Dennis R. Washington was born in the year 1934 in Spokane. After he was graduated from high school he started working in construction in Montana and Alaska. In 1964 he was 30 when he started to build his own career. He took a Loan of $30,000 and got a single bulldozer to start his own work. He started slowly working by getting smaller projects and then increasing them. Later in 1969, he was one of the biggest contractors based in Montana. Within 1970’s he started construction of Dam and mining.
By 1986 the mines of molybdenum and copper at Butte, Montana was acquired by him. With this success, he was able to get projects of Real Estate, Aviation, Coastal Shipping, Marine Services, and Railroads. He was able to acquire engineering Morrison-Knudsen Co. Company of Boise, Idaho and global Constructions. This major step made his Group of Washington Company go international.
Washington Companies Includes:
• Seaspan Marine Corporation
• Montana Rail Link Inc.
• Aviation Partners Inc.
• Montana Resources LLP
Dennis Washington’s Parents
The parents of Dennis Washington were migrated from Missoula, Montana to Bremerton during Second World War. During that time his father was looking for work in defense shipyard and was living in housing projects provided by the government. As the war was being held his parents got separated and they were divorced. This left Dennis alone and he had to live with his relatives. Due to changing from one place to another living with relatives, his schooling was also changing. In the final years of his schooling, he was living in Missoula with his grandmother.
