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The Washington family is an American family of English origins that was part of both the British landed gentry and the American gentry.It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming.
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.
Augustine Washington Sr. (1694 [a] – April 12, 1743) [1] [2] was an American planter and merchant. Born in Westmoreland, Virginia, he was the father of ten children, among them the first president of the United States, George Washington, soldier and politician Lawrence Washington, and politician Charles Washington.
Genetic analysis has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of President George Washington’s younger brother Samuel and his kin. George Washington family secrets revealed by ...
Two presidential children, John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush, have become president in their own right. John Scott Harrison is the only person to be both a child of a U.S. president and a parent of another U.S. president, being a son of William Henry Harrison and the father of Benjamin Harrison.
Washington's will was admitted to probate on September 26, 1677. [50] [51] His estate consisted of more than 8,500 acres. [52] John and his first wife Anne Pope are buried near present-day Colonial Beach, Virginia, at what is now called the George Washington Birthplace National Monument. His vault is the largest in the small family burial plot.
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [a] – December 14, 1799) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army , Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War against the British Empire .
The President was the oldest son of the 2nd President of the United States, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail Adams. The President and First Lady's son, George, led a troubled life of alcoholism, womanizing, and depression and finally succumbed to an apparent suicide during the President's final year in office in 1829.