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Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college, while John Adams was reelected as vice president. Washington was essentially unopposed, but Adams faced a competitive re-election against Governor George Clinton of New York.
November 6 – The second United States presidential election is held. Incumbent President George Washington receives all 132 electoral votes for president, and incumbent Vice President John Adams is re-elected with 77 of 132 votes, with George Clinton receiving 50. [12] December 3 – George Washington is re-elected President of the United States.
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
Washington is inaugurated as president of the United States in 1789. The first U.S. presidential election was held over a period of weeks from December 1788 to January 1789. Washington was elected with 69 of the 69 first-round votes cast in the United States Electoral College. With this election, he became the only U.S. president to be ...
During his second term Washington faced two major domestic conflicts. First was the Whiskey Rebellion, a Pennsylvania revolt against liquor taxation in 1794. Washington mobilized a militia and personally commanded an expedition against the rebels, "the first and only time a sitting American president led troops in the field".
Vice President-elect JD Vance has spent his brief political career defending Trump's nationalist philosophy on Capitol Hill and was elected to the Senate in 2022 after winning Trump's endorsement.
WASHINGTON – If Donald Trump is reelected to a second term in the White House, he would return to Washington with very different relationships than when he left the nation's capital in January 2021.
The incumbent president is Joe Biden, who assumed office on January 20, 2021. [13] The president-elect is Donald Trump, who will assume office on January 20, 2025. [14] [15] Trump will be the second president after Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms, as the 45th and 47th president. [16]