James Fukuyama (Napoleon's World)

James Toji Fukuyama (born June 1, 1942) is a retired American politician who served as the Secretary of State of the United States from 2013 to 2017 in the Brian Williams administration, and who previously served as the United States Senator for California from 1989 until his retirement in 2013. Fukuyama, a Nationalist, earned a reputation as a moderate in his time in office. His run for office in 1988 was his first - as a political novice, he defeated four seasoned Nationalists in the primary and then knocked out a longtime US Congressman in the general as Robert Redford carried California that fall. He earned at least 55% of the vote in all three of his subsequent reelection campaigns. From 2001-2011, he was the ranking Nationalist on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and chaired the committee for his last two years in the Senate after the Nationalists retook the Senate. He honored a commitment to retire at 70 after 2012, when his seat was won by a Democrat for the first time since the 1960s by future US President David Leahy. Shortly after retiring, he was tapped by then-President-elect Brian Williams to serve as the United States Secretary of State, and he was confirmed by the Senate unanimously.