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In the present day, the name "Washington" is commonly used to refer to the entire District, but DC law continues to use the definition of the city of Washington as given in the 1871 Organic Act. [10] In 1873, President Grant appointed an influential member of the board of public works, Alexander Robey Shepherd, to the post of governor. Shepherd ...
The DC Council passed legislation in 2007 giving the DC Mayor direct authority over the DCPS and transferred the oversight responsibility for the charter schools previously authorized by the DC Board of Education to the PCSB. [12] The West End Neighborhood Library of the District of Columbia Public Library
The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building (TMFJB) at the crossroads of the Capitol Hill and NoMA neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., houses offices that support the work of the United States Courts, including the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the Federal Judicial Center, the United States Sentencing Commission, and ...
1090 Vermont Avenue NW is a high-rise modernist office building in Washington, D.C., which is tied with the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel as the fourth-tallest commercial building in the city (as of January 2010). The building is 187 feet (57 metres) high and has 12 floors. [3]
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in case citations, D.C. Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals.It has the smallest geographical jurisdiction of any of the U.S. courts of appeals, and it covers only the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
During the mid-20th century, there was a renewed push to extend greater voting rights to residents of Washington, D.C. By 1961, the necessary 37 states had successfully ratified the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution , which extended the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections.
The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, formerly the Social Security Administration Building, is a historic building at 330 Independence Avenue, Southwest, Washington, D.C., United States. [ 2 ] History
The General Bronze Corporation, known for New York City's Mies van der Rohe-designed Seagram Building, [12] [13] the Atlas [14] and Prometheus [14] bronze sculptures in Rockefeller Center, the bronze doors for the United States Supreme Court and Commerce buildings, [15] the aluminum windows for the United Nations Secretariat, [16] [17] [18 ...