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Washingtons Founding of the Capitol and 1800 Election Echoes
Elmo Scott Watson recounts the birth of the District of Columbia, the selection of L Enfant and Thornton plans for the Capitol, and the dramatic 1800 election crisis culminating in Jeffersons 1801 inauguration in the new capital.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Congress
United States
Washington
American Congress
National
New York City
John Langdon
New Hampshire
Senate
Frederick A. Muhlenberg
Pennsylvania
New York
Philadelphia
Potomac District
Maryland
Virginia
Potomac River
National Capital
District of Columbia
Potomac
Thomas, Johnson
David Stuart
Daniel Carroll
Pierre Charles L’enfant
Boston
Stephen Hallate
William Thornton
Thomas Jefferson
Capitol
Jefferson
Che
Thornton
Hallate
James Hoban
Aquia Creek
Federal
Adams
John Adams
District
Columbia
Congress of the
Democratic-Republican Party
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Aaron Burr
Himself
House of Representatives
House
Burr
Vermont
Marshall
Supreme Court
James A. Bayard
Delaware
Bayard
Wester Newspaper Union