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  1. Overview: Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. 16. Sixteenth District

Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889

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

16. Sixteenth 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
Edward Eldridge Visualize A Republican from the Sixteenth District, the sixty-one year old delegate was engaged in farming and sawmilling in Whatcom. Born in Scotland in 1828, Eldridge followed the sea until 1849. He mined in California and came to Whatcom, Washington Territory, in 1853. He had held all of the county offices and was speaker of the house in the territorial legislature in 1866. He had been a delegate at the Walla Walla Constitutional Convention of 1878. Eldridge served on the folowing committees: Revision, Adjustment and Enrollment; State, School and Granted Lands. 16. Sixteenth District (This negotiation)
James Power Visualize A delegate from the Sixteenth District, the forty year old printer and publisher lived in LaConner. Born in Ireland, he came to Ohio and then to Washington. He was a member of the territorial legislature in 1883. Power served on the following committees: Printing, Mileage and Contingent Expenses, chairman; Harbors, Rivers, Tidewaters and Navigable Streams; rules for Convention. 16. Sixteenth District (This negotiation)
J. J. Weisenburger Visualize A delegate from the Sixteenth District, the thirty-three year old lawyer lived in Whatcom. He was born in Illinois in 1855. He had been city attorney and a justice of the peace. Weisenburger served on the following committees: Judicial Department; Corporations Other Than Municipal; Mining and Mining Interests. 16. Sixteenth District (This negotiation)