A bill to make the 'Evergreen State' Washington's official nickname was voted through on Monday. It comes 100 years after the name first started.
The Washington Senate voted unanimously Monday to legally make Washington’s nickname the Evergreen State, Senator Jeff Wilson said in a release.“We caught this nickname problem in the nick of time,” Wilson said. “Imagine what might have happened if anyone realized we hadn’t made it official and snuck a bill through the Legislature. We might be The Slush and Drizzle State today. If this bill passes, we won’t have to worry about that anymore.
“In 1893, Gov. John McGraw used the phrase in his inaugural address, and newspapers reported passage of a resolution in the state Senate declaring The Evergreen State the state’s official nickname,” the release said. “The term was promoted heavily later that year at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where Washington state hosted a pavilion.”
Wilson said that Sen. Jim Honeyford tried to correct the oversight with another bill in 2009, but it didn’t reach the Senate floor.
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