Senate Resolution No. 6--Senators Raggio, Titus, 
    Adler, Augustine, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Lee, 
    Lowden, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O'Connell, 
    O'Donnell, Porter, Rawson, Regan, Rhoads, 
    Shaffer, Townsend and Washington

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SENATE RESOLUTION--Inducting Francis Marion "Frank" Proctor into 
       the Senate Hall of Fame.


  WHEREAS, The Senate of the Legislature of the 
State of Nevada has established a Senate Hall of Fame whose 
members are selected by leadership from those past Senators 
who have served with distinction; and
  WHEREAS, Certain past state Senators have 
distinguished themselves with their exemplary contributions 
to the State of Nevada; and
  WHEREAS, Frank Proctor came to Nevada in 1858, 
and after giving the name Carson City to the small town he 
helped to create, he became a delegate to Nevada's 1864 
Constitutional Convention; and
  WHEREAS, Frank Proctor served in the Nevada 
Legislature during the first three regular sessions, from 
1864 to 1868, as the esteemed Senator from Nye County and as 
the first Democrat elected to the Senate; and
  WHEREAS, Frank Proctor was a proponent of 
popular sovereignty and states' rights, and supported 
changing Nevada's laws to give women the right to vote and 
hold public office; now, therefore, be it
  RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, 
That Senator Francis Marion "Frank" Proctor, truly one of 
Nevada's founding fathers, is hereby inducted into the 
Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of the State of 
Nevada.

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