He created the nation’s first state Department of Ecology, which President Richard M. Nixon used as a model for the Environmental Protection Agency.

He served as governor from 1965 to 1977, and in the U.S. Senate from 1983 to 1989. Evans was considered a moderate Republican ...

Former Washington Governor and U.S. Senator Daniel J. Evans has died at 98, leaving a legacy of public service.

Dan Evans, the former governor of Washington who also served in the Senate, died on Friday night at his home in Seattle at ...

Prior to his death, Dan Evans was the oldest living senator, the only one born in the 1920s, and the second-oldest living governor.

Daniel J. Evans, a moderate Republican who dominated Washington state politics as a three-term governor and a U.S. senator ...

Dan Evans, a popular three-term Republican governor of Washington state who went on to serve in the U.S. Senate before ...