who were the first executive?
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George Washington appointed the first executive department heads in 1789. They were the attorney general, secretary of state, secretary of treasury, and secretary of war. As the scope and functions of the federal government grew, the number of executive departments increased.
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The First Continental Congress The delegates included a number of future luminaries, such as future presidents John Adams (1735-1826) of Massachusetts and George Washington (1732-99) of Virginia, and future U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice and diplomat John Jay (1745-1829) of New York.
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On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.
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Only three incumbent presidents have refused to accompany the president-elect: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Johnson. Around or after 12 noon, the president takes the oath of office, usually administered by the chief justice of the United States, and then delivers the inaugural address.
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First Eagle Scout to become a U.S. President: Gerald Ford, who earned the Scouter of the Year Award in 1974 — while he was president. JFK was the first Boy Scout — but not Eagle Scout — to hold the nation's top office; Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were both Scouts, too, but never advanced beyond Cub.
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3. Benjamin Franklin. In a real sense, Franklin was America's first entrepreneur. Unlike other of the Founding Fathers -- the hypermoral Washington, the prodigiously intellectual Jefferson -- whose virtues and attainments are seen today as anachronisms, Franklin truly was a model of what many of us would become.
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Nelson Mandela The first black chief executive of South Africa, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
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"First Emperor Qin Built the Great Wall…" After the unification of China in the beginning of the Qin Dynasty (221–207 BC), China's First Emperor, Qin Shihuang (you must have heard of his Terracotta Army), linked the walls of the three northern states (Qin, Zhao, and Yan).
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England doesn't have a president; rather, its head of state is a Prime Minister, and the first Prime Minister on record was Robert Walpole, who took...
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['Napoleon Bonaparte.', 'Marie Antoinette.', 'Robespierre.', 'Jacques-Pierre Brissot.', 'Jean Paul Marat.', 'Louis XVI.', 'Charlotte Corday.', 'George Danton.']
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1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President. 1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
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['John (1177–1216) First man to be made Lord of Ireland and established the precedent that that Lord would also be King of England.', 'Henry III (1216–72) ... ', 'Edward I (1272–1307)', 'Edward II (1307–27) ... ', 'Edward III (1327–77)', 'Richard II (1377–99) ... ', 'Henry IV (1399–1413)', 'Henry V (1413–22)']
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['Qin Shi Huang (221-210 B.C.) China was unified in 221 B.C. when the Qin people came out of the west to prevail militarily over a number of rival states. ... ', 'Kublai Khan (1279-1294) ... ', 'Sun Yat-sen (1912) ... ', 'Mao Zedong (1949-1976) ... ', 'Deng Xiaoping (1978-1989)']
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Section 62 of the Constitution establishes the Federal Executive Council to 'advise the Governor-General in the government of the Commonwealth'. 13. Members of the Executive Council are chosen, summoned and sworn in by the Governor-General and hold office at the Governor-General's pleasure.
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Sun Yat-sen (/ˈsʌn ˌjætˈsɛn/; born Sun Wen; 12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese philosopher, physician, and politician, who served as the provisional first president of the Republic of China and the first leader of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party of China).
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Historian Richard B. Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as key Founding Fathers: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington based on the critical and substantive roles they played in the formation of the country's new government ...