Harry Lester Usher was an American attorney who was the second and last commissioner of the United States Football League.
11 Facts About Harry Usher
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Harry Usher entered Brown University on a scholarship, graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1961, and later helped many California-based students attend the university.
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Harry Usher then matriculated at Stanford Law School, where he was editor of its Law Review.
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Harry Usher was the executive vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, which oversaw the business operations of the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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Harry Usher was second in command to Peter Ueberroth for a multi-sport event that generated a surplus of at least $215 million.
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Harry Usher was named the commissioner of the United States Football League on January 15,1985, succeeding Chet Simmons who had resigned the previous day.
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Harry Usher had two open-heart surgeries, the first in 1975 when he was only 36.
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Harry Usher had checked into the hospital complaining of chest pains twenty days earlier on December 20,1985.
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Harry Usher died at age 61 in Secaucus, New Jersey on June 22,2000.
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Harry Usher had suffered a heart attack while exercising at the AmeriSuites Hotel gym, in Secaucus.
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Harry Usher was on a consulting mission for General Electric Financial Services Corp.