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Gouverneur Morris and George Washington
2013
Overview
What unlikely candidates for friendship: George Washington, the model of a Virginia gentleman, famed in his time and ours for faultless rectitude and reserved behavior, and Gouverneur Morris, a cosmopolitan New Yorker twenty years Washington’s junior, an irrepressible jokester with a reputation that led Richard Brookhiser, one of his most recent biographers, to subtitle his studyThe Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.¹
The unlikely nature of that friendship accounts for the persistence of one of the best-known (although thoroughly discredited) apocryphal stories of the early republic. The story gained credence when Max Farrand included it in an appendix of “Anecdotes”
