[[File:Brooklyn Museum - The Republican Court (Lady Washington's Reception Day) - Daniel Huntington - overall.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|''Republican Court, or, Lady Washington's Reception Day'', painting by Daniel Huntington, c. 1861]] The '''Republican Court''' was a group of American political figures, intellectuals, and their spouses which formed in the late 1700s and early 1800s around the president and first lady of the United States.<ref name="Templier">{{Cite thesis |last=Templier |first=Sarah |title=Under the Roof and the Pen of Elizabeth Willing Powel: Material Culture, Sociability, and Letters in Revolutionary and Early Republican Philadelphia |date=August 2013 |degree=Master's |publisher=University of Montreal |url=https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/handle/1866/11081}}</ref> It centered around social gatherings at the home of George and Martha Washington in Philadelphia, and more broadly among the various social elite of the city. As an informal political association, it provided an important avenue for women to participate in discourse on political philosophy and matters of state.<ref name="Templier"/>
The political climate at the time was later memorialized by Rufus Wilmot Griswold in his work, ''The Republican Court or American Society in the Days of Washington'', published in 1855.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rufus Wilmot Griswold: American journalist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rufus-Wilmot-Griswold#ref49450 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |accessdate=6 September 2020}}</ref>
==See also== * Political culture of the United States
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==External links== * [http://librarycompany.org/women/republicancourt/intro.htm Women of the Republican Court], from the Library Company of Philadelphia
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