Daniel J. Evans
Daniel J. Evans
Daniel Jackson Evansserved three terms as the 16th Governor of the state of Washington from 1965 to 1977, and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1983 to 1989...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 November 1925
CountryUnited States of America
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The most significant thing that happened in the 12 years that I was governor was the development of the state community college system.
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I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.
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We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.
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Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.
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At 18 you got drafted. Another fellow who lived on the same street and I signed up for the V-12 program, which was the naval officer training program.
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Interestingly enough, I met and had classes from several professors that my father had had many years before when he took civil engineering.
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It was a great party because not only did I win the contested primary, I ran ahead of the incumbent, so it was a great start politically.
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I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
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I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.
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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.
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I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.
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The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.
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I was always good at math and science and physics.
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When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.