“The Washington Family” painting by Edward Savage from the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
ver the past two decades of American presidential politics, it has been hard to escape the power of family ties. Bill, Hillary, and even Chelsea Clinton; George H.W., George W., and Jeb Bush; Donald, Eric and Don Trump Jr., plus Jared and Ivanka Kushner. The House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry on President Biden’s possible ties to his son Hunter’s international business interests relationships to presidents is hardly new.
In contrast, George Washington’s step grandchildren followed a different path. Martha Washington had had two surviving children from her first marriage, but both died young, and her son left behind four children. George and Martha unofficially adopted the younger two grandchildren, Nelly and Wash Custis, and played a large role in raising the elder two, Eliza and Patty. All of them spent time with the Washingtons in the President’s House as children and young adults.
When Wash Custis or his sisters endorsed a candidate or a cause, it was seen as carrying the George Washington stamp of approval. Wash’s sister Patty gave a gift in the form of one of Washington’s colonial army ornaments to an anti-war society in Boston during the War of 1812, and the society’s leaders responded in a letter printed in newspapers that they were glad to have the Washington family’s approval of their political position.
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