George Washington

• #1st president of the United States

• Didn't live in the White House because people were still working on it

• Birth- February 22, 1732

• Death-December 14, 1799

• George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799.

• In Colonial Virginia, Washington was born into a wealthy, well connected family that owned tobacco plantations using slave labor.

• He was home schooled by his father and older brother, but both died young, and he became attached to the powerful Fairfax clan, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.

• Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington were his parents.

• He is on the 1 dollar bill.

• He was the leader Continental army

By: Sarah