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George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president and John Adams became the first vice president. This was the only U.S. presidential election that spanned two calendar years without a contingent election and the first national presidential election in American history.
The presidency of George Washington began on April 30, 1789, when George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1797.. Washington took office after the 1788–1789 presidential election, the nation's first quadrennial presidential election, in which he was elected unanimously by the Electoral Colle
George Washington stood for public office five times, serving two terms in the Virginia House of Burgesses and two terms as President of the United States. He is the only independent elected as U.S. president and the only person unanimously elected to that office. George Washington, c. 1803
On February 13, 1793, the Electoral College unanimously re-elected Washington president by a vote of 77 to 50. [213] He was sworn into office by Associate Justice William Cushing on March 4, 1793, in Congress Hall in Philadelphia. Washington gave a brief address before immediately retiring to the President's House. [214]
Monroe would've been unanimously elected, were it not for a lone elector who gave his vote to John Quincy Adams. ... Washington ran unopposed twice for the newly-created position of president and ...
President George Washington — who led the Continental Army against the British in the Revolutionary War, presided over the creation of the Constitution and was unanimously elected president ...
Sixteen presidents had previously served in the U.S. Senate, including four of the five who served between 1945 and 1974. However, only three were incumbent senators at the time they were elected president (Warren G. Harding in 1920, John F. Kennedy in 1960, and Barack Obama in 2008). Eighteen presidents had earlier served in the House of ...
Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, fulfilling his promise to shatter America’s political status quo after he refused to accept his loss to Joe Biden ...