(AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly ... He didn’t want to be honored like a king, said Seth Bruggeman, a history professor at Temple ...

The second installment of the Trump Digital Trading Card series includes depictions of the former president as George ... painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” as a golden king chess ...

Washington, who maintained a studied silence ... The framers, still haunted by the specter of King George III, could scarcely have envisioned how their carefully constrained executive would ...

One thing the founders were clear about: We should not have a king. George Washington is often rated the best president in U.S. history. What makes him the “father of his country” was his ...

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 was the first president of the ... citizen-voters and is exercised not by a hereditary monarch such as King George III but rather by electoral representation.

George was the eldest son of Augustine ... These resulted in a constitution and a new role for Washington—not king, but president of the still fractious and embryonic United States.

In the Trustees’ Room of the Boston Athenaeum, around 230 books once belonging to President George Washington rest in a glass and wooden bookcase. Among the volumes: Masonic sermons, agricultural ...