Lorraine McConaghy
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Dr. Lorraine McConaghy is the public historian emerita at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry in Seattle. She has taught history and museum studies at the University of Washington, North Seattle College, and Pacific Lutheran University. She has received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching History and the Robert Gray Medal, the most distinguished award in Washington State for an historian. Her research interests focus on the Civil War in Washington Territory and the biography of Washington Territory’s third governor, Richard Dickerson Gholson.