Hiram Gill
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Hiram C. Gill was an American lawyer and two-time Mayor of Seattle, Washington, identified with the "open city" politics that advocated toleration of prostitution, alcohol, and gambling.
Gill as Seattle mayor, c. 1911
Hiram Gill umpiring baseball.
"Where Gill Proudly Stands", 1911 cartoon by "Hop" in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Recall election
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A recall election is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended. Recalls appear in the constitution in
Hiram Gill
…year that Gill was elected, the Washington State Legislature granted women's suffrage. Thus, when Gill's opponents managed to force a February 9, 1911 recall election, it was to a very different electorate, one that included 23,000 registered women voters, of whom 20,000 showed up at the polls. Real estate man George…
Submitting petitions for the recall of Seattle, Washington, mayor Hiram Gill in December 1910; Gill was removed by a recall election the following February, but voters returned him to the office in 1914