{"id":1802,"date":"2026-01-07T00:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:22:07","slug":"george-washington-won-first-presidential-election-in-1789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"George Washington Won First Presidential Election in 1789"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3926 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amendment-e1666613229150-150x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" \/>Presidential elections occurred in the United States for the first time in 1789.<\/strong> Basically George Washington ran unopposed. He received 69 electoral votes. John Adams won 34 electoral votes. Therefore, according to the Constitution at that time, Washington became president, and Adams became vice president. Children can check out an <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">absolutely amazing website and see ANY presidential election result<\/span> <\/strong>at: <a href=\"http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/RESULTS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/RESULTS\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential elections occurred in the United States for the first time in 1789. Basically George Washington ran unopposed. He received 69 electoral votes. John Adams won 34 electoral votes. Therefore, according to the Constitution at that time, Washington became president, and Adams became vice president. Children can check out an absolutely amazing website and see <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1802' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4874,28,4871,279,4873],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4874","tag-george-washington","tag-january-7","tag-john-adams","tag-presidential-elections","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28944,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/28944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}