| LC control no. | n 81138776 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ballinger, Richard A., 1858-1922 |
| Variant(s) | Ballinger, Richard Achilles, 1858-1922 Ballinger, R. A., 1858-1922 |
| See also | Chief executive of: Seattle (Wash.). Mayor (1904-1906 : Ballinger) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Birth date | 1858-07-09 |
| Death date | 1922-06-06 |
| Place of birth | Boonesboro (Iowa) |
| Place of death | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Field of activity | Law Municipal government Public lands--United States |
| Affiliation | United States. General Land Office United States. Department of the Interior. Office of the Secretary Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Mayors Cabinet officers Lawyers |
| Found in | His Annotated codes and statutes of Washington. His A Treatise on the property rights of husband and wife, under the community or ganancial system, 1980: title page (Richard A. Ballinger, A.B.) Richard A. Ballinger papers finding aid, 1879-1929, viewed online August 11, 2020: biographical note (Richard Achilles Ballinger was mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1904-1906 and United States Secretary of the Interior from 1909-1911. He was born on July 9, 1858 in Boonesboro, Iowa, and graduated from Williams College in 1884. After serving as mayor of Seattle, Ballinger was appointed commissioner of the General Land Office from 1907 to 1909. In 1909, President William Howard Taft appointed him Secretary of the Interior. Ballinger died on June 6, 1922, in Seattle, Washington) <http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv17117> OCLC search, August 11, 2020 (access points: Ballinger, Richard Achilles; Ballinger, Richard Achilles, 1858-1922; usage: R.A. Ballinger; Richard A. Ballinger) Wikipedia, August 11, 2020: Richard A. Ballinger (Richard Achilles Ballinger (July 9, 1858-June 6, 1922); In 1884 he graduated from Williams College; passed the bar exam in 1886 and began practicing law in Seattle; elected Seattle's mayor in 1904. Joined the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt and served as commissioner of the General Land Office from 1907 until 1908; In 1909, Ballinger helped organize the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a World's Fair to highlight development in the Northwest; in 1909 Taft appointed Ballinger as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Ballinger resigned on March 12, 1911; returned to the private practice of law in Seattle, Washington, where he died on June 6, 1922) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Ballinger> Voters elect Richard A. Ballinger as mayor of the City of Seattle on March 8, 1904, by David Wilma, November 29, 2000, via HistoryLink, viewed online August 11, 2020 (March 8, 1904, voters elect Republican Richard A. Ballinger as mayor of the City of Seattle. Pursuant to the Freeholders' Charter of 1890, the mayor's term of office was two years) <https://www.historylink.org/File/2798> |
| Associated language | eng |
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