The smallest footnote to this excellent story would have George Wythe, as early as 1783 (before the order for the Houdon statue in the Capitol), requesting a (decidedly non-equestrian) statue of Washington at the College of William & Mary, and proposing that the College be forever changed to Washington University, in his honor:

http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php/Bill_for_Statue_for_General_Washington_at_Williamsburg


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William & Mary Law Library
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Wythepedia, the George Wythe encyclopedia:
http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/



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Richmond's first equestrian statue was not without controversy. Read more
in The UncommonWealth.
https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2019/12/13/statue-stories-george-washingtons-statue-of-the-deathless-name/



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Library of Virginia
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Richmond, VA 23219
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