Who was the First President?

   Who really knows who the first president was? The schools teach it was George Washington, but was he really the first president? To tell you the truth the first president wasn't George Washington. The first president was really John Hanson! George Washington was the first president elected under the constitution, there was really seven before him.The presidents in order from first to eighth are as follows: John Hanson, Elias Boudinot, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Henry Lee, Nathan Gorman, Arthur St. Clair, Cyrus Griffin, and eighth is George Washington. Even George Washington didn't consider himself the first president!!
   So next time someone says George Washington was the first President tell them the truth!!
  Written by Colten  information from "The U.S. Constitution" booklet

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"Too many people expect wonders from democracy,when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it." Walter Winchell

"A free government is a complicated piece of machinery, the nice and exact adjustments of whose springs, wheels, and weights, is not yet comprehended by the artists of the age, and still less by the people." John Adams to Thomas Jefferson

"In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen" G. Norman Collie

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"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action," George Washington

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