The President George Washington

George Washington, the third son of Augustine Washington, was born on the 22nd of February 1732, near the banks of the Potomac, in the country of Westmoreland, in Virginia.

The ancestors of George Washington were amongst the first settlers of the oldest British colony in America. His great grand-father, John Washington, a gentleman of a respectable family, had emigrated from the north of England about the year 1657.

At the age of ten years by the death of his father he was left in the sole care of a solicitous mother. She gave him a private education.

When Washington was in his teen, he became a surveyor, a respected occupation on a Virginia, in which land was a principal source of wealth and boundaries were often disputed.

After the French and Indian War, Washington became a key participant in the colonial defiance of a succession of taxes Great Britain imposed on its American colonies.

He became a general in the United States Army. In 1775, Washington was elected commander in chief of the Continental Army.

George Washington went to retirement from public life after American Revolution, but that did not last long.

He chaired the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and the Electoral College unanimously elected him as President of the United States in 1789.

George Washington would become the first president of the United States from April 30, 1789 to March 3, 1797.

George Washington went to riding on his plantation on a cold, wet day, became very ill and died at his estate on December 14, 1799, less than three years after his second term ended.
The President George Washington