Edmond-Charles Genêt
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Edmond-Charles Genêt, also known as Citizen Genêt, was the French envoy to the United States appointed by the Girondins during the French Revolution. His actions on arriving in the United States led t
Portrait between 1809 and 1810
President's House, Philadelphia. Washington confronted Genêt in the presidential mansion in Philadelphia, then the national capital.
Edmond Charles Clinton Genet on September 4, 1916. He was in the midst of his six-month training to become a fighter pilot.
Cornelia Clinton Genêt
George Clinton was an American soldier, statesman, and a prominent Democratic-Republican in the formative years of the United States. Clinton served as the fourth vice president during the second term
Edmond-Charles Genêt
…Madison as a 'French Citizen,'" for the New York Register in an attempt to promote the prospects of his father-in-law, the incumbent Vice President George Clinton, over James Madison in the presidential election of 1808. Noting the honorary French citizenship afforded to Madison in 1792, Genêt reasoned that the…
1814 portrait
Clinton's pew at St. Paul's Chapel in New York City
The grave monument of George Clinton in Kingston, New York