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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 ...
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 ...
Feb 14, 2001 · The web page is an archived article from JTA that covers the life and career of Abraham Beame, who served as New York's mayor from 1974 to 1977. It highlights his immigrant background, his fiscal crisis management, his political achievements and his personal legacy.
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Feb 10, 2001 · NEW YORK (CNN) -- Abraham Beame, New York's first Jewish mayor, died Saturday at age 94. Beame died at 10:52 a.m., a spokeswoman for New York University Medical Center said Saturday. He died...
Feb 11, 2001 · 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 the city's 1975 fiscal crisis, died Feb. 10 in ...
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.
Feb 16, 2001 · The son of Polish Jewish immigrants who grew up on the Lower East Side and attended City College, Beame was mayor between 1974 and 1977 during New York City's fiscal crisis. He was known for his fiscal restructuring, his role in the 1976 Democratic convention and his community service.