Robby Jackson (Tom Clancy)

Infobox President
name=Robert Jefferson Jackson


order=46^th President of the United States
("Tom Clancy")
term_start=2000
term_end=2001
birth_date=birth date|1944|9|19
birth_place=Alabama, US
death_date=death date and age|2000|10|6|1944|9|19
death_place=Birmingham, Alabama
vicepresident=Unknown
predecessor=Jack Ryan
successor=Unknown
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|CV-67|6. 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|CVN-71|6. 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|CVN-74|6, 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 while campaigning for his own reelection. It is never stated on paper whether Jackson had selected his own Vice President before being assassinated; thus, in accordance with the rules of succession, his presidency would have descended to either this unknown Vice President, or the Speaker of the House, for the few months before Ed Kealty was elected and sworn in.

In the film "Patriot Games" he is portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson.