1st United States Congress

The First United States Congress, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, met from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1791, during the first two years of George Washington's presidency, first at Federal Hall in New York City and later at Congress Hall in Philadelphia. ^[1]

Abiel Foster

Abiel Foster (August 8, 1735 – February 6, 1806) was an American clergyman and politician from Canterbury, Province of New Hampshire.

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Abraham Baldwin

Abraham Baldwin (November 22, 1754March 4, 1807) was an American minister, Patriot, politician, and Founding Father.

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Aedanus Burke

Aedanus Burke (16 June 1743 – 30 March 1802) was a soldier, judge, and United States Representative from South Carolina.

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Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757July 12, 1804) was a statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Alexander White (Virginia)

Alexander White (1738 – September 19, 1804) was a distinguished early American lawyer and politician in the present-day U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.

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An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths

An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administering certain Oaths was the first law passed by the Congress assembled after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

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Andrew Moore (politician)

Andrew Moore (1752April 14, 1821) was an American lawyer and politician from Lexington, Virginia.

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Article Five of the United States Constitution

Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation's frame of government, may be altered.

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Benjamin Bourne

Benjamin Bourne (September 9, 1755 – September 17, 1808) was an American jurist and politician from Bristol, Rhode Island.

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Benjamin Contee

Benjamin Contee (1755 – November 30, 1815) was an American Episcopal priest and statesman from Maryland.

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Benjamin Goodhue

Benjamin Goodhue (September 20, 1748July 28, 1814) was a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts.

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Benjamin Hawkins

Benjamin Hawkins (August 15, 1754June 6, 1816, Encyclopedia of Alabama, accessed July 15, 2011) was an American planter, statesman, and U.S. Indian agent.

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Benjamin Huntington

Benjamin Huntington (April 19, 1736 – October 16, 1800) was an eighteenth-century American lawyer, jurist and politician from Connecticut and served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the First United States Congress.

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Caleb Strong

Caleb Strong (January 9, 1745 – November 7, 1819) was a Massachusetts lawyer and politician who served as the sixth and tenth Governor of Massachusetts between 1800 and 1807, and again from 1812 until 1816.

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Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives

The Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives is one of the officers of the United States House of Representatives.

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Chaplain of the United States Senate

The Chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer, and provides and coordinates religious programs and pastoral care support for Senators, their staffs, and their families.

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Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Charles Carroll (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832), known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III to distinguish him from his similarly named relatives, was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Classes of United States Senators

The three classes of United States Senators are made up of 33 or 34 Senate seats each.

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Clerk of the United States House of Representatives

The Clerk of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the United States House of Representatives, whose primary duty is to act as the chief record-keeper for the House.

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Committee of the whole

A committee of the whole is a meeting of a deliberative assembly according to modified procedural rules based on those of a committee.

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Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives)

In the United States House of Representatives, a Committee of the Whole House is a congressional committee that includes all members of the House.

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Compromise of 1790

The Compromise of 1790 was a compromise between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson with James Madison wherein Hamilton won the decision for the national government to take over and pay the state debts, while Jefferson and Madison obtained the national capital (District of Columbia) for the South.

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Congress Hall

Congress Hall, located in Philadelphia at the intersection of Chestnut and 6th Streets, served as the seat of the United States Congress from December 6, 1790 to May 14, 1800.

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Congressional Apportionment Amendment

The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (originally titled Article the First) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution, one of twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution approved by the 1st Congress on September 25, 1789, and sent to the legislatures of the several states for ratification.

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Copyright Act of 1790

The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal copyright act to be instituted in the United States, though most of the states had passed various legislation securing copyrights in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War.

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Crimes Act of 1790

The Crimes Act of 1790 (or the Federal Criminal Code of 1790), formally titled An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes Against the United States, defined some of the first federal crimes in the United States and expanded on the criminal procedure provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1789.

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Daniel Carroll

Daniel Carroll (July 22, 1730May 7, 1796) was an American politician and plantation owner from Maryland, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Daniel Hiester

Daniel Hiester (June 25, 1747 – March 7, 1804) was an American political and military leader from the Revolutionary War period to the early 19th Century.

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Daniel Huger

Daniel Huger (February 20, 1742 – July 6, 1799) was an American planter and statesman from Berkeley County, South Carolina.

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Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives

An appointed officer of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 until 1995, the Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives was chosen by a resolution at the opening of each United States Congress.

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Egbert Benson

Egbert Benson (June 21, 1746 – August 24, 1833) was a lawyer, jurist, politician from Upper Red Hook, New York, and a Founding Father of the United States who represented New York in the Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and the United States House of Representatives, and who served as a member of the New York State constitutional convention in 1788 which ratified the United States Constitution.

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Elbridge Gerry

Elbridge Gerry (July 17, 1744 (O.S. July 6, 1744) – November 23, 1814) was an American statesman and diplomat.

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Electoral College (United States)

The United States Electoral College is the mechanism established by the United States Constitution for the election of the president and vice president of the United States by small groups of appointed representatives, electors, from each state and the District of Columbia.

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Elias Boudinot

Elias Boudinot (May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress (more accurately referred to as the Congress of the Confederation) and served as President of Congress from 1782 to 1783.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Federal Hall

Federal Hall is the name given to the first of two historic buildings located at 26 Wall Street, New York City.

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Federal judiciary of the United States

The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three co-equal branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.

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Federalist Party

The Federalist Party, referred to as the Pro-Administration party until the 3rd United States Congress (as opposed to their opponents in the Anti-Administration party), was the first American political party.

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First Bank of the United States

The President, Directors and Company, of the Bank of the United States, commonly known as the First Bank of the United States, was a national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791.

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Fisher Ames

Fisher Ames (April 9, 1758 – July 4, 1808) was a Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts.

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Frederick Muhlenberg

Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (January 1, 1750 – June 4, 1801) was a German American minister and politician who was the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

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Funding Act of 1790

The United States Funding Act of 1790, the full title of which is "An Act making provision for the Debt of the United States", was passed on August 4, 1790 by the United States Congress as part of the Compromise of 1790, to address the issue of funding (i.e., debt service, repayment and retirement) of the domestic debt incurred by the Colonies; the States in rebellion; in independence; in Confederation, and subsequently the States' comprising and within, a single, sovereign, Federal Union.

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General ticket

General ticket representation is a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives.

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George Clymer

George Clymer (March 16, 1739 – January 23, 1813) was an American politician and Founding Father of the United States.

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George Gale (congressman)

George Gale (3 June 1756 – 2 January 1815) was an American politician and the first representative of the fifth congressional district of Maryland.

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George Leonard (Congressman)

George Leonard (July 4, 1729 – July 26, 1819) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Norton, Massachusetts.

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George Mathews (Georgia)

George Mathews (–) was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War and rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general; he was Governor of Georgia, and a U.S. Congressman.

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George Partridge

George Partridge (February 8, 1740 – July 7, 1828) was an American teacher and politician.

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George Read (American politician, born 1733)

George Read (September 18, 1733 – September 21, 1798) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware.

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George Thatcher

George Thatcher (April 12, 1754 – April 6, 1824) was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from the Maine district of Massachusetts.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732 –, 1799), known as the "Father of His Country," was an American soldier and statesman who served from 1789 to 1797 as the first President of the United States.

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Gifford Dalley

Gifford Dalley was a United States House of Representatives officer from 1789 to 1795.

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Governor of New Jersey

The Governor of the State of New Jersey is head of the executive branch of New Jersey's state government.

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Henry Wynkoop

Henry Wynkoop (March 2, 1737 – March 25, 1816) was a member of the Continental Congress (from 1779) and later a United States Representative for the state of Pennsylvania during the First United States Congress, 1789 to 1791.

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Hugh Williamson

Hugh Williamson (December 5, 1735 – May 22, 1819) was an American physician and politician.

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Inauguration

An inauguration is a formal ceremony or special event to mark either.

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Isaac Coles

Isaac Coles (March 2, 1747 – June 3, 1813) was an American planter and statesman from Virginia.

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James Gunn (senator)

James Gunn (March 13, 1753 – July 30, 1801) was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a United States Senator from Georgia.

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James Jackson (Georgia politician)

James Jackson (September 21, 1757 – March 19, 1806) was an early British-born Georgia politician of the Democratic-Republican Party.

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James Madison

James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817.

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James Monroe

James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fifth President of the United States from 1817 to 1825.

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James Schureman

James Schureman (February 12, 1756January 22, 1824) was an American merchant and statesman from New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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Jeremiah Van Rensselaer

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (August 27, 1738 – February 19, 1810), from the prominent Van Rensselaer family, was Lieutenant Governor of New York and a member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York in the 1st United States Congress.

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Jeremiah Wadsworth

Jeremiah Wadsworth (July 12, 1743 – April 30, 1804) was an American sea captain, merchant, and statesman from Hartford, Connecticut who profited from his position as a government official charged with supplying the Continental Army.

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John Adams

John Adams (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the first Vice President (1789–1797) and second President of the United States (1797–1801).

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John Baptista Ashe (Continental Congress)

John Baptista Ashe (1748 – November 27, 1802) was an American planter, soldier, and statesman from North Carolina.

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John Brown (Kentucky)

John Brown (September 12, 1757August 29, 1837) was an American lawyer and statesman who participated in the development and formation of the State of Kentucky after the American Revolutionary War.

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John Hathorn

John Hathorn (January 9, 1749 Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware – February 19, 1825 Warwick, Orange County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

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John Henry (Maryland politician)

John Henry (November 1750December 16, 1798) was the eighth Governor of Maryland and member of the United States Senate.

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John J. Beckley

John James Beckley (August 4, 1757 – April 8, 1807) was an American political campaign manager and the first Librarian of the United States Congress, from 1802 to 1807.

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John Langdon (politician)

John Langdon (June 26, 1741September 18, 1819) was a politician from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and a Founding Father of the United States.

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John Laurance

John Laurance (sometimes spelled "Lawrence" or "Laurence") (1750November 11, 1810) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

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John Page (Virginia politician)

John Page (April 28, 1743October 11, 1808) was a figure in early United States history.

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John Sevier

John Sevier (September 23, 1745 September 24, 1815) was an American soldier, frontiersman and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee.

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John Steele (North Carolina politician)

John Steele (November 16, 1764 – August 14, 1815) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of North Carolina between 1790 and 1793.

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John Vining

John Middleton "Jack" Vining (December 23, 1758February, 1802) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware.

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John Walker (Virginia politician)

John Walker (February 13, 1744December 2, 1809) was a public official from Virginia.

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Jonathan Elmer

Jonathan Elmer (November 29, 1745September 3, 1817) was an American politician, of the Pro-Administration (Federalist) Party.

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Jonathan Grout

Jonathan Grout (July 23, 1737 – September 8, 1807) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

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Jonathan Sturges

Jonathan Sturges (August 23, 1740 – October 4, 1819) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician from Fairfield, Connecticut.

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Jonathan Trumbull Jr.

Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (March 26, 1740 – August 7, 1809) was an American politician who served as the second Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

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Joseph Stanton Jr.

Joseph Stanton Jr. (July 19, 1739December 15, 1821) was a military officer, a United States senator of the Anti-Federalist faction and a United States Representative of the Democratic-Republican party.

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Joshua Seney

Joshua Seney (March 4, 1756 – October 20, 1798) was an American farmer and lawyer from Queen Anne's County, Maryland.

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Josiah Parker

Josiah Parker (May 11, 1751 – March 11, 1810) was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia in the First through Sixth United States Congresses.

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Judiciary Act of 1789

The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20) was a United States federal statute adopted on September 24, 1789, in the first session of the First United States Congress.

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Lambert Cadwalader (representative)

Lambert Cadwalader (December 1742 – September 13, 1823) was an American merchant and leader in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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List of United States Senators from Connecticut

This is a chronological listing of the United States Senators from Connecticut.

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List of United States Senators from Delaware

Below is a chronological listing of the United States Senators from Delaware.

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List of United States Senators from Georgia

This is a chronological listing of the United States Senators from Georgia.

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List of United States Senators from Maryland

Below is a list of United States Senators from Maryland, which ratified the United States Constitution April 28, 1788, becoming the seventh state to do so.

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List of United States Senators from Massachusetts

Below is a chronological listing of the United States Senators from Massachusetts.

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List of United States Senators from New Hampshire

New Hampshire's current senators are Jeanne Shaheen (D) and Maggie Hassan (D).

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List of United States Senators from New Jersey

Below is a chronological listing of the United States Senators from New Jersey.

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List of United States Senators from New York

Below is a list of U.S. Senators who have represented the State of New York in the United States Senate since 1789.

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List of United States Senators from North Carolina

North Carolina ratified the Constitution on November 21, 1789, after the beginning of the 1st Congress.

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List of United States Senators from Pennsylvania

This is a chronological listing of the United States Senators from Pennsylvania.

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List of United States Senators from Rhode Island

This is a list of United States Senators from Rhode Island.

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List of United States Senators from South Carolina

South Carolina ratified the United States Constitution on May 23, 1788.

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List of United States Senators from Virginia

Virginia ratified the United States Constitution on June 25, 1788.

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Michael J. Stone

Michael Jenifer Stone (1747–1812) was an American planter and statesman from Charles County, Maryland.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Natural and legal rights

Natural and legal rights are two types of rights.

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Naturalization Act of 1790

The original United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790 provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Nicholas Gilman

Nicholas Gilman Jr. (August 3, 1755May 2, 1814) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the U.S. Constitution, representing New Hampshire.

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Nonintercourse Act

The Nonintercourse Act (also known as the Indian Intercourse Act or the Indian Nonintercourse Act) is the collective name given to six statutes passed by the Congress in 1790, 1793, 1796, 1799, 1802, and 1834 to set Amerindian boundaries of reservations.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745 – November 26, 1807) was an American lawyer, judge, politician, and diplomat.

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Paine Wingate

Paine Wingate (May 14, 1739March 7, 1838) was an American preacher, farmer, and statesman from Stratham, New Hampshire.

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Patent Act of 1790

The Patent Act of 1790 was the first patent statute passed by the federal government of the United States.

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Peter Muhlenberg

John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (October 1, 1746October 1, 1807) was an American clergyman, Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War, and political figure in the newly independent United States.

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Peter Silvester (1734–1808)

Peter Silvester (1734 – October 15, 1808) was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, and a prominent Federalist attorney in Kinderhook.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philemon Dickinson

Philemon Dickinson (April 5, 1739February 4, 1809) was an American lawyer and politician from Trenton, New Jersey.

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Philip Schuyler

Philip John Schuyler (November 18, 1804) was a general in the American Revolution and a United States Senator from New York.

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Pierce Butler

Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744February 15, 1822) is recognized as one of United States' Founding Fathers and was a soldier, planter, and statesman.

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Port of entry

In general, a port of entry (POE) is a place where one may lawfully enter a country.

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is located within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and flows from the Potomac Highlands into the Chesapeake Bay.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a part of the reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Britain, particularly Scotland, and Ireland.

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Presidency of George Washington

The presidency of George Washington began on April 30, 1789, when Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1797.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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President pro tempore of the United States Senate

The President pro tempore of the United States Senate (also president pro tem) is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate.

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Ralph Izard

Ralph Izard (January 23, 1741/1742May 30, 1804) was a U.S. politician.

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Ratification

Ratification is a principal's approval of an act of its agent that lacked the authority to bind the principal legally.

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Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives

The Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives reads bills, motions, and other papers before the House and keeps track of changes to legislation made on the floor.

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Residence Act

The Residence Act of 1790, officially titled An Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States, was a United States federal statute adopted during the second session of the First United States Congress, and signed into law by President George Washington on July 16, 1790.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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Richard Bassett (politician)

Richard Bassett (April 2, 1745 – August 15, 1815) was an American lawyer and political figure from the state of Delaware who, as a veteran of the Revolutionary War and delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Richard Bland Lee

Richard Bland Lee (January 20, 1761 – March 12, 1827) was a planter, jurist, and politician from Fairfax County, Virginia.

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Richard Henry Lee

Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732June 19, 1794) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain.

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Robert Morris (financier)

Robert Morris, Jr. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806), a Founding Father of the United States, was an English-born American merchant who financed the American Revolution, oversaw the striking of the first coins of the United States, and signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, and the United States Constitution.

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Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an early American statesman and lawyer, as well as a Founding Father of the United States.

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Rufus King

Rufus King (March 24, 1755April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat.

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Samuel Allyne Otis

Samuel Allyne Otis (November 24, 1740 – April 22, 1814) was the first Secretary of the United States Senate, serving for its first 25 years.

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Samuel Blair (chaplain)

Samuel Blair, (1741-September 1818) a Presbyterian minister, was the second Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.

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Samuel Griffin

Samuel Griffin (April 20, 1746 – November 23, 1810) was a lawyer and politician from Virginia.

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Samuel Johnston

Samuel Johnston (December 15, 1733August 17, 1816) was an American planter, lawyer, and statesman from Chowan County, North Carolina.

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Samuel Livermore

Samuel Livermore (May 14, 1732May 18, 1803) was a U.S. politician.

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Samuel Provoost

Samuel Provoost (March 11, 1742 – September 6, 1815) was an American Clergyman.

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Seat of government

The seat of government is (as defined by Brewer's Politics) "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority".

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Secretary of the United States Senate

The Secretary of the Senate is an elected officer of the United States Senate.

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Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives

The Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the House with law enforcement, protocol, and administrative responsibilities.

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Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate

The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate or originally known as the Doorkeeper of the Senate from the First Congress until the Eighth Congress (April 7, 1789 – March 3, 1803) is the highest-ranking federal law enforcement officer in the Senate of the United States.

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Southwest Territory

The Territory South of the River Ohio, more commonly known as the Southwest Territory, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 26, 1790, until June 1, 1796, when it was admitted to the United States as the State of Tennessee.

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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.

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State legislature (United States)

A state legislature in the United States is the legislative body of any of the 50 U.S. states.

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State of the Union

The State of the Union Address is an annual message presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, except in the first year of a new president's term.

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Tariff of 1789

The Tariff Act of 1789, was the first major Act passed in the United States under its present Constitution of 1789 and had two purposes as stated in Section I of the Act which reads as follows; The Federal legislature, acting under the recently ratified US Constitution, authorized the collection of tariff and tonnage duties to meet the operating costs of the new central government, to provide funds to pay the interest and principal on revolutionary war debts inherited from the Continental Congress.

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Tariff of 1790

In 1789, Alexander Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury, calculated that the United States required $3 million a year for operating expenses as well as enough revenue to repay the estimated $75 million in foreign and domestic debt.

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Theodore Foster

Theodore Foster (April 29, 1752January 13, 1828) was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island.

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Theodore Sedgwick

Theodore Sedgwick (May 9, 1746January 24, 1813) was an American attorney, politician and jurist, who served in elected state government and as a Delegate to the Continental Congress, a U.S. Representative, and a United States Senator from Massachusetts.

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Theodorick Bland (congressman)

Theodorick Bland (March 21, 1741June 1, 1790), also known as Theodorick Bland, Jr., was a physician, soldier, and statesman from Prince George County, Virginia.

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Thomas Fitzsimons

– Thomas Fitzsimons (1741–1811) was an American merchant and statesman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Thomas Hartley

Thomas Hartley (September 7, 1748 – December 21, 1800) was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician from York, Pennsylvania.

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Thomas Scott (American politician)

Thomas Scott (1739 – March 2, 1796) was an American lawyer and politician who was born in Chester County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Thomas Sinnickson (merchant)

Thomas Sinnickson (December 21, 1744 – May 15, 1817) was an American merchant and statesman from Salem, New Jersey.

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Thomas Sumter

Thomas Sumter (August 14, 1734 – June 1, 1832) was a soldier in the Colony of Virginia militia; a brigadier general in the South Carolina militia during the American War of Independence, a planter, and a politician.

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Thomas Tudor Tucker

Thomas Tudor Tucker (June 25, 1745 – May 2, 1828) was a Bermuda-born American physician and politician representing Charleston, South Carolina.

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Timothy Bloodworth

Timothy James Bloodworth (1736August 24, 1814) was an American teacher and statesman from North Carolina.

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Tristram Dalton

Tristram Dalton (May 28, 1738 – May 30, 1817) was an American politician and merchant from Massachusetts.

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Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) to the United States Constitution prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives.

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United States Attorney General

The United States Attorney General (A.G.) is the head of the United States Department of Justice per, concerned with all legal affairs, and is the chief lawyer of the United States government.

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United States Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

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United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.

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United States Congress Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills

The Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills was a joint committee of the United States Congress operating from 1789 to 1876.

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United States Constitution

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.

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United States Customs Service

The United States Customs Service was an agency of the U.S. federal government that collected import tariffs and performed other selected border security duties.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.

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United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government.

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United States Department of War

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.

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United States elections, 1789

The 1789 United States elections elected the members of the 1st United States Congress.

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United States elections, 1790

The 1790 United States elections occurred in the middle of President George Washington's first term.

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United States House Committee on Elections

The United States House Committee on Elections is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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United States House Committee on Rules

The Committee on Rules, or (more commonly) Rules Committee, is a committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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United States House Committee on Ways and Means

The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States House of Representatives elections, 1788 and 1789

Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 1st Congress were held in 1788 and 1789, coinciding with the election of George Washington as first President of the United States.

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United States House of Representatives elections, 1790 and 1791

Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd Congress took place in 1790 and 1791, in the middle of President George Washington's first term.

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United States presidential election, 1788–89

The United States presidential election of was the first quadrennial presidential election.

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United States Revenue Cutter Service

The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by an act of Congress on 4 August 1790 as the Revenue-Marine upon the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton to serve as an armed customs enforcement service.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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United States Senate elections, 1788 and 1789

The United States Senate elections of 1788 and 1789 were the first elections for the United States Senate, which coincided with the election of President George Washington.

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United States Senate elections, 1790 and 1791

The United States Senate elections of 1790 and 1791 were the second series of elections of Senators in the United States.

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Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution, as well as the second highest executive branch officer, after the President of the United States.

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Whiskey Rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington.

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William Branch Giles

William Branch Giles (August 12, 1762December 4, 1830; the g is pronounced like a j) was an American statesman, long-term Senator from Virginia, and the 24th Governor of Virginia.

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William Few

William Few Jr. (June 8, 1748 – July 16, 1828) was a farmer, a businessman, and a Founding Father of the United States.

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William Floyd

William Floyd (December 17, 1734 – August 4, 1821) was an American politician from New York, and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

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William Grayson

William Grayson (1740 – March 12, 1790) was a soldier, lawyer, and statesman from Virginia.

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William Linn

The Reverend William Linn (February 27, 1752 – January 8, 1808) was the second President of Queen's College (now Rutgers University), serving in a pro tempore capacity from 1791 to 1795.

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William Loughton Smith

William Loughton Smith (1758 – December 19, 1812) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from Charleston, South Carolina.

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William Maclay (Pennsylvania senator)

William Maclay (July 20, 1737April 16, 1804) was a politician from Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century.

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William Paterson (judge)

William Paterson (December 24, 1745 – September 9, 1806) was a New Jersey statesman and a signer of the United States Constitution.

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William Samuel Johnson

William Samuel Johnson (October 7, 1727 – November 14, 1819) was an early American statesman who was notable for signing the United States Constitution, for representing Connecticut in the United States Senate, and for serving as the third president of King's College now known as Columbia University.

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William Smith (Maryland)

William Smith (April 12, 1728 – March 27, 1814) was an American politician and representative of the fourth congressional district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives.

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William White (bishop of Pennsylvania)

William White (April 4, 1748 N.S. – July 17, 1836) was the first and fourth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States (1789; 1795–1836), the first bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania (1787–1836), and the second United States Senate Chaplain (appointed December 9, 1790).

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1790 United States Census

The United States Census of 1790 was the first census of the whole United States.

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2nd United States Congress

The Second United States Congress, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, met at Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from March 4, 1791, to March 4, 1793, during the third and fourth years of George Washington's presidency.

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References

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