On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

They selected March 4, 1789, which would also be the day to inaugurate the first president, George Washington. And, for over a century, that would be Inauguration Day. With elections in November ...

Officially known as Washington's Birthday, the federal holiday was originally meant to honor the country's first president, George Washington. Washington was born in Virginia on Feb. 11 ...

The “when and where” to ensconce the president-elect into the nation ... into the Constitution’s 12th Amendment. George Washington giving his first inaugural address on April 30, 1789 ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else.

"It's overlooked a lot that New York City was the first capitol, and that George Washington actually became president on Wall Street," Ventura said. It's now a museum. An average of 300 daily ...