Eugene B. Casey, Builder, Adviser to F.D.R., Dies

Eugene B. Casey, a Maryland philanthropist and builder who served the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration as farm policy adviser, is dead at age 82.

Casey, who died Tuesday at his home in nearby Potomac, Md., was director of the Farm Credit Administration from 1940 to 1941 and also served as an agricultural adviser to the Roosevelt White House. In the 1950s and ‘60s, he built homes in the Rockville-Gaithersburg, Md., area of suburban Washington.

A philanthropist, Casey provided the government with property that was used for research that led to the development of the Salk polio vaccine. He also financed the restoration of Red Hill, the last home and burial place of Revolutionary War hero Patrick Henry in Brookneal, Va.

In 1947, Casey was convicted of failing to pay $70,384 in federal income taxes for the years 1941 to 1943. He was fined $30,000 by a federal judge in Baltimore and received three suspended six-month prison terms.