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HISTORY MAGAZINE. President George Washington: Calm, Cool, and Collected Commander in Chief. Patient, modest, and deliberate: George Washington gave the United States the steady hand...
Discover the life of George Washington, America's first president and commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War.
The presidency of George Washington began on April 30, 1789, when Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1797. Washington took office after the 1788–1789 presidential election, the nation's first quadrennial presidential election, in which he was elected unanimously by the Electoral College.
