What is George Washington?
{{complex|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = The Father of His Country | honorific-suffix = The ''[[President of the United States|US President]]'' | image = Gilbert Stuart Williamstown Portrait of George Washington.jpg | caption = Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1796 | order = 1st | office = President of the United States | vicepresident = [[John Adams]] | term_start = April 30, 1789{{efn|April 6 is when Congress counted the votes of the Electoral College and certified a president. April 30 is when Washington was sworn in.{{sfnm|Ferling|2009|1p=274|Taylor|2016|2pp=395, 494}}}} | term_end = March 4, 1797 | predecessor = ''Office established'' | successor = [[John Adams]] | office1 = 7th [[Senior Officer of the United States Army]] | president1 = John Adams | term_start1 = July 13, 1798 | term_end1 = December 14, 1799 | predecessor1 = [[James Wilkinson]] | successor1 = [[Alexander Hamilton]] | office2 = Commander-in-Chief of the [[Continental Army]] | appointer2 = [[Continental Congress]] | term_start2 = June 14, 1775 | term_end2 = December 23, 1783 | predecessor2 = Office established | successor2 = [[Henry Knox]] as Senior Officer | office3 = [[List of delegates to the Continental Congress|Delegate to the Continental Congress]]<br>from [[Virginia]] | term_start3 = May 10, 1775 | term_end3 = June 15, 1775 | constituency3 = {{nowrap|[[Second Continental Congress]]}} | predecessor3 = Office established | successor3 = [[Thomas Jefferson]] | term_start4 = September 5, 1774 | term_end4 = October 26, 1774 | constituency4 = [[First Continental Congress]] | predecessor4 = Office established | successor4 = Office abolished | office5 = Member of the<br>[[House of Burgesses|Virginia House