Full title: Address in Commemoration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States Delivered Before the Two Houses of Congress, December 11, 1889 by Melville Weston Fuller. Published in Washington by the Government Printing Office in 1890.
Official government printing of Fuller’s commemorative address, delivered before the two houses of Congress on December 11, 1889, marking the centennial commemoration of George Washington’s inauguration as the first President of the United States.
Fuller was an American politician, attorney, and jurist who served as the eighth chief justice of the United States from 1888 until his death in 1910.
Includes a preface explaining the congressional act authorizing the national commemoration and the joint committee arrangements for the ceremony. The address begins with Fuller’s remarks to the President, Speaker, Senate, and House of Representatives, reflecting on Washington’s inauguration, the centennial observance, and Washington’s continuing place in American public memory.
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