Calvin Ecklund

""Prime Minister Calvin Jeffrey Ecklund (9 September 2032-3 January 2111) was the first Prime Minister and the founder of the New American Commonwealth.

Early Life
Born in Hartland, Vermont to parents Danica and Kevin Ecklund, Calvin was born into a dark world, still recovering from the post-atomic horror of the nuclear strikes of only a few years earlier. Vermont was relatively spared from the greatest destruction, but it was still a place plagued with disease and starvation. His parents died of malnutrition when he was 14, and he spent much of his later childhood travelling with one of the post-apocalyptic travelling gangs, his affiliation being the Unionist Faction, one of the many factions seeking a revitalized America.

Anarchy In America
As the time marched forward, Ecklund quickly gained prominence amongst the Unionists, eventually becoming the right-hand man of their leader, Will Mara, as they able amassed power across Northeast America. His time in the Unionists gave Ecklund an almost religious reverence for old American ideals and iconography. By 2075, upon Mara's death, the Unionists had consolidated territory across Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. After Mara's death, Ecklund lead several successful campaigns across Maine, culminating in the siege of eventual capture of Portland, Maine, in June of 2079. Upon the conquest of Maine, Ecklund felt emboldened enough to declare his territory the New American Commonwealth, and declared himself the Prime Minister of this new nation.