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 ...

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 ...

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington ... refusing Washington's prompt attempts to smooth over the breach. Letters written in the aftermath ...

Mark your calendar: Presidents Day falls on Feb. 17 this year, and though it’s a few days earlier than George Washington’s birthday ... “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire ...

One can imagine the extra time and work that Holmes had ... perhaps was a minister, for George Washington's 1799 census shows the letters "mint'r" written beside Will's name.

Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration on March 4, 1861. Bettmann/Getty Images Claire Jerry, Smithsonian Institution The only ...

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural ... of peanuts that built up and rotted in storehouses. Carver set to work on finding alternative uses for the non-cotton crops, inventing ...