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    The mayor of the District of Columbia is the head of the executive branch of the government of the District of Columbia. The mayor has the duty to enforce...
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    a list of mayors of Washington, D.C., and associated political entities. The federal district of the United States was first designated by the amended...
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    The District of Columbia has a mayor–council government that operates under Article One of the United States Constitution and the District of Columbia...
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    District of Columbia home rule is the District of Columbia residents' ability to govern their local affairs. As the federal capital, the Constitution grants...
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  • District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. It ruled that the Second Amendment...
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    Walter Washington (category Mayors of Washington, D.C.)
    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...
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    or her adjutant general. The mayor of the District of Columbia, the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, or the National Capital Service...
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    Voting rights of citizens in the District of Columbia differ from the rights of citizens in the 50 U.S. states. The United States Constitution grants...
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    Muriel Bowser (redirect from Mayor Bowser)
    as the mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented the 4th ward as a member of the Council...
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    are serving as the governor of an unincorporated U.S. territory. 2 women have served or are serving as Mayor of the District of Columbia. Currently, 12...
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    Adrian Fenty (category Members of the Council of the District of Columbia)
    December 6, 1970) is an American politician who served as the mayor of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2011. A Washington, D.C. native, Fenty graduated...
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    Vincent C. Gray (category Members of the Council of the District of Columbia)
    politician who served as the mayor of the District of Columbia from 2011 to 2015. He served for one term, losing his bid for reelection in the Democratic primary...
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    Sharon Pratt (category Women mayors of populated places in the United States)
    and politician who was the mayor of the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1995, the first mayor born in the District of Columbia since Richard Wallach...
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    The District of Columbia and United States Territories quarters were a series of six quarters minted by the United States Mint in 2009 to honor the District...
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    The Council of the District of Columbia (often abbreviated as the D.C. Council) is the legislative branch of the government of the District of Columbia...
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    official tourist attraction by Mayor of the District of Columbia Muriel Bowser, with a plaque unveiled at the base of the steps recognizing its importance...
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    the mayor of the District of Columbia, for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. Williams had previously served as chief financial officer for the district,...
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    formally the District of Columbia and commonly called Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac...
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  • Republicans in the District of Columbia. No Republican has ever been elected mayor since District of Columbia home rule began in 1975. The DC Republicans...
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    The District of Columbia statehood movement is a political movement that advocates making the District of Columbia a U.S. state, to provide the residents...
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  • condition of a thing, and the second refers to the political conception of a state. The mayor of the District of Columbia gives a State of the District address...
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    The District of Columbia Army National Guard is the Army component of the District of Columbia National Guard. As the District of Columbia is a federal...
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    as mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of the District of Columbia...
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    transferred from the federal government to the Mayor of the District of Columbia under the Home Rule Act. D.C. Code § 10-1005 establishes the "Protective Services...
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    The District of Columbia's at-large congressional district is a congressional district encompassing all of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United...
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    District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for...
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    The District of Columbia (a political division coterminous with Washington, D.C.) holds general elections every two years to fill various D.C. government...
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    The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is a public historically black land-grant university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1851 and...
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  • Sharon Kelly may refer to: Sharon Pratt Kelly, mayor of the District of Columbia in 1991–1995 Colleen Brennan, American porn actress also known as Sharon...
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    Carol Schwartz (category Members of the Council of the District of Columbia)
    member on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1997 to 2009. A five-time perennial candidate for mayor, she is the only...
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