Walter E. Washington

Washington was elected by D.C. residents in 1975 following seven years as the District’s presidentially appointed mayor-commissioner. The 1948 Howard University Law School graduate, a tireless advocate for D.C. rights, was key to the development of the Home Rule structure of government the city knows today. Washington died in 2003.

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