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Growing up George Had been known as Carver George. When he started school he went by the name: "George Carver". He later added the W and told his friends it was Washington. That's how he got the name "George Washington Carver"
George Washington Carver
George was the son of slaves, his family owned by a man named Carver. When he went to Iowa State Agricultural College, he adopted the middle name Washington, reportedly because there was another George Carver at the school.
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George Washington was born in 1732 and was the first President of the United States. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army when they defeated the British and he oversaw the writing of the Constitution. George Washington Carver was born in 1864, and was a botanist, inventor and educator.
George Washington Carver developed the first movable school called the Jesup Wagon. The first one was pulled by a horse, but it later became a truck. By 1930 it contained a nurse, an architect, and a home demonstration agent to bring new ideas to the people in the country. By then it was known as the "Booker T Washington Agricultural School on Wheels".
George Washington Carver was accepted at Highland College in Kansas, but was refused upon his arrival due to his race. Years later he would study botany at Iowa State Agricultural College, and eventually earn his Master's degree and even teach there. He was the school's first black student and its first black faculty member.