On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... Washington is unanimously elected as the first president of the United States under the Constitution. He serves two terms but refuses ...

Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under the tenuous ... A century and a half later, after Franklin Roosevelt was elected to ...