Howard Salomon died Tuesday, according to his relatives.
Salomon, 82, a 40-year field underwriter at Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, New York, who helped lead a successful effort in the early 1960s to persuade insurers to remove questions about race from insurance applications.
Salomon was born in New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Colorado and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin.