Was Martha Washington a Hottie?

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Bevo Incognito

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Yes she was.

It's weird, to me, to think of dowdy historical figures as actual living, breathing people who were once young (Ben Franklin is an exception to this) and motivated by the same kinds of things that all young people are motivated by. And I'm talking about procreation here.

But, yeah, it appears that Martha was actually quite the looker as a young woman and that she had another side to her that doesn't quite correspond to the historical image:


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But you know what? Behind every good man there's a woman. And that woman was Martha Washington, man. And every day George would come home, she'd have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man, when he'd come in the door, man. She was hip, hip, hip lady man.
 
You laugh but, were it not for the fact that it's been dead for a little more than 200 years, I'd hit it:









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You didn't know that? This country is founded-- It was founded by people who were into aliens, man. ...
 
Incognito,

I tell you, that picture in the article that you posted threw me...it looks a heck of lot like one of my ex-girlfriends.

How revisionist is this campaign though? Even though they say this idea of her is more accurate than the dowdy one we now have, how much of this is just romantic historians wanting to rewrite someone's image rather than just telling it like it is? Have you seen the portrait that her grandchildren said is a striking resemblance? I guess folks in the 18th century just didn't age they way they do now.

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Until Bill Gates, George Washington was the richest man in US history adjusted for the times (I read). Richer than John D Rockefeller or J P Morgan. He was also 6' 3" in an era when men were four or five inches shorter than today. He was our greatest military leader at a very young age, and a war hero at a little over thirty. That sounds to me like he'd be in a good position to land a hottie.

But Martha didn't look like this at 55:

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I think Washington was only rich because he married the richest woman in Virginia.

Didn't Rockefeller possess something like 1/16 of all the wealth in the USA at one time?
 
Most Virginians at that time were in a lot of debt. I recommend reading "An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America."
 
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