DEN
Seattle presents:
An Evening with Senator Slade Gorton '50
Former Washington Senator Slade Gorton will speak on the relationship of government and business, his contribution to the 9/11 Commission and his current involvement with Sapphire Energy (http://www.sapphireenergy.com/)
Wednesday,
March 24, 2010
6:00
p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
About the speaker
Mr. Gorton’s years in the Senate saw him appointed to powerful committee posts including Appropriations, Budget, Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Energy and Natural Resources. Mr. Gorton served as the chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee (1995-2001), the Commerce Subcommittees on Consumer Affairs (1995-99), and Aviation (1999-2000). He was a member of the Republican leadership as counsel to the majority leader (1996-2000).
Mr. Gorton began his political career in 1958 as a Washington state representative; he went on to serve as state House majority leader. In 1968, Mr. Gorton was elected attorney general of Washington state where he argued 14 cases before the Supreme Court. In June 1980, Mr. Gorton received the Wyman Award as “Outstanding Attorney General in the United States.”
Mr. Gorton also served on the president’s consumer Advisory Council (1975-77) and on the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission from 1969-1981. He was chairman of the Washington State Law & Justice Commission (1969-76), served as an instructor in constitutional law to public administration graduate students at the University of Puget Sound (1977), and served on the board of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (1987-2002).
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