20 Interesting facts about george washington.

George Washington became americas first president,he worked as a president for three years.Washington served as a general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies during the American RevolutionYou can see a lot of interesting fun facts below,these facts are culled form the internet.

Here are some of the interesting facts about george washington.

Washington became America’s first president.

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

He became the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797.

Much of his family’s wealth was lost during the Puritan revolution.

George Washington did not have a middle name.

His great-grandfather came to America from England in 1657 aboard a ship named Sea Horse of London.

The death of Washington’s father in 1743 ended George’s formal education and did not attend college.

George Washington learned to be a surveyor

Washington wanted to join the Royal Navy, but his mother would not let him

George Washington’s father died when he was 11 and he became the ward of his half-brother, Lawrence

Toothaches bothered him for years. When he was 57, he had all his teeth pulled. From then on, he wore ivory false teeth set in a silver plate.

At 26, he married Martha Dandridge Custis, a widow who already had two children, Jackie and Patsy. Washington never had any children of his own.

In 1748, when he was 16, George traveled with a surveying party plotting land in Virginia’s western territory.

George Washington has been the only president in the history of the American presidency to be unanimously elected to the office.

At six feet, two inches tall, and 200 pounds, he was one of our biggest presidents.

He bred hound dogs that he treated like members of the family. He gave some of them unusual names: Tarter, True Love, and Sweet Lips.

His Farewell Address on Sept. 17, 1796 (published but never delivered) rebuked party spirit and warned against “permanent alliances” with foreign powers.

Less than three years after leaving office, he died at his Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon

He died at Mount Vernon on Dec. 14, 1799.