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Office of the Secretary of State
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By Thomson-ShoreThis is one in a series of biographies and oral histories published by the Wash-
ington State Legacy Project. Other history-makers profiled by the project include
former governor Booth Gardner; Northwest Indian fisheries leader Billy Frank;
Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn; former first lady Nancy Evans; astronaut Bon-
nie J. Dunbar; Bremerton civil rights activist Lillian Walker; former chief justice
Robert F. Utter; former justice Charles Z. Smith; trailblazing political reporter
Adele Ferguson; Federal Judge Carolyn Dimmick, and Nirvana co-founder Krist
Novoselic. For more information on The Legacy Project go to http://www.sos
.wa.gov/legacyproject/
Cover photo: Gorton listens to testimony from National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice at a 9/11 Commission hearing on April 8, 2004, in
Washington, D.C. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak