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Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington,D.C.,United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789,it is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States and the nation's first federally chartered university.
Philip Aloysius Hart was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat,he served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until his death from cancer in Washington,D.C. in 1976. He was known as the "Conscience of the Senate". The Hart Senate Office Building is named in his honor.
Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican,Ehrlich represented Maryland's 10th legislative district in the House of Delegates from 1987 to 1995 and Maryland's 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.
Robert Frederick Drinan was a Jesuit priest,lawyer,human rights activist,and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Drinan left office to obey Pope John Paul II's prohibition on political activity by priests.
Martin Joseph O'Malley is an American politician who served as the 17th commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 2023 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Party,he was the 61st governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015 and the 48th mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007.
Thomas George Pratt was a lawyer and politician from Annapolis,Maryland. He was the 27th governor of Maryland from 1845 to 1848 and a U.S. senator from 1850 to 1857.
Georgetown Preparatory School is a Jesuit college-preparatory school in North Bethesda,Maryland for boys in ninth through twelfth grade. It has a 93-acre campus. It is the only Jesuit boarding school in the United States.
William Henry Boyce,was an American lawyer and politician from Georgetown,in Sussex County,Delaware,and later from Dover,in Kent County,Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party,and served as Associate Justice of the Delaware Superior Court and U.S. Representative from Delaware.
Anthony Gregory Brown is an American lawyer and politician serving as the attorney general of Maryland. He also served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 4th congressional district from 2017 to 2023 and as lieutenant governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for governor in the 2014 election,losing to Republican Larry Hogan in a close race.
Jamin Ben "Jamie" Raskin is an American attorney,law professor,and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. The district previously included portions of Montgomery County,a suburban county northwest of Washington,D.C.,and extended through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. Since redistricting in 2022,Raskin's district now encompasses only part of Montgomery County.
James C. Duff is the Executive Director of the Supreme Court Historical Society,and has served as Executive Director since February 2021. He is a former director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. He previously served as Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO),by appointment of Chief Justice John G. Roberts,Jr.,from January 2015 through January 2021. He served an earlier term as AO Director from July 2006 to September 2011. As AO Director,Duff was the Secretary of the Judicial Conference of the United States and a member of the board of the Federal Judicial Center. He served from 2006 to 2011,and again from 2015 to 2020.
Fred Kenelm Nielsen was a Danish-American lawyer,diplomatic official,and college football coach. Nielsen served as the head football coach at the Maryland Agricultural College—now known as the University of Maryland,College Park—from 1905 to 1906,the George Washington University from 1907 to 1908,Georgetown University from 1910 to 1911,and the Catholic University of America from 1915 to 1916.
Richard Stuart Madaleno Jr.,commonly known as Rich Madaleno,is an American politician from Maryland. A Democrat,he was a member of the Maryland State Senate,representing the state's 18th district in Montgomery County,which includes Wheaton and Kensington,as well as parts of Silver Spring,Bethesda and Chevy Chase. Madaleno served as chair of the Montgomery County Senate Delegation from 2008 to 2011. He previously served four years in the House of Delegates.
Roger P. Manno is an American politician. He was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2006 to represent the 19th Legislative District,and in 2010 was elected to the Maryland State Senate.
The history of Georgetown University spans nearly 400 years,from the early European settlement of America to the present day. Georgetown University has grown with both its city,Washington,D.C.,and the United States,each of which date their founding to the period from 1788 to 1790. Georgetown's origins are in the establishment of the Maryland colony in the seventeenth century. Bishop John Carroll established the school at its present location by the Potomac River after the American Revolution allowed for free religious practice.
The Campuses of Georgetown University,the Law School Campus,the Main Campus,and the Medical Campus,are located within Washington,D.C. Georgetown's Main and Medical Campuses are located in Georgetown,Washington,D.C. between Canal Road,Prospect Street,and Reservoir Road. The Law Campus is located in downtown DC on New Jersey Avenue,near Union Station. Other parts of Georgetown are located in the D.C. Area,including the Center for Continuing and Professional Education at Clarendon in Arlington,Virginia. Georgetown also has an overseas campus in Education City,Qatar,and villas in Alanya,Turkey and Fiesole,Italy.
Todd L. Schuler is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party.
David Nathan Saperstein is an American rabbi,lawyer,and Jewish community leader who served as United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He previously served as the director and chief legal counsel at the Union for Reform Judaism's Religious Action Center for more than 40 years.
Richard Thomas Merrick was a lawyer and Democratic political figure.
Eric Bjornlund is an American expert in democratization assistance and election observation and co-founder and president of Democracy International and the author of Beyond Free and Fair:Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. Bjornlund is also a lawyer and adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
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