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Show I First Presidential Elections. I In tho early days of tho ropubllo I the electors were choson by the legls-, legls-, latures of tho different states and voted without any formal Instructions for two persons, tho person receiving the highest number of votes becoming president and tho next highest vice-president. vice-president. At the first election. In 1789, there wero ten states voting and i 69 electoral votes. Oeorgo Washing- ton received all tho electoral votes, C9, and John Adams of Massachusetts received re-ceived 34 votes; John Gay of New York, 0; John Rutlcdgo of South Carolina. Caro-lina. C; John Hancock of Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, 4; Samuel Huntington of Connecticut, Con-necticut, 2; Qeorgo C'.nton of Now York, 3; John Milton of Georgia, 2; James Armstrong of Georgia, 1; Benjamin Ben-jamin Lincoln of Massachusetts, 1. So Washington bWno president and Adams vIco-prcBident. This prnctlco continued several years. |