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King County’s Jefferson Day Center in downtown Seattle is open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., according to a spokesperson for the county’s Department of Community and Human Services.

Across the street from the Administration Building, the county’s Jefferson Day Shelter is open every day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

King County officials added 50 extra shelter beds at its Administration Building through Wednesday night and set up day shelter space at the Jefferson Day Center.

At a Jefferson Day dinner in April 1830, in Washington, then-President Andrew Jackson famously took on the “nullifiers” of South Carolina, who failed to honor the cause of national unity.

Here is FDR at the time of Jefferson’s birthday in 1932: “What is the real reason that Jefferson Day Dinners are being given throughout the length and breadth of the land, a century and a quarter after Thomas Jefferson was at the height of his career?”