Presidents: George Washington!

           I wanted my first post about presidents to be about my favorite president, George Washington. I don't want this to a boring biography about him so if you want his birthday and all the wars he ever fought in chronological order, please visit another website. :) 
          When i think about George Washington i picture the painting of him in his military uniform by Rembrandt Peale. So poised, intelligent, honorable, and just down right handsome! 
          I am very lucky to have been able to have visited his home in Mount Vernon. This is the place where he truly felt at home; Washington never lived in the White House because the capital was still in Philadelphia at the time. I was able to walk where he had walked, lived, and breathed at one time, it was surreal. 
         It's funny to think that he was such an intelligent thinking man had his schooling ended at the age of fourteen. This was very common back in the day to have your education ended at such a young age but you would just not think it about him. He made such good decisions in his military and presidential career that you would think he would have been a Harvard graduate with a degree in military strategy but i guess some people are just born with it. :) He joined the Royal Navy at the age of fourteen also, so he had an early start.
        Washington never really wanted the lime light of the presidency and he mentioned it on several occasions, “bid adieu to happiness, public life will be a more distressing one than any I have known yet.”. At the time people wanted him to be the new King! They wanted to start all over again with what they had just left and let him have all the power. Luckily George Washington was a humble man with another vision. He took the presidency because he wanted our country to grow and flourish into what he knew it could be, and that is the great democratic nation that it is today. He is the only president what was ever unanimously voted in to office.
         Washington was such a great man, sometimes i wonder what it would be like going back in time just meet him. One day i am going to write my masters thesis on him, but for today here are some other cool facts about Washington that you might not have known. :)


Cool Facts::
He never had dentures made of wood! Maybe of cow's teeth and hippopotamus ivory, but not wood.


He had a fear of public speaking, his farewell address was written in the newspaper but never given orally. 


His family grew marijuana on their farm, it was used as hemp for rope, clothes, and other things.


He loved pineapples.


He NEVER wore a wig.


He gave his name to 1 U.S. state, 1 capital city, 33 counties, 7 mountains, 9 colleges, 121 post offices, and many more obscure things.


He was the only founding father to free his slaves. He freed them in his will at his death and left them money to live for quite a long time after he had been gone.


He had lots of dogs, some were named Sweet Lips, Madame Moose, Vulcan, and Taster. 


He also loved horses, and to fish.


He died of a throat infection at the age of 67.


I hope you all have learned something here, that George Washington was an awesome guy :)