1792 Philadelphia PA newspaper GEORGE WASHINGTON is ELECTED PRESIDENT of the US

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1792 Philadelphia PA newspaper GEORGE WASHINGTON is ELECTED PRESIDENT of the US 1792 Philadelphia PA newspaper GEORGE WASHINGTON is ELECTED PRESIDENT of the US + Founding of the NY Stock Exchange - inv # 3Z-411 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia, PA) dated Dec 26, 1792. This original newspaper contains inside page news that GEORGE WASHINGTON has been elected unanimously as the PRESIDENT of the US by the states of VERMONT, GEORGIA, and SOUTH CAROLINA. He would go on to be elected in the Electoral College unanimously, the only President in US history to be UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED . This 232 year old newspaper also contains a back page ad placed by Stock Broker LEONARD BLEECKER, one of the signers of the "Buttonwood Agreement" establishing the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE in 1792 . There is also a back page chart of the "Prices Current" of commodities and stock prices in Dec, 1792. The 1792 United States presidential election was the second quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 2, to Wednesday, December 5, 1792. Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college, while John Adams was re-elected as vice president. Washington was essentially unopposed, but Adams faced a competitive re-election against Governor George Clinton of New York. Electoral rules of the time required each presidential elector to cast two votes without distinguishing which was for president and which for vice president. The recipient of the most votes would then become president, and the runner-up vice president. The Democratic-Republican Party, which had organized in opposition to the policies of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, supported Clinton for the position of vice president. Adams, meanwhile, was backed by the Federalist Party in his bid for another term. Neither party had fully organized, and partisan divisions had not yet solidified. Washington received 132 electoral votes, one from each elector. Adams won 77 electoral votes, enough to win re-election. Clinton finished in third place with 50 electoral votes, taking his home state of New York as well as three Southern states. Two other candidates won the five remaining electoral votes. This election was the first in which each of the original 13 states appointed electors, as did the newly added states of Kentucky and Vermont. The Buttonwood Agreement is the founding document of what is now the New York Stock Exchange and is one of the most important financial documents in U.S. history. The agreement organized securities trading in New York City and was signed on May 17, 1792 between 24 stockbrokers outside of 68 Wall Street. According to legend the signing took place under a buttonwood tree where their earliest transactions had occurred. The New York Stock Exchange celebrates the signing of this agreement on May 17, 1792 as its founding. The twenty-four brokers, known as Founding and Subsequent Fathers, who signed the Buttonwood Agreement were (including business location): Peter Anspach … 3 Great Dock Street Armstrong & Barnewall … 58 Broad Street Andrew D. Barclay … 136 Pearl Street Samuel Beebe … 21 Nassau Street G. N. Bleecker … 21 Broad Street Leonard Bleecker … 16 Wall Street John Bush … 195 Water Street John Ferrers … 205 Water Street Isaac M. Gomez … 32 Maiden Lane Bernard Hart … 55 Broad Street John A. Hardenbrook … 24 Nassau Street Ephraim Hart … 74 Broadway John Henry … 13 Duke Street Augustine H. Lawrence … 132 Water Street Samuel March … 243 Queen Street Charles McEvers Jr. … 194 Water Street Julian McEvers … 140 Greenwich Street David Reedy … 58 Wall Street Robinson & Hartshorne … 198 Queen Street Benjamin Seixas … 8 Hanover Square Hugh Smith … Tontine Coffee House Lutton & Hardy … 20 Wall Street Benjamin Winthrop … 2 Great Dock Street Alexander Zuntz … 97 Broad Street *** Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay priority mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect the purchased item from damage in the mail. 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