Executive Profiles
Former Governor Albert Rosellini dies
By Seattle Business Magazine October 10, 2011
Former Washington state Governor Albert D. Rosellini has died at the age of 101. The Seattle Times reports Rosellini died of complications from pneumonia. Rosellini, a Democrat who served as…
Former Washington state Governor Albert D. Rosellini has died at the age of 101. The Seattle Times reports Rosellini died of complications from pneumonia.
Rosellini, a Democrat who served as governor from 1957 to 1965, championed construction of the Highway 520 floating bridge, which is named in his honor, and is widely considered the father of the University of Washington School of Medicine, whose cause he championed as a longtime state senator.
Seattle Business magazine managing editor John Levesque interviewed the colorful and controversial former governor for this Seattle Post-Intelligencer column in 2005.