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CHICAGO Richard O’Connor, onetime chairman and CEO of Campbell-Ewald, died Monday after complications from surgery. He was 74.
O’Connor, who was also the host and co-owner of Dick O’Dow’s, a popular Irish bar in Birmingham, Mich., had worked at the agency for 40 years, from 1956 until 1996. He started as a trainee on the Chevrolet business and was named account director on the business in 1975.
He was named CEO of Marschalk Campbell-Ewald Worldwide in New York in 1982, and served three years there before returning to Michigan to be chairman of the agency from 1985 until his retirement in 1996.
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