Mr. Speaker. I rise today in tribute to a very great man who died recently in Portland. OR. Moe M. Tonkon was born in 1905 in Bender. Russia. the son of a hatmaker. If events had occurred differently. Moe. too. might have become a hatmaker in Bender. Fortunately for him. and for the people of Oregon. his family emigrated to Portland in 1906. After attending Reed College and the Northwest College of Law in the mid1920s. Moe opened his own oneman law office in Portland. Today the firm of Tonkon. Torp. Galen. Marnaduke & Booth is one of the largest legal firms in the State.
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