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“I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency the information of your unanimous election to the Office of President of the United States of America.”
National Archives
From John Langdon*
New York, 6 April, 1789
Sir,
I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency the information of your unanimous election to the Office of President of the United States of America. Suffer me, Sir, to indulge the hope, that so auspicious a mark of public confidence will meet your approbation, and be considered as a sure pledge of the affection and support you are to expect from a free and an enlightened people. I am, Sir, with sentiments of respect, Your obedient humble servant.
* “Senator from New Hampshire and president pro tempore of the Senate for the sole purpose of receiving, counting, and announcing the result of the electoral vote of the country in the first election of a President and Vice President of the United States of America.” — Fitzpatrick, et al., WGW
"Having concluded to obey the important and flattering call of my Country . . . I propose to commence my journey on thursday morning."
To John Langdon
Mount Vernon, 14 April 1789
Sir,
I had the honor to receive your Official communication by the hand of Mr Secretary Thompson*, about one O’Clock this day. Having concluded to obey the important and flattering call of my Country, and having been impressed with an idea of the expediency of my being with Congress at as early a period as possible; I propose to commence my journey on thursday morning which will be the day after tomorrow. I have the honor to be with sentiments of esteem Sir Your most obedt Servt
G:o Washington
* “Still Secretary to the Continental Congress. [Charles] Thomson had been honored by the First Congress of the United States with the duty of conveying to Washington, at Mount Vernon, the official notice of his election as the first President of the United States. He reached Mount Vernon a little after noon on April 14, and delivered to Washington, standing in the banquet hall of the mansion, the letter of John Langdon of April 6, announcing ‘your unanimous election.’”— Fitzpatrick, et al., WGW
