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Ray, Dixy Lee, 1914-1994

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Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914 – January 2, 1994) was an American scientist and politician who served as the 17th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington. Variously described as idiosyncratic, and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. She was a supporter of atomic energy and a critic of the environmentalist movement. A graduate of Mills College and Stanford University, where she earned a doctorate in b...

Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983

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Jackson's tenure in the House was briefly interrupted by service in the U.S. Army. He enlisted in 1943, but was recalled by President Roosevelt to congressional service after basic training. Jackson was assigned to the Government Operations Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a position which quickly put him at the center of the un-American activities controversies and in the national spotlight. He won recognition ...

Oceanographic Commission of Washington

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The Oceanographic Commission of Washington (1967-1981) came into being during a period of growing interest in ocean exploration; its demise came in an era of state policy changes and economic problems. In the mid-1960s, Americans, corresponding to the national experience of reaching into outer space, focused their attention upon the promised research and economic potential, as well as the need for systematic protection of another frontier: mankind's aquatic environment. The Commissi...

Coalition Against Oil Pollution (Wash.)

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An environmental organization founded in 1972 to oppose the establishment of oil ports and off-loading facilities on Puget Sound in Washington State. In the late 1970s the coalition softened its stance and approved the building of a pipeline through Puget Sound, which led to the resignation of its lobbyist, Dan Seligman. The Coalition Against Oil Pollution disbanded in 1982. From the description of Coalition Against Oil Pollution records, 1970-1981 (bulk 1977-1981). (Unknown). WorldC...

Magnuson, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989

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Warren Grant Magnuson (b. April 12, 1905, Moorhead, Minn.-d. May 20, 1989, Seattle, Wash.), a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the State of Washington, graduated from the University of Washington law school in 1929 and served in several local and state-wide political posts until 1936 when he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Senate from 1944 to 1981, se...

Evans, Daniel J., 1925-

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Congress passed the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning Act in 1980. The Act established the Northwest Power Planning Council to provide a publicly accountable body to conduct regional energy planning and to review the new authority given to the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to finance resources and conservation. The governors of the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon each appointed two members to the Council. In 1981 former Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans was appo...

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...