Outline of George Washington

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George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was a Founding Father of the United States, military officer, and farmer who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War. He then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted the current Constitution of the United States. Washington has thus become commonly known as the "Father of His Country".

Military career of George Washington

• Colonel, Virginia militia
• French and Indian War
  • George Washington in the French and Indian War
    • Lieutenant colonel, Virginia Regiment
    • Battle of Jumonville Glen
    • Battle of Fort Necessity
    • Braddock Expedition
    • Battle of the Monongahela
    • Forbes Expedition
• American Revolutionary War
  • George Washington in the American Revolution
    • Commander-in-Chief/Commanding General, Continental Army
      • Commander-in-Chief's Guard
      • Knowlton's Rangers
    • Boston campaign
      • Siege of Boston
    • New York and New Jersey campaign
      • Landing at Kip's Bay
      • Battle of Long Island
      • Battle of Harlem Heights
      • Battle of White Plains
      • Battle of Fort Washington
      • Battle of Fort Lee
      • Crossing of the Delaware River
      • Battle of Trenton
      • Battle of the Assunpink Creek
      • Battle of Princeton
      • Forage War
    • Philadelphia campaign
      • Battle of Brandywine
      • Battle of the Clouds
      • Battle of Germantown
      • Battle of White Marsh
      • Valley Forge
      • Conway Cabal
      • Battle of Monmouth
    • Battles of Saratoga
    • Yorktown campaign
      • Siege of Yorktown
    • Asgill Affair
    • Newburgh Conspiracy
      • Newburgh letter
      • Newburgh address
    • Evacuation Day
    • George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief
      • Fraunces Tavern
    • Established the Badge of Military Merit
      • Purple Heart
    • Culper spy ring
    • Washington's Aides-de-Camp
      • Alexander Hamilton
      • John Laurens
      • John Trumbull
    • Washington's Headquarters during the Revolutionary War
      • Cumberland, Maryland
      • Morristown
      • Ford Mansion
    • Washington's tent
    • Washington's horses
      • Nelson
      • Blueskin
• Northwest Indian War
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Quasi-War
  • Lieutenant General, United States Army
• General of the Armies – promoted posthumously in 1976 by Congress^[1][2]

• Presidential library
• Religious views of George Washington
• George Washington and slavery

Electoral history of George Washington

• 1788–89 United States presidential election
• 1792 United States presidential election
• 1796 United States presidential election – Two electors voted for him despite Washington not campaigning and retiring after two terms

See also: Military career of George Washington

Founding Fathers of the United States

• 1769 Virginia Association
• 1774 Fairfax Resolves
• First Continental Congress
• Continental Association
• Second Virginia Convention
• Second Continental Congress
• 1785 Mount Vernon Conference
• Chairman of the 1787 Constitutional Convention
• Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture

The Washington cabinet
Office	Name	Term
President	George Washington	1789–1797
Vice President	John Adams	1789–1797
Secretary of State	John Jay	1789–1790
	Thomas Jefferson	1790–1793
Edmund Randolph	1794–1795
Timothy Pickering	1795–1797
Secretary of the Treasury	Alexander Hamilton	1789–1795
Oliver Wolcott Jr.	1795–1797
Secretary of War	Henry Knox	1789–1794
	Timothy Pickering	1794–1796
James McHenry	1796–1797
Attorney General	Edmund Randolph	1789–1794
	William Bradford	1794–1795
Charles Lee	1795–1797

Presidency of George Washington

• First inauguration of George Washington
  • George Washington's reception at Trenton
  • Inaugural bible
• Title of "Mr. President"
• Washington's cabinet
  • Cabinet of the United States
    • Secretary of State
    • Attorney General
    • Secretary of the Treasury
    • Secretary of War
• An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administering certain Oaths
• Tariff of 1789
• The establishment the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of State), United States Custom Service, Department of War, Department of the Treasury
• Judiciary Act of 1789, which established the federal judiciary and the office of Attorney General
• Thanksgiving Proclamation
• Naturalization Act of 1790
• Patent Act of 1790
• Crimes Act of 1790
• Copyright Act of 1790
• Residence Act, which established Washington D.C. as the seat of government of the United States
• Nonintercourse Act, the first of six statues for regulating commerce with Indigenous tribes
• Funding Act of 1790
• The establishment the United States Revenue Cutter Service
• Tariff of 1790
• The establishment the First Bank of the United States
• Tariff of 1791, which led to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794
  • Militia Acts of 1792
• Coinage Act of 1792
  • United States Mint
• Second inauguration of George Washington
• United States Capitol cornerstone laying
• Slave Trade Act of 1794
• Proclamation of Neutrality
  • Neutrality Act of 1794
• Jay Treaty
• Pinckney's Treaty
• List of federal judges appointed by George Washington
• People pardoned or granted clemency by George Washington

• Acceptence of Command of the Continental Army (1775)
• Newburgh address (1783)
• First Inaugural Address (1789)
• National Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789)
• 1790 State of the Union Address (January)
• 1790 State of the Union Address (December)
• 1791 State of the Union Address
• 1792 State of the Union Address
• Second Inaugural Address (1793)
• 1793 State of the Union Address
• 1794 State of the Union Address
• 1795 State of the Union Address
• 1796 State of the Union Address
• Farewell Address
• More...

Post-presidency of George Washington

• Quasi-War

• Religious views of George Washington
• George Washington and slavery

Washington family

• John Washington (great-grandfather)
• Lawrence Washington (grandfather)
• Augustine Washington (father)
• Mary Ball (mother)
• Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (wife)
• Samuel Washington (brother)
• John A. Washington (brother)
• Charles Washington (brother)
• Betty Washington Lewis (sister)
• Lawrence Washington (half-brother)
• Bushrod Washington (nephew)
• Augustine Washington Jr. (half-brother)
• John Parke Custis (stepson)
• George Washington Parke Custis (step-grandson, adopted son)
• Eleanor Parke Custis (step-granddaughter, adopted daughter)

• Early life
• Birthplace
• Ferry Farm boyhood home
• 1751 Barbados trip
• River Farm – acquired in 1960^[3]
• Mount Vernon – inherited remainder interest from Lawrence Washington in 1752,^[4] became sole owner in 1761^[5]
  • Fishery
  • Gristmill
  • Woodlawn Plantation
  • Whiskey distillery
• Samuel Osgood House, First Presidential Mansion
• Alexander Macomb House, Second Presidential Mansion
• President's House, Philadelphia, Third Presidential Mansion
• Germantown White House
• Custis estate
• Potomac Company
• James River and Kanawha Canal
• Mountain Road Lottery
• President-General of the Society of the Cincinnati

Legacy of George Washington

• Bibliography of George Washington
• Credited as the Father of the American Foxhound^[6][7], Father of His Country/Father of America
• General of the Armies
• George Washington's teeth
• Town Destroyer
• Virginia dynasty

• Congressional Gold Medal

• Badge of Military Merit
  • Purple Heart
• Certificate of Merit Medal
• The Papers of George Washington

• Thanks of Congress
• Washington Before Boston Medal – the first Congressional Gold Medal,^[8] presented by the Second Continental Congress.

• George Washington Book Prize
• George Washington Honor Medal
• George Washington Spymaster Award

Cultural depictions of George Washington

• Cherry-tree anecdote

• United States one-dollar bill
• Quarter coin
• U.S. postage stamps
• Other currency

• George Washington (1984 miniseries}
• George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986 sequel)
• The Crossing (2000 film)
• Washington (2020 miniseries)

Memorials to George Washington

• Presidents' Day

• Washington state
• Washington, D.C.
• George Washington University
• George Washington Bridge
• George Washington Memorial Parkway
• Washington and Jefferson National Forests
• Washington and Lee University
• Washington College
• Washington's Crossing
• Washington University
• Washington (tree)

List of statues of George Washington

• Mount Rushmore
• Washington Masonic National Memorial
• Washington Monument
• Washington Monument, Baltimore
• George Washington – marble bust portrait by Giuseppe Ceracchi
• George Washington – statue by Jean-Antoine Houdon
• Point of View – statue by James A. West
• Washington, D.C. statue – statue by Clark Mills

• Athenaeum Portrait – unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart
• General George Washington at Trenton – portrait by John Trumbull
• Lansdowne portrait – painting by Gilbert Stuart
• The Apotheosis of Washington – fresco by Constantino Brumidi
• The Washington Family – portrait by Edward Savage
• Washington at Princeton – painting by Charles Wilson Peale
• Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings) – three paintings by Emanuel Leutze
• Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953 painting) – painting by Larry Rivers
• U.S. Postage stamps
  • Washington-Franklin Issues
  • 1932 bicentennial

• USS George Washington (disambiguation)
  • SS George Washington
  • USS George Washington (CVN-73)
• USS Washington (disambiguation) (not all are named in honor of George Washington)
  • USRC Washington (1833)

Bibliography of George Washington

• A Birthday Cake for George Washington
• George Washington: An Initial Biography
• His Excellency: George Washington
• Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot
• The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution
• The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
• "The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret": George Washington, Slavery and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
• Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
• Washington: A Life
• You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

• 1st President of the United States, 1789–1797
• Senior Officer of the Army, 1798–1799
• Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, 1775–1783
• Republicanism
• Federalist Party
  • Federalist Era
• American Philosophical Society
• Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
• Outline of the American Revolutionary War

• George Washington's Mount Vernon
• American President: George Washington (1732–1799) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
• George Washington: A Resource Guide at the Library of Congress
• George Washington Resources at the University of Virginia Library
• Original Digitized Letters of George Washington Shapell Manuscript Foundation
• The Papers of George Washington at the Avalon Project
• The Papers of George Washington, subset of Founders Online from the National Archives
• George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia from the National Park Service
• Copies of the wills of General George Washington: the first president of the United States and of Martha Washington, his wife (1904), edited by E. R. Holbrook
• "What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?". EDSITEment: Lesson Plans. National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Works by George Washington at Project Gutenberg
• Works by George Washington at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• George Washington Personal Manuscripts