OVERVIEW:
BORN:
February 22, 1732;
Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia
DIED:
December 14, 1799 (age 67);
Mount Vernon, Virginia
POLITICAL PARTY:
Federalist
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1748:
County Surveyor in Culpeper County, Virginia
1752:
Inherited Mount Vernon After the death of his half brother, Lawrence Washington;
Commissioned District Adjutant by Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie
1753-1758:
Fought in French and Indian Wars in Ohio and Pennsylvania
1759
Married Martha Dandridge Custis, widow of Daniel Parke Custis;
Returned to Mount Vernon
1759-1774:
Member, Virginia House of Burgesses
1774-1775:
Member of First and Second Continental Congresses
1775-1783:
Commander of Continental armies during the Revolutionary War
1781:
Adopted two of his step-grandchildren after the death of their father, John Parke Custis
1783:
Led Continental Army until British evacuated New York;
Resigned his Military Commission Before Congress in Annapolis, Maryland
1787:
Presided at Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pa.
1789:
Unanimously Chosen as First President of the United States under the new constitution
1792:
Unanimously Reelected President of the United States
1797:
Declined a third term as President and retired after delivering Farewell Address
1798:
On threat of war with France, accepted commission as Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief of U.S. Army
FIRST LADY:
VICE PRESIDENT:
RESOURCES:
GENERAL BACKGROUND:
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Resources
BIOGRAPHIES:
Mount Vernon
White House
UVA Miller Center
American Presidents: (C-SPAN)
American National Biography
Wikipedia
PAPERS:
Founders Online (National Archives)
American Presidency Project
Library of Congress
The Avalon Project (Yale)
NOTABLE BOOKS:
1789 ELECTION:
FEDERALIST (UNOFFICIAL):
GEORGE WASHINGTON (PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 69 (100%)
1789 INAUGURATION:
1789 Address (Transcript, Images)
Library of Congress
Mount Vernon
National Archives
U.S. House of Representatives
Wikipedia
1792 ELECTION:
FEDERALIST (UNOFFICIAL):
GEORGE WASHINGTON (PRES)
Electoral Vote: 132 (100%)
1793 INAUGURATION:
1793 Address (Transcript)
Library of Congress
Wikipedia
WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATION:
ATTORNEY GENERAL:
Edmund J. Randolph (1789–1794)
William Bradford (1794–1795)
Charles Lee (1795–1801)
POSTMASTER GENERAL:
Samuel Osgood (1789–1791)
Timothy Pickering (1791–1795)
Joseph Habersham (1795–1801)
SECRETARY OF STATE:
Thomas Jefferson (1789–1793)
Edmund J. Randolph (1794–1795)
Timothy Pickering (1795–1800)
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY:
Alexander Hamilton (1789–1795)
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1795–1800)
SECRETARY OF WAR:
Henry Knox (1789–1794)
Timothy Pickering (1795–1796)
James McHenry (1796–1797)
SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS:
Oliver Ellsworth (1796-1800)
Samuel Chase (1796-1811)
William Paterson (1793-1806)
Thomas Johnson (1791-1793)
James Iredell (1790-1799)
John Blair, Jr. (1790-1795)
William Cushing (1790-1810)
James Wilson (1789-1798)
John Rutledge (1789-1791, 1795)
John Jay (1789-1795)
CONGRESS:
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
Frederick Muhlenberg (1789-1791)
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (1791-1793)
Frederick Muhlenberg (1793-1795)
Jonathan Dayton (1795-1799)
SENATE PRESDENT PRO TEMPORE:
John Langdon (1789)
HISTORIC SITES:
Mount Vernon
George Washington Birthplace