Martin Vincenzo, a businessman from Boston, was the 2nd President of the UCAS and the 48th President of the Union. His election in 2036 hailed several changes in the political arena. He was first and foremost the first candidate to a presidential election for the Technocratic Party, and thus the first to be elected. His election was also the first that did not involve the southern states who seceded in 2034, although his predecessor Andrew MacAlister had already been reelected primarily by the Northeastern and Canadian states. Finally, Vincenzo was the first president since Abraham Lincoln to run with a Vice-Presidential candidate from another party, in his case the Republican Vernon Washington. Several other candidates did the same since, including the Democrat/Technocrat winning ticket o