George Washington’s 1789 inauguration suit coat is now on display at Mount Vernon. Our first President was intentional with his details: the domestically produced wool suit was meant to promote ...

The famed presidential suite can claim more presidents than ... Few presidents traveled as much as the first, George Washington. As leader of the new country, he set out to see as much of it ...

Rarely on display because it’s so fragile, Mount Vernon is hosting a special public viewing of President George Washington ... and sewn into a suit. It is believed that Washington’s indentured ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

A March 4 inauguration did not work out for George Washington ... Gordon Hoxie in Presidential Studies Quarterly observed that Washington was clad in a brown broadcloth suit of American ...