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The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state. [1] Born on December 5, 1782, Martin Van Buren was the first president born an American citizen (and not a British subject). [2] The term Virginia dynasty is sometimes used to describe the fact that four of the first five U.S. presidents were from Virginia.
First president to be re-elected over the age of seventy, as he was 73 years old when he was re-elected in 1984. [386] First president to visit the New York Stock Exchange, (on March 28, 1985) while in office. [387] First president to attend and open an Olympic Games (the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles) while in office. [388] [389]
George Washington, widely viewed as the first president, was elected into office in 1789 after leading the Continental Army to victory over Britain in the Revolutionary War.
Ford was the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency. His presidency ended following his narrow defeat in the 1976 presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter , after a period of 895 days in office.
Perhaps Washington wasn't first. ... Croatti suggests a number of men could reasonably be called the first president before Washington was elected in 1789. Michael, who is a descendent of the ...
The delegates to the Convention for the first presidential election anticipated a Washington presidency and left it to him to define the office once elected. [169] When the state electors voted on February 4, 1789, [174] Washington was unanimously elected, unique among U.S. presidents. [175] John Adams was elected vice president. [176]
Presidential elections were first held in the United States from December 15, 1788 to January 7, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified in 1788. George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president and John Adams became the first vice president.