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Hugh Williamson North Carolina 1 Yes, 4 Statistics Battle of Fort Sumter, A Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury. Washington D.C. Business Directory The Patowmack Canal was intended by George Washington to connect the Tidewater region near Georgetown with Cumberland Maryland Started in 1785 on the Virginia side of the river it was not completed until 1802 Financial troubles led to the closure of the canal in 1830 the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal operated along the banks of the Potomac in Maryland from 1831 to 1924 and also connected Cumberland to Washington D.C. This allowed freight to be transported around the rapids known as the Great Falls of the Potomac River as well as many other smaller rapids. Main article: 1860 United States presidential election John Hart New Jersey 2 Yes The John A Wilson Building houses the offices of the mayor of Washington and the Council of the District of Columbia. President George Washington Gilbert Stuart (1795), On December 4 1786 Washington was chosen to lead the Virginia delegation but he declined on December 21 He had concerns about the legality of the convention and consulted James Madison Henry Knox and others They persuaded him to attend it however as his presence might induce reluctant states to send delegates and smooth the way for the ratification process. On March 28 Washington told Governor Edmund Randolph that he would attend the convention but made it clear that he was urged to attend, Another approach to the question was offered by Quaker and Florida planter Zephaniah Kingsley Jr He advocated and personally practiced deliberate racial mixing through marriage as part of his proposed solution to the slavery issue: racial integration called "amalgamation" at the time in an 1829 Treatise he stated that mixed-race people were healthier and often more beautiful that interracial sex was hygienic and that slavery made it convenient.:190 Because of these views tolerated in Spanish Florida he found it impossible to remain long in Territorial Florida and moved with his slaves and multiple wives to a plantation in Haiti (now in the Dominican Republic) There were many others who less flagrantly practiced interracial common-law marriages with slaves (see Partus sequitur ventrem).