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First President of the United States debated
Elmo Scott Watson argues the title belongs to George Washington, not John Hanson or other Continental Congress presidents. He explains the Constitution created the presidential office in 1787 and notes Hanson served only as a congress president, not as head of a United States executive. Washington remains the first president under the Constitution.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Continental Congress
Thomas McKean
William Thornton
Inter
George Washington
United States
Washington
Edmund G. Burnett
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Burnett
Carnegie Institution
Thames
John Hanson
Congress
Hanson
Peyton Randolph
Cyrus Griffin
Maryland
New Jersey
Delaware
Daniel Carroll
Samuel Huntington
Connecticut
Huntington
Samuel Johnston
North Carolina
Johnston
McKean
John Hannon
Burnett Boyes
Congress of the