Shulman, Claire
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- Kantoff, Claire
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1926-02-23
Death Date
- 2020-08-16
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Flushing Willets Point Corona LDC
Birth Place
- New York (N.Y.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Queens (New York, N.Y.)--Politics and government
Occupation
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Sources
- found: Willets Point, a new direction, 1993:t.p. (Claire Shulman, Office of the Queens Borough President)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 19, 2020(in obituary dated Aug. 17, 2020: Claire Shulman, who became the first woman to rise to Queens borough president, taking office when her predecessor and boss resigned, then won election after election over 16 years, died on Sunday [Aug. 16, 2020] at her home in Beechhurst, Queens. She was 94. Ms. Shulman was the deputy to Donald R. Manes, the borough president for 14 years, when he resigned in Feb. 1986. Ms. Shulman, who had been Mr. Manes's deputy since 1980, was chosen by the Queens members of the City Council as the interim president for the rest of the year. Claire Kantoff was born in Brooklyn on Feb. 23, 1926; husband, Dr. Melvin Shulman. In recent years Ms. Shulman led the Flushing Willets Point Corona LDC, a nonprofit community advocacy group devoted to advancing a plan to redevelop a sprawling tangle of car-repair and related businesses in northern Queens)
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Change Notes
- 2000-11-20: new
- 2020-08-19: revised
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