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Washington was born at ''Haywood Farms'' near Oak Grove of Westmoreland County, Virginia . He attended Harvard University , studied law, but devoted himself to agricultural pursuits on his plantation in Maryland. He resided for the most part at Dumbarton Heights in the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C. . Washington was elected to the Twentieth , Twenty-first , and Twenty-second Congresses, serving three terms from March 4, 1827 until March 3, 1833. In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee On District Of Columbia during the Twenty-second Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1832, but was elected two years later as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress, serving one term from March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1837. He was again not a candidate for renomination. After his service in Congress, Washington became president of the Chesapeake And Ohio Canal Company . He was also appointed by President John Tyler in 1844 as a commissioner to adjust and settle the claims arising under the treaty of 1835 with the Cherokee Indians . He died in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and is interred in Oak Hill Cemetery . REFERENCES |
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