The Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse is a

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of the

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. It is located at 401 Courthouse Square (2200 Jamieson Avenue) in

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, and was built in the early 1990s. It was named in honor of

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judge

Albert V. Bryan Albert Vickers Bryan (July 23, 1899 – March 13, 1984) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the E ...

on June 26, 1995, through

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legislation sponsored by U.S. Senator

John Warner John William Warner III (February 18, 1927 – May 25, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 200 ...

of Virginia. From the mid-1980s until 1995, the name was applied to the 1932 federal courthouse at 200 South Washington Street that is now called the Martin V.B. Bostetter Courthouse.Margaret T. Peters (1995), ''Virginia's Historic Courthouses'', p. 220.

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{{Commons cat, Albert V Bryan Federal District Courthouse Courthouses in Virginia Federal courthouses in the United States Buildings and structures in Alexandria, Virginia Government buildings completed in 1932