George Washington

George Washington (1732-1799) was the first President of the United States. Before that he commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution and drove the British out of what then became US territory.

George Washington in Southern Victory
George Washington is considered one of the most memorable presidents in US history, alongside Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and the most memorable of all, Theodore Roosevelt. However, he is not always remembered kindly. Ironically, as a young man, Roosevelt admired Washington as a great leader.

Washington came from Virginia, and after the War of Secession his popularity in the US suffered because of it. People preferred to remember Northern Founding Fathers such as John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin (whose picture appeard on stamps issued by the US occupation authorities in Canada). Nonetheless, the U.S. rebuilt the Washington Monument after it was destroyed during the Great War.

In the Confederate States, Washington was regarded with suspicion as having been president of the United States, and Confederates preferred the Confederacy's own founding fathers such as John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, and Robert E. Lee.

The Freedom Party in its earliest phase, under Anthony Dresser, used George Washington's picture as an emblem, with the slogan "We need a New Revolution". Jake Featherston, who considered Washington to have "sold out the South to the damnyankees" stopped that use when he took over the party, and after becoming President phased out any show of respect to Washington in the Confederate States in general. However, Washington University in Lexington, housing the Confederacy's effort to build a superbomb, retained its name, and the statue of Washington that stood in Richmond survived both Great Wars.

George Washington in The Two Georges
George Washington was part of group of American colonists who met with George III of England, and were able to put in place an 11th hour agreement avoiding revolution. Both Washington and the King were immortalized in a painting entitled "The Two Georges," which came to symbolize the friendship between the North American Union and England.

George Washington in Worldwar
On seeing a statue of George Washington in a state visit to New York City during the war against the Race's Conquest Fleet, Vyacheslav Molotov dismissed his country's ally's founding father by saying "He looks like an aristocrat."

George Washington in The Disunited States of America
George Washington was remembered in North America as a great military leader for his service in the Revolutionary War. A statue of Washington stood in Richmond. Justin Monroe noted that it was very different from the statue in the home timeline.

Trivia
Washington was a distant relative by marriage to Robert E. Lee and by blood to Winston Churchill.