George Washington served as the first president of the United States from age 57 in 1789 to age 65 in 1797, but before that, he was known for his military leadership during the French and Indian ...

click image for close-up George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were wed in January of 1759. Both were twenty-seven years old, and they had spent a total of fewer than three weeks together.

George’s marriage to Martha propelled him into Virginia’s upper gentry. ... After George Washington’s death, the Custises and the Washington nieces and nephews continued on diverging paths.

George married the human rights attorney, 47, in a star-studded ceremony attended by Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in Venice, Italy, in 2014. The couple subsequently welcomed twins Ella and Alexander ...

George T. Conway III, husband of White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, attends the 139th Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House April 17, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Ever since George Clooney met his wife Amal Clooney in 2013, the Oscar winner has been smitten. After all, not only has Amal convinced him to change his tune about marriage and kids, but they’ve ...

George Clooney and his wife Amal appear to have the perfect marriage. Shocking, we know! The Hollywood legend revealed that his life with Amal is super “easy,” and that the two have never ...

Before George Washington resigned from his post as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, he wrote a letter to all the governors (it was intended for the entire American community as well).

Likely the child of Martha’s son from her first marriage, William Costin used his position to advocate for D.C.’s free Black community Cassandra Good - Author, First Family: George Washington ...

Washington moved to the home along the Potomac River after his marriage in 1759, and died there of a throat infection in 1799 at 67 years old. He served as president from 1789 until 1797, and is ...

The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life; by Clare Carlisle; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 400 pp., $30.00 In 1855, Eliot wrote to a friend: “If there be any one subject on which I feel ...

Washington may be “all around us,” on money and the name of the U.S. capital, but Americans generally don’t understand him, said Doug Bradburn, the president and chief executive of George ...