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 ...

Not Make Up His Own A Democratic Party at War over Generational and Strategic Change On the speech’s 220th anniversary, its counsel is as relevant as ever. George Washington announced his ...

The former Republican congressman criticized the judge’s sentence on social media and called on President Donald Trump to ...

George Washington used the light of this brass ... Washington, who claimed no political party, wrote to Jefferson, “The first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.” ...

Thus George Washington, at age 16 ... His job? To set sound political precedents and show how the first President of the world's most promising but precarious political experiment ought to ...

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 ... today for ...

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for fraud and theft, was elected to ...

By the early 19th century, rivalries among political factions in the new government led to the creation of a competitive party system ... The earliest objects in this group commemorate George ...