Joint session counts first electoral votes
- When
- April 1789
- Where
- Federal Hall, site of the electoral count (scope-derived; not named in supplied passages)
Langdon, as president pro tempore, counted the electoral college votes in the first presidential election, dated by the passages to April 1789.
In April 1789, Langdon served as president pro tempore of the US Senate and counted the votes of the electoral college in the first presidential election. The event scope describes this count as a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives that certified George Washington as President-elect and John Adams as Vice-President-elect; the supplied passages themselves record only Langdon's counting of the votes and do not state the joint-session framing, the certification results, or the exact day. The event scope identifies the site as Federal Hall in New York City.
Sources
- John Langdon (politician) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-12
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