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- 1948-10-01
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Hands clasped behind his back, Governor Mon C. Wallgren speaks before fellow Eagles at the Olympia Eagles Lodge, #21. He claimed membership in the American Legion, Forty and Eight, Freemasons, Knights Templar, Elks and Rotary as well. During his tenure as governor, the state was forced to develop a state ferry system under the Washington Toll Bridge Authority due to strikes tieing up the Black Ball ferry line. The state would end up buying the equipment and operations of Captain Alexander Peabody's Puget Sound Navigation Co. (AKA Black Ball Line) and establishing the Washington State Ferries in 1951. By this time, Arthur B. Langlie, a Republican, had assumed the governor's chair. ALBUM 10.
Governors; Wallgren, Mon C., 1891-1961; Public speaking--Olympia; Fraternal organizations--Olympia--1940-1950; Fraternal Order of Eagles (Olympia);