George Washington remains the only president in U.S. history that didn’t represent a political party. It was only after he took office in 1789 that the Democratic Republicans began to emerge as ...

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, ...

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 ...

Col. George Washington led a party of Virginia soldiers out of an encampment in the Ohio Valley. The conditions were horrid—a night “as black as pitch,” as the young commander recorded in ...

On February 4, 1789, the 69 members of the Electoral College made George Washington the only chief executive to be unanimously elected. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Editor’s note: Even as the ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington led his own fight for independence in America. Washington was born on ...