Territorial Governor William H. Wallace Papers, 1861.

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Territorial Governor William H. Wallace Papers, 1861.

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Incoming and outgoing correspondence pertaining to Territorial Government matters. Of particular interest are the documents concerning the creation of several counties in territory transferred from Oregon when Oregon became a state in 1859. Those counties are now part of the state of Idaho.

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Washington State Archives, Southwest Regional Branch

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Washington Territory. Governor (1861 : Wallace)

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William H. Wallace was born in the frontier state of Ohio in 1811, studied law in the new state of Indiana, moved to Iowa Territory in 1835, and finally to Washington Territory in 1853. He spent his whole life, with the exception of his two terms in Congress, on the frontier. In 1853, Wallace was elected to the first session of the Washington Territorial Legislature. In 1854 he ran for the position of territorial delegate to Congress, but was defeated by Columbia Lancaster. Wallace ...

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