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| President George Augustine Washington
(1732-1799) |
President George Augustine Washington
• Public Office: President of the United States of America, 30 Apr 1789. On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote another of our relatives, James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles." • Death Note: He died of a throat infection. George married Martha Dandridge, daughter of John Dandridge and Frances Orlando Jones, on 6 Jan 1759 in New Kent Co., VA. (Martha Dandridge was born on 21 Jun 1731 in Chestnut Grove, New Kent Co., VA, died on 22 May 1802 in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax Co., VA and was buried in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax Co., VA.)
• Marriage Note: St. Peter's Church. |
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