
The Highest Office: Who is The First President of The United States?
Although George Washington himself congratulated Hanson, stating that he held the “most important seat in the United States,” Hanson’s role, and that of the seven men who followed him, was to preside over Congress. He lacked the executive powers of the Constitution would invest in Washington and his successors, and he was powerless to enforce the measures of Congress, which were often ignored by the individual states…By 1786 the political weaknesses of the Articles were identified, and in 1789 the new Continental Congress had ruled the newly united states, and John Hanson, largely forgotten today, had the honor of being its first president.















