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Walter Edward Washington (April 15, 1915 – October 27, 2003) was an American civil servant and politician. After a career in public housing, [1] Washington was the chief executive of the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1979, serving as the first and only Mayor-Commissioner of the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1974, and as the first Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1975 to 1979.
Walter Edward Fauntroy Jr. (born February 6, 1933) is an American pastor, civil rights activist, and politician who was the Washington, D.C. delegate to the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1991.
The primary contest was a seven-person race, but the highest profile candidates were Walter Washington, then incumbent as the presidentially appointed Mayor-Commissioner, and Clifford Alexander Jr., former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Washington was by far the favorite at the start of the campaign in May 1974, but ...
The persons listed below are the mayors of the now-defunct City of Washington, which was officially granted a formal government in 1802. The Mayor of Washington had authority over city services, appointments, and local tax assessments; however, the duties of the mayor mostly consisted of requesting appropriations from Congress to finance the city.
On November 7, 1978, Washington, D.C., held the second election for its mayor as a result of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.The primary election of the Democratic Party (the most important contest in the race, as 90% of the District's voters were registered Democrats) [1] took place on Tuesday, September 12, with At-Large Councilman Marion Barry defeating incumbent mayor Walter E ...
The living descendant, Samuel Walter Washington, who is the current owner of Harewood estate, turned out to have more DNA in common with the two deceased brothers than the researchers expected ...
Henry C. Newcomer (1861–1952), U.S. Army brigadier general, engineer whose work included Taft Bridge and improvements to Washington Aqueduct; retired to Washington, D.C. [23] Edward C. Peter II (1929 – 2008), U.S. Army lieutenant general, commander of Fourth United States Army ; born in D.C. [ 24 ]
George Walter McCoy: director of the National Institute of Health [5] Walter I. McCoy: chief justice of the D.C. Supreme Court [5] Arthur Williams McCurdy: 1898 inventor, astronomer [1] William John McGee: 1885 ethnologist, Smithsonian Institution [1] [18] John P. McGovern: 1953–2007 allergist and philanthropist [3] [2] [9] Gerald S. McGowan