Washington State Women's Council's collection of resource materials, 1971-1978 bulk 1977-1978.

Ray, Dixy Lee, 1914-1994

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Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914 – January 2, 1994) was an American scientist and politician who served as the 17th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington. Variously described as idiosyncratic, and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. She was a supporter of atomic energy and a critic of the environmentalist movement. A graduate of Mills College and Stanford University, where she earned a doctorate in b...

Rosellini, Albert D. (Albert Dean), 1910-2011

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Evans, Daniel J., 1925-

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Congress passed the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning Act in 1980. The Act established the Northwest Power Planning Council to provide a publicly accountable body to conduct regional energy planning and to review the new authority given to the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to finance resources and conservation. The governors of the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon each appointed two members to the Council. In 1981 former Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans was appo...

Washington (State). Governor (1957-1965 : Rosellini)

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Albert Dean Rosellini (born January 21, 1910) is a lawyer from the State of Washington. Rosellini is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the Washington Legislature before his two terms as Governor (1957-1965). Rosellini is currently the oldest living former Governor in the United States, and was the first Italian American Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River. Rosellini was born in Tacoma, WA. He was elected to the Washington Senate from the 33rd district, where he s...

Washington (State). Governor's Commission on the Status of Women

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Washington (State). Governor (1977-1981 : Ray)

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Dixy Lee Ray was born in Tacoma, Wash., on 3 Sept. 1914, the second of five daughters of Francis Adams Ray and Alvis M. Ray, a printer. Ray won a scholarship to Mills College and graduated in 1937. The following year she earned a Master's Degree at Mills, and then taught high school biology for four years. She earned her doctorate in marine biology at Stanford University in 1945, after which Dr. Ray taught zoology at the University of Washington for more than twenty years, while als...

Washington (State). Governor (1965-1977 : Evans)

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Daniel Jackson Evans (born October 16, 1925) served three terms as governor of the state of Washington from 1965 to 1977, and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1983 to 1989. He was born and raised in Seattle, WA. He graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's and master's degree in civil engineering. Evans served in the Washington State House of Representatives from 1956 to 1965 before being elected governor. Evans served as governor from 1965 through 1977,...

Washington State Library

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Maud P. Mitchell was born about 1883 in Oregon. She married Chas. R. Mitchell and by 1920 they were living in Chehalis, WA. Charles was an assistant cashier at the bank. Charles had become a banker by 1930. Between 1957 & 1958 Charles passed away. And Maud passed away on 29 May 1960 in Chehalis, WA. From the description of Washington State Library's collection of Maud Mitchell's history of Chehalis and Lewis counties, 1845-1858. (Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of S...

Washington State Women's Council

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The Washington State Women's Council was originally created by Executive Order by Gov. Daniel Evans in 1971. The Women's Council was preceded by the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women appointed by Gov. Albert D. Rosellini. Gov. Dixy Lee Ray terminated the Women's Council in 1978. August 31, 1978 was the last day of operation. The resource information that had been collected and maintained by the Women's Council was transferred to the Washington Room of the Washington State Library. ...