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The Washington Monument is shown on Jan. 8, 1942. It was begun by a committee formed in 1833 under the chairmanship of Chief Justice John Marshall. The monument was completed in 1884 after 22 years of many trials and one interruption in the work. Built to honor George Washington, the United States’ first president, the 555-foot marble obelisk towers over Washington, D.C. AP