State Constitutional Convention of 1889
Portraits of members of the 1889 State Constitutional Convention.
The Constitutional Convention
A State Constitutional Convention was in held in the Territorial Capitol Building in Olympia from July 4 through August 22, 1889. The 75 delegates named Delegate John Hoyt President of the Convention. The Convention drafted a state constitution for Washington which was ratified by the voters on October 1, 1889 by a vote of 40,152 in favor and 11,879 opposed.
Constitutional Convention members
Top Row (L-R): Albert Schooley; B.B. Glascock; J.F. Van Name; Edward Eldridge; R. S. More; James Hungate; W.B. Gray; T.L. Stiles; Samuel H. Berry; Thomas C. Griffits
Second Row (L-R): J.J. Travis; John R. Kinnear; M.M. Godman; John F. Gowey; A. A. Lindsley; George Turner; T.M. Reed; Francis Henry; S.H. Manly; Matt J. McElroy
Third Row (L-R): George Comegys; Louis Sohns; Gwin Hicks; O.A. Bowen; James A. Burk; D. Buchanan; Lewis Neace; J.J. Weisenburger
Fourth Row (L-R): J.T. Eschelman; S.G. Cosgrove; Dr. J.C. Kellogg; R.O. Bowen; H.F. Suksdorf; Morgan Morgans; J.P.T. McCrosky; J.T. McDonald
Fifth Row (L-R): Allen Weir; John M. Reed; David E. Durie; John McReary; William F. Prosser; Dr. H.C. Willison; Dr. N.G. Blalock; Richards Jeffs;
Sixth Row (L-R): James Z. Moore; B.L. Sharpstein; George H. Jones; J.J. Browne; Robert Jamieson; C.H. Warner; Charles P. Coey; Charles T. Fay; John A. Shoudy; Harrison Clothier
Seventh Row (L-R): E.H. Sullivan; Thomas Hayton; Henry Winsor; George H. Stevenson; Hiram E. Allen; Arnold J. West; Trusten P. Dyer; James Power; H.W. Fairweather; George W. Tibbetts
Eighth Row (L-R): S.A. Dickey; Thomas T. Minor; P.C. Sullivan; D.J. Crowley; Oliver H. Joy; H.M. Lillis; W. L. Newton; Robert F. Sturdevant; Frank L. Dallam; Austin Mires
(Center photo): John P. Hoyt