History Characters / TwentyFourWhiteHouse

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->'''Played By:''' Bob Gunton

%%* MoralityPet: For Allison Taylor, particularly when she goes down a bad path.

%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

* SmugSnake: Like the Unwitting Pawn trope states, he believed he was much more of a major player than he actually was, which allowed his eventual downfall to hit him that much more harder.

%%* SmugSnake

->'''Played By:''' Michelle Forbes

[[folder:Reed Pollack]]
!!Reed Pollock
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's just starting to hit me. We're going to kill the President of the United States."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Chad Lowe

The Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House during the events of Day 6. He served under Tom Lennox, who was President Wayne Palmer's Chief of Staff.

Pollock was willing to bend the rules in order to get things accomplished. Under the instruction of Lennox, Pollock was responsible for Karen Hayes' resignation during the early hours of Day 6. However, Tom soon realized the lengths Reed went to in order to achieve his goals, were considered treason. Reed was arrested by Secret Service, along with Bruce Carson, after he was implicated in the assassination attempt on Palmer.

* TheConspiracy: Reed is part of a conspiracy to remove Wayne Palmer from office.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He really doesn't want to kill Tom Lennox, and stops his co-conspirator Bruce Carson from doing the same.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Kept believing Tom Lennox will help with the plot.
* SmugSnake: The second he thinks he's finally gotten Tom Lennox under his thumb, Lennox almost instantly proves him wrong by immediately confessing what he did to the nearest Secret Service agent.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His intentions are genuine, but his methods are treasonous.
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[[folder:Tom Lennox]]
!!Tom Lennox
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sir, I am on the side of the United States of America. And if you ever thought otherwise, you are very much mistaken."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Peter [=MacNicol=]

White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Wayne Palmer and Noah Daniels.
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[[folder:David Brucker]]
!!Gen. David Brucker
->'''Played By:''' Michael Gaston

A General within the Taylor Administration.
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%%* BaldOfEvil
%%* FourStarBadass
%%* TreacherousAdvisor
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He committed treason in order to prevent Samir Mehran from detonating a dirty bomb and killing thousands.

%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

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[[folder:Keith Palmer]]
!!Keith Palmer
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->'''Played By:''' Vicellous Shannon

The son of David and Sherry Palmer, who killed his sister's rapist by accident prior to the series and covered it up.

* AccidentalMurder: Of his sister's rapist.
* WellDoneSonGuy: His relationship with his father is complex, to say the least. They do reconcile and are even seen fishing together.

[[folder:Nicole Palmer]]
!!Nicole Palmer
->'''Played By:''' Megalyn Echikunwoke

The daughter of David and Sherry Palmer. She was raped prior to the series, and was involved in a cover-up after her brother accidentally killed her attacker.

%%* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]
* RapeAsDrama: She was raped prior to the series, and much drama stems from the subsequent AccidentalMurder of said rapist.
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[[folder:Sandra Palmer]]
!!Sandra Palmer
->'''Played By:''' Regina King

A legal counselor for the Islamic-American Alliance during the events of Day 6. She was the sister of Presidents David and Wayne Palmer.
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* SoapboxSadie
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[[folder:Martha Logan]]
!!Martha Logan
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I've forgiven you many things, Charles. But not this. You've broken my heart."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jean Smart

The former First Lady and wife of Charles Logan.
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%%* ActionSurvivor
* AmbiguousDisorder: It isn't explicitly stated what's wrong with her or in what way she's mentally unstable.
* {{Badass}}: She joins Yuri Suvarov's motorcade to prevent the attack sanctioned by her husband. She's also key to bringing down Logan.
%%** TookALevelInBadass
%%* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten
* BodyguardCrush: With Aaron Pierce.
* DemotedToExtra: After serving in a prominent role in the fifth season she makes one more appearance in season six and disappears for good.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Charles was that he ''did'' want to redeem himself for his actions on Day 5, and when Martha nearly killed him it caused him to see that BeingGoodSucks and stick to being a villain exclusively on Day 8. If that was truly the case, than this would certainly apply.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Interestingly, since she's clinically unstable, but she's still the most moral and determined person near Logan with the possible exception of Aaron Pierce.
* PsychoStrings: Used when she appeared to suggest she was off her medication, before it turns out she might be right. Used again when she appears in season six shortly before stabbing Charles.
%%* SanitySlippage
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Never seen again after stabbing Charles on Day 6, although Aaron says they divorced.
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[[folder:Henry Taylor]]
!!Henry Taylor
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/ColmFeore

he First Gentleman of the United States during Day 7 after his wife, Allison Taylor was sworn in as the first female President. He was able to prove his son Roger Taylor's cause of death was not suicide but rather murder. He was kidnapped by Iké Dubaku in an attempt to force his wife to remove her troops from Sangala, and shot in the process. He was saved by Jack Bauer who helped him and brought him to a hospital where he underwent surgery. Six hours later, he seemed to be stable and was able to talk to his wife and daughter. Henry was later relocated to the White House where he learned about Olivia's complicity in the murder of Jonas Hodges and fiercely tried to defend her against his wife's quest for justice, to no avail. Sometime after Day 7, he and Allison divorced.
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* BackForTheFinale: Returns in the final episode of Day 7 after missing most of the latter half thanks to his injuries.
%%* BaldOfAwesome
* BodyguardBetrayal: Nearly killed by his traitorous Secret Service agent.
%%* ButtMonkey
* TheCassandra: Everyone wants him to just let his son's death go and stop acting like a conspiracy nut, but he's absolutely right.
%%* ChewToy
* {{Determinator}}: Nothing will stop him from uncovering the truth behind the death of his son.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason behind the BodyguardBetrayal.
%%* NiceGuy
* PapaWolf: Divorces his wife after she forces their daughter to face the consequences of orchestrating Jonas Hodges' assassination.
* TookALevelInBadass: Henry is a pretty weedy guy with no combat experience, but he goes through absolute hell and survives. Despite being doped up with a paralytic drug, unarmed and untrained, he manages to avenge his son's death by killing Secret Service agent Gedge with his bare hands.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Between Days 7 and 8, as it's pointed out that he made underhanded and cruel remarks during the divorce procedure. It's also mentioned that he was critical of her in the press immediately afterward. Notably, Allison doesn't exactly blame him for his actions.
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[[folder:Roger Taylor]]
!!Roger Taylor
->'''Played By:''' Eric Lively

The son of Allison and Henry Taylor. He became the First Son when his mother, a Senator and President-elect, was inaugurated as President during Redemption. He was murdered by Brian Gedge before Day 7 after uncovering a conspiracy within his mother's government. The murder was manipulated to look like a suicide, although the truth was later exposed.
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* CharacterDeath: He's murdered by Brian Gedge.
* TheDutifulSon: Roger was successful, popular and beloved by his family.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason he's targeted for assassination.
* NeverSuicide: His death is made to look like a suicide.
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[[folder:Audrey Boudreau]]
!!Audrey Boudreau (née Audrey Heller; formerly Audrey Raines)
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/KimRaver

Jack's girlfriend during Day 4 and the daughter of Secretary of Defense James Heller. After Day 5, she ends up being tortured and brainwashed by the Chinese so they could force Jack to give them a Russian nuclear circuitboard. By the time her father became President, she had recovered from her ordeal and married for the second time.
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* ActionSurvivor: Notably one of only four of Jack's eight love interests (the others being Kate Warner, Diane Huxley, and Marilyn Bauer) to survive the show's initial run. All the more impressive given how she's the only love interest aside from Nina Myers to appear in at least 3 seasons, a statistic she later surpassed when she came back for ''Live Another Day''. [[spoiler:As of the miniseries' conclusion, She is no longer an ActionSurvivor.]]
* [[spoiler: BackForTheDead: Despite being billed as a main, all Audrey really does in Live Another Day is die. None of her other scenes contribute much, if anything, to the plot.]]
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Mostly because her father happens to be Republican; we don't actually hear that many of her own political views, though it's probably safe to say that they're nearer those of her father than her brother.
* BreakTheCutie: The Chinese do this to her with horrific efficiency between Seasons 5 and 6.
* BrokenBird: In Season 6, and apparently for a good few years afterwards. Fortunately, by the time of ''Live Another Day'' she's recovered, and actually seems to hold little (if any) malice toward Jack over the matter.
* TheBusCameBack: After not being seen or mentioned in Seasons 7 and 8, she comes back for ''Live Another Day''
* CassandraTruth: Heller sums it up to Jack, "Everything you touch ends up dead or ruined." Jack later [[CallingTheOldManOut calls Heller out on his betrayal of him.]]
** [[spoiler: The old man was right all along.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Endures this.
%%* FateWorseThanDeath
* HeldGaze: Shares this with Jack when they see each other again for the first time in Season 5.
* IHaveYourWife: Again, girlfriend. Jack gets her back, but the torture has made her detached, though we later see that she got better.
%%* IvyLeagueForEveryone
%%* KillTheCutie
* {{Meganekko}}: Can often be seen wearing reading glasses. And given she's played by Kim Raver, to say they [[SexySpectacles look good on her]] would be an understatement.
%%* NotQuiteSavedEnough
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Her idea of how to avert war with China turns into this, since not only did her meeting with her Chinese contact result in both her contact's death and Audrey's own, it ended up not even being necessary to avoid war.]]
* SingleTear: [[spoiler:She has one just before she dies of a gunshot wound.]]
* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: [[spoiler: Survives the first attempt on her life in the Day 9 finale, only for another killer hiding in the shadows to quickly come in and finish the job.]]
%%* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth
* TookALevelInBadass: Starts out as a defense department worker with only minimal combat skills, and ends up actually being pretty capable in her own right by late Season 5. Unfortunately for her, this gets horrifically inverted between Seasons 5 and 6.
%%* TraumaCongaLine
* ThePresidentsDaughter: Multiple ways in ''Live Another Day''. Although she has official duties as her father's advisor and First Lady, it is heavily implied that everyone but Jack sees her as this, including her husband (who serves as her father's Chief of Staff) [[spoiler:and BigBad/her former torturer Cheng Zhi, who has her held at gunpoint]]. The former is somewhat averted as he genuinely wants to keep her safe.
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[[folder:Lynne Kresge]]
!!Lynne Kresge
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->'''Played By:''' Michelle Forbes

A crisis-management advisor for David Palmer.
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%%* AbortedArc
%%* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome
* HyperCompetentSidekick: For David Palmer. Lynne is deeply loyal and extremely competent.
* UndyingLoyalty: To David Palmer. She refuses to go along with Mike's plan to oust him.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Sherry.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Last seen in critical condition being wheeled into an ambulance, she never reappears after Season 2. Given how Mike Novick, who inadvertently put her in that situation, continues to serve in a high position of the Keeler and Logan administration's, this would likely mean Lynne either died or survived and refrained from speaking out against him.
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[[folder:David Brucker]]
!!Gen. David Brucker
->'''Played By:''' Michael Gaston

A General within the Taylor Administration.
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-->''"It's just starting to hit me. We're going to kill the President of the United States."''

The treasonous Chief of Staff during Day 6.

%%* AmbitionIsEvil
%%* TheConspiracy

%%* [[StrawCharacter Strawman Conservative]]
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

* {{Jerkass}}: He was demanding to revoke the rights of several U.S. citizens and throws a damn near hissy fit when things don't go his way.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his disagreements with Wayne, Reed Pollack's attempts to have him assassinated disgusted Lennox and he did his best to expose the plan. He also convinces Noah Daniels to pardon Karen Hayes for her going against protocol to warn Jack, and the two part ways on friendlier terms despite their earlier hostility toward each other.

%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: By a drive-by shooter of Cheng Zhi's, which is all the more devastating as she was just saved from the ''original'' sniper by Kate.]]
* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie]]

* [[spoiler: NotQuiteSavedEnough]]

* [[spoiler: TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath]]: [[spoiler: Survives the first attempt on her life in the Day 9 finale, only for another killer hiding in the shadows to quickly come in and finish the job.]]
* [[spoiler: TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth]]

* ThePresidentsDaughter: Multiple ways in ''Live Another Day''. Although she has official duties as her father's advisor and First Lady, it is heavily implied that everyone but Jack sees her as this, including her husband (who serves as her father's Chief of Staff) [[spoiler: and BigBad/her former torturer Cheng Zhi, who has her held at gunpoint]]. The former is somewhat averted as he genuinely wants to keep her safe.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite his role in inadvertently [[spoiler:causing the possible death of Lynne Kresge]], he's never charged or imprisoned for it, and goes on to work as an adviser for another presidential administration.

* EveryoneHasStandards
-->Nothing justifies the killing of a president.

%%* GoodAngelBadAngel: The Bad to Karen Hayes' Good.

* VillainousBreakdown
-->I have no influence!

%%* HonestAdvisor

%%* MoralityPet

%%* IDidWhatIHadToDo
* {{Jerkass}}: Wanted [[BrokenBird Renee Walker]] to take the fall for the failure of the Vladmir Laitanan mission, and had the gall to get angry about it when Bob Hastings refused to do so.
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: For a while [[spoiler:until his jealousy pushed him over the edge]] Mark seemed to show increasing reluctance with his decision to [[spoiler:falsify the executive order]]. And when the time comes, he helps carry out his father-in-law's final orders rather than sabotage them. After discovering that [[spoiler:Stolnavich was working with Cheng Zhi and is brought up on treason charges as a result]], he makes yet another turn and agrees to help Jack [[spoiler: take down Stolnavich]] in an attempt to set things right.

%%* WellDoneSonGuy

%%* RapeAsDrama

%%* AmbiguousDisorder
%%* {{Badass}}

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Charles was that he ''did'' want to redeem himself for his actions in season 5, and when Martha nearly killed him it caused him to see that BeingGoodSucks and stick to being a villain exclusively in the eighth season. If that was truly the case, than this would certainly apply.

* PsychoStrings: Used when she appeared to suggest she was off her medication, before it turns out she might be right. Used again when she appears in season six shortly before [[spoiler: stabbing Charles.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Never seen again after stabbing Charles in Season 6, although Aaron says they divorced.

The First Gentleman of the United States and husband to Alison Taylor.

* PapaWolf: Divorces his wife after she forces their daughter to face the consequences of orchestrating Jonas Hodges' assassination.

%%* CharacterDeath
%%* TheDutifulSon
%%* HeKnowsTooMuch
%%* NeverSuicide

* ActionSurvivor: Notably one of only four of Jack's eight love interests (the others being Kate Warner, Diane Huxley, and Marilyn Bauer) to survive the show's initial run. All the more impressive given how she's the only love interest aside from Nina Myers to appear in at least 3 seasons, a statistic she later surpassed when she came back for ''Live Another Day''.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: [spoiler: Her idea of how to avert war with China turns into this, since not only did her meeting with her Chinese contact result in both her contact's death and Audrey's own, it ended up not even being necessary to avoid war.]]