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Seattles Chamber: Charting a Course to Relevance
The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, 135 years young, strives to remain viable as the city and the region evolve politically and economically.
Shortly after the steamer Portland docked in Seattle in 1897 with a reported ton of gold from the Alaskan Klondike, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce hired Erastus Brainerd, an itinerant journalist, to establish Seattle as the best departure point for prospectors. Brainerd did such a good job of promoting Seattle, the Gateway City to Alaska,…