George Washington Carver Accomplishments

Alinne Ata

Lee

204 George Washington Carver George Washington Carver once said “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” George Washington Carver was an important

African American botanist and inventor. He developed approximately 300 peanut products. He was also the first African American student to be accepted to Iowa state. His important agriculture discoveries and inventions help the poor southern farmers vary their crops and helped their diets. George Washington Carver was an important figure in black history because of his important discoveries. George was born on January or June in 1865 in Diamond, Missouri to Mary and Giles Carver.

In his career as an inventor\ botanist, George Washington Carver had many accomplishments. He was influenced by one of his teachers that told him that he should combine his love for art, science, plants and become a botanist. He has many important achievements like the 300 different peanut products he came up with. Certainly, George Washington Carver had many accomplishments throughout his lifetime. It is important to know that George Washington Carver had a great impact on our nation’s history. Some interesting facts about him are that him and his mom were kidnapped when he was just a few months old and they tried to sell them until a neighbor was able to get George back to there farm. He also found new ways to use Alabama clay and sweet potato. He was also the first African American to have a national park named after him. George died on January 5,1943 at the age of 78. The cause of his death was that he fell in his home on the stairs and because of complications like anemia. I chose George Washington Carver because i’m interested on people that invent things and because I learned about him in 5th grade and I always remembered his quote “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come