Harry Lester Usher (March 6, 1939 – June 22, 2000) was an American attorney who was the second and last commissioner of the United States Football League (USFL).
[4] Usher was named the commissioner of the United States Football League on January 15, 1985, succeeding Chet Simmons who had resigned the previous day.
After signing a three-year contract, he inherited a league that continued to incur heavy financial losses.
ABC, knowing that the USFL was moving to an autumn schedule in 1986 in direct competition with the more-established National Football League (NFL), decided to televise games for only the 1985 season.
He had checked into the hospital complaining of chest pains twenty days earlier on December 20, 1985.