LAREDO, Texas — George Washington started his annual procession ... a rising star in the local Democratic Party who’d already been picked to represent Laredo this weekend as Señor ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743 ... Thomas Jefferson bitterly opposed Hamilton, and two opposing parties formed: the Democratic-Republican Party headed by Jefferson, ...