<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington" id="mwSw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> is unanimously elected as the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" id="mwTA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="U.S. Electoral College">U.S. Electoral College</a>.<sup about="#mwt48" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_4#cite_note-7" id="mwTg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwTw">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt45" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFJensenBrownBecker1976"><a href="./Merrill_Jensen" id="mwBgU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Merrill Jensen">Jensen, Merrill</a>; Brown, Lucy Trumbull; Becker, Robert A. (1976). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rklx9c7MJFoC&amp;pg=PR15" id="mwBgY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBgc">The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788–1790</i></a>. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p.<span id="mwBgg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>15. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBgk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBgo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-299-10650-8" id="mwBgs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-299-10650-8"><bdi id="mwBgw">978-0-299-10650-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt45" class="Z3988" id="mwBg0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Documentary+History+of+the+First+Federal+Elections%2C+1788%E2%80%931790&amp;rft.pages=15&amp;rft.pub=Univ+of+Wisconsin+Press&amp;rft.date=1976&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-299-10650-8&amp;rft.aulast=Jensen&amp;rft.aufirst=Merrill&amp;rft.au=Brown%2C+Lucy+Trumbull&amp;rft.au=Becker%2C+Robert+A.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Drklx9c7MJFoC%26pg%3DPR15&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+4"></span></span>