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Read a copy of the Last Will & Testament of George Washington (1732-1799).

• George Washington was an American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775-83) and first president of the United States.
• Dissatisfied with the Articles of Confederation, he presided over the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787.
• Washington became President of the United States in 1789 and established many of the customs and usages of the new government's executive department.
• Washington is seen as a symbol of the United States and republicanism in practice. His devotion to civic virtue made him an exemplary figure among early American politicians.
• When Washington died in 1799, in his funeral oration, Henry Lee said that of all Americans, he was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
• Washington has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.

The foregoing biographical material quoted from Wikipedia.com.

Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895).

• T. H. Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy.
• He was also an educator and an advocate of agnosticism. In fact, he coined the term.
• Huxley's very public support of Charles Darwin's evolutionary naturalism earned him the nickname "Darwin's bulldog".

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

• William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often referred to as England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard").
• Shakespeare's surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.
• His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

The foregoing biographical information on Shakespeare is quoted from Wikipedia.

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Sr. (1917-1963).

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy (familiarly known as 'JFK') served as the 35th president of the United States. He was the first Roman Catholic to be elected president. He became President in 1961 by defeating Richard Nixon.
• Educated at Harvard, Kennedy served with distinction in the Navy during World War II.
• President Kennedy's attempt to restore a right-wing government in Cuba by backing an invasion of Cuban exiles to fight Fidel Castro was a failure that nearly led to war.
• His important contributions to US policy were the Civil Rights Bill and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
• He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963, less than 3 years in office, leaving behind his widow Jacqueline and two small children, Caroline and John Jr.

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986).

• Lafayette Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer who introduced his ideas to the general public in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950), and spawned the birth of the Church of Scientology.
• Hubbard was an officer in the Navy during WWII, where he briefly commanded two ships but was removed from command both times. The last few months of his active service were spent in a hospital, being treated for a variety of complaints.
• In the 1970s Hubbard and his followers tried unsuccessfully to take over the town of Clearwater, Florida. In 1978 he was convicted of fraud in France.
• That same year, certain high-ranking Scientologists were indicted on numerous charges for their part in a program of systematic espionage against the U.S. Government.

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Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Captain Myles Standish (1584-1656).

• According to Wikipedia.com, Myles Standish (aka Miles Standish) was an English born military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for the Plymouth colony. After arriving at Plymouth on the Mayflower, he worked on colonial defense.
• In 1622, he was appointed the first commander of Plymouth colony. Later, he served as Plymouth's representative in England, and served as assistant governor and as the colony's treasurer.
• Standish is often remembered for his bravery in battle and his reputation as the military captain of the Pilgrims, as well as his appearance as a character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's fictitious poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish".
• The former Fort Standish, located on Lovell's Island, Massachusetts, was named in his honor, as well as the town of Standish, Maine.