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'''Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson''' (], ] &ndash; ], ]) was a U.S. ] and ] for ] from ] until his death. As a ] ] ], Jackson's political philosophies and positions were a forerunner for modern ].


'''Henry Martin''' "'''Scoop'''" '''Jackson''' (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a ] (1941–1953) and ] (1953–1983) from the state of ]. A ] and ] member of the ], Jackson supported higher military spending and a hard line against the ], while also supporting social welfare programs, ], and labor unions.<ref name="histlinkjack" />
Jackson was nicknamed "Scoop" by his sister, after a comic strip character that he is said to have resembled.


Born in ], to ], Jackson practiced law in Everett, after graduating from the ]. He won election to Congress in 1940, and joined the Senate in 1953 after defeating incumbent ] senator ]. Jackson supported the ] of the 1960s, and authored the ], which helped establish the principle of publicly analyzing environmental impacts. He co-sponsored the ], which denied normal trade relations to non-capitalist countries with restrictive emigration policies. Jackson served as chairman of the ] from 1963 to 1981. He was twice an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in the ] and ] presidential elections. While still serving in the Senate, Jackson died in 1983.
== Career ==
Born in ], Jackson went on to graduate with a bachelor's degree from ] and a law degree from the ], where he joined the ] fraternity. In ] (the year of his law school graduation) he was admitted to the bar and began to practice law in Everett. He found immediate success, and was the prosecuting attorney for ] from ] to ].


His political beliefs were characterized by support of civil rights, human rights, and ], but with an equally strong commitment to oppose ] in general and — with the start of the ] — ] in particular.<ref name = NYT>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/03/obituaries/senator-henry-m-jackson-is-dead-at-71.html|title=Senator Henry M. Jackson Is Dead at 71|page = 10|date=September 3, 1983|work=]|access-date=March 11, 2016|archive-date=March 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306103817/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/03/obituaries/senator-henry-m-jackson-is-dead-at-71.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Jackson's political philosophies and positions have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with ], including ] and ], both of whom previously served as aides to Jackson.<ref name="histlinkjack">{{cite encyclopedia|first=Kit|last=Oldham|title=Jackson, Henry M. "Scoop"|encyclopedia=History Link, The free online encyclopedia of Washington state history|date=August 19, 2003|url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5516|access-date=June 1, 2006|archive-date=November 18, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118135651/http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5516|url-status=live}}</ref>
He successfully ran for ] as a ] in ] and took his seat in the House of Representatives with the ] on ], ]. From that date forward, Jackson did not lose a congressional election. He attended the ] in ], ] in ] with the ] delegation, and was elected president of the same conference in ], when it was held in ]. From ] to ], Jackson was also the chairman of the ]. In the ] election, Jackson relinquished his seat in the House for a run at one of Washington's Senate seats&mdash;he won that election, and remained a Senator for thirty years. In ], Jackson was made chairman of the ], a post he held until ]. From ] until ], Jackson was chairman of the ].


== Early life ==
Jackson was not only successful as a politician in Washington State, but also found recognition on the national level, rising to the position of chairman of the ] in ]. He did not achieve the party's ultimate honor, however, as he was denied the Democratic nomination for ] despite two attempts,] and ].
Jackson was born in the home of his parents, Marine (née Anderson) and Peter Jackson, in ], on May 31, 1912. His mother and father were both immigrants from ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=::: Jackson (Henry M.) Collection :::|url=https://content.lib.washington.edu/jacksonweb/essay.html|access-date=2020-06-29|website=content.lib.washington.edu|archive-date=June 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630164607/https://content.lib.washington.edu/jacksonweb/essay.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Peter Jackson was born Peter Gresseth, and changed his name when he immigrated. He met Marine at the Lutheran church in Everett, where they were married in 1897. Henry was the fifth, and youngest, of the Jackson children; he was nicknamed "Scoop" by his sister in his childhood, after a comic strip character that he was said to have resembled.<ref name = NYT/> Jackson was a member of the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalhonorsociety.org/about/famous-nhs-members/|title=Famous NHS Members|date=February 23, 2017|website=NHS}}</ref> He went on to graduate with a B.A. degree from ], and a J.D. degree from the ], where he joined the ] fraternity.


== Early career ==
In ], Jackson co-sponsored the ] with ], which denied normal trade relations to certain countries with non-market economies that restricted the freedom of emigration. The amendment was intended to help refugees, particularly religious minorities, specifically Jews, to emigrate from the ]. Jackson and his assistant, ] also lobbied personally for some people who were affected by this law &mdash; among them ]. Jackson also led the opposition within the Democratic Party against the ].
In 1935, the year of his law school graduation, he was admitted to the bar, and began to practice law in Everett. He found immediate success, and was elected to become the prosecuting attorney for ] from 1938 to 1940, where he made a name for himself prosecuting bootleggers and gamblers.


== Personal life ==
Jackson was often criticized for his close ties to the defense industries of his state. Opponents derided him as "the Senator from ]" because of his perceived close relationship with that company. Jackson served almost his entire Senate tenure, concurrently, with his good friend and Democratic colleague ]. "Scoop" and "Maggie" - as they affectionately called each other - were one of the most effective delegations in the history of the United States Senate in terms of "bringing home the bacon" for their home state.
In 1961, Jackson, called by '']'' the Senate's "most eligible bachelor",<ref>'']'': Retrieved April 17, 2007.</ref> married Helen Hardin, a 28-year-old Senate receptionist who was 20 years his junior. Jackson did not move out of his childhood home, where he lived with his unmarried sisters for several years. The Jacksons had two children: Anna Marie Laurence and Peter Jackson. Peter went on to serve as a speechwriter for Governor ] and to lead the effort to found the Center for Human Rights at the ], which now has a scholarship in his name.


== Influence on Neoconservatism == == In Congress ==
Jackson successfully ran for the ] as a Democrat in 1940 and took his seat in the House of Representatives with the ] on January 3, 1941. From then on, Jackson did not lose any congressional elections. Jackson joined the Army when the United States entered ] but left when ] ordered all representatives to return home or resign their seats. He visited the ] concentration camp a few days after its liberation in 1945. He also visited his native Norway, where he observed the repatriation to Russia of ] soldiers captured by the Nazis, in which he recalled<blockquote>"I remember how reluctant most Russians were to return to the ]. They knew they would have even less freedom there."<ref>https://content.lib.washington.edu/jacksonweb/essay.html</ref></blockquote>
Jackson believed that one confronted evil with power. His support for civil rights and equality at home, married to his opposition to '']'', his support for human rights and democratic allies, and his firm belief that the United States could be a force for good in the world inspired a legion of loyal aides who went on to propound Jackson's philosophy as part of neoconservatism. In addition to Perle, neoconservatives ], ], ], and ] were former Democratic aides to Jackson who joined the ] administration in 1981, and are now prominent foreign policy makers in the 21st-century ] administration. Wolfowitz has called himself a "Scoop Jackson Republican.". Many journalists have noted the links between Senator Jackson and modern neoconservatism.


He attended the International Maritime Conference in ], ], in 1945 with the American delegation, and he was elected president of the same conference in 1946, when it was held in ]. From 1945 to 1947, Jackson was also the chairman of the House Indian Affairs Committee. In the ], Jackson relinquished his seat in the House for a run for one of Washington's Senate seats. Jackson soundly defeated Republican senator ] and remained a senator for over thirty years. He was Washington's first U.S. senator to be born in the state. Jackson died in office in 1983 after winning re-election for the fifth time in 1982.
], who argues that the Democratic Party should return to Jackson's values in its foreign policy, criticizes the neoconservatives for failing to adopt Jackson's domestic policy views along with his foreign policy views.


Although Jackson opposed the excesses of ], who had traveled to Washington state to campaign against him, he criticized ] for not spending enough on national defense. Jackson called for more inter-continental ballistic missiles in the national arsenal, and his support for nuclear weapons resulted in a primary challenge from the left in 1958, when he handily defeated Seattle peace activist Alice Franklin Bryant before winning re-election with 67 percent of the vote, which he topped the next four times he ran for re-election.<ref name="histlinkjack" /><ref>{{cite web|first=Kit|last=Oldham|title=Voters re-elect Senator Henry Jackson and six U.S. Representatives on November 4, 1958|work=HistoryLink.org|date=November 1, 2003|url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5583|access-date=June 2, 2006|archive-date=November 18, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118135655/http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5583|url-status=live}}</ref>
The Washington State Democratic Party officially denounced neoconservatives' posthumous adoption of Senator Jackson’s legacy in oral arguments speaking for a 2006 WSDCC resolution.{{fact}}

During the ], Jackson was the first choice of fellow senator ] for a running mate; Kennedy became convinced that a Southerner would better balance the ticket.<ref name=Kaufman4 /> ] was later selected. Jackson boasted one of the strongest records on civil rights during the civil rights movement.<ref>Peter J. Ognibene, Scoop: The Life and Politics of Henry Jackson, 1975.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904896,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221203916/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904896,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 21, 2008 | magazine=Time | title=The Nation: The Democrats' Liberal Hawk on Capitol Hill | date=March 22, 1971 | access-date=May 4, 2010}}</ref> He supported the 1957 and the 1964 Civil Rights Acts. On July 22, 1965, Johnson signed the Water Resources Planning Act into law, citing Jackson as one of the Congress members to "have made a very invaluable and very farsighted contribution to America's future."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=27102|title=Remarks at the Signing of the Water Resources Planning Act|date=July 22, 1965|first=Lyndon B.|last=Johnson|author-link=Lyndon B. Johnson|publisher=American Presidency Project|access-date=May 18, 2018|archive-date=May 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519033118/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=27102|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 1968, responding to the assassination of ], Jackson gave a speech about the legacy and injustice of inequality.<ref name="Miller">{{cite web|last1=Miller|first1=Paul Steven|title=Civil Rights and American Values: Understanding the Legacy of Senator Henry M. Jackson and its Relationship to the Emergence of Disability Human Rights|url=http://www.law.washington.edu/Multimedia/2008/Miller/transcript.pdf|website=School of Law, University of Washington|access-date=January 24, 2008|archive-date=September 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927151215/http://www.law.washington.edu/Multimedia/2008/Miller/transcript.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1963, Jackson was made chairman of the ], which became the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in 1977, a position he held until 1981. In the 1970s, Jackson joined with fellow senators ] and ] in a press conference to oppose ]'s request for Congress to end ]'s price controls on domestic oil, which had provoked oil companies into withholding gasoline during the ].<ref name="'70s 321">{{cite book|title= How We Got Here: The '70s|last= Frum|first= David|author-link= David Frum|year= 2000|publisher= Basic Books|location= New York City|isbn= 978-0-465-04195-4|page= 321|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KajtAAAAMAAJ|access-date= July 25, 2018|archive-date= August 3, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200803024117/https://books.google.com/books?id=KajtAAAAMAAJ|url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="Distillations">{{cite journal|last1=Rinde|first1=Meir|title=Richard Nixon and the Rise of American Environmentalism|journal=Distillations|date=2017|volume=3|issue=1|pages=16–29|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/richard-nixon-and-the-rise-of-american-environmentalism|access-date=April 4, 2018|archive-date=April 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405024821/https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/richard-nixon-and-the-rise-of-american-environmentalism|url-status=live}}</ref> Kaufman writes that, after 1968, Jackson "emerged as an intellectual and political leader in the perennial struggle of U.S. foreign policy to reconcile ideals with self-interest."<ref name="Kaufman4">{{cite book|title=Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics|year=2011|first=Robert G.|last=Kaufman|pages=4–5|isbn=978-0-295-99854-1|publisher=University of Washington Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-vQyjgEACAAJ|access-date=July 25, 2018|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803013724/https://books.google.com/books?id=-vQyjgEACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>

Jackson authored the ], which has been called one of the most influential environmental laws in history. It helped to stimulate similar laws and the principle of publicly analyzed environmental impact in other states and in much of the world.<ref name="Kit">{{cite web|last1=Oldham|first1=Kit|title=President Richard Nixon signs Senator Henry Jackson's National Environmental Policy Act into law on January 1, 1970|url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5615|website=History Link|date=November 13, 2003|access-date=August 12, 2014|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152602/http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5615|url-status=live}}</ref> Jackson was also a leader of the fight for statehood for ] and ]. In 1974, Jackson sponsored the ] in the Senate (with ] sponsoring it in the House), which denied normal trade relations to certain countries with non-market economies that restricted the freedom of emigration. The amendment was intended to help refugees, particularly minorities, specifically Jews, to emigrate from the ]. Jackson and his assistant, ], also lobbied personally for some people who were affected by this law such as ].

Throughout his time as senator, Jackson was a strong supporter of ]. In 1970, he urged President ] to sell ] fighter jets to that country, on the terms that amounted to a grant. During the ], Jackson, alongside fellow Congressional leaders demanded an urgent resupply of weapons, to ensure that Israeli forces would have the material, diplomatic and political support necessary for a victory. When the Nixon administration balked at direct and visible material support, Jackson worked with ] ], ] ], and senior American military commanders, notably ] ], to secure the decision to airlift vital weapons and ammunition to a "gravely imperiled IDF".<ref>https://www.jns.org/henry-m-scoop-jackson-honoring70/</ref>

In 1975, after President ] announced he would not invite Soviet dissident ] to the White House, for fear of angering the Soviet Union, Jackson and a group of other senators asked Solzhenitsyn to speak at an office in the ].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040114052857/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001834779_jackson12m.html</ref> Jackson was also one of the first senators to call for the normalization of relations with ], and was instrumental in arranging many business, educational, and community contacts between ] and China.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/09/archives/ackso-he-says-us-should-trust-peking-over-moscow.html</ref><ref>https://www.nbr.org/publication/remembering-scoop/</ref>

In March 1975, Jackson released a statement in which he expressed the view that it was paramount the ] case be found out to be either "an aberration or was symptomatic of much greater problem" within the Drug Enforcement Administration.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/10/archives/senate-study-calls-us-drug-agents-lax-in-checking-alleged-link-of.html|title=Senate Study Calls U. S. Drug Agents Lax in Checking Alleged Link of Vesco to Heroin|date=March 10, 1975|work=]|access-date=March 20, 2018|archive-date=March 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320231107/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/10/archives/senate-study-calls-us-drug-agents-lax-in-checking-alleged-link-of.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 1975, Jackson stated that if accounts about the conduct of former director of the Drug Enforcement Agency ] were correct then his actions amounted to obstruction of justice and that evidence disclosed "in the last two days would indicate that there was a conscious, premeditated plan involving misconduct at the highest levels of the D.E.A."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/12/archives/jackson-asserts-exdrug-aide-may-have-obstructed-justice.html|title=Jackson Asserts Ex-Drug Aide May Have Obstructed Justice|date=June 12, 1975|work=]|access-date=March 20, 2018|archive-date=March 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320231035/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/12/archives/jackson-asserts-exdrug-aide-may-have-obstructed-justice.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In July 1977, the Senate approved a funding for the experimental nuclear reactor compromise proposal by Jackson and Idaho senator ]. While the initial version by ] sought a decrease in funding from 150 million to 33 million, the Jackson and Church measure halved the funding to 75 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/12/archives/senate-snubs-carter-in-backing-reactor-vote-rejects-bid-by.html|title=SENATE SNUBS CARTER IN BACKING REACTOR|date=July 12, 1977|work=]|access-date=March 22, 2018|archive-date=March 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323032156/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/12/archives/senate-snubs-carter-in-backing-reactor-vote-rejects-bid-by.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In October 1979, the Senate voted in favor of Carter's energy mobilization board plan, Jackson labeling the plan the "centerpiece" of Carter's program that was essential to guaranteeing the effectiveness of the rest of the legislation and was noted for successfully persuading colleagues to reject amendments to the plan.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/05/archives/energy-unit-voted-by-senate-mobilization-board-backed-by-68-to-25.html|title=Energy Unit Voted By Senate|first=Warren Jr.|last=Weaver|work=]|date=October 5, 1979 |access-date=May 20, 2018|archive-date=May 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520125816/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/05/archives/energy-unit-voted-by-senate-mobilization-board-backed-by-68-to-25.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Later that month, after the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted in favor of the Alaska public lands legislation, Carter issued a statement thanking Jackson and other members for supporting the legislation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=31626|first=Jimmy|last=Carter|title=Alaska Public Lands Legislation Statement on Approval by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.|publisher=American Presidency Project|date=October 30, 1979|access-date=March 20, 2018|archive-date=March 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321063207/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=31626|url-status=live}}</ref>

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Jackson led the opposition within the Democratic Party against the ] treaty. For decades, Democrats who support a strong international presence for the United States have been called "Scoop Jackson Democrats," and the term was still used to describe Democrats such as ] and ] by the ].<ref>Meyerson, Adam. " {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060514062638/http://www.policyreview.org/summer90/lieberman.html |date=May 14, 2006 }}", ], '']'', 1990.</ref><ref>" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060602045803/http://www.brookings.edu/comm/transcripts/20011212.htm |date=June 2, 2006 }}", ], December 12, 2001.</ref>

Jackson served for all but the last three years of his Senate tenure with Democratic colleague and friend ]. As a result, he spent 28 years as the state's junior senator, even though he had more seniority than all but a few of his colleagues. "Scoop" and "Maggie", as they affectionately called each other, gave Washington clout in national politics well beyond its population. They were one of the most effective delegations in the history of the Senate in terms of "bringing home the bacon" for their home state. Washington received nearly a sixth of public works appropriations but ranked only 23rd in population.<ref name="twintowers">{{cite news|title=Twin towers of power|date=September 29, 1996|first=Sharon|last=Boswell|author2=Lorraine McConaghy|work=]|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/centennial/september/towers.html|access-date=June 2, 2006|archive-date=May 7, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507122751/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/centennial/september/towers.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Criticism ===
Jackson was known as a hawkish Democrat. He was often criticized for his support for the ] and his close ties to the defense industries of his state. His proposal of ] as a site for an ] system was strongly opposed by local residents, and Jackson was forced to modify his position on the location of the site several times, but continued to support ABM development. American Indian rights activists who protested Jackson's plan to give Fort Lawton to Seattle, instead of returning it to local tribes, staged a ]. In the eventual compromise, most of Fort Lawton became ], with {{convert|20|acre|ha}} leased to ], who opened the ] there in 1977.

Opponents derided him as "the senator from ]",<ref>Jason Vest. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612020204/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020902/vest/3 |date=June 12, 2008 }}, ''The Nation'', August 15, 2002.</ref> as well as a "whore for Boeing",<ref>]. ''Al Gore: A User's Manual'', p. 82, 2000.</ref> because of his consistent support for additional military spending on weapons systems and accusations of wrongful contributions from the company; in 1965, 80% of Boeing's contracts were military.<ref name="histlinkjack" /><ref name="twintowers" /> Jackson and Magnuson's campaigning for an expensive government ] plane project eventually failed. In addition, contrary to claims that he was an environmentalist, Jackson was almost as much a "whore for logging companies" as for Boeing, according Carsten Lien's book ''Olympic Battleground''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2653493-olympic-battleground |title=Olympic Battleground: The Power Politics of Timber Preservation by Carsten Lien<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=September 19, 2021 |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020184919/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2653493-olympic-battleground |url-status=live }}</ref>

After his death, critics pointed to Jackson's support for ] camps during ] as a reason to protest the placement of ].<ref name="shadows">{{cite news |title="Scoop" out of the shadows|first=Nick|last=Perry|work=]|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002988731_scoop12m.html|date=May 12, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122437/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002988731_scoop12m.html|archive-date=September 29, 2007}}</ref> Jackson was both an enthusiastic defender of the evacuation and a staunch proponent of the campaign to keep the Japanese-Americans from returning to the Pacific Coast after the war.<ref>" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070331201300/http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/01/eliminationism-in-america-viii.html |date=March 31, 2007 }}", ''Eliminationism in America'', "Orcinus", January 23, 2007.</ref>

== Presidential campaigns ==
Jackson was not only successful as a politician in Washington state, but he also found recognition on the national level. He rose to the position of chairman of the ] in 1960, after being considered for the vice presidential ticket spot that eventually went to fellow senator ]. Jackson ran for president twice, and both campaigns were noted for the hostile reception they received from the left wing of the Democratic Party. Jackson's one-on-one campaigning skills, which were extremely successful in Washington state, did not translate as well to the national stage. Even his supporters admitted that he suffered from a certain lack of charisma.<ref name="histlinkjack" /><ref name="HL1976">{{cite news
|title=State voters elect Dixy Lee Ray as first woman governor of Washington, re-elect Senator Henry Jackson and House incumbents, and prefer Ford to Carter on November 2, 1976. |author=David Wilma and Kit Oldham |work=HistoryLink.org |date=November 7, 2003
|url=http://historylink.org/File/5611 |access-date=April 6, 2018 |archive-date=April 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410035058/http://www.historylink.org/File/5611 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="TNRlieb">{{cite news|title=Double Scoop|first=Reihan|last=Salam|work=The New Republic Online|date=May 27, 2003|url=http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=salam052703|access-date=June 2, 2006|archive-date=June 21, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030621145845/http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=salam052703|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 1972 presidential campaign ===
Jackson was little known nationally when he first ran in ]. ], who eventually won the nomination, even accused Jackson of racism for his opposition to ] despite Jackson's longstanding record on civil rights issues. Jackson's high point in the campaign was a distant third in the early Florida primary, but he failed to stand out of the pack of better-known rivals, and he made real news only later in the campaign, as part of the "Stop McGovern" coalition, which raised what would be known as the "Acid, Amnesty and Abortion" questions about McGovern. Jackson suspended active campaigning in May after a weak showing in the Ohio primary and finishing well behind McGovern, ], George Wallace, and ] in early primaries.

Jackson re-emerged at the July Democratic convention after the runner-up, Humphrey, dropped out of the race. Jackson's name was placed in nomination by ] governor ], and he finished second in the delegate roll call, well behind nominee McGovern.<ref name="TNRlieb" /><ref>" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118163733/http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9604/17/ |date=November 18, 2007 }}", "AllPolitics", '']'', April 17, 1972.</ref> While campaigning in New York City, Jackson invited Meir Kahane, the leader of the violent organization the Jewish Defense League, to stand with him on stage in order to gain favor with Jewish Americans.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friedman |first1=Robert |title=The False Prophet: Rabbi Meir Kahane |date=1990 |publisher=Lawrence Hill Books March |page=147}}</ref>

=== 1976 presidential campaign ===
]]]
Jackson raised his national profile by speaking out on Soviet-U.S. relations and Middle East policy regularly, and he was considered a front-runner for the nomination when he announced the start of his campaign in February 1975. Jackson received substantial financial support from Jewish-Americans who admired his pro-] views, but his support of the Vietnam War resulted in hostility from the left wing of the Democratic Party. Jackson chose to run on social issues, emphasizing law and order and his opposition to busing. He was hoping for support from labor, but the possibility that ] might enter the race caused unions to offer only lukewarm support.<ref name="histlinkjack" /><ref name="HL1976" /><ref name="TNRlieb" /><ref name="time76">{{cite magazine |title=Jimmy Carter's Big Breakthrough |magazine=] |date=1976-05-10 |url=http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9605/10/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211170746/http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9605/10/|archive-date = February 11, 2010 |df= mdy-all}}</ref> Jackson made the fateful decision not to compete in the early Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, which Carter won after liberals split their votes among four other candidates. Even though Jackson won the Massachusetts and New York primaries, he dropped out on May 1 after losing the critical ] primary to Carter by 12% and running out of money.<ref name="histlinkjack" /><ref name="HL1976" /><ref name="TNRlieb" /><ref name="time76" />

== Death ==
]
On the evening of September 1, 1983, Jackson suffered a heart attack at his home in Everett, and was pronounced dead at nearby ] at the age of 71. His death came suddenly, occurring hours after he had given a news conference condemning the Soviet attack on ].<ref name = NYT/><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.heraldnet.com/news/the-day-jackson-died-began-with-shocking-news/|title = The day Jackson died began with shocking news|last = Muhstein|first = Julia|date = May 30, 2012|newspaper = ]|accessdate = May 2, 2024}}</ref>

Jackson's death was greatly mourned. ] Senator ] stated that "Henry Jackson is proof of the old belief in the Judaic tradition that at any moment in history goodness in the world is preserved by the deeds of ] who do not know that this is the role the Lord has given them. Henry Jackson was one of those men." Jackson is buried in ] in Everett.


== Legacy == == Legacy ==
Jackson was posthumously awarded the ] in 1984. ] called him "one of the greatest lawmakers of our century", and stated:
]
{{blockquote|"Scoop Jackson was convinced that there's no place for partisanship in foreign and defense policy. He used to say, 'In matters of national security, the best politics is no politics.' His sense of bipartisanship was not only natural and complete; it was courageous. He wanted to be President, but I think he must have known that his outspoken ideas on the security of the Nation would deprive him of the chance to be his party's nominee in 1972 and '76. Still, he would not cut his convictions to fit the prevailing style.
Jackson died in ] in Everett of an ], and is buried in ] in that city. With his death in office, the ] was initially renamed Henry M. Jackson International Airport, but political resistance to the change led to this being reversed in favor of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It wasn't that the public didn't want to honor the late Senator, but rather leaders in both ] and ] (Tacoma, in particular), fearing the loss of convention business, demanded that their cities name be included in the name of the airport. The airport lies between the two cities in the municipality of ]. Since then, the ] has named the ] in his honor. The ] ] ] was also named after him, in recognition of his longtime support of the nation's military. In 1998, the ] completed construction of ] in ], Washington. The ] was created in his honor by the 1984 Washington Wilderness Act. Jackson was awarded the ] posthumously in 1984.

I'm deeply proud, as he would have been, to have Jackson Democrats serve in my administration. I'm proud that some of them have found a home here."}}

Soviet dissident and later Israeli politician ] recalled when he was imprisoned by the ] that:
{{blockquote|"There was one name mentioned not once, not dozens, but hundreds of times, the name of the man who was singled out as head of this plot, as my closest and most important comrade in crime. It was the name of a man whom I had never met or spoken to on the telephone, but who symbolized for me all those in the free world who had supported the struggle for Soviet Jewry, the very best that was in the West. It was the name of Senator Henry Jackson."}}

In 1983, Jackson was awarded Delta Chi of the Year. One of Jackson's last acts as Senator was to sponsor legislation creating what became the ],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jackson|first=Henry M.|date=1983-05-27|title=S.653 – 98th Congress (1983–1984): An act to amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, and for other purposes.|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/653|access-date=2021-01-29|website=www.congress.gov|archive-date=May 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518112438/https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/653|url-status=live}}</ref> which was named after him after his death. Jackson's extended community of staff, colleagues and family members created the Henry M. Jackson Foundation from public monies and private donations to give grants to nonprofits and educational institutions. Its board members have included Richard Perle, ], and ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hmjackson.org/|title=Homepage|website=Henry M. Jackson Foundation|access-date=October 20, 2021|archive-date=January 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101231901/https://hmjackson.org/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="proteges">{{cite news |date=January 12, 2004 |title=Scoop Jackson's protégés shaping Bush's foreign policy |first=Alex |last=Fryer |work=] |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001834779_jackson12m.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061015210554/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001834779_jackson12m.html |archive-date=October 15, 2006 }}</ref>

The ] {{sclass|Ohio|submarine|0}} ] {{USS|Henry M. Jackson|SSBN-730|2}} was named after him, in recognition of his longtime support of the nation's military. It is the only Ohio-class submarine not named after a U.S. state. On March 28, 1981, Jackson gave the principal address at the christening of the ]. The ''Bremerton'' was the second ship to have the name, preceded by the ]. It was christened by Mrs. Henry M. Jackson on July 22, 1978. The USS ''Bremerton'' (SSN 698) was mentioned in the classic ] novel, '']''. The ] has named the ] in his honor. However, students objecting to Jackson's hawkish views on the Cold War in the mid-1980s caused the university to move a ] to the end of an abandoned corridor until it was restored to a more prominent place outside the Jackson School in 2006.<ref name="shadows" />

In 1983, the ] began operation of the ] outside ]. In 1994, the ] completed construction of ] in ]. The ] Area was created in his honor by the 1984 Washington Wilderness Act. The ], with the cooperation of the Jackson family, awards a Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson Distinguished Service Award to individuals for their career dedication to U.S. national security. Jackson won the first award in 1982, and it was named after him after his death. Winners include ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson Distinguished Service Award |date=September 21, 2004 |publisher=Jinsa.org |url=http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/1366/documentid/2173/history/3,2359,2166,1366,2173 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061002234117/http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/1366/documentid/2173/history/3%2C2359%2C2166%2C1366%2C2173 |archive-date=October 2, 2006 }}</ref>

The Seattle-based ] was created in 1983 by his former colleagues and staff, as well as his widow and other family members, to further his work. In 1987, the Department of Defense gave to the Jackson Foundation a one-time, $10 million appropriation for its endowment, in honor of the Senator. To date, the Foundation has awarded over $26 million in grants to educational and non-profit institutions. Jackson also sponsored legislation to form the Foundation to Advance Military Medicine, which was later renamed in his honor at the time of his death, to the ].

=== Influence on neoconservatism ===
Jackson believed that evil should be confronted with power.<ref name="proteges" /> His support for ] and equality at home,<ref name="shadows" /> married to his opposition to '']'',<ref name="proteges" /> his support for human rights,<ref name="wolfowitz">{{cite web|title=Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson Distinguished Service Award|first=Paul|last=Wolfowitz|author-link=Paul Wolfowitz|publisher=]|date=November 18, 2002|url=http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2002/s20021118-depsecdef.html|access-date=March 25, 2006|archive-date=November 22, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021122174903/http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2002/s20021118-depsecdef.html|url-status=live}}</ref> along with that of democratic allies,<ref name="guardian">{{cite news|title=Democrat hawk whose ghost guides Bush|first=Julian|last=Borger|date=December 6, 2002|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,,854703,00.html|location=London|access-date=December 14, 2016|archive-date=October 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020184932/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/06/usa.julianborger|url-status=live}}</ref> and his firm belief that the United States could be a force for good in the world,<ref name="atlantic">{{cite news|date=April 12, 2006|first=Elizabeth|last=Wasserman|title=Beinart Talks Back|work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200604u/beinart-liberals|access-date=March 7, 2017|archive-date=July 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706165947/http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200604u/beinart-liberals|url-status=live}}</ref> and inspired a legion of loyal aides who went on to propound Jackson's philosophy as part of neoconservatism. In addition to Richard Perle, neoconservatives ], ], ], ], and ] were former Democratic aides to Jackson who, disillusioned with the Carter administration, supported ] and joined his administration in 1981, later becoming prominent foreign policy makers in the 21st-century ] administration. Neoconservative ] was a prominent political aide to Jackson's 1972 and 1976 presidential campaigns. Wolfowitz has called himself a "Scoop Jackson Republican" on multiple occasions.<ref name="wolfowitz" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Ronald Reagan Dies|work=Paula Zahn Now|publisher=CNN|date=June 5, 2004|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/05/pzn.00.html|access-date=May 4, 2010|archive-date=September 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911061224/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/05/pzn.00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Many journalists and scholars across the political spectrum have noted links between Senator Jackson and modern neoconservatism.<ref name="histlinkjack" /><ref name="proteges" /><ref name="guardian" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Empire builders: Neocon 101|work=The Christian Science Monitor|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/neocon101.html|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20050904013728/http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/neocon101.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2005}}</ref><ref name="latimesheilbrunn">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-heilbrunn28may28,0,3212824.story?track=mostemailedlink|title=Return of the liberal hawks|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 28, 2006|access-date=March 11, 2016|archive-date=October 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020184919/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-28-op-heilbrunn28-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Kaplan, Lawrence F. " {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030622131233/http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030303&s=kaplan030303 |date=June 22, 2003 }}", '']'', February 19, 2003.</ref><ref>'']'', {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050228114427/http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20041122-111818-3140r.htm |date=February 28, 2005 }}.</ref><ref>" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519231849/http://www.seanet.com/~jimxc/Politics/March2005_3.html |date=May 19, 2012 }}", Jim Miller on Politics, SEANET, 03-2005.</ref><ref name="Dems">Harrop, Froma. " {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060602130426/http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-11_23_05_FH.html |date=June 2, 2006 }}", ], November 23, 2005.</ref><ref name = NYT/>

Jackson's influence on foreign policy has been cited as foundational to the ] administration's foreign policy, and the ].<ref>{{cite news|title=The road the U.S. traveled to Baghdad was paved by 'Scoop' Jackson|first=Roger|last=Morris|date=April 6, 2003|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/115505_focus06.shtml|access-date=February 13, 2011|archive-date=October 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020184929/https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/P-I-Focus-The-road-the-U-S-traveled-to-Baghdad-1111242.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Jackson biographer Robert Kaufman says "There is no question in my mind that the people who supported Iraq are supporting Henry Jackson's instincts."<ref name="proteges" /> ], author of '']'', argues that the Democratic Party should return to Jackson's values in its foreign policy, criticizing current-day neoconservatives for failing to adopt Jackson's domestic policy views along with his foreign policy views.<ref name="atlantic" /><ref name="latimesheilbrunn" />

=== Henry Jackson Society ===
In 2005, the ] was formed at the ], England. The non-partisan British group is dedicated to "pursuit of a robust foreign policy ... based on clear universal principles such as the global promotion of the rule of law, liberal democracy, civil rights, environmental responsibility and the market economy" as part of "Henry Jackson's legacy."<ref name="Statement">" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430054251/http://zope06.v.servelocity.net/hjs/principles_html |date=April 30, 2006}}", ], March 11, 2005.</ref> The organization is now based in London and hosts high-profile speaker events in the ].

=== Jackson Papers controversy ===
Jackson's documents were donated to the ] shortly after his death in 1983, and have been archived there ever since.{{r|library 2012}} When the materials were donated in 1983, university staff removed all information considered ] at the time.<ref name="Webley 2005">{{cite news |last=Webley |first=Kayla |date=February 8, 2005 |title=CIA looks into papers donated to University |work=The Daily |publisher=University of Washington |url=http://www.dailyuw.com/news/article_bb9e3d54-b19f-5670-80ec-56095c95e940.html |access-date=September 5, 2018 |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801172828/http://www.dailyuw.com/news/article_bb9e3d54-b19f-5670-80ec-56095c95e940.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Additional materials were added to the collection until 1995.<ref name="library 2012">{{cite web | title=Special Collections, UW Libraries | website=Henry M. Jackson papers | date=September 26, 2012 | url=http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/view?docId=JacksonHenry3560.xml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926144355/http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/view?docId=JacksonHenry3560.xml | archive-date=September 26, 2012 | url-status=unfit | access-date=September 5, 2018}}</ref> At some point, library staff discovered a classified document in the collection and sent it to the government for ].<ref>{{Cite news |author=Staff writer |title=Security team to review Sen. Jackson's papers |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Security-team-to-review-Sen-Jackson-s-papers-1165917.php |work=] |date=February 7, 2005 |access-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715123616/https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Security-team-to-review-Sen-Jackson-s-papers-1165917.php |url-status=live }}</ref> In response, in the summer of 2004, a man who identified himself as an employee of the ] (CIA) called the ] asking to inspect Senator Jackson's archived documents housed there. He found a document labeled as classified and showed this to a librarian.{{r|Kaste 2005}}
In February 2005, 22 years after Jackson's death, a five-person team including staff of the CIA, ], the ], and the ] came to the library to review all of Jackson's papers to remove anything still considered classified, or reclassified since then. The Department of Energy found nothing of concern, but the CIA blanked lines in about 20 papers and pulled 8 documents out of collection.<ref name="Kaste 2005">{{cite news|title=CIA's Seizure of Files Raises Questions|first=Martin|last=Kaste|work=Morning Edition|publisher=National Public Radio|date=March 15, 2005|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4535175|access-date=April 1, 2018|archive-date=July 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715123024/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4535175|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gup |first=Ted |year=2008 |title=Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0WOslCKGhvEC&pg=PA120 |location=New York |publisher=Anchor Books |pages=120–121 |isbn=978-0-307-47291-5 |access-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803022103/https://books.google.com/books?id=0WOslCKGhvEC&pg=PA120 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{r|Webley 2005}}<ref>{{cite news|title=CIA seizes Sen. Jackson papers|first=Lara|last=Bain|work=Everett Herald|date=February 15, 2005|url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/cia-seizes-sen-jackson-papers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905201400/https://www.heraldnet.com/news/cia-seizes-sen-jackson-papers/ |archive-date=September 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author=Staff writer |date=February 21, 2005 |title=Federal Officials Remove Jackson Documents from UW |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Federal-officials-remove-Jackson-documents-from-UW-1166945.php |work=] |access-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715123636/https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Federal-officials-remove-Jackson-documents-from-UW-1166945.php |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, some files in the collection are available only to those regarded by the library as "serious researchers", who must first sign a release not to divulge some of the information contained in the files.{{r|library 2012}}<ref name="Archives West 1999">{{cite web | title=Archives West: Henry M. Jackson papers, 1912–1987 | website=Archives West | date=February 22, 1999 | url=https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv91324 | access-date=September 5, 2018 | archive-date=September 6, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906014010/https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv91324 | url-status=live }}</ref>

== Electoral history ==

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|+ ]: Results 1952–1982<ref name="ocresults">{{cite web |url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=6234 |title=OurCampaigns, Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson |access-date=November 29, 2009 |publisher=OurCampaigns |archive-date=June 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602201532/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=6234 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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!|Democrat
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|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{nowrap|'''Henry M. Jackson'''}}
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |595,288
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |56.23%
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|{{Party shading/Republican}} |{{nowrap|]}}
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |460,884
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |43.53%
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|{{Party shading/Progressive}} |{{nowrap|Thomas C. Rabbitt}}
|{{Party shading/Progressive}} |]
|{{Party shading/Progressive}} align="right" |1,912
|{{Party shading/Progressive}} align="right" |0.18%
|
|{{Party shading/Socialist Labor}} |Henry Killman
|{{Party shading/Socialist Labor}} |{{nowrap|]}}
|{{Party shading/Socialist Labor}} align="right" |651
|{{Party shading/Socialist Labor}} align="right" |0.06%
|
|-
|]
|
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{nowrap|'''Henry M. Jackson'''}}
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |597,040
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |67.32%
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |{{nowrap|William B. Bantz}}
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |278,271
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |31.38%
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|{{Party shading/Socialist Labor}} |Henry Killman
|{{Party shading/Socialist Labor}} |]
|{{Party shading/Socialist Labor}} align="right" |7,592
|{{Party shading/Socialist Labor}} align="right" |0.86%
|
|{{Party shading/Constitution}} |Archie G. Idso
|{{Party shading/Constitution}} |]
|{{Party shading/Constitution}} align="right" |2,257
|{{Party shading/Constitution}} align="right" |0.26%
|
|-
|]
|
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{nowrap|'''Henry M. Jackson'''}}
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |875,950
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |72.21%
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |]
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |337,138
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |27.79%
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|]
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|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{nowrap|'''Henry M. Jackson'''}}
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |879,385
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |82.43%
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |{{nowrap|Charles W. Elicker}}
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |170,790
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |16.01%
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|{{Party shading/Socialist Workers}} |William Massey
|{{Party shading/Socialist Workers}} |]
|{{Party shading/Socialist Workers}} align="right" |9,255
|{{Party shading/Socialist Workers}} align="right" |0.87%
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|{{Party shading/Independent}} |Edison Fisk
|{{Party shading/Independent}} |Buffalo
|{{Party shading/Independent}} align="right" |7,377
|{{Party shading/Independent}} align="right" |0.69%
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|-
|]
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|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{nowrap|'''Henry M. Jackson'''}}
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |1,071,219
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |71.84%
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |George M. Brown
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |361,546
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |24.25%
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|{{Party shading/American Independent}} |Dave Smith
|{{Party shading/American Independent}} |{{nowrap|]}}
|{{Party shading/American Independent}} align="right" |28,182
|{{Party shading/American Independent}} align="right" |1.89%
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|{{Party shading/Libertarian}} |{{nowrap|Richard K. Kenney}}
|{{Party shading/Libertarian}} |]
|{{Party shading/Libertarian}} align="right" |19,373
|{{Party shading/Libertarian}} align="right" |1.30%
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|-
|]
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|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{nowrap|'''Henry M. Jackson'''}}
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |943,665
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |68.96%
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|{{Party shading/Republican}} |Douglas Jewett
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |332,273
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |24.28%
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|{{Party shading/Independent}} |]
|{{Party shading/Independent}} |]
|{{Party shading/Independent}} align="right" |72,297
|{{Party shading/Independent}} align="right" |5.28%
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|{{Party shading/Independent}} |Jesse Chiang
|{{Party shading/Independent}} |]
|{{Party shading/Independent}} align="right" |20,251
|{{Party shading/Independent}} align="right" |1.48%
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|}

== See also ==
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== References ==
In ], twenty-two years after his death, US government officials, including three members of the ], seized and removed several of Senator Jackson's archived documents housed at the ] . Though a team of the university's staff in ] removed all information considered ] at the time, the officials were verifying anything still considered classified, or reclassified since then, had been removed. The documents are pending declassification at the University as of February 2005.
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== External links ==
In March 2005, the ] was formed by scholars at the ], ] - this organization or ] is regarded as dedicated to the promotion of neo-conservative and ] geopolitics. A number of leading US neo-conservative figures such as ], ] and ] are patrons of the society.
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* &nbsp;– University of Washington Digital Collection
* {{Biographical Directory of Congress|J000013}}
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American politician (1912–1983) "Scoop Jackson" redirects here. For the basketball writer, see Scoop Jackson (writer).

Henry M. Jackson
United States Senator
from Washington
In office
January 3, 1953 – September 1, 1983
Preceded byHarry P. Cain
Succeeded byDaniel J. Evans
28th Chair of the Democratic National Committee
In office
July 17, 1960 – January 21, 1961
Preceded byPaul Butler
Succeeded byJohn Moran Bailey
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Washington's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1953
Preceded byMonrad Wallgren
Succeeded byJack Westland
Personal details
BornHenry Martin Jackson
(1912-05-31)May 31, 1912
Everett, Washington, U.S.
DiedSeptember 1, 1983(1983-09-01) (aged 71)
Everett, Washington, U.S.
Resting placeEvergreen Cemetery
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse Helen Hardin ​(m. 1961)
EducationStanford University (BA)
University of Washington (JD)
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Army
Battles/warsWorld War II

Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative (1941–1953) and U.S. senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington. A Cold War liberal and anti-Communist member of the Democratic Party, Jackson supported higher military spending and a hard line against the Soviet Union, while also supporting social welfare programs, civil rights, and labor unions.

Born in Everett, Washington, to Norwegian immigrants, Jackson practiced law in Everett, after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law. He won election to Congress in 1940, and joined the Senate in 1953 after defeating incumbent Republican Party senator Harry P. Cain. Jackson supported the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and authored the National Environmental Policy Act, which helped establish the principle of publicly analyzing environmental impacts. He co-sponsored the Jackson–Vanik amendment, which denied normal trade relations to non-capitalist countries with restrictive emigration policies. Jackson served as chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1963 to 1981. He was twice an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in the 1972 and 1976 presidential elections. While still serving in the Senate, Jackson died in 1983.

His political beliefs were characterized by support of civil rights, human rights, and safeguarding the environment, but with an equally strong commitment to oppose totalitarianism in general and — with the start of the Cold Warcommunist rule in particular. Jackson's political philosophies and positions have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, both of whom previously served as aides to Jackson.

Early life

Jackson was born in the home of his parents, Marine (née Anderson) and Peter Jackson, in Everett, Washington, on May 31, 1912. His mother and father were both immigrants from Norway. Peter Jackson was born Peter Gresseth, and changed his name when he immigrated. He met Marine at the Lutheran church in Everett, where they were married in 1897. Henry was the fifth, and youngest, of the Jackson children; he was nicknamed "Scoop" by his sister in his childhood, after a comic strip character that he was said to have resembled. Jackson was a member of the National Honor Society. He went on to graduate with a B.A. degree from Stanford University, and a J.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Law, where he joined the Delta Chi fraternity.

Early career

In 1935, the year of his law school graduation, he was admitted to the bar, and began to practice law in Everett. He found immediate success, and was elected to become the prosecuting attorney for Snohomish County from 1938 to 1940, where he made a name for himself prosecuting bootleggers and gamblers.

Personal life

In 1961, Jackson, called by Time the Senate's "most eligible bachelor", married Helen Hardin, a 28-year-old Senate receptionist who was 20 years his junior. Jackson did not move out of his childhood home, where he lived with his unmarried sisters for several years. The Jacksons had two children: Anna Marie Laurence and Peter Jackson. Peter went on to serve as a speechwriter for Governor Christine Gregoire and to lead the effort to found the Center for Human Rights at the University of Washington, which now has a scholarship in his name.

In Congress

Jackson successfully ran for the U.S. Congress as a Democrat in 1940 and took his seat in the House of Representatives with the 77th Congress on January 3, 1941. From then on, Jackson did not lose any congressional elections. Jackson joined the Army when the United States entered World War II but left when Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered all representatives to return home or resign their seats. He visited the Buchenwald concentration camp a few days after its liberation in 1945. He also visited his native Norway, where he observed the repatriation to Russia of Red Army soldiers captured by the Nazis, in which he recalled

"I remember how reluctant most Russians were to return to the Soviet Union. They knew they would have even less freedom there."

He attended the International Maritime Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1945 with the American delegation, and he was elected president of the same conference in 1946, when it was held in Seattle. From 1945 to 1947, Jackson was also the chairman of the House Indian Affairs Committee. In the 1952 U.S. House election, Jackson relinquished his seat in the House for a run for one of Washington's Senate seats. Jackson soundly defeated Republican senator Harry P. Cain and remained a senator for over thirty years. He was Washington's first U.S. senator to be born in the state. Jackson died in office in 1983 after winning re-election for the fifth time in 1982.

Although Jackson opposed the excesses of Joe McCarthy, who had traveled to Washington state to campaign against him, he criticized Dwight Eisenhower for not spending enough on national defense. Jackson called for more inter-continental ballistic missiles in the national arsenal, and his support for nuclear weapons resulted in a primary challenge from the left in 1958, when he handily defeated Seattle peace activist Alice Franklin Bryant before winning re-election with 67 percent of the vote, which he topped the next four times he ran for re-election.

During the 1960 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Jackson was the first choice of fellow senator John F. Kennedy for a running mate; Kennedy became convinced that a Southerner would better balance the ticket. Lyndon B. Johnson was later selected. Jackson boasted one of the strongest records on civil rights during the civil rights movement. He supported the 1957 and the 1964 Civil Rights Acts. On July 22, 1965, Johnson signed the Water Resources Planning Act into law, citing Jackson as one of the Congress members to "have made a very invaluable and very farsighted contribution to America's future." In April 1968, responding to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson gave a speech about the legacy and injustice of inequality.

In 1963, Jackson was made chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, which became the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in 1977, a position he held until 1981. In the 1970s, Jackson joined with fellow senators Ernest Hollings and Edward Kennedy in a press conference to oppose Gerald Ford's request for Congress to end Richard Nixon's price controls on domestic oil, which had provoked oil companies into withholding gasoline during the 1973 oil crisis. Kaufman writes that, after 1968, Jackson "emerged as an intellectual and political leader in the perennial struggle of U.S. foreign policy to reconcile ideals with self-interest."

Jackson authored the National Environmental Policy Act, which has been called one of the most influential environmental laws in history. It helped to stimulate similar laws and the principle of publicly analyzed environmental impact in other states and in much of the world. Jackson was also a leader of the fight for statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. In 1974, Jackson sponsored the Jackson–Vanik amendment in the Senate (with Charles Vanik sponsoring it in the House), which denied normal trade relations to certain countries with non-market economies that restricted the freedom of emigration. The amendment was intended to help refugees, particularly minorities, specifically Jews, to emigrate from the Soviet Bloc. Jackson and his assistant, Richard Perle, also lobbied personally for some people who were affected by this law such as Natan Sharansky.

Throughout his time as senator, Jackson was a strong supporter of Israel. In 1970, he urged President Nixon to sell F-4 Phantom II fighter jets to that country, on the terms that amounted to a grant. During the Yom Kippur War, Jackson, alongside fellow Congressional leaders demanded an urgent resupply of weapons, to ensure that Israeli forces would have the material, diplomatic and political support necessary for a victory. When the Nixon administration balked at direct and visible material support, Jackson worked with Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, Director of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs Seymor Weiss, and senior American military commanders, notably Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, to secure the decision to airlift vital weapons and ammunition to a "gravely imperiled IDF".

In 1975, after President Ford announced he would not invite Soviet dissident Aleksander Solzhenitsyn to the White House, for fear of angering the Soviet Union, Jackson and a group of other senators asked Solzhenitsyn to speak at an office in the Capitol. Jackson was also one of the first senators to call for the normalization of relations with China, and was instrumental in arranging many business, educational, and community contacts between Washington and China.

In March 1975, Jackson released a statement in which he expressed the view that it was paramount the Franklin Peroff case be found out to be either "an aberration or was symptomatic of much greater problem" within the Drug Enforcement Administration. In June 1975, Jackson stated that if accounts about the conduct of former director of the Drug Enforcement Agency John R. Bartels Jr. were correct then his actions amounted to obstruction of justice and that evidence disclosed "in the last two days would indicate that there was a conscious, premeditated plan involving misconduct at the highest levels of the D.E.A."

In July 1977, the Senate approved a funding for the experimental nuclear reactor compromise proposal by Jackson and Idaho senator Frank Church. While the initial version by Jimmy Carter sought a decrease in funding from 150 million to 33 million, the Jackson and Church measure halved the funding to 75 million. In October 1979, the Senate voted in favor of Carter's energy mobilization board plan, Jackson labeling the plan the "centerpiece" of Carter's program that was essential to guaranteeing the effectiveness of the rest of the legislation and was noted for successfully persuading colleagues to reject amendments to the plan. Later that month, after the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted in favor of the Alaska public lands legislation, Carter issued a statement thanking Jackson and other members for supporting the legislation.

Jackson with Jimmy Carter

Jackson led the opposition within the Democratic Party against the SALT II treaty. For decades, Democrats who support a strong international presence for the United States have been called "Scoop Jackson Democrats," and the term was still used to describe Democrats such as Joe Lieberman and R. James Woolsey Jr by the aughts.

Jackson served for all but the last three years of his Senate tenure with Democratic colleague and friend Warren G. Magnuson. As a result, he spent 28 years as the state's junior senator, even though he had more seniority than all but a few of his colleagues. "Scoop" and "Maggie", as they affectionately called each other, gave Washington clout in national politics well beyond its population. They were one of the most effective delegations in the history of the Senate in terms of "bringing home the bacon" for their home state. Washington received nearly a sixth of public works appropriations but ranked only 23rd in population.

Criticism

Jackson was known as a hawkish Democrat. He was often criticized for his support for the Vietnam War and his close ties to the defense industries of his state. His proposal of Fort Lawton as a site for an anti-ballistic missile system was strongly opposed by local residents, and Jackson was forced to modify his position on the location of the site several times, but continued to support ABM development. American Indian rights activists who protested Jackson's plan to give Fort Lawton to Seattle, instead of returning it to local tribes, staged a sit-in. In the eventual compromise, most of Fort Lawton became Discovery Park, with 20 acres (8.1 ha) leased to United Indians of All Tribes, who opened the Daybreak Star Cultural Center there in 1977.

Opponents derided him as "the senator from Boeing", as well as a "whore for Boeing", because of his consistent support for additional military spending on weapons systems and accusations of wrongful contributions from the company; in 1965, 80% of Boeing's contracts were military. Jackson and Magnuson's campaigning for an expensive government supersonic transport plane project eventually failed. In addition, contrary to claims that he was an environmentalist, Jackson was almost as much a "whore for logging companies" as for Boeing, according Carsten Lien's book Olympic Battleground.

After his death, critics pointed to Jackson's support for Japanese American internment camps during World War II as a reason to protest the placement of his bust at the University of Washington. Jackson was both an enthusiastic defender of the evacuation and a staunch proponent of the campaign to keep the Japanese-Americans from returning to the Pacific Coast after the war.

Presidential campaigns

Jackson was not only successful as a politician in Washington state, but he also found recognition on the national level. He rose to the position of chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1960, after being considered for the vice presidential ticket spot that eventually went to fellow senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Jackson ran for president twice, and both campaigns were noted for the hostile reception they received from the left wing of the Democratic Party. Jackson's one-on-one campaigning skills, which were extremely successful in Washington state, did not translate as well to the national stage. Even his supporters admitted that he suffered from a certain lack of charisma.

1972 presidential campaign

Jackson was little known nationally when he first ran in 1972. George McGovern, who eventually won the nomination, even accused Jackson of racism for his opposition to busing despite Jackson's longstanding record on civil rights issues. Jackson's high point in the campaign was a distant third in the early Florida primary, but he failed to stand out of the pack of better-known rivals, and he made real news only later in the campaign, as part of the "Stop McGovern" coalition, which raised what would be known as the "Acid, Amnesty and Abortion" questions about McGovern. Jackson suspended active campaigning in May after a weak showing in the Ohio primary and finishing well behind McGovern, Ed Muskie, George Wallace, and Hubert Humphrey in early primaries.

Jackson re-emerged at the July Democratic convention after the runner-up, Humphrey, dropped out of the race. Jackson's name was placed in nomination by Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, and he finished second in the delegate roll call, well behind nominee McGovern. While campaigning in New York City, Jackson invited Meir Kahane, the leader of the violent organization the Jewish Defense League, to stand with him on stage in order to gain favor with Jewish Americans.

1976 presidential campaign

Jackson campaigning in the 1976 Democratic presidential primaries

Jackson raised his national profile by speaking out on Soviet-U.S. relations and Middle East policy regularly, and he was considered a front-runner for the nomination when he announced the start of his campaign in February 1975. Jackson received substantial financial support from Jewish-Americans who admired his pro-Israel views, but his support of the Vietnam War resulted in hostility from the left wing of the Democratic Party. Jackson chose to run on social issues, emphasizing law and order and his opposition to busing. He was hoping for support from labor, but the possibility that Hubert Humphrey might enter the race caused unions to offer only lukewarm support. Jackson made the fateful decision not to compete in the early Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, which Carter won after liberals split their votes among four other candidates. Even though Jackson won the Massachusetts and New York primaries, he dropped out on May 1 after losing the critical Pennsylvania primary to Carter by 12% and running out of money.

Death

Jackson's home on Grand Avenue in Everett

On the evening of September 1, 1983, Jackson suffered a heart attack at his home in Everett, and was pronounced dead at nearby Providence Hospital at the age of 71. His death came suddenly, occurring hours after he had given a news conference condemning the Soviet attack on Korean Air Lines Flight 007.

Jackson's death was greatly mourned. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan stated that "Henry Jackson is proof of the old belief in the Judaic tradition that at any moment in history goodness in the world is preserved by the deeds of 36 just men who do not know that this is the role the Lord has given them. Henry Jackson was one of those men." Jackson is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Everett.

Legacy

Jackson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984. Ronald Reagan called him "one of the greatest lawmakers of our century", and stated:

"Scoop Jackson was convinced that there's no place for partisanship in foreign and defense policy. He used to say, 'In matters of national security, the best politics is no politics.' His sense of bipartisanship was not only natural and complete; it was courageous. He wanted to be President, but I think he must have known that his outspoken ideas on the security of the Nation would deprive him of the chance to be his party's nominee in 1972 and '76. Still, he would not cut his convictions to fit the prevailing style. I'm deeply proud, as he would have been, to have Jackson Democrats serve in my administration. I'm proud that some of them have found a home here."

Soviet dissident and later Israeli politician Natan Sharansky recalled when he was imprisoned by the KGB that:

"There was one name mentioned not once, not dozens, but hundreds of times, the name of the man who was singled out as head of this plot, as my closest and most important comrade in crime. It was the name of a man whom I had never met or spoken to on the telephone, but who symbolized for me all those in the free world who had supported the struggle for Soviet Jewry, the very best that was in the West. It was the name of Senator Henry Jackson."

In 1983, Jackson was awarded Delta Chi of the Year. One of Jackson's last acts as Senator was to sponsor legislation creating what became the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, which was named after him after his death. Jackson's extended community of staff, colleagues and family members created the Henry M. Jackson Foundation from public monies and private donations to give grants to nonprofits and educational institutions. Its board members have included Richard Perle, Tom Foley, and Jeane Kirkpatrick.

The U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine Henry M. Jackson was named after him, in recognition of his longtime support of the nation's military. It is the only Ohio-class submarine not named after a U.S. state. On March 28, 1981, Jackson gave the principal address at the christening of the USS Bremerton (SSN 698). The Bremerton was the second ship to have the name, preceded by the USS Bremerton (CA 130). It was christened by Mrs. Henry M. Jackson on July 22, 1978. The USS Bremerton (SSN 698) was mentioned in the classic Tom Clancy novel, The Hunt for Red October. The University of Washington has named the Jackson School of International Studies in his honor. However, students objecting to Jackson's hawkish views on the Cold War in the mid-1980s caused the university to move a bust of the senator to the end of an abandoned corridor until it was restored to a more prominent place outside the Jackson School in 2006.

In 1983, the Snohomish County Public Utility District began operation of the Henry M. Jackson Hydroelectric Project outside Sultan, Washington. In 1994, the Everett School District completed construction of Henry M. Jackson High School in Mill Creek, Washington. The Henry M. Jackson Wilderness Area was created in his honor by the 1984 Washington Wilderness Act. The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, with the cooperation of the Jackson family, awards a Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson Distinguished Service Award to individuals for their career dedication to U.S. national security. Jackson won the first award in 1982, and it was named after him after his death. Winners include Max Cleland, Joe Lieberman, Dick Cheney, Jane Harman, and Paul Wolfowitz.

The Seattle-based Henry M. Jackson Foundation was created in 1983 by his former colleagues and staff, as well as his widow and other family members, to further his work. In 1987, the Department of Defense gave to the Jackson Foundation a one-time, $10 million appropriation for its endowment, in honor of the Senator. To date, the Foundation has awarded over $26 million in grants to educational and non-profit institutions. Jackson also sponsored legislation to form the Foundation to Advance Military Medicine, which was later renamed in his honor at the time of his death, to the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.

Influence on neoconservatism

Jackson believed that evil should be confronted with power. His support for civil rights and equality at home, married to his opposition to détente, his support for human rights, along with that of democratic allies, and his firm belief that the United States could be a force for good in the world, and inspired a legion of loyal aides who went on to propound Jackson's philosophy as part of neoconservatism. In addition to Richard Perle, neoconservatives Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol, Elliot Abrams, Charles Horner, and Douglas Feith were former Democratic aides to Jackson who, disillusioned with the Carter administration, supported Ronald Reagan and joined his administration in 1981, later becoming prominent foreign policy makers in the 21st-century Bush administration. Neoconservative Ben Wattenberg was a prominent political aide to Jackson's 1972 and 1976 presidential campaigns. Wolfowitz has called himself a "Scoop Jackson Republican" on multiple occasions. Many journalists and scholars across the political spectrum have noted links between Senator Jackson and modern neoconservatism.

Jackson's influence on foreign policy has been cited as foundational to the George W. Bush administration's foreign policy, and the Iraq War. Jackson biographer Robert Kaufman says "There is no question in my mind that the people who supported Iraq are supporting Henry Jackson's instincts." Peter Beinart, author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, argues that the Democratic Party should return to Jackson's values in its foreign policy, criticizing current-day neoconservatives for failing to adopt Jackson's domestic policy views along with his foreign policy views.

Henry Jackson Society

In 2005, the Henry Jackson Society was formed at the University of Cambridge, England. The non-partisan British group is dedicated to "pursuit of a robust foreign policy ... based on clear universal principles such as the global promotion of the rule of law, liberal democracy, civil rights, environmental responsibility and the market economy" as part of "Henry Jackson's legacy." The organization is now based in London and hosts high-profile speaker events in the House of Commons.

Jackson Papers controversy

Jackson's documents were donated to the University of Washington shortly after his death in 1983, and have been archived there ever since. When the materials were donated in 1983, university staff removed all information considered classified at the time. Additional materials were added to the collection until 1995. At some point, library staff discovered a classified document in the collection and sent it to the government for declassification. In response, in the summer of 2004, a man who identified himself as an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) called the University of Washington asking to inspect Senator Jackson's archived documents housed there. He found a document labeled as classified and showed this to a librarian. In February 2005, 22 years after Jackson's death, a five-person team including staff of the CIA, Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the Information Security Oversight Office came to the library to review all of Jackson's papers to remove anything still considered classified, or reclassified since then. The Department of Energy found nothing of concern, but the CIA blanked lines in about 20 papers and pulled 8 documents out of collection. As of 2018, some files in the collection are available only to those regarded by the library as "serious researchers", who must first sign a release not to divulge some of the information contained in the files.

Electoral history

U.S. Senate (Class 1) elections in Washington: Results 1952–1982
Year Democrat Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct 3rd party Party Votes Pct 3rd party Party Votes Pct
1952 Henry M. Jackson 595,288 56.23% Harry P. Cain 460,884 43.53% Thomas C. Rabbitt Progressive 1,912 0.18% Henry Killman Socialist Labor 651 0.06%
1958 Henry M. Jackson 597,040 67.32% William B. Bantz 278,271 31.38% Henry Killman Socialist Labor 7,592 0.86% Archie G. Idso Constitution 2,257 0.26%
1964 Henry M. Jackson 875,950 72.21% Lloyd J. Andrews 337,138 27.79%
1970 Henry M. Jackson 879,385 82.43% Charles W. Elicker 170,790 16.01% William Massey Socialist Workers 9,255 0.87% Edison Fisk Buffalo 7,377 0.69%
1976 Henry M. Jackson 1,071,219 71.84% George M. Brown 361,546 24.25% Dave Smith American Independent 28,182 1.89% Richard K. Kenney Libertarian 19,373 1.30%
1982 Henry M. Jackson 943,665 68.96% Douglas Jewett 332,273 24.28% King Lysen Independent 72,297 5.28% Jesse Chiang Independent 20,251 1.48%

See also

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