Episode 4 of 4
Washington elected first President General
- When
- December 1783 – 1799
- Where
- Society of the Cincinnati
George Washington was elected the Society's first President General, serving from December 1783 until his death in 1799.
George Washington was elected the first President General of the Society of the Cincinnati. He served in that office from December 1783 until his death in 1799, anchoring the young hereditary society in its earliest decades.
Sources
- Society of the Cincinnati Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-10
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.