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Born on December 5, 1782, Martin Van Buren was the first president born an American citizen (and not a British subject). [2] The term Virginia dynasty is sometimes used to describe the fact that four of the first five U.S. presidents were from Virginia.
John Washington (1633 – 1677) was an English-born merchant, planter, politician and military officer. Born in Tring , Hertfordshire , he subsequently emigrated to the English colony of Virginia and became a member of the planter class .
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
Mary Ball (born c. 1707) was raised in the family Epping Forest estate, the only child of Joseph Ball (1649–1711), an English justice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel and burgess in the Colony of Virginia, and Mary Johnson (1672–1721). [26] [27] The Washington family owned land (on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia ...
Washington wrote to Secretary of War James McHenry offering to organize President Adams' army. [237] Adams nominated him for a lieutenant general commission and the position of commander-in-chief of the armies on July 4, 1798. [238] Washington served as the commanding general from July 13, 1798, until his death 17 months later. [239]
Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry. He is also believed to be a direct descendant of John Punch, a colonial-era slave born in modern-day Cameroon. [2] There is no evidence that any president has had Indigenous American ancestry.
George Washington, widely viewed as the first president, was elected into office in 1789 after leading the Continental Army to victory over Britain in the Revolutionary War.
1672 was a leap year ... English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592) February 28. Christian, Duke of Brieg, Duke of Legnica (1663–1672) and Brieg (1664 ...