To say Albert D. Rosellini played a large role in a transformative era for Washington state is an understatement. The son of two Italian immigrants, he was elected to the state senate in 1938 and spent 18 years there before he was elected to his first of two terms as governor in 1956. During that time, Rosellini, then a New Deal Democrat, helped establish UW Medical Center and ushered in several major (for the time) reforms to the state justice system, prison conditions, and mental health facilities. You may have noticed his name on the 520 floating bridge—he pushed the project through as governor, and the bridge was
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