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Washington Territorial Legislature

Washington Territorial Legislature
Washington Territory
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Lower: House of Representatives Upper: Council
History
Established	1854
Disbanded	1889
Preceded by	Oregon Territorial Legislature
Succeeded by	Washington State Legislature
Seats	27 (1849) 35 (1858)
Meeting place
Olympia (1854)

The Washington Territorial Legislature was a bicameral legislative body that was part of the government of Washington Territory from 1854 to 1889. The legislature, consisting of the lower House of Representatives and the upper Council, met 25 times for 40 to 60 days in the late autumn.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/timeline/time3.htm

https://www.theclio.com/web/entry?id=21865

History

Washington Territory was created by an act of the United States Congress that was signed into law by President Millard Filmore on March 2, 1853.

http://leg.wa.gov/History/Legislative/Documents/HistoryOfTheLeg.pdf

List of mayors of Everett, Washington

Mayor of Everett
Incumbent Cassie Franklin since January 1, 2018
Style	The Honorable
Term length	4 years
Inaugural holder	Thomas Dwyer
Formation	May 4, 1893

The mayor of Everett, Washington is the head of the executive branch of the municipal government of Everett, Washington. The current mayor is Cassie Franklin, who was elected in 2017; she is the first woman to be elected mayor.

• Plaque at city hall with mayors?
• Resources: Library Chronology, 1999; HistoryLink (2018)

List of mayors

Parties

  Democratic    Progressive    Republican    Nonpartisan, Independent, and other parties

Mayor			Took office	Left office	Notes
1		Thomas Dwyer	May 4, 1893	January 1894
2		Norton D. Walling	January 1894	January 1895
3		Jacob Hunsaker (1)	January 1895	January 1896
4		William C. Cox	January 1896	January 1897
5		Jacob Falconer	January 1897	January 1899
6		James O. Whitmarsh	January 1899	January 1900
7		James E. Bell	January 1900	January 1901
8		Charles K. Greene	January 1901	January 1902
9		William E. Terrill	January 1902	January 1903
10		Jacob Hunsaker (2)	January 1903	January 1904
11		Thomas E. Headlee	January 1904	January 1906
12		James H. Mitchell	January 1906	January 1907
13		Newton Jones	January 1907	January 1910
14		Roland H. Hartley	January 1910	January 1912
15		Richard B. Hassell	January 1912	June 1912
16		Christian Christenson	July 1912	June 1914	Recalled by public vote
17		Thomas J. Kelly	June 1914	August 1914	Acting mayor
18		William H. Clay (1)	August 1914	January 1916
19		Dennis D. Merrill	January 1916	January 1920
20		William H. Clay (2)	January 1920	January 1924
21		John Henry Smith	January 1924	January 1928
22		Nelson D. Martin	January 1928	January 1932
23		Arthur C. Edwards	January 1932	January 1940
24		Stephen Frank Spencer	January 1940	November 1942	Resigned
25		John Davis Williams	November 1942	December 1943	Appointed to finish unexpired term.
26		Henry Arends	January 1944	June 1952
27		Louis H. Unzelman	June 1952	May 21, 1954	Died in office
28		C. Arvid Johnson	May 1954	June 1956
29		George N. Culmback	June 1956	July 6, 1960	Died in office
30		George W. Gebert	July 1960	April 1964	Appointed to finish unexpired term.
31		Arthur F. Alexander	April 1964	December 31, 1968
32		Robert C. Anderson	January 1, 1969	October 16, 1977	Resigned
33		Joyce Ebert	October 11, 1977 (also Oct. 17)	December 21, 1977	Appointed to finish unexpired term. First woman to hold office.
34		William E. Moore	January 1, 1978	December 31, 1989
35		Peter Kinch	January 1, 1990	December 31, 1993
36		Ed Hansen	January 1, 1994	July 1, 2002	Resigned to become PUD director
37		Frank E. Anderson	July 1, 2002	November 19, 2003	Appointed
38		Ray Stephanson	November 19, 2003	December 31, 2017	Longest-serving mayor
39		Cassie Franklin	January 1, 2018	Incumbent

Other offices held

• Jacob Falconer: U.S. House, State Senate, State House
• Roland H. Hartley: State House, Governor
• S. Frank Spencer: State House
• George Culmback: State House

Cassie Franklin

Cassie Franklin
Mayor of Everett, Washington
Incumbent
Assumed office January 1, 2018
Preceded by	Ray Stephanson
Member of the Everett City Council, Position 4
In office 2015 – December 14, 2017
Personal details
Born	1970 or 1971 (age 53–54)
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	David Franklin
Children	1

Cassie Franklin (born 1970 or 1971) is an American politician and the mayor of Everett, Washington. Franklin served on the Everett City Council from 2015 to 2017 and was elected as mayor in 2017, becoming the first woman to be elected as the city's mayor.

Political career

City council

Vice President

Mayoral candidacy

198 vote lead (at one point 17 behind)

Civic activities

Cocoon House

Personal life

Franklin lives with her husband David and daughter in the Port Gardner neighborhood.

List of Seattle City Council members

The Seattle City Council is a nine-member legislature in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Resources

• 1869 to 1893
• Municipal Archives

Common Council (1869–1882)

Councilmember	Took office	Left office	Party

Ward Representatives (1884–1890)

Councilmember	Took office	Left office	Party	Ward

Aldermen and Delegates (1890–1896)

Board of Aldermen

Councilmember	Took office	Left office	Party

House of Delegates

Councilmember	Took office	Left office	Party	Ward

Home Rule Charter (1896–1910)

Councilmember	Took office	Left office	Party	District/Position

At-large positions (1910–2015)

Councilmember	Took office	Left office	Party	Position

Districts (since 2016)

Councilmember	Took office	Left office	Party	District/Position

John Chelminiak

John Chelminiak
Mayor of Bellevue, Washington
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2, 2018
Preceded by	John Stokes
Member of the Bellevue City Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 2004
Personal details
Born	1952 or 1953 (age 71–72)
Political party	Republican (formerly)
Spouse	Lynn Semler
Children	2

John Chelminiak is an American politician and currently the mayor of Bellevue, Washington. He also serves on the Bellevue City Council.

Journalist career

• KIRO AM Radio
• Chief of staff for King County Executive Tim Hill and Snohomish County council?

Political career

• Elected in November 2003
• Served as deputy mayor from 2005 to 2007, and 2015 to 2017
• Elected as mayor on January 2, 2018

Personal life

He was attacked by a bear on September 18, 2010, while walking his dog near his vacation home near Lake Wenatchee.

Phyllis Lamphere

Phyllis Lamphere
Member of the Seattle City Council, Position 3
In office January 1, 1968 – August 14, 1978
Succeeded by	Dolores Sibonga
Personal details
Born	Phyllis Lee Hagmoe (1922-02-09)February 9, 1922 Seattle, Washington
Died	November 13, 2018(2018-11-13) (aged 96) Seattle, Washington
Spouse(s)	D. Grady Arnold (m. 1944–1944) Walter Jackson Cowan (m. 1947–195?) Arthur Valentine Lamphere (m. 1953–1987)
Residence	Seattle, Washington
Alma mater	Barnard College
Occupation	Activist

Phyllis Lamphere (February 9, 1922 – November 13, 2018) was an American politician and civic activist from Seattle, Washington. She was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1967 and re-elected several times, serving from 1968 to 1978; Lamphere was also elected the council president during her last term in 1978. Lamphere resigned from the city council in 1978 to become the Region X director of the Economic Development Administration. She was best known for her contributions to the Forward Thrust campaign as well as the construction of the Washington State Convention Center.

Early life

Phyllis Lee Hagmoe was born on February 9, 1922 at Swedish Hospital in Seattle to Ernest A. Hagmoe and Wilhelmina "Minnie" Emily Smith Hagmoe. Her mother Minnie had climbed Mount Rainier in 1917 and served as a public servant for most of her life, working for the state welfare department, Works Progress Administration, Armed Forces for the Seattle War Commission and King County Personal Tax Department among others.

• Educated at Interlake Grade School and Lincoln High School
• 1940: Scholarship to attend Barnard College
• 1944: Marriage to Lieut. D. Grady Arnold
• Hired by IBM
• Marriage to IBM salesman Walter Jackson Cowan

Political activism

• League of Women Voters

City Council

• Fifth woman to be elected to council; first to serve alongside another woman

Personal life

Lamphere died on November 13, 2018, at the Horizon House retirment center in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle.

Electoral history

Seattle City Council Election, November 7, 1967

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Phyllis Lamphere	76,964	72.38%
	Nonpartisan	George E. Cooley	29,371	27.62%

Seattle City Council Election, November 2, 1971

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Phyllis Lamphere	76,905	64.38%
	Nonpartisan	W.L. (Bill) Harrington	42,558	35.62%

Seattle City Council Election, November 4, 1975

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Phyllis Lamphere	116,669	75.05%
	Nonpartisan	John O. McKee	38,788	24.95%

Peter Rogoff

Peter Rogoff
CEO of Sound Transit
Incumbent
Assumed office March 2016
Preceded by	Mike Harbor (acting)
Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy
In office July 2014 – 2015
Succeeded by	Carlos Monje Jr. (acting)
Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration
In office May 2009 – January 2014
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	James S. Simpson
Succeeded by	Therese McMillan (acting)
Personal details
Born	(1960-03-09) March 9, 1960 New York City, New York
Spouse	Dena Morris
Children	2
Alma mater	Amherst College Georgetown University McDonough School of Business (M.B.A.)

Peter Rogoff is the current chief executive officer of Sound Transit, a transit agency in Seattle, Washington, US, and former Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration.

Early life and education

• Native of Queens, NY
• Graduated Amherst College in 1983 with Bachelor of Arts
• Georgetown University McDonough School of Business in 2001 with M.B.A.

Career

• Lobbyist for National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
• Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, 3 years
• Senate Appropriations Committee staffer, 22 years (14 years as Democratic Staff Director of Transportation Subcommittee)
• Ties to Senator Patty Murray, credited with helping Sound Transit during troubled years

Federal Transit Administration

• Nominated April 8, 2009

Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy

• Nominated May 14, 2014

Sound Transit

On November 19, 2015, the Sound Transit Board unanimously selected Rogoff to succeed outgoing CEO Joni Earl in March 2016.

• Allegations of inappropriate behavior in 2016

Personal life

• Avid runner and marathoner
• Lives on Queen Anne Hill

Seattle City Council districts

Based on Los Angeles City Council District 7

Seattle City Council District 6 is one of seven districts of the Seattle City Council, covering the city's northwest area. It was created in 2013 and is currently represented by councilmember Mike O'Brien. The district includes Ballard, Crown Hill, and Phinney Ridge, as well as part of Fremont and Greenwood.

Geography

• Boundaries, south: Ship Canal; east: Aurora Avenue/I-5 (north of NE 50th); north: NE 85th to Fremont to N 87th to Greenwood to N 105th to 14th/Norcross/Carkeek; west: Puget Sound

Demographics

• Population (2006?): 83,909
  • 2015: 88,763
• Race (alone): White 86.7%, Black 1.3%, Asian 5.6%, Mixed 4.3%, Hispanic 4.8%
• Described as middle-class and liberal

Washington State Department of Licensing

History

• 2009: DOL office consolidation and closure
• 2008: Enhanced ID; WA's is the first approved by DHS under WHTI
• REAL ID compliance and delays

Divisions

• Business and Professions Division
  • Professions added gradually from 1854 (notaries) onward
• Drivers Licensing
  • 5.8 million holders as of 2017
• $3 billion in gross tax revenue collected

License plates

• First metal plates issued in 1916
• Issued by state auditors beginning in 1933
• Historic scheme with county-based prefix
• 1955: Special commemorative "Horseless Carriage" plates issued to 707 vehicles older than 30 years in drawing at Saltwater State Park
• Last general issue in 1963, predicted to exhaust in 1983
• Pattern since January 2010: three letters and four numbers for most cars and SUVs
• Special plates for sports teams, various programs and charities
• Customized plates
• Made at Walla Walla and Monroe penitentiaries
• 1996 law mandated new plates every seven years beginning in 2001 allegedly for reflectivity
  • Surcharge for maintaining same number, waived for personalized plates

Car tabs

• Used to be annual around January 1 for all drivers and sold at county auditor offices, DMV, and "permanent agents and temporary stations"
• Later switched to staggered months
• Color switches
• Modern abuse

Offices

• 56 offices
• Car tabs handled by private contractor offices

Controversies

• REAL ID Act compliance
• Immigration enforcement
  • Director Pat Kohler steps down in May

Jim Ellis (King County activist)

Redirect from James R. Ellis and fix Jim Ellis (political activist)

Jim Ellis
Born	James Reed Ellis August 5, 1921 Oakland, California, U.S.
Died	October 21, 2019(2019-10-21) (aged 98) Bellevue, Washington, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University University of Chicago University of Washington
Occupation	Lawyer
Years active	1952–2000s
Known for	Civil activism
Spouse	Mary Lou Earling (m. 1944–1983)

Jim Ellis (August 5, 1921 – October 21, 2019) was an American lawyer and civil activist from Seattle, Washington. He was associated with the Municipal League and led a committee that created the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle to combat water pollution. Ellis was also a member of the Forward Thrust committee that successfully passed several major civic improvements, and was later involved in the creation of the Washington State Convention Center and Mountains to Sound Greenway.

Early life

James Reed Ellis was born on August 5, 1921, in Oakland, California, the eldest of three sons for Floyd Ellis and Hazel Reed Ellis, both from Eastern Washington. He moved with his family to Seattle's Lakewood neighborhood and graduated from Franklin High School in 1939. Ellis earned a scholarship to attend Yale University, but enlisted in the U.S. military alongside his younger brother Robert following the Attack on Pearl Harbor. He graduated from Yale in 1942 and earned a certificate in meteorology from the University of Chicago before being called into active duty with the U.S. Air Force in March 1943. Ellis's younger brother Robert was killed in action in February 1945, which he later described as "the seminal drive for [his] public service life".

Career and activism

Ellis graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 1948 and passed the state bar exam the following year. He joined the law firm of Preston, Thorgrimson & Horowitz, and later became a partner before it was merged into Preston Gates & Ellis.

After becoming a member of the Municipal League, Ellis was hired to draft a new county charter under the supervision of prosecuting attorney Charles O. Carroll, who opposed the new charter. The hiring and salary were challenged in a suit that was appealed to the Washington Supreme Court, ruling it valid.

Ellis was appointed to the University of Washington Board of Regents in 1965 by Governor Dan Evans. He retired from his practice in 1991.

Major projects

• Forward Thrust
• Washington State Convention Center
• Mountains to Sound Greenway

Resources

• HistoryLink
• SOS legacy
• UW Magazine
• Obituaries: Seattle Times, Seattle P-I
• Aquarium

Legacy

Ellis is described as one of the greatest civic leaders in Seattle's history, despite never serving in an elected office. Freeway Park in downtown Seattle was renamed in his honor in 2008.

• Ellis Pavilion at T-Mobile Park?

Personal life

Ellis met his wife, Mary Lou Earling, in high school but later reconnected with her following his graduation from Yale. They began dating during that year and married on November 18, 1944, while they were both deployed at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho; Ellis was continuing his military meteorology training while Earling had completed pilot training for the Women Airforce Service Pilots, which was dissolved shortly after her graduation. They had four children together. Mary Lou Ellis died in 1983 from complications of diabetes.

Washington's 1st congressional district

Based on Boston–Skegness and Perth

Washington's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Washington that elects a member of the United States House of Representatives. It is one of ten congressional districts from the state and generally encompasses the northeastern suburbs of the Seattle metropolitan area in King and Snohomish counties. Since 2012, the districts has been represented by Suzan DelBene, a Democrat from Medina.

The 1st district was created in 1909 to replace Washington's at-large district, which had been in place since statehood in 1889. From 2013 to 2022, the district encompassed most of northwestern Washington, including the rural areas of Skagit and Whatcom counties.

Geography

• Farmland uses: 20,153 acres

Demographics

• "Tech corridor"
• Population density: 2,319.6 persons per square mile

Cities and counties in the 1st congressional district

City	County	Population
Arlington	Snohomish	19,868
Auburn	King	87,256

History

• Created on March 4, 1909 (with November 1908 election) through elimination of WA's three at-large districts
• 1983: Washington voters approve independent redistricting commission, to convene for 1990 Census

Boundary changes

• Historic shapefiles and maps; Redistricting Commission history; another timeline
• 1913: all of Seattle (not yet annexed fully) and all of Kitsap County
• 1923:
• 1933:
• 1943:
• 1953:
• 1959: Moved to northern Seattle and some northeastern suburbs, along with Bainbridge Island; rest of old territory transferred to new 7th district
• 1963:
• 1973: Seattle (north of Madison Street?), Shoreline, Kenmore, and Kirkland/Redmond
• 1983: Removed from most of Seattle, added Everett, northern King County, and Bainbridge Island
• 1993:
• 2003: Northern Kitsap (including Bainbridge), South Snohomish County, North Eastside (Kirkland and Redmond); lost Skykomish Valley?
• 2013: Absorbed rural areas of 2nd district (up to Canadian border) and I-90 corridor; described as "up for grabs"
  • Interactive map from The Times
• 2023: Shrunk again to eastern suburbs of Seattle and Everett from Medina to Arlington with 2nd enlarged in Whatcom/Skagit and 8th in rural Snohomish/King
  • Democratic proposals: Eastern Snohomish County with dogleg west to Edmonds/Lynnwood/Shoreline and south to Medina via Bothell and Woodinville (Sims) or Eastern Snohomish County and larger portion of Northeast King County, with both doglegs (Piñero Walkinshaw)
  • Republican proposals: Compact along convergence zone from Mukilteo and Edmonds to Redmond, northern Sammamish, Kirkland, and top of SR 520 (Fain) or all of Chelan and Kittitas counties, plus eastern Snohomish and Skagit counties and northern Whatcom (Graves)

Electoral history

• Pre-1992: 40 years of Republican representation; broken by Cantwell, who only served one term
• Inslee's vacancy to run for governor in 2012
• DelBene's unexpected win in 2012, held since
  • Listed on the "endangered list" of Democrats

Election results

Presidential races

• Solidly Democratic since 1988

Washington State Office of Financial Management

History

• 1969: Office of Program Planning and Fiscal Management under Governor created
  • Consolidated Central Budget Agency and State Program Planning
• 1977: Proposal to change Office of Program Planning and Fiscal Management to just Financial Management
  • Approved in 1979

Divisions

• April 1 annual population estimates with different methodology than Census Bureau

United States congressional delegations from Washington

Map of Washington's ten congressional districts for the United States House of Representatives since redistricting took effect in 2022

Washington was admitted as a U.S. state in November 1889 and has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, beginning with the 51st United States Congress. Since the 2010 U.S. census, Washington has ten congressional districts that each elect a member of the House to two-year terms; two senators are elected statewide to six-year terms, as with all other states. These districts are re-drawn every ten years by a bipartisan commission.

Before becoming a state, Washington Territory elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1853 to 1889.

• Number of House and Senate members overall
• Demographic firsts
• Longest-serving

List of Washington gubernatorial elections

Examples: Pennsylvania, Liechtenstein

The U.S. state of Washington organizes a gubernatorial election every four years for voters to elect the Governor of Washington, the state's head of government, to a four-year term. The quadrennial gubernatorial general elections are held on Election Day in early November, concurrently with elections for the President of the United States, Lieutenant Governor of Washington, and other state and local offices. The inaugural election was held shortly before Washington was granted admitted as a state and is the only gubernatorial election to not be held within the four-year cycle.

Since the 1984 election, the winning candidate for governor has been a member of the Democratic Party. The state switched to a jungle primary system in 2008.

List of elections

Parties

  Independent   Democratic   Republican   Populist Party

List of Washington gubernatorial election results

Election	Elected governor		Votes	Runner(s)-up		Votes	Margin	Notes
1889		Elisha P. Ferry	33,711 (57.67%)		Eugene Semple	24,732 (42.31%)	8,979 (15.36%)