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February 22: George Washington (1732)

It was on this date, February 22, 1732, that George Washington, first American President under the Constitution, was born. Nowhere in Washington’s extant writings does he make direct reference to Jesus Christ. When he died on 14 December 1799 at age 67, he sent for no clergyman, only asking all to leave the room so that he might “spend his last hour with his Maker.” Those tempted to make more of this request are reminded that no one disputes that Washington was a Deist. It should be mentioned that Washington was never hostile to religion. Indeed, in 1790 he wrote that he envisioned America as a country “which gives bigotry no sanction… persecution no assistance…. May the Children of the Stock of Abraham [i.e., the Jews], who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants.”

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Originally published February 2003 by Ronald Bruce Meyer.

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Richard Burton (1925) It was on this date, November 10, 1925, that Welsh actor Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. in Pontrydyfen, the twelfth of thirteen children, born to a hard-drinking miner. He took his stage and screen name from a schoolmaster who helped him enter Oxford, Philip Burton, and studied acting there. […]



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