Ernest Lister

Born in Halifax, England, Lister immigrated with his family in 1884, to be near his uncle, who was mayor of Tacoma, Washington.[1] He married Mary Alma Thornton on February 28, 1893, and they had two children, Florence and John Ernest.After a successful management of Governor John Rankin Rogers' campaign in 1896, Lister was appointed chairman of the State Board of Control.[2] As governor, he supported agricultural aid, irrigation and reclamation projects, and state industrial accident insurance.[3][4] Lister died one day before his forty-ninth birthday,[5] on June 14, 1919, from heart and kidney disease, in Seattle, Washington.
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