The last vestiges of the golden age of governors passed with the death of former Washington governor Dan Evans. He died on Sept. 20 just four weeks shy of his 99th birthday.
Evans was the last living member of what the press called the “Three Musketeers”: governors Cecil Andrus of Idaho, Tom McCall of Oregon and Evans of Washington.
I call that period when their terms overlapped “the golden age of governors” because all three men are considered by many as the greatest governors of their respective states. In fact, in 1983 the National Governors Association named Evans one of the 10 most outstanding governors of the 20th century…