Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889

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

Ralph Oregon Dunbar

Quill platform ID: p16625.

A Republican from the Eleventh District, the forty-four year old lawyer lived in Golden- dale. Born in Illinois in 1845, Dunbar came to Oregon in 1846. He was graduated from Willamette University. He was clerk of the District Court in Olympia in 1870-71, member of the territorial council in 1878, prosecuting attorney for his district in 1882, speaker of the house in 1885, and probate judge of Klickitat county in 1888. Dunbar served on the following committees: State, School and Granted Lands, chairman; Judicial Department; Education and Educational Institutions.

Member of 11. Eleventh District—Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889.

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