L. B. Day

Day (February 22, 1932 – October 24, 1986) was an American labor union leader and elected official in the state of Oregon.

Day Comcast Amphitheatre on the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem is named in his honor.

He attended Willamette Law School for a year before turning his attention full-time to union activism.

Author Brent Walth noted that Day viewed his role with the Teamsters as a crusader, working to clean up a union often accused of connections to organized crime.

Day quickly rose from working as a union organizer of cannery workers to serving as secretary-general of the local.

Day was running for reelection at the time of his death, from a heart attack suffered during a fundraiser for fellow Salem Republican C. T. "Cub" Houck.

No question that is a failing," he went on, "but my temperature rises when I see time wasted, money frittered away and elected officials dodging issues.

Each Christmas in the early 1980s, Day, Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh, and Salem Statesman-Journal political columnist Ron Blankenbaker delivered Christmas presents to the needy using proceeds from "Pompous Twit" awards bestowed annually by Blankenbaker upon elected officials, journalists, and others.