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Beacause they felt like it.
Indians were the first people to live in Washington!!!!
No US president lived in Washington state. Herbert Hoover lived in Oregon as a boy.
a cool fact about Washington is that it was the first state to have the most people than any other state
Washington state is named After George Washington the first President of the USThe state of Washington is named after George Washington, the first president of the United States.
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The State of Washington was admitted to the Union in 1889 and was the 42nd state admitted. It was created from the western portion of the Washington Territory, which was established in 1846 after the Oregon Boundary Dispute with Britain was settled.The region that is now Washington State was being visited and lived in by people of European descent as early as 1775.Washington State, the University, was established by the state legislature on 28 March 1890. It opened on 13 January 1892. It took the name Washington State university in 1959, having first been called Washington Agricultural College and School of Scienceand then, beginning in 1905, the State College of Washington.Thanks for the fine answer to this question.Posted by Administrator Levi WasmundtWikiAnswers Admin
no actually they named it after a british explorer that had the last name Washington but it wasnt George Washington the named Washington dc after George Washington * **The origin of Washington State name is indeed that is was named after our first president :George Washington. He is on the flag of our state and if one did a small amount of research you would see that this is true.
Bruno De Heceta, a Spanish captain, was the first european to discover the state of Washington.
Washington and Oregon.
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The first governor of the Washington territory was Isaac Stevens. The first governor of Washington state was Elisha Peyre Ferry.