Who was the first president of the United States? Hint: It WASN'T George Washington...?

Answer 1

John Hanson,
American Patriot and First President of the United States
(1715-1783)

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.

Answer 2

The first President of the United States was George Washington.

A popular urban legend or bar bet suggests that John Hanson of Maryland was the "first President" of the United States.

John Hanson (April 13, 1715 – November 22, 1783) was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland. Because he was the first man to serve a full term as President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation in 1781 and 1782, he has been called the first President of the United States, but this claim is inaccurate.

The origin of the claim that Hanson is the "forgotten" first President stems from a 1932 book by Seymour Wemyss Smith titled John Hanson - Our First President. Nevertheless, officially Hanson was the third presiding officer of the Congress of the United States, and he considered himself a successor to the first two men to hold the office, Samuel Huntington and Thomas McKean, who themselves were successors to prior Presidents of the Second Continental Congress. Nor was the office an executive position like the office of President that was created under the Constitution.

Hanson was, however, the first to serve a full one-year term, and the first to formally use the title President of the United States in Congress Assembled. Also, he was the first to use the shortened title President of the United States on official documents.

Answer 3

John Hanson was the first President of the United States to serve the full one-year term (1781–82), under the ratified Articles of Confederation.

Answer 4

John Hancock

Answer 5

That's debatable....Technically, it was John Hancock because he was president of the first congress/meeting when the declaration of independence was being drafted, before the USA became a nation/country.

Answer 6

Samuel Huntington if you are referring to the president under the articles of confederacy.

Answer 7

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4350610

Answer 8

I think it was my great great great great (x150) grandpa