1. Charles Edgar Littlefield (1851-1915), a lawyer, served as a Republican congressman from Maine (1899-1908).

2. George P. Wright, a wholesale grocer, was Democratic mayor of Tacoma (1904-8).

3. Floyd L. Daggett, a Democrat, was mayor of Spokane (1905-7).

4. William Hickman Moore, an attorney, was Democratic mayor of Seattle (1906-8).

5. The convention met in Seattle on Sept. 26, 1906.

6. William Blackman (1861-1923?), a locomotive engineer and former secretary of American Railway Union #98 in Seattle (1895-97)was president of the Washington State Labor Congress and its successor, the Washington State Federation of Labor (1898-1906). He also served as the factory, mill, and railroad inspector (1897-1900) for the Washington State Bureau of Labor and then as commissioner of the bureau (1901-5). He was not elected to Congress in 1906.

7. Patrick S. Byrnes, a physician, was a one-term Democratic mayor of Spokane (1901-2). He was not elected to Congress in 1906.

8. The three incumbent congressmen, all Republicans, were Francis W. Cushman of Tacoma (1867-1909; served 1899-1909), Wesley L. Jones of North Yakima, Wash., (1863-1932; served 1899-1909), and William E. Humphrey of Seattle (1862-1934; served 1903-17). Jones was later a U.S. senator (1909-32).

9. Gompers replied on Oct. 11, 1906, that he was unable to travel to Washington, but at Case's request he subsequently assigned organizer C. O. Young to help with the campaign there (SG to Case, Oct. 11, Files of the Office of the President, General Correspondence, reel 63, frames 185-86).

10. Charles R. Case, a member of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America 131 of Seattle, was president of the Washington State Federation of Labor (1906-7).