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 ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. About less than 1.3% of the population, at the time, voted in the election of 1788-89. Challenges Because he was ...

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

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 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 ...