Governors of Washington, territorial and state . ortunately, he does not mention thedate. The barest biographical essentials are stillmissing in this case. Edwin Gholson, of Cincinnati,is said to be preparing a genealogy of the Gholsonfamily. He has not answered an appeal for infor-mation. J. Franklin Jameson, director of the depart-ment of historical research, Carnegie institution ofWashington, has caused to be made an extensivesearch in the great library of congress. The resultsare simply baffling in their meagerness. In Collinshistory of Kentucky it was found that Gholson wasa Democratic me
Governors of Washington, territorial and state . ortunately, he does not mention thedate. The barest biographical essentials are stillmissing in this case. Edwin Gholson, of Cincinnati,is said to be preparing a genealogy of the Gholsonfamily. He has not answered an appeal for infor-mation. J. Franklin Jameson, director of the depart-ment of historical research, Carnegie institution ofWashington, has caused to be made an extensivesearch in the great library of congress. The resultsare simply baffling in their meagerness. In Collinshistory of Kentucky it was found that Gholson wasa Democratic member of the Kentucky senate from1851 to 1855, representing Hickman, Ballard, Fultonand Graves counties. His own county was and Washington newspapers were searchedin vain. As for a portrait, no success was obtainedby a search in the usual sources, including the listof 100,000 Americans in the files of the AmericanLibrary Association. The search is still in progress WILLIAM H. WALLACE W. H. WALLACE Fourth Territorial Governor1861. NO. IV.—WILLIAM H. WALLACE The fourth governor of the territory was formany reasons a most interesting character in thehistory of the West. He Was born in Troy, Miamicounty, Ohio, July 19, 1811. He studied law inIndiana and moved to Iowa in 1835. There he servedas speaker of the house in the first legislature andlater served as president of the council. He movedto Washington territory in 1853, the year the newterritory was created, and served in several ofthe early sessions of the legislature, becoming presi-dent of the council as he had done in the territoryof Iowa. Being appointed by President Lincoln in 1861, Wal-lace was the first Republican to become governor ofWashington territory. He had been a Whig andwent over to the new party on its still a Whig he was a candidate for delegateto congress at the first election in the new terri-tory, which was held on January 30, 1854. He wasdefeated by the Democratic nomine
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