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- 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.
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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...
Beame was the personal accountant for political leader Irwin Steingut and was a member of the Madison Democratic Club in Crown Heights before serving two terms as city comptroller. He made his first run for mayor in 1965. Abraham was the Democratic party nominee that year, but lost to Republican candidate John V. Lindsay.
Nov 8, 2013 · Bill de Blasio stands six feet five inches from heel to crown. He will be the tallest mayor in the history of New York City. He is taller than anyone who has ever been President of the United...
- Hendrik Hertzberg
Feb 14, 2001 · 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 Side and...
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.
Feb 13, 2001 · New York’s first Jewish mayor dies. By Peter Ephross February 13, 2001 10:00 am. Advertisement. NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (JTA) Abraham Beame, the first Jewish mayor of New York, died Saturday at 94 of...
