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He made his first run for mayor in 1965. 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.
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He defeated State Senator John J. Marchi, Blumenthal, and Biaggi in the 1973 mayoral election, becoming the 104th mayor of New York City. [4] [12] Fiorello La Guardia —mayor from 1934 to 1945—had a Jewish mother, but Beame was the first mayor of New York City who was an observant Jew.
The first mayor of the expanded city was Robert Anderson Van Wyck . The longest-serving mayors have been Fiorello H. La Guardia (1934–1945), Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1954–1965), Ed Koch (1978–1989) and Michael Bloomberg (2002–2013), each of whom was in office for twelve years (three successive four-year terms).
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, only to...
Beame defeated his nearest competitor by a landslide 40.42% Democratic margin of victory and was sworn into office in January 1974, replacing outgoing Liberal Party Mayor John Lindsay . Democratic primary. Candidates. Herman Badillo, U.S. Representative from the Bronx. Abraham Beame, City Comptroller.
Feb 11, 2001 · February 10, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. EST. 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...
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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...
