Gordon Faber
Gordon C. Faber was an American politician and businessman in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he grew up in Hillsboro, Oregon. He joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and was a small business owner before becoming a real estate agent and entering politics. He served on Hillsboros budget committee and city council before serving two terms as mayor from 1993 to 2001. The Gordon Faber Recreation Complex in the citys northeast corner is named in his honor.
Gordon Faber was born on April 2, 1931, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania to Ben Faber. The family moved to Hillsboro, Oregon, in 1934 where he grew up. As a boy he was a member of the Boy Scouts, but since Hillsboro did not have a city pool he was unable to earn his swimming merit badge. He attended the local schools and graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1949 before enrolling at Lewis amp Clark College in neighboring Portland. Faber attended the school for a year and a half and then joined the United States Air Force when the Korean War began. In the Air Force he was assigned to the Armed Forces Special Weapons project and spent nearly four years with the unit. He married Barbara Loftin in 1951, and in time the couple had three children .
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