Long before she ran for office, Jolene Unsoeld created a lasting imprint on Washington politics.
Unsoeld died Sunday at the age of 89, leaving a legacy of advocacy — both as an elected official and as an active citizen. As she once explained to the Wall Street Journal, that legacy flourished when her family came to the region in 1971: “We had moved to Olympia, and there was the state Capitol, so I set out to see what was happening under that dome.”
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