He was six feet tall, spare in frame, erect in carriage.

His eyes were large, dark, and piercing; his forehead, wider at the top than just above the eyes, was so high and broad as to be almost bulging.

When he was a British colonel, he wore the uniform of that rank; when in the Spanish service, he wore the military dress of that country; and after Washington appointed him a brigadier-general he sometimes wore the uniform of the American army, but never in the presence of Spaniards.
In different parts of his dominions he had good houses where he practised generous hospitality.

His influence was shaken by his various political alliances, and before he died in 1793 he had lost much of his authority.
In the course of these negotiations Washington had an experience with the Senate which thereafter affected his official behavior.

The debates of the constitutional convention indicated an expectation that the Senate would act as a privy council to the President; and Washington--intent above all things on doing his duty--tried to treat it as such.