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On April 15, 1789, the Gazette of the United States finally started printing as a semiweekly [citation needed] newspaper, [11] just in time for President Washington's inauguration later the same month. [12] The paper's first government printing contract was signed in July 1789, later than expected. [13]
July 17, 1824. (1824-07-17) (aged 69) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. Political party. Federalist (1787–1800) Jeffersonian (1800–1824) Tench Coxe (May 22, 1755 – July 17, 1824) was an American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788–1789. He wrote under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian," and ...
1st: March 4, 1789 – September 29, 1789. 2nd: January 4, 1790 – August 12, 1790. 3rd: December 6, 1790 – March 3, 1791. The 1st United States Congress, comprising the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, met from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1791, during the first two years of George Washington's presidency ...
The 1788–89 United States presidential election was the first quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Monday, December 15, 1788, to Wednesday, January 7, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified that same year.
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution , the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America , between 1776 and 1789.
February 4 – George Washington is unanimously elected the first president of the United States by the United States Electoral College. March 4 – At Federal Hall in New York City, the 1st United States Congress meets and declares the new United States Constitution to be in effect. March 29 – Thomas Collins, President of Delaware, dies in ...
Pro-Administration. The 1790–91 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between April 27, 1790, and October 11, 1791. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before or after the first session of the 2nd United States Congress convened on October 24, 1791.
t. e. The drafting of the Constitution of the United States began on May 25, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to revise the Articles of Confederation. It ended on September 17, 1787, the day the Frame of Government ...