Sample Essay On George Washington

The first President and the founder of the Institute of Presidency in the US George Washington was born on February 22nd 1732. His father was the immigrant from England, a wealthy landowner-planter, who died when George was 11 years old. His death has deprived the boy of the chance to study, according to family tradition, in the UK, so George was studying at home.
Showing an interest in science, Washington, however, dreamed of a career soldier. In the same year as a rebel, he began to fight with the French and Indians. Moreover, he got captured there and he retired in the rank of Colonel only in 1758. George Washington’s political career started in the same year. He was chosen to the Legislature of Virginia till 1774, and right after that George was elected as a Deputy of the 1st Continental Congress, Philadelphia. As a member of the Legislative Assembly, he was opposed to violent action, but when the War for Independence began in 1775, George Washington led the Continental army as commander, abandoning all thoughts about peaceful resolution of the conflict with Britain.
Military actions found in him the remarkable talent of the military leader, administrator, showed bravery and courage as a human being. The biggest victories of his troops were the battle of Boston (spring 1776), Princeton (winter 1777), the battle of Saratoga (autumn 1777) and Yorktown (autumn 1781). The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1783 Washington returned to Mount Vernon.
A new stage in the biography of Washington begins in 1787. He became the Head of the Commission of the U.S. Congress, which drafted the State Constitution. The peak of his political career was in 1789. He was unanimously elected as the first President of the United States of America. In 1792, he remained in the presidential chair due to the election for a second term. Washington had consistently implemented the principles of the new Constitution, formed the system of public administration, structure of government, took steps to stimulate the strengthening of the state, the economic development of the industry and promoted the active construction of the capital. The foreign policy of George Washington was based on the neutrality of the United States and non-interference in the affairs of the European countries.
Washington decided not to run for a third term and moved to his hometown in 1798. The life of the first American President to be awarded the title of "father of the Fatherland" has ended there on December 14th 1799.