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In 1965, Beame was the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. Edward N. Costikyan was his campaign manager and James Farley his campaign chair. Despite having Senator Robert F. Kennedy's strong support, Beame lost to the Republican nominee, John Lindsay. Mayor of New York City
Feb 24, 2020 · The deadliest foreign attack on American soil helped make Mike Bloomberg New York’s mayor and now a presidential contender.
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...
Feb 11, 2001 · Mr. Beame, who served as mayor from 1974 to 1978, was the city's first Jewish mayor. He died two months after the death of his City Hall predecessor, John V. Lindsay.
Nov 6, 2012 · 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 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 City...
In November 1973, at age 67, Beame defeated State Senator John Marchi and won the election for mayor of New York by a landslide victory, which included 63% of the Jewish vote and 68% of the black vote. He assumed office on January 1, 1974, as the 104 th mayor of New York.
