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The George Washington University (GW, GWU, or George Washington) is a private, coeducational examination school seen in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The school was authorized by an Act of Congress on February 9, 1821, as the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. In 1904, it changed its name to the George Washington University to pay tribute to George Washington, the principal President of the United States. It is the greatest foundation of cutting edge instruction in the District of Columbia. The school rewards student and graduate degrees in a couple trains through each and every piece of its ten separate schools. GWU’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, Elliott School of International Affairs, Milken Institute School of Public Health, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of Nursing offer student and graduate degrees. The school also has particular schools inside colleges, for instance, the School of Media and Public Affairs and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. GWU is dependably situated by The Princeton Review in the top “Most Politically Active” Schools. A critical number of the school’s graduates have proceeded to high positions inside both the United States Government and in outside governments. Conspicuous graduated class consolidate US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, past Secretary of State Colin Powell, past First-Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and past FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. There are starting now four George Washington University graduated class serving in the United States Senate, nine serving in the United States House of Representatives, and ten serving as United States negotiators. The amusements gatherings and present and past understudies generally speaking are called “Colonials”. Baptist priest and driving minister Luther Rice raised trusts to purchase a site for a school to train locals from all through the young nation in Washington, D.C. A far reaching building was based on College Hill, which is right now known as Meridian Hill, and on February 9, 1821, President James Monroe insisted the congressional authorization making the non-denominational Columbian College in the District of Columbia. The essential start in 1824 was seen as a basic event for the energetic city of Washington, D.C. In cooperation were President Monroe, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Marquis de Lafayette and distinctive dignitaries. In the midst of the Civil War, most understudies left to join the Confederacy and the school’s structures were used as a recuperating focus and garisson cabins. Walt Whitman was among enormous quantities of the volunteers to take a shot at the grounds. Taking after the war, in 1873, Columbian College transformed into the Columbian University and moved to a urban downtown zone concentrated on fifteenth and H paths, NW. George Washington, the school’s namesake In 1904, Columbian University changed its name to the George Washington University in a simultaneousness with the George Washington Memorial Association to fabricate a grounds amassing out of gratefulness for the main U.S. president.