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Washington's 37th Legislative District
Washington's 37th legislative district is one of forty-nine districts in Washington state for representation in the state legislature. The district encompasses Beacon Hill, Central District, Rainier Valley, Columbia City, Rainier Beach, and Renton. The district's legislators are state senator Rebecca Saldaña and state representatives Sharon Tomiko Santos (position 1) and Kirsten Harris-Talley (position 2), all Democrats. On December 12, 2016, Rebecca Saldaña was selected to fill Pramila Jayapal's seat in the senate over Rory O'Sullivan and Shasti Conrad following a special appointment by the King County Council. Jayapal had recommended Saldaña for her replacement, stating "Rebecca is a proven and effective leader – she has gotten results on some of the toughest issues our community faces. I strongly support her appointment to the State Senate." See also * Charles Stokes * Michael Ross *Sam Smith *Washington Redistricting Commission *Washington State Legislature *Wash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Tomiko Santos
Sharon Tomiko Santos (née Miyake, born July 5, 1961) is an American politician serving as a member of the Washington House of Representatives for the 37th legislative district. Early life and education Santos was born in San Francisco, California. Santos earned a bachelor's degree from Evergreen State College and earned a master's degree from Northeastern University. Career Santos was first elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 1998. She serves on the Education; Finance; Insurance, Financial Services & Consumer Protection; and Rules committees. Personal life Santos lives in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle. She was married to activist Bob Santos Bob Santos (February 25, 1934 - August 27, 2016) was an American minority-rights activist from Seattle who worked to preserve Seattle's Chinatown and International District. Santos was a member of the Gang of Four and a prominent member of the Fi ... until his death in 2016. References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington State Senate
The Washington State Senate is the upper house of the Washington State Legislature. The body consists of 49 members, each representing a district with a population of nearly 160,000. The State Senate meets at the Legislative Building in Olympia. As with the lower House of Representatives, state senators serve without term limits, though senators serve four-year terms. Senators are elected from the same legislative districts as House members, with each district electing one senator and two representatives. Terms are staggered so that half the Senate is up for reelection every two years. Like other upper houses of state and territorial legislatures and the federal U.S. Senate, the state senate can confirm or reject gubernatorial appointments to the state cabinet, commissions and boards. Leadership The state constitution allows both houses to write their own rules of procedure (article II, section 9) and to elect their own officers (article II, section 10) with the proviso tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Redistricting Commission
The Washington Redistricting Commission is a decennial body charged with redrawing congressional and legislative districts in the state of Washington after each census. On November 8, 1983, Washington state passed the 74th amendment to its constitution via Senate Joint Resolution 103 to permanently establish the Redistricting Commission. Earlier that year the first commission redrew the state's congressional map after the previous one drawn by the legislature was ruled unconstitutional. Since after the 1990 census, a committee of four appointees of the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate appoint a fifth member as non-voting chair, and meet to redistributes representative seats according to census results. History * 1956: League of Women Voters proposed Initiative 199 passed, linking redistribution to population trends. However, the resulting redistricting map was altered by the legislature. * 1982: Senate Joint Resolution placed Constitutional Amendment 74 on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Smith (Washington)
Samuel J. Smith (July 23, 1922 – November 16, 1995) was a member of the Washington House of Representatives and the Seattle City Council. He was the first African-American to serve as a Seattle city councilman. Early life Smith was born on July 23, 1922, in Gibsland, Louisiana to a Baptist minister. Smith served stateside in the U.S. Army during World War II; in 1942 he was stationed in Seattle, Washington and, on discharge, decided to stay there. He went on to receive degrees from Seattle University (Social science, 1951) and the University of Washington (Economics, 1952) and went to work for the Boeing Company. Political career In 1958, Smith defeated Republican Charles Stokes for a seat in the Washington House of Representatives representing Washington's 37th legislative district. Smith's victory over Stokes, the third African-American elected to the Washington legislature, made him just the fourth African-American to win a seat in the state house, as well as the second f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ross (Washington Politician)
Michael K. Ross (July 14, 1941 – August 21, 2007) was an American civil rights activist, construction worker, and member of the Washington House of Representatives who served from 1970 to 1972. He is the last Republican to have been elected from Washington's 37th legislative district. Early life Ross was born in Iowa City, Iowa to Carl Ross and Violet Phinisse Scott, and was raised in Flint, Michigan and Los Angeles, California. From 1958 to 1960 he served in the United States Air Force. After briefly attending Washburn Community College in Topeka, Kansas, he relocated to Virginia to work for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Get Out the Vote" campaign. In 1967 he moved to Washington state out of a desire to escape the discrimination he had suffered elsewhere as a result of his brief marriage to a Caucasian woman. In Seattle, Ross became involved with the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, and was eventually elected president of the chapter. In an interview with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Stokes (politician)
Charles Moorehead Stokes (February 1, 1902November 25, 1996) was an American politician, jurist, and lawyer who served several terms in the Washington State House of Representatives. Early life and education Stokes was born in Fredonia, Kansas to a Baptist minister and was raised in Pratt, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1931. After briefly practicing law for the state's revenue commission Stokes, in 1943, moved to Seattle, Washington where he entered into private practice. Career Politics In 1950 Stokes was elected to the Washington State House of Representatives from Washington's 37th legislative district as a Republican, becoming the first African-American legislator from King County and just the third in state history. At the end of his first term he was selected "Outstanding Freshman Legislator" by the Young Republican Club. Stokes was reelected in 1952 and, the same year, campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower as a delegate to the Republican National Conve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal ( ; born September 21, 1965) is an American politician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative from since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, she represents most of Seattle, as well as some suburban areas of King County, Washington, King County. Jayapal represented the Washington's 37th legislative district, 37th legislative district in the Washington State Senate from 2015 to 2017. She is the first Indian Americans, Indian-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district's first female member of Congress, she is also the first Asian Americans, Asian American to represent Washington (state), Washington at the federal level. Before entering electoral politics, Jayapal was a Seattle-based civil rights activist, serving until 2012 as the executive director of OneAmerica, a pro-immigrant advocacy group. She founded the organization, originally called Hate Free Zone, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Harris-Talley
Kirsten Harris-Talley (born 1979) is an American politician serving as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from the 37th legislative district. She assumed office on January 11, 2021. Early life and education Harris-Talley was born in Chilhowee, Missouri and moved to Warrensburg, Missouri after her parents divorced. She earned an associate degree in fine and studio arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree in social sciences, law, and economics from the University of Washington. Career From 2001 to 2012, Harris-Talley was the program manager of Cardea Services, a Seattle-based non-profit. She previously served for 51 days as a member of the Seattle City Council in 2017, following the appointment of Tim Burgess as mayor. She was appointed on October 6, 2017, and was succeeded by Teresa Mosqueda following the certification of election results on November 28. Personal life Harris-Talley identifies as queer ''Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Saldaña
Rebecca Jae Saldaña (born April 1, 1977) is an American politician serving as a member of the Washington State Senate from the 37th district, representing parts of Seattle and Renton, Washington. She was appointed by the King County Council to the office to replace Pramila Jayapal after she was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Early life and education Saldaña was born in Seattle and raised in the Delridge neighborhood. Saldaña earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology and humanities from Seattle University. Career After graduating from college, Saldaña began her career as an organizer with Oregon's farmworkers union, PCUN. She served as a Union Organizer with Service Employees International Union Local 6 in Seattle and as the community liaison for U.S. Representative Jim McDermott. At the time of her appointment, Saldaña was the executive director of Puget Sound Sage, a progressive advocacy group. Saldana gave her first speech from the Sena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislative body. That body, or the state's constitution or a body established for that purpose, determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. District representatives may be elected by a first-past-the-post system, a proportional representative system, or another voting method. They may be selected by a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage. Terminology The names for electoral districts vary across countries and, oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renton, Washington
Renton is a city in King County, Washington, and an inner-ring suburb of Seattle. Situated southeast of downtown Seattle, Renton straddles the southeast shore of Lake Washington, at the mouth of the Cedar River. As of the 2020 census, the population of Renton was 106,785, up from 90,927 at the 2010 census. The city is currently the sixth-largest municipality in greater Seattle and the ninth-largest in Washington state. After a long history as an important salmon fishing area for Native Americans, Renton was first settled by people of European descent in the 1860s. Its early economy was based on coal mining, clay production, and timber export. Today, Renton is best known as the final assembly point for the Boeing 737 family of commercial airplanes, but it is also home to a growing number of well-known manufacturing, technology, and healthcare organizations, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes Division, Paccar, Kaiser Permanente, IKEA, Providence Health & Services, UW Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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