Frederick Percival Champ was born June 4, 1896, in Salt Lake City, a son of George Herbert and Alla Dora Cochran Champ. He attended the New Jersey Academy, Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) in Logan, St. Stephens School in Colorado Springs, and Harvard University. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Utah State University in 1954.

Mr. Champ married Frances Elizabeth Winton in Duluth, Minnesota on December 29, 1921. They had three children: George Herbert, Mary Knox, and Frederick Winton.

At the time of his death, Mr. Champ was president of the Champ Investment Company, chairman of the advisory committee of the Cache Valley Branch of the Walker Bank and Trust Company, director of St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City, member of the executive committee for the Utah Foundation, and a sixty-five year scouter who was National Council Representative for the Cache Valley Boy Scout Council.

From 1917 to 1918, Mr. Champ served with the United States Food Administration as a Division Chief, then with Near East Relief from 1918 to 1919, and on the Relief Commission to the Near East, Russia, and Armenia in 1919. In 1925, he became a member of the board of trustees of Utah State Agricultural College, serving in that capacity until 1941. In addition, he served as a member of the Salt Lake District Board of the Untied State Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1933-1940), chairman of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Public Welfare and Emergency Relief (1933-1934), chairman of the Utah State Board of Public Welfare (1935-1936), and chairman of the Governor's Committee on Emergency Distribution Waters of Sear River in Utah and Idaho (1934-1935).

Mr. Champ also served as a director for Utah, National Water Conservation Conference; Area Coordinator for United States Savings Bonds Division, U.S. Treasury Department; member of the executive committee of the Utah Centennial Commission; member of the Board of Governors and Farm Loan Committee, Mortgage Bankers of America; member of the Utah Bankers Association; member and co-chairman for Utah, National Probation and Parole Association; member, Utah State Highway Patrol Civil Service Commission; member of Utah's Committee on Fulbright Scholarship; director of the Salt Lake City Branch, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; and a member of the America Arbitration Association and the National Reclamation Association.

Mr. Champ held many positions of leadership in professional and civic organization, including those of President of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America (1941-1942); Vice President (1941), and Director (1942-1946) of the American Forestry Association; Vice President (1951-1952) and Director (1943-1951) of the United States Chamber of Commerce; President of the Executive Board of the Cache Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America (1940-1943); President of the Cache Valley Building Company, the Cache Valley Banking Company, and the Utah Mortgage Loan Corporation; chairman of the Board of Commercial Security Bank; Vice President and Director of Walker Bank & Trust Company; Director of the Title Insurance Company of Boise, Idaho; Director of Investors Central Management Corporation of New York City; and President of the Logan Rotary Club.

Honorary membership was accorded Mr. Champ by Alpha Delta Epsilon, and Scabbard and Blade. He also held membership in the Alpha Kappa Psi National Business Fraternity, the Utah State University Alumni Association, the "A" Men's Club of Utah State University, the Logan Golf Club, the Flat Rock Club of Island Park, Idaho, the Alta Club of Salt Lake City, the Weber Club of Ogden, and the Harvard Club of New York.

Mr. Champ was a member of the Episcopal Church and served both as Treasurer for St. John's Church of Logan, and on the Board of Directors for St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City.