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George Washington Americans know George Washington as being the first president of our country, the man who laid the first block to the massive structure our country is today. It is by the precedent he set that we live and govern our nation and ourselves. Washington was an ordinary person whose brave soul, good heart, and patriotism turned him into a brilliant general and a successful president. George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 22, 1732. He was the eldest son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Bell Washington, who were prosperous Virginia gentry of English descent. Washington spent his early years on the family estate in Pope’s Creek along the Potomac River. He received most of his education at home; his early education included the study of mathematics, surveying, the classics, and the “rules of civility”. Upon the death of his father in 1743, he moved to Mount Vernon with his half brother Lawrence, who became a substitute father to George. Lawrence married into the prominent and influential Virginian Fairfax family, who helped Washington launch his career. George Washington’s early ambitions to go to sea were discouraged by his washington, george, first, french, president, virginia, country, congress, war, work, set, laws, lawrence, helped, heads, general, fort, flexner, federal, early, commander, british, back, army, 1789, without, vernon, united, troops, today, through, surveying, structure, states, should