David Carley, once one of the state’s most prominent housing and urban property developers and twice a candidate for Wisconsin governor, died early this morning at his home in Charlottesville, Va., at the age of 80.
….In addition to his business and an interest in state politics, Carley served as president of Milwaukee’s Medical College of Wisconsin, was a University of Wisconsin regent and headed then-Gov. Gaylord Nelson’s Wisconsin Department of Resource Development. At one point he was said to be on the short list for the presidency of the University of Wisconsin System.