Was Goerge Washington really the first president? True or False?
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False!  He was not the first president of the United States.  There was someone else, although I'm not sure of his name.  The inaguration I beleive was either in Philadelphia or New York.
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On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.\n\nGeorge Washington is often called "the father of his country" for his crucial role in fighting for, creating and leading the United States of America in its earliest days. Washington was a surveyor, farmer and soldier who rose to command the colonial forces in the Revolutionary War. His success in the war made him a tremendously popular figure in America even after he retired to his farm at Mount Vernon in 1783. He was the natural choice to serve as the country's first president in 1789 after the new United States Constitution was ratified. He served two terms, refused a third, and returned to his Virginia farm. In 1798 he was again commissioned as commander in chief of the army, a title he held until his death 18 months later. He was succeeded as president by John Adams.\n\nMore info in the links, if you need it!
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The short answer is yes.\n\nThe long answer is: \n\nThere are claims that John Hanson was the first president and indeed that there were others after him and before Washington. However, Hanson was the first man to serve a full term as President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation in 1781 and 1782, and it is because of this he has been called the first President of the United States; though this claim is inaccurate. Before the adoption of the Constitution in 1787, the colonies operated under the direction of the Continental Congress, although they remained in principle a confederation of independent states. Even after the adoption of the Articles of Confederation, there was no executive branch. As such the President of the Continental Congress, which was a position similar to a Prime Minister, was the highest authority; under the Articles, the position adopted the title President of the United States in Congress Assembled, and Hanson was the first presiding officer of the Congress to use that title when dealing with foreign governments, diplomats, or treaties. Congress had little authority beyond those powers, which had been specifically delegated to it by the states, and its weakness during this period led directly to a decline in influence and the 1787 Constitution. It was only after the adoption of this constitution that anyone could truthfully be called a President of the United States. George Washington was the first.
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No he did not.  I review of his library at Mount Vernon proves that he was a voracious reader, and an astute student of the world.  He was highly inquisitive and always wanted to learn more.  That was the core teachings of the fundamentalist movement in the latter part of the 18th century, since they believed it brought you closer to God.  So no, there is definitely no evidence that G. Washington had any such disability.  He was a great president and great man.  Such disabilities are a product of modern times, since children are no longer raised in an environment that fosters learning and detailed attention to particular tasks.  Thus, with the constant stream of information from radio, t.v., and computers we are constantly flitting about, and it could be said that we all have learning disabilities!
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George Washington. He defined the Presidency and was the first (and so far only) military revolution leader to voluntarily limit his power to less than what he was offered.
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Duh, it was George Washington, lol!!
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are you stupid or something??!! good grief.... you know who neil armstrong was (apparently) but you don't know who George Washington was? THE FIRST PRESIDENT!!!
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General George Washingtion was the first president to be elected. The U.S. of America was the country. All other countries were rule by Kings and Queens back then.
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well, i'm was a very educated man and i'm sure my answer is the correct, the first president of united states was "MY dog"\n i'm pretty sure of it.
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He was the first president, he also was a key general in the war for independence.
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Samuel Huntington of Connecticut was the first true President although he was president under the articles of confederation. george washington is the first president under the constitution. Huntington was the first to hold the title President of the United States and congress assembled. He previously held the title of President of the continental congress until the articles or confederation were ratified when he adopted the new title and the united states actually adopted a form of government.
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the first man is correct...
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Dept of Treasary, War, State and Justice as I recall but I am looking the information up as I am typing by looking at a book that was written about "Alexander Hamiiton" by Ron Chernow. Great book by the way on page 286 it names Of the first people in President's Washington's Cabinet here they are  as I read them.\n\n  (1) Alexander Hamilton ---The Dept of Treasury\n\n\n  (2) Thomas Jefferson   ---The Dept of State\n\n\n  (3) Henry  Knox      ----- The Dept of War\n\n\n  (4) Edmund Randolph  -----   The Attorney General \n                            Head of the Dept of Justice \n \n    The President.\n\n     Vice-President.\n  \n      The Cabinet\n \n    \n           In 1789 all that was set up anywhere on paper \n\nfor the execeutive branch was in the Constitution..\n\n            The Cabinet was somewhat done on the fly by \n\n  President Washington.  He knew that he was in need of a\n\n Brillant minds as he didnot have a formal education.\n\n What Washington lacked in education he more than made up\n\nfor in Strenght of Integteity , Sound Judgement.\n\n     Judgement, Kindness, Manners, Good Behavior ,at all \n\ntimes not just when it suits someone or when someone wants\n\nsomething .And that is the only time the behavior is good!\n\n  Somehow Washington learned "The GOLDEN RULE" . lived is \n\nlife like that it worked ,  Why know one has never tried to\n\n Copy those traits! Be a Stand up Person. Both Sexes.\n\n \n   I am sure that parents,teenage,college students and \n \n the press all were saying "NO ROLE MODELS" TOO MUCH RUM"\n\n      READ A BOOK   START NOW    ON WASHINGTON
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the first president is on the one dollar bill... if you can't find one of those, then look up the name of the U.S. capital.  if that doesn't ring a bell..... i just don't know.  george washington died at what... 40?  i really don't know that.
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The initial plot of land authorized by the Constitution for the seat of the US government was a 100-square mile area. The first commissioners appointed to acquire the property for the new capital and construct the first government buildings made the obvious choice and named the city Washington. At the same time, they decided to call the entire 100 square-mile area the District of Columbia. Congress later went along with this decision through legislative references to the area. \n\nThe city of Washington as designed by L'Enfant did not, of course, fill the 100 square-mile area authorized by the Constitution for the seat of government. The area also included the cities of Georgetown (1751) and Alexandria (1749), which were already in existence. Congress designated the rest of the 10-mile by 10-mile portion outside the corporate limits of these three cities as the County of Alexandria, in the section given by Virginia, and the County of Washington, in the Maryland-ceded portion. \nIn 1846 Congress voted to give back to Virginia all the land that state had given to the government in 1790 for creation of the District of Columbia. This move returned about 32 square miles of territory to Virginia. Residents of Alexandria and what is now Arlington County, Virginia, thus lost District of Columbia residency and again became Virginia citizens. \n\nIf all this sounds confusing, think of Congress trying to enact legislation dealing with the local affairs of this area. Congress tried to clarify the jurisdictional muddle when it established a territorial form of government for the capital in 1871. It revoked the charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and also abolished a levy court for the County of Washington. All legal municipal functions were given to the District of Columbia. \n\nThen Congress changed its mind again and decided that Georgetown and the County of Washington should be separate entities. In 1895, Congress legally ended Georgetown's status as a separate city by merging it with the City of Washington, yet this act said nothing about the County of Washington. Technically, this Maryland-ceded portion of the District of Columbia is still a part of that namesake even though it operates as a separate identity. The slip-up, moreover, has never been corrected. \n\nSo, today, a resident of the District of Columbia may be living either in the old County of Washington or in the merged section made up of L'Enfant's City of Washington and of Georgetown. Washington, D.C., however, is a city in name only - a mapmaker's designation and the established pseudonym for the District of Columbia.
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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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I assume you are asking if he was the first President of the United States. This is a common misconception. He was the President of the United States in Congress, a title given to the head of the legislature under the Articles of Confederation, a brief experiment between the Revolution and the Constitution, which had no executive branch, and thus no president, at least as we conceive him. He was instead something like a prime minister, though even that is a stretch. He had very little real power in his position. Besides, if you're really going to say that his position is equivalent, then the first president would have to be Peyton Randolph, who served as the President of the First Continental Congress.