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George Washington
	1st President of the United States	April 30, 1789 to March 3, 1797



	Born: February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia	Died: December 14, 1799, at Mount Vernon, Virginia
	Father: Augustine Washington	Mother: Mary Ball Washington
	Religion: Episcopalian	Education: No formal education
	Occupation: Planter, Soldier	Political Party: Federalist
	Nickname: "Father of His Country"

Married: Martha Dandridge Custis (1732-1802), on January 6, 1759

Children: John "Jack" Parke Custis (adopted) and Martha "Patsy" Custis (adopted)

Other Government Positions:	Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1759-74 Member of Continental Congress, 1774-75 Chairman of the Constitutional Convention, 1787-88
Points of Interest:	believing that shaking hands was beneath a president, Washington bowed to his White House visitors the only president to be elected unanimously by the electoral college had one remaining tooth at the time of his inauguration, but he never wore wooden teeth six white horses in Washington's stables had their teeth brushed every morning on Washington's orders

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."

Speech to both Houses of Congress, Jan. 8, 1790.

From the Internet

Of general interest:: McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of George Washington. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.; Schwartz, Barry. George Washington: The Making of a Symbol. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.; Smith, Richard Norton. Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993.; Wills, Garry. Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984.
For younger readers:: Collins, Mary. Mount Vernon. N.Y.: Children's Press, 1997.; Old, Wendie C. George Washington. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1997.; Peacock, Louise. Crossing the Delaware: A History in Many Voices. N.Y.: Athenaeum Books for Young Readers, 1998.

Of general interest:: Lang, H. Jack. Letters in American History: Words to Remember. N.Y.: Harmony Books, 1982.; Library of Congress. Manuscripts: An Illustrated Guide. Washington: Library of Congress, 1993.; Ravitch, Diane, ed. The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1990.; Shenkman, Richard. Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History. N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1988.
For younger readers:: Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth. Illustrated by Gershom Griffith. N.Y.: Holiday House, 1994.; Fritz, Jean. Shh! We're Writing the Constitution. Pictures by Tomie dePaola. N.Y.: The Putnam & Grosset Group., 1987.; Levine, Ellen. . . .If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King. Illustrated by Anna Rich. N.Y.: Scholastic, Inc., 1990.; Levinson, Nancy Smiler. Thomas Elva Edison, Great Inventor. N.Y: Scholastic, 1996.
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