Patrick Flanagan

Patrick Flanagan (July 17, 1890 - May 10, 1994) is currently the 30th President of the Republic of Abendroth. He served 2 Terms in office from 1924 - 1931. He served his country in World War I and is a personal freind of Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became the 32nd President of the United States of America.

Early Life
Patrick was born in Waterford, Ireland on a warm morning in July. He was born into the world by his mother Bridget O'Shea, and his father Thomas Flanagan. His father is a former Major in the Abendroth Army serving in the Abendroth - Prussian War (1860 - 1871) and losing his Right Arm at the Battle of Szeged in 1864 at age 23.

Patrick attended a private school in Dublin and graduated in the Class of 1908. Then he went to work in the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast as a ship designer. He designed the AMS Donnegal in 1909 which was completed in 1913 and sailed three successful voyages, one to New York, another to North Carolina, and one to Massachusetts before being transferred into a Troop Carrier Ship in 1914 for the war effort.

After the Great War came to an end with an allied victory, Patrick went back to work at Harland and Wolff where he got to work on making the AMS Clare, a sister ship of the AMS Donnegal. The AMS Clare was later finished and launched in 1922 where she will make many voyages to the US Eastern Coast.

In 1912, Patrick married a young woman from Scotland named Emily Graham. They later had two twin sons in February of 1914 named Issac and Alfred. Both sons are now 11 years of age and have a good education. Both of his sons later joined the Abendroth Air Force in 1934 and saw action in World War II.

Military Service
At age 24, Patrick enlisted in the Irish Rifles which is a Rifle Division in the Irish Expeditionary Force (IEF) and 2nd the II Army Corps. He killed 500 Germans and decimated two companies of German Infantry in just four days while holding a wooded area in which had only two medics and 15 wounded soldiers from his company while being wounded himself in his Left Arm and under heavy fire while at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

He was awarded the Red Badge of Courage, St. Patrick's Medal of Galantry, The Silver Star, Purple Heart, and the Abendroth Medal of Honor. When he came home from the war in 1918, he suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and lost two of his best friends, Ethan Miquire to the Ottomans in Golipoli to an ambush, and Eamon Clarke to the Germans at the Somme from his fatal wounds.

Becoming President of Abendroth
In 1923, he ran for the Presidential Elections as a Republican Canidate against a Democratic man named Arthur Andrasy, a man from Budapest, Hungary. Patrick won by a landslide of 10 votes. Those votes in total was 400 - 390. Patrick shook hands with Arthur who had congratuated him in winning the Presidential Election. Patrick later made him a member of Congress representing Hungary. Patrick automatically served 2 terms by choice.

Later Life
After he had retired, he spent time with family and friends back in Ireland. Patrick died, May 10, 1994 at age 104 while taking a nap one afternoon and was later found dead by his