Shoemaker, Edwin J.

Shoemaker, Edwin J.
▪ 1999

      American engineer and businessman whose invention of the recliner made the La-Z-Boy furniture company one of the most successful in the U.S. (b. 1907?, Monroe county, Mich.—d. March 15, 1998, Sun City, Ariz.).

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