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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] As mayor, he presided over the city during the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when the city was almost forced to declare ...
Nov 18, 1973 · The new Mayor of the richest and most troubled city in the world, Abraham D. Beame, is 5 feet 2 inches tall and 67 years old. Apart from these two handicaps, if that's what they are, the public ...
Feb 14, 2001 · Advertisement. 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 ...
Abraham was the Democratic party nominee that year, but lost to Republican candidate John V. Lindsay. Mayor Abe Beame became the city of New York’s 104th mayor on January 1, 1974, after having defeated John J. Marchi in the 1973 election. He inherited some considerable problems, as the city was on the brink of bankruptcy when he took office.
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.)
Oct 27, 2022 · He was elected the 104th mayor of New York City in 1973. The oath was administerd at his Belle Harbor home on Dec. 31, 1973 and became effective Jan. 1, 1974. He never wanted to achieve higher ...
Feb 11, 2001 · Abraham D Beame, accountant and clubhouse Democrat who climbed gray ranks of municipal bookkeeping and confounded oddsmakers to become mayor of New York in mid-1970's, only to spend his term ...
