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However, in interviews on the show's website various cast members said that as time went on there was supposed to be less focus on her gender and more on the fact that she was an independent, especially when she would have run for election. Negative comparisons have also been drawn with 24's black president David Palmer, as while in that show a black president was depicted as having been voted into office under normal circumstances, Commander in Chief's storyline showed a female president only coming into the presidency via the 25th Amendment after the existing president dies in office.

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However, a counter-argument is that the series was trying to depict realistically what the general public's reaction to the first female president would be, and such an occurrence would probably also focus public scrutiny on a female president's gender rather than her policies. General criticisms included that the series was so centered on Allen's gender that this becomes the focus of the show instead of the character's capability. The Cato Institute and Reason magazine charged that the series glorified the ' Imperial Presidency' and that it favored using government force to impose the personal values of some Americans on other Americans who disagreed with them and to impose the values of those Americans on the rest of the world. President Allen's mother and White House hostess Vice President of the United States (resigns in Episode 15) Rebecca frowns on her mother's choice to assume the presidency and holds more conservative political views than her mother does.

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Horace Calloway ( Matt Lanter), Rebecca Calloway ( Caitlin Wachs), and Amy Calloway ( Jasmine Jessica Anthony) – Mac and Rod's three children, sixteen-year-old twins and a six-year-old daughter.

Press Secretary Kelly Ludlow ( Ever Carradine) – brought into Allen's administration from her vice presidential residential staff formerly her communications director.

Mac later offered him to be her Vice President after Warren Keaton resigns and he accepts.

White House Chief of Staff Jim Gardner (Harry Lennix) – formerly President Bridges's chief of staff, asked by President Allen to continue into her administration.

This was Donald Sutherland's first regular role on a television series. Has significant resentment toward President Allen.

Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton ( Donald Sutherland) – Republican congressional leader from Florida and Bridges's choice to succeed him as president.

First Gentleman Rod Calloway ( Kyle Secor) – Allen's husband formerly her vice presidential chief of staff.

The first female vice president and, on Bridges's death, the first female president.

President Mackenzie 'Mac' Allen ( Geena Davis) – former member of Congress from Connecticut and chancellor of the University of Richmond, an Independent chosen by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt 'Teddy' Bridges as his running mate and duly elected.

Teddy Bridges, named for Jeff Bridges who played President Jackson Evans, and Mackenzie Allen, named for Joan Allen who played Laine Hanson, his Vice Presidential nominee. The characters of the President and Vice President were named after the two actors who played those roles in Rod Lurie's previous political thriller, The Contender. Main article: List of Characters from Commander In Chief The network replaced Lurie with Steven Bochco as show runner, but declining ratings brought about a hiatus, a timeslot change, and ultimately cancellation.

The series was created by American director Rod Lurie, director of the films The Contender and Deterrence, and may have been inspired by The West Wing, a popular political drama on rival NBC. timeslot was FOX's House, which aired after American Idol. The show was also the #1 new show of the season until CBS' Criminal Minds surpassed it. The show was #1 on Tuesday nights until FOX's American Idol took this honor. It garnered the highest ratings for a series debut on a Tuesday night. Eastern Time, although most countries outside North America began screening the series in mid-2006. The series began broadcasting on ABC on Tuesday, September 27, 2005, at 9 p.m. Commander in Chief is an American drama television series that focused on the fictional administration and family of Mackenzie Allen (portrayed by Geena Davis), the first female President of the United States, who ascends to the role from the Vice Presidency after the death of the sitting President from a sudden cerebral aneurysm.

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