Torp, Frederick H., 1913-2003
Biography
Frederick H. Torp was born in Allendale, New Jersey, in 1913. He attended Columbia College in New York City for both his undergraduate work and law school, earning his law degree in 1937. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1938 and was an attorney in private practice. Just before he joined the Navy in 1942, he and Elsie Arneson were married; they later had three children. He served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. After his discharge in 1945, he relocated to Oregon and joined the law firm of Hart Spencer, now known as Stoel Rives. He worked there until 1974, when he founded Tonkon Torp LLP. Elsie Arneson died in 1972, and in 1978, he and Nancy Morse Moller were married. He died in 2003.
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Oral history interview with Frederick H. Torp
Oral history interview with Frederick H. Torp conducted by Brian Booth on December 28, 1998, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Torp was an attorney in Portland, Oregon.