Washington, George ___ 1732-1799 ___ American ___ landowner, soldier, politician

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Washington, the first President of the US, was born into a Virginia planter's family in Westmoreland County. He attended local schools but was also educated privately. While still young he worked as a land surveyor. During the French and Indian war he was commissioned as lieutenant-colonel and, in 1755, he became commander-in-chief of the Virginia forces. From 1759, the year he married the widow Martha Dandridge, to the outbreak of the American Revolution, he looked after his Mount Vernon land, which he had inherited from his half brother, and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and as a justice of the peace. In 1775, he was elected as commander-in-chief of all the forces, and over the next eight years successfully fought the British. He resigned in 1783, retired again to Mount Vernon, but then presided at a federal convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Two years later he was chosen to be President under the new constitution. He was re-elected in 1792 and served until 1797, but he declined a third term.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio
The Diary Review - Washington's domestic felicity

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1748-1799 ___ military political social travel farming health weather people historyeye

WEB TEXT LINKS
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ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
The Library of Congress- most diaries but not all

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Diaries of George Washington, 1748-1799
The Diary of George Washington, from 1789 to 1791

May 2005, August 2008, April 2013
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.