George Washington

George Washington was born in 1732 into a planter family from Virginia. There, he learned body of knowledge for a Virginia gentleman, morals,  and manners. He pursued his two interests; western expansion and military arts. When he was a teen, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew later into the French and Indian War. George served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and managed his own land around Mount Vernon from 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution. He married a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis. Washington had a busy and happy life. Like others, he felt pressured/exploited by the British.

George Washington was elected to be the commander of the Continental Army in the Second Continental Congress on Philadelphia in May 1775. On July 3, 1775, he took his soldiers and embarked on a war that was to last for six years. When the war had just started, he started thinking that they had to harass the British, so he told Congress "We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn. "

Washington wanted to retire and live in Mount Vernon, but he saw that Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not working well. So he returned and became a prime mover in the steps that lead to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. The Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept at all the recommendations of his Secretary of State (Thomas Jefferson), and his Secretary of the Treasury (Alexander Hamilton). Instead, he insisted upon a neutral state until the United States could grow stronger.