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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Washington city, D.C.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Cannon</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Hart Senate Office <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Building</a> (opened 1982), in Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hart.html#153.85.65">Philip A. Hart</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Kutz Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-bridges.html">Bridge</a> (built 1943, altered and renamed 1954), on Independence Avenue, crossing the Tidal Basin, in West Potomac Park, Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kurvink-kyros.html#646.56.49">Charles W. Kutz</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of Washington is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The William Jefferson Clinton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Federal Building</a> (built 1934; renamed 2012) in Washington is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#673.06.95">Bill Clinton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Robert C. Weaver <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Federal Building</a> (opened 1968; named 2000; headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), in Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weaver.html#226.84.76">Robert C. Weaver</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Russell Senate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Office Building</a> (built 1903-08; named 1972), in Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell7.html#703.33.93">Richard B. Russell, Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Dirksen Senate Office <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Building</a> (opened 1958), in Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/diperna-dix.html#125.36.02">Everett M. Dirksen</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Wendell Phillips <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (opened 1890, closed 1950) in Washington, was named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillips.html#881.65.27">Wendell Phillips</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The John Philip Sousa <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-bridges.html">Bridge</a> (built 1938-41), which takes Pennsylvania Avenue over the Anacostia River in Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/somervell-souter.html#450.73.24">John Philip Sousa</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Ronald Reagan <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Building</a> and International Trade Center, in the Federal Triangle, Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reade-rector.html#386.15.19">Ronald Reagan</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Woodrow Wilson <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Plaza</a>, in the Federal Triangle, Washington, is is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson9.html#878.23.04">Woodrow Wilson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Building</a> (opened 1935, renamed 2001), in Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert F. Kennedy</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Charles Sumner <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (built 1872 for African-American students; now serves as an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-libraries.html">archives and museum</a>), in Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumner.html#134.74.24">Charles Sumner</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Daniel C. Roper <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Junior High School</a> (opened 1966; later changed to Roper Middle School; renamed in 1997 as Ron Brown Middle School), in Washington, was named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rootes-rosco.html#678.47.69">Daniel C. Roper</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  The Ron Brown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Middle School</a> (now the Ron Brown College Preparatory <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>), in Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown7.html#059.18.56">Ronald H. Brown</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Stevens (active during the Civil War, 1861-65; site now a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">park</a>) in Washington, was named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens4.html#466.50.51">Isaac I. Stevens</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hall</a>, at George Washington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  Gales <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (built 1881; used as a school until 1944; now houses the Central Union Mission), in Washington, is named for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/galbreath-gall.html#890.62.56">Joseph Gales, Jr.</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span style="font-size:8pt;"> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. 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