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Senate Years of Service: 1949-1957 Party: Democrat
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LEHMAN, Herbert Henry, a Senator from New York; born in New York City, March 28, 1878;
attended Sachs Collegiate Institute in New York City; graduated from Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1899; employed by the J. Spencer Turner Co.,
textile manufacturers; in 1908 became partner in Lehman Bros., investment
bankers in New York City; during the First World War was commissioned a captain
in the United States Army in August 1917, later attained the rank of colonel on
the General Staff, and served until April 1919; lieutenant governor of New York
1929-1932; Governor 1933-1942; Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation
Operations in the State Department, Washington, D.C., 1943; Director General of
the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration 1943-1946;
unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1946; member
of Public Advisory Board of the Economic Cooperation Administration 1948;
elected on November 8, 1949, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert F. Wagner; reelected in 1950
and served from November 9, 1949, until January 3, 1957; was not a candidate
for renomination in 1956; was a resident of New York City until his death there
on December 5, 1963; interment in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.;
posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 28,
1964.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; Ingalls,
Robert.
Herbert H. Lehman and New Yorks Little New Deal. New York:
New York University Press, 1975; Nevins, Allan.
Herbert H. Lehman and His Era. New York: Scribner, 1963.
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