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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 ...

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   • Succeeded by: Ed Koch

   • Political party: Democratic

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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 ...

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   Who was Abraham Beame?

   • 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 his term struggling with the worst fiscal calamity in the city's history, died yesterday at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 94.

   Abraham Beame Is Dead at 94; Mayor During 70's Fiscal Crisis

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   What happened to Abraham Beame?

   • Tears welled up, and he said in a quavering voice that he had done the best he could. The applause was loud and sustained. A version of this article appears in print on , Section 1, Page 1 of the National edition with the headline: Abraham Beame Is Dead at 94; Mayor During 70's Fiscal Crisis.

   Abraham Beame Is Dead at 94; Mayor During 70's Fiscal Crisis

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   How did Beame get his name?

   • In New York, the family changed its name to Beame. Beame’s mother died in 1912; his father soon remarried. Nicknamed “Spunky” as a boy, Beame grew up in a tenement, where one of his early jobs was to go through other apartments waking people who had no alarm clocks.

   Abraham Beame Dies at 94: New York’s First Jewish Mayor

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   What did Mayor Beame say about New York City?

   • ''I hope to be a matchmaker in the years of my administration, wedding our people to the city, encouraging them to identify with this great metropolis that is their home,'' Mr. Beame, the 104th mayor of New York, told the crowd gathered for his inaugural under cold, gray skies at City Hall on New Year's Day, 1974.

   Abraham Beame Is Dead at 94; Mayor During 70's Fiscal Crisis

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2001/02/11 › nyregionAbraham Beame Is Dead at 94; Mayor During 70's Fiscal Crisis

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   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 ...

5. www.haaretz.com › jewish › 2012/11/061973: A Jewish Mayor for New York City - Jewish World ...

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   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 ...

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2001/02/14 › nyregionA City Remembers Abraham Beame - The New York Times

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   Feb 14, 2001 · A City Remembers Abraham Beame. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. New York City yesterday quietly remembered an immigrant accountant who rose to ...

7. www.jta.org › 2001/02/13 › lifestyleNew York's first Jewish mayor dies - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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   Feb 13, 2001 · NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (JTA) 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 ...

8. jweekly.com › 2001/02/16 › abraham-beame-n-y-s-firstAbraham Beame, N.Y.s first Jewish mayor, dies at 94

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   Feb 16, 2001 · NEW YORK — 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 attended City College, Beame was mayor between 1974 and 1977. His tenure was plagued by New York City's worst fiscal crisis.