Edward Grefe, Grassroots Organizer, Died at 79

Mon., Apr. 24, 2017

By Jack O'Dwyer

Edward Grefe, former New York and Washington, D.C., executive who became an authority on grassroots political campaigns, died Feb. 17, 2016. His obit was published in the April 17 Washington Post.

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