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It’s Election Day and nobody is more interested in the results than Stuart Elway, a Hoquiam native and the leading political pollster in Washington State for more than 30 years.
Elway grew up on politics. His dad Harry was mayor of Hoquiam and a state senator — at the same time — and made an unsuccessful run for Congress. Stuart campaigned with his dad as a grade schooler then went on to be an activist himself in the progressive Republican movement of the late ’60s, working for Gov. Dan Evans. After that he earned a doctorate in communications and started Elway Research, accepted as the gold standard for polling in this state.
Elway is the subject of a profile written by former Daily World editor and publisher John Hughes for the Legacy Washington project called “1968: The Year that Rocked Washington.” The profile is available online at www.sos.wa.gov.
www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/legacy/sixty-eight/stuart-elway-profile.pdf
The full series follows more than a dozen Washingtonians who were in the thick of change in 1968. That year, Elway was a 20-year-old political activist at the University of Washington, part of a student organization called Action for Washington, coaxing students of either party to get involved.
Senator Elway’s campaign ad photo in the 1950s features his wife Lila and kids, Stuart and Jone. (Photo courtesy of the Elway collection)
