USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created and ratified the Constitution of the United States and the American federal government.

Detailed explanation-2: -George Washington (1732–1799), from Fairfax County (president of the convention).

Detailed explanation-3: -Constitutional Convention delegates kept deliberations secret. The meeting, over which George Washington presided, rested on the reasoned dialogue and compromise of 55 representatives from the 13 original states, except Rhode Island.

Detailed explanation-4: -June 20, 1775 Jefferson arrives in Philadelphia as the youngest Virginia delegate to the second Continental Congress. Other Virginia delegates are George Washington, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Henry Lee, and Edmund Pendleton.

Detailed explanation-5: -Edmund Pendleton served as President of the convention, succeeding Peyton Randolph who had died in October 1775. The Convention declared that Virginians were ready to defend themselves “against every species of despotism.” The convention passed another ordinance to raise additional troops.