He was born and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, making him the only President of the United States born and bred on foreign soil. He helped to organize both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania militias, led the Continential Army's Canadian expedition, and was elected Congress. In 1787 he was elected President and served from February 2 of that year and until January 21 of the next. St. Clair lived to see the hated English tyrants who destroyed his homeland defeated.