Delaware 8,887 6,153 4,177 4,509 3,292 2,605 2,290 1,798 The newly restructured District government provided for a governor appointed by the President for a 4-year term with an 11-member council also appointed by the President a locally elected 22-member assembly and a five-man Board of Public Works charged with modernizing the city the first vice-chair of that Board of Public Works was real-estate developer Alexander Robey Shepherd the architect and proponent of the consolidating legislation From September 1873 to June 1874 Shepherd would serve as the second and final governor of the District. More than 20,000 injured or ill soldiers received treatment in an array of permanent and temporary hospitals in the capital including the U.S Patent Office and for a time the Capitol itself Among the notables who served in nursing were American Red Cross founder Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix who served as superintendent of female nurses in Washington Novelist Louisa May Alcott served at the Union Hospital in Georgetown Poet Walt Whitman served as a hospital volunteer and in 1865 would publish his famous poem "The Wound-Dresser." the United States Sanitary Commission had a significant presence in Washington as did the United States Christian Commission and other relief agencies the Freedman's Hospital was established in 1862 to serve the needs of the growing population of freed slaves. USA 1 Background Strong governors with veto power over the legislature and substantial appointment authority, Main article: Congressional Research Service. Another issue that would affect the compromise was Texas's debt; it had approximately $10 million in debt left over from its time as an independent nation and that debt would become a factor in the debates over the territories, The President's House in Philadelphia was Washington's residence from 1790 to 1797.
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