Henry Rhemur
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"Henry Rhemur," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/29.
- Position
- Houseman
- Years in President's House
- 1789 – 1791
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Male
- Race/Ethnicity
- White
- Presidency
- George Washington
- Biography
- Information about Henry Rhemur’s life outside of the President’s House remains unknown. Henry began working for George Washington in May 1789. He continued to work for Washington at both presidential homes in New York and later at the President’s House in Philadelphia. He worked as a liveried houseman, meaning that he performed general work around the household dressed in livery, a uniform including a woolen coat, vest, and breeches in the colors of Washington’s coat of arms: white and red1 In 1792, he was replaced by postilion Charles Liddle. The fact that he was replaced by a postilion may indicate that he also worked as one.2
- Stephen Decatur, Jr., Private Affairs of George Washington, from the records and accounts of Tobias Lear, Esquire, his secretary, (New York: De Capo Press, 1969), 12; Jessie Macleod, “Giles,” George Washington’s Mount Vernon, accessed October 9, 2025, https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/giles; “Tobias Lear to George Washington, 23 June 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-08-02-0201. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 8, 22 March 1791 – 22 September 1791, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 294–299.]; “Tobias Lear to George Washington, 10 October 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-06-02-0260. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 6, 1 July 1790 – 30 November 1790, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, pp. 549–552.]
- Stephen Decatur, Jr., Private Affairs of George Washington, from the records and accounts of Tobias Lear, Esquire, his secretary, (New York: De Capo Press, 1969), 252.
- Birthplace
- Unclear from Context
- Unclear from Context
- Related Worker
- Charles LiddleTransportation, 1792 – 1793