Editing Articles of Confederation (section)

===Presidents of Congress===
{{Further|President of the Continental Congress}}

Under the Articles of Confederation, the presiding officer of Congress—referred to in many official records as ''President of the United States in Congress Assembled''—chaired the [[Committee of the States]] when Congress was in recess, and performed other administrative functions. He was not, however, an executive in the way the later [[president of the United States]] is a chief executive, since all of the functions he executed were under the direct control of Congress.{{sfn|Jensen|1959|pp=178–79}}

There were 10 presidents of Congress under the Articles. The first, [[Samuel Huntington (statesman)|Samuel Huntington]], had been serving as president of the Continental Congress since September 28, 1779.

{| class="wikitable sortable"

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! President
! Term

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| data-sort-value="Huntington, Samuel"|[[Samuel Huntington (statesman)|Samuel Huntington]]
| {{Sort|01|March 1, 1781}}{{Snd}}July 10, 1781

|-
| data-sort-value="McKean, Thomas"|[[Thomas McKean]]
| {{Sort|02|July 10, 1781}}{{Snd}}November 5, 1781

|-
| data-sort-value="Hanson, John"|[[John Hanson]]
| {{Sort|03|November 5, 1781}}{{Snd}}November 4, 1782

|-
| data-sort-value="Boudinot, Elias"|[[Elias Boudinot]]
| {{Sort|04|November 4, 1782}}{{Snd}}November 3, 1783

|-
| data-sort-value="Mifflin, Thomas"|[[Thomas Mifflin]]
| {{Sort|05|November 3, 1783}}{{Snd}}June 3, 1784

|-
| data-sort-value="Lee, Richard"| [[Richard Henry Lee]]
| {{Sort|06|November 30, 1784}}{{Snd}}November 4, 1785

|-
| data-sort-value="Hancock, John"|[[John Hancock]]
| {{Sort|07|November 23, 1785}}{{Snd}}June 5, 1786

|-
| data-sort-value="Gorham, Nathaniel"|[[Nathaniel Gorham]]
| {{Sort|08|June 6, 1786}}{{Snd}}November 3, 1786

|-
| data-sort-value="StClair, Arthur"|[[Arthur St. Clair]]
| {{Sort|09|February 2, 1787}}{{Snd}}November 4, 1787

|-
| data-sort-value="Griffin, Cyrus"|[[Cyrus Griffin]]
| {{Sort|10|January 22, 1788}}{{Snd}}November 15, 1788

|-
|}