{"id":114537,"date":"2025-02-28T03:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/barbecue\/the-first-white-house-barbecue\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T03:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T03:55:20","slug":"the-first-white-house-barbecue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=114537","title":{"rendered":"The First White House Barbecue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-6934962990448827472\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi4QQ3pMS5_frGFmOqrndLhXNoqUTJkqSLZ-iIJz9OUEV64xof0nZ-eF3Ij0vrc3r1lZgN4sBU91816zeD_y3Z9Va6KLbS9ehtSdvDjdjqRurA2NB9RtxEhKlU2TmXI-q2Jtmiz8USqmWY\/s1600\/WHiteHouse.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"589\" data-original-width=\"1084\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi4QQ3pMS5_frGFmOqrndLhXNoqUTJkqSLZ-iIJz9OUEV64xof0nZ-eF3Ij0vrc3r1lZgN4sBU91816zeD_y3Z9Va6KLbS9ehtSdvDjdjqRurA2NB9RtxEhKlU2TmXI-q2Jtmiz8USqmWY\/s400\/WHiteHouse.JPG\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you search the Internet, you will find several claims for which president was the first to host a barbecue at the White House. Most claim Lyndon Johnson was the first White House barbecue host. A few others claim Dwight D. Eisenhower hosted the first White House barbecue and a few others claim that it was Thomas Jefferson who first fired up a barbecue pit on the lawn of the &#8220;pleasant country residence,&#8221; as Jefferson called it.\u00a0However, history doesn\u2019t support any of those claims.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\nIn 1791, George Washington selected the site for the White House in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Within just a few months, the cornerstone was laid in 1792 and Irish-born architect James Hoban was chosen to design the building. President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved into the unfinished house eight years later in 1800. The Aquia Creek sandstone used to construct the White House came from Government Island, Virginia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nPrime candidates for the first president to host a barbecue at the &#8220;president&#8217;s palace&#8221; include the first five presidents: George Washington, 1789-1797, John Adams, 1797-1801, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809, James Madison, 1809-1817, and James Monroe, 1817-1825. Four of these five presidents were Virginians. Of course, the political barbecue was born in Virginia and all Virginian politicians of that era hosted barbecues as a part of their political campaigns. However, even though John Adams was not a Virginian, he was no stranger to barbecues.<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, George Washington was an avid Virginia-style barbecue enthusiast. There are numerous records of his barbecue adventures. He often hosted barbecues and attended barbecues held by others. His parents celebrated their marriage with several Virginia barbecues and he even fed his soldiers with Virginia-style barbecue at the end of the Revolutionary War. When the cornerstone of the Capitol building was laid, George Washington presided over the event that was celebrated with a Virginia barbecue. A 500-pound ox was barbecued old Virginia-style and was served to an eager crowd. Though it is possible that a barbecue was held during the laying of the White House cornerstone, there is no record of it. Further, George Washington never lived in the White House, therefore he is not the first president to host a barbecue there.<\/p>\n<div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AGovernment_Island_Rock.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"By Cowpie21 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Government Island Rock\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d2\/Government_Island_Rock.JPG\/512px-Government_Island_Rock.JPG\" width=\"200\"\/><\/a>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">A section of large sandstone at the<br \/>public quarry of<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\">Government Island, Virginia.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>\nJohn Adams was the first president to live in the White House. Even though he was from Massachusetts, he was known to have attended barbecues from time to time. He, like his Virginian colleagues, came to understand how effective barbecues could be in reaching rural populations. In 1769, Adams attended a barbecue at Dorchester Heights in Boston hosted by the Sons of Liberty. He wrote in his diary that barbecues, \u201ctinge the Minds of the People, they impregnate them with the sentiments of Liberty. They render the People fond of their Leaders in the Cause, and averse and bitter against all opposers.\u201d Even so, there is no record that John Adams ever hosted a barbecue anywhere including at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\nThomas Jefferson was the second president to reside in the White House. Being a Virginian, Jefferson was very familiar with barbecues. He had at least one spring on his property at Monticello that was a popular place to host them. Even so, there is no record of Jefferson ever hosting a barbecue at the White House. The following account from the July 26, 1808, <i>Enquirer<\/i> is of a barbecue to which Jefferson was invited but didn\u2019t attend choosing instead to stay at the White House where, apparently, no barbecue was being hosted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n\u201cThe citizens of Albemarle County convened in Charlottesville to celebrate the 4th of July. The Declaration of American Independence was read to a large assembly in the Courthouse. At three o&#8217;clock the company animated by the presence of many of the most accomplished ladies in the vicinity, sat down to a handsome barbecue provided by Mr. Elijah Garth. After dinner, on the retiring of the ladies, the gentlemen drank toasts to July fourth, the People, the Constitution, America \u2018the world\u2019s best hope,\u2019 George Washington, the Patriots of \u201976 and to Virginia saying \u2018In the war of the revolution she led the van. In the dark period of the reign of terror, she fanned the decaying flame, and cheered the drooping sons of freedom. She will never tarnish the luster of her fame.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nBy 1820, Jefferson had abandoned barbecue events all together. In an 1820 letter written by Elizabeth House Trist to Nicholas P. Trist she wrote, \u201cMr. Jefferson had an invitation to a barbecue near Charlottesville which he declined as he had long given up attending these festivals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nJames Madison (the father of the U.S. Constitution) was an avid lover of Virginia barbecues. There are numerous records of the events hosted by him and his wife, Dolly. Some of Madison\u2019s old Virginia barbecues were private events and others were official dinners with hundreds of guests in attendance including foreign leaders and dignitaries. At the official barbecues, male servants would dress in colorful clothing with shiny brass buttons and clean aprons, and women servants would dress in impressive and colorful dresses. Dolly Madison\u2019s niece, Mary Cutts, wrote of barbecues at Montpelier (Madison\u2019s plantation in Orange, Virginia):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n\u201cBarbecues were then at their height of popularity. To see the sumptuous board spread under the forest oaks, the growth of centuries, animals roasted whole, everything that a luxurious country could produce, wines, and the well filled punch bowl, to say nothing of the invigorating mountain air, was enough to fill the heart . . . with joy! . . . At these feasts the woods were alive with guests, carriages, horses, servants and children\u2014for all went\u2014often more than a hundred guests. All happy at the prospect of a meeting, which was a scene of pleasure and hilarity. The laugh with hearty good will, the jest, after the crops, \u2018farmer\u2019s topics\u2019 and politics had been discussed. If not too late, these meetings were terminated by a dance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nRecently, archaeologists discovered a barbecue pit on the south lawn of Montpelier that was in use during Madison\u2019s lifetime. Remains included several fragments of animal bones including those from pigs. In spite of Madison\u2019s obvious fondness for Virginia barbecues, there is no record of him hosting one at the White House. It appears that the closest to a barbecue held at the White House during Madison\u2019s tenure as president was during the War of 1812 when the British set fire to the President\u2019s House in 1814.<\/p>\n<p>\nJames Monroe lived in the White House between the years 1817 and 1825. He too was a Virginian and many records describe old Virginia barbecues that he attended or hosted. However, there are no records that he hosted a barbecue at the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjwfM7mUcpnsX3QI6zF10tfOAnNGkwslmtk74tbhWS7SQp0gWfpNhuIrTRv2UDZI8bC_sAITRgtEIzpaQPbEH2_48qEOYisiX-U8IcWcLah9q2uHovqNzYhWJzYyKbOjJ5JN8C9EPL2zY8\/s1600\/Jackson+BBQ.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1033\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjwfM7mUcpnsX3QI6zF10tfOAnNGkwslmtk74tbhWS7SQp0gWfpNhuIrTRv2UDZI8bC_sAITRgtEIzpaQPbEH2_48qEOYisiX-U8IcWcLah9q2uHovqNzYhWJzYyKbOjJ5JN8C9EPL2zY8\/s320\/Jackson+BBQ.jpg\" width=\"320\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>The Political Barbecue<\/i> by Henry Robinson, 1834.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Surprisingly, history records that the first president to host a barbecue at the White House was Andrew Jackson. I discovered this fact when reading the transcript of an address made by Kentucky Congressman John Kincaid in August 1829. In that address, Kincaid mentioned \u201cthe barbecue at the White House on the 4th of July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Jackson was the president between March 4, 1829 and March 3, 1837. Therefore, history records that he was the first president to host a barbecue at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>President Jackson had a long history with barbecues. The city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, rolled out the red carpet when President Andrew Jackson visited to reside over the laying of the original Mary Washington, Mother of George Washington, monument cornerstone in 1833. Music filled the air as military processions, parades, dignitaries and crowds of admirers filled the streets. The occasion drew more people to Fredericksburg than Lafayette&#8217;s visit to the town in 1824. The event was celebrated with a barbecue &#8220;in the old-fashioned Virginia style . . . prepared under an ample awning, in the beautiful grounds of Hazel Hill.&#8221; Five hundred attendees partook of the Virginia-style barbecued beef.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<br \/>\nAndrew Jackson has always been a controversial figure. Some love him. Some hate him.\u00a0As President Jackson was travelling to Fredericksburg to attend the barbecue, the first recorded instance of physical assault on an American president occurred. Lieutenant R. B. Randolph had been severely reprimanded for misconduct. Encountering the President on a road between Quantico and Fredericksburg, the lieutenant decided to administer some personal retribution because of the court martial.\u00a0 As the discussion between Randolph and the President became heated, he grabbed President Jackson\u2019s nose and violently wrung it before fleeing away. No doubt this assault by a young man against a man in his seventies was painful. As the Bible tells us, \u201cthe wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood,\u201d and reports of the assault describe it as \u201creckless and brutal\u201d even though President Jackson played down the event.<\/p>\n<p>An 1834 political cartoon titled &#8220;The Political Barbecue&#8221; satirized the controversy surrounding<br \/>\nJackson&#8217;s withdrawal of federal funds from the Second Bank of the United States. In the cartoon Jackson is depicted as being barbecued like a hog on the fires of public opinion. Martin Van Buren (depicted almost like a rodent) scampers away with a hoard of Treasury Notes. The barbecue cooks are depictions of five vocal critics of Jackson&#8217;s bank policy\u2014Senators Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William B. Preston, Bank president Nicholas Biddle, and an unidentified fifth man.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy aside, perhaps Jackson\u2019s most significant contributions to the history of barbecue in the United States were the barbecue trees planted during his presidency. An old newspaper account tells us,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiTl8mw-GREMY5yTBWbKv2y2QoatLAGd_TO0_9Dy6fUEn1QAv2gL-ldasg3eqfilLGmXIBV9E-VrToxX0ZctAZlr8LZdaVEYkQXRID_LxQkzxYdj3_Xj06twlLcgCRVstJ_aOwtns_4kRk\/s1600\/BBQ+Trees.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"460\" data-original-width=\"597\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiTl8mw-GREMY5yTBWbKv2y2QoatLAGd_TO0_9Dy6fUEn1QAv2gL-ldasg3eqfilLGmXIBV9E-VrToxX0ZctAZlr8LZdaVEYkQXRID_LxQkzxYdj3_Xj06twlLcgCRVstJ_aOwtns_4kRk\/s320\/BBQ+Trees.JPG\" width=\"320\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The &#8220;Barbecue Trees&#8221; can be seen in the lower left corner<br \/>of this 1860 pencil drawing of the U.S. Capitol.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cSouth of the Washington Elm are the Barbecue Trees planted during Jackson\u2019s Administration by James Maher, a Jolly Irishman who owed his appointment as superintendent of the Capitol Grounds to the President\u2019s personal friendship. These trees are relics of two circular groves intended for barbecue celebrations one for Democrats the other for Whigs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nImages of the \u201cbarbecue trees\u201d were captured by an artist in 1860. The pencil drawing shows two oval groves just outside the Capitol building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nTo read more, see <i><b>Virginia Barbecue: A History<\/b><\/i> available in bookstores and online now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you search the Internet, you will find several claims for which president was the first to host a barbecue at the White House. Most claim Lyndon Johnson was the first White House barbecue host. A few others claim Dwight D. 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