Guide to the Alfred R. Rochester Scrapbooks 1940-1987

Washington (State). World Fair Commission (1955-1962)

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Rochester, Mary Ellen

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Al Rochester, a lifelong Seattle resident, was a New Deal Democrat who served twelve years on the Seattle City Council and became an influential booster of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Rochester was born in Seattle, Washington, on March 28, 1895, one of four children from a pioneer Seattle family. His parents, Judge George Alfred Caldwell (G.A.C.) Rochester and Julia Gwynn Smith Rochester, came to Seattle from Kansas City in the late 1880s. G.A.C. followed his brothers, Junius and...

Rochester, Alfred R., 1895-1989

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Seattle (Wash.). City Council

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Original city charter established a seven member Common Council; 1890 new city charter created a bi-cameral legislative branch with a nine member Board of Aldermen and 16 member House of Delegates; 1896 charter returned to a single body of 13 members, elected from 11 wards and two at-large; number of council members grew to 18 in 1907; charter amendment in 1910 reduced the number to nine, all elected at large. From the description of Minutes, 1881-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id:...