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When I was a kid I loved to enter into contests. That's right whether it was playing a sport,
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or using my brain I loved to compete, because I liked to win.
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For example when I was a kid I entered into a pumpkin decorating contest for Halloween
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and I won first place. I felt like I was on top of the world. There
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is nothing like coming in first, and right now I want to talk about someone who was first
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too. I want to talk about the first president of the United States named George Washington.
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George washington was 1st the President of united states from 1789 to 1797. Not only
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was he the President of the United States, but he was unanimously voted by everytone
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there who had a vote to be the president, and that was the first time and only time
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in history that would happen. Talking about presidents who hold office today
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you may use the term republican, or democrat, but George Washington was neither one.
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In history George was known as a federalist. Now talking about George Washingtons life
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he was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County in Virginia.
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He grew up there in colonial Virginia and his father was a landowner and a planter.
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Now with George he had to deal with losing his father at an early age. When George Washington
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was 11 years old his father died. Even though George's father had died, George
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still had another male role model in his life. He went to live with his older brother named
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Lawrence. Lawrence raised George and helped him to get an education in the basics of reading,
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math. and more At the age of 16 George became what was called
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a surveyor going out into new lands to take measurements and create maps.
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Not long after that he became a part of the Virginia militia and got involved in wars
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like the French and Indian War. Another cool thing about George Washington
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is he finally got married. When settling down he married a widow by the name of Martha Dandridge
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Custis. Although they never had kids he kept himself busy and became a parts of the Virginia
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Legislature. During that time America was under British
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rule. This is where George and the other land owners were tired of being treated bad by
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the British and decided to wage war in the American Revolution.
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In 1775 Washington became the general of the Continental Army. Although he lost many battles
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in the end the British Army surrender in Yorktown on October 17, 1781.
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Years later in 1789 George Washington was elected to be the first president of the United
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States. He was also one of the key people that helped
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to frame the Constitution of the United States of America as well.
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After serving only two terms George Washington remembered what it was like to be under British
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rule and decided to step down from office. He did not want people to look at him as a
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king, and stepped away from his powerful seat. This began a tradition for many presidents
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who only stayed in office for 8 years. The only president to sit longer than that was
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Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt. After leaving office George Washington enjoyed
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his life until December 14th 1799. that is when he died after suffering for weeks with
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a cold and eventually passing from a throat infection. Well I hope you enjoyed hanging
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out with me while I talked about the first President of the United States of America,
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George Washington. Like I started off saying, being first is
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always cool and there is nothing cooler than being known as the first President of the
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United States of America.
