Background
Courshon, Arthur Howard was born on February 21, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Aaron H. and Beatrice (Pollak) Courshon.
Courshon, Arthur Howard was born on February 21, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Aaron H. and Beatrice (Pollak) Courshon.
Bachelor, University Florida, 1942. Juris Doctor, University Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1947.
Partner Firm Courshon & Courshon, Miami Beach, from 1948. Organizer, chairman board directors Washington Savings & Loan Association Florida, 1952—1981. Consultant savings & loan system Chile International Cooperation Administration, from 1958.
Consultant housing loans to Latin America, from 1960. Consultant Peru Government, from 1960. Housing finance consultant Latin America Affairs Subcommittee, 1960—1969, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1960—1969, Israel, 1977—1980.
Consultant housing loans Development Loan Fund, 1961—1962, Inter-American Development Bank, 1961—1962. Member United States Govt.Task Force Federal Home Loan Bank, 1961—1962. Member savings & loan advisory council Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 1969.
Member housing & urban development advisory committee Agency for International Development, 1965—1968. Member Metropolitan Dade County Urban Renewal Agency, 1963—1967. Public member Administrative Conference United States, 1968—1972.
Chairman Democratic National Finance Council, 1983—1984. Board directors South Florida Housing Foundation, Miami Heart Institute. Served with United States Army Air Force, 1942-1946.
National trustee John F. Kennedy Library. Found; trustee Public Health Trust Dade County, University Miami, 1990. Member of International Union Building Societies (development committee member), National Savings & Loan League (president 1969, executive committee member, legislation committee member), United States Savings & Loan Institute, Florida Bar, Dade County Bar Association (banking liaison com member), Pi Lambda Phi, Nu Beta Epsilon.
Married Carol Biel, February 20, 1943. Children: Barbara Courshon Mills, Deanne.