The desk was created in 1880 by William Evenden, a skilled joiner at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford. The double pedestal, partners desk is 32.5 in (83 cm) high with a workspace which is 72 in (180 cm) wide and 48 in (120 cm) deep. The Resolute desk is built from oak timbers that were once part of HMS Resolute.

The Resolute desk in William Howard Taft's Presidential Study before the kneehole panel was added Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts, and since then five other presidential libraries and many museums, libraries, tourist attractions, and private homes and offices have acquired copies of the desk.

The first was commissioned in 1978 for a permanent display at the John F. Many replicas have been made of the Resolute desk. A 2-inch-tall (5.1 cm) plinth was added to the desk in 1961 and replaced in 1986. Franklin Roosevelt requested the addition of a door with the presidential seal to conceal his leg braces and a safe, but it was not installed until 1945, after his death. Bush used the C&O desk in the Oval Office but kept the Resolute desk in the White House. President Jimmy Carter brought the desk back to the Oval Office in 1977, where it has remained since, save that George H. It was then put on display in the Smithsonian Institution. Kennedy, and went on a traveling exhibition with artifacts of the Kennedy Presidential Library. The desk was removed from the White House after the assassination of President John F. Jackie Kennedy rediscovered the desk and had it brought to the Oval Office in 1961. Eisenhower used it during both radio and television broadcasts. After the reconstruction, it was placed in the Broadcast Room where Dwight D. It stayed in the President's Office and President's Study until the White House Reconstruction from 1948 to 1952. The Resolute desk was received at the White House on November 23, 1880, and shortly thereafter was moved to the second floor. Two other furniture pieces were created from the timbers of the Resolute: the Grinnell desk, made for the widow of Henry Grinnell, who spent significant sums of money trying to find Sir John Franklin and his ships and a table made for Queen Victoria's steam-powered yacht HMY Victoria and Albert. Morant, Boyd, & Blanford won this contest, and this desk was constructed shortly after. The ship was decommissioned in 1879, broken up, and a competition was held to design and build a piece of furniture from its timbers that Queen Victoria could give to the American president. Resolute was repaired and returned to the United Kingdom as a gesture of goodwill from the United States. It was found in 1855 floating in Davis Strait by George Henry, an American whaling ship. HMS Resolute was abandoned in the Arctic waterway Tariyunnuaq in 1854 while searching for Sir John Franklin and his lost expedition. The 1,300-pound (590-kilogram) desk was created by William Evenden, a skilled joiner at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute.

The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. Kneehole panel designed by Lorenzo Winslow built by Rudolph Bauss William Evenden (probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford) This table was made from her timbers when she was broken up and is presented by the Queen of Great Britain & Ireland to the President of the United States as a memorial of the courtesy and loving kindness which dictated the offer of the gift of the 'Resolute.President Barack Obama sitting at the Resolute desk in 2009 by Captain Buddington of the United States whaler 'George Henry.' The ship was purchased fitted out and sent to England as a gift to Her Majesty Queen Victoria by the President and people of the United States as a token of goodwill & friendship. She was discovered and extricated in September 1855 in latitude 67' N. 'Resolute' forming part of the expedition sent in search of Sir John Franklin in 1852 was abandoned in latitude 74' 41' N. Resolute Desk is constructed with an engineered plywood shelf and divider for supreme stability and strength. Our mahogany Oval Office Presidents' H.M.S.Writing Surface Content: 100% Natural Leather.