UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first president’s administrations.

America’s first presidential campaign was, in fact, a broad effort to persuade ... Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under the ...

At 17 years old, George Washington served as county surveyor of Culpepper County. Washington’s military career began when he was 21 years old. Campaign In 1789, only 10 of the 13 original colonies ...