by Mike Purdy | May 3, 2015 | Benjamin Harrison, Campaigns, George Washington, James Garfield, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding, William McKinley
Washington Didn’t Campaign for President: George Washington set the standard that held for years of not campaigning for President. Of course, he was the only president who won with unanimous support of the Electoral College. Front Porch Campaigns: As the...
by Mike Purdy | Apr 20, 2015 | George Washington, Speeches
The year was 1783. British General Lord Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown in 1781. George Washington had held together the rag-tag army of continental soldiers for eight long years, hoping against hope, and in the end had miraculously defeated the world’s...
by Mike Purdy | Feb 16, 2015 | George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Uncategorized
In 1793, in a precursor to today’s concept of “crowdfunding” (the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, usually online), the men who would be the nation’s first four Presidents...
by Mike Purdy | Sep 3, 2014 | George Washington, John Adams, White House
With a brokered deal in which regional interests competed for the permanent capital of the fledgling new United States of America, it was decided that the temporary capital for ten years would be located in the city that had birthed the Declaration of Independence and...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 23, 2013 | Deaths, George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
James Madison died on June 28, 1836. Had he lived for six more days, he would have died on July 4th. An Independence Day death for Madison would have meant that four out of the first five presidents would have died on July 4th. George Washington died on December 14,...
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