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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/obituaries/david-edgerton-90-dies-helped-start-burger-king-in-the-60s.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=nyt-david-edgerton-a-founder-of-burger-king-is-dead-at-90-2706315" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The New York Times has published an obituary</a> for Burger King co-founder David R. Edgerton, who died on April 3 at the age of 90. Edgerton&rsquo;s death had already been announced in a paid notice in The Miami Herald, but it was reported in few other national publications.

Edgerton co-founded the Burger King restaurant brand in 1954 before selling the company in 1967, just as the chain had started to establish a dominant market share, with 400 locations across twenty states. Edgerton and his co-founder James W. McLamore are credited with conceiving and naming what would become of the most iconic signature items in the restaurant industry, the Whopper.

According to Edgerton&rsquo;s friend and accountant Betty Amos Righetti, the cause of Edgerton&rsquo;s death was complications from surgery after a fall. Edgerton died in Miami, where he grew up and helped launch the Burger King chain.

Read the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/obituaries/david-edgerton-90-dies-helped-start-burger-king-in-the-60s.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=nyt-david-edgerton-a-founder-of-burger-king-is-dead-at-90-2706315" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">full obituary at nyt.com</a>.

David Edgerton, a Founder of Burger King, Is Dead at 90

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