Which successful hotel businessman's first business was a nine-seat rootbeer stand in Washington D.C.?

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J. Willard Marriott, on May 20, 1927, with his partner, Hugh Colton opened their A & W rootbeer stand at 3128 14th St, NW, Washington, D.C.