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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.
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Mayor of New York City. Beame won the 1973 Democratic mayoral primary with 34% of the vote, ahead of Herman Badillo (29%), Mario Biaggi (24%), and Albert H. Blumenthal (16%). [11] He defeated State Senator John J. Marchi, Blumenthal, and Biaggi in the 1973 mayoral election, becoming the 104th mayor of New York City.
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The New York City mayoral election of 1973 occurred on Tuesday, November 6, 1973, with the Democratic candidate, New York City Comptroller Abraham Beame winning the mayoralty with a decisive majority amongst a highly divided field. Beame, a Democrat, also ran on the Civil Service ballot line.
Nov 6, 2012 · After serving as city budget director and then as city comptroller, Beame ran for mayor for the first time in 1965, but was defeated by John Lindsay. Eight years later, it was Lindsay, then at the end of his second, disastrous term, whom Beame succeeded as New York’s 104th mayor.
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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.
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.
Beame, who became Mayor after 23 years in public office, was born in London March 20, 1906 but came to the United States with his family as a three-month-old infant. His family name of...
