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 ...

UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first ...

(AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea ... Here is a look at how things have evolved: Washington was born Feb. 22, 1732, on Popes Creek Plantation near the ...

The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences ... But then, suddenly, there’s good news. Washington’s analysis in this excised section pivots to a cautious optimism about large ...

George Washington was born on Feb. 22, in 1732, so to celebrate let’s talk about his plan to honor the weary troops that fought the Revolutionary War. In 1782, as the Revolutionary War was ...

‘General George Washington ... example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.” Justice. Mercy. Charity. Humility: This is Micah 6:8. It sounds as if Washington is writing ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.