
Henry McBride (7 February 1856-7 October 1937) was the Republican Governor of Washington from 26 December 1901 to 11 January 1905, succeeding John Rankin Rogers and preceding Albert E. Mead.
Biography[]
Henry McBride was born in Farmington, Utah in 1856, and he was educated in Logan and trained as an Episcopalian minister. He moved to California in 1880 to improve his health, and he again moved to La Conner, Washington in 1882, where he studied law and became a teacher in Oak Harbor and La Conner. He ran for Skagit County probate judge in 1886 on a Republican ticket and moved to Mount Vernon in 1887 before becoming a prosecuting attorney in 1888, as a superior court judge from 1891 to 1896, as Lieutenant Governor in 1901, and as Governor from 1901 to 1905. He promoted new railroad regulations and the elimination of the railroads' monopolistic practices in the legislature, and, while he cleared the legislature of powerful railroad lobbies, railroad lobbyists defeated his re-election and thwarted his 1908 and 1916 gubernatorial bids. He became a banker and lawyer in Seattle, and he died in Juanita Beach in 1937.