Roger Tribbey is an American politician who served as the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Josiah Bartlet from 1999 to (presumably) 2005. He was selected to be absent from Bartlet's second State of the Union address as the Designated Survivor, the government official who would succeed to the Presidency should a catastrophic event hit the address. He gave the President a gift; the Constitution translated into Latin (the product of a school project by students).