[2] On February 24, Leo Samuel founded the Oregon Life Insurance Company.

[2] Then in 1962, the company moved its headquarters into the newly constructed Standard Plaza building.

[4] Thirty years later, Standard Insurance acquired the Georgia-Pacific Building in 1982 when Georgia-Pacific moved its headquarters to Atlanta, GA. Then in 1998, StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. was created as the holding company for all the business divisions of the company.

[6] In May 2004, Ron Timpe was succeeded by CEO Eric Parsons as the company's chairman of the board of directors.

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company announced it would purchase StanCorp for $5 billion in July 2015.