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John Jay elected President of the Continental Congress
- When
- December 10, 1778
- Where
- Continental Congress, December 1778
The Continental Congress elected New York delegate John Jay as president on December 10, 1778, three days after he became a delegate.
The Continental Congress turned to Jay, a political adversary of the previous president Henry Laurens, only three days after Jay became a delegate, and elected him President of the Continental Congress. Jay served as president from December 10, 1778, to September 28, 1779. The supplied passages do not state the meeting venue for this election, so the College Hall location in the legacy row is not confirmed.
Sources
- John Jay Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-26
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.