President's Day By: Zaira S. Holmes Middle School 7 grade

George Washington became a experienced surveyor. Following these, years fought in the French and Indian war. After the war he returned to Mount Vernon in 1758, married Martha Danbridge in 1759, and became a planter. That same year he became involved in the politics and was representative to the Virgina House of Burgesses. He was representative until 1774. When he became a delegate to the Continental Congress. In May of 1775 George Washington was appointed commander of the American army during the Revolution. He was the first President, (1789-1797) governing the 13 states.

Presidents' Day in 2012 is on Monday, the 20th of February. In the United States, Presidents Day is always celebrated on the third Monday of February. Presidents' Day in 2012 is on Monday, the 20th of February. In the United States, Presidents Day is always celebrated on the third Monday of February. President Barack Obama is the incumbent candidate. A Democrat, he grew up in Indonesia, studied at Columbia and Harvard universities, and served in the U.S. Senate before becoming the first African American president. Before that, he was a lawyer, teacher and community organizer. In foreign policy, Obama withdrew some troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and ordered the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden. He entered politics in 1996, first serving in the Illinois State Senate and then in the U.S. Senate in 2004. After a well-received speech at the Democratic Party convention in Boston that year, Obama caught the party’s attention as a serious contender to unseat the Republican Party from office. He is the son of Barack Hussein Obama Senior, a Kenyan who came to the U.S. on an academic scholarship, and Ann Dunham, an American from Kansas. He has two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is married to Michelle Obama, also a lawyer from Chicago.