Not with your era's typical ignorance, no. Or even just yours in particular.

[Unless it involved a droid, a vehicle, or a fight anyway. Then even he'd acknowledge Anakin approached authority status.]

The two positions are analogous to sitting on your Order's High Council and whatever role currently acts as the commander-in-chief of the Republic military.

Only it involves keeping the various galactic factions pointed at a common enemy, rather than at each other's throats.