Harry Usher

Harry Lester Usher (March 6, 1939 – June 22, 2000) was an American attorney who was executive vice president and general manager of the committee overseeing business operations for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and later the second and last commissioner of the United States Football League.

Early life and education Usher was born on March 6, 1939, in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father died shortly after his birth. He entered Brown University on a scholarship, and his mother also died soon after. At Brown he played football and baseball, and graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1961. He then matriculated at Stanford Law School, where he was editor of the law review and earned his law degree in 1964. Usher exerted strict financial control, requiring all expenditures of $1,000 or more to be submitted for his approval; He was a director of the Amateur Athletic Foundation, now the LA84 Foundation, which was created to disburse California's portion of the surplus from the Los Angeles Olympics and which he was instrumental in making permanent. he had checked into the hospital complaining of chest pains twenty days earlier on December 20, 1985. On June 22, 2000, at age 61, he was found in a workout room at the AmeriSuites Hotel in Secaucus, New Jersey after an apparent heart attack and confirmed dead at a hospital; he was on a consulting mission for General Electric Financial Services.