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 ...

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington never became ... Hamilton, in turn, received a shield, a patron who through his rank was able to provide ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... understanding that if he did not turn the tide somehow, the Revolution would be a short-lived disaster. And so on a bitter cold ...

In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental Army through some of the earliest battles of the American Revolution, disease posed a greater threat to his forces than British troops.

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington led his own fight for independence in America. Washington was born on ...

Biden “gets to go out as the George Washington of his party,” NPR ... to set “an early example of rotation” — i.e., to turn ...