(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the dining room, Mount Vernon, VA.) It was here in the dining room that Charles Thomson, secretary of the Congress, told Washington he had been unanimously elected president in this year
Throughout George Washington's presidential years, he had the 
comforting .... Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress since 1774, was notified 
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