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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 ...
Nov 18, 1973 · The new Mayor of the richest and most troubled city in the world, Abraham D. Beame, is 5 feet 2 inches tall and 67 years old. Apart from these two handicaps, if that's what they are, the public ...
Lastly, three little Smalls: William O’Dwyer (1945), Vincent R. Impellitteri (1949), and Abraham D. Beame (1973). ... The other six mayors were of what some of us would consider normal height ...
Certainly there is nothing frilly about 67-year-old Beame, who in January will become the city's 104th mayor. About the only similarity between Beame and La Guardia (who was the city's fiery mayor from 1934 to 1945) is their height: 5 ft. 2 in. Where Mayor La Guardia was flamboyant, City Comptroller Beame is subdued.
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. He inherited some considerable problems, as the city was on the brink of bankruptcy when he took office.
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 ...
Nov 6, 2012 · Abraham David Beame was born on March 20, 1906, in London, England, a way station where his mother stopped to give birth before joining his father a few months later in the United States. Both his parents, Philip and Esther Birnbaum (they changed the name once they arrived in New York), were Jews from Warsaw, Poland, where Philip, a ...
