Earlier US President

Could the States have decided to have constitutional arrangment including a significant President some time between 1776 and 1789?
 
Perhaps after Yorktown plus a year to organise a new government to form "a more perfect union" making it 1783 for the Constitution.
 
Could the States have decided to have constitutional arrangment including a significant President some time between 1776 and 1789?

Isn't John Hancock significant enough for you? Have to admit that this 15 year period is one of the most under researched areas of American history. It is very much as if these gentlemen have been purposefully forgotten by the country.

Who wouldn't want to see Peyton Randolph on a dollar bill?
 
I think there is some perception / reviewing of history here in some way.

A example - who was the first American in Space. No, not John Glenn, he was the first IN ORBIT, Alan Shepherd gets totally forgotten. So, I could certainly see that the Presidents before Washington (i.e. under the AoC rather than the Consititution) would get counted.
 
There were several significant figures who were President of the United States in Congress Assembled (under the Articles of Confederation), John Hancock being the most well known, if not for that reason. Honestly, to get what you are wanting, the entire period leading up to the revolution or even before then, would have to be altered. It is mostly luck and circumstance that "These thirteen united States of America" became "The United States of America" as soon as they did. It would be hard to get the Constitution created before it was.
 
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