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  1. Overview: Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. 11. Eleventh District

Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889

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

11. Eleventh 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
Ralph Oregon Dunbar Visualize 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. 11. Eleventh District (This negotiation)
Jacob T. Eshelman Visualize A Democrat from the Eleventh District, the thirty-seven year old minister and real estate dealer lived in North Yakima. Born in Scotland in 1852, Eshelman came to the United States in 1876 and to Washington in 1887. He had been school superintendent of Klickitat county, county treasurer, and chief clerk of the United States land office in Yakima. Eshelman served on the following committees: Education and Educational Institutions; Apportionment and Representation; State, School and Granted Lands. 11. Eleventh District (This negotiation)
William F. Prosser Visualize A Republican from the Eleventh District, the fifty-five year old lawyer lived in North Yakima. Born in Pennsylvania in 1834, Prosser had been a teacher, surveyor and miner. He was a colonel in the Civil War. In 1886 he became auditor of Yakima county, and he was special land agent for the general land office for Washington and Oregon. Prosser served on the following committees: Military Affairs, chairman; Apportionment and Representation; Harbors, Rivers, Tidewaters and Navigable Streams; rules for Convention. (March 16, 1834 — September 23, 1911) Prosser was a teacher, businessman, and politician. William Farrand Prosser was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1834 and moved to Tennessee after the Civil War. While a child, Prosser received limited school but became educated enough to become a teacher. He studied law but never practiced. In 1854, Prosser moved to California and became a miner. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army and attained the rank of colonel. After the war, he settled in Nashville, Tennessee and became a farmer. Prosser served in the State House of Representatives (1867-1869). He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives an served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871. After serving in Congress, Prosser worked as a publisher and was the director of the Tennessee, Endgefield and Kentucky Railroad. In 1879 he was appointed by President Hayes to the Interior Department for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. He was a delegate to the first State constitutional convention of Washington. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000550] 11. Eleventh District (This negotiation) , Tennessee Delegation (The Civil Rights Act of 1875)