George Washington

George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led the Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as the president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created the Constitution of the United States and the American federal government. Washington has been called the "Father of the Nation" for his manifold leadership in the formative days of the country.Washington's first public office was serving as the official surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia from 1749 to 1750. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Washington has received more than 36,632,520 page views. His biography is available in 189 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 181 in 2019). George Washington is the 89th most popular politician (up from 108th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from United States (up from 37th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Politician.

George Washington was the first president of the United States. He is most famous for leading the Continental Army to victory in the American Revolutionary War.