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George Washington George Washington was born in Virginia in 1732. As a young man, he learned the morals, manners, and knowledge necessary to become a Virginia gentleman. He was particularly interested in the military arts and western expansion. At the age of sixteen, he helped survey Shenandoah...

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was born in Virginia in 1743. He was born into a wealthy and socially prominent family. Jefferson attended the College of William and Mary, then studied law. In 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton. Although Jefferson was a writer of elegant prose, he was not...

Abraham Lincoln abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky on February 12, 1809. His family moved from Kentucky to the backwoods of Indiana when he was eight. When he was nine, his mother died. As a young man, Lincoln did not have much formal schooling, but when he wasn't...