WASHINGTON STATE LEADERSHIP

GOVERNORS OF WASHINGTON

In 1853, President Millard Fillmore signed the Organic Act creating the Washington Territory and appointed Maj. Isaac Stevens as the first Territorial Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Territorial Militia. Washington was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state on Nov. 11, 1889.

Territoral Governors

1853-1857 - Isaac Stevens 1857-1858 - LaFayette McMullen 1859-1861 - Richard Gholson 1861- William Wallace 1862-1867 - William Pickering 1867 - George Cole 1867-1869 - Marshall Moore 1869-1870 - Alvan Flanders 1870-1872 - Edward Selig Salomon 1872-1880 - Elisha Peyre Ferry* 1880-1884 -William Augustus Newell 1884-1887 - Watson Carvasso Squire 1887-1889 - Eugene Semple 1889 - Miles Conway Moore

Statehood - 1957

1889-1893 -Elisha Peyre Ferry* 1893-1897 - John McGraw 1897-1901 - John Rogers 1901-1905 - Henry McBride 1905-1909 - Albert Mead 1909 - Samuel Cosgrove 1909-1913 - Marion Hay 1913-1919 - Ernest Lister 1919-1925 - Louis Folwell Hart 1925-1933 - Roland Hartley 1933-1941 - Clarence D. Martin 1941-1945 - Arthur B. Langlie** 1945-1949 - Monrad C. Wallgren 1949-1957 - Arthur B. Langlie**

1957 - Current

1957-1965- Albert Rosellini 1965-1977 - Daniel Evans 1977-1981 - Dixy Lee Ray*** 1981-1985 - John Spellman 1985-1993 - Booth Gardner 1993-1997 - Mike Lowry 1997-2005 - Gary Locke 2005-2013 - Christine Gregoire 2013-Current - Jay Inslee

* - Elisha Peyre Ferry was both the Washington Territoral Governor and won the first elected state governor. ** -Arthur Langlie is the only governor elected twice in state history and has served the longest with 12 years total in office *** - Dixy Lee Ray was the first female governor of Washington.