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To: A. Patriot

“President of the Continental Congress. . . .”

Yes, that was a tricky question. No wonder so many of them got tripped up.


82 posted on 09/17/2009 12:09:22 PM PDT by Genoa
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To: Genoa

From the article I posted:

...Thereafter, the president was occasionally referred to as the “President of the United States in Congress Assembled”, although “President of (the) Congress” continued to be used in most official documents.


115 posted on 09/17/2009 2:42:39 PM PDT by A. Patriot (CZ 52's ROCK)
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