[Cheburashka]

On this day in 1789, 69 members of Congress cast their ballots to elect George Washington the first president of the United States.

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Congress did not elect George Washington, the Electoral College did. A major error in the first sentence. I'll let someone else go through this and pick out the other errors. I won't waste more time on this.

[mdittmar]

In the Federalist Papers (No. 68), Alexander Hamilton refers to the process of selecting the Executive, and refers to “the people of each State (who) shall choose a number of persons as electors,” but he does not use the term “electoral college.”