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His Excellency Lionel Hegan | |
|---|---|
 Lionel Hegan, 1945 | |
| 1st President of Imagua and the Assimas | |
| In office 3 May, 1945 – 3 May, 1949 | |
| Prime Minister | Pierre Voloix |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Voloix |
| Governor-General of Imagua | |
| In office 26 July, 1938 – 1 February, 1945 | |
| President | Wolfgar Godfredson |
| Prime Minister | Lucas Pembroke Frederick Maynard |
| Preceded by | TBD |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Fitzcharles (as Lieutenant Governor) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lionel Pierpont Hegan 22 July 1886 Bouley, Estmere |
| Died | 24 March 1976 (aged 89) Altaithe, Imagua and the Assimas |
| Resting place | Altaithe Embric Cemetery |
| Nationality | Estmerish (1886-1976) Imaguan (1938-1976) |
| Spouse | Margaret Hegan (1925-1966) |
| Children | 5 |
| Profession | Politician, civil servant |
Lionel Pierpont Hegan (22 July, 1886 - 24 March, 1976) was an Estmero-Imaguan civil servant and politician whose most notable roles were Governor-General of Imagua, serving from TBD until 1945, and then as President of the United Provinces from 1945 until 1949.
Early life
Lionel Hegan was born in Bouley, Estmere on 22 July, 1886 to an aristocratic Flurian family, as the second son of five children, and the youngest son. His mother, Guustène Pierpont, married a businessman from, TBD Hegan. Lionel Hegan grew up in aristocratic environment, and attended some of the best schools in the city.
From his early days, Lionel Hegan was interested in politics and in ornithology, with Hegan later saying that "the austral novels I grew up with had a profound influence on what I wanted to do: from when I first picked one up, I knew what I wanted was to be in the colonies, not in Flurland."
In 1916, Lionel Hegan started to work for the Estmerish civil service. As a civil servant, Lionel Hegan was (TBC)
Governor-General of Imagua
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In 1938, Lionel Hegan was appointed as Governor-General of Imagua, succeeding TBD in the post, becoming the penultimate governor of Imagua.
As Governor-General, Lionel Hegan served as the representative of the Estmerish president in Imagua, and fulfilled the ceremonial duties expected of the Estmerish head of state on the island. However, unlike his predecessor, Hegan assumed a relatively greater role in Imaguan society, because with the Imaguan constitution establishing Imagua's "independence within the Estmerish Empire," Hegan was seen as the equal to President Wolfgar Godfredson.
To this end, Lionel Hegan would travel to represent Imagua on numerous occasions, and assert Imagua's status as "an independent nation within the Estmerish Empire." On internal affairs, Hegan did not intervene in Imaguan politics, and asserted the independence of Imaguan politics "from those of Estmere's."
In 1943, Lionel Hegan declared war on the Greater Solarian Republic when the Community of Nations called for an intervention against it. Thus, Hegan ordered the raising of Imaguan militias to occupy the Assimas Islands from the Greater Solarian Republic, with an aim to integrating the islands with Imagua, as Hegan believed that "the industrial capacity of the Assimas complements the agricultural capabilities of Imagua."
At the same time, talks about establishing a political union with Sainte-Chloé, which at that point was part of the Arucian Federation, were underway. Lionel Hegan expressed support for uniting Imagua with Sainte-Chloé, believing that "Imagua alone would not make for a viable state, and I am sceptical about whether adding the Assimas would make Imagua viable."
Thus, Hegan partook in negotiations to unite the two states into a united federal state: while most of the negotiations were done by Imaguan business leaders and Pierre Voloix, with Hegan largely playing a minimal role in the negotiations, Hegan did approve of the agreement which ensured that the provinces would maintain most of the powers that they originally had, while guaranteeing official bilingualism between the Gallophones and Estmerophones.
After lobbying the Estmerish government to approve of the merger to create the United Provinces, Hegan resigned his governorship in February 1945 to run for the Presidency of the United Provinces. He was ultimately succeeded by Christopher Fitzcharles as Lieutenant Governor.
Presidency
On 3 May, 1945, Lionel Hegan was sworn in as the first President of the newly-established United Provinces. On that day, he named Pierre Voloix as the first Prime Minister of the United Provinces, in a coalition government between the Democrats and the Sotirian Democrats. In 1946, he moved to Subercaseaux, as the presidential residence was completed.
Following tradition set out as Governor-General of Imagua, Lionel Hegan mainly served as the main representative of the United Provinces. However, as tensions between the Gallophone provinces and Imagua grew, over many issues such as the annexation of the Assimas Islands, Lionel Hegan became more involved in the day-to-day running of the country. This culminated in 1947 when Hegan vetoed the bill expelling Imagua from the United Provinces. However, the bill was overridden by Parliament, and thus came into effect.
Although Lionel Hegan did consider resigning in 1948 when Imagua left the United Provinces, he chose to remain in office, as Hegan felt an obligation to "continue my term to its completion." However, he expressed his intentions later that year that he will not run for a second term, even though the constitution permitted him to run for a second term, as he felt that he had "done his duty" to the United Provinces, and felt that he had "served enough to demonstrate what the Presidency [of the United Provinces] should be."
Later life
After handing the presidency to Pierre Voloix in 1949, Lionel Hegan and his family moved to Altaithe, where Hegan took up ornithology as a full time hobby. He would refrain from interfering in the politics of both Imagua and Sainte-Chloé, out of respect for his successors in both countries, although he did feel "disappointment" of Raymond Rivière's decision to abolish federalism in Sainte-Chloé in 1954.
Over the next twenty years, Lionel Hegan would travel across Imagua and Sainte-Chloé to catalogue bird species, and wrote extensively about bird species in the Arucian Sea. Hegan would publish several books about bird species under the name Lionel Pierpont, most notably Catalogue of Bird Species of Imagua and the Assimas, which he published in 1953.
Lionel Hegan would make his final public appearance in 1968 when he attended the funeral of Pierre Voloix in Sainte-Chloe. (TBC)
Personal life
Spouse and issue
Lionel Hegan married 23-year old Margaret Hegan, daughter of a Flurian aristocrat, in 1925. Hegan described the marriage as being "good and healthy" and would remain married under his death in 1976. She would die in 1983.
Together, they had two sons, Geoffrey Hegan, who was born in 1924 and died in 1933 from polio, and banker Gobald Hegan, who was born in 1931, and died in 2020, and one daughter: Gisele Floyd, who was born in 1928 and died in 2015.
However, Lionel Hegan had an affair with a maid, Yverose Deshommes, during his tenure as President of the United Provinces, with the affair lasting from 1946 until 1949. They had a son, Renold Hegan, born in 1947, and is still living as of 2021, and is most known for Lionel v. Imagua, which declared that illegitimate children born to Imaguan fathers are Imaguan citizens. They also had a daughter, Naomie Estime, who was born in 1948, and died in 1980.
Political views
Biggles
Religion
Lionel Hegan was a devout member of the Embrian Communion, of which he was an adherent to the High Church tradition. (TBC)
Publications
- Pierpont, Lionel (1953): Catalogue of Bird Species of Imagua and the Assimas. San Pietro: University Press.
- Pierpont, Lionel (1959): Catalogue of Bird Species of Saint Chloe. San Pietro: University Press.
- Pierpont, Lionel (1962): Preservation of Tropical Asterian Bird Species. San Pietro: University Press.
- Pierpont, Lionel (1969): Evolution of Ornithology in the Asterias. Cuanstad: University Press.