In the 1789 first U.S. presidential election commemorated by America250, who won unanimously?

George Washington won the 1789 first U.S. presidential election unanimously, becoming the nation’s first president.

The election was conducted under the new United States Constitution. Presidential electors cast votes for Washington, while John Adams received the second-highest total and became vice president. Washington remains the only U.S. president elected unanimously by the Electoral College in both 1789 and 1792.

Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City, then the nation’s temporary capital. Robert R. Livingston, chancellor of New York, administered the presidential oath. The ceremony marked the beginning of the executive branch under the new constitutional government.

Washington served two terms, from 1789 to 1797, and declined to seek a third. His leadership during the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, and the early republic made him a central figure in the founding story remembered by America250. John Adams, not Thomas Jefferson or James Madison, succeeded him as president.