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Ed Garvey with N.F.L. players during a strike in 1982. He headed their union for 12 years.
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Ed Garvey
Died on February 22, 2017 at age 76
Mr. Garvey led the National Football League players’ union to two strikes during a dozen years as its executive director and later became a progressive political activist and officeseeker in his native Wisconsin.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.