Plausibility Check: Washington Not First

What's the likelihood of someone other than George Washington being elected president of the Philadelphia Convention, and then President of the United States? What POD would this require? And who would replace him ITTL?
 
Well, if patrick Ferguson had taken his opportunity to kill Washington at the battle of brandywine, then most of the glory that he recived from the war would probably go instead to Horatio Gates.

by the by, Gates was ambitious enough that this would be a good way to start off an american monarchy.
 
What's the likelihood of someone other than George Washington being elected president of the Philadelphia Convention, and then President of the United States? What POD would this require? And who would replace him ITTL?

At the Philadephia Convention? Unlikely, the only member that could have brought gravitas besides Washington would probably be Franklin, and that is just tipping my hat to an AH short story.

However, Cyrus Griffin, the President of the Continental Congress could have been.
 
Horatio Gates was a supporter of Thomas Jefferson, so I don't see how he would become a monarch. Franklin seemed like a possibility, because of that short story, but I questioned the likelihood of him becoming the first president, when you consider that he died only a few years after the Convention (and only a year after he'd be inaugurated, if he were to become president).
 
Well, if patrick Ferguson had taken his opportunity to kill Washington at the battle of brandywine, then most of the glory that he recived from the war would probably go instead to Horatio Gates.

by the by, Gates was ambitious enough that this would be a good way to start off an american monarchy.

If Washington died and Gates took command, there'd have been no Philadelphia Convention because the Patriots would have lost the war.

Gates was ambitious...he was also an abject coward and was sacked OTL after he fled the field (without his army) at Camden. With Arnold's treason, Washington dead and Gates an abject failure, it's hard to see anyone leading the Patriot cause to victory in the long run.
 
If Washington died and Gates took command, there'd have been no Philadelphia Convention because the Patriots would have lost the war.

Gates was ambitious...he was also an abject coward and was sacked OTL after he fled the field (without his army) at Camden. With Arnold's treason, Washington dead and Gates an abject failure, it's hard to see anyone leading the Patriot cause to victory in the long run.

I think we are suppose to think of likely alternatives of those either present at the Philadelphia Convention or concurrently living.
 
If Washington died and Gates took command, there'd have been no Philadelphia Convention because the Patriots would have lost the war.

Gates was ambitious...he was also an abject coward and was sacked OTL after he fled the field (without his army) at Camden. With Arnold's treason, Washington dead and Gates an abject failure, it's hard to see anyone leading the Patriot cause to victory in the long run.
Anthony Wayne is a possibility, and a long shot could be George Rogers Clark. Not saying they would but they were both decent leaders.
 
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