White House Historical Association Chief Education Officer Matthew Costello talked about the Constitutional foundations of the American presidency.

George Washington served as the first president of the United States ... AndreaAstes/iStock via Getty Images Before he became president, George Washington served as commander-in-chief of the ...

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 ...

Washington state was named in honor of the first president when it became a U.S. territory decades ... Abell said he believes that rather than diminishing George Washington’s connection to ...

"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow patriot Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee is ...

There they created a brand new constitution for the United States of America. An electoral college was set up and George Washington became the first President of the Independent United States in 1989.

George Washington Carver was born in 1864 on that farm, which also became his childhood home ... to an African American and the first to a non-president. The Carver described the monument as ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington ... In 1754, at age 22, Washington became commander of the Virginia ...