Author:George Washington

George Washington
(1732–1799)

Portrait based on the unfinished Athenaeum Portrait, by Gilbert Stuart, 1796

Works

Revolutionary War

• Acceptence of Command of the Continental Army (1775)
• February 26, 1776 General Orders
• July 9, 1776 General Orders
• On Maintaining an Army (24 September 1776)
• Announcing the attack on Trenton (25 December 1776)
• Letter to Col. John Cadwalader (25 December 1776)
• Letter to Col. John Cadwalader at 6 P.M. (25 December 1776, 6 P.M.)
• A Circular Letter from his Excellency George Washington (18 June 1783)
• Resignation as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army (23 December 1783)
• Statement before delivering response to the first Newburgh Address (March 15, 1783)

Inaugural Addresses

• First Inaugural Address (30 April 1789)
• Second Inaugural Address (4 March 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

• Proclamations
• Journal of George Washington (1760)
• Newburgh letter (22 March 1782)
• Letter to Colonel Nichola (1782)
• Newburgh address (15 March 1783)
• To the Reformed German Congregation of New York (27 November 1783)
• Letter to John Jay - August 15, 1786
• National Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789)
• Letter to Touro Synagogue / To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island (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
  • also Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation edited by Joseph Meredith Toner (1888)
• Circular to the States
• Letter to Rev. William Gordon, July 8, 1783, on the subject of the nature of the Union
• Letter of George Washington to James Duane, 7 September 1783
• 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

Editions

• The Writings of George Washington (1834–1840) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

Works about Washington

Essays

• "George Washington as Diarist" (1926), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman

Encyclopedia articles

• "Washington, George," by Edward Everett in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Washington, George," by Alexander Johnston in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 24) (1888)
• "Washington, George," by William Peterfield Trent in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Washington, George," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Washington, George," by William MacDonald in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Washington, George," in 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: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Washington, George," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Fiction

• "If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman", a speculative scenario in the alternate history collection The Ifs of History (1907)

Poems

• "Washington", originally in Swedish by Johan Olof Wallin (1837), translated by Ernst W. Olson (1900)

Proclamations and laws

• Public Law 94-479, October 11, 1976, and Orders 31-3
• 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

Short biographies

• Chapter 14 of David H. Montgomery's The Beginner's American History (1904)
• "George Washington" by Robert C. Winthrop in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)

Speeches

• "The Father of His Country", funeral oration by Henry Lee III (1799)

Cabinet

Cabinet of George Washington

Vice President	John Adams
Secretary of State	Thomas Jefferson
Secretary of the Treasury	Alexander Hamilton
Secretary of War	Henry Knox
Attorney General	Edmund Randolph