Sec A Page 7 Missoulian Centennial County’s Representatives Went to Three Territorial Capitals
County Representatives Went To Three Territorial Capitals
Representatives from Missoula County to the territorial Legislature from 1864 to 1889 went to three capital sites – Bannack, Virginia City and Helena.
Bannack was the site of the first legislative session. Virginia City sponsored the second through eighth sessions. The acts of the second and third territorial legislative sessions were annulled. The first legislative session in the present capital of Helena was in 1876.
Frank L. Worden was the Council (territorial equivalent to the present Senate) representative at the first session in Bannack from 1864 to 1865.
Council representatives at the sessions in Virginia City were Washington J. McCormick, 1866; Ephriam F. Phelps, 1866; Charles S. Bagg and Jaspar Rand, 1867; Walter B . Dance, Armistead H. Mitchell, Charles S. Bagg and Jaspar Rand, 1869; Asa A. Brown, Frank H. Woody and Mitchell, 1869 -70; Mitchell, Granville Stuart, 72; W. E. Bass, Dance, Dallas P. Newcomer and Owen, extraordinary eighth session in 1873; Charles Cooper, L. R. Maillet, Dance and Dallas P. Newcomer, eighth regular session in 1874.
Representatives to the Council in Helena were William Graham and Bass, 1876; Edwin B. Atterbury and Bass, 1877; Frank C. Ives, 1879; E. D. Aiken, Joseph A. Browne, Mitchell and Worden, 1881; Bass, 1883; Will Kennedy, 1885; Kennedy, 1887; and Walter A. Bickford, 1889.
E. B. Johnson was Missoula County’s House representative at the first territorial Legislature at Bannack.
House representatives at Virginia City were James La Fontaine, 1866; Walter W. Johnson and John Owen, 1866; John A. Simms, 1867; George Wentworth, 1868 – 69; William E. Bass, 1869 – 70; Bass, 1871 – 72; John Owen and A. T. Shoup, 1871 – [Break in article here] James Kennedy and Cornelius C. O’Keefe, extraordinary session in 1873 and regular session in 1874.
House representatives to Helena were W. J. McCormick, Alfred Cave and Frank L. Worden, 1876; James A. Dixon, Frank C. Ives and McCormick, 1877; Joseph E. Marion and McCormick, 1879; W. D. Davis and Henry Chambers, 1881; Orlando B. Batten, 1883; Martin L. Emigh and Clyde Eastman, 1885; Thomas R. Marshall and Harrison Spaulding, 1887, and G. T. Jones and S. G. Murray, 1889.