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The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government

by Fergus M. Bordewich (Goodreads Author)

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The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government by Fergus M. Bordewich

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Charles Thomson was dispatched posthaste to Virginia to announce to Washington that he was now officially the first president of the United States. Thomson, desperate for a federal job, must have relished the prospect of several days in the ...more

Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Continental Congress from the time it was established in 1774 until the time the position and the rest of the congress was abolished in 1789.