WTO Citizen Correspondence

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 5279-07

Staff Only

Scope and Contents note

Emails and letters sent by citizens to the Mayor during and after the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting and demonstrations. Dating from November 28 through December 29, 1999, the correspondence expressed both support and condemnation of the Mayor's and Police Department's actions. Seattle residents as well as national and international correspondents are represented. Series also includes some transcribed phone messages.

Dates

Creation: 1999

Creator

Seattle (Wash.). City Clerk (Organization)
Schell, Paul, 1937- (Person)

Conditions Governing Access note

Records are open to the public.

Biographical Note

Paul Schell was elected Seattle's 50th mayor for the term beginning January 1, 1998. He subsequently was defeated in the primary election in a run for a second term. Schell received a law degree from Columbia University in 1963 and moved to Seattle in 1967. He served as the director of the City's Department of Community Development (1975-1977) before establishing a private development company. He entered the political arena in 1989 when he was elected... to the Port of Seattle Commission. From 1992-1995 he was Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington.