John Moran, who used his business fortune to help create the University of Utah's nationally ranked eye center which bears his name, has died, university officials said. He was 91.
Moran died "peacefully" on Saturday while surrounded by his family, university officials said Wednesday. A cause of death was not released.
Moran was born in Los Angeles in 1932 and moved to Salt Lake City when he was in elementary school after his father, a self-taught accountant, accepted a vending job in Utah, according to a biography of him, which honored him in 2012. His father helped him learn accounting, which Moran said "had a great influence" on him.
He eventually went on to work for the New York-based investment banking firm Blyth & Company before leaving in 1967 for Moran also served as the Republican Party's national finance chairman at one point, and helped Bob Dole and John McCain's campaign finances during their respective presidential runs in 1996 and 2008.
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