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- Abraham David Beame (né Birnbaum; March 20, 1906 – February 10, 2001) was an American accountant, investor, and Democratic Party politician who was the 104th mayor of New York City, in office from 1974 to 1977.
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Abraham David Beame (né Birnbaum; March 20, 1906 – February 10, 2001) [2] was an American accountant, investor, and Democratic Party politician who was the 104th mayor of New York City, in office from 1974 to 1977. [3]
Feb 11, 2001 · Abraham D. Beame, an accountant and clubhouse Democrat who climbed the gray ranks of municipal bookkeeping and confounded oddsmakers to become mayor of New York in the mid-1970's,...
Feb 14, 2001 · Abraham Beame, the first Jewish mayor of New York, died Saturday at 94 of complications from open-heart surgery. The son of Polish Jewish immigrants who grew up on the Lower East Side...
Abraham D. Beame also known to New Yorkers as Mayor Abe Beame had one of the shortest mayoral terms in New York City’s history, but it was definitely one of the most memorable. He inherited several challenges left behind by his predecessor John V. Lindsay.
Nov 6, 2012 · David B. Green. On November 6, 1973, Abe Beame was elected mayor of New York, the first practicing Jew to become chief executive of the world’s most Jewish city. (In terms of Jewish law, Fiorello LaGuardia, whose mother was Jewish, was also a Jewish mayor, but “the Little Flower” himself was a practicing Episcopalian.)
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Feb 11, 2001 · NEW YORK -- Abraham D. Beame, 94, the diminutive Democrat and former accountant who served as the 104th mayor of New York through the darkest days of the city's 1975 fiscal crisis,...
Feb 14, 2001 · New York City yesterday quietly remembered an immigrant accountant who rose to become its gentleman mayor in the bleak days of the 1970's fiscal crisis, a calamity that turned him out of...
