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Show GOVERNOR LISTER IS DEAD. Laborer Who Rose to High Position Succumbs to Disease. Seattle. Ernest Lister, governor of Washington, died here June 14. He had been ill for several months. Governor Lister was serving his second sec-ond term when lie was taken ill with an affection of the heart and kidneys during the recent session of the legislature. legis-lature. He rose from a position as a Tacoma ironmolder to the governorship. governor-ship. He was born at Halifax, England, June 15, 1870, and is survived by his widow and two children. Lister was Washington's twenty-second governor. According to local interpretations in-terpretations of the state constitution, Acting Governor Hart, upon the death of the executive, automatically became the state's twenty-third governor. |