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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 18 > Sam Church, former leader of the United Mine Workers

Sam Church, former leader of the United Mine Workers

By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
July 18, 2009

Sam Church, a burly, bearded coal miner from the hollows of West Virginia who led the United Mine Workers of America during a tumultuous time when the union was growing more democratic while its numbers were dwindling, died Tuesday in Bristol, Tenn. He was 72 and lived in Pennington Gap, Va.

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