Ralph Munro was first elected as Washington’s secretary of state in 1980 and would go on to serve five terms in the job. He’s seen here, right, with bagpipes at a National Association of Secretaries of State Conference in 1986 and, left, in an official portrait from 1985. (Photos courtesy of Washington State Archives)

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Remembering Ralph Munro, Five-Term Washington Secretary of State and Statesman

Ralph Munro, Washington’s longest-serving secretary of state achieved unusually broad popularity across the political spectrum