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Scholarly coverage of Washington at Miller Center, U of Virginia
George Washington Resources at the University of Virginia Library
George Washington's Speeches: Quote-search-tool
Original Digitized Letters of George Washington Archived June 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Shapell Manuscript Foundation
The Papers of George Washington, subset of Founders Online from the National Archives
Works by George Washington at Project Gutenberg
Washington & the American Revolution, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Carol Berkin, Simon Middleton & Colin Bonwick (In Our Time, June 24, 2004)
Works by George Washington at Biodiversity Heritage Library
Guide to the George Washington Collection 1776–1792 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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1st President of the United States (1789–1797)
Senior Officer of the Army (1798–1799)
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (1775–1783)
Delegate to the Second Continental Congress (1775)
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George Washington (1984 miniseries
1986 sequel)
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The Crossing (2000 film)
We Fight to Be Free (2006 film)
Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–2017 series)
The War that Made America (2006 miniseries)
Washington (2020 miniseries)
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Office established

Commander in Chief of the Continental Army 1775–1783

Succeeded byHenry Knoxas Senior Officer

Preceded byJames Wilkinson

Senior Officer of the United States Army 1798–1799

Succeeded byAlexander Hamilton

Political offices

Preceded byHugh West

Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1758–1775

Office abolished

Office established

Delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress 1774–1775

Succeeded byThomas Jefferson

President of the United States 1789–1797

Succeeded byJohn Adams

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Preceded byRichard Terrick (1776)

Chancellor of the College of William & Mary 1788–1799

Succeeded byJohn Tyler (1859)

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