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

Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889

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

24. Twenty-fourth 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
John F. Gowey Visualize A Republican from the Twenty-fourth District, the forty-three year old lawyer and bank president lived in Olympia. Born in Ohio in 1846, Gowey was admitted to the bar in 1869 and came to Washington in 1882. He had been registrar in the United States land office for four years, and was a member of the territorial council in 1888. At the time of the Convention, he was mayor of Olympia. Gowey served on the following committees: Revenue and Taxation, chairman; Judicial Department; Apportionment and Representation. 24. Twenty-fourth District (This negotiation)
Francis Henry Visualize 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. 24. Twenty-fourth District (This negotiation)
Thomas M. Reed Visualize A Republican from the Twenty-fourth District, the sixty-four year old surveyor, civil engineer and lawyer lived in Olympia. Born in Kentucky in 1825, Reed followed the California, Fraser River and Idaho gold rushes. He was on the Board of Supervisors and County Treasurer of Eldorado county in Idaho, became a member of the Idaho legislature and was admitted to the bar in that state. In 1857 he came to Olympia where he was chief clerk of the United States surveyor-general’s office for seven years. He was a member of the territorial council in 1876 and president of it in 1877. For ten years he was auditor of the territory. He had been Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Masons for twenty-eight years, Grand High Priest of the Royal Arch Masons, and was a Knight Templar and thirty-third degree Mason-Scottish Rite. Reed served on the following committees: State Institutions and Public Buildings, chairman; Revision, Adjustment and Enrollment; State, County and Municipal Indebtedness; credentials; rules for Convention. 24. Twenty-fourth District (This negotiation)