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LOWRY, Michael Edward
1939–2017
Concise Biography
LOWRY, Michael Edward, a Representative from Washington; born in St. John, Whitman County, Wash., March 8, 1939; attended the Endicott, Wash., public schools; B.A., Washington State University, Pullman, Wash., 1962; chief fiscal analyst and staff director, Washington state senate ways and means committee, 1969-1973; governmental affairs director, Puget Sound Group Health Cooperative, 1974-1975; member, King County, Wash. Council, 1975-1978; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); unsuccessful candidate in 1983 for the United States Senate in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry M. Jackson; was not a candidate for reelection in 1988 to the United States House of Representatives, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate; elected governor of Washington in 1992 for the four-year term beginning January 13, 1993; unsuccessful candidate for election for Wash. state commissioner of public lands in 2000; died on May 1, 2017, in Olympia, Wash.; interment at Bethel Cemetery, Steptoe, Wash.
View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
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University of Oklahoma
The Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive, Department of Communication
Norman, OK
Videocassettes and Sound Tape Reel:
1973-1988, 52 commercials on 5 videocassettes and 5 commercials on 1 sound tape reel.
The commercials were used during Michael Lowry's campaigns for the 1973 King County executive election and the 1983 and 1988 U.S. senatorial elections in Washington, Democratic Party.
University of Washington Libraries
Manuscripts and University Archives Division
Seattle, WA
Papers:
1978-1988, 60 cubic feet.
The collection of Michael Lowry includes congressional papers constituent and VIP correspondence, outgoing letters, campaign files, schedules, trip files, mass mailings, and sound recordings. A subgroup documents Michael Lowry's service on the Oceanography Subcommittee of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Noteworthy content are legislative issue files, including background on the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 and the Washington State Wilderness Act of 1984, as well as on topics of concern to Michael Lowry and his Seattle constituents (Japanese American redress, the Public Health Hospital in Seattle, the AIDS crisis, Reagan Administration policies). Other series include photographs which were placed in the Michael Lowry Photographs Collection. A finding aid is available in the repository.
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