Historic Documents and Medallions of Freedom

The Minneapolis Convention Center
Exhibit’s dates and hours are:

Friday, August 29 -  9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 30 -  9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 31-  9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Monday, September 1 - 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday, September 2 - 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 3 - 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 4 -  9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Minnesota put on a vibrant civic non-partisan celebration of American history, democracy, and the U.S. Presidency at the Minneapolis Convention Center during the Republican National Convention called CivicFest 2008. The featured exhibit on the U.S. Presidency was Stanley L. Klos’ President Who? Forgotten Founders Exhibit. The anthology of rare documents focuses on the rise of the U.S. Presidency from 1774 to 1788.

Forgotten Founders -- Historic Documents and Medallions of Freedom  is an exhibit of rare historic documents, manuscripts, letters, newspapers and broadsides that mark the lives of each of the fourteen men who served the American Colonies/States from 1774 to 1788. This exhibit will be unveiled at Minneapolis Convention Center during the 2008 Republican National Convention as part of the MSP 2008 Civic Fest. The first Presidents served under the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1781, while ten served as Presidents of the United States of America, 1781 - 1788 under the first federal constitution of 1777 that formed the “Perpetual Union.”  

To view the Exhibit click on the subject links below
 

King George III                    Charles Thomson

Presidents of the Continental Congress

Declaration of Independence                  Continental Congress

Test Your PRE-1789 U.S. PRESIDENCY I.Q.

The Exhibit Features 14 Oil Paintings of each President

  

Arthur St. Clair
 

Presidents of the United States in Congress Assembled

United States in Congress Assembled

*Huntington was elected as President of the Continental Congress but
ascended to the United States Presidency on March 2, 1781
under the Constitution of 1777 -- The Articles of Confederation

 

Author's Copy of the Wet Ink Transfer - Declaration of Independence

Eight Capitol Medallions of the United Colonies/States of America
1774 – 1789

Philadelphia	September 5, 1774 to October 24, 1774	City Tavern on September 4th and then Carpenters Hall
Philadelphia	May 10, 1775 to December 12, 1776	Pennsylvania State House
Baltimore	December 20, 1776 to February 27, 1777	Henry Fite House, Maryland
Philadelphia	March 12, 1777 to September 18, 1777	Pennsylvania State House
Lancaster	September 27, 1777	Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Court House
York	September 30, 1777 to June 27, 1778:	York, Pennsylvania, Court House
Philadelphia	July 2, 1778 to June 21, 1783	College Hall  then Pennsylvania State House
Princeton,	June 30, 1783 to November 4, 1783	Prospect House then Nassau Hall, New Jersey
Annapolis	November 26, 1783 to August 19, 1784	Maryland State House
Trenton	November 1, 1784 to December 24, 1784	French Arms Tavern, New Jersey
New York City	January 11, 1785 to November 13, 1788	New York City Hall
New York City	November 1788 - March 1789	Fraunces Tavern

 

© Stanley L. Klos has a worldwide copyright on the design, artwork and text
The work is not to be copied by anyone by any means
without first receiving permission from Stanley L. Klos.

 

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Born in a Tavern and ending in a Tavern The United States Founding governments
occupied 11 different capitol buildings experienced 15 years of challenges that included war,
hyper-inflation, a failed constitution, judicial corruption, armed citizen and U.S. Army rebellion.