When George Washington died on December 14, 1799, the nation mourned the loss of its first President and the heroic general of the American Revolution, but one man didn't accept the President’s death.

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1799, America’s first president George Washington died at his home at the age of 67. Four days after his death, a funeral was held at Mount Vernon where his body was buried.

Two sailors assigned to the USS George Washington died within days of each other shortly after the aircraft carrier arrived in Japan, officials and family members said. Their causes of death are ...

Two centuries have elapsed since George Washington died on Dec. 14, 1799, but the central importance of his character to the American Presidency, including his commitment to the Constitution and ...

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743 Rebecca Brenner Graham - ...