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Daniel J. Evans

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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.


— Daniel J. Evans


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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.


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I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.


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I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.


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I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.


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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.


— Daniel J. Evans


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I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.


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I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.


— Daniel J. Evans


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I was always good at math and science and physics.


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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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Daniel Jackson Evans (born October 16 1925) 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 from 1983 to 1989. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University was named for him. Evans won a special election later that year against Mike Lowry and filled the remainder of Jackson's unexpired term retiring from politics after the 1988 elections.

Evans was seriously considered for the Republican vice presidential nomination on the ticket with Gerald Ford in 1976 (but lost out to Bob Dole); Richard Nixon in 1968 had also hinted at a possible Evans nomination for the vice presidency. Daniel Jackson Evans (born October 16 1925) 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 from 1983 to 1989.

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