Richard Keating
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"Richard Keating," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/38.
- Position
- Stables
- Years in President's House
- 1792 – circa 1793
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Male
- Race/Ethnicity
- White
- Presidency
- George Washington
- Biography
- Information about Richard Keating’s life outside of the President’s House is currently unknown. Richard began working for President George Washington at the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1792. He replaced John Mauld as postilion, or person who rides a harnessed horse that also pulls the coach. In this role, Richard earned $7.00 per month and wore livery, a uniform including a woolen coat, vest, and breeches in the colors of Washington’s coat of arms: white and red.1 Richard last appears in records related to the President’s House in June 1793.2
- Stephen Decatur, Jr., Private Affairs of George Washington: from the Records and Accounts of Tobias Lear, Esquire, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933); 252, 277; “Giles,” George Washington’s Mount Vernon, accessed October 2, 2025, https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/giles. (2) “References to People from the Presidential Account Books,” The President’s House in Philadelphia, accessed October 1, 2025, https://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/history/references.php?srsltid=AfmBOopFiYUZUdcz3kbbBsBpIznmonPRPLxke0tEsvIlh3pLFLeNRZ1Z.
- Birthplace
- Unclear from Context
- Unclear from Context
- Related Worker
- John MauldTransportation, 1789 – 1792