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  1. Overview: Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
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  3. 04. Fourth District

Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889

Washington's first constitutional convention met between July and August 1889 to draft the state's foundational text.

04. Fourth District

This is one of the 26 delegations in the convention, accounting for 3 of 95 people who took part.

Members (3):

Name Visualize Details Delegations
Frank M. Dallam Visualize A Republican from the Fourth District, the forty year old printer and publisher lived in Davenport. ... Born in Missouri in 1849, Dallam was raised in Illinois where he published the Warsaw Bulletin from 1876 to 1875. He published the Hayward Journal in California from 1877 to 1882. Moving to Washington, he established the Review in Spokane Falls, publishing it from 1883 to 1889. At the time of the Convention, he was putting out the Davenport Times. Dallam served on the following committees: Preamble and Bill of Rights; County, City and Township Organization; Printing, Mileage and Contingent Expenses; State Seal. 04. Fourth District (This negotiation)
Hanford Wentworth Fairweather Visualize A Republican from the Fourth District, the thirty-seven year old banker lived in Sprague. Born in St. Johns, New Brunswick, in 1852, Fairweather came to the United States in 1865 and to Washington in 1871. He had been a railroad executive and at the time of the Convention was a colonel in the militia, director of the First National Bank of Spokane Falls, and president of the First National Bank of Sprague. Fairweather served on the following committees: Executive Department and Pardoning Power; State, County and Municipal Indebtedness; Revenue and Taxation. 04. Fourth District (This negotiation)
Benjamin B. Glascock Visualize A delegate from the Fourth District, the forty-six year old farmer and stock raiser lived in Spokane Falls. Born in Missouri in 1843, Glascock came to Washington in 1883. He had been a member of the California Constitutional Convention. Glascock served on the following committees: Elections and Elective Rights; Military Affairs; County, City and Township Organization. 04. Fourth District (This negotiation)