Orig1789 Hartford CT newspaper GEORGE WASHINGTON ELECTED 1st PRESIDENT of the US

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Orig1789 Hartford CT newspaper GEORGE WASHINGTON ELECTED 1st PRESIDENT of the US:
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This newspaper contains a prominent inside page 1/3 column detailed report on the ELECTION of GEORGE WASHINGTON as the FIRST PRESIDENT of the US and JOHN ADAMS as the first Vice President of the US !! This is the DEFINITIVE report and announcement, not speculation on Washington winning the Presidency.

On April 6, 1789the US House and Senate met in joint session (the first joint session of Congress), and the electoral votes were counted. George Washington and John Adams were respectively declared elected president and vice president, and the results of the count were subsequently published in the newspapers.

This is a museum quality newspaper reporting the result of thefirst Presidential election in the United States.

The United States presidential election of 1788–1789 was the 1st quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Monday, December 15, 1788 to Saturday, January 10, 1789. It was the first presidential election in the United States of America under the new United States Constitution, which was adopted on September 17, 1787, and the only election to ever take place partially in a year that is not a multiple of four. In this election, George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams became the first vice-president.

Before this election, the United States had no chief executive. Under the previous system agreed to under Articles of Confederation, the national government was headed by the Confederation Congress, which had a ceremonial presiding officer and several executive departments, but no independent executive branch.

The enormously popular Washington essentially ran unopposed. The only real issue to be decided was who would be chosen as vice-president. Under the system then in place, each elector cast votes for two persons; if a person received a vote from a majority of the electors, that person became president, and the runner-up became vice-president. All 69 electors cast one vote each for Washington.

On April 6, 1789the US House and Senate met in joint session (the first joint session of Congress), and the electoral votes were counted. Washington and Adams were respectively declared elected president and vice president, and the results of the count were subsequently published in the journals of Congress.

It was 5 p.m. at Mount Vernon on April 14, 1789, when Washington received official notification that he had been unanimously selected by the Electoral College to be the nation\'s first president. The letter had been sent by Senator John Langdon of New Hampshire, the first president pro tempore of the United States Senate, who had presided over the counting of the electoral votes. Washington replied immediately, and set off in the morning two days later, accompanied by David Humphreys and a Mr. Thomson, who was the Messenger appointed by the Senate, that delivered to General Washington the letter containing the news of his election.

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