Who Would Make a Good Warlord?

[Raellus]

It seems like most of the well-known T2K module marauder leaders are ex-military. That obviously makes a lot of sense but I'd like options, and I'm sure there would be non-military bandit kings out there too in a post-apoc world. Who would make a good warlord?

Let's except crime bosses and street gang leaders as being fairly obvious as well. Who does that leave?

Powerful local law enforcement figures. Here in Arizona there's a long-serving Sheriff who's often been accused of making his own laws, or at least acting as though he were above the existing ones. Such figures strike me as being perfectly placed to assumed warlorddom when the SHTF.

Someone who runs a security company might be in a position to try to accrue more power. He/she would have a ready force of armed personnel, and perhaps access to armored vehicles (AFAIK, most bankroll/payroll transporters belong to private contractors and not the financial institutions themselves).

For some reason, construction company owners strike me as being in a good position to become local strongmen. They have experience and resources that would be in high demand in the event of a governmental breakdown, and rolls of employees used to hard, physical labor, and getting their hands dirty (literally).

Maybe talk radio hosts? A really charismatic figure with a large audience could, while the airwaves are still open, mobilize quite a force of like-minded people.

Along the same lines, charismatic religious leaders could manipulate followers into becoming their private armies. I'm thinking that evangelical millennialists and "end-timers" would be particularly well-sited to seize power on a local or even regional level.

What other types of pre-war careers would produce unconventional but plausible candidates for post-TDM warlordism?