The Election Of 1788-89: The First Election
Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to the first of many articles in my series looking over the all of the presidential elections in U.S. history. In this series, I will be going through all of the elections in order from the very first election all the way until 2020; Along the way, I will be giving some background info leading into the election, a summarization of the candidates involved, what's going on in terms of campaigning in the election (if any) and also the results of the election itself. And finally, I just want to mention that some of these pieces will be more detailed than others as you'll see throughout this series...So with all that said, let's talk about the election of 1788-89. Background Info The first U.S. presidential election was the only one to occurred between two years as the election went on from December 15th 1788 to January 10th 1789. In June of 1788, the United States Constitution was ratified into law by several states with the document listin