On this day in 1795, President George Washington, eager to avert another war with Great Britain, signed the Jay Treaty with America’s former colonial master. (Its formal name was “The Treaty ...

The ratification of the Jay Treaty was an early test of separation of powers and of the Senate’s constitutionally mandated role in U.S. foreign policy. The negotiations over Jay’s Treaty were ...

The Jay Treaty didn’t just set precedents that have governed executive-legislative relations on foreign policy for more than ... The French declaration put President George Washington in a ...

The French had been unhappy with the Jay Treaty that George Washington had signed and ratified with the British, and their ships and privateers were preying upon American ships. When America sent ...

George Washington, 1732–1799. First President, 1789–1797. Personal Information. George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789).