Georgetown's main campus, located in Washington's historic Georgetown neighborhood, is noted for Hall, a National Landmark in the revival style. Georgetown's law school is located on Capitol Hill and Georgetown has auxiliary campuses in Italy, Turkey, and Qatar.
Georgetown's founding by John Carroll, America's first Catholic bishop, realized earlier efforts to establish a Roman Catholic college in the province of Maryland that had been thwarted by religious persecution. The university expanded after the American
The university's most notable alumni are prominent in public life in the United States and abroad. Among .S. President Bill Clinton, U.S. Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin dozens of U.S. governors and members of Congress, heads of state or government of more than a dozen countries, royalty and diplomats.
of Patrick Francis who came to be known as Georgetown's "second founder" despite having been born a slave by law. Jesuits have participated in the university's administration since 1805, a heritage Georgetown celebrates, but the university has always been governed independently of the Society of Jesus and of church authorities.
Comprising 9 undergraduate and graduate schools, the university has about 7,000 undergraduate and over 10,000 post-graduate ethnic, and geographic backgrounds, including 130 foreign countries
Campus organizations include the country's largest student-run business and largest student-run financial institution. Georgetown's athletic teams, nicknamed a men's basketball team that has won a Big East championships, appeared in five Final Fours, and won a national championship in
the Georgetown College Boat Club, the school's rowing team, adopted blue, used for Union uniforms, and gray, used for Confederate uniforms, as its colors to signify the peaceful unity school adopted these as its official colors.
The U.S. Civil War greatly affected Georgetown as and alumni enlisted in one army or the other, and the Union Army commandeered university the time of President Abraham Lincoln's May 1861 visit to campus,living in temporary quarters there. Due to the number of lives lost, enrollment levels remained low
until well after the war was over. Only seven students graduated in 1869, down from over 300 in the previous decade. At its founding in 1876,
Enrollment did not recover from the war until the 1881. Born a slave by law, was the first acknowledged head of a predominantly white American university with with reforming the undergraduate curriculum, lengthening the medical
and law programs, and creating the Alumni Association. One of his largest undertakings was the construction of a major new building, subsequently name Hall in his honor. For his work, is known as the school's "second founder.
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