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George Washington (February 22, 1732 [ O.S. February 11, 1731] â December 14, 1799) was the first President of the United States (1789â97), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.he first child of Augustine Washington (1694â1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708â1789), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.