He was such an obvious choice to become the first commander in chief that there wasn't any real in-fighting about the decision. However, if he had been killed in 1782 say, would the states have found a replacement that would have been acceptable to a majority of them? I'm not sure. Who do you think would have become the first president. I don't think that you can just assume that it would have been Adams. I suppose that Jefferson would have a had a good shot. He was idealistic, a Virginian, well known, and admired. Of course this alternate reality thread would then ask who would be president in 1803 and would they have agreed to the Louisana Purchase. I guess the bottom line thought behind this question is that when you look around the world today and even in the past couple of hundred years there arn't a lot of leaders who after starting a new government can then walk away from the power and thereby start his country and people off on a firm footing. So who would it have been?
2007-05-26
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