Editing James Garner (section)

===Politics===
[[File:Warner Brothers television westerns stars 1959.JPG|thumb|right|1959 [[Warner Bros.]] series leads [[Will Hutchins]] (''[[Sugarfoot]]''), [[Peter Brown (actor)|Peter Brown]] (''[[Lawman (TV series)|Lawman]]''), [[Jack Kelly (actor)|Jack Kelly]] (''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]''), [[Ty Hardin]] (''[[Bronco (TV series)|Bronco]]''), James Garner (''Maverick''), [[Wayde Preston]] ''([[Colt .45 (TV series)|Colt .45]]''), and [[John Russell (actor)|John Russell]] (''[[Lawman (TV series)|Lawman]]'')]]

Garner was a strong [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] supporter.

On August 28, 1963, Garner was one of several celebrities to join [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] in the "[[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]]."<ref name="Leopold">{{Cite web |last=Leopold |first=Todd |date=2014-07-20 |title=Famed actor James Garner dies at 86 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/20/showbiz/james-garner-death/index.html |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> In his autobiography, Garner recalled sitting in the third row listening to King's "[[I Have a Dream]]" speech.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Garner |first1=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6jiYnyLRgoC&q=%22James+Garner%22+%22I+have+a+dream%22 |title=The Garner Files: A Memoir |last2=Winokur |first2=Jon |date=2012-10-23 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4516-4261-2 |pages=97 |language=en}}</ref>
:"If there was an environmental cause, James Garner was there" — [[Zev Yaroslavsky]]<ref name="Sawicki">{{Cite web |last=Sawicki |first=Emily |date=2014-07-23 |title=Garner Remembered for 'Rockford Files,' Environmental Passion • The Malibu Times |url=https://malibutimes.com/article_de6b8e58-129a-11e4-9619-0019bb2963f4 |access-date=2024-04-25 |language=en-US}}</ref>
In July 1964, Garner, over a master plan for a 92-square-mile Santa Monica Mountains area, engaged in a public quarrel with [[Karl L. Rundberg#Mountains|Karl L. Rundberg]], a Los Angeles City Council member, at a council meeting.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.alamy.com/actor-james-garner-is-shown-july-30-1964-los-angeles-calif-the-actor-was-on-hand-for-a-city-council-hearing-on-a-controversial-master-plan-for-development-of-the-santa-monica-mountains-which-the-movie-folk-dont-want-changed-by-proposed-subdivisions-and-additional-population-ap-photo-image525565482.html | title=Actor James Garner is shown, July 30, 1964, Los Angeles, Calif. The actor was on hand for a City Council hearing on a controversial master plan for development of the Santa Monica Mountains which the movie folk don't want changed by proposed subdivisions and additional population. (AP Photo Stock Photo - Alamy }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2014-07-21 |title=James Garner nearly got into a fight to protect Santa Monica Mountains |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-james-garner-santa-monica-mountains-20140721-story.html |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Vollmer">{{Cite web |last=Vollmer |first=Ted |date=1988-09-19 |title=Many Battles but No Winner : A tenacious Occidental Petroleum Corp. and ambivalent city officials have fought to a draw for 22 years over Palisades drilling. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-19-me-1555-story.html |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1964-07-30 |title=Independent from Long Beach, California |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/719583846/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Later, Garner, [[Steve McQueen]] and [[Burt Lancaster]], became founding members of the ''Friends of the [[Santa Monica Mountains]]'' conservancy group, according to the book ''Transforming California'' by Stephanie S. Pincetl, but contested by Dash Stolarz, spokesperson for the state's [[Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy]]<ref name="Leopold"/><ref name="Sawicki"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Steve |date=2018-12-02 |title=Mothers of the Santa Monica Mountains |url=https://venturacountytrails.org/WP/2018/12/02/mothers-of-the-santa-monica-mountains/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=venturacountytrails.org |language=en-US}}</ref>

In the 1980s, Garner worked against oil drilling offshore of [[Will Rogers State Beach]].<ref>* https://static.library.ucla.edu/oralhistory/pdf/masters/21198-zz000975hc-5-master.pdf
* https://ssmpa.com/resources/newsletters/2015%2001%20Newsletter%20v1_1.pdf
</ref><ref name="Sawicki"/><ref name="Vollmer"/>

From 1982, Garner gave at least $29,000 to Federal campaigns, of which over $24,000 was to Democratic Party candidates, including [[Dennis Kucinich]] (for Congress in 2002), [[Dick Gephardt]], [[John Kerry]], [[Barbara Boxer]], and various Democratic committees and groups.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/James_Garner.php|title=NEWSMEAT - James Garner's federal campaign contributions|date=March 9, 2005|access-date=May 9, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309051230/http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/James_Garner.php|archive-date=March 9, 2005|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
 
For his role in the 1985 CBS miniseries [[Space (miniseries)|''Space'']], the character's party affiliation was changed from [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to Democrat, as in the book, to reflect Garner's personal views. Garner said, "My wife would leave me if I played a Republican."<ref>Thomas, Jack. "Keep Your Eye On This Space". ''Boston Globe'' (April 13, 1985)</ref>