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  1. Overview: Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. Delegation Record: 22. Twenty-second District
  4. Gwin Hicks

Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889

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

Gwin Hicks

Quill platform ID: p16657.

A delegate from the Twenty-second District, the thirty-one year old real estate and stock exchange manager lived in Tacoma. Born in Olympia in 1858, Hicks was the only native of the territory in the Convention. He was a printer and reporter in Portland until 1882, when he moved to Tacoma and became a typesetter on the Tacoma Ledger. He had been deputy revenue collector for Western Washington, and at the time of the Convention was manager of the Tacoma Real Estate and Stock Exchange. Hicks served on the following committees: Preamble and Bill of Rights; Executive Department and Pardoning Power; State Seal; Apportionment and Representation.

Member of 22. Twenty-second District—Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889.

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