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Show ; -i AIM Washington Resigning Command of the Army December 23. 1783, George Washington resigned his commission as commander in chief of the army, and retired to private pri-vate life. During the five years following follow-ing the close of his military career he found sufficient occupation In attending to the affairs of his homestead and property prop-erty and In fostering the progress of his native state. He greatly helped, by his correspondence, to bring the leading men of the country to a determination to form a more perfect union. He was president of the Philadelphia convention of 1787, which framed the Constitution of the United Uni-ted States. Washington was unanimously chosen the first President of the United States, and on April 30, 1789, took the oath of office in New York, where congress con-gress was then sitting. At the close of his term of office he was re-elected unanimously, unan-imously, and on March 4, 1793, took the oath of office for the second time. |