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George Washington was the 1st President of the United States. He was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1732.
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After giving up his military life to become a Virginia Planter, George Washington married a young widow named Martha on January 6th of 1759. -
In 1775, George Washington was elected to the second Continental Congress. He then became commander in chief of the Continental Army which led the military to victory in the American Revolution.
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On October 19, 1781 British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown. This gave him no chance of winning the Revolutionary War. -
George Washington was unanimously elected as the President of the Constitutional Convention, where delegates gathered to draft the United States Constitution. -
In 1789, the first presidential election, George Washington was unanimously elected president of the United States. -
In George Washington's first 100 days the government passed the bill of rights, established the principle of national taxation, and design the nations court system, as well as created the first executive departments. -
The Naturalization Act of 1790, signed into law by George Washington on March 26, 1790, was the first law to establish a uniform set of rules for granting US citizenship. In the 1790 Act, the First Congress limited naturalization to “any alien being a free white person.” -
The post presidency of George Washington began on March 4, 1797. Washington had served two consecutive terms in office. He returned to his beloved home, Mount Vernon, on March 15 -
George Washington died at Mount Vernon of a throat infection on December 14, 1799.