Washington State Library closure
Due to loss of funding, the Washington State Library in Tumwater is closed to the public starting July 1, 2025. We will respond to phone and email messages within one week. Learn more about affected services.
Due to loss of funding, the Washington State Library in Tumwater is closed to the public starting July 1, 2025. We will respond to phone and email messages within one week. Learn more about affected services.
Name | Affiliation | Assumed Office | Term(s) | Birth | Death |
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Isaac Ingalls Stevens | Democrat | 03/17/1853 | 1853-1857 | 03/25/1818 | 09/01/1862 |
Charles H. Mason (Acting) | Democrat | 03/26/1854 05/12/1855 08/1857 | 03/1854 - 12/1854 05/1855 - 01/19/1856 08/1857 - 09/1857 | 1830 | 07/29/1859 |
Fayette McMullen | Democrat | 09/1857 | 1857-1859 | 1810 | 11/08/1880 |
Charles H. Mason (Acting) | Democrat | 08/1858 | 08/1858 - 07/1859 | 1830 | 07/29/1859 |
Richard D. Gholson | Democrat | 07/1859 | 1859 - 1861 | 01/31/1802 | 08/28/1861 |
Henry M McGill (Acting) | 05/1860 | 1860 - 1861 | 1831 | 1915 | |
William Henson Wallace | Republican | 04/1861 | 1861 | 07/19/1811 | 02/07/1879 |
L. Jay S. Turney (Acting) | 1861 | 1861 - 1862 | 05/20/1881 | ||
William Pickering | Republican | 06/1862 | 1862 - 1866 | 1798 | 04/22/1873 |
George E. Cole | Democrat | 11/21/1866 | 1866 - 1867 | 12/23/1826 | 12/03/1906 |
Marshall F. Moore | Republican | 03/04/1867 | 1867 - 1869 | 02/12/1829 | 02/26/1870 |
Alvan Flanders | Republican | 1869 | 1869 - 1870 | 08/02/1825 | 03/14/1894 |
Edward Selig Salomon | Republican | 04/1870 | 1870 - 1872 | 12/25/1836 | 07/18/1913 |
Elisha Peyre Ferry | Republican | 04/1872 | 1872 - 1880 | 08/09/1825 | 10/14/1895 |
William Augustus Newell | Republican | 04/1880 | 1880 - 1884 | 09/05/1817 | 08/08/1901 |
Watson Carvosso Squire | Republican | 04/1884 | 1884 - 1887 | 05/18/1836 | 06/07/1926 |
Eugene Semple | Democrat | 04/1887 | 1887 - 1889 | 06/12/1840 | 08/28/1908 |
Miles Conway Moore | Republican | 03/1889 | 1889 | 04/17/1845 | 12/18/1919 |
View biographies of current and former State Governors
Name | Affiliation | Assumed Office | Website | Term(s) | Birth | Death |
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Elisha Peyre Ferry | Republican | 11/11/1889 | 1889 - 1897 | 08/09/1825 | 10/14/1895 | |
John Harte McGraw | Republican | 01/09/1893 | 1893 - 1897 | 10/04/1850 | 06/23/1910 | |
John Rankin Rogers | Populist / Democrat | 01/11/1897 01/14/1901 | 1897 - 1901 | 09/04/1838 | 12/26/1901 | |
Henry McBride | Republican | 12/26/1901 | 1901 - 1905 | 02/07/1856 | 10/06/1937 | |
Albert Edward Mead | Republican | 01/09/1905 | 1905 - 1909 | 12/14/1861 | 03/19/1913 | |
Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove | Republican | 01/27/1909 | 1909 | 04/10/1847 | 03/28/1909 | |
Marion E. Hay | Republican | 03/28/1909 | 1909 - 1913 | 12/09/1865 | 11/21/1933 | |
Ernest Lister | Democrat | 01/11/1913 01/08/1917 | 1913 - 1919 | 06/15/1870 | 06/14/1919 | |
Louis Folwell Hart | Republican | 06/14/1919 01/10/1921 | 1919 - 1925 | 01/04/1862 | 12/05/1929 | |
Roland Hill Hartley | Republican | 01/12/1925 01/14/1929 | 1925 - 1933 | 06/26/1864 | 09/21/1952 | |
Clarence Daniel Martin | Democrat | 01/09/1933 01/11/1937 | 1933 - 1941 | 06/29/1864 | 08/11/1955 | |
Arthur Bernard Langlie | Republican | 01/13/1941 | 1941 - 1945 | 07/25/1900 | 07/24/1966 | |
Monrad Charles Wallgren | Democrat | 01/10/1945 | 1945 - 1949 | 04/17/1891 | 09/18/1961 | |
Arthur Bernard Langlie | Republican | 01/12/1949 01/12/1953 | 1949 - 1957 | 07/25/1900 | 07/24/1966 | |
Albert Dean Rosellini | Democrat | 01/14/1957 01/09/1961 | 1957 - 1965 | 01/21/1910 | 10/10/2011 | |
Daniel Jackson Evans | Republican | 01/11/1965 01/13/1969 01/08/1973 | 1965 - 1977 | 10/16/1925 | ||
Dixy Lee Ray | Democrat | 01/12/1977 | 1977 - 1981 | 09/03/1914 | 01/02/1994 | |
John Dennis Spellman | Republican | 01/14/1981 | 1981 - 1985 | 12/29/1926 | ||
Booth Gardner | Democrat | 01/16/1985 01/11/1989 | 1985 - 1993 | 08/21/1936 | 03/15/2013 | |
Michael Edward Lowry | Democrat | 01/13/1993 | Link | 1993 - 1997 | 03/08/1939 | |
Gary Locke | Democrat | 01/15/1997 01/10/2001 | Link | 1997 - 2005 | 01/21/1950 | |
Christine Gregoire | Democrat | 01/12/2005 01/14/2009 | Link | 2005 - 2013 | 03/24/1947 | |
Jay Inslee | Democrat | 01/16/2013 | 2013 - | 02/09/1951 |