Former D.C. Mayor Walter Washington dies
Walter Washington, the first mayor of Washington, D.C., to lead the city under home rule, died Monday. He was 88. According to the Washington Post, the
Walter Washington, the first mayor of Washington, D.C., to lead the city under home rule, died Monday. He was 88. According to the Washington Post, the cause of death was kidney failure and cardiopulmonary arrest. Named mayor-commissioner of the city in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson, Williams became the “first African-American chief executive of a major U.S. city, then kept the job in the District of Columbia’s first mayoral election,” the paper says. “He remained mayor until Jan. 2, 1979, when Marion Barry, who defeated him the previous fall, was inaugurated.” For more information, visit
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