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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 93128, member: 4626&quot;]The lgegislation as I read it will start the coins with Washington.&nbsp; While there were technically 10 provisional &quot;presidents&quot; between the time America declared independence in 1776 and the first president elected since the ratification of the constitution took office in 1789, these typically aren&#039;t counted as &quot;presidents&quot; in the modern sense, since the Constitution that defined the powers of the president hadn&#039;t yet been ratified.&nbsp; George Washington was the first President of the United States since the office was Constitutionally defined and ratified.&nbsp; Those other 10 people served as provsional presidents, but the office wasn&#039;t constitutionally defined yet so in a legal sense didn&#039;t actually exist.&nbsp; Those 10 people are basically just histirocal footnotes (such as the person who tecnically was president for a day because the president elect refused to be sworn in on a Sunday.).</p><p><br /></p><p>But the guy who gave the longest inaugral speech ever, on a cold rainy day, refusing to wear a coat or gloves, gets a coin... caught pneumonia as a result and died 30 days later.&nbsp; The shortest inaugral speech was given by his grandson who learned from his grandfather&#039;s experience apprently, lol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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