Daniel Jackson Evans (born October 16, 1925) is an American politician from Washington. He served as the 16th governor of Washington from 1965 to 1977 and as a United States senator from 1983 to 1989. (wikipedia)
But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.
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.
I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.
I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.
Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.
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.
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.
The most significant thing that happened in the 12 years that I was governor was the development of the state community college system.
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.
Interestingly enough, I met and had classes from several professors that my father had had many years before when he took civil engineering.