Leonard Anton Forsgren (1925-1992)
1925-06-22--1992-08-22 (man)
Född 1925 i Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA.
Död 1992 i Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA.
Jordfäst på River View Cemetery i Portland.
Dödsruna från The Oregonian, August 24, 1992.
Leonard A. Forsgren, insurance executive, civic leader and Republican fund-raiser, died of a pulmonary embolism Saturday in a Portland hospital. He was 67.
''We will not see his likes again in our lifetime,'' said Sen. Bob Packwood, a longtime friend. ''He gave and gave and gave to the community and asked for nothing in return.''
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis and Clark College. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery.
Mr. Forsgren was born June 22, 1925, in Portland. He graduated from Lewis and Clark College with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1949.
He served as president of his own insurance company, Leonard Forsgren & Associates, before the firm's merger with Miller & Ames of California, then with Carroon & Black Co. of New York, and most recently with Willis Carroon, the fourth-largest insurance brokerage in the world.
At the time of his death, Mr. Forsgren was chairman of Willis Carroon.
Mr. Forsgren served on many boards and commissions. He served on the Port of Portland Commission from 1981 through 1986, serving as president of the commission in 1986. He has been the Honorary Swedish Counsel for Oregon since 1984.
His civic activities included being named president of the Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce and Chairmanof the Salvation Army Advisory Board. He was Portland's Junior First Citizen in 1957. He was a director of the Portland Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Forsgren was a member of the board of trustees for the Parry Center for Children, a trustee of the St. Vincent Mecial Foundation and a board member of the Waverley Children's Home and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
In the early 1970s, President Nixon appointed him a member at large of the National Advisory Council to the Small Business Administration, and in 1981 he was appointed to the National Advisory Council to the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business.
His political work on behalf of Republicans stretches back to late Gov. Tom McCall's race for Congress in 1954, Packwood recalled. He served as co-chairman of that campaign. McCall won the Republican primary, but lost to Edith Green.
Mr. Forsgren was chairman of McCall's successful campaign for secretary of state in 1964, and he served on the finance committee for McCall's 1966 and 1970 campaigns for governor. He was state finance chairman for the Nixon-Agnew campaign in 1968 and 1972, and he was a member of the finance committee for Ronald Reagan in 1980, as well as the Bush-Quayle campaigns in 1988 and 1992.
Mr. Forsgren also served as finance chairman for Packwood's re-election campaigns in 1980 and 1986, and was involved in the senator's current re-election effort.
Survivors include his wife, Diane; daughters, Elizabeth, Katherine, and Heidi Brummel; and sons, Neil and John, all of Portland. | |
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