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The President's Residence in the historic 1925 F Street Club

The George Washington University is a private, coeducational university in Washington, D.C.. The university has about 24,531 students. It was founded on February 9, 1821. The current president of the university is Steven Knapp.

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The athletics teams of the university are called the Colonials. They have 22 varsity teams and they compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference.

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President George Washington left shares in his last will to endow a university in the nation's capital.
Lieutenant General George Washington, by Clark Mills, on Washington Circle, on the northern edge of the Foggy Bottom campus.
The School of Media and Public Affairs and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
GW Faculty developed the recoilless anti-tank rifle (popularly known as the Bazooka).
The GWU Law School is the oldest law school in the national capital.
Avard Fairbanks's Busts of George Washington are located at the borders of the Foggy Bottom Campus.
The former home of James Monroe
GWU Student Association is GW's student government.
The White House is across the street from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and a few blocks from central campus.
Rice Hall, 1922 F Street, houses various administrative offices.
The Charles E. Smith Center is the home of the GWU Colonials.
Clarence Thomas, current U.S. Supreme Court Justice & GWU Law School lecturer.
Nobel Prize in Medicine winner Ferid Murad, a GWU Medical School professor.
William Greenleaf Eliot, founder of Washington University in St. Louis; BA 1831
Belva Ann Lockwood, first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court
John Foster Dulles, former U.S. Secretary of State; LLB
J. Edgar Hoover, 1st Director of the FBI; LLB '16, LLM '17
George W. Romney, President of American Motors Corporation, Governor of Michigan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
1st President of South Korea, Syngman Rhee; BA 1907
Julius Axelrod, Nobel Prize in Medicine-winning biochemist; PhD '55
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady of the United States; BA '51
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology
U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, founder of the Fulbright Program; JD '34
Mark Warner, United States Senator from Virginia; BA '77
Harry Reid, former Senate Majority Leader (D-Nevada); JD '68
Eric Cantor, former House Majority Leader and House Majority Whip (R-Virginia); BA '85
Former U.S. Attorney General, William Barr; JD '77
United States Senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren; attended three years.
Kun-Hee Lee, Chairman of Samsung; MBA '66
Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State; MBA '71
Former U.S. Defense Secretary, Mark Esper; PhD '08
Kellyanne Conway, former Counselor to the President; JD '92
John Shalikashvili, Supreme Allied Commander and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; MA '70
United States Senator from Illinois, Tammy Duckworth; MA '96
Michael Coats, Astronaut and Shuttle Commander; MS '77
Glenn Greenwald, journalist; BA '90
Chuck Todd, television journalist and moderator of Meet The Press; (attended; did not graduate)
Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor for the Washington Post
Alec Baldwin, actor; (did not graduate; transferred)
Kerry Washington, Actress; BA '98
David Lynch, American filmmaker, painter, musician, singer, sound designer, photographer, and actor; BA '64

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