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As commander in chief of the armed forces, which American president was the first president to ask Congress for permission to go to war?

Andrew Jackson
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison

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President James Madison, in the year of 1812, was the first president to ask Congress for a declaration of war.
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