Remembering Speaker Tom Foley
(Images courtesy of Washington State Archives) Washington state is celebrating the life and service of Tom Foley, who represented Eastern Washington’s 5th Congressional District for 30 years and as House Speaker from 1989 to 1994. Foley died last Friday at the age of 84. Foley was a Democrat who was first elected to the U.S. House in 1964 and served until Republican George Nethercutt defeated him in the “Republican Revolution” election of 1994. Foley later served as U.S. ambassador to…