Was a man name Hanson the first President?
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It really depends.  A John Hanson was elected President under the Articles of Confederation.  George Washington was elected President under the new Constitution that was drafted years later.   Washington himself called Hanson the President of the United States.  So yes a man named Hanson was indeed the first President of the United States.
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Samuel Huntington of Connecticut was the first true President although he was president under the articles of confederation. george washington is the first president under the constitution. Huntington was the first to hold the title President of the United States and congress assembled. He previously held the title of President of the continental congress until the articles or confederation were ratified when he adopted the new title and the united states actually adopted a form of government.
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I think he would be called "First Gentlemen" ...\n... will there also be an equivalent to Monica L.?
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The president is the first man, he'd probably be the first spouse, partner, or husband.
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John Hanson, actually. He was elected and served from November 5,1781 to November 3,1782. The next paragraph is from AOL search engine.\n\n>> Six other presidents were elected after him - Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788) - all prior to Washington taking office. Why don't we ever hear about the first seven Presidents of the United States? It's quite simple - The Articles of Confederation didn't work well. The individual states had too much power and nothing could be agreed upon. A new doctrine needed to be written - something we know as the Constitution. \n\nGeorge Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today. And the first seven Presidents are forgotten in history.<<
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Sukarno is the First President of Indonesia.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA: HARRISON, William Henry\n\n(1773–1841), ninth president of the U.S. (1841). His claim to fame rests not on his administration—for he died of pneumonia one month after his inauguration—but on the strange campaign by which in 1840 he attained the high office. A minor military hero, he rode to glory by saying nothing (General Mum, his critics called him), while his party, the Whigs, capitalized on a propaganda blunder by their Democratic opponents to proclaim Harrison a simple man used to living in a log cabin.\n\nHarrison was born on Feb. 9, 1773, to one of the wealthiest, most prestigious, and most influential families in Virginia, on a great plantation in Berkeley Co. From the early 17th century on, the Harrisons had accumulated vast landholdings, occupied the highest political and judicial positions, and intermarried with the leading families of Virginia. William Henry's youthful military career and his appointment, when he was not yet 30 years old, to the prominent post of governor of Indiana Territory were due more to the influence of his father, Benjamin Harrison, who had been governor of Virginia, than to any military or administrative talent that he himself had demonstrated.\n\nmore president info\n\nTallest president: Abraham Lincoln, who was 6 feet, 4 inches\n\nShortest president: James Madison, who was 5 feet, 4 inches\n\nFirst president to live in the White House: John Adams, who moved there in 1800\n\nFirst president born in a log cabin: Andrew Jackson, in 1767\n\nFirst president born a U.S. citizen: Martin Van Buren, in Kinderhook, NY; 1782\n\nFirst president born outside the original colonies: Abraham Lincoln, in Kentucky, 1809\n\nFirst president born west of the Mississippi River: Herbert Hoover, in 1874\n\nFirst president of all 50 states: Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugurated in 1953\n\nFirst president born from the “Baby Boom” generation: William J. Clinton, in 1946\n\nFirst president to be photographed while in office: James K. Polk, in 1849\n\nFirst president to have a telephone in the White House: Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879\n\nFirst president to leave the continental U.S. while in office: Theodore Roosevelt, in 1906, on a visit to inspect construction work on the Panama Canal\n\nFirst president to cross the Atlantic Ocean: Woodrow Wilson\n\nFirst president to address the nation on radio: Warren G. Harding, in 1922\n\nFirst president to appear on TV: Franklin D. Roosevelt, at opening ceremonies for the 1939 World's Fair\n\nFirst president to speak from the White House on TV: Harry S. Truman, in 1947\n\nFirst president to give a live, televised news conference: John F. Kennedy, in 1961\n\nOnly president elected unanimously: George Washington, by 63 electoral votes\n\nOnly presidents who lost the popular vote while winning election: John Quincy Adams, in 1824 (elected by the House after general election failed to produce a majority); Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1876; Benjamin Harrison, in 1888; George W. Bush, in 2000. Popular vote totals for elections before 1824 are unknown.\n\nOnly presidents chosen by the House of Representatives: Thomas Jefferson (1st term) and John Quincy Adams\n\nOnly presidents to graduate from West Point: Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower\n\nOnly president to graduate from Annapolis: Jimmy Carter\n\nOnly president with a Ph.D.: Woodrow Wilson; received a doctorate in political science from Johns Hopkins Univ. in 1886\n\nOnly left-handed presidents: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Geroge H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton\n\nOnly president to head a labor union: Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild, 1947-52; 1959-60\n\nOnly bachelor presidents: James Buchanan, who never married, and Grover Cleveland, who married Frances Folsom in the White House in 1886.\n\nOnly presidents to serve in Congress after leaving office: Andrew Johnson (Senate), John Quincy Adams (House)\n\nOnly president to also ser
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Under the original Articles of Confederation, John Hanson was the first President of the United States, an oft-forgotten historical figure.  Under the Constitution of the United States, the presidential system we usually think about, George Washington was the first president, and the only one never to reside in the White House.
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General George Washingtion was the first president to be elected. The U.S. of America was the country. All other countries were rule by Kings and Queens back then.
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First woman President
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are you stupid or something??!! good grief.... you know who neil armstrong was (apparently) but you don't know who George Washington was? THE FIRST PRESIDENT!!!
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John Hanson was the first President under the Articles of Confederation elected unanimously by the Congress (including George Washington) in 1781.\n\nThere were six Presidents elected John Hanson but before George Washington. They were:\n\nElias Boudinot (elected in 1783)\nThomas Mifflin (elected in 1784)\nRichard Henry Lee (elected in 1785)\nNathan Gorman (elected in 1786)\nArthur St. Clair (elected in 1787)\nCyrus Griffin (elected in 1788)\n\nThe only reason we don't remember the first seven is that the Articles of Confederation failed and the Constitution was adopted.\n\nGeorge Washington was the first President under the Constitution.\n\nAnd Bill Clinton was the first black President.\n\n[ puking ]\n\nEDIT: Professor K - I think we have established who was the first legal President (there were two - one under the Articles, one under the Constitution). It sounds as though you have a different opinion. Please enlighten us and expand on your comment ...
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1. George Washington, 1789-1797\n2. John Adams, 1797-1801\n3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809\n4. James Madison, 1809-1817\n5. James Monroe, 1817-1825\n6. John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829\n7. Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837\n8. Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841\n9. William Henry Harrison, 1841\n10. John Tyler, 1841-1845\n11. James Knox Polk, 1845-1849\n12. Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850\n13. Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853\n14. Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857\n15. James Buchanan, 1857-1861\n16. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865\n17. Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869\n18. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877\n19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881\n20. James Abram Garfield, 1881\n21. Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885\n22. Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889\n23. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893\n24. Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897\n25. William McKinley, 1897-1901\n26. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909\n27. William Howard Taft, 1909-1913\n28. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921\n29. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923\n30. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929\n31. Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933\n32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945\n33. Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953\n34. Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961\n35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963\n36. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969\n37. Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974\n38. Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977\n39. James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981\n40. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989\n41. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993\n42. William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001\n43. George Walker Bush, 2001-
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person who named America
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The answer depends on how you define "President."\n\nGeorge Washington was the first President of the United States under the current US Constitution.  However, the constitution was not ratified until 1789.  \n\nPrior to the constitution, the US was run under The Articles of Confederation from 1781-1789.  The first president under the Articles of Confederation was Samuel Huntington.\n\nThe US won its independence in 1781.  However, independence was declared in 1776.  At the time, the US was run by the Continental Congress.  Its presiding officer was John Hancock.\n\nThe attached article gives a complete list of presidents prior to the constitution.
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Actually, this is not George Washington. He was the first under the current constitution. However, there were 7 before him under the Articles of Confederation (they had the title: President of the United States in Congress Assembled). The first was John Hanson from November 5, 1781 until November 3, 1782. Under the articles, these guys had very little power, so we don't hear much about them.
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Under the original Articles of Confederation, John Hanson was the first President of the United States, an oft-forgotten historical figure. Under the Constitution of the United States, the presidential system we usually think about, George Washington was the first president, and the only one never to reside in the White House.  It has never had a prime minister.