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Up for sale "Washington Senator" Henry M Jackson Hand Signed 8X10 B&W Photo.
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Henry
Martin "Scoop" Jackson
(May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American 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 Democrat, 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 Senator Harry P. Cain.
Jackson supported the major civil rights 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 countries with restrictive emigration policies. Jackson
served as Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1963 to 1981. He was
twice an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, in 1972 and 1976. 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 communism in particular. The political philosophies and positions of Scoop Jackson
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 the Senator. 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 nonprofit
institutions.
