Vincent Sombrotto

Who was Vincent Sombrotto?

Vincent Raymond Sombrotto was a letter carrier at Grand Central Station in New York City, and the 16th president of NALC between 1978 and 2002. He was born in Manhattan in 1923. Sombrotto became an official member of NALC in 1947 and played a huge part in the U.S. postal strike of 1970. Sombrotto helped to expand NALC into more than 100 cities and involved more than 200,000 new members. He retired in 2002 and finished with over than 300,000 members but died in 2013 aged 89 at Port Washington, New York. He is survived by his wife Rae, 7 children and 14 grandchildren.