The first president in the United States was not George Washington. Meet John Rutledge, the first President of . . . South Carolina.
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Flanders, Henry. The Lives and Times of The Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Vol. 1. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1874. https://books.google.com/books?id=qbE427HiSx0C.
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“George Washington” (1803). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg
“John Rutledge” (2008). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Rutledge_senate.jpg
“Flag of South Carolina” (1940). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg
“1776 Constitution Before and After” (2019). https://scdah.sc.gov/sites/scdah/files/Documents/Images/Image%20%238%20Page%201%20Before%20and%20After.jpg