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Washington Territorial and State Governors
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Name | Affiliation | Assumed Office | Term(s) | Birth | Death |
Isaac Ingalls Stevens |
Democrat |
03/17/1853 |
1853-1857 |
03/25/1818 |
09/01/1862 |
Charles H. Mason (Acting) |
Democrat |
03/26/1854 05/12/1855 08/1857 |
03/1854 - 12/1854 05/1855 - 01/19/1856 08/1857 - 09/1857 |
1830 |
07/29/1859 |
Fayette McMullen |
Democrat |
09/1857 |
1857-1859 |
1810 |
11/08/1880 |
Charles H. Mason (Acting) |
Democrat |
08/1858 |
08/1858 - 07/1859 |
1830 |
07/29/1859 |
Richard D. Gholson |
Democrat |
07/1859 |
1859 - 1861 |
01/31/1802 |
08/28/1861 |
Henry M McGill (Acting) |
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05/1860 |
1860 - 1861 |
1831 |
1915 |
William Henson Wallace |
Republican |
04/1861 |
1861 |
07/19/1811 |
02/07/1879 |
L. Jay S. Turney (Acting) |
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1861 |
1861 - 1862 |
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05/20/1881 |
William Pickering |
Republican |
06/1862 |
1862 - 1866 |
1798 |
04/22/1873 |
George E. Cole |
Democrat |
11/21/1866 |
1866 - 1867 |
12/23/1826 |
12/03/1906 |
Marshall F. Moore |
Republican |
03/04/1867 |
1867 - 1869 |
02/12/1829 |
02/26/1870 |
Alvan Flanders |
Republican |
1869 |
1869 - 1870 |
08/02/1825 |
03/14/1894 |
Edward Selig Salomon |
Republican |
04/1870 |
1870 - 1872 |
12/25/1836 |
07/18/1913 |
Elisha Peyre Ferry |
Republican |
04/1872 |
1872 - 1880 |
08/09/1825 |
10/14/1895 |
William Augustus Newell |
Republican |
04/1880 |
1880 - 1884 |
09/05/1817 |
08/08/1901 |
Watson Carvosso Squire |
Republican |
04/1884 |
1884 - 1887 |
05/18/1836 |
06/07/1926 |
Eugene Semple |
Democrat |
04/1887 |
1887 - 1889 |
06/12/1840 |
08/28/1908 |
Miles Conway Moore |
Republican |
03/1889 |
1889 |
04/17/1845 |
12/18/1919 |
STATE GOVERNORS
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Name | Affiliation | Assumed Office | Website | Term(s) | Birth | Death |
Elisha Peyre Ferry |
Republican |
11/11/1889 |
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1889 - 1897 |
08/09/1825 |
10/14/1895 |
John Harte McGraw |
Republican |
01/09/1893 |
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1893 - 1897 |
10/04/1850 |
06/23/1910 |
John Rankin Rogers |
Populist / Democrat |
01/11/1897 01/14/1901 |
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1897 - 1901 |
09/04/1838 |
12/26/1901 |
Henry McBride |
Republican |
12/26/1901 |
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1901 - 1905 |
02/07/1856 |
10/06/1937 |
Albert Edward Mead |
Republican |
01/09/1905 |
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1905 - 1909 |
12/14/1861 |
03/19/1913 |
Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove |
Republican |
01/27/1909 |
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1909 |
04/10/1847 |
03/28/1909 |
Marion E. Hay |
Republican |
03/28/1909 |
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1909 - 1913 |
12/09/1865 |
11/21/1933 |
Ernest Lister |
Democrat |
01/11/1913 01/08/1917 |
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1913 - 1919 |
06/15/1870 |
06/14/1919 |
Louis Folwell Hart |
Republican |
06/14/1919 01/10/1921 |
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1919 - 1925 |
01/04/1862 |
12/05/1929 |
Roland Hill Hartley |
Republican |
01/12/1925 01/14/1929 |
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1925 - 1933 |
06/26/1864 |
09/21/1952 |
Clarence Daniel Martin |
Democrat |
01/09/1933 01/11/1937 |
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1933 - 1941 |
06/29/1864 |
08/11/1955 |
Arthur Bernard Langlie |
Republican |
01/13/1941 |
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1941 - 1945 |
07/25/1900 |
07/24/1966 |
Monrad Charles Wallgren |
Democrat |
01/10/1945 |
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1945 - 1949 |
04/17/1891 |
09/18/1961 |
Arthur Bernard Langlie |
Republican |
01/12/1949 01/12/1953 |
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1949 - 1957 |
07/25/1900 |
07/24/1966 |
Albert Dean Rosellini |
Democrat |
01/14/1957 01/09/1961 |
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1957 - 1965 |
01/21/1910 |
10/10/2011 |
Daniel Jackson Evans |
Republican |
01/11/1965 01/13/1969 01/08/1973 |
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1965 - 1977 |
10/16/1925 |
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Dixy Lee Ray |
Democrat |
01/12/1977 |
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1977 - 1981 |
09/03/1914 |
01/02/1994 |
John Dennis Spellman |
Republican |
01/14/1981 |
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1981 - 1985 |
12/29/1926 |
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Booth Gardner |
Democrat |
01/16/1985 01/11/1989 |
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1985 - 1993 |
08/21/1936 |
03/15/2013 |
Michael Edward Lowry |
Democrat |
01/13/1993 |
Link |
1993 - 1997 |
03/08/1939 |
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Gary Locke |
Democrat |
01/15/1997 01/10/2001 |
Link |
1997 - 2005 |
01/21/1950 |
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Christine Gregoire |
Democrat |
01/12/2005 01/14/2009 |
Link |
2005 - 2013 |
03/24/1947 |
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Jay Inslee |
Democrat |
01/16/2013 |
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2013 - |
02/09/1951 |
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