George Washington
1. President
Westmoreland County, Virginia
February 22.1732
Born:
New Kent County, Virginia
June 21. 1731
Died:
Mount Vernon, Virginia
May 22. 1802
Married:
Kent County, Virginia
January 6 - 1759
Martha Washington
-My movements to the
chair of
Government will be
accompanied by feelings not
unlike those of a culprit who is
going to the place of his
execution.
GW in a letter to Henry
Knox (1789)
Commander in Chief of Continetal Army (1775-1783)
-Washinton's
mind was great
and powerful, without being of
the very first order ... and
as
far as he saw, no judgement
was ever sounder. It was slow
in operation, being little aided
by invention, but sure in
conclusion.
His integrity was
most pure, his justice the most
inflexible I have ever known, no
motives of interest or
consanguinity of friendship or
hatred,
being able to bias his
decision.
Thomas
Jefferson 1814
-All Washington's features
were indicative of the most
ungovernable passions, and
had he been born in the forest,
he would have been the
fiercest man among the
savage tribes.
Gilbert Stuart (1795)
-As to you, Sir, treacherous in
private friendship (for so you
have been to me, and that in a
day of danger) and a hypocrite
in public
life, the world will be
puzzled to decide whether you
are an apostate or
an impostor.
Elevated to the Presidency you
assumed the merit of
everything to yourself, and the
natural in gratitude of your
constitution began to appear.
Thomas Paine (1796)
Justice of Fairfax County (1768-1774)
Delegate to the First and Second Continental Congress (1774-1775)
President of the Constitutional Comvention (1787)
April 30 - 1789.
Federal Hall New York City
Second term:
March 4 - 1793.
Federal Hall, Philadelphia
inaguration
Died
Mount Vernon, Virginia,
December 14 - 1799
Age 67
After his return from France, Thomas Jefferson asked Washington at breakfast one morning why the Constitution-framers had agreed to a second chamber in Congress at the 1787 convention. "Why did you poor coffee into your saucer?" Washington asked him. "To cool it" said Jefferson. "Even so" said Washington, "we poor legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it."