The last — and only — time the states gathered for a constitutional convention was in 1787, when George Washington had yet to be elected as the United States’ first president. Still ...

Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under the tenuous circumstances of an untested federal government. The newly established ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the ...

Cape Girardeau’s elected delegate and signatory to the Constitutional Convention was Col. George C. Thilenius, a German immigrant born in the Kingdom of Hanover on Aug. 10, 1829. The family came ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the ...