What is Walter Washington?
{{Infobox Governor |birthname= Walter Edward Washington |image= walterwashington.jpg |caption= |order=[[List of mayors of Washington, D.C.|1st]] |office= Mayor of the District of Columbia |term_start= January 2, 1975 |term_end= January 2, 1979 |predecessor= Himself (as appointed Mayor-Commissioner) |successor=[[Marion Barry]] |office2= Mayor-Commissioner of the District of Columbia |term_start2= 1967 |term_end2= January 2, 1975 |predecessor2= [[Walter Nathan Tobriner]] (as President of the Board of Commissioners) |successor2=Himself (as elected Mayor) |birth_date = {{birth date|1915|4|15|mf=y}} |birth_place = [[Dawson, Georgia|Dawson]], Georgia |death_date = {{death date and age|2003|10|27|1915|4|15|mf=y}} |death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]] |spouse= Bennetta Bullock (married 1942, died 1991) <br /> Mary Burke (married 1994) |children= Bennetta Washington |profession= [[Lawyer|Attorney]] |party= [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] |footnotes= }} '''Walter Edward Washington''', (April 15, 1915 &ndash; October 27, 2003) was an [[Americans|American]] politician. He was chief executive of [[District of Columbia]] from 1967 to 1979, serving as the first and only Mayor-Commissioner from 1967 to 1974 and as the first [[District of Columbia home rule|home-rule]] [[mayor of the District of Columbia]] from 1974 to 1979. He was the last presidentially-appointed mayor of the District of Columbia. ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} *[http://thefbifiles.com/?p=394 FBI Files pertaining to Walter Washington] * [http://www.visionaryproject.org/washingtonwalter Walter Washington's oral history video excerpts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804124425/http://www.visionaryproject.org/washingtonwalter/ |date=2009-08-04 }} at The National Visionary Leadership Project {{us-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Washington, Walter}} [[Category:1915 births]] [[Category:2003 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from renal failure]] [[Category:Deaths from cardiac arrest]] [[Category:Mayors of Washington, D.C.]] [[Category:D