Elias Boudinot elected President of Congress

In November 1782, Elias Boudinot was elected President of the Continental Congress for a one-year term. The presidency was held by a member of Congress elected by the other delegates to serve as a neutral discussion moderator, and the officeholder also chaired the Committee of the States when Congress was in recess. Boudinot's election came while he was serving a congressional term that ran through 1783, and his presidency covered the final years of the Revolutionary War. The legacy record's specific date of November 4, 1782, and its Philadelphia location are not confirmed by the supplied passages, which date the election only to November 1782.