Madame President (Project Moonbase)

The President of the United States of America in the 1953 film 'Project Moonbase', which is set in the year 1970, is a woman who is unnamed in the film. She's portrayed by Ernestine Barrier and first mentioned merely as President in the film until the final act when stranded United States Space Force astronauts on the moon recieve a personal address from her with Major Moore being promoted by her. Her  first act in the film was to send and order as Commander in Chief to the USSF to have female Colonel Briteis (who made the first orbit around the Earth) replace male Major Moore as pilot of the Magellion, a space craft meant to complete the first lunar orbit and return to the USSF space  station. She is the 37th president serving her first term in office.