIO. However Jackson makes it back all right. From then on, he is in almost every single Jack Ryan novel. In Clear and Present Danger, he is serving a stint in The Pentagon. In The Sum of All Fears, he is the CAG aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. In Debt of Honor, he is the J-3, or Operations officer, for the Joint Chiefs at The Pentagon. He also briefly takes command of a Carrier Task Force, led by the USS John C. Stennis, during the Second War with Japan. In Executive Orders, he returns to his role as J-3. In the novel The Bear and the Dragon Jackson is named Ryan's Vice President. He later succeeds Ryan as President, after Ryan's retirement, but is assassinated by a Ku Klux Klan member.