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Speaking of presidents, here is an odd piece of trivia. It turns out Benjamin Franklin was President of Pennsylvania. Actually, he was President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania but called the President of Pennsylvania. For example, from the Journal of the Continental Congress:

Also, according to indorsement, was read a letter from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, forwarding a letter from the President of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin.

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I recently acquired a reprint of the "Lost State of Franklin" by Samuel Cole Williams. An interesting history of the American Frontier in the 1780s. The provisional State was named for Benjamin Franklin, although the original name may have been "Frankland," meaning "land of the free."