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12 <br /> Wflliam C. Bntkr urived in Evercst in 1892 as one of Rakefeller's men to manage the smelter,ta process orc <br /> Crom Mona Crism,that wss ro be part of the indus¢iil base of the new ciry. Whm Everctt and che coundy were <br /> plunged inro the depression of'93,and the industria inciuding�he smelter and drcams of the city chat was ro be�he <br /> Pitaburgh af the west ecuhed.mort of the capitalists�speculators left. Butler stayed on. By the rime that Everca <br /> began ro rcbuild after the economic disuter.Buder wat[he prcsiden�of both the Everctt First Nuional Bank and <br /> Everctt Trust and Savings Bank. The town's rcvival wu built on bortowed money—most of it from Butler. <br /> In 1910. William Butier had architect Augus[He:de des;gn a fine home For him which overlooked an industrial <br /> Evercct waterfront filled wi[h mills and log yards. William Butler's Everett Eirst Nazional Bank and his Everca Trust <br /> and Savings Bank had financed and often had controlling interest in most of what he overlooked. <br /> According to Everctt historian Nortnan Clark, it is hard to undercs[imate[he extent of Butler's financial and <br /> poli�ical power. Nac only did he have compelling inmrcst in at leazt sixry-five mills and logging companies in the <br /> cin•and counry.he aiso had holdings in ail and utiliry stock and in banks in New York. He supervised che <br /> Republican Party in Wazhington Swte md inFluenced national policics to a large but unknown degree. But linle is <br /> known of this intensely priva�e man who controlled and shaped much of early Everctt. Clark portrays a man who <br /> kept a rigid work and Iife schedule,who with his wife attended elite sociai events but never entertained.who <br /> maintained a patrician distance from the working clazs ciry where he lived and who az a Republican conservative - <br /> fought any and all attempu at social,economic or political rcfortn. <br /> Buder died in Everett in !94� ust J years afrer "Scoop"Jackson. the next promment occupanr ojrhe house at !-03 <br /> Grartd. was elected to the House ojRepruentatives. <br /> Thev couldn't have been rnare dissimilar:Jackson loved the public political arena,he championed che working clazs <br /> and he opened his home to his town. lackson waz a New Deal Democrat acting to rcform a system in reaction te <br /> the financial power and ruin brought about by people such as W illiam Butler. <br /> Henry"Seoop"Jacbon was bom in Everctt in 1912 to Norwegian immigranu. His mocher wac a hardworking <br /> homemaker.his father a concrcte finisher whose worlc remains in the foundations and rctaining walls around some <br /> of the homes in the nei¢hborhood surrounding the Jackson house. <br /> Iackson attrided school in Everett.gmduated az valedictorian from Evere¢High in 1930 and the University of <br /> Washingcon in 1935. He began his puhlic carcer as a rcfortn and anti-cocruption Prosecuting Attomey for <br /> Snohomish in 1938. In 1940 he was elected to the House of Represen[a[ives, in 1952 to the Sena[e. His public <br /> career continued until his untimely death in 1983. <br /> His inFluence noc only on Everett but on che Northwest and che nacion wu considerable,and his legacy hu had a <br /> lasting impace on our environment. He twice unsuccessfully sought the Pnsidential nomination.but his real <br /> strengch was as che Senatar from Waghington. As a promoter af the local environmenc,he introduced the legisla[ion <br /> chat resulted in the crcation of North Cascades National Park:nationally he achieved his greatese environmenwi <br /> victon with che passage of the National Environmeatal Policy Act in 1969. He supported the local airccaft industry. <br /> was an important national defense proponent and an expert in forcign affairs with a specia� in[ercsc in China. <br /> Throuzhout this career which was,of course,based in Washington D.C.,he mainwined his home and morc <br /> importanc.his ties to his hometown. Everctt. The home was no�only the family home for Senator Jackson,his wife. <br /> Helen and their nvo children,but waz always a home that waz opened to the community for policical,culturai and <br /> charitable evenu. <br /> Helen Jackson haz maintained chis tradition and graciously hasts numeraus political and chaziwble functions each <br /> vear. The Jackson Foundation for which she works funds a wide range of projeccs including fellowships[o che U W <br /> Henrv 'N.lackson School of Intemational Studies. <br /> 56 <br />