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  1. Overview: Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. Delegation Record: 24. Twenty-fourth District
  4. Francis Henry

Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889

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

Francis Henry

Quill platform ID: p16662.

A delegate from the Twenty-fourth District, the sixty-two year old lawyer lived in Olympia. Henry was born in Illinois in 1827. A Mexican war veteran, he came to Olympia in 1862 and served three terms in the territorial legislature. He was probate judge of Thurston county in 1879, after having been a clerk of the Supreme Court and treasurer of the city of Olympia. He was a member of the Walla Walla Constitutional Convention of 1878. Henry served on the following committees: Preamble and Bill of Rights; Corporations Other Than Municipal; State, School and Granted Lands.

Member of 24. Twenty-fourth District—Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889.

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