George Washington's presidency

The Washington Cabinet
Office	Name	Term
President	George Washington	1789–1797
Vice President	John Adams	1789–1797
Secretary of Foreign Affairs	John Jay	1789
Secretary of State	John Jay	1789–1790
	Thomas Jefferson	1790–1793
	Edmund Randolph	1794–1795
	Timothy Pickering	1795–1797
Secretary of Treasury	Alexander Hamilton	1789–1795
	Oliver Wolcott Jr.	1795–1797
Secretary of War	Henry Knox	1789–1794
	Timothy Pickering	1794–1796
	James McHenry	1796–1797
Attorney General	Edmund Randolph	1789–1794
	William Bradford	1794–1795
	Charles Lee	1795–1797

The presidency of George Washington, began on April 30, 1789, when Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1797. Washington took office after the 1788–89 presidential election, the nation's first quadrennial presidential election, in which he was elected unanimously. Washington was re-elected unanimously in the 1792 presidential election, and chose to retire after two terms. He was succeeded by his vice president, John Adams of the Federalist Party.

Washington had established his preeminence among the new nation's Founding Fathers through his service as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and as president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Once the Constitution was approved, it was widely expected that Washington would become the first President of the United States; he, however, hoped to retire again to private life.

Washington, who in his first inaugural address expressed both his reluctance to accept the presidency and his inexperience with the duties of civil administration, proved an able leader nonetheless. He presided over the establishment of the new federal government – appointing all of the high-ranking officials in the executive, and judicial branches, and shaping its political practices. He supported Alexander Hamilton's programs to satisfy all debts, federal and state, established a permanent seat of government, implemented an effective tax system, and created a national bank. Washington also personally led federal soldiers in suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion, which arose in opposition to the administration's taxation policies, and directed the Northwest Indian War, which saw the United States establish control over Native American tribes in the Northwest Territory. In foreign affairs, he insisted on his power to act independent of Congress. Washington assurred domestic tranquility and maintained peace with the European powers despite the raging French Revolutionary Wars, issuing a Proclamation of Neutrality (1793) on his own authority, securing the Jay Treaty (1795) with Great Britain, and the Pinckney Treaty (1795) with Spain.

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