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Gov Lowry's Website brought back to life

Secretary of State Sam Reed announced today the preservation of former Governor Mike Lowry's website through the Agency's Digital Archives - a program that saves critical, electronic history from extinction.

Lowry, who served the State's citizens as Governor from 1993 to 1997, created a website at the end of his term.The site features the 1997 State of the State Address, 1997-1999 budget highlights, all 229 press releases, and legislation proposed for the 1997 session.This information is now available to researchers worldwide through the Digital Archives.

The Washington State Digital Archives preserves a wide range of original electronic records and digitized paper records from birth, marriage, death, census, military, institutional and naturalization records, to legal and historic records such as the State Constitution and the first election results in the Washington Territory. Click here for to search Governor Lowry's website.