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1850 – 1924Samuel Gompers (1850-1924)Died 13 December 1924, aged 74Samuel Gompers was a British-born American labor leader who founded and led the American Federation of Labor for nearly four decades. He shaped the direction of the American labor movement toward pragmatic collective bargaining.