Is Mr. George Washington an elected President? or else how he became the president?
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Of course he was elected! You haven't heard the NEWS?!
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George Washington was the first president of the United States.  He was a tobacco farmer and the commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.\n\n\nHe also have teeth made of ivory.
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George Washington, there was no White House when he was president.
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technically no...John Hanson was president of the country formed under the Articles of Confederation. There is a short description of the issue at URL http://www.marshallhall.org/hanson.html. You can find the Articles at URL http://www.usconstitution.net/articles.html. This country was called the United States of America, so Hanson was the first president.\n\nGeorge Washington was the first president under the Constitution of the United States, so he was the first president of the United States of America formed under the Constitution.
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George Washington became the first U.S. president to exercise a veto on April 5, 1792. He vetoed a bill outlining a new apportionment formula submitted by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Washington thought Jefferson's original formula gave the northern states an unfair advantage. The veto was sustained by Congress and a rewritten version of the bill was later signed by Washington. Washington only used the veto one more time during his term in office.
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The First President of the United States of America was George Washington.
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The first President of the U.S. was George Washington.
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Although the whole world knows Washington, DC as the capital of the United States, the city did not exist when we became a nation in 1789. The seat of the new government was located temporarily in New York City. A year later it was moved to Philadelphia. When it came to selecting the place for a permanent capital, both these cities were among those who vied to be chosen. Some of the competing cities offered land and money as incentives. A fierce rivalry developed between the northern and southern states over the location, a conflict that was finally resolved by a political compromise. In exchange for agreeing to locate the capital in the southern region, the northern states were relieved of the heavy debts they had incurred during the Revolution.\n\nIn 1790 Congress passed the Residence Act giving President George Washington the power to select a site for a new federal district, as the then-nameless capital was called. The Act also said that Congress would continue to meet in Philadelphia until 1800, when the capital city was supposed to be ready for the government to move in.\n\nWashington's own estate, Mount Vernon, was located on the Potomac River below the bustling river towns of Alexandria, Virginia and Georgetown, Maryland. He was convinced that the land along the Potomac had enormous commercial potential as a shipping center if it were linked by canal to the Western frontier. For the site of the new capital Washington picked an area at the junction of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers about 14 miles upstream from Mount Vernon.\n\nA survey of the land, a "ten-mile square" which had been ceded by Maryland, was undertaken by Andrew Ellicott with the help of Benjamin Banneker, a free black from Maryland who was a self- taught mathematician and astronomer. Forty boundary stones, laid at one-mile intervals, established the boundaries based on Banneker's celestial calculations. Most of the land consisted of floodplain, dense forest, and farmland. In order to speed development of the city, Washington convinced a number of local landholders to donate tracts of land for the new capital.\n\n"It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions."      — Charles Dickens, 1842
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John Hanson was the first president after the Treaty of Paris under Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. George Washington was the first president under the Constitution.
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George W. Bush is the current President (Head of State) of the United States.  Like nearly all industrial world leaders, he got his position via an election.\n\nPS: I'm not sure how this turned into a political diatribe, but that's common of early 21st century America.
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Back when the Inauguration Day was March 4th, it usually took a month for the Electoral College to get to Washington, and then the news get back out to the States.\nWhy - because of horse and buggy - they didn't have the Internet.\nAnd no airlines!\n\ngreat question\n\nnow here's your bonus for 100 points\n\nWho was the last President to be inaugurated March 4th and also the first to be inaugurated January 20th.\n\n(hint - a 20th century President)\n(hint - he was the only President elected to four terms)
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George Washington was the first president born on American soil, while Martin van Buren was the first born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence and John Tyler was the first born after the adoption of the constitution, so he was the first president to be born a citizen of the United States.
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John Hanson, actually. He was elected and served from November 5,1781 to November 3,1782. The next paragraph is from AOL search engine.\n\n>> Six other presidents were elected after him - Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788) - all prior to Washington taking office. Why don't we ever hear about the first seven Presidents of the United States? It's quite simple - The Articles of Confederation didn't work well. The individual states had too much power and nothing could be agreed upon. A new doctrine needed to be written - something we know as the Constitution. \n\nGeorge Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today. And the first seven Presidents are forgotten in history.<<
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George Washington was not so lucky. He was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of a fellow human.
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The first President of the United States of America was George Washington, President from 1789 to 1797
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Well, if I'm getting your jist correctly, one of the people left out of the signing was George Washington. he didn't sign because he wasn't sure if he wanted to give the American people the idea that he wanted get into Foriegn affairs...or something to that effect. I'm sure someone else can explain it better.
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George Washington was the first President of the United States of America. However, there were several "presidents" before him, some of the Continental Congress, others of the Confederated States. However, these were not executives at all and did not have any real authority. They were merely the presidents of the legislature. They were, in fact, called President of the United States in Congress Assembled. Of those, the first was Peyton Randolph.