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    Alexander Robey Shepherd (January 30, 1835 – September 12, 1902), was one of the most controversial and influential civic leaders in the history of Washington...
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    Alexander Robey Shepherd is a bronze statue, by Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar. It is located at the John A. Wilson Building, Northwest, Washington, D...
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  • servant) (c. 1797/98–1859), 2nd Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand Alexander Robey Shepherd (1835–1902), Governor of the District of Columbia This disambiguation...
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    District of Columbia, financing (along with fellow Republican Alexander Robey Shepherd) the election of Sayles J. Bowen as Mayor of Washington, D.C. In...
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    The neighborhood takes its name from its most famous resident: Alexander Robey Shepherd, the governor of the then-Territory of DC from 1873 to 1874. The...
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    " In 1873, President Grant appointed Alexander Robey Shepherd as Governor of the District of Columbia. Shepherd authorized large projects that modernized...
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  • (1902–1976), former mayor of Chicago, Illinois, United States Alexander Robey Shepherd, 1835–1902), Washington, D.C., politician William M. Tweed (1823–1878)...
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  • Vernon Square until the market was demolished on the orders of Alexander Robey Shepherd in 1872. Another version, closer to a true pie, was made by soaking...
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    influential member of the board of public works, Alexander Robey Shepherd, to the post of governor. Shepherd authorized large-scale municipal projects, which...
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    (1885–1977) Tom Pendergast (1873–1945) Frank Rizzo (1920–1991) Alexander Robey Shepherd (1835–1902) D. C. Stephenson (1891–1966) John F. Street (b. 1943)...
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