George Washington, who had been leading the battle for independence from Britain for almost two years. But on May 7 ... of 1775,” said Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, based ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... He was quickly elected its president and within two years president of the new nation. He expected “that at a convenient and an ...

Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under the tenuous circumstances of an untested federal government. The newly established ...

George Washington led a party ... would become America’s first president might have been more complicated a leader—and more culpable for starting a seven-year-long global war—than history ...