George Washington was a leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and was the first to become U.S. president.
The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau to the north have risen very rapidly. In just 50 million years, peaks such as Mt. Everest have risen to heights of more than 9 km. The impinging of the two landmasses has yet to end. The Himalayas continue to rise more than 1 cm a year -- a growth rate of 10 km in a million years!
Mountains at plate boundaries where one plate is pushing against another tend to grow. India is pushing against Asia, so the Himalayas are growing. The pacific plate is sliding under South America, so the Andes are growing. Nothing is happening on the east coast of the United States.