Daniel Rapine

He and his partner John Conrad opened the Washington Printing and Bookselling Company across the street from the Capitol.

[2] At that time, the mayor was an employee of the Federal government, with power to levy only very small taxes on the citizens of Washington City.

[3] During the 1820s, Rapine was a member of the prestigious society, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, which counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.

[4] Rapine returned to the bookselling business after his term as mayor, although he was also appointed a justice of the peace for Washington County by President James Madison.

[3] Daniel Rapine died on May 11, 1826, after a long illness and was buried in an unmarked grave in Congressional Cemetery.