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Have you ever noticed that when people ask the president of the United States a question or greet him, they always refer to him as “Mr. President?”

There is actually a story as to how the president came to be called that. It goes back to the beginnings of our country’s history.

Many people in the American colonies had disliked having a king at the head of the British government. So when it came time to create the United States, they opted not to have a monarch.

When George Washington became the first U.S. president, Alexander Hamilton – Washington’s chief adviser – and Vice-President John Adam...