Elisha P. Ferry
Elisha Peyre Ferry was the first Governor of the U.S. State of Washington. Ferry was a Republican lawyer who had twice been Governor of Washington Territory, the only one to serve two terms. On Washingtons admission as a state on November 11, 1889, he became its inaugural governor, serving one term, stepping down in 1893 through failing health.
Elisha Peyre Ferry was born in Monroe County, Michigan, near Detroit, to Peter Ferry and Clarissa PeyreFerry, who soon moved to the small town of Waukegan, Illinois, where Peter served as a judge. Elisha graduated early from high school, and then from Fort Wayne Law School, Indiana, passing the bar examination at just twenty. He then practised successfully as a lawyer in Waukegan for the next twentythree years, marrying Sarah Brown Kellog , with whom he had five children
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