Dick Bogle

Richard Waldo Bogle Jr. (October 19, 1930 – February 25, 2010) was an American journalist and politician. He was the first black television news reporter in Oregon (as well as in the Pacific Northwest as a whole) and later served two terms as a Portland city commissioner.

Early life Bogle was born in Portland in 1930 to Richard W. Bogle, a businessman, and Kathryn Hall Bogle, a journalist and activist. His great-grandparents, Richard Arthur and America Waldo Bogle, were some of the first black settlers in the Pacific Northwest. Growing up on Tibbetts Street, Bogle attended Hosford Grade School and graduated from Washington High School. He then attended Oregon State College and Vanport Extension Center (now Portland State University).

Career After college, Bogle worked as an insurance fraud investigator. In 1952, he published a jazz review and an endorsement of Adlai Stevenson for U.S. president in the Portland Challenger newspaper, which was founded by William A. Hilliard and targeted the black community. He also served as associate editor of the Challenger. He continued to write jazz and sports articles for the Portland Reporter and worked as a police officer from 1959 to 1968. He volunteered as a jazz DJ for KMHD and for the Portland Police Bureau's cold case unit. was to jazz singer Nola Sugai Porter in 1977, and they had three children together (in addition to two children Porter had from a previous relationship). They moved to Vancouver, Washington, in 2005. He died in Vancouver on February 25, 2010, from congestive heart failure.