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Senate Years of Service: 1953-1983 Party: Democrat
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JACKSON, Henry Martin (Scoop), a Representative and a Senator from Washington; born in Everett,
Snohomish County, Wash., May 31, 1912; attended the public schools and Stanford
University, Stanford, Calif.; graduated from the law school of the University
of Washington at Seattle in 1935; admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Everett, Wash.; prosecuting attorney of Snohomish County
1938-1940; attended the International Maritime Conference in Copenhagen,
Denmark, in 1945 as adviser to the American delegation; elected president of
the International Maritime Conference held in Seattle, Wash., in 1946; elected
as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress and to the five succeeding
Congresses (January 3,1941-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1952; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-ninth
Congress); elected to the United States Senate in 1952 and reelected in 1958,
1964, 1970, 1976 and again in 1982, serving from January 3, 1953, until his
death on September 1, 1983, in Everett, Wash.; chairman, Committee on Interior
and Insular Affairs (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-fifth Congresses), Committee
on Energy and Natural Resources (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixty Congresses);
chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1960; unsuccessful candidate
for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, 1972 and
1976; interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Everett, Wash.; posthumously awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom on June 26, 1984.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Jackson, Henry.
Fact, Fiction and National Security. New York:
Macfadden-Bartell Corp., 1964; Kaufman, Robert G.
Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2000.
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