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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.
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.
Washington was unanimously re-elected president, receiving 132 electoral votes (one from each elector), and Adams was re-elected vice president, receiving 77 votes. The other 55 electoral votes were divided among: George Clinton (50), Thomas Jefferson (4), and Aaron Burr (1). [28]
President Trump said Wednesday that he’d been “unanimously” elected to lead the board of the Kennedy Center, completing his takeover of the Washington, D.C. cultural center. The move, which ...
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]
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., was unanimously elected to succeed her. Pelosi, the first woman elected speaker of the House, was asked what advice she would give to women who look up to her as a ...
No alternative candidate has emerged to lead House Republicans, however, and Johnson was unanimously elected to lead the conference in October 2023 after nearly three weeks of infighting after the ...
During the first presidential election in 1789, in four of the 11 states of the time, the electors were elected directly by voters. In two others, a hybrid system was used where both the voters and the state legislatures took part in electing the electors. In five, the state legislatures themselves elected the electors. [16] [note 2]