First President of the United States?
Who Was the First President of the
The obvious answer is George Washington but this is incorrect.
The United States of America was actually formed on March 1, 1781 with the
adoption of The Articles of Confederation by Maryland whose delegates
delayed its ratification over a western border dispute with Virginia and
New York. Upon the March 1 ratification the President of the Continental
Congress officially became President of the United States in Congress
To make matters even more perplexing some historians claim that John
Hanson was the first President of the United States as he was the first
person to serve the full one-year term (1781-82), under the ratified
Articles of Confederation. This again is incorrect.
The ratification occurred during the term of Samuel Huntington who served
as President from September 28, 1779 to July 6, 1781. Consequently, Samuel
Huntington was the first President of the United States in Congress
NOTE: If you were lied to about this? WHY? To make-a-god named Washington?
If they lie about these details, would they have any qualms about lying
about more important things?
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON was born on July 3, 1731 at Windhan, Connecticut, the
son of a Puritan farmer. He was a self-educated man who at age sixteen,
was apprenticed to a cooper. He taught himself Latin at night and devoured
every book on law he could find. At twenty-seven he was admitted to the
bar, then moved to Norwich, a larger town offering more opportunity. After
a year, however, he married the local minister's daughter, and set up what
would eventually become a most lucrative law practice.
In 1764, Huntington was elected to the provincial assembly, and in quick
succession became a justice of the peace, the king's attorney for
Connecticut, and a member of the colony's council. Later he was elected
President of the Second Congress.
Huntington worked hard and long for independence, however quietly. A
fellow delegate wrote: "He is a man of mild, steady, and firm conduct
and of sound methodical judgment, tho' not a man of many words or very
shining abilities. But upon the whole is better suited to preside than any
other member now in Congress."
After signing the Declaration, Huntington served in Congress for ten more
years. In 1778 he also signed the Articles of Confederation. He was still
president of Congress when the Articles were ratified by Maryland, the
last state to agree, in 1781. Not long after that, Huntington resigned
from Congress due to illness. He returned to Connecticut where he served
as an associate justice of the superior court. In 1785, he became
lieutenant governor of Connecticut. A year later he was elected governor
and was reelected to that office for ten consecutive years.
Huntington died on January 5, 1796 at the age of sixty-four.