George Washington

Birth Date

1732-02-22

Death Date

1799-07-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Fairfax County, Virginia, soldier and statesman. Virginia native. Son of Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington. Married Martha Dandridge Custis Washington on the Pamunkey River, Colony of Virginia, on January 6, 1759. Surveyor in Culpeper County, Colony of Virginia, in 1749. Served as district adjutant of Virginia Militia in 1752. Commander of Virginia Regiment in 1755. Member of the House of Burgesses in 1758. Elected commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775. President of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Elected president of the United States of America on April 30, 1789. By December of 1799, the Washington estate owned 317 enslaved persons.

Henry Wiencek, "George Washington (1732-1799)" in Encyclopedia of Virginia, Brendon Wolfe, ed., https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/GeorgeWashington1732-1799#startentry (accessed on April 5, 2019).
John E. Ferling, _The First of Men: A Life of George Washington (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), 31-60.

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