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This is Jay Inslee. He is governor right now in 2018.

This is Elisha Peyre. He is 

the first governor and he had2 terms, which equal to 8 years of being governor.

 In Washington, they vote for a  governor every 4 years, but Elisha Peyre was governor for 8 years because he had 2 terms.

This is Washington's capital 

called Olympia. This place has

many places you can visit. 

Washington became a state in 1889 on November 11.

A guy named Isaac Stevens

named Olympia in 1855 and the meaning of Olympia is "an ancient Greek sanctuary in the Peloponnese region in southern Greece where every four years the ancient Olympic games were held". 

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