who was the first president of U.S.A?

Answer 1

Benjamin Franklin, jeez don't you guys know your history?

Answer 2

George Washington

Answer 3

George Washington

Answer 4

George Washington

Answer 5

George Washington

Answer 6

George Washington

Answer 7

George Washington

Answer 8

George Washington

Answer 9

George Washington was the first President of the United States as we know it under our current Constitution.

Between the Revolutionary War and the adoption of the Constitution in the late 1780s, the country operated under the Articles of Confederation, which didn't allow for a federal chief executive. I believe there was a "president" of Congress, but that's not quite the same thing. There were "presidents" presiding over the Continental Congresses during the war too, but I don't think any of them would be considered "the first president" either.

Answer 10

Actually, there were 14 "Presidents" that preceded Washingnton. Washington was the 1st President of the United States as a Republic, but prior to that, America has operated as a Confederation of States.

So techincally, the 1st President would have been Peyton Randolph of Virginia (1723-1775). When delegates gathered in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress, they promptly elected the former King's Attorney of Virginia as the moderator and president of their convocation. He was a propitious choice. He was a legal prodigy—having studied at the Inner Temple in London, served as his native colony's Attorney General, and tutored many of the most able men of the South at William and Mary College—including the young Patrick Henry. His home in Williamsburg was the gathering place for Virginia's legal and political gentry—and it remains a popular attraction in the restored colonial capital. He had served as a delegate in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and had been a commander under William Byrd in the colonial militia. He was a scholar of some renown—having begun a self-guided reading of the classics when he was thirteen. Despite suffering poor health served the Continental Congress as president twice, in 1774 from September 5 to October 21, and then again for a few days in 1775 from May 10 to May 23. He never lived to see independence, yet was numbered among the nation's most revered founders.

Answer 11

Samuel Huntington under the first constitution he was elected to the Continental Congress in 1779, 10 years before Washington. However Timothy Ruggles was president in 1765 under the Stamp Act Congress which was the first proto-American trans-colony political body.