[Luis Gonzalez]

Found this interesting, I hope you all do as well.

[paul544]

Ahhh, the crap you can find online...

[Luis Gonzalez]

Found it.

[detsaoT]

Hate to say it, but George Washington really was the first president of our Federal Republican government which we (theoretically) still have today. The presidents before him were actually presidents of the Continental Congress which was designated by the Articles of Confederation. We weren't so much a nation then, as a confederation of states. (You can find all of this neat stuff at snopes.com anyway...

;) ttt

[rdww]

Thanks. The American Confederation deserves much more study and respect than it has received.

[Lewite]

Thankyou for this great reading. I continue to learn much in FreeRepublic articles.

[x]

Thanks for this great article. It raises a lot of interesting questions: How did the Swedish Hansons become Americanized? How did Boudinot's decendant become a Cherokee? What must it have been like for a Scot after Culloden, leaving everything for the New World? And what would our country have been like had it kept the older form of the Presidency? I'm inclined to think that the stronger Presidency that the Constitution gave us helped to keep the country together, but it's good to see such a fine collection of upstanding and public-spirited citizens.

[jokar]

BTT for later read.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I found it interesting and enjoable reading.

[mountaineer]

Very interesting! Here's a little more on Arthur St. Clair, after whom my hometown, Upper St. Clair, Pa., was named:

The Township of St. Clair was named in honor of General Arthur St. Clair, a controversial figure of the 18th century, who came from Scotland in 1755 and settled in the Ligonier Valley. During the Revolutionary War, he rose from Colonel to Major General and was the only Pennsylvanian to become a Major General in the Continental Army. For a time, he commanded Fort Ticonderoga before losing it to the British, for which he was later court-martialed. At the close of the war, he entered the Continental Congress and was its President in 1787. His last days were spent in poverty and obscurity.

[Arthur McGowan]

Ask any school child and they will readily tell you "George Washington."

Ask any school child and he will readily tell you "George Washington."

[billbears]

Bump!!!

[the bottle let me down]

bump for later

[Liberal Classic]

BUMP!

Excellent find.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

This is very interesting. However, the United States of America did not exist until the Revolutionary War was won. So, technically, George Washington was the first President of the Unitrd States.

[Le-Roy]

   This compilation is available (along with a whole lot of other really good info) in a small book called "The Pocket Patriot" (sub-title - An Introduction to the Principles of Freedom),
written by George Grant,
published by Cumberland House Publishing, Inc.,
431 Harding Industrial Drive,
Nashville, Tennessee
37211

ISBN #1-58182-092-5
Copyright 2000

   I bought my copy at the D.A.R. gift shop at the corner of Lexington Commons. I would like to find the same in a larger, hard-bound version.

(Yo! Santa! Didja catch that?)

[AlGone2001]

These others were not presidents of the US, as we were not the US. There really was no true president until the constitution was ratified. Those prior were just great founding fathers and leaders who paved the way for George Washington, and those who followed him.

[Roebucks]

Fascinating stuff!!!

I have John Adam's new biography on my short Christmas list, I do so hope that Mrs. Santa was listening.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Mind candy for you all.

[Dan from Michigan]

Good Read

He was the great uncle of Robert E. Lee and the scion of a great family tradition.

I never knew that.

[Styria]

George Washington: President of the United States

Peyton Randolph: Presiding officer of 'the United States in Congress assembled.'

Randolph and the others are no different from everyone in the House or Senate addressing the chair as "Mr. President" even though Bush is in the White House.