When President George Washington was in his second term, there was nothing in the Constitution that prevented him from ...

From there, George Washington’s teeth got even worse ... When that tooth fell out in 1796, he gave it to his dentist, Dr. John Greenwood. (Greenwood, delighted, wore it on his watch chain.) ...

Congress passed the 22nd Amendment in 1947, imposing a two-term limit after more than 170 years of George Washington’s ...

George was the eldest son of Augustine’s ... among themselves over America’s character and future. Finally, in 1796, Washington refused to continue into a third term. This granted him barely ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought ... stationers William Poyntell and Georges Bertault in late 1796 or early 1797, just before he left the presidency and returned ...

America’s political parties weren’t supposed to wield the power they have today. In fact, George Washington warned us about ...

Thus George Washington, at age 16, confided to his diary. The year was 1748. He was largely self-taught, far from home, trying to learn the surveyor's trade. Eventually the father of his country ...

When George Washington left office at the end of his second term, he left America with perhaps the most prescient lesson for the nation’s future on Sept. 19, 1796 in his famous farewell address ...

As a member of the Federalist Party, Adams decided to run for the presidency. He lost and became Vice-president to George Washington during both terms (1789-1792) (1793-1796). In 1796, he decided to ...