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== Sejarah Moden ==
Pada asalnya jawatan ini merujuk kepada pengerusi sebuah jawatankuasa atau governing body di Britain. Kemudian ianya digunakan oleh pemimpin politik. EarlyContoh-contoh examplesawal aretermasuklah from the Universities ofUniversiti-universiti [[Oxford]] anddan [[Cambridge]] (fromsejak [[1464]]); the founding [[President of the Royal Society]] [[William Brouncker]] in 1660; headsketua-ketua of individualkoloni British colonies (originallypada asalnya di [[Virginia]] inpada [[1608]]); anddan chiefketua officerspegawai ofeksekutif banksbank (fromsejak [[1781]]).
ItTerma wasini adoptedtelah asdigunapakai asebagai titlegelaran for thebagi "officer in charge ofpegawai theberkuasa [[ContinentalKongres CongressKontinental]]" inpada [[1774]], dimana [[George Washington]], becomingtelah thedilantik firstsebagai PresidentPresiden of a country, the [[President of the United States]]AS ofyang Americapertama.
AsApabila othernegara-negara countrieslain followedmengikuti thejejak langkah [[AmericanRevolusi revolutionAmerika]], anddan deposedmenumbangkan theirmonarki monarchiesmasing-masing, it was adopted as the title for the new republican Heads of State. The first European president was the [[President of France]], a post created in the [[Second French Republic|Second Republic]] of [[1848]]. (The [[First French Republic|First Republic]] had begun with no separate executive, then established five [[French Directory|Directors]], and finally echoed the ancient [[Roman Republic]] by appointing three [[consul]]s at its head.)
Today, most [[republic]]s have a President as Head of State.
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