Quote: Banned - 2010.04.08. 05:53:10 Quote: Twinky - 2010.04.08. 00:27:56 Who was the first president of the United States of America?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington <-- Marked as Correct
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
The question either needs to be changed to ask "Who was the first President of the United States of America under the United States Constitution, or it needs to be deleated, because George Washington was the first President under the United States Constitution. John Hanson was in fact the first President of the United States of America.
http://www.marshallhall.org/hanson.html
Sorry Twink...but technically, Hanson was elected as "President of the Continental Congress"... not "President of the United States".
There is a difference...
Edited:
Sorry Jon, I completely overlooked your response...
Ok, your right, I and the Site Artical which I linked are wrong......wait that's not right.
While George Washington was the First "President of the United States under the Constitutioin", but as the artical and I have already stated. John Hanson wasn't the "President of the Constitutional Congress" , he was the first President of the United States under the Constitutional Congress".
He was still the President and was the President of the United States, in every sense of the word. It may have been the United States of America under the Contitutional Congress, but it was still The United States of America in which he was president over.