Because the 1st Continental Congress was very weak and contained only 54 delegates and it failed in every meeting and every thing.
Answerone person was thomas Jeffersonn but that is not right. That is not the state that did not attend
the continental congress held a meeting discussing britans unfair laws and taxes. there were 2 contininental congress mettings. one was to discuss the laws and taxes. the other was to form the continental army. congress decided that the leader of this army would be George Washington
George Washington was named leader.
They decided that they needed a government and print money,etc. They also decided that george washington should be their leader.
George Washington was given command of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress.
It is George Washington
Peyton Randolph is the first president of the Continental Congress. He was also a planter and public official from the Colony of Virginia.
John Hancock was the first President of the First Continental Congress.
A famous leader in Pennsylvania and president of the Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress named George Washington as supreme commander of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775.
He wasn't "elected". He had a uniform made, went to Congress, and told them they needed him.
The colonists' army was officially known as the Continental Army, and its leader was George Washington. Washington, after the war, served as the nation's first president.