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| Title | John H. McGraw |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption: John H. McGraw, Governor, 1893-1897.
Filed in Portraits--McGraw, John |
| Contextual Notes | John H. McGraw (1850-1910) was born in Penobscot County, Maine. He was elected Washington state's second governor in 1892. He arrived in Seattle from Maine during the 1870s at the age of 26, and got a job as a clerk in the Occidental Hotel. He joined Seattle's tiny police force and that was the beginning of his successful Pacific Northwest career in law enforcement, business, and politics. He became police chief, then King County sheriff. He studied law, and ran for governor on the Republican ticket. As governor he supported the University of Washington and the Lake Washington Ship Canal Project. After serving as governor, he joined the 1897 gold rush, then returned to Seattle, and went into real estate. He was one of Seattle's leading businessmen, and served as president of the Chamber of Commerce.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Governors--Washington (State)
Business people--Washington (State)--Seattle
Sheriffs--Washington (State)--King County
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| Subjects (LCSH) | McGraw, John Harte, d. 1910
Police chiefs--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Digital Collection | Portraits Collection
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| Order Number | POR0103
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| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info
Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | UW3284 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Portraits Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 6 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003 |
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