 | National cyclopaedia - 1867 - 612 pàgines
...legislature of Virginia elected him their delegate to the Convention which met at Philadelphia. Tbe Convention unanimously chose him for their president,...the 30th of April, 1789, he took the oath of office us the first president of the United States. JetfersoD was appointed secretary of state ; Hamilton,... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1867 - 204 pàgines
...to New Tork showed how the people loved him. Crowds flocked about him, delighting to do him honor. On the 30th of April, 1789, he took the oath of office and became the first President of the United States. QUESTIONS. — 1. Give an account of Washington's... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1913 - 1216 pàgines
...the land. On the 30th of April following, in Federal Hall, in the city of New York, George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States. Twenty-seven men have succeeded Washington in. the presidential oflic-c, and today, a little... | |
 | 1884 - 624 pàgines
...only recently in New York City, by the unveiling of a noble statue of Washington upon the spot where he took the oath of office as the First President of the United States. The celebration of Oriskany occurred upon the precise spot where that sanguinary conflict was... | |
 | 1884 - 624 pàgines
...only recently in New York City, by the unveiling of a noble statue of Washington upon the spot where he took the oath of office as the First President of the United States. The celebration of Oriskany occurred upon the precise spot where that sanguinary conflict was... | |
 | 1885 - 864 pàgines
...vows in Masonry ; that belonging to St. John's Lodge, No. 1 , of the city of New York, upon which, on the 30th of April, 1789, he took the oath of office as the first President of the United States; the "great light," belonging to the Alexandria Washington Lodge, No. 22, of Alexandria, Va.,... | |
 | United States. Commission for Dedication of Washington Monument - 1885 - 138 pàgines
...sacred book, belonging to St. John's Lodge, No. i, in the city of New York, upon which, on the 3Oth day of April, 1789, he took the oath of office as the first President of the United States. Here the great light belonging to Alexandria Washington Lodge, No. 22, of Alexandria, Va.,... | |
 | 1886 - 930 pàgines
...of the present year. On the morning of that clay in 1789, in the city of New York, George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America. At the close of the inaugural ceremonies, the President and both Houses of Congress,... | |
 | Eliza Happy Morton - 1893 - 220 pàgines
...that it is painful. AN HISTORICAL STONE. The identical stone upon which Gen. Washington stood when he took the oath of office as the first president of the United States is in front of the United States Subtreasury, Wall and Nassau streets, New York. Upon this stone... | |
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April, 1789, he took the oath of office as the first President of the United States; the "great light," belonging to the Alexandria Washington Lodge, No. 
