GEROGE WASHINGTON: THE GREATEST HERO OF THE NATION

GEROGE WASHINGTON: THE GREATEST HERO OF THE NATION
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Introduction
George Washington was the first President of the United States of America, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain and the political and military leader of the United States from 1775 to 1799. He presided over the Constitutional Convention which later became the Constitution of the United States. George Washington is accepted and universally known as the Father of his country.
Arguably George Washington is the most important political figure in the history of America. He was a great leader and a great president. His contributions during the war and after the war as the president were very crucial for the country in becoming a strong and well financed nation and becoming the number one super power of the world in later years. His actions and contributions for the country made him one of the most important and effective people in the history of the United States.
Biography
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 near Colonial Beach in Westmoreland Country, Virginia. He was the first child of Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington. His family was very rich and was involved in tobacco planting. During that time, the Colonial Virginia was a slave society and the economy largely depended on slave labor. His family was into this business and made quite a fortune.
Washington received his early education from elementary school and variety of tutors. At the age of seventeen, he joined Culpeper County as a surveyor. In February 1753, he was appointed as one of the four district adjutants by Governor Dinwiddie with a Major rank in Virginia militia. With this, the military life for George Washington began. He showed great bravery in the French and Indian Wars and the Seven Years War which continued from 1754 to 1758. During the war, he was awarded with a commission as the Colonel of the Virginia Regiment and Commander in Chief of all forces now raised in the defense of His Majesty’s Colony by Governor Dinwiddie. He was in charge of defending the frontier of Virginia. He retired from the Virginia Regiment commission in December 1758.
His service period in the Virginia Regiment was very crucial for his later life as his life in the army taught him valuable political, leadership and military skills. His organizational and strategic skills were developed. He also became very familiar with military tactics which later helped very much during the revolution.
On January 6, 1759 at the age of 28, Washington married a widow named Martha Dandridge Custis. Together, they did not have any children; but they raised two children from her previous marriage. Until 1775, he lived an aristocratic life as a leader in the elite society in Virginia. His marriage with Martha made Washington one of the richest men in Virginia. During this time, he concentrated on tobacco business.
From 1769, George Washington seriously started his involvement in political activities. Against the 1765 Stamp Act and Townshend Acts (1767), he proposed boycotting English goods for Virginia until the Acts were revoked. He presented a legislation to ban the importation of goods from England in the Virginia Assembly in 1769. At the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775, nominated by John Adams, Washington was selected as the Commander in Chief and Major General of the Continental Army. Leading the army was not the only role for him. He was also in charge of training and organizing the army. However, his most important task was to ensure the personification of armed resistance to the Crown. He used his political skills to keep the army, the militias, the Congress, the French and the states focused on a common goal. Throughout the war, Washington lost many battles just as he also won many; however, what makes him great is he never surrendered his army. Instead, he continued to fight to the end of the war. With the Congress, he plotted the strategies for the war. After the war, Washington resigned his post as the Commander in Chief something which was seen as the greatest gesture of his life by many aristocratic in Europe.
In the summer of 1787, Washington attended the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia where he was elected as the president of the Convention. After the Convention was over, the newly formed Constitution was approved to all thirteen states of that time. Washington supported the Constitute which influenced many others to vote in favor of the Constitute.
George Washington was elected as the first President of the United States in 1789 and later again in 1792. So far, he is the only President in the history of the country who received 100 percent electoral votes. During his Presidency, Washington was proven as a brilliant delegator, a talented administrator and a good judge of character. As he was systematic, orderly, energetic, solicitous of the opinion of others ... but decisive, intent upon general goals and the consistency of particular actions with them (White, 1948). After running for the presidency for two consecutive terms, Washington was offered to run for the third time which he refused, making it customary for any US President not to run the presidency for more than two terms.
After his retirement in March 1797, Washington went back to Mount Vernon where he spent most of his civilian life. There he engaged in business and other interests. George Washington died on December 14, 1799, at ...