[STARMAN 352ND]

The United States declared its independence on July 4, 1776. George Washington didn't become president until 1789.
Who or what ran the country during those years ?

[TopHat]

The Continental Congress:


The Continental Congress was the first de facto national government of the United States. It was a provisional government without a legal basis and was completely dependent on the colonies for political direction, funding and other resources. It comprised two successive bodies of representatives of provinces of the Thirteen Colonies in 18th century British North America. The colonies all became states in 1776 when they rejected colonial status:

• The First Continental Congress met from September 5, 1774, to October 26, 1774.
• The Second Continental Congress met from May 10, 1775, to the ratification of the Articles of Confederation on March 1, 1781.

Upon the ratification of the Articles, the Continental Congress was succeeded by the first legislative or de jure federal government of the United States:

• The Congress of the Confederation or the United States in Congress Assembled ran from March 1, 1781, until a more effective federal government under the Constitution became operative on March 4, 1789. The membership of the Second Continental Congress automatically carried over to the Congress of the Confederation.

Initially formed to coordinate a common American response to the Intolerable Acts, the Continental Congress rapidly evolved from a de facto to a de jure governing body of a new nation as the dispute with the British government escalated into the American Revolutionary War. Once independence was declared (July 4, 1776) the Congress served as the governing body of the United States of America, organized as a new national legislature, which made war and peace.

[STARMAN 352ND]

I'm going to have to think of a harder question next time..
Your Correct TopHat..Continental Congress did. There were several presidents of Continental Congress.

[Old Crow]

There were several presidents of Continental Congress.

But the more interesting question is who were the interns for those Presidents?

[TopHat]

Originally Posted by Old Crow

But the more interesting question is who were the interns for those Presidents?

...and does any DNA evidence survive?

[sniperUK]

Here is one for you.
What do all these presidents have in common?

Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Chester Alan Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson.

[TopHat]

That they are all dead?

[TopHat]

All were Presbyterians....

[sniperUK]

They also have it in common with Sam Houston,Davy Crockett and Stonewall Jackson but not John F.Kennedy.

[JustPlaneNuttz]

They are all men?

JPN