George Washington.

George Washington was born on 1732 into a Virginia family. He pursued two interests: military arts and western expansion. From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis.
He felt oppressed by British merchants and blocked by British regulations. As the comotion with the mother country grew intense, he firmly voiced his resistance tot he restrictions.When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his untrained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last 6 years.He realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn."
He died of a throat infection on December/14/1799.