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Republicans Laud Outgoing Washington State Senators Record of Public Service.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2000 by Blumenthal, Les

Dec. 3--ASHINGTON, Wash.--He may not have been Scoop or Maggie, but Republicans and Democrats alike say U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton built a record of public service over the past 42 years that will long be remembered.

For years, Gorton labored in the shadow of two of the most powerful figures in Washington political history, the late Democratic Sens. Henry "Scoop" Jackson and Warren D. Magnuson.

Jackson and Magnuson dominated state politics for more than three decades. Gradually, Gorton established his own legacy.

Dan Evans, a former three-term Republican governor and U.S. senator, now retired, said Gorton helped found the modern Republican Party in Washington in the late 1950s.

In the Legislature, Gorton sponsored one of the first...

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