Walk into Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan ... The first presidential inauguration of George Washington was a very exciting day in New York City. "George Washington was staying at his home in ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else.

George Washington used the light ... Washington took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City and delivered a ten-minute inaugural address to Congress. In their letters, legislators ...

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 ...

Near Toledo, Ohio, Washington sent federal troops ... Legacy George Washington established the title, President, and outlined the capacities of the office through his example. Washington started the ...