George Washington specifically warned against “the baneful effects of the spirit of party” in his farewell address in 1796. Yet no sooner did Washington retire from office than political ...

America’s political parties weren’t supposed to wield the power they have today. In fact, George Washington warned us about them. In his 1796 Farewell Address, he called political factions “the worst ...

Thus George Washington, at age 16 ... His job? To set sound political precedents and show how the first President of the world's most promising but precarious political experiment ought to ...

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 ... today for ...