President George Washington
Carson Ellis
George Washington was unanimously elected first president to the United States in 1789 at the age of 57. At the time of his inauguration he was 6’2" tall, weighed 200 pounds, wore size 13 shoes, and had only one natural tooth remaining in his mouth. Though it is a myth that he sported wooden teeth, he did wear false teeth made of a variety of other materials, such as human teeth, animal bones and lead. This was apparently the source of some insecurity and, as a result, he rarely allowed himself to smile a toothy grin.
The famous parable in which George Washington chops down a cherry a tree and confesses with the words, "Father, I cannot tell a lie," is also a fiction having been invented by his early biographer, Mason Weems, to compensate for an absolute lack of factual history concerning George’s early life. This was no accident as our first American president refused to discuss any of the details of his childhood throughout his life and took whatever sneaky secrets he was keeping about it to the grave.
He is quoted as having said, "I think I saw a path, as clear and direct as a ray of light."