Semple, Eugene
lawyer, governor, was born June 12, 1840, in Bogota, New Granada, South America. He graduated from the law school of the Cincinnati university in 1863; was a practicing lawyer in Portland, Ore., in 1864; editor of the Daily Oregon Herald in 1869; and state printer of Oregon in 1872. He was governor of Washington territory in 1888; candidate of the democratic party for governor of Washington in 1889; and harbor line commissioner of the state in 1891.
In 1897 he became president of the Seattle and Lake Washington Waterway Co.