Show GREAT BUT NEVER CHIEF executives long list of presidents of co continental tin congress the first president of the united states was george washington that office was created by the constitution ution and he as was the first man to occupy it before the adoption of the constitution the business bu business of the united states was conducted by a provisional gov government e rement the authority of which was centered in the constitutional congress between the organization of the continental congress in 1774 and the establishment of the constitutional government that congress had sixteen presidents gut but none of the presidents of the continental con c on gress had bad the title or of president of the united states the president of the continental congress corresponded roughly in hla his functions to the vice president of the present government the pro president aident of the senate lie fie had some powers delegated to him from time to time beyond chope or of the pro presiding sIdIng of a legis legislative body here Is a list of the presidents of the continental congress with the date of the election of each peyton randolph of virginia september 5 1784 henry south carolina october 22 1774 peyton randolph ogain og aln may 10 1775 john hancock ancock II of may 24 1775 henry laurels Lau laurens south carolina november 1 1777 john jay new york december 10 1778 samuel huntington connecticut september 28 1770 thomas mckean delaware july 10 1781 john hanson maryland november 15 1781 ellas elias boudinot new jersey november 4 1782 i Th thomas onias Alif flin pennsylvania november 3 8 1783 R H lee virginia november amber 30 1784 john hancock af aln november 23 nathan lei gorham massachusetts june fi a 1780 arthur st clair pennsylvania r february 2 1787 87 cyrus GrI griffin flin pennsylvania january 22 1788 it was as president of the continental congress that aliat john hancock wa was s the first signer of the declaration of independence cleveland plain dealer |