Well, I decided to post another topic and since I dont have time to type up some new information I decided to show you the essay I wrote for Washington History, its about washington state and washington territory governors and the history of them, memorize the things you want and if you want me to go into further detail on something just ask. 3nodding
I know its not to well written, I wrote it in like 3 hours the night before :[ but oh well, the information is all there.. and sources.
Today you will be reading about the history of Washington’s governor elections and how it has affected us in the past and how it does affect us today. I may not be able to cover everything in this essay but I will gather the most important information in this essay and at the end of this paper hopefully you will have a better understanding of Washington’s political history and perhaps why the people in office today are there and why we have the weakness our state has and the strengths our state has.
Our first governor was Isaac Stevens, he was of the democratic party and his most notable effort was his will to push Native Americans onto reservations and in doing so starting the fire that would lead to the campaign against the Yakama tribe, as a governor he was not very successful due to his cutthroat tactics, though he won the favor of many white settlers in Washington Territory (note that Washington was not yet a state at this point), due to him being on the settlers side as opposed to the Indians side. The next notable governor is Edward Selig Salomon, he served in the Civil War as a second lieutenant and later became the 9th governor of Washington Territory, he was eventually caught up in the Grant administration (which basically is the name given to the years which a series of unfortunate and pricey scandals occurred and government officials were bribed to let these scandals pass through the system) he then resigned and moved to San Francisco to practice law there until his death. Our last Washington Territory governor was William Augustus Newell, he first served as the 18th governor of New Jersey before coming to Washington and serving here. The most important thing he did in his political career was the “Newell Act”, which started from humanitarian group efforts to save shipwrecked sailors and passengers and then turned into the Newell Act, since 1915 it has been dubbed the United States Coastal Guard we know today. Newell was also a republican, and during his political career he spent most of his time balancing budgets and lowering taxes. At one point in Newell’s career he was a part of a jury that was to decide the fate of a medical student named “James P. Donnelly”, who was convicted of murdering Alfred S. Moses, because Donnelly was an Irish Catholic and the judge and most of the jury were Protestant it became a big deal in New Jersey and when Newell’s vote was the deciding factor in Donnelly’s sentence Newell doomed himself to a failure in his political career from then on, his final seat in office was that as governor of Washington Territory.
In 1889 Washington Territory became known as Washington State and was divided from its original expanse, these are the more notable governors of Washington State. John Rankin Rogers was the third governor of Washington State and was a populist democrat (populist was a short-lived political party in the 19th century, mostly because it supported western farmer ideals. It received its name for being the peoples party, but quickly faded from history when the democrats took up most of the populist’s ideals and brought them to the national level note that the borrowing of the populists ideals brought many civilians to the democratic party). Roger’s spent his three terms in office reforming jailing systems, promoting government efficiency and supporting educational reform. Roger has had a monument made of him in Sylvester Park Olympia, Washington and until 1972 Washington State University’s football stadium was named after him (to Clarence D. Martin, see below). Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove, the sixth governor of Washington State and a republican, he served for only one day before moving to California for health reasons, the shortest-lived governor term in the history of United States. Clarence D. Martin was the eleventh governor of Washington State and was a Democrat, Martin was known as the “people’s governor”, because of his ability to budget government funding and cut spending costs. He also oversaw large projects such as the Grand Coulee Dam, which put many people to work during the Great Depression (the football stadium and academy were named for him at Washington State University, the stadiums name was changed from Roger Stadium to Martin Stadium). Albert Dean Rosellini is the oldest living governor of Washington State and serves as a mentor to many political figures, including Christine Gregoire. He has also been believed to be connected to organized crime but no solid proof has been attained, Rosellini is a Democrat. Dixy Lee Ray was the first woman governor in the state of Washington and was a democrat, she won the election governor election from the large number of democratic supporters in Washington and then after election applied mostly conservative ideals; likely because of this she lost re-election in the next term. John D. Spellman was the eighteenth governor of Washington State and a Republican; during his term Washington faced economic troubles and rising unemployment. Unfortunately state legislature was unable to make any progress on fixing these economic problems and the only thing they did was increase sales tax from 5.5% to 6.5%, because of this failure to satisfy the public Spellman faced a horrible defeat to Booth Gardner, succeeded Spellman as the nineteenth governor of Washington and a Democrat, during his term he worked with the environment and the educational systems. Mike Lowry served as the twentieth governor of Washington State and was also a Democrat, before becoming governor of Washington he ran for Senate twice and lost both times, first to Republican Dan Evans (also a former governor), who had previously been put in place to fulfill Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson and later on Slate Gorton also a Republican which was a close vote. After his first term as governor he chose not to run for re-election because of a sexual harassment scandal between him and his deputy press secretary who accused him of inappropriate remarks and fondling her. Recently Lowry has been active in building affordable houses for immigrating Washington laborers. Our most recent governor Gary F. Locke was the first Chinese American governor in the history of United States, he went through two terms and shortly before his third he announced that "After much thought and careful deliberation with my family, I have decided not to seek a third term as governor of Washington State," [C1] Many people belief his true reasons for not running for a third term to be because he had received racist threats after comments made during the State of the Union address. Our current governor is Christine Gregoire, the most interesting her political career include the vote count of 2004 when she ran against Dino Rossi, Dino Rossi ahead by 261 votes, because the count was close the state mandated a recount putting Christine Gregoire to only a 42 vote trail of Rossi, after this the Democratic party requested and paid for a recount which gave Christine Gregoire a 10 vote lead. They also filed a motion in the state Supreme Court that King County rejected votes be reevaluated, the result put Gregoire ahead by 129 votes and because no more recounts were allowed by state law she was accepted into office (even though her lead was lower than Dinos previous lead without any recounts). Prior to Gregoire’s election into office as governor she was the Washington State General for three terms, during these terms she was one of the leads of a lawsuit against the Tobacco Industry in the 1990s, which one the state $4,500,000 or $4.5 billion dollars, with a $500 million bonus for having such high involvement in the case. Later on however Gregoire’s office failed to file papers which initially lost Washington State $17.8 million, after the lawsuit Janet Capps resigned as state attorney due to a private investigation, she then sued the state for wrongful termination due to influence by Gregoire’s deputies, the state eventually lost $22.4 million more for a grand total of $40.2 million in loss, Gregoire attempted to push the blame onto an employee under her but due to her position there is no way she can delegate the ultimate responsibility onto someone else. Christine Gregoire’s election as governor made Washington the first state to have three women as in the most powerful positions in the state, with Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell as Senators and Gregoire as Governor.
As you can see there is a very interesting history of Washington governors, many have helped to shape Washington and the United States into what it is today and a few have even broken through and set records. We saw this with Gary F. Locke, being the first Chinese governor in the U.S and with Dixie Lee Ray, being the first woman to be a Washington governor and finally with Gregoire setting the final stone that completes the ring as the first state to have two woman Senates and a woman Governor. You may also have noticed that a large number of Washington’s governors have been very interested in making public education better, which is probably why Washington has one of the highest literacy rates and highest testing scores in the nation. It may also be why Seattle is the most literate city in the United States. In total we have had 36 governors of Washington, twenty-one of them being Republican and fifteen of them being Democratic, it is odd that in a largely Democratic/Liberal state we have elected more Republicans than Democrats, but the tide that turned may not have turned until the mid 90’s after Spellman’s failure to deliver the people with a strong economy, since then we have had not one Republican elected governor and four elected Democrats with six terms from 1985-Present. Indeed, Washington has introduced many important leaders of the United States has a number of accomplishments under its belt, all of these things are interesting
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List of Washington Territory governors (1853-1889)
# Name Took Office Left Office Party
1 Isaac Ingalls Stevens 1853 1857 Democrat
2 LaFayette McMullen 1857 1859 Democrat
3 Richard D. Gholson 1859 1861 Democrat
4 William H. Wallace 1861 1861 Republican
5 William Pickering 1862 1866 Republican
6 George E. Cole 1866 1867 Democrat
7 Marshall F. Moore 1867 1869 Republican
8 Alvan Flanders 1869 1870 Republican
9 Edward Selig Salomon 1870 1872 Republican
10 Elisha Peyre Ferry 1872 1880 Republican
11 William Augustus Newell 1880 1884 Republican
12 Watson Carvasso Squire 1884 1887 Republican
13 Eugene Semple 1887 1889 Democrat
14 Miles Conway Moore 1889 1889 Republican
List of Washington State governors (1889-present)
# Name Took Office Left Office Party
1 Elisha P. Ferry 1889 1893 Republican
2 John McGraw 1893 1897 Republican
3 John Rogers 1897 1901 Democratic and Populist
4 Henry McBride 1901 1905 Republican
5 Albert E. Mead 1905 1909 Republican
6 Samuel G. Cosgrove 1909 1909 Republican
7 Marion E. Hay 1909 1913 Republican
8 Ernest Lister 1913 1919 Democrat
9 Louis F. Hart 1919 1925 Republican
10 Roland H. Hartley 1925 1933 Republican
11 Clarence D. Martin 1933 1941 Democrat
12 Arthur B. Langlie 1941 1945 Republican
13 Monrad C. Wallgren 1945 1949 Democrat
14 Arthur B. Langlie 1949 1957 Republican
15 Albert D. Rosellini 1957 1965 Democrat
16 Daniel J. Evans 1965 1977 Republican
17 Dixie Lee Ray 1977 1981 Democrat
18 John D. Spellman 1981 1985 Republican
19 Booth Gardner 1985 1993 Democrat
20 Mike Lowry 1993 1997 Democrat
21 Gary Locke 1997 2005 Democrat
22 Christine Gregoire 2005 - Democrat
Sources cited
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg615.htm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/paynter/132272_paynter25.html
http://gary-locke.biography.ms/ [C1]
www.wikipedia.org sad many places using wikipedia, governor names, lists, etc).
I know its not to well written, I wrote it in like 3 hours the night before :[ but oh well, the information is all there.. and sources.
Today you will be reading about the history of Washington’s governor elections and how it has affected us in the past and how it does affect us today. I may not be able to cover everything in this essay but I will gather the most important information in this essay and at the end of this paper hopefully you will have a better understanding of Washington’s political history and perhaps why the people in office today are there and why we have the weakness our state has and the strengths our state has.
Our first governor was Isaac Stevens, he was of the democratic party and his most notable effort was his will to push Native Americans onto reservations and in doing so starting the fire that would lead to the campaign against the Yakama tribe, as a governor he was not very successful due to his cutthroat tactics, though he won the favor of many white settlers in Washington Territory (note that Washington was not yet a state at this point), due to him being on the settlers side as opposed to the Indians side. The next notable governor is Edward Selig Salomon, he served in the Civil War as a second lieutenant and later became the 9th governor of Washington Territory, he was eventually caught up in the Grant administration (which basically is the name given to the years which a series of unfortunate and pricey scandals occurred and government officials were bribed to let these scandals pass through the system) he then resigned and moved to San Francisco to practice law there until his death. Our last Washington Territory governor was William Augustus Newell, he first served as the 18th governor of New Jersey before coming to Washington and serving here. The most important thing he did in his political career was the “Newell Act”, which started from humanitarian group efforts to save shipwrecked sailors and passengers and then turned into the Newell Act, since 1915 it has been dubbed the United States Coastal Guard we know today. Newell was also a republican, and during his political career he spent most of his time balancing budgets and lowering taxes. At one point in Newell’s career he was a part of a jury that was to decide the fate of a medical student named “James P. Donnelly”, who was convicted of murdering Alfred S. Moses, because Donnelly was an Irish Catholic and the judge and most of the jury were Protestant it became a big deal in New Jersey and when Newell’s vote was the deciding factor in Donnelly’s sentence Newell doomed himself to a failure in his political career from then on, his final seat in office was that as governor of Washington Territory.
In 1889 Washington Territory became known as Washington State and was divided from its original expanse, these are the more notable governors of Washington State. John Rankin Rogers was the third governor of Washington State and was a populist democrat (populist was a short-lived political party in the 19th century, mostly because it supported western farmer ideals. It received its name for being the peoples party, but quickly faded from history when the democrats took up most of the populist’s ideals and brought them to the national level note that the borrowing of the populists ideals brought many civilians to the democratic party). Roger’s spent his three terms in office reforming jailing systems, promoting government efficiency and supporting educational reform. Roger has had a monument made of him in Sylvester Park Olympia, Washington and until 1972 Washington State University’s football stadium was named after him (to Clarence D. Martin, see below). Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove, the sixth governor of Washington State and a republican, he served for only one day before moving to California for health reasons, the shortest-lived governor term in the history of United States. Clarence D. Martin was the eleventh governor of Washington State and was a Democrat, Martin was known as the “people’s governor”, because of his ability to budget government funding and cut spending costs. He also oversaw large projects such as the Grand Coulee Dam, which put many people to work during the Great Depression (the football stadium and academy were named for him at Washington State University, the stadiums name was changed from Roger Stadium to Martin Stadium). Albert Dean Rosellini is the oldest living governor of Washington State and serves as a mentor to many political figures, including Christine Gregoire. He has also been believed to be connected to organized crime but no solid proof has been attained, Rosellini is a Democrat. Dixy Lee Ray was the first woman governor in the state of Washington and was a democrat, she won the election governor election from the large number of democratic supporters in Washington and then after election applied mostly conservative ideals; likely because of this she lost re-election in the next term. John D. Spellman was the eighteenth governor of Washington State and a Republican; during his term Washington faced economic troubles and rising unemployment. Unfortunately state legislature was unable to make any progress on fixing these economic problems and the only thing they did was increase sales tax from 5.5% to 6.5%, because of this failure to satisfy the public Spellman faced a horrible defeat to Booth Gardner, succeeded Spellman as the nineteenth governor of Washington and a Democrat, during his term he worked with the environment and the educational systems. Mike Lowry served as the twentieth governor of Washington State and was also a Democrat, before becoming governor of Washington he ran for Senate twice and lost both times, first to Republican Dan Evans (also a former governor), who had previously been put in place to fulfill Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson and later on Slate Gorton also a Republican which was a close vote. After his first term as governor he chose not to run for re-election because of a sexual harassment scandal between him and his deputy press secretary who accused him of inappropriate remarks and fondling her. Recently Lowry has been active in building affordable houses for immigrating Washington laborers. Our most recent governor Gary F. Locke was the first Chinese American governor in the history of United States, he went through two terms and shortly before his third he announced that "After much thought and careful deliberation with my family, I have decided not to seek a third term as governor of Washington State," [C1] Many people belief his true reasons for not running for a third term to be because he had received racist threats after comments made during the State of the Union address. Our current governor is Christine Gregoire, the most interesting her political career include the vote count of 2004 when she ran against Dino Rossi, Dino Rossi ahead by 261 votes, because the count was close the state mandated a recount putting Christine Gregoire to only a 42 vote trail of Rossi, after this the Democratic party requested and paid for a recount which gave Christine Gregoire a 10 vote lead. They also filed a motion in the state Supreme Court that King County rejected votes be reevaluated, the result put Gregoire ahead by 129 votes and because no more recounts were allowed by state law she was accepted into office (even though her lead was lower than Dinos previous lead without any recounts). Prior to Gregoire’s election into office as governor she was the Washington State General for three terms, during these terms she was one of the leads of a lawsuit against the Tobacco Industry in the 1990s, which one the state $4,500,000 or $4.5 billion dollars, with a $500 million bonus for having such high involvement in the case. Later on however Gregoire’s office failed to file papers which initially lost Washington State $17.8 million, after the lawsuit Janet Capps resigned as state attorney due to a private investigation, she then sued the state for wrongful termination due to influence by Gregoire’s deputies, the state eventually lost $22.4 million more for a grand total of $40.2 million in loss, Gregoire attempted to push the blame onto an employee under her but due to her position there is no way she can delegate the ultimate responsibility onto someone else. Christine Gregoire’s election as governor made Washington the first state to have three women as in the most powerful positions in the state, with Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell as Senators and Gregoire as Governor.
As you can see there is a very interesting history of Washington governors, many have helped to shape Washington and the United States into what it is today and a few have even broken through and set records. We saw this with Gary F. Locke, being the first Chinese governor in the U.S and with Dixie Lee Ray, being the first woman to be a Washington governor and finally with Gregoire setting the final stone that completes the ring as the first state to have two woman Senates and a woman Governor. You may also have noticed that a large number of Washington’s governors have been very interested in making public education better, which is probably why Washington has one of the highest literacy rates and highest testing scores in the nation. It may also be why Seattle is the most literate city in the United States. In total we have had 36 governors of Washington, twenty-one of them being Republican and fifteen of them being Democratic, it is odd that in a largely Democratic/Liberal state we have elected more Republicans than Democrats, but the tide that turned may not have turned until the mid 90’s after Spellman’s failure to deliver the people with a strong economy, since then we have had not one Republican elected governor and four elected Democrats with six terms from 1985-Present. Indeed, Washington has introduced many important leaders of the United States has a number of accomplishments under its belt, all of these things are interesting
--------------------
List of Washington Territory governors (1853-1889)
# Name Took Office Left Office Party
1 Isaac Ingalls Stevens 1853 1857 Democrat
2 LaFayette McMullen 1857 1859 Democrat
3 Richard D. Gholson 1859 1861 Democrat
4 William H. Wallace 1861 1861 Republican
5 William Pickering 1862 1866 Republican
6 George E. Cole 1866 1867 Democrat
7 Marshall F. Moore 1867 1869 Republican
8 Alvan Flanders 1869 1870 Republican
9 Edward Selig Salomon 1870 1872 Republican
10 Elisha Peyre Ferry 1872 1880 Republican
11 William Augustus Newell 1880 1884 Republican
12 Watson Carvasso Squire 1884 1887 Republican
13 Eugene Semple 1887 1889 Democrat
14 Miles Conway Moore 1889 1889 Republican
List of Washington State governors (1889-present)
# Name Took Office Left Office Party
1 Elisha P. Ferry 1889 1893 Republican
2 John McGraw 1893 1897 Republican
3 John Rogers 1897 1901 Democratic and Populist
4 Henry McBride 1901 1905 Republican
5 Albert E. Mead 1905 1909 Republican
6 Samuel G. Cosgrove 1909 1909 Republican
7 Marion E. Hay 1909 1913 Republican
8 Ernest Lister 1913 1919 Democrat
9 Louis F. Hart 1919 1925 Republican
10 Roland H. Hartley 1925 1933 Republican
11 Clarence D. Martin 1933 1941 Democrat
12 Arthur B. Langlie 1941 1945 Republican
13 Monrad C. Wallgren 1945 1949 Democrat
14 Arthur B. Langlie 1949 1957 Republican
15 Albert D. Rosellini 1957 1965 Democrat
16 Daniel J. Evans 1965 1977 Republican
17 Dixie Lee Ray 1977 1981 Democrat
18 John D. Spellman 1981 1985 Republican
19 Booth Gardner 1985 1993 Democrat
20 Mike Lowry 1993 1997 Democrat
21 Gary Locke 1997 2005 Democrat
22 Christine Gregoire 2005 - Democrat
Sources cited
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg615.htm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/paynter/132272_paynter25.html
http://gary-locke.biography.ms/ [C1]
www.wikipedia.org sad many places using wikipedia, governor names, lists, etc).
