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
• 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

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

• "George Washington as Diarist" (1926), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman
• The Father of His Country, funeral oration by Henry Lee III (1799)
• "Washington, George," by Edward Everett in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Washington, George," by Alexander Johnston in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 24) (1888)
• "Washington" (poem), originally in Swedish by Johan Olof Wallin (1837), translated by Ernst W. Olson (1900)
• Chapter 14 of David H. Montgomery's The Beginner's American History (1904)
• "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)
• "George Washington" by Robert C. Winthrop in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
• "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)
• Public Law 94-479, October 11, 1976, and Orders 31-3

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