Daniel J. Evans
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Daniel Jackson Evans served three terms as the 16th Governor of the state of Washington from 1965 to 1977, and represented the state in the United States Senate
United States Senate
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 from 1983 to 1989.

Evans was seriously considered for the Republican
Republican Party (United States)
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 vice presidential
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 nomination on the ticket with Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

 in 1976
United States presidential election, 1976
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 (but lost out to Bob Dole
Bob Dole
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole is an American attorney and politician. Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and in 1995 and 1996...

); Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
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 in 1968
United States presidential election, 1968
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 had also hinted at a possible Evans nomination for the vice presidency. At the 1968 Republican National Convention
1968 Republican National Convention
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 (where he gave the keynote
Keynote
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 address) Evans refused to endorse Nixon for the presidential nomination, remaining a supporter of the doomed candidacy of Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st Vice President of the United States , serving under President Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York , as well as serving the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations in a variety of positions...

.

Early life

Evans was born in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

 (where he lives ), descended from a family that had first arrived in the Washington Territory
Washington Territory
The Territory of Washington was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 8, 1853, until November 11, 1889, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Washington....

 in 1859; his grandfather had served in one of Washington's first state senates. He grew up in the Laurelhurst
Laurelhurst, Seattle, Washington
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 neighborhood and attended Roosevelt High School
Roosevelt High School (Seattle)
Roosevelt High School is a public school in the Seattle Public Schools district of Seattle, Washington, USA. Founded in the 1920s, Roosevelt continues to be one of the largest schools in the greater Seattle area....

.

As a young man, Evans was an Eagle Scout, and served as a staff member and Hike Master at Camp Parsons, a well known Boy Scout camp in Washington State. As an adult, he was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
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 from the Boy Scouts of America
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.

After high school, he served in the United States Navy
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 1943–1946. He first entered the V-12 Navy College Training Program
V-12 Navy College Training Program
The V-12 Navy College Training Program was designed to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the United States Navy during World War II...

 and was stationed at the University of Washington
University of Washington
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 (UW), but was transferred eight months later to an ROTC program at University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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. He did not see combat; he was deployed to the Pacific
Pacific Ocean
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 shortly after the end of World War II
World War II
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 as a commissioned ensign on a succession of aircraft carrier
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s, before returning to UW in 1946.

Evans graduated from the UW with degrees in civil engineering
Civil engineering
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 (BS
Bachelor of Science
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, 1948, MS
Master of Science
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, 1949); the UW later (in 2007) gave him the distinction of Alumnus Summa Laude Dignitatus, the highest distinction the university confers on its graduates. He returned to the United States Navy
United States Navy
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 1951–1953 before working as a structural engineer
Structural engineering
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 (1953–1956); in the latter capacity, he helped draw up the plans for the Alaskan Way Viaduct
Alaskan Way Viaduct
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.

Political career

Having attended Toastmasters
Toastmasters International
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 to improve his initially abysmal public speaking style, Evans served in the Washington State House of Representatives from 1956 to 1965 before being elected governor.

Despite being a Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 and a self-styled conservative
Conservatism
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, Evans became known for his administration's liberal
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 policies on environmental protection
Environmentalism
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 (he founded the country's first state-level Department of Ecology, which became Nixon's blueprint for the federal EPA
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) and strong support of the state's higher education
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 system, including founding Washington's system of community college
Community college
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s. He fought unsuccessfully for a state income tax
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.

Evans served as governor from 1965 through 1977, still the only governor to serve three consecutive terms in Washington state history. A 1981 University of Michigan
University of Michigan
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 study named him one of the ten outstanding American governors of the 20th century. He declined to run for a fourth term.

Serial killer
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 Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy
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 served as a campaign aide for Evans and maintained a close relationship with the Governor. During the 1972 campaign, Bundy followed Evans' Democratic opponent around the state, tape recording his speeches and reported back to Evans personally. A minor scandal later followed when the Democrats found out about Bundy, who had been posing as a college student.

From 1977 to 1983 Evans served as the second president of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington
Olympia, Washington
Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,478 at the 2010 census...

, which Evans had created in 1967 by signing a legislative act authorizing the formation of the college. The largest building on the Evergreen campus is named the Daniel J. Evans Library in his honor.http://library.evergreen.edu/index.html In 1983, Governor John Spellman
John Spellman
John Dennis Spellman was the 18th Governor of Washington between 1981 and 1985; before that, he was a member of the King County, Washington, County Commission from 1967 to 1969 and the King County Executive from 1969 to 1981. He was a Republican and his opponent in the 1980 election was then-State...

 appointed Evans to the United States Senate
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 to fill a seat left vacant by the death of longtime senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson
Henry M. Jackson
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from the state of Washington from 1941 until his death...

. Evans won a special election
United States Senate special election in Washington, 1983
The United States Senate special election in Washington, 1983, was a special election to fill the seat which had been held by longtime Senator Henry Jackson. Daniel J. Evans, who had been appointed by Governor John Spellman, won the special election....

 later that year against Mike Lowry
Mike Lowry
Michael Edward "Mike" Lowry served as the 20th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington from 1993 to 1997. Lowry is a Democrat.Lowry was born and raised in St. John, Washington, and graduated from Washington State University in 1962...

 and filled the remainder of Jackson's unexpired term, retiring from politics after the 1988 elections. He was not happy as a U.S. Senator; he wrote an April 1988 piece in The New York Times Magazine
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, "Why I'm Quitting the Senate", in which he complained of "bickering and protracted paralysis".

Later life

After leaving the Senate in 1989, Evans founded his own consulting firm, Daniel J. Evans Associates. Governor Mike Lowry
Mike Lowry
Michael Edward "Mike" Lowry served as the 20th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington from 1993 to 1997. Lowry is a Democrat.Lowry was born and raised in St. John, Washington, and graduated from Washington State University in 1962...

 appointed him to the Board of Regents of the University of Washington
University of Washington
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 in 1993; Evans served as the board's president from 1996 to 1997, and in 1999 the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
The Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle is a school of public policy in the Northwest....

 at the University was named for him. Evans also went on to work in media doing an editorial weekly on the KIRO-TV
KIRO-TV
KIRO-TV, virtual channel 7, is the CBS affiliate television station in Seattle, Washington. It broadcasts on digital channel 39. The station's offices and broadcasting center are located near Seattle Center in Belltown, and its transmitter is located on Queen Anne Hill...

 newscasts from the early to mid 1990s. Late in 1969 Evans also said the quote pain is weakness leaving the body at a seminar in Kentucky. Evans is a director of the Initiative for Global Development.

Elections

The following are the vote tallies from Evans' statewide elections:
YEAR OFFICE CANDIDATE PARTY Seattle Rest of
King County
King total State
1983 US Senate Daniel J Evans R
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

83901 160244 244145 672326
1983 US Senate Mike Lowry D
Democratic Party (United States)
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101415 90849 192264 540981
1972 Governor Daniel J Evans R 140769 151757 292526 747825
1972 Governor Al Rosellini D 103559 100543 204102 630613
1972 Governor Victor Gould Tax 9890 17990 27880 86843
1972 Governor Henry Killman SL
Socialist Labor Party of America
The Socialist Labor Party of America , established in 1876 as the Workingmen's Party, is the oldest socialist political party in the United States and the second oldest socialist party in the world. Originally known as the Workingmen's Party of America, the party changed its name in 1877 and has...

1361 775 2136 4552
1972 Governor Robin David SW
Socialist Workers Party (United States)
The Socialist Workers Party is a far-left political organization in the United States. The group places a priority on "solidarity work" to aid strikes and is strongly supportive of Cuba...

779 497 1276 2709
1968 Governor Daniel Evans R 139827 132087 271914 692378
1968 Governor John O'Connell D 97781 81426 179207 560262
1968 Governor Ken Chriswell C 2333 2889 5222 11602
1968 Governor Henry Killman SW 176 198 374 1113
1964 Governor Daniel J Evans R 140043 114587 254630 697256
1964 Governor Albert D Rosellini D 116745 73639 190384 548692
1964 Governor Henry Killman SL 1441 888 2329 4326


The following are the results of his State Legislative races for the office of 43rd District representative:
YEAR CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES
1962 Daniel J Evans R 10710
1962 William E Young R 10295
1962 Roy Jacobs D 3728
1962 Larry R Ourada D 3719
1960 Walter B Williams R 12847
1960 Daniel J Evans R 12309
1960 Arthur J Sweeney D 5510
1960 Barry J Reischling D 4993
1958 Daniel J Evans R 9332
1958 Zeke Clark R 9054
1958 John Spiller D 5069
1956 Daniel J Evans R 13049
1956 Zeke Clark R 11739
1956 John Spiller D 6588
1956 Roy Jacobs D 4997

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