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George Washington, the incumbent president in 1796, whose second term expired on March 4, 1797
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The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, was a 1794 treaty between the
First page of the Jay Treaty
Portrait of John Jay by Gilbert Stuart, 1794. Jay was chief American negotiator
Thomas Jefferson was harshly critical of the treaty.