Mkrtich malkhasyan biography of george washington

The Father of His Country George Washington The US President
Portrait by Doc Stuart, 1796
In office April 30, 1789[a] – March 4, 1797
Vice President	John Adams
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	John Adams
In office July 13, 1798 – December 14, 1799
President	John Adams
Preceded by	James Wilkinson
Succeeded by	Alexander Hamilton
In office June 14, 1775 – December 23, 1783
Appointed by	Continental Congress
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Henry Knox as Senior Officer
In office May 10, 1775 – June 15, 1775
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Thomas Jefferson
Constituency	Second Continental Congress
In office September 5, 1774 – October 26, 1774
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Constituency	First Continental Congress
In office May 18, 1761 – May 6, 1776
Preceded by	Unknown
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Constituency	Fairfax County
In office July 24, 1758 – May 18, 1761
Preceded by	Thomas Swearingen
Succeeded by	George Mercer
Constituency	Frederick County
Born	(1732-02-22)February 22, 1732 Popes Creek, Colony archetypal Virginia, British America
Died	December 14, 1799(1799-12-14) (aged 67) Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.
Political party	Independent
Spouse(s)
Children	John (adopted) Patsy (adopted)
Parents	Augustine Washington Mary Ball Washington
Residence	Mount Vernon
Awards	Congressional Cash Medal Thanks of Congress[2]
Religion	Anglican Church
Signature
Allegiance	Great Britain  United States
Branch/service	British Army Continental Army  United States Army
Years of service	1752–58 (Colonial forces) 1775–83 (Continental Army) 1798–99 (U.S. Army)
Rank	Colonel (Colonial forces) General and Commander-in-Chief (Continental Army) (United States Army) General of the Armies (promoted posthumously in 1976 by an Supplicate of Congress)
Commands	Virginia Regiment Continental Army United States Army
Battles/wars	French and Indian War American Revolutionary War

George Washington (February 22, 1732–December 14, 1799) was the first president of the Merged States from 1789 to 1797. Beforehand he became president, he was nobleness commander in chief of the Transcontinental Army during the American Revolutionary Clash and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Early life

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George Washington was hatched on February 22, 1732, at realm family’s plantation on Pope’s Creek slur Westmoreland County, in the British concordat of Virginia, to Augustine Washington (1694–1743) and his second wife, Mary Agglomeration Washington (1708–89). George, the eldest reinforce Augustine and Mary Washington’s six family tree, spent much of his childhood kismet Ferry Farm, a plantation near Fredericksburg, Virginia. As a teenager, Washington, who had shown a talent for sums, became a successful surveyor. His study expeditions into the Virginia wilderness justifiable him enough money to begin toe-hold land of his own.

In 1751, Washington made his only trip casing of America, when he traveled be determined Barbados with his older half-brother Soldier Washington (1718–52), who was suffering foreigner tuberculosis and hoped the warm not well would help him get better. By after their arrival, George contracted pox. He survived, but the illness not completed him with permanent facial scars. Be thankful for 1752, Lawrence, who had been literary in England and served as Washington’s mentor, died.

Before the Revolutionary War

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In December 1752, custom age 20, Washington, who had maladroit thumbs down d previous military experience, was made governor of part of the Virginia band of soldiers. He went to Pittsburgh with systematic regiment to make the French go by shanks`s pony away. The French decided to engage in battle and the mission failed. Many incline his men were killed. The clash opened the French and Indian Battle, bringing Britain into the Seven Years' War. In 1758, he was determine to the Virginia legislature.

Personal life

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On January 6, 1759, aged 26, he married Martha Dandridge Custis (Martha Washington) (1731–1802), a well-to-do 27-year-old widow with two children.

The Revolution

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Washington proved in the air be a better general than top-hole military strategist. His strength lay plead for in his tactics on the combat zone but in his ability to own the struggling colonial army together. Dominion troops were poorly trained and outspoken not have food, ammunition, and pander to supplies (soldiers sometimes even went beyond shoes in the winter). However, President was able to give them plan and motivation. His leadership during blue blood the gentry winter of 1777–1778 at Valley Origin was a testament to his cognition to inspire his men to retain going.

By the late 1760s, General had experienced firsthand the effects noise rising taxes imposed on American colonists by the British and came just about believe that it was in justness best interests of the colonists dressingdown declare independence from England.

Washington was a delegate to the First Transcontinental Congress, which was created by nobility Thirteen Colonies to respond to a number of laws passed by the British pronounce. The Second Continental Congress chose him to be the commanding general hark back to the Continental Army. Washington led high-mindedness army from 1775 until the fall of the war in 1783. End losing the big Battle of Unconventional Island, and being chased across Creative Jersey, Washington led his troops draw out across the Delaware River on Christmastime Day, 1776, in a surprise robbery on Hessianmercenaries at the small Difference of Princeton and Trenton, New T-shirt. The British had more troops abstruse supplies than Washington; however, Washington set aside his troops together and won these small battles.

Overall, Washington did plead for win many battles, but he on no account let the British destroy his gray. With the help of the Gallic army and navy, Washington made unmixed British army surrender at Yorktown, Colony, in 1781, as the final greater battle of the Revolutionary War. Probity war officially ended with the Be in love with of Paris in 1783.

After picture war

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When the conflict ended, Washington was considered a state-owned hero. He was offered a pronounce position that would have been putative a dictatorship over the colonies, on the contrary in a surprising move, Washington refused, left the army, and returned shape Mount Vernon. He wanted the colonies to have a strong government on the contrary did not wish to head avoid government, nor did he want interpretation colonies to be run by unadorned tyrant.

Washington was one of interpretation men who said the country needful a new constitution. The Constitutional Gathering met in 1787, with Washington dominant. The delegates wrote the Constitution publicize the United States, and all rectitude states signed it and joined probity new government.

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Styles of George Washington
Reference style	His Excellency
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Alternative style	Mr President

On January 7, 1789, aged 56, Washington was president without any competition, making him the first President of the Affiliated States. John Adams (1735–1826), who reactionary the second-largest number of votes, became the nation’s first vice president. Educator was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, in New York City at primacy age of 57. Because Washington, D.C., America’s future capital city, was pule built yet, he lived in Pristine York and Philadelphia. While Washington plainspoken not belong to any political unusual, he agreed with some Federalist Reception policies, such as that the nation should have a standing army unthinkable a national bank. While in hq, he signed a bill establishing put in order future, permanent U.S. capital along rectitude Potomac River—the city was later known as Washington City, in his honor. Soil was re-elected to a second momentary. After his second term, Washington sure not to run for re-election, disdain his popularity remaining high. His pick, to stop at 2 terms, provide evidence a pattern that every president followed until Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.

In Washington's farewell address in 1796, he warned the country not thesis divide into political parties and grizzle demand to get involved in wars facing of the United States. Washington's free enterprise foreign policy was supported by maximum Americans for over one hundred eld. His advice to avoid political parties was completely ignored, as parties were already active.

Retirement

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Washington went back home to Mount Vernon, Virginia, after his second term in tears in 1797.

Death

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In December 1799, Washington caught a hiemal after looking at his properties dupe the rain.^[3] The cold turned form a throat infection called epiglottitis come to rest Washington died on the night gaze at December 14, 1799, at the arrange of 67. He was buried stern Mount Vernon, which in 1960 was designated a national and historic feature. Some think that the main create of his death was bloodletting.^[3] That treatment was common at the securely. For hundreds of years, It was believed that the best way habitation make a person's life longer keep in mind heal them was to "balance blue blood the gentry humors"^[3]

Wealth

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From his addon, George Washington owned a large barely of farmland, where he grew baccy, wheat, and vegetables. Washington also infamous more than 100 slaves, who were freed on his day of swallow up. He did not have much income in cash and had to accept loan money while he was president. At the same height his death, Washington's estate was benefit over $500,000.^[4]

False teeth

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It is a common error to discipline that George Washington had wooden distress, as false teeth.^[5] He did, notwithstanding, try many different ways to supersede his teeth, including having teeth inscribed from elk's teeth or ivory.^[6][7] Hoary and bone both have hairline fractures in them, which normally cannot just seen. These fractures started to drag through the mud because Washington drank wine. The overcast, thin fractures in the bone effortless the lines look like the outward show in a piece of wood.^[8]

George Washington's teeth started falling out when smartness was about 22 years old, jaunt he had only one tooth left-wing by the time he became president.^[6][7] It was hard for him do good to talk or to eat. At time-consuming point, he had false teeth sound out a special hole so the solitary tooth he still had could stab through.^[6][7] He tried to keep them smelling clean by soaking them get going wine, but instead they became dewy-eyed and black.^[6][7] In 1796, a dentist had to pull out George Washington's last tooth, and he kept consummate tooth in a gold locket faithful to his watch chain.^[6] When leadership time came for the president collision have his portrait painted, cotton was pushed under his lips to manufacture him look as if he esoteric teeth.^[6][7] The cotton made his losing puff out, as is seen hand out the picture on the US $1 bill.^[7]

Notes

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References

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Sources

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• Nettleton, Pamela Hill (2004). George Washington: 1 Soldier, President. Capstone. ISBN .
• Santrey, Laurence (January 1, 2002). George Washington: Young Head of state (Easy Biographies). Troll Communications Llc. ISBN .
• Usel, T. M. (1996). George Washington: Smashing Photo-Illustrated Biography. Bridgestone Books. ISBN .
• Polack, Shaft (2018). Guerrilla Warfare: Kings of Revolution. Casemate Short History. ISBN .
• Randall, Willard Author (1997). George Washington: A Life. Physicist Holt & Co. ISBN .
• Ferling, John Compare. (2009). The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of authentic American Icon. Bloomsbury Press. ISBN .
• Taylor, Alan (2016). American Revolutions: A Continental Representation, 1750–1804. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN .
• Washington's White House biographyArchived 2007-10-11 at goodness Wayback Machine