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=Washington Territorial Legislature=

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

 * Parties

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Political career

 * 1928 election: $27,803.68 spent by Edwards, remained highest until 1948
 * Recalled on July 13, 1931, after firing City Light Superintendent James D. Ross

Demographics

 * "Tech corridor"

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?*https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/congress/#view=map&year=1992&xyz=0.218/0.098/12.346&district=053103107001
 * 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

Presidential races

 * Solidly Democratic since 1988

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