Vice President: John Adams Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson; Edmund Randolph (from January 1794); Timothy Pickering (from August 1795) Secretary of the Treasury: Alexander Hamilton; Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (from February 1795)
Secretary of War: Henry Knox; Timothy Pickering (from January 1795); James McHenry (from February 1796)
Attorney General: Edmund Randolph; William Bradford (from January 1794); Charles Lee (from December 1795) Postmaster General: Timothy Pickering;
Joseph Habersham (from February 1795) Supreme Court Appointments: William Paterson (1793); John Rutledge, Chief Justice (1795; rejected by Senate); Samuel Chase (1796); Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice (1796)
State Admitted: Tennessee (1796)
Father: Augustine Washington (1694-1743) Mother: Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789)
Wife: Martha Dandridge Custis (1731-1802)
Marriage: January 6, 1759
Children: John Parke Custis was adopted from wife’s first marriage and died soon after the American Revolution.
George Washington owned 80,000 acres of land, and his Mount Vernon home included a village of several hundred slaves.
He chose the site for the new national capital along the Potomac River (it later became Washington, D. C.), commissioned Pierre l’Enfant to plan the city, and laid the cornerstone for the Capitol building.
He hired architect James Hoban to design the White House, and he drove the stakes that
Sited the building, though it was not finished until after his death.
Washington had one remaining tooth at the time of his inauguration. During his lifetime he wore dentures made of human, cow, or hippopotamus teeth, or invory or lead, but he never wore wooden teeth.
The six white horses in Washington’s stables had their teeth brushed every morning on the president’s orders.
When Washington was president, the national capital was located first in New York City, from 1789 to 1790 (it had been the capital under the Confederation government since 1785), and then in Philadelphia (where it remained until its relocation to Washington, D. C., in 1800).
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