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5 unusual facts about Harry Huge


Harry Huge

Huge is currently co-counsel representing some 4,000 family members of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Thereafter, in 1972, Huge was appointed as a trustee of the union's pension fund by new UMWA leader Arnold Miller.

During the 2007-08 presidential campaign, Huge made contributions first to John Edwards (Q1/2007), then to Hillary Clinton(Q4/2007), then to John McCain(Q3/2008).

During the coal strike of 1968, the Daily Diary of President Jimmy Carter indicates that, on the evening of February 24, 1978, after meetings to discuss the coal strike, the President spoke first with Edgar Speer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of U.S. Steel Corporation, then with Harry Huge, counsel to the UMW, and then went to the press room and issued a statement on the tentative settlement of the coal strike.

Huge has co-authored articles in the New Republic, with Robert Coles, including: "Strom Thurmond Country: The Way It Is in South Carolina," (November 30, 1968); "FBI on the Trail of the Hunger-Mongers," (December 21, 1968); "Black Lung: Mining As a Way of Death," (January 25, 1969); "Thorns on the Yellow Rose of Texas," April 19, 1969; "Peonage in Florida," (October 19, 1969).



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