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Originally Posted by james0246
To put it in perspective: let's say that in this past election no seats were changed amongst the various open Congress positions (i.e. none of the Representatives or Senators lost their positions). So, if none of the positions changed, would we still call the Congress the 110th? No, of course not, it would still be the 111th due to the simple fact that even if the people stayed the same; the very fact that there was an election means that this Congress is "New".
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So... by that logic... George Washington should be the 1st and 2nd president, and every other president to have served more than one term should be the nth and (n+x)th president.
