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RESOLUTION NO. 6497 > > A RESOLUTION in honor of Everett's favorite son, Senator Henry M. Jackson, on his 100th birthday,that May 31, 2012, be declared"Scoop Jackson Day" in the city of Everett WHEREAS,the centennial of the birth of Everett's favorite son, Henry Martin Jackson on May 31, 2012, will be celebrated by friends and well-wishers in Everett and other Snohomish County communities, and in other towns and neighborhoods throughout Washington; and WHEREAS, Scoop Jackson, born in the Everett home of his Norwegian-immigrant parents Peter and Marine Jackson, graduated from Everett public schools, served as a student leader and boy scout, and as a paper boy, established a record for his uninterrupted delivery of the Everett Herald; and WHEREAS, in 1938, at the age of 26, Scoop Jackson was elected Snohomish County prosecuting attorney just two years after he graduated from the University of Washington School of Law; and WHEREAS, earning a strong reputation as a dedicated foe and prosecutor of illegal gambling, vice and corruption in Snohomish County, Scoop Jackson was elected in 1940 to the United States House of Representatives for the Evergreen State's Second Congressional District; and WHEREAS, Scoop Jackson was re-elected five times to his congressional seat,won election to the United States Senate in 1952, and was re-elected five times to his senate seat; and WHEREAS, Scoop Jackson, in more than four decades of unswerving public service until taken from family and country by his untimely death on September 1, 1983, established a steady and respected grasp of subjects ranging from public lands and conservation, to energy and natural resources,to national security and human rights; and WHEREAS, an environmentalist many years before the word became part of the American lexicon, Scoop Jackson wrote the groundbreaking National Environmental Policy Act and championed legislation preserving such vast and unspoiled Washington treasures as North Cascades National Park and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness; and WHEREAS, Scoop Jackson sponsored the Endangered American Wilderness Act,the Redwood National Park Act,the Federal Land Policy and Management Act,the Federal Lands for Parks and Recreation Act,the Youth Conservation Corps Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Trail System Act, the National Historic Preservation Act,the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act,the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, and the National Wilderness Act; and