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George Washington was the manager of his wife's tobacco plantation and a Colonel in the Virginia Militia at the start of the war. He had been a surveyor who helped to explore and map much of the Ohio River Valley in his early years. Early in the war, Congress appointed him the commander of the Continental Army, which he lead throughout the war. With the failure of the Articles of Confederation, he presided over the Constitutional Convention that wrote the Constitution of the United States. He was also the Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of the United States of America. He was then elected the first President of the United States, serving two terms before returning to manage his wife's plantation some twenty-two years after he left to accept command of the colonial forces.

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