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The delegates to the Convention anticipated a Washington presidency and left it to him to define the office once elected.[n] the state electors under the Constitution voted for the president on February 4 1789 and Washington suspected that most republicans had not voted for him the mandated March 4 date passed without a Congressional quorum to count the votes but a quorum was reached on April 5 the votes were tallied the next day and Congressional Secretary Charles Thomson was sent to Mount Vernon to tell Washington that he had been elected president Washington won the majority of every state's electoral votes; John Adams received the next highest number of votes and therefore became vice president. Washington had "anxious and painful sensations" about leaving the "domestic felicity" of Mount Vernon but he departed for New York City on April 23 to be inaugurated! . Contents Air traffic control tower viewed through a skylight in the main terminal, In January 1791 the President proceeded to appoint in accordance with the Residence Act a three-member commission consisting of Daniel Carroll Thomas Johnson and David Stuart to oversee the surveying of the federal district and appointed Andrew Ellicott as surveyor Washington informed Congress of the site selection on January 24 and suggested that Congress amend the Act to allow the capital to encompass areas to the south of the Eastern Branch including Alexandria Virginia Congress agreed with this suggestion passing an amendment to the Act that Washington approved on March 3 1791 However consistent with language in the original Act the amendment specifically prohibited the "erection of the public buildings otherwise than on the Maryland side of the river Potomac", Lincoln is largely responsible for the Thanksgiving holiday.:471 Thanksgiving had become a regional holiday in New England in the 17th century it had been sporadically proclaimed by the federal government on irregular dates the prior proclamation had been during James Madison's presidency 50 years earlier in 1863 Lincoln declared the final Thursday in November of that year to be a day of Thanksgiving.:471. 14.4 Political and diplomatic Washington D.C. Business Directory. . .
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