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 ...

The Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France has been commissioned to restore the 1779 painting from the ...

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 ...

One of the most memorable of such events was the marriage on 22 February 1799 (George's sixty-seventh and last birthday) of Martha Washington's youngest granddaughter, Eleanor Parke "Nelly" Custis ...

Archaeologists working on a project to rehabilitate the foundation of George Washington's Mount Vernon ... at the estate until his death on Dec. 14, 1799.

George was the eldest son of Augustine’s ... He serves two terms but refuses a third. Dec. 14, 1799 Washington dies suddenly after contracting an acute infection while touring his estates ...

George Washington, who led America through the Revolution ... Washington, who died in 1799, would forever be known as the father of his country.

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