George Washington

POLITICAL PARTY
Federalist

RELIGION
Episcopalian

VITALS
6 ft 2 in / 200 lbs

CAREER
1749-52 Surveyor, Culpepper, VA
1752-58 Officer, Virginia Militia
1758-74 Member, House of Burgesses
1774-75 Continental Congress Delegate
1775-83 Continental Army Commander
1783-89 Planter, Mount Vernon
1787 President, Constitutional Convention

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
December 8, 1788 - January 10, 1789:
Unopposed
Popular 38,818 (100%); Electoral 69-0
November 2 - 13, 1792:
Unopposed
Popular 28,579 (100%); Electoral 132-0

VICE PRESIDENT
John Adams (1789-1797)

ADMINISTRATION
State, Treasury, War, Post Office Departments (1789); Judiciary Act of 1789 (created Justice Dept. & Federal Courts) (1789); Bank of the U.S. (1791); U.S. Mint (1792); Proclamation of Neutrality (1793); 11th Amendment (State sovereignty)(1795); Jay’s Treaty, Pinckney’s Treaty (1795)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
John Jay (Chief), John Rutledge, William Cushing, James Wilson, John Blair, James Iredell, Thomas Johnson, William Paterson, Samuel Chase, John Rutledge (Chief/Rejected), Oliver Ellsworth (Chief)

NEW STATES
Vermont (1791), Kentucky (1792), Tennessee (1796)

FIRST LADY
Martha Dandridge Custis (1731-1802)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1798 Lt. General; Commander in Chief, American Forces

“I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.”

Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, 1797.