George Washington 1852 NRG_Stadium_Print A campaign portrait of the

A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents

A pantheon arranged with Whiggish reverence

when bankruptcy and throat cancer pressed him toward the desk where he raced to finish his memoirs

rendered in the year he resigned his Senate seat to chase the presidency that would never quite be his

George Washington 1852 NRG_Stadium_Print A campaign portrait of theGeorge Washington 1852 a mid century lithograph of the first president, issued when the republic he founded was already straining at its seams. The image looks backward with reverence, even as the Compromise of 1850 echoed in the halls he had once tried to keep above faction. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the