The US had numerous Chief Executives who served in the period when we had achieved independence from England and the enacting of the Constitution which officially created the office of the President .

So I would say these guys...

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The Revolutionary War was fought for eight long years, finally coming to an end in 1783 when Great Britain and American representatives signed the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which formally recognized the United States of America as an independent nation. However, George Washington did not become President of the United States of America until 1789, so who ran the newly independent country for the six years following the end of the revolution? Several men held the position: John Hanson (Nov 5 1781 – Nov 3 1782), Elias Boudinot (Nov 4 1782 – Nov 2 1783), Thomas Mifflin (Nov 3 1783 – Nov 29 1784), Richard Henry Lee (Nov 30 1784 – Nov 22 1785), John Hancock (Nov 23 1785 – Jun 5 1786), Nathaniel Gorham (Jun 6 1786 – Feb 1 1787), Arthur St. Clair (Feb 2 1787 – Jan 21 1788), Cyrus Griffin (Jan 22 1788 – Apr 30 1789), and Samuel Huntington (Sept 28 1779 – July 10 1781). Why do these men seem to be left out of history books, forgotten by the world?

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Posted by Che Boludo

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Posted on 5/5/24 at 8:41 am to Spawn

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John Hanson (Nov 5 1781 – Nov 3 1782)

This is often thought of as the answer from some of his biographers, and it makes a good trivia question. Founding father who was elected as First President of the Confederation Congress after the Articles of Confederation were signed in 1781.

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John Hanson served as the first president of the original United States government chartered by the Articles of Confederation in 1781, and twice before that played the key role at critical junctures in holding the thirteen states together in a unified nation. His two nation-saving strokes and his adroit marshaling of materiel, troops and financing during the Revolutionary War made him the choice by some of the greatest Americans who ever lived as their nation’s first president.

Then, it gets worse as he died and America completely lost track of him... twice.

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President Hanson took ill a final time, lingering with much discomfort. On November 22, 1783, the American who had twice been indispensable in assuring nationhood, to whom the young nation had turned to first lead it, who had sacrificed so much in bringing forth his country, died at 68. Had he lived five days more, he would have celebrated Thanksgiving which by his quill had become official one year earlier.
Then John Hanson vanished.
In one of the most astounding turns in American history, Hanson's gravesite became forgotten, rediscovered, forgotten again, and found once more in 2011 in researching Remembering John Hanson by which time it and Hanson's body had vanished in the most tragic manner

Remembering John Hanson: 1st President of the Original USG

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