Edward Barnes Leisenring Jr.

Edward Barnes Leisenring Jr. (pronounced LYES-en-ring) (January 25, 1926 – March 2, 2011) was president of the Westmoreland Coal Company from 1961 to 1988 and chairman of the board from 1988 to 1998.[1]

Biography

He was born on January 25, 1926 to Edward Barnes Leisenring Sr. in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. In 1951 he married Julia du Pont Bissell and they had three children: Erica Leisenring, Edward W. Leisenring and John Leisenring. In 1978, he ignored pleas from President Jimmy Carter, while leading industry negotiators during a bitter 100-day mine workers’ strike. Ultimately he helped win a settlement that largely favored mine owners. He had long been a national spokesman for mine owners. He died of heart failure on March 2, 2011 at his winter home in Aiken, S.C[1]

References
  1. "E. B. Leisenring Jr., Coal Executive, Dies at 85". The New York Times. March 12, 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-13. E. B. Leisenring Jr., the scion of a powerful Pennsylvania coal family who led industry negotiators during a long and bitter mine workers' strike in 1978, ignoring pleas by President Jimmy Carter and helping to win a settlement that largely favored mine owners, died on March 2 at his winter home in Aiken, S.C. He was 85.
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