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  • Group Aims to Challenge Washington Status [Samuel Huntington was first U.S. president?]

    01/27/2004 1:25:36 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 11 replies · 316+ views
    Associated Press | January 27, 2004 | NOREEN GILLESPIE
    HARTFORD, Conn. - George Washington is facing an opponent for office, even though his term has long expired. The title of "first president" has always belonged to Washington, but in the southeastern Connecticut city of Norwich, there's a mounting effort to rewrite history. The Norwich Historical Society believes the title rightfully belongs to Samuel Huntington, the Connecticut native and president of the Continental Congress when the Articles of Confederation were ratified in 1781. "We don't do this in the spirit of anything except having history be historically correct," said Bill Stanley, the association's president. "The honor of first president...