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    Thomas Slade Gorton III (January 8, 1928 – August 19, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician from Washington. A member of the Republican Party, he...
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    Slade Gorton, the mill's superintendent, was out of a job. At his wife's urging, he began a fishing business in 1874 which was known as Slade Gorton &...
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    the United States Senate in 2000. She defeated Republican incumbent Slade Gorton in one of the closest elections in the state's history. Cantwell was...
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    1992. Gorton was born in 1938 in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Ruth (Israel) and Thomas Slade Gorton, Jr. His elder brother was Slade Gorton, who later...
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    Daily Kos. Retrieved September 14, 2011. Gorton, Slade. "Draft Congressional Plan No. 1 – Commissioner Gorton – September 13, 2011" (PDF). Washington State...
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    election in Washington was held November 8, 1994. Incumbent Senator Slade Gorton won re-election to a second consecutive term. As of 2025, this was the...
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    Washington was held on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Slade Gorton was seeking reelection to a third consecutive term, and a fourth overall...
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    1986. Incumbent Republican Senator Slade Gorton lost re-election to former Transportation Secretary Brock Adams. Gorton later won Washington's other Senate...
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    elected to the U.S. Senate, narrowly defeating incumbent Republican Slade Gorton with 50.66% of the vote. Serving one term, he compiled a liberal record...
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    not become publicly known until the mid-1980s, when Washington Senator Slade Gorton revealed it in announcing that he would be sitting at the candy desk...
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  • Coventry Samuel Gorton, religious leader in colonial New England Slade Gorton (born 1832), co-founder of Gorton's of Gloucester Slade Gorton (1928–2020),...
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  • In 2010, NBR launched the Slade Gorton International Policy Center, named in honor of United States Senator Slade Gorton who served as majority leader...
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    Attorney General Slade Gorton. Magnuson was the most senior U.S. senator to lose re-election until Ted Stevens' defeat in 2008. Gorton was one of the dozen...
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    election to a partial term that same year. Republican former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton, who had just lost a re-election bid in 1986, won the open seat. As of...
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    Delaware (William Roth), Michigan (Spencer Abraham) and Washington (Slade Gorton), all of whom lost re-election in 2000. January 7, 1999 – February 12...
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    Washington's Attorney General from 1981 to 1993. A Republican, he succeeded Slade Gorton, who went on to represent Washington in the United States Senate. Eikenberry...
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  • as specified in Section 501 of the 1996 Act. Senators James Exon and Slade Gorton introduced it to the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation...
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    requested that all emails and other records be released to the team. Slade Gorton, lead attorney for the city, responded by pointing out that PBC that...
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    third term, but lost to Republican George Allen. Incumbent Republican Slade Gorton ran for a third consecutive term (fourth overall), but was unseated for...
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    Magnuson and Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, as well as state attorney general Slade Gorton. Local theater chain owner Fred Danz, restaurateur Dave Cohn, and Westin...
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  • elections. The current head of that organization is former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton. A Washington chapter of the Republican Liberty Caucus was organized...
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    Washington; launched on 10 June 1983, sponsored by Mrs. Sally Gorton, wife of Senator Slade Gorton; and commissioned on 9 February 1985. In February 1981, the...
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    thereafter. Incumbent Republican Senator Slade Gorton lost re-election to former Transportation Secretary Brock Adams. Gorton later won Washington's other Senate...
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    the Senate floor with only five senators participating, three opposed (Slade Gorton, Hank Brown, John C. Danforth) and two in favor (Akaka and Inouye). It...
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    Washington state, Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson. Republican State Attorney General Slade Gorton defeated Magnuson in the 1980 election. Magnuson was responsible for...
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    8, 1983 – January 3, 1989 Preceded by Henry M. Jackson Succeeded by Slade Gorton 2nd President of The Evergreen State College In office June 6, 1977 –...
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    Democrat Warren Magnuson lost re-election to State Attorney General Slade Gorton. Incumbent Democrat Gaylord Nelson ran for re-election to a fourth term...
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    Democrat, former U.S. deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration Slade Gorton, Republican, former U.S. senator from Washington Bob Kerrey, Democrat...
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  • (represented by then-state Attorney General and future U.S. Senator Slade Gorton) sued the American League for breach of contract. Confident that Major...
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    during the so-called "Salmon War" of the 1990s, Washington Senator Slade Gorton called for the U.S. Navy to "force" the Inside Passage, even though it...
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