- Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889 Summary Statistics
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Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
Washington's first constitutional convention met between July and August 1889 to draft the state's foundational text.
Cite as: Cashlyn English, Gwen Wilde, Hector Manzanerez, Joseph Andersen-Stanley, Yana Andersen-Stanley, Daniel Little, Liné Fourie, Caleb Stowell, Hannah Thayne, Nicholas Cole, Lauren Davis, Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2020-2023).
Summary View
A summary view for the full record of the convention
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Sources:
5 historical records used for this dataset.
Process:
31 committees met in 295 sessions. Average 59.0 sessions each.
Dates from Thursday, 04 July 1889 to Thursday, 22 August 1889.
People:
95 people in 25 voting delegations.
Top 5 most active people are:
- Thomas C. Griffitts (209 events)
- George Turner (203 events)
- John P. Hoyt (143 events)
- Theodore L. Stiles (142 events)
- Trusten P. Dyer (141 events)
Summary of person events:
- 301
join a committee. - 4
leave a committee. - 119
elections to a position.
Procedures:
1321 procedural motions considered.
Summary of procedural events:
- 1321
procedural motion proposed. - 43
motions debated.
Documents:
455 documents considered with 1011 amendments presented.
Summary of document events:
- 455
new documents created. - 465
documents passed from another committee. - 1002
amendments to a document proposed. - 169
debates on a proposal.
Decisions:
2686 number of decisions made.
Summary of decision made:
- 1480
proposals adopted. - 560
proposals rejected. - 371
proposals referred to another committee. - 50
debate of a proposal postponed. - 83
proposal dropped from discussion without a formal vote. - 15
some other decision on a proposal.