George Washington

George Washington was born in 1732.This gentleman from a Virginia planter family was the first President of the United States. G. Washington took his oath of office as the first President On April 30, 1789. In his early life he pursued two intertwined interests, military arts and western expansion. Washington married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis.
Washington like other planters felt himself exploited by the British merchants and British regulations so he firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions. On May 1775 he was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. Shortly after he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six difficult years.
Washington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon, he enjoyed less than three years of retirement and he died of a throat infection on December 14, 1799. For months the Nation mourned him. The picture of George Washington is published on the unit currency note (dollar) of usa.