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ONE OF OUR DYNAMIC FOUNDING FATHERS
Samuel Huntington, 1779-1781
President of Congress
Samuel Huntington
a signer of the Declaration of Independence
was in an odd sense the
First President of The United States
holding the office on the signing of the
Articles of Confederation in 1781.
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"a valuable addition to our understanding the birthpains of our nation." -William Bushnell, Small Press
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"Dreher's book allows us to view the political mechanics of our young nation, as seen through the eyes and efforts of an obscure politician who contributed as much to our national heritage as did his more well known colonial contemporaries." -William Bushnell, Small Press, MI
"Longer Than Expected is the most comprehensive study to date of Samuel Huntington." -Richard Armstrong, Norwich Bulletin, CT
"The author's research is thorough, and his style is forceful, if idiosyncratic." -Taliaferro Boatwright, Historical Footnotes, Stonington, CT
"Longer Than Expected is a sometimes scholarly, sometimes poetic work about Huntington." -Claire Bissette, New London Day. CT
"We may well thank Dreher." -R. Gordon Hoxie, Chm., Center for the Study of the Presidency, NYC
Samuel Huntington, President of Congress LONGER THAN EXPECTED from 1779-1781, is a narrative essay on the letters of Samuel Huntington.
The confederation of the thirteen states being completed, the Continental Congress became "The United States in Congress Assembled" during Huntington's presidency. Born of a modest farmer, Samuel led the confederation. The essay follows the effect of Huntington's family background and New England religion as a factor in his attitudes and capabilities, offering an historical perspective to our modern Congress. Issues were the beginnings of the federal judicial branch, the creation of the first executive departments, currency reform and the devaluation of the Continental paper money, negotiation of a peace treaty with Great Britain and final ratification of the Articles of Confederation and the formal start of the Union.
The tide of public affairs flowed favorably during Huntington's second
"Longer Than Expected..."
term as President of Congress, a prelude to the decisive victory at Yorktown in October, 1781.
He was later Governor of Connecticut from 1786 till his death in 1796.
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(c) 1996 George Kelsey Dreher researched in the 1960s an unsung revolutionary patriot, Samuel Huntington, then was greatly aided by a fellowship from Yale Divinity School in 1980 which led to the finished manuscript in 1986. Detailing events in the Continental Congress it "is a valuable addition to our understanding the birthpains of our nation" (Small Press). It is on sale at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and at the Samuel Huntington Museum in Scotland, Connecticut.240 pages, 6" x 9", Table of Contents, Index, extensive Bibliography, 15 illustrations, color cover, library binding or paperback.
Author, George K. Dreher- "As the bibliography attests, I owe debts to many scholars, especially to John T. McNeill (the officiant at my wedding) for his important studies of Calvinism, and to Herbert D. Forster, who in his essay "International Calvinism through Locke and the Revolution of 1688" traces a line through "nine Calvinist revolutions" including the 1640 and 1688 in England, implying (pp. 147, 163) that the American Revolution was another. The five points of "political Calvinsim" which he describes (pp. 163-178) were basic tenets of Huntington and many of his colleagues."
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"I find one consolation very necessary in public life: that is, to believe or at least to act as if I did fully believe there are many wise men who can judge better than myself on important subjects, and I have the happiness generally to unite in promoting their determinations, as far as duty requires in any sphere I am called to act in."-Huntington to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.
January 3, 1780
"Indeed the weight and burden of business is continually increasing and like to increase while the war continues."-Huntington to James Cogswell
July 22, 1980
"No means in the power of Congress will be left unessayed to give you all necessary aid. I am informed some arms are now on the way for Virginia, and the Board of War are still using their endeavors, not without prospect for success, to procure more arms to supply such troops from Maryland and this state as may be raised and march to join Marquis de LaFayette."
-Huntington to Governor Jefferson
June 3, 1781
"The station you have lately filled with so much honor has given you an opportunity of making yourself intimately acquainted with our real situation."-George Washington to Huntington
July, 1781
"I am fully of opinion that the great council of the union must have a controlling power with respect to national concerns. There is at present an extreme want of power in the national government, and it is my opinion that this Constitution does not give too much...
"While I have attended in Congress, I have observed that the members were quite as strenuous advocates for the rights of their respective states, as for those of the union. I doubt not but that this will continue to be the case, and hence I infer that the general government will not have the disposition to encroach upon the states. But still the people themselves must be the chief support of liberty."-Huntington to the convention debating the proposed U.S. Constitution
Hartford, January 4, 1788
Link to Bio. 1 | Another short bio. | And Bio. 3
Links to Journals
American Historical Association | Journal of the Early Republic | Early America Review | William and Mary Quarterly | Reviews in American History
A Short List of Events In Samuel Huntington's Life
1731, June 3, born in Windham, Connecticut
1754, admitted to the bar
1760, moved to Norwich, Connecticut, to practice law
1761, married Martha Devotion, daughter to the Rev. Ebenezer Devotion
1764, elected to the Connecticut Assembly
1765, King's Attorney for the Colony of Connecticut
1775, chosen a delegate to the Continental Congress
1776, July 4, signed the Declaration of Independence
1779-1781, President of the Continental Congress
1781, President of the United States in Congress Assembled after ratifying the Articles of Confederation
1784, elected Deputy Governor of Connecticut
1786, elected Governor and re-elected for ten years
1796, January 5, died and laid to rest in Norwichtown, Connecticut
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