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George Washington (1732–1799)

related portals: Presidents of the United States. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, Commons category, quotes. First President of the United States (1789–1797), with John Adams; succeeded by Adams. First Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (1775–1783); succeeded by Henry Knox. Sixth Commanding General of the United States Army (1798–1799). He was married to Martha Washington.

George Washington

Works

Revolutionary War

• Acceptence of Command of the Continental Army (1775)
• July 9, 1776 General Orders
• On Maintaining an Army (24 September 1776)
• Announcing the attack on Trenton (25 December 1776)
• Resignation as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army (23 December 1783)

Inaugural Addresses

• First Inaugural Address (1789)
• Second Inaugural Address (1793)

State of the Union Addresses

• First State of the Union Address (8 January 1790)
• Second State of the Union Address (8 December 1790)
• Third State of the Union Address (25 October 1791)
• Fourth State of the Union Address (6 November 1792)
• Fifth State of the Union Address (3 December 1793)
• Sixth State of the Union Address (19 November 1794)
• Seventh State of the Union Address (8 December 1795)
• Eighth State of the Union Address (7 December 1796)

Messages to Congress

• Message to the Senate of June 11, 1789 - Regarding the Convention with France of 1788
• Message to the Senate of September 17, 1789 - Regarding Treaties with Native Americans
• Message to the Senate of January 11, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
• Message to the Senate of August 4, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
• Message to the Senate of August 6, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
• Message to the Senate of August 7, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
• Message to the Senate of August 11, 1790 - Regarding the Treaty of 1790 with the Creeks
• Message to the Senate of January 17, 1791 - Transmitting a Letter from the King of France
• Message to the Senate of January 19, 1791 - Transmitting a Report of Secretary of State Jefferson Regarding Commerce with France
• Message to the Senate of January 11, 1792 - Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of State Concerning Spain
• Message to the Senate of March 7, 1792 - Transmitting a Report by the Secretary of State Regarding a Treaty with Spain
• Message to the Senate of February 26, 1796 - Regarding the Treaty of 1795 with Spain
• Message to the House of March 30, 1796 - Regarding Documents Relative to the Jay Treaty
• Message to the Senate of March 31, 1796 - Regarding the Jay Treaty

Vetos

• Veto of the Apportionment Bill (1792)
• Veto of A Bill to alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States" (1797)

Other Works

• Journal of George Washington (1760)
• Newburgh letter (22 March 1782)
• Newburgh address (15 March 1783)
• National Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789)
• Letter to Touro Synagogue (1790)
• Proclamation of Neutrality (22 April 1793)
• George Washington's correspondence with Joseph Whipple (1796)
• Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
• The Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation
• Circular to the States
• Letter to Rev. William Gordon, July 8, 1783, on the subject of the nature of the Union
• Last Will and Testament
• George Washington's Remarks (autobiographical notes about the French and Indian War)
• Letter requesting dental pincers
• Letter to Charles Carter, 1794 regarding his niece and an outstanding debt

About

• “Washington, George” by Edward Everett in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Washington, George” by Alexander Johnston  in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1888.
• Chapter 14 of David H. Montgomery's The Beginner's American History (1904)
• William Peterfield Trent, “Washington, George,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Washington, George” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Washington, George” by William MacDonald in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• "George Washington" by Robert C. Winthrop in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
• “Washington, George,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Washington, George” by Claude Halstead Van Tyne  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Washington, George,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

Proclamations

• Proclamation 4900 by Ronald Reagan, February 22, 1982
• Proclamation 7260 by Bill Clinton, December 13, 1999
• Proclamation 8106 by George W. Bush, February 16, 2007

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