How could Benjamin Franklyn been first u.s. president??

[Elephant_trail]

In real life George Washing ton was out first president establishing tradition of military generals becoming president. How could Benjamin Franklyn been president??

 

[napoleon IV]

Franklin's age and health put him completely out of the running for President. At the time of the Constitutional Convention he was 81 years old and in poor health, suffering from a sizeable bladder stone that left him in great pain and often bedridden. He died in 1790, so had he been President he would have only been in office for about a year.

 

[Elephant_trail]

Franklin's age and health put him completely out of the running for President. At the time of the Constitutional Convention he was 81 years old and in poor health, suffering from a sizeable bladder stone that left him in great pain and often bedridden. He died in 1790, so had he been President he would have only been in office for about a year.

Could John Adams of been first u.s. president had Washington been killed in the revolutionary war?/

 

[AltonCarroll]

Franklin himself argued against a president as too much power concentrated in one man, wanting the executive to be a small committee.