Cyrus Griffin
was born in Farnham,Virginia in 1749. He studied in England and
Scotland at the University of Edinburgh. He was engaged in the
private practice law in Lancaster,Virginia from 1774-1777.
He was a member
of the the Virginia House of Delegates and a delegate to the
Continental Congress from1778-1781and again from 1787-1788 serving
as an appeals court judge in the interim.
He served as
President of Congress from January to November of 1788. It was mostly
a ceremonial position with no real authority. Some
amateur historians later promoted Griffin and other Presidents of
Congress as the original "Presidents of the United States",
but the offices are unrelated.
He was
president of the Supreme Court of the Admiralty from it's creation
until the abolition and was commissioner to the Creek Nation in 1789
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