Female president of the United States in popular culture president of the United States in two episodes. A 2006 BBC Four adaptation of John Wyndham's short story "Random Quest" depicts the main character being sucked into an alternative reality in which Condoleezza Rice is president of the United States. In ABC's 2008-2009 TV series "Life on Mars" (a remake of BBC's series of the same name), it is hinted that Malia Obama, the daughter of then-candidate Barack Obama, is the president of the United States in 2035. In Showtime's TV series "Homeland", which began in 2011, Elizabeth Marvel plays United States President Elizabeth Keane. In ABC's TV series "Scandal",
Daughters of the Republic of Texas on the history of Texas. Membership is limited to descendants of ancestors who "rendered loyal service for Texas" prior to February 19, 1846, the date the Republic ceased to exist and Texas handed over authority to the United States. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas was formed in 1891 by cousins Betty Eve Ballinger (1854–1936) and Hally Ballinger Bryan Perry (1868–1955). The organization was originally called the Daughters of the Lone Star Republic before taking its present name. The first president of the organization in 1891 was Mary Smith Jones, widow of the Republic's last president Anson Jones. The