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The University of Washington (UW [a] and informally U-Dub or U Dub [b]) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the United States. The university has a 703-acre (284 ha) main campus located in the city's University ...
The Proclamation of Neutrality was a formal announcement issued by U.S. President George Washington on April 22, 1793, that declared the nation neutral in the conflict between revolutionary France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to any country at war.
April 30 • George Washington assumes presidential duties George Washington inaugurated as President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City. Washington placed his hand upon a Bible belonging to the St. John's Lodge No. 1, A.Y.M. [69] as Chancellor of New York Robert Livingston administered the presidential oath of office. [61] [70]
United States v. Washington, 384 F. Supp. 312 (W.D. Wash. 1974), aff'd, 520 F.2d 676 (9th Cir. 1975), commonly known as the Boldt Decision (from the name of the trial court judge, George Hugo Boldt), was a legal case in 1974 heard in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
About 1841, Ferdinand Pettrich sculpted a painted plaster sculpture, Washington Resigning His Commission, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [20] In 1858, Edwin White painted Washington Resigning His Commission, on commission from the Maryland Legislature. [21] It is on display in the Grand Staircase of the Maryland State House. [22]
Although Washington was a Republican-leaning swing state until the 1980s, Democrats have won Washington in every presidential election starting in 1988 and have consistently done so by double digits since 2008. Washington is part of the Democratic-leaning West Coast, and was predicted to go comfortably to the Democratic Party in 2024.
WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is poised to officially block Nippon Steel's proposed $14.9-billion purchase of U.S. Steel, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday ...
Jackson took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. John R. Thompson Co. Inc. , 346 U.S. 100 (1953), is a United States Supreme Court case which began on April 30, 1953 over the validity of the local Washington Acts of 1872 and 1873.