Banker, leading area philanthropist dies at 77

David Straz started his banking career sweeping the floors — of a bank.


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Courtesy. David Straz ran from Tampa mayor earlier this year.
Courtesy. David Straz ran from Tampa mayor earlier this year.
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In high school in the late 1950s, David Straz held a job sweeping floors of a local bank in his native Milwaukee. Some 30 years later, after a building a bank that had more than 20 branches and $400 million in assets across Wisconsin, Straz became chairman of a holding company that owned the bank where he once swept floors.

 

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