George Washington Biography
- Title:
- Founding Father and First President of the United States
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Should the Words “under God” Be in the US Pledge of Allegiance?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Mar. 14, 2008
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Honorary LLD degree, Brown University, 1790
- Honorary LLD degree, Washington College, 1789
- Sworn in as First President of the United States Apr. 30, 1789
- Delegate to the Constitutional Convention. One of the signers of the U.S. Constitution, 1787-1789
- Honorary LLD degree, University of Pennsylvania, 1783
- Forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1781
- Honorary LLD degree, Yale University, 1781
- Honorary LLD degree, Harvard, 1776
- Served in the Virginia House of Burgesses while managing his lands, 1759-1776
- Elected by the 2nd Cont. Congress as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, June 15, 1775
- Delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress, 1775
- Commissioned as a lieutenant colonel, fought in the French and Indian War, 1754
- Helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax, 1748
- Education:
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- None found
- Other:
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- Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.