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- Weorge Gashington
- The Father Of Our Country
- Height6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
- George Washington was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led the Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as the president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created the Constitution of the United States and the American federal government. Washington has been called the "Father of the Nation" for his manifold leadership in the formative days of the country.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- His parents Augustine Washington (1693-1743) and Mary Ball (1708-1789) were both of English descent. George lost his father when he was just eleven years old. He was then placed under the guardianship of his older half-brother Lawrence. Washington attended school in Williamsburg until he was 15, where he only received a basic education but became increasingly interested in mathematics. From 1749 he initially worked as a geometer, among other things. operating in the Shenandoah Valley. Over the course of the 1750s, Washington became one of Virginia's wealthiest farmers through inheritance, marriage, and land speculation. Because of his reputation, he was promoted to colonel in 1753. Washington was then used in the conflicts of the Franco-British colonial war.
From 1754 to 1758, Washington fought in the Ohio Territory against French troops and rebellious Indian tribes. In 1755 he rose to command the Virginia troops. The military leader won significant victories in the Franco-American War of Independence. From 1759, Washington was represented in the Virginia House of Representatives. From 1760 to 1764 he also held the office of justice of the peace in Fairfax City. In 1774 he entered the Continental Congress as Virginia's delegate, where he was represented the following year. In 1776, Washington was made commander-in-chief of the American revolutionary troops who fought against the British colonial power. In this position he won several decisive victories. One of Washington's final acts as commander in chief was his call for the states to form a strong central government. In 1783, Washington temporarily withdrew into private life.
In 1787 he entered the Constitutional Convention as Virginia's delegate, where he was elected its president. His high reputation contributed to the constitutional reform being accepted by the population. In the first presidential election of 1789, George Washington received a clear majority of the vote. The first President of the United States of America took office on April 30, 1789. Washington led a cabinet that sought to achieve domestic political consensus by having the major parties of the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans equally represented. The consensus policy was flanked by a course of internal consolidation in the administrative and financial areas. Externally, the neutrality course also contributed to the consolidation and recognition of the young American federal state.
However, after the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Washington was also heavily criticized for his passivity towards the Franco-British disputes. Nevertheless, Washington was confirmed in office for another four years in the presidential election of 1792. At the end of his term in office, Washington retired from politics in 1797 after recalling in his final speech the great importance of national stability for the future of America. Only in 1798, in view of the danger of an impending war with Great Britain, was Washington again given supreme command of the armed forces, although he only exercised this nominally.
George Washington died on December 14, 1799 at his Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth
- SpouseMartha Dandridge(January 6, 1759 - December 14, 1799) (his death)
- ParentsAugustine WashingtonMary Ball Washington
- His white powdered hair
- Loved ice cream and once spent $200--an exceptional sum of money at the time--on it over the course of one summer.
- He lost more battles than he won.
- Despite having many close calls, he was never seriously wounded in battle.
- He is the third tallest president of the United states after Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson stood at 6'3", while Lincoln stood at 6'4".
- Had absolutely no experience in politics when he was asked to become the first president.
- Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
- Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- [on slavery]I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
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