Wtp Arizona?

While debating this would be hard, you have to look at the scale. When was the last time a president inherited a pomegranatestorm of this magnitude?

Abraham Lincoln had the secession of half of the states into a confederacy to deal with, amongst other stuff. comparatively he had it harder i'd say.

There were several presidents before him. He was just the first one under the current Constitution.

if the argument is of the term presidents in the world, then i'd have to look it up to make sure, but before george washington the US had no presidents. they had leaders, generals, and aristocrats, and the like, but no one formal leader.