(1762-09-19)September 19, 1762 Portsmouth, Province of New Hampshire, British America
Died
October 11, 1816(1816-10-11) (aged 54) Georgetown, Washington, D.C., United States
Resting place
Congressional Cemetery
Spouses
Mary Long
(m. 1790; died 1793)
Frances Bassett Washington
(m. 1795; died 1796)
Frances Dandridge Henley
(m. 1803)
Education
Dummer Charity School Harvard College
Occupation
Diplomat Secretary
Known for
Personal secretary to George Washington
Tobias Lear (September 19, 1762 – October 11, 1816) was the personal secretary to President George Washington. Lear served Washington from 1784 until the former-President's death in 1799. Lear's journal details Washington's final moments and his last words: 'Tis well.
Tobias Lear also served third president Thomas Jefferson, as envoy to Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), and as peace envoy in the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa during the First Barbary War (1801–1805) and the Second Barbary War (1815). He was responsible for negotiating a peace treaty with the Bey of Tripoli that ended the first Barbary War.
generation of his family named Tobias. His parents were TobiasLear (born August 1, 1737) (cousin of John Langdon) and Mary Stillson Lear (born May 25, 1739). His...
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Revolution. American Heritage Press. ISBN 978-0828102810. Lear, Tobias (1799). "TobiasLear to William Augustine Washington". In Ford, Worthington Chauncey...
The Wentworth Lear Historic Houses (formerly Wentworth-Gardner & TobiasLear Historic House Association) are a pair of adjacent historic houses on the...
American emissary from the United States Department of State, diplomat TobiasLear. Eaton and others felt that the capture of Derna should have been used...
advice to President George Washington through the president's secretary, TobiasLear: This being the case, the Attorney General conceived, that after six...
org 1788 amendment, President's House of Philadelphia, US History.org TobiasLear to George Washington, 24 April 1791. Archibald Henderson, "Washington's...
Washington Colfax (son of William Colfax) and Benjamin Lincoln Lear (son of TobiasLear). Washington used the word "God" 146 times in his personal and...
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was forced to capitulate. He signed a treaty with American emissary TobiasLear of the U.S. Department of State that officially ended the war on 10 June...
Tripoli, were strong influences toward peace, negotiated in June 1805 by TobiasLear and Commodore John Rodgers with the Pasha of Tripoli. After four separate...
Year(s) Image Secretary President 1789–1793 1794–1797 TobiasLear George Washington 1789–1791 Maj. William Jackson 1797–1801 William Smith Shaw John Adams...
Washington's presidency. Decatur, a descendant of Washington's secretary, TobiasLear, discovered a cache of family papers unavailable to scholars, and presented...
least one son named John. Personal secretary to President Washington, TobiasLear, referred to Douglass as possessing "punctuality and having the command...
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