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George Washington (1732-1799)

Washington, George (1732-1799) — also known as "Father of His Country"; "The American Fabius" — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., February 11, 1731/32 o.s. (February 22, 1732). Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President of the United States, 1789-97. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Society of the Cincinnati; American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he served as the first President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Slaveowner. Died, probably from acute bacterial epiglottitis, at Fairfax County, Va., December 14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295 days). Entombed at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at National Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 at Washington Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.     Relatives: Son of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January 6, 1759, to Martha Dandridge Custis (aunt of Burwell Bassett); step-father of John Parke Custis; uncle of Bushrod Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles Magill Conrad; granduncle of John Thornton Augustine Washington and George Corbin Washington; great-granduncle of Jane Washington Augusta Thornton (who married James Burnie Beck); second great-granduncle of George Washington Thornton Beck; first cousin six times removed of Archer Woodford; second cousin of Howell Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Howell Cobb (1772-1818), Sulifand Sutherland Ross and David Shelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed of Walker Peyton Conway, Howell Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, James David Walker and David Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin four times removed of Andrew Jackson Cobb; second cousin five times removed of Thomas Henry Ball Jr., William de Bruyn=Kops, Horace Lee Washington, Edwin McPherson Holden, Claude C. Ball, Arthur Wesley Holden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed of Henry Rootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden.     Political family: Washington family of Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).     Cross-reference: Henry Lee — Joshua Fry — Alexander Dimitry — Tobias Lear — David Mathews — Rufus Putnam     Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are named for him.     The city of Washington, D.C., is named for him.  — The state of Washington is named for him.  — Mount Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, Coos County, New Hampshire, is named for him.  — The minor planet 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is named for him.     Other politicians named for him: General Washington Johnston — George Washington Lent Marr — George Washington Heard — George Washington Barnett — George Washington Davis — George W. Owen — George W. Toland — George W. Lay — George W. Patterson — George W. B. Towns — George Washington Adams — George Washington Hockley — George W. Smyth — G. W. Ingersoll — George W. Hopkins — George Washington Montgomery — Joseph George Washington Duncan — George W. Kittredge — George Washington Juden, Sr. — George W. Jones — George Washington Lane — George W. Harrison — George Washington Ewing — George Washington Seabrook — George W. Morrison — George W. Woodward — George Washington Wright — George Washington Triplett — George Washington Glasscock — George W. Schuyler — George Washington Holman — George W. Greene — George W. Johnson — George W. Wolcott — George W. Paschal — George Washington Dunlap — George Washington Warren — George Washington Hill — George Washington Logan — George W. Getchell — George W. Wright — George W. Julian — George Washington Dyal — George W. Ladd — George W. Peck — George Washington Nesmith — George W. Morgan — George Washington Brooks — George Washington Cowles — George W. Geddes — George Washington Whitmore — George Washington Bridges — George W. Cate — George W. Houk — George W. Webber — George W. Bemis — George W. Batchelder — George Washington Fairbrother — George W. Glick — George W. Ryland — George W. Jones — George W. Baker — George W. Shell — George W. Anderson — George W. Crouse — George W. Hulick — George W. Allen — George W. F. Harper — George Washington Clark — George W. McCrary — George W. Gordon — George W. Kingsbury — George W. Covington — George Washington Fleeger — George W. Steele — George W. Wilson — George W. Martin — George W. E. Dorsey — George W. Plunkitt — George W. Furbush — George W. Sutton — George W. Curtin — George W. Ray — George W. Roosevelt — George W. Smith — George W. Kipp — George W. Campbell — George W. Taylor — George W. Stone — George W. Bartch — George W. Shonk — George W. Paul — George W. Cook — George W. Clarke — George W. Murray — George W. Faris — George W. Fithian — George W. Prince — George W. Buckner — George W. Cromer — George W. Donaghey — George T. Beck — George W. Aldridge — George Washington Wagoner — George Washington Goethals — George W. Armstrong — George W. Lovejoy — George W. Oakes — George W. Hays — George W. Edmonds — George W. Lindsay — George Washington Jones — T. G. W. Tarver — George W. Darden — George W. McCaskrin — George Washington English — George Washington Jones — George W. Mead — George W. Collins — George W. Gibbons — George W. List — George W. Calkin — George Washington Sullivan — George W. Rauch — George W. Michell — George Washington Jackson — George W. Blanchard — George Washington Herz — George W. Bristow — George Washington Hardy — George W. Ballard — George W. McKown — George W. Collins     Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill. His portrait also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency, and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.     See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail     Books about George Washington: Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch : George Washington and the New American Nation — Henry Wiencek, An Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America — James MacGregor Burns, George Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton, The Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential Care — Mike Resnick, ed., Alternate Presidents [anthology] — Wendie C. Old, George Washington (for young readers)     Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)

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