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To: the OlLine Rebel

I intended that Hancock was first...
and giving you that, as an exercise you could find the next, which would be 2.

Again, Randolph was an excellent gentleman, but the US had not declared its independence when he was President of the meeting of the congress of the various colonies.


26 posted on 12/14/2009 10:47:22 PM PST by donmeaker (Invicto)
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To: donmeaker
Are these not the 16 you speak of? Or is there some confusion? I don't know a lot here, so maybe there are more beyond Griffin?

1 Peyton Randolph September 5, 1774 October 22, 1774

2 Henry Middleton October 22, 1774 October 26, 1774

3 Peyton Randolph May 10, 1775 May 24, 1775

4 John Hancock May 24, 1775 October 29, 1777

5 Henry Laurens November 1, 1777 December 9, 1778

6 John Jay December 10, 1778 September 28, 1779

7 Samuel Huntington September 28, 1779 July 10, 1781

8 Thomas McKean July 10, 1781 November 5, 1781

9 John Hanson November 5, 1781 November 4, 1782

10 Elias Boudinot November 4, 1782 November 3, 1783

11 Thomas Mifflin November 3, 1783 June 3, 1784

12 Richard Henry Lee November 30, 1784 November 4, 1785

13 John Hancock November 23, 1785 June 5, 1786

14 Nathaniel Gorham June 6, 1786 November 3, 1786

15 Arthur St. Clair February 2, 1787 November 4, 1787

16 Cyrus Griffin January 22, 1788 November 15, 1788

27 posted on 12/15/2009 6:45:40 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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