Pedro Casanave
Pedro Pablo Casanave (c. 1766 – 1796), also known as
Peter Casanave, was a Spanish American merchant and politician who served as the fifth mayor of
Georgetown in
Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Georgetown Common Council. Casanave, a Master Mason, is particularly remembered for presiding over the ceremonial laying of the
cornerstone of the President's House, later to be known as the
White House, on October 12, 1792. Other information about him remains scarce.
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