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

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.