Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington never ... A year later, when Washington was made head of the U.S. Army during a period of growing ...

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 ...

Boston Athenaeum head of special collections John Buchtel said because George Washington died without children, he willed the books to his nephew. They were later split among the president’s ...