William Horace Oakland

I owe a great intellectual debt to Bill Oakland. He was not my thesis advisor, but at a conference he pointed out an implication of my theory that no one, including myself, had previously noticed. It was this implication that later informed much of my work on the economics of local government. Besides this, Bill was a gracious and good humored acquaintance at various conferences that we happened to attend together. He was a stalwart of the National Tax Association, doing much of the work for...

Dear Family:
I would like to offer my condolences on the passing away of Prof.Oakland - I took several courses with him while attending Tulane's Ph.d program.

Dear Family,

I am sorry to hear of Bill's passing. He was a good colleague.

Dear family: I am so very sorry to hear of Bill's passing. I was just thinking of him the other day and all of the good times we had together in school and working at the Springfield Newspapers and going to the beach, etc. with our mutual friend Bob Richards. My prayers are with him. An old friend, Joe Taylor

Offering our deepest condolences during this difficult time.