Samuel Huntington (
July 3,
1731–
January 5,
1796) was a
American jurist, statesman, and
revolutionary leader from
Connecticut. He served as a delegate to the
Continental Congress where he signed the
Declaration of Independence, as Governor of
Connecticut, and later as the first
President of the United States in Congress Assembled, that is, the presiding officer of the
Congress of the Confederation, the sole governing body of the
first central government of the
United States of America. His office was not that of today's
President of the United States, which is a federal chief
executive position created under the later
United States Constitution.
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