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[edit] Law Schools
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- (R) - () and (30 states carried)
- (D) - () and 266 electoral votes (20 states and D.C. carried)
- Absention - 1 electoral votes (faithless elector)
| United States presidential election, 2000 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | George W. Bush/Dick Cheney | 271 electoral votes 50,460,110 |
50.65%,br>47.87% | ||
| Democratic | Al Gore/Joe Lieberman | 50,999,897 | 48.38% | ||
| Green | Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke | 2,883,105 0 electoral votes | 2.7% | ||
| Independent | Pat Buchanan/Ezola B. Foster | 449,225 | 0.4% | ||
| Libertarian | Harry Browne/Art Olivier (Libertarian) | 384,516 (0.4%) and 0 electoral votes | .0% | -60% | |
[edit] History
[edit] History
Washington University origins were in sixteen St. Louis business, political, and religious leaders concerned by the lack institutions of higher learning in the Midwest. The effort to found the university was spearheaded by Missouri State Senator Wayman Crow, and Unitarian minster William Greenleaf Eliot. Crow secured the university charter from the Missouri state legislature in 1853 and handled further political maneuvering. While Eliot, the was in charge of raising funds for the university, in accepted the position as President of the board of trustees. Washington University is unique among other American universities, in not having any prior financial endowment to begin with, the school had no religious backing, no wealthy patron, and no government support. Therefore financial problems plagued the university for several decades after its founding. Eliot was specifically able to solicit some support of from the St. Louis business community, including John O'fallon one of the wealthiest people in St. Louis, even briefly considering naming the university the O'Fallon Institute.
The name of the university was still unclear, in three years following its inspection the university bore three different names. The broad first approved Eliot Seminary but this title was eventually replaced in favor of the Washington Institute, because of William Eliot's stiff opposition to the name. Not only was Eliot personally uncomfortable with the idea of naming a university after himself, but he also objected to the establishment of Seminary which would inherently be charged with teaching a religious faith, in favor of a purely non-sectarian university. Under pressure from Eliot the Board of trustees created a task force charged with naming the university headed by Samuel Treat. Serval months later Treat's committee prosed naming the University the Washington Institute, after the nation's first president. However in the midst of finance problems the board of tutees, voted to name the university the O'Fallon Institute in order to secure funds from John O'fallon, the wealthiest individual in St. Louis. Treat felt the name was unsuitable and persuaded the board, drop the name in favor of the Washington Institute. Naming the University after the nation's first president only six years before the civil war during a time of bitter national division was no coincidence on the part of Treat. George Washington was universally admired by Americans and hailed as the father of America, and country's greatest president. Treat felt that the university should be a force of unity in a strongly divided nation. In 1856 the University amended its name to Washington University, the university's only amended its name once again in 1976 when the board of trustees voted to add the suffix in St. Louis to distinguish the university from the nearly two dozen universities bearing Washington's name. [3]
Although stationed as a university, Washington University functioned primarily as a night school located on 17th Street and Washington Avenue, in the heart of the bustling St. Louis Downtown. Once again plagued by the lack of resources, the Washington University was forced use public buildings. Classes began on October 22 1854 at the Benton School building, with the St. Louis public school system footing the payments. Eventually the broad was able to secure funds for the construction of Academic Hall, and a half dozen other buildings. Latter the university divided into three departments the Manual training School, Smith Academy, and the Mary Institute. In 1867 the university opened the first private non-sectarian law school west of the Mississippi River. By 1882 the university had expanded to numerous departments, housed in buildings spread across Downtown St. Louis. However by 1890s, the university on the brink of financial collapse, until Robert Sommers Brookings, president of the board of trustees, under took the task of rebuilding the universities finances, and acquiring land for a new campus. Brookings was instrumental in raising money for the university, now that Eliot the primary fundraiser for the university had died.
[edit] Washington University in the modern era
was university as a nonsectarian, private institution in 1853 by the Unitarian minister grandfather of the Nobel Prize laureate poet T. S. Eliot, and by St. Louis leader Wayman Crow. Its first chancellor was Joseph Gibson Hoyt. It desegregated its undergraduate divisions in May of 1952.
[edit] The top ten colleges and universities by Jewish student enrollment
1. New York University (6,500) 2. Boston University (4,000) 3. Cornell University (3,500) 4. The George Washington University; University of Pennsylvania; Yeshiva University (2,800) 5. Syracuse University (2,500) 6 Columbia University; Emory University; Harvard University; Tulane University (2,000)
1. University of Maryland, College Park; University of Florida, Gainesville (5,400) 2. Rutgers University, New Brunswick (5,000) 3. University of Central Florida (4,500) 4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Pennsylvania State University, University Park; University of Wisconsin, Madison (4,000) 5. California State University, Northridge; Florida State University; University of Texas, Austin (3,800) 6. University at Albany; Florida International University (3,500)
| Rank | State | Population | House Seats | Electoral Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nevada | 2,414,807 | 81,909 | 3.5% |
| 2 | Arizona | 5,939,292 | 199,413 | 3.5% |
| 3 | Idaho | 1,429,096 | 33,956 | 2.4% |
| 4 | Florida | 17,789,864 | 404,434 | 2.3% |
| 5 | Utah | 12,763,371 | 48,877 | 2% |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 12,429,616 | 19 | 21 |
| 7 | Ohio | 11,464,042 | 18 | 20 |
| 8 | Michigan | 10,120,860 | 15 | 17 |
| 9 | Georgia | 9,072,576 | 13 | 15 |
| 10 | New Jersey | 8,717,925 | 13 | 15 |
| 11 | North Carolina | 8,683,242 | 13 | 15 |
| 12 | Virginia | 7,567,465 | 11 | 13 |
| 13 | Massachusetts | 6,398,743 | 10 | 12 |
| 14 | Washington | 6,287,759 | 9 | 11 |
| 15 | Indiana | 6,271,973 | 9 | 11 |
| 16 | Tennessee | 5,962,959 | 9 | 11 |
| 17 | Arizona | 5,939,292 | 8 | 10 |
| 18 | Missouri | 5,800,310 | 9 | 11 |
| 19 | Maryland | 5,600,388 | 8 | 10 |
| 20 | Wisconsin | 5,536,201 | 8 | 10 |
| 21 | Minnesota | 5,132,799 | 8 | 10 |
| 22 | Colorado | 4,665,177 | 7 | 9 |
| 23 | Alabama | 4,557,808 | 7 | 9 |
| 24 | Louisiana | 4,523,628 | 7 | 9 |
| 25 | South Carolina | 4,255,083 | 6 | 8 |
| 26 | Kentucky | 4,173,405 | 6 | 8 |
| (n/a) | Puerto Rico | 3,916,632 | * | n/a |
| 27 | Oregon | 3,641,056 | 5 | 7 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 3,547,884 | 5 | 7 |
| 29 | Connecticut | 3,510,297 | 5 | 7 |
| 30 | Iowa | 2,966,334 | 5 | 7 |
| 31 | Mississippi | 2,921,088 | 4 | 6 |
| 32 | Arkansas | 2,779,154 | 4 | 6 |
| 33 | Kansas | 2,744,687 | 4 | 6 |
| 34 | Utah | 2,469,585 | 3 | 5 |
| 35 | Nevada | 2,414,807 | 3 | 5 |
| 36 | New Mexico | 1,928,384 | 3 | 5 |
| 37 | West Virginia | 1,816,856 | 3 | 5 |
| 38 | Nebraska | 1,758,787 | 3 | 5 |
| 39 | Idaho | 1,429,096 | 2 | 4 |
| 40 | Maine | 1,321,505 | 2 | 4 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 1,309,940 | 2 | 4 |
| 42 | Hawaii | 1,275,194 | 2 | 4 |
| 43 | Rhode Island | 1,076,189 | 2 | 4 |
| 44 | Montana | 935,670 | 1 | 3 |
| 45 | Delaware | 843,524 | 1 | 3 |
| 46 | South Dakota | 775,933 | 1 | 3 |
| 47 | Alaska | 663,661 | 1 | 3 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 636,677 | 1 | 3 |
| 49 | Vermont | 623,050 | 1 | 3 |
| (n/a) | District of Columbia | 550,521 | ** | 3 |
| 50 | Wyoming | 509,294 | 1 | 3 |
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