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George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 22, 1732. He was born into a wealthy family. George Washington had respect for his elders and was quiet and was attentive as a boy. This and his dependability made him admired. He experienced hardships as a boy, which helped him become strong and patient. He became interested in military from his brother Lawrence’s stories of military. In 1752 he inherited the family estate of Mount Vernon. In December 1752 he was commissioned as a major and was put in charge of training militia in Southern Virginia. Washington impressed the First Continental Congress in September 1774 where he had his first chance to meet and talk with leaders of the other colonies. He was then elected to the First Continental Congress in 1774. On June 15 Washington was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army unanimously. After the war Washington resigned to his estate at Mount Vernon. Washington was elected President of the United States on February 4, 1789. In 1796 Washington declared he would not serve for a third time. In 1799 Washington woke with an inflamed throat, his condition worsened, despite the doctor’s efforts, Washington died later that night.

George Washington was a good leader because he was the one necessary person, whose calm, unswerving, determined sense of patriotic duty to country, and ability put real backbone into the Revolution and kept it from collapsing or merging into civil conflict, under the hardships and unexpected privations encountered during the eight years of war.



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