[SedVictaCatoni]

One of these again. The bottom line is this: several governmental bodies existed in the United States before the ratification of the United States Constitution. Some of these had presiding officers who held the title of "president". This is similar to Dick Cheney's title: President of the Senate.

If you want to play semantic games, you could claim that one of these men was therefore "President of the United States", even though everybody is agreed that nobody who was a "president" under the Continental Congresses or the Articles of Confederation government held the portfolio of executive powers which are granted under the Constitution.

Meanwhile, over the last two centuries we've developed a cultural convention that only men elected under the United States Constitution are considered "Presidents of the United States". George Washington was the first of these. End of story.

[JimSEA]

Exactly!

He's also considered taking the cause to the federal courts.

This infuriates me as much as anything else in the article.