Photos:: Lee A. Iacocca | 1924-2019

President Reagan, second from left, meets with auto industry executives including Ford President Phillip Caldwell, center, and Chrysler President Lee Iacocca during a luncheon in the White House Cabinet room in Washington on Dec. 19, 1981.

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July 2, 2019 8:30 PM PT

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Lee A. Iacocca, an ambitious immigrant’s son and salesman extraordinaire whose blunt and swaggering persona dominated the automobile industry like nobody since Henry Ford, has died. He was 94.

Lee Iacocca, founding chairman of the American Family Immigration History Center, speaks during opening ceremonies on April 17, 2001, at Ellis Island in New York.

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Patricia Kennedy, from left, Lee Iacocca and California Gov. Gray Davis chat during the gala opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003.

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Lee Iacocca, founding chairman of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, speaks during the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards on April 21, 2004, at the Ellis Island Museum in New York City.

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Business icon Lee Iacocca speaks after being honored at the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum on Ellis Island on April 13, 2011, in New York.

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