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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.
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 spend...
Nov 6, 2012 · David B. Green. Follow. 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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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.
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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 David Beame once summed up his ambition to be mayor of New York City in one succinct sentence: "I would like to be La Guardia without the frills." Certainly there is nothing frilly about 67-year-old Beame, who in January will become the city's 104th mayor.
Feb 14, 2001 · About 600 people crowded into the Park East Synagogue on East 67th Street for the one-hour-and-15-minute funeral of Abraham D. Beame, who died on Saturday at the age of 94. ... and David N ...
